Ben Harper outdoes himself at Hollywood Bowl with help from LA Phil
This site is pretty new — like two weeks old. So when I hit up the PR handling media for Ben Harper & the Innocent […]
AuthorMark Ortega
FYF Fest, Julien Baker, BROODS among Best Shows this Week
Julien Baker and BROODS have shows during a busy week of music in LA, thanks to FYF Fest and its FYF After Dark series. Check our full list of best shows this week!
Best Music Writing This Week: 8/19/16
Every Friday we will share the best music writing during the previous week. Read stuff on the inaugural Day N Night Festival, the former members of Third […]
Dawes to play Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever
Los Angeles folk-rockers Dawes will play a special show at Hollywood Forever’s Masonic Lodge the same day their new album ‘We’re All Gonna Die’ drops.
Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor playing Hotel Cafe next week
Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor has a solo date coming up at the Hotel Cafe just a few days before the band performs at FYF Fest. Find out more on the show here!
Lisa Hannigan’s new album ‘At Swim’ out now
We’ve been waiting five long years for the follow up to Lisa Hannigan’s enchanting 2011 album ‘Passenger,’ and it’s finally here. Check out the album stream to her new record ‘At Swim,’ due out this month!
Regina Spektor to play two intimate El Rey shows
Regina Spektor has announced her seventh studio album ‘Remember Us to Life,’ and has two special shows at the intimate El Rey Theatre in September to go along with it!
Names to Know: Francis and the Lights
Francis & the Lights is certainly one of the Names To Know. Though he’s been around, he just made a big leap by appearing on Chance the Rapper’s latest mixtape while also featuring Bon Iver on a new song “Friends.” Catch him on Chance’s upcoming tour.
Revisit Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals’ 2003 Hollywood Bowl show ahead of Friday return
Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals recorded one live DVD together — an August 2003 show at the historic Hollywood Bowl. Back together after an eight-year hiatus, we revisit that show ahead of their upcoming Aug. 19 return to the venue as well as where the band is at these days.
PLAYLIST: Third Eye Blind’s Outside Lands set prompts nostalgia for nostalgic high-school mixed CD
I went to Outside Lands the weekend-before-last and was doused in heavy nostalgia when Third Eye Blind played a set while I was around a group of friends I’d known since middle school. “Motorcycle Driveby” might have been on every mix I made for the first few years of high school. My friend I was with doesn’t recall me making her CDs from back then but I do — so I’ve assembled what one of them might have looked like to the best of my memory.