It’s sometimes easy to forget the power of a great rock and roll show. Los Angeles is a mecca of live music and concert venues from Venice to Silverlake and all across Hollywood are filled every night with musical artists, each entertaining in their own way. And then you walk Read more…
Mickey Avalon
They Call Him Mr. Right
Mickey Avalon, AKA The Avs, AKA Mr. Right, AKA Sticky Mickey, recently came back to Trees, the delightfully slummy joint in Dallas’ lovely and divey, spunky and punky, Deep Ellum neighborhood, and Rabbits Black, of course, was there to take in this Sunset Strip “legend”. It has been a number of years since Mickey Avalon first started touring and making a name for himself with his signature, overly sleazy style and stage presence, but his energy has not diminished. (more…)
From the moment that Destructo took over the reins for the evening at the ultra-chic Audio Nightclub in downtown San Francisco, throngs of energetic dancers made their way up to the DJ booth to catch a firsthand glimpse of this legend of the EDM industry. Some got autographs. Others snapped Read more…
The skies were grey and the weather crisp but that was no hindrance for the 30,000 people that attended the second day of the sold out Cali Roots Fest on Saturday May 24, 2014. The streets surrounding the fairgrounds were packed full of people desperate to find parking so they Read more…
It seems like you can’t talk about Deafheaven without talking about whether it’s shoegaze or “real” metal. The delicacies of classification are both inane and intricately complex, and we could go on for hours and hours about which genre Deafheaven better fits into. But after seeing them at the El Read more…
I guess Monday isn’t a slow night for some bands. British pop-rockers The Kooks sold out a double billing — including a midnight show — at the Troubadour Monday night, packing the classic venue with two tiers of screaming young fans. They definitely nailed the secret formula for a two-show Read more…
No one’s more taken aback by Phantogram’s explosion of popularity than the band’s promoters. Last Tuesday, the band finally released their second LP, Voices, after the better part of a year of songs dropping with no release date attached. They were booked to support the album at the Wiltern – Read more…
The Devil Makes Three came to the House of Blues on Sunset this past weekend for the second to last show of their West Coast run. In support of their fourth studio album, I’m A Stranger Here, its clear that the Santa Cruz based band is more popular than ever. Read more…