On his new album, Beyond The Groove , the great Jimbo Ross focuses on material by Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and Horace Silver, giving...

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I don't know how everyone else is dealing with our current reality, but one thing I've done to keep myself relatively sane is shorten my giv...

Pat Todd Pat Todd & The Rankoutsiders celebrated the release of their new album, I'll Dream Alone , last night at Maui Sugar Mill Saloon, a ...

The band Red 32 released its first album, a self-titled disc, in 2023. That album included a song titled "A Place To Call Home," in which th...

Things are scary out there, no question. But the best holiday is just around the corner, and The Laurie Berkner Band's A Laurie Berkner Hall...

The United States is in the hands of fascists, led by an old, obese child rapist and convicted felon. We are in ugly times, the Republicans ...

For the ninth volume of Fernando Perdomo's Clouds series, he's giving us something a little different. Before you even take the disc out of...

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In 2014, pianist Jeff Colella and bass player Putter Smith released an album together titled Lotus Blossom , which featured covers of tunes ...

Feef Mooney Last night a hootenanny was held at Maui Sugar Mill Saloon, featuring Feef Mooney, Bernie Barlow, Cameron Dye, Fernando Perdomo,...

Every city has its music and its musicians. Every city has its music scene, some bigger and more robust than others. When one thinks of Tuls...

Jennifer Kaiser's new album, Guided By The Light , might come from darkness, from a place where grief and worry seem to hold sway, a place t...

After catching Pulsars at Echo Park Rising Sunday afternoon, I got in my car and drove to Culver City to see Sandy Rogers Band at Cinema Bar...

I recently read that MTV got rid of the rock category for its Video Music Awards. Now while some of us might be surprised to find that MTV s...

Pulsars Echo Park Rising is finally back to its two-day format after several years of being just a one-day event. Yesterday, the second day,...

Fernando Perdomo is continuing his second year-long project, Clouds , with the latest volume,  Clouds 8 (though the ninth entry in the seri...

" It's ninety degrees on the Cape Cod beach ," Alan Arena sings at the beginning of his new single, "Cape Cod Girl," and I'm hooked at that ...

I got turned on to The Lucky Ones a few years ago when they had a song on the Hank Williams Uncovered tribute double album. On that release...

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Kelly's Lot is back in Los Angeles after a tour that took the band up through northern California, Oregon, Washington, Montana and Idaho. An...

In October of last year, singer and songwriter Bill Scorzari released Sidereal Days (Day 1) , an album whose title seemed to promise a secon...

I See Hawks In L.A. is back in town after touring the Pacific Northwest, and last night played a last-minute gig at a place called Club Tee ...

There was no question that yesterday's show at Highpoint Brewing Company was going to be something special, what with the fantastic lineup o...

Last night there was an outstanding lineup at Bar 10 inside Corbin Bowl as part of the International Pop Overthrow festival, which wrapped u...

The band L.A. Guns has been delivering energetic hard rock for four decades. Just last year the band released a new studio album, Leopard Sk...

When Falling Down came out in 1993, I was alarmed by how much I was able to identify with the lead character, William Foster. Part of it, o...

In September of 1991, the Grateful Dead came to Boston for six shows. Many Dead fans have since argued that those shows were the last great ...

Katie Knipp is a singer and songwriter whose voice I fell in love with back in 2018, when she released Take It With You , an excellent album...

Ellen Hart's novel  Stage Fright contains a few Shakespeare references. The first reference is to Richard The Third : "There's going to be ...

The Independent Shakespeare Company opened its new production of The Comedy Of Errors last night in Griffith Park, delighting a large crowd...

David Bash introducing first band of the festival International Pop Overthrow is a sort of roving music festival that has been happening sin...

It's been seven years since singer and songwriter RJ Chesney released his last album, Amateur Revolution , which was a collaboration with HP...

The Mike Jacoby Electric Trio's last release, 2024's  Rocket Fuel Logic , found the group performing new renditions of material that Mike Ja...

Greg Copeland released his first album, Revenge Will Come , in 1982 on Geffen Records (both Jackson Browne and Rick Vito play guitar on it),...

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As you might be aware, Fernando Perdomo has been releasing an album of new original material on the first of every month this year (he did i...

Yesterday afternoon's show at the Redwood Bar & Grill felt in some ways like a continuation of Kim's birthday celebration from the previous ...

Kim celebrates her birthday What better way is there to celebrate a birthday than catching some great bands? Of course, it helps if you're m...

Kim celebrates her birthday What better way is there to celebrate a birthday than catching some great bands? Of course, it helps if you're m...

The Joymakers are a jazz band based in Austin, Texas, focusing on music from the 1920s and early 1930s, and specifically from groups based i...

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There are many bands who have chosen names associated in some way with Star Wars . Bad Motivator not only has one of the best of those names...

Those in the Los Angeles area are probably aware of The Firkins, a band that has been delivering delicious music for nearly two decades, the...