The Hush Sound @ The Troubadour 6/1/16
Last night’s 10-year anniversary of the Hush Sound’s “Like Vines” was dedicated “to Axl Rose’s broken foot,” so said to Hush Sound keyboardist/vocalist Greta Salpeter.
Interview with Jim Tremayne of DJ Times
Give a Beat is an LA-based nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness of America’s mass incarceration problem via the electronic music community. I freelance for them, interviewing artists and activists they work with, producing audio pieces for Give a Beat’s blog space. As snail mail grows more antiquated with each iPhone update, receiving a physical letter …
Callings out of Context: Junglepussy & Dan Deacon @ Teragram Ballroom
The Broad’s Callings Out Of Context brings together innovative artists together for a spectacle that celebrates the show itself as much as the act.
Dua Lipa @ Bardot 5/9/16
Last night marked self-described “dark pop” singer, Dua Lipa’s first Los Angeles performance. Lipa possesses a lofty voice which dances above the beat, finding its footing against booming percussion. Though not a fault of her own, the mighty sound she and her band produced felt more suited for a larger venue, where one could dance …
Grimes Presents: March of the Pugs @ The Shrine 4/23/16
The Internet came out in full-force for Grimes Presents: March of the Pugs, An Evening With Christine & The Queens and Tei-Shi, by that I mean much of the crowd jumped straight from a Tumblr post. The lovely thing about the Internet in this case is its ability to unite three very different, international artists …
Dancefloor Thunderstorm: the beginnings of rave culture
(An interview I did for LA-based non-profit, Give a Beat) Dancefloor Thunderstorm: Land of the Free, Home of the Rave captures the soul and self-sufficiency at the dawn of the rave. Through colorful, candid photography, music and celebrity photojournalist Michael Tullberg illustrates the story of the SoCal rave scene, the story history never recorded. A …