R.I.P. RITA ORA featuring Tinie Tempah
So bad ass. I want to be Rita today.
Live Review: Sharon Van Etten @ the Avalon
story / Ericka Clevenger photos / Philip Cosores Sharon Van Etten played an unforgettable, heart wrenching set at the Avalon in Hollywood last week, after recently launching her West coast tour with War on Drugs. She will then branch off, and continue touring with Flock of Dimes across the U.S through March, followed by a handful of [...]
Live Review: Cults @The Music Box
story + photos / Ilyse Kaplan With all the “hype bands” these days, it is always interesting to see who will stick around longer than the several months of Pitchfork praise. Cults were heavily praised in the blogosphere during summer 2011. Following the footsteps of blogged about predecessors, their first Los Angeles show was a [...]
LADYGUNN REVIEWS
MIIKE SNOW / HAPPY TO YOU Downtown Records/ Universal Republic (2012) review by/ LOGAN BRENDT Happy to You is the second album by Miike Snow, which is comprised of Swedish writers/producers Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg. The two have been known for producing music for Madonna, Kylie Minogue, and Britney Spears, including her tremendously huge [...]
Live Review: The Head & The Heart @ Gramercy Park Hotel
photos + story / Sarah Wrigley + Aly Vander Hayden The Head & the Heart ended their set at the old world glamour Gramercy Park Hotel [...]
Hanni El Khatib
interview / Koko Ntuen photography / Joaquin Palting When his first album Will the Guns Come Out debuted early last year, Hanni El Khatib unleashed some pretty fantastic auditory violence onto the world. It’s an album he has described as a compilation of songs designed “for anyone who has ever been shot or hit by [...]
CHRIS MASTERSON
Taking Over Hollywood, One Beat At a Time. story + photography / GRANT KLEIN stylist / CALLAN STOKES It’s Sunday night, and like most people I’m normally sitting on my couch watching reality T.V. and eating something carb-related, but not tonight. Tonight I am on my way to meet Masterson at his loft in Hollywood [...]
LADYGUNN REVIEWS
BLEEDING KNEES CLUB / NOTHING TO DO IAMSOUND Records (2012) review by/ LOGAN BRENDT Bleeding Knees Club from Australia lightens the doom of the 2012 landscape with 1960s-ish surf punk on their debut album Nothing to Do. The title track sounds like it could be the anthem for the typical teenager on summer vacation running [...]
