Category: pop
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Happy Sundays LBC
Happy Sundays LBC For the second year, I ventured over to Anaheim St, in my own neck of the woods, to catch some of the Happy Sundays LBC festival. Started three years ago, the festival is a great opportunity to watch some up-and-coming smaller acts, especially a few I missed a couple weeks back. A…
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Outside Lands (finale)
Outside Lands I promise this is the LAST segment on Outside Lands, as I’ve been flooding my social media with endless pics. Also, last week’s blog was about previous Outside Lands festivals. Today, I just want to focus on some of the highlights of my recent three days in Golden Gate. Two of the three…
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Billie Eilish…duh.
Unless specified, all pics on this blog were taken by me, and are copyrighted. Billie Eilish Back in October of 2017, I remember catching a Thursday night show at The Echo in LA. I rarely do shows during the week, because I’m usually exhausted from teaching my 8-10 classes. However, my friend Doug had an…
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Mikkel Cloud covers Radiohead!
Photo by Frank Varni Happy 5th of July! This pic was from the Bottlerock festival, this last May in Napa, CA. I’ll be doing a late review next week, complete with recommendations. This is a shorter entry today, because of the holiday weekend. But in the meantime…. Albums Currently Spinning Mikkel Cloud – Transistor_1…
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Return of the Jarvi!
It’s been over two years since I last posted on here. Instead of writing about the live music I was experiencing, I decided to just enjoy and take lots of pics. Now I’m back, to write about new and upcoming music, and performances. Please send me any music you’ve heard, or written/performed yourself, or any…
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Pics of Hamish Anderson
Here are some pics of Hamish Anderson, singer-songwriter/guitarist, who will be playing at SXSW this year. These shots were from Make Music Pasadena last year. Check him out, if you’re heading that way. Definitely a hidden talent.
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Pics from Shows 1/13-1/16: The Regrettes, Warbly Jets, Kid Wave
Here are some pics I recently took, at The Echo and The Satellite. Enjoy! Starcrawler @ The Echo 1-13-17 Dog Party @ The Echo 1-13-17 The Regrettes @ The Echo 1-13-17 Kid Wave @ The Satellite 1-16-17 ExSage @ The Satellite 1-16-17 Warbly Jets @ The Satellite 1-16-17
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Happy 2017…new bands, new music, new festival lineups.
10 New songs on my early-2017 playlist: Phoebe Bridgers – “Smoke Signals” Nahko and Medicine for The People (feat. Joseph) – “Directions” The Aces – “Stuck” Mondo Cozmo – “Hold on To Me” Amber Run – “Fickle Game” Chicano Batman – “Friendship (Is A Small Boat In A Storm)” CRX – “Ways To Fake It”…
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Those “Cool Kids” from Echosmith…
Last December, my friend and colleague Doug Kresse, asked if I wanted to go watch some band up in North Hollywood’s Federal Bar. This show was a part of series known as Mimosa Music Series (https://www.facebook.com/MimosaMusicSeries), hosted by KCRW’s Gary Calamar. The band, among others we watched, was a group called Echosmith. They were on…
The Jarvis Lounge 