Category: rock
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Altin Gun, Intersect, and Vagabon

Unless indicated, I took all the pics posted on this blog. Feel free to repost – just remember to give credit. Cheers! Altin Gun at Fingerprints Music For the second time this year, I caught a live set from Altin Gun before they headed off to the Desert Daze music festival. Their brand of Turkish…
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Starcrawler, Altin Gun at Fingerprints

Unless indicated, I took all the pics posted on this blog. Feel free to repost – just remember to give credit. Cheers! Starcrawler at Fingerprints A couple years ago, I’d read (I think it was Kevin Bronson in buzzbands.la) that Starcrawler would be opening for acts that they’re better than. That’s always stuck with me.…
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Closing Out A Long September

Buskerfest 2019 Unless indicated, I took all the pics posted on this blog. Feel free to repost – just remember to give credit. Cheers! Since the last couple months have been busy, with both music events and work, I’m finally now getting Long Beach’s Buskerfest, which took place back on September 7. I’d previously written…
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KAABOO, Last time around in Del Mar

KAABOO Del Mar Unless indicated, I took all the pics posted on this blog. Feel free to repost – just remember to give credit. Cheers! This last weekend, I attended the 5th (and my 5th) KAABOO music festival in Del Mar, just north of San Diego. Right from the beginning, something felt a little off…
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Buskerfest

Unless indicated, I took all the pics posted on this blog. Feel free to repost – just remember to give credit. Cheers! Buskerfest This Saturday is Long Beach’s very own Buskerfest, an event inspired by the musicians we see busking on the streets. I first went in 2013, when I was first getting into my…
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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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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.