I recently attended a jam session with the stage-filling, tribal-love machine Dark Meat live at The Echo in downtown LA. First off, I love The Echo as a space. No matter where you are, the small, black space is taken … Continued

Pour some patchouli oil on the ground for your fallen homie: American Idol hopeful Jason Castro and his braided mane of unwashed hair became an Idol castoff last night, damned to walk in the wimpy footsteps of Sanjaya as contestants … Continued

Largo, the legendary Fairfax supper club known for playing host to scores of intimate shows by the Los Angeles' greatest singer-songwriters, will be relocating to a new, less cozy venue in July. Starting in the summer, the Largo faithful will … Continued

    Third, the first studio album by seminal electronic group Portishead since 1997’s self-titled effort, accomplishes the improbable.  Not only is the long-anticipated LP brilliant musically, but it is the perfect album to release eleven years after their last.  … Continued

Just as we received the news third-hand from the good folks at Stereogum who learned of these developments from the better folks at Getty blog, former sidekick to the bully on Boy Meets World and Rilo Kiley guitarist Blake Sennett … Continued

This past week, “Saturday Night Live” was hosted by Ellen Page, star of the painfully hip, Oscar-nominated Juno and heir apparent to the title of “the object of scene kids’ wet dreams,” one currently held by Scarlett Johansson.  Not only … Continued

As the land known to most as the Gomorrah to San Francisco’s Sodom, Los Angeles regularly attracts the biggest names in music to its hallowed music halls and venues, presumably because of its reputation as a big market for music … Continued

The year is 2008, and we’re still a generation searching for our definitive contribution to music history.  The 60’s marked the evolution of rock n’ roll into an art form, the 70’s were characterized by the rise of hard rock … Continued