Cheap Trick Pacific Amphitheatre August 7, 2023 Review by DAN MACINTOSH Photos by MIGUEL VASCONCELLOS COSTA MESA, CA – These days, the touring band Cheap Trick has become a bit of a family affair. In […]
By DAN MACINTOSH HIGHLAND, Calif. – The unique guitar duo, Rodrigo y Gabriela, celebrated the recent release of the album, In Between Thoughts … A New World, with an engaging evening of instrumental music. Although […]
Cancer Battle Has Given His Songs ‘New Meaning,’ Peters Says Interview by DAN MACINTOSH Mike Peters of The Alarm is one of the most positive people in Rock and Roll. Formed in 1981, his band […]
Movie Review by DAN MACINTOSH You may wonder why Blood, Sweat & Tears just seemed to burn bright and burn out fast. The band was on top of the musical world in 1970, you may […]
Regina Spektor Walt Disney Concert Hall March 7, 2023 By DAN MACINTOSH LOS ANGELES, CA – Regina Spektor’s concert featured the singer/songwriter mostly sitting at an acoustic piano, but this did not stop the artist […]
Marvin Gaye Greatest Hits Live in ‘76 Mercury Studios/Universal By DAN MACINTOSH The album jacket of Marvin Gaye Greatest Hits Live in ’76 states how this LP was recorded “at a sold-out Edenhalle Concert Hall […]
Local Natives Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever December 7, 2022 Review by DAN MACINTOSH LOS ANGELES, CA – The chilly night’s music at Hollywood Forever’s Masonic Lodge featured the third night of Local Natives’ brief […]
Julian Lage/The Bad Plus Walt Disney Concert Hall October 14, 2022 By DAN MACINTOSH LOS ANGELES, CA – Guitarist Julian Lage headlined an eclectic night of instrumental music at Walt Disney Concert Hall that also […]
Heaven 17 The Observatory October 1, 2022 By DAN MACINTOSH SANTA ANA, CA – Heaven 17 was significantly different from many of the other synth-pop British imports in the 1980s. Yes, the act’s music was […]
Review by DAN MACINTOSH The Shins The Orpheum July 18, 2022 LOS ANGELES, CA – The Shins’ Monday night concert was billed as Oh, Inverted World: The 21st Birthday Tour, and took place at the […]
By DAN MACINTOSH They always tell artists of every calling that the most important thing you can do is find your own voice. Find what sets you apart. What makes you unique. This has never […]
By DAN MACINTOSH LOS ANGELES – Aimee Mann had to restart a couple of songs during her delightful Largo at the Coronet show. She said she was aiming for perfection because this performance was being […]
By DAN MACINTOSH Suzanne Vega came along in the ‘80s, a musical time best known for synthesizers, big hair and colorful stage costumes. Like acoustic-guitar-playing Trojan Horses, though, a few brainy artists somehow snuck onto […]
By DAN MACINTOSH In today’s music world, where ‘the record album’ has been so severely devalued, every Taylor Swift full-length release is an event. Taylor doesn’t just create and release albums, but each time she […]
By DAN MACINTOSH Ray LaMontagne moves Zelig-like from style to style on his latest Monovision album. Yet, these variety stops never sound schizophrenic or unnatural. The album starts off with “Roll Me Mama, Roll Me,” […]
By DAN MACINTOSH Covers albums can take on a wide spectrum of variations. Many of these projects include the older songs that inspired artists to create their own music in the first place. Listening to […]
By DAN MACINTOSH Sparks, the longstanding brotherly duo of Ron and Russell Mael, has been performing together since 1967. So, you’d think by now one could compare this act to other similar bands. But we […]
Review by DAN MACINTOSH Even in this digital music age, serious music fans keep running mental lists of their most anticipated album releases. They wait impatiently for these projects to come out with the same […]
By DAN MACINTOSH M. Ward describes his album Migration Stories as “11 largely instrumental ballads – a sci-fi fast forward to a more silent night many generations from here to a maybe-era where movement is […]
By DAN MACINTOSH SANTA ANA – Silversun Pickups’ double bill with Australia’s Eliza and The Delusionals (Los Angeles’ Cuffed Up was the warm-up act) was a study in dynamic contrasts. Whereas female lead singer for […]
By DAN MACINTOSH The Damned was the first punk band from the United Kingdom to release a single (“New Rose”), so why is this London-birthed act not always immediately mentioned whenever discussing pioneering punk, the […]
By DAN MACINTOSH Nobody questions Buddy Guy’s guitar skills. Just ask other guitar masters, like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. They’ll all sing his praises. Therefore, expectations were high for Guy’s appearance at […]
Review by DAN MACINTOSH LOS ANGELES, CA – Listening to the Grammy Museum Executive Director Scott Goldman interview Robyn Hitchcock can be a whole lot like sampling the artist’s extensive catalogue, in that it he […]
Review by DAN MACINTOSH Slotted between Hurricane Harvey, which had just torn through Texas, and the eve of when Hurricane Irma was about to hit Florida, Lifehouse and Switchfoot shared a bill at the Greek […]
Site Wins Social Media and Best Blog Awards By JOHN DALY LOS ANGELES – The team at CaliforniaRocker.com has set the standard: Donna Balancia and her editorial team have won five journalism awards in one […]
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