By DAN MACINTOSH Randy Newman’s concert at the Hollywood Bowl was billed as “Randy Newman: The Albums 1968-2018,” and his extensive 28-song setlist more than lived up to this ambitious billing. Anyone seeing Newman for […]
By JOHN DALY Derek Smalls, formerly the bass force behind the fabled heavy metal band Spinal Tap, is premiering the video for the track “MRI” from his debut solo album, Smalls Change (Meditations Upon Ageing). […]
By JOHN DALY California Rocker has been named one of the top 25 music magazines to follow on the Web. The award comes from Feedspot.com, a web aggregator that analyzes and collects data on reader […]
By DAN MACINTOSH A concert bill of Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins and Christopher Cross reads like a killer ‘Yacht Rock’ festival, as all three have been linked to that recent rebranding of ’70s and ’80s […]
By DAN MACINTOSH HOLLYWOOD, CA – KCRW’s Reggae Night XVII demonstrated reggae music’s wide diversity. Whether you came for dread serious beats, spiritual meditation or lighter lover’s sounds, you likely left happy. Protoje, fronting a […]
By DONNA BALANCIA The English Beat Starring Dave Wakeling hasn’t lost a step. With their first studio album since 1982, Here We Go Love, and continual touring, Wakeling and company push on. The famous front […]
By DAN MACINTOSH Gabriel Johns, who goes by just Gabriel, sings from the heart throughout his six-song EP Love Lives Here. The project opens with “Another Night,” a song simply celebrating survival. Over a stripped-down […]
By DAN MACINTOSH One good way to prove songwriting quality is to strip a song down to just an acoustic guitar and vocal, which is how Lloyd Cole performed his songs during his mid-week Largo […]
By DAN MACINTOSH The English Beat featuring Dave Wakeling is back with its fourth album, and first full-length since 1982, called Here We Go Love. Over such a long time span many lesser bands have […]
By DAN MACINTOSH The Choir has always incorporated heartbreak into its music. Examples of grief have ranged from the miscarriage of a child, to the loss of an adult friend. Life is filled with more […]
By DAN MACINTOSH Courtney Barnett channels rock and roll of the 1990s with the album Tell Me How You Really Feel, a collection of emotionally charged songs. During one called “Nameless/Faceless,” Courtney Barnett complains, “I […]
By DONNA BALANCIA Johnny Marr, one of the world’s most successful musicians, said it’s always been in his bones to “fetish-ize” over the guitar and received his first guitar at five years old. In the […]
By DAN MACINTOSH Tracey Thorn recently joked how her new Record is “nine feminist bangers.” And yes, there is a distinct feminist angle to these danceable “bangers.” However, a more apt description would be to […]
By DAN MACINTOSH Let’s Make Love is Brazilian Girls’ first album in around a decade, but if you’re anything like me, this New York dance-pop act sort of snuck past you. (Such is one of […]
By DAN MACINTOSH Derek Smalls is actor-musician Harry Shearer’s bass-playing character in “This Is Spinal Tap,” the funniest rock parody of all time. Thematically, the album sort of picks up where the movie left off. […]
By DAN MACINTOSH Many have reservations about the Jack White album Boarding House Reach because it doesn’t deliver the immediate buzz emitted by riff-memorable tracks like The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army.” And such reservations are valid. […]
By DAN MACINTOSH There was an obvious buzz surrounding this Los Angeles stop on the Celebrating David Bowie tour. It’s a music town, after all, packed with plenty of potential surprise concert guests. It was […]
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 […]
By DAN MACINTOSH There’s probably no greater joy for a music addict than to discover a new band that provides immediate chills and thrills. Canada’s Born Ruffians is just such a band. Then again, there’s […]
By DAN MACINTOSH Gaz Coombes sure has changed since his days leading Supergrass in the early 1990s. Coombes is a grown adult now, and not the snotty kid he was then. He’s said World’s Strongest […]
By DAN MACINTOSH Dan Bejar says he titled this latest Destroyer album ken because “ken” was the working title to Suede’s lovely song “The Wild Ones.” Such knowledge may make you listen to Bejar’s music […]
By DAN MACINTOSH There many times while listening to Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s Wrong Creatures where the band sounds like the Goth band Bauhaus, had it listened exclusively to American garage rock and psychedelic music. […]
By DAN MACINTOSH The irresistible mixture of inventive guitar music and powerful lyrics, is one timelessly appealing combination. Luna offered definitive proof of this truth before a small but loyal gathering at The Moroccan Lounge. […]
By DAN MACINTOSH With Change, her first full-length solo album away from the B-52s, Cindy Wilson has steered clear of any love shacks or wacky sea creatures. She has also distinctly distanced herself from the […]
By DAN MACINTOSH PASADENA – Todd Rundgren, who’s famously produced everyone from New York Dolls to XTC, as well as amassing a string of memorable pop hits, has created an impressive career resume. However, you […]
By DAN MACINTOSH For such a famous rock guitarist, Noel Gallagher’s latest album with his High Flying Birds, Who Built The Moon? is sure a relatively un-guitar-y collection. Rather, it’s one tending to play with […]
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