Review by DAN MACINTOSH Bruce Cockburn’s music has never been simple and straightforward because Cockburn is a complicated musician-poet who is ever unafraid to follow his muse. Wherever it leads. BRUCE COCKBURN PLAYS EL REY […]
Review by DAN MACINTOSH Richard Hell and The Voidoids were right there in the thick of New York’s burgeoning punk rock scene, which also included iconic acts like Blondie, Talking Heads and Television. In fact, […]
Review by DAN MACINTOSH Prophets of doom are trying to convince us guitar rock is going the way of the dinosaur, and they’ll point to all the R and B songs filling up the pop […]
Review By DAN MACINTOSH Pop-punk is not punk, nor is everything labeled rock, truly Rock ‘N’ Roll. The verifiable good stuff contains a near-lethal dose of danger. And, in an exception to the general rule, […]
Review By DAN MACINTOSH R.E.M.’s Automatic for the People (25th Anniversary Edition, Concord) is 45-songs long. So, unless you’re retired, bedridden or just have endless hours for binge listening time, there’s likely more music included […]
By DAN MACINTOSH Ric Alba has a punk rock past. But you might never guess this from the wonderfully complicated Butterflies in Caterpillar Drag, his self-produced solo album. It’s been a long time — too […]
December Award for Best Blog followed by January’s Best Music Blog List By JOHN DALY LOS ANGELES – CaliforniaRocker.com won first place in the Best Individual Blog category of the National Arts and Entertainment Journalism […]
Review By DAN MACINTOSH The Queen Is Dead offers all the evidence anyone will ever need to prove The Smiths’ genius. Originally released in June of 1986, it is 37:07 of soul-bearing music, and all […]
Review by DAN MACINTOSH Superficial people will scoff at your love of Kris Kristofferson. ‘He can’t even sing,’ they’ll mock. Of course, you already know this. And you could make the case that he never […]
By DAN MACINTOSH Many songs from Pam Mark Hall’s album Mangle the Tango suggest the familiar saying, ‘everything old is new again’ because this 11-song set is in many ways a throwback to social/political singer-songwriter […]
By KATHY FLYNN The Wild Honey Foundation is known for it’s cool pop shows that benefit the Autism Think Tank. They put on annual tribute shows at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, and the smaller, […]
By DAN MACINTOSH Moments during the Loudwire Music Awards, held downtown at the Novo Theater last week, gave the impression heavy metal suffers from an inferiority complex. If this were not so, why did host […]
By DAN MACINTOSH Bash and Pop is Tommy Stinson’s band, which arose out of those beautiful Replacements ashes. Although Stinson rarely took the spotlight away from Replacements’ leader Paul Westerberg, he was always our boy […]
Review By DAN MACINTOSH CERRITOS, CA – It’s understandable if diehard Beach Boys fans entered the posh Cerritos Center for the Performing arts a little skeptical. This was not even close to the Beach Boys […]
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 […]
By DAN MACINTOSH The 10th annual HARD Summer music gathering celebrated its first decade of giving Southern California dance and hip-hop fans a lineup with more variety than the similar (and formally Southern California-based) Electric Daisy […]
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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By DONNA BALANCIA Morrissey hosts a bevy of stars on his latest all-covers album, California Son, including Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, Petra Haden and LP. Morrissey wasn’t joking when he told us last […]
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