Our column is a bit late this week, but that doesn’t mean that the hits aren’t coming! As always, some ground rules: Wendy Wang – “Forever High” C: Softly and eerily, “Forever High” has the vibe that getting high isn’t just an option, it’s an inevitability. The hook rambles before resting on the solution, “Why […]
Nested just on the tip of the historic Sunset Strip in Los Angeles is a theater that feels like a sort of anomaly. A venue of days past, the Roxy has hosted gigs such as Neil Young, Chaka Khan, and Bob Marley, making the venue an unofficial historic landmark in the LA live music scene. […]
Deciding which songs would be on our Best Songs of 2019 list was, in many ways, leagues different than it was for 2018. When I was putting our list together back in 2018, it was mostly a singular effort–I was scouring Spotify playlists, combing through YouTube recommendations and SoundCloud links in order to find the […]
Have you really made it if you haven’t toured in Japan? For most bands out there, playing a show in Japan is a career milestone. There’s something special about the Japanese market that seems to extend over to the music industry. Physical sales (like CDs) still remain high over there despite most of the world’s […]
Albums/Songs from 2018 that deserve a shout-out.