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.
Plastic bags are everywhere, and they aren’t going away anytime soon. But for a small island nation like Taiwan, perhaps the presence of plastic bags is more overbearing–the country used to be a place where everything (and I mean everything!) used to come in colorful plastic bags. Whether that was from groceries, the myriad of […]