LA La Land: The music showcase way of life in LA: a night at the Gibson Guitar Showroom Private music showcases are a way of life in LA. I don’t know how many bands are operating in the city at a given time – I don’t think anyone does and it depends on what you […]
Interview with John Mayall about his new album, Nobody Told Me, released today Patrick O’Heffernan (Los Angeles) I have been listening to John Mayall ever since I outgrew doo-wop, Although he was in England and I was in California, he introduced me to that unique American art form, the blues, a gift I will be […]
SISSTER wows LA at the release party for her debut self-titled EP; San Diego’s is next, then the world. Patrick O’Heffernan (Los Angeles) SISSTER wowed an LA audience when she released her self-titled EP last week and demonstrated why she is so popular and so beloved. You could feel the love in the air at the […]
PBS SoCal/Independent Lens Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World is a must-see for music lovers Patrick O’Heffernan (Los Angeles) If you ask most Americans about Indians in rock music they will usually point to “Cherokee Nation”, the John D. Loudermilk song released by Paul Revere and the Raiders in 1971. No wonder — it […]
Blasting off at the Bardot with JØUR before the mid-term election. Patrick O’Heffernan (Hollywood) The Bardot was an unlikely launchpad for JØUR’s sonic blastoff Monday night, hours before Americans went to the polls to define the direction of their nation’s future. The club lives inside the storied Avalon Theater in the heart of Hollywood, upstairs […]
Interview: Cesar “Vampiro” Lopez and Hector Geronimo on their new band Monoplasma Patrick O’Heffernan The band Monoplasma is a fusion between three-time Grammy Award winner guitarist Cesar “EI Vampiro” Lopez, and chart-topping Spanish singer/songwriter Hector Geronimo. Vampiro played with iconic the Latin bands Maná, Jaguares, Azul Violeta. Geronimo served as the front man of the […]
ZZ Ward wraps up The Storm tour on a sea of love in LA Patrick O’Heffernan (Hollywood) Pure, unconditional love. That is the only way to describe the sold-out crowd at the last concert of ZZ Ward’s Storm Tour in the Fonda Theater Thursday night. Many of those fans had traveled hundreds of miles to […]
Catch Reverbnation artist Mayssa Karaa’s interview on Music FridayLive: Mayssa Karaa is a Lebanese-American Grammy-nominated singer currently based in Los Angeles, California and a ReverbNation Recommended Artist in partnership with Shutter16. She has toured with Italian tenor Pasquale Esposito, with Arabic musician Simon Shaheen, with the Berklee World Strings Orchestra. In 2013 she was the featured vocalist on the […]
Jill Jack’s new album, These Days: joy disguised as music. (Los Angeles) Jill Jack is one of my favorite people. An icon of music in Detroit, she has toured nationally and in Europe, bringing her intelligent, exciting, emotional country rock blues and ballads to adoring fans coast to coast and then some. Jill now has […]
Patrick O’Heffernan (Los Angeles) Austin-born and still Texas-based Jackie Venson is a Berklee College of music trained-blues rock guitarist – not a common combination – who blows the roof off every venue she plays in. Trained in classical piano, Venson has multi-instrumental chops plus a voice that can drip with emotion or belt with blues. […]
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