LA La Land – A night at the Gibson Guitar Showroom

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 […]

PBS SoCal/Independent Lens Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World is a must-see for music lovers

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

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

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 […]

Reverbnation Breakout Artist of 2018 : Mayssa radio interview

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 […]