Horse Jumper of Love Are Hitting Their Stride
It’s fitting that when Dimitri Giannopoulos calls me to discuss Horse Jumper of Love’s latest album, Disaster Trick, he’s outside the monolithic store Whole Foods. He’s taking a moment before…
Jack Russell, Ex-Great White Singer, Dies at 63
Jack Russell, the founding singer of ’80s hair metal band Great White has died at the age of 63. The news was confirmed in an Instagram post on the official…
In Music and Life, Ray LaMontagne Cherishes Things That Last
If you know of an old house for sale around the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts, preferably pre-1800, we might have a buyer. “My sweetie and I are just crazy about…
Mamaleek: Utter Enigma and Understandably Human
“The studio is just a moment in time,” Mamaleek tells me, over a faceless Zoom call. The band doesn’t customarily give interviews, but two members agree to meet with me.…
Snapped: ISOKNOCK’s 4EVR Gallery Event (A Photo Essay)
Counterculture electronic duo ISOXO and KNOCK2 join forces again on their dynamic ISOKNOCK collab, releasing their hard hitting trap x dance 4EVR LP on 88 Rising, self described as “filtering…
Garbagebarbie Rises from the Rubbish
How does an unknown band, one that’s never headlined an established venue, manage to sell out their first show at the Echo in Los Angeles? For garbagebarbie, the quartet of…
Ravyn Lenae in the Radical Present
On the cover of her sophomore album, Ravyn Lenae dunks her reddened hair into her grandmother’s basement sink. The photo is sepia-stained, and the interior around her is crude and…
Every X Album, Ranked
Singer/bassist John Doe and guitarist Billy Zoom formed X in L.A. in 1977, just as the debut albums by the Ramones and the Clash debuts were inspiring the first wave…
The Professor Will Now Unpack—Pitbull, Ne-Yo, and Afrojack’s ‘2 the Moon’
Dr. Tom Zoellner is a tenured Professor of English at Chapman University, the author of numerous distinguished works of non-fiction, and an editor-at-large of the Los Angeles Review of Books.…
Charles R. Cross, Kurt Cobain And Jimi Hendrix Biographer, Dies At 67
Veteran music journalist Charles R. Cross, who wrote best-selling biographies of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix and founded the long-running Bruce Springsteen fan magazine Backstreets, died Aug. 9 of…