Stone Age Swagger: Queens of the Stone Age at SB Bowl
This review is being written by a metalhead and punk. This review is not being written by a psych or stoner rocker. I was not a part of the Kyuss
Cruel World 2024: A Legacy Forms in Year 3 at The Rose Bowl
It’s very rare for a music festival to have a storied legacy to live up to after just 2 years. But after a total lunar eclipse that turned the moon
Off The 405: Summer Concert Series at The Getty
One of Los Angeles’ most beautiful places to see a concert is The Getty museum’s mountain top vista sitting Off The 405 freeway between the Valley and the West Side.
Summon and Purge: Swans at the Lodge Room
Tasked to describe Swans to a friend and convince him to join me at this sold out Lodge Room show, I wasn’t able to pinpoint any genre to pigeonhole the
The Book of Revelation Records: Judge, 7 Seconds, Side by Side and Youth of Today at 1720
Revelation Records is perhaps hardcore’s most iconic record label. With heavyweights like Gorilla Biscuits, 7 Seconds and Youth of Today in their lineup, the label has cemented their place as
Gary Numan and Frontline Assembly at The Fonda: An Evening of Synths and Industrial Bliss
On April 7, 2024, The Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles welcomed the eager fans of Gary Numan and Frontline Assembly with a line stretching around the block. The atmosphere buzzed
Tonic Truth and Collective Consciousness: Kim Gordon at Ventura Music Hall
In her latest reinvention, Kim Gordon deepened her trip hop digs and redefined her signature noise rock stylings into a pure avalanche of disruption to pull our eyes out of
If Anyone Needed A New Year, It’s Me: The Black Lips at The Lodge Room
New Year’s Eve; this is usually when you reflect on the year you’ve had and think about the year that’s about to come. Well my year was shit to say
Pro(n)g Rock: Voivod at The Fonda
It’s a rarity that the Voivod UFO comes hovering over Los Angeles and to miss witnessing an event like this is simply a rookie metal move. Last time, the band
Ceremony Gets Their Flowers at the Hollywood Palladium
As 2024 launches into orbit, I see our Los Angeles music scene and its veterans coming full circle as the year’s trajectory begins to take shape. Ceremony’s epic Palladium show
3Teeth at The Teragram: Industrial Dystopia
Love for gothic industrial and nu-metal aesthetics seemed nonexistent for a while, being almost universally seen as cringe and outdated as indie rock and trap music dominated the airwaves in
Levitation 2023: The Catharsis of Heavy Music
Halloween weekend. Thickness in the air. Darkness in the world. I’m committed to a music festival far from home and it’s supposed to rain. Austin, Texas: despite having been there