HECUBA listen while you read: [01:58] Hecuba – Tom & Jerry (photos: anna webber) Jon Beasley and Isabelle Albuquerque are a band – and a brand new genre. By Anna Webber Hecuba is pretty well clipped in with our L.A. art/pop/space/macabre scene known to lurk around in black boxes and low-beat dub lounges that chip [...]
(photos: anna webber) listen to ingrid here: [03:27] Keep Breathing – Ingrid Michaelson Michaelson collapsed all sense of expected genteel ladylike-ness on stage last Thursday at the El Rey, throwing the audience with a clandestine back-room chatter in between songs that shot out in spastic spurts throughout her soft, honest set. Her voice is timeless, [...]
Long Beach Blues Festival Aug 29-30 The LBC Blues Festival is no place for the mainstream teens and twenty-somethings in search of the last killer all-day summer festival. You won’t (or you shouldn’t) be laying out those hot dance moves you’d learned watching youtube and perfecting all summer long, they would confound the soul man [...]