Second Annual “Dream, Believe, Achieve” Gala Last Night Featured Performances By Jackson Browne, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Ben Harper, Keb’ Mo’ last night at the Skirball Center. Click to hear CSN Live Audio (from inside my pocket) What do you think of when you hear the names Jackson Browne, CSN, Keb’ Mo’ and Ben Harper? [...]
West Beach Music Festival ’09 – Santa Barbara – Sept 18-20 The West Beach Music & Arts Festival Saturday is like no other large music festival of its kind – abutting the historic Stearns Wharf, adjacent to an even more historic Pacific ocean, and perpendicular to Santa Barbara’s main drag (lower State Street) the festival [...]
Howlin Rain and the Akron / Family perform at the El Rey August 29, 2009. Photos by Anna Webber. linkscolor = “000000″; highlightscolor = “888888″; backgroundcolor = “FFFFFF”; channel = “none”;
April 21, 2009 by Anna Webber She’s what Stevie Ray Vaughan would look like without a soul patch and the Texasflooder Manny Gammage hat. That was a certain likeness – and the first immediate good sign. She could have a wailing match on par with Caleb Followill, and her cracking pitchy snarling voice would surely [...]
Following his performance at Coachella, Paolo played an intimate showcase luncheon Tuesday at the Viper Room in Hollywood to debut his upcoming release, Sunny Side Up. The Viper Room and Atlantic Records supplied the Open Bar and luncheon – however – it didn’t matter how drunk they got the guests, the music was phenomenal. By [...]
Even though the Ventura Theater is located about an hour short of both L.A. and Santa Barbara, the crowd filled it in for TV on the Radio’s high-octane set Thursday. Three black guys and four white guys comprise the band whose sound is a detailed mix between afro-beat breakdown, funk delicacies, flattening punk rock, and [...]
Reviewing Teddy Thompson – Live – opening at the Largo L.A. for Jayhawks’ Gary Louris and Mark Olsen The sound systems in L.A. usually have a tweeter out or other some such ear jerking clamor rattle out of from its speakers. I have never in my life heard a sound so clear, so full and [...]
Tommy Chong and Cheech Marin shoot with photographer Anna Webber in Brentwood CA on February 27, 2009. linkscolor = “000000″; highlightscolor = “888888″; backgroundcolor = “FFFFFF”; channel = “none”;
(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, [...]