notes from vivace

A final Chinatown night until next year. What a fun few months. On this Saturday night  GRIT , Moon Honey , and  Sego  hit the stage. Gri...

Lael Neale I finally made it to the Resident. I've seen photos from other photographers, but never made it down there myself until t...

Lara FM A pretty cool night at the Silverlake Lounge. I hadn't headed out to the Silverlake Lounge for a couple months.  Lara FM  wa...

PAPA A great night of music hit the Bootleg Theater last Friday for PAPA's residency.  Green Gerry  started the night off with a sha...

The Buttertones What a wild and crazy night at The Echo. Opening up the night was  Dumb Fucks . They're young. They're punk. And...

Ghita It was off to The Satellite to catch a couple of artists. The big big surprise was seeing  Ghita . She comes to Los Angeles via Mo...

Knox Hamilton I have this tradition of going out on Monday nights. So on the last Monday of August, I'd seen all the residency bands...

Zipper Club This is admittedly 2 weeks late. I don't believe I've done this in more than a couple years, I went to two differe...

Beginners It was a busy weekend for me -- that's last weekend. I guess not as busy as for some local music lovers who probably caugh...

Kauf It was off to see  Kauf , the August residency band at The Echo. First up was LO MOON . They're dark and moody with pulsating...

Honeychain was the first band up at the Frog Spot. This was my first time seeing this band even though I've been aware of them for th...

Bones Muhroni Smoky Knights  and  Bones Muhroni  hit the stage at The Hi Hat a little over two weeks ago. Smokey Knights was up first. F...

I didn't get to catch  Rachel Goodrich  at Make Music Pasadena. There are so many bands playing Make Music Pasadena that sometimes dec...