notes from vivace

It was off to The Echo to catch Alyeska. I've followed her for a little over a year and was so happy to hear that she was doing the resi...

It was a free Monday night at The Satellite. The free night wasn't due to a residency, but that didn't stop it from being a great ni...

Space Diaries Time passes and I hadn't been to Silverlake Lounge in a couple months.  Molino  and  Space Diaries  had the night. Spa...

It was off to The Smell to catch  Janelane  and  French Vanilla . Janelane is one of my new favorite bands. As I believe I mentioned, the ly...

A new night for The Satellite's residency band hit this month of October.  Decorator  opened their residency with some awesome jazz infu...

So my story about  Lemolo  goes like something like this: I believe there were some stage delays at Music Tastes Good 2016. So I took a wa...

It was Jesse Jo Stark's final residency night. I definitely was going to head on over for a second helping. Opening up were two top notc...

A couple Sundays back, The Hi Hat had a fundraiser to help those impacted by the hurricanes that have hit the US. Knowing that  Mara Connor ...

Music Tastes Good  Day 2. Brainstory  opened up the festival on Day 2. Their jazz improve had me thinking about one of the opening band...

Music Tastes Good  Day 1. Let's just start out with the huge positive. Last year at Music Tastes Good, it was HOT, middle of a late...

So by the time I went to see Jesse Jo Stark on her 2nd night of her September Residency, I'd seen all the residency bands (Bootleg, The ...

Bootleg Theater had Moons of Mars last Monday night to start off their 3 week residency -- a week cut off due to Labor Day. Jimmy LaValle f...

The Satellite brought the hard rock sounds on a recent Monday night. The night opened up with  The New Pacific  with their relentless hard s...