notes from vivace

Heading to  Zebulon  for a Super Bowl after party has become my three year tradition: a time to see singers again for who-knows-how-many-tim...

A Handful of Show Alerts Sunday, Mar 30th: Emily Rose & the Rounders , Eugene Edwards, Los Rock Angeles , and Tone Slingers at The Re...

It was off to  Permanent Records Roadhouse  to see a  Shannon Lay  set for the first time since 2021. Of course, I made sure I saw the full ...

I've been following  Shannon Lay  since 2011 when she was in a band fronted by Laena Myers called Raw Geronimo (name later changed to  ...

I'll be honest, I have not seen  Lo Moon  all that often. I first saw the band in 2016 at  The Echo  and didn't run across them agai...

I first came across  Shi La Rosa  via her band  Drugs Cosmetics . It was 2022 and it was a  WFNM  night at the  Black Rose . Almost three ye...

A Handful of Show Alerts Sunday, Mar 23rd: Bitter Half and Maryze at Club Tee Gee . Doors at 8 p.m. You can read my Bitter Half Song Spot...

I first crossed paths with  Olivia Lee Saperstein  of  Pegzilla  in 2018 when her band, at the time,  Egg Drop Soup  played  The Echo  durin...

I love the music residency. Pre-2020, I used to rotate between the Bootleg Theater, The Hi Hat, Silverlake Lounge, The Echo, and The Satelli...

I came across  The Letter Openers  via a music collective called Kiss or Kill that was a force to be reckoned with in the 2000s and was my i...

Pu$$y-Cow  is one of the first bands I ever came across in the Los Angeles music scene. The band was part of a collective of bands that came...

A Handful of Show Alerts Sunday, Mar 16th: noworriesLMK  at  Scribble.  Doors at 8 p.m. You can read my song spotlight of their song "...

How does one describe the band  SWEAT ? Screaming that would wake the dead. Grunts that caused fans to rush the stage and trampoline off int...