notes from vivace

A Handful of Show Alerts  Sunday, Nov 30th:  Soft Palms  and  UGHH  at  The Lyric Hyperion . Doors at 8 p.m. You can read my Soft Palms song...

A few weeks back, I got to shoot  The Dandy Warhols  at  The Bellwether  for US Rocker Music. You can read the article  here .  I figured I...

Movie Club  reached out to me in August 2023 to see if I was interested in coming to their residency at  Harvard & Stone . I wasn't ...

I came across  Rituals of Mine  back in 2019 when they opened for  Y La Bamba . I covered the night for Buzzbands. You can read that article...

Zara  (aka Zara Sargsyan) took the  Hotel Ziggy 's  WFNM  showcase stage for the second time this past October. The first time was back ...

As I mentioned in my  Ramonda Hammer  write up (you can read that here ), I had a rather thrilling back to back nights in the Los Angeles mu...

It was a thrilling back to back nights for me in the Los Angels music scene. I got to reconnect with two favorite bands that included an int...

A Handful (less than) of Show Alerts   Sunday, Nov 23rd: Fashion Club at The Roxy . Doors at 7 p.m. Lead singer Pascal Stevenson is in the...

What got me heading out to the  WFNM  showcase at  Hotel Ziggy  on a late September evening? It was  Nico May . I took a listen to all the b...

I don't get to shoot the  Greek Theatre  as often as I'd like. This particular night with headliner The Head And The Heart represen...

For a band that formed in 1981 and has taken some rather lengthy breaks (per Wikipedia, two breaks that lasted over a decade each), The Cham...

Donna  opened up for my favorite New York City band  Laveda  on Oct 1st at  Permanent Records Roadhouse . I covered the night for US Rocker ...

I first came across  Laveda  in 2022 at  Permanent Records Roadhouse . They were playing along side a couple favorite bands of mine:  Janela...