RADD ACOUSTIC AT MR. MUSICHEAD GALLERY
Five of Los Angeles’ most compelling singer/songwriters – some still up and coming, most well established veterans – gathered the evening...
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THE JW VIBE
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Jonathan Widran
- Sep 25, 2018
DANNY BACHER, Still Happy
With apologies to – and more than a few playful winks at - Beethoven, multi-talented songwriter, soprano saxman, singer, swinger and...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 25, 2018
DANGERMAKER, Run
Sent for refined taste, synth rock fanatics straight from retro-80s pop heaven (or, as we folks still on earth call it, the...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 25, 2018
NATE SMITH, Some Kind of Dancing
On his 2016 debut album Around and Around, the bitingly insightful, socially and politically astute Los Angeles based singer songwriter...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 20, 2018
PLAYING FOR CHANGE: THE ROB MORROW BAND and MIA AND JONAH AT MOLLY MALONE'S
The edgy, rousing and playfully rockin’ double bill of the Rob Morrow Band and Mia and Jonah at Molly Malone’s on Saturday, September 15...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 20, 2018
SY SMITH, "Camelot"
On “Camelot,” the beautiful, sensual new single from Sy Smith’s critically acclaimed new album ‘Sometimes A Rose Will Grow in Concrete,’...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 10, 2018
PAUL BROWN, Uptown Blues
When you listen to Paul Brown’s all at once cool and heartfelt, guttural and plaintive vocals on his latest masterwork Uptown Blues, it...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 10, 2018
HARRY CONNICK, JR. 300th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION OF NEW ORLEANS AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL
When we think of New Orleans, certain images, phrases and life-changing events come to mind: Mardi Gras, Creole Cuisine, Second Lind,...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 10, 2018
ALBERTA, MMMMM
Gritty and raw, making music cheaply but as if his heart, soul and his front porch indie rock blues life were on the line, David Boone –...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 10, 2018
THE FIBS, The Fibs
The genre terms “dark wave” applies to bands from the new wave and post punk era whose compositions are largely based on minor key...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 10, 2018
BROKEN BABY, Broken Baby
One woman’s tears is a hipster generation’s retro-exuberant joy, if the official story of how the LA duo Broken Baby – wunderkind...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 5, 2018
JUDITH LORICK, The Second Time Around
Most jazz vocalists who record standards consider themselves storytellers, but whether they’re superstars or, like the incomparable...
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