BEBE REXHA & FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE at the Grammy Museum
As The Grammy Museum closes in on its 10th Anniversary, it’s a prime time not only to celebrate their powerful and provocative exhibits...
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Jonathan Widran
Aug 14, 2018
STEVE OLIVER, Illuminate
Following in the tradition of his earlier albums POSITIVE ENERGY and RADIAN, Steve Oliver dubs his latest album ILLUMINATE to shine a...
Jonathan Widran
Aug 14, 2018
SISTER SPEAK, The Stand
In a time when album art is unfortunately often reduced to a thumbnail, a larger vision of the cover of The Stand, Sister Speak’s...
Jonathan Widran
Aug 14, 2018
BROWN KID, Rusty Strings
If you can embrace the wildly cool, culturally mindbending geographic concept of a Peruvian born singer striking ground in Alabama,...
Jonathan Widran
Aug 12, 2018
BEN MILLBURN, Sunglass Moustache
This journalist has always been a champion of indie artists and bands who take risks, and use the era of DIY music making to create works...
Jonathan Widran
Aug 12, 2018
THE EYEBROWS, Volume
When indie bands with quirky monikers come along, it’s always cool to learn how those names came about. Toss of coin? Repressed childhood...
Jonathan Widran
Aug 12, 2018
DARREN JESSEE, The Jane Room 217
Listening to the gentle, sparsely arranged, slowly intoxicating songs on Darren Jessee’s homegrown acoustic dream-pop album The Jane...
Jonathan Widran
Aug 12, 2018
WATER AND MAN, Phantasie
“Dive” and “immerse” probably aren’t the cleverest terms one could use in describing the intensive heart and mind wash that happens...
Jonathan Widran
Aug 6, 2018
MONIQUE DEBOSE, The Sovereign One
On The Sovereign One, Monique Debose’s empowering first album since the pair of Choose The Experience collections that launched her...
Jonathan Widran
Aug 3, 2018
TAJMO: TAJ MAHAL, KEB' MO', MELISSA ETHERIDGE and DEVA MAHAL at the Hollywood Bowl
The colorfully written Hollywood Bowl program bio of Deva Mahal, the opening act on a midweek slate that included rocker Melissa...
Jonathan Widran
Aug 1, 2018
DEVI, "Bad Boy"
The unrelenting pursuit of the proverbial “Bad Boy” may take its emotional toll on girls who don’t adequately armorall their hearts – but...
Jonathan Widran
Jul 28, 2018
REBECCA ANGEL, What We Had
On her soulfully produced and gorgeously arranged debut EP What We Had, emerging NYC singer/songwriter Rebecca Angel makes every...
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