OLIVIA FOSCHI, Fleeting Windows
In 2015, just as her career as an in-demand performer was taking off in the wake of her critically acclaimed debut album Perennial...
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Jonathan Widran
- Oct 15, 2018
KAZYAK, Reflection
Peter Frey, the sonic mastermind, singer and songwriter behind the wildly expansive, trippy and dreamlike but also gritty and grounded...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 15, 2018
JIM CLEMENTS, A Failure
There’s something wistfully ironic about checking out the Indiegogo page of a deeply poetic, remarkably insightful songwriter bold enough...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 11, 2018
MOSAIC MSC AT THE GRAMMY MUSEUM'S CLIVE DAVIS THEATRE IN LOS ANGELES
Over the last ten years, The Grammy Museum at L.A. Live has worked towards fulfilling its mission to educate the public about the history...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 9, 2018
PETER STERLING, Magic Kingdom
As a culture, we have been ultra-Disneyfied for so many years and via so many media that when we see an album called Magic Kingdom, our...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 6, 2018
JEFF OSTER, Reach
For more than a decade now, Jeff Oster has been one of new age music’s most transcendent anomalies, carving out a major, multiple-award...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 3, 2018
IN DREAMS: ROY ORBISON IN CONCERT: THE HOLOGRAM TOUR AT THE WILTERN
When Roy Orbison died at the age of 52 in December 1988, he was in the middle of an extraordinary comeback. The Traveling Wilburys, the...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 2, 2018
ERIK SCOTT, A Trick of the Wind
Celebrating a prolific decade as one of new age music’s most acclaimed and innovative artists and performers, Erik Scott follows his...
Jonathan Widran
- Oct 1, 2018
2002, A WORLD AWAY
To appropriate the title of 2002’s sweeping, soul enveloping latest full length album, that year seemed A World Away when...
Jonathan Widran
- Sep 30, 2018
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...
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...
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