For those who have still yet to hear of Warner Drive they are a ROCK band, they are a METAL and a PUNK band and even a hint of the Beach Boys thrown in. Most of all they are great perfomers with great songs.
The guys have been around for a while, but things are hotting up for them after recently been signed by Interscope Records. They announced that they’ve pretty much finished the new album and even premiered a new …
They will always be phenomenal!! They blew the main stage away! Sunset Strip Music Festival 2010 gave platform to so many stellar bands and performers today, and the Smashing Pumpkins closed the main stage giving us the high we wanted. All through middle and high school, I wanted to see SP perform, they were so edgy at the time! I was able to finally see them today and they are just as incredible now as they were then. Check out …
SSMF 2010- The Cat Club- Oh No Not Stereo gets cables and gear ready for their performance in the intimate bar. The space is packed tight, sound checks, girls giggle over the group of punk rockers. They open in a flash and dive right into a high energy, fist pumping, head banging number. In fact, the head banging was syncopated and matched the drummers call. Very much a brotherhood band they really dig the the community vibe of SSMF …
SSMF 2010-The Roxy- Juke Kartel warms up behind the stage curtain while DJ STUBBS sets the tone with a sick mash up of George Michael, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Queen, and Buckcherry. Fans start to gather around the front of the stage building excitement as they wait for the band to open, we can hear them warming and riffing behind the curtain as Freddy Mercury shouts out We Will Rock You! Curtain opens and bam! They’re off and playing hard! …
Bass players need not apply.
I caught Nico Vega at the Key Club tonight as part of the Sunset Strip Music Festival. Nico Vega managed to keep me pleasantly entranced wielding a drum kit, guitar, and an esoteric voice. Unfortunately, I missed the very beginning of the set because I was enjoying the most delicious taco truck I’ve come to know in Los Angeles. After I devoured my purple quesadilla, I caught Nico Vega in full effect. I won’t lie, Aja …
P.O.D. at the Whiskey, and the crowd is shoulder to shoulder packed. Everyone is a standing replica of the lead singer. The Pearl drum kit at the ready and the Orange amps standing proud on stage. I’m lucky enough to be sitting in the V.I.P section sitting back , relaxing with a perfect view of the stage, beer in hand and watching the crowd. It isn’t said but there is definitely a shared emotion in the room, everyone is thinking …
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The first thing that stands out as Red Circle Underground starts their set, is how many instruments they have on stage. Rolling six members deep, they are not your typical band. With two or three vocalists per song, three guitars, a drum kit, bongos, harmonica, tambourine and a keyboard, everyone is busy on stage. Their style is a mixture of several different genres, ranging from alternative rock, to blues. Their songs are fast paced, …
The House of Blues was home to another great rock show tonight. With Black Mambooza and L.A. Nookie opening immediately I knew it was going to be a good show. Black Mambooza brought something different to the table – with a little bit of country mixed with some heavy rock it had the crowd getting warmed up quickly for the headliners. Dressed in their country attire Black Mambooza brought some hard rock I was not expecting to the table.
L.A. Nookie …
So I have to be honest, I was only vaguely aware of Y&T before I went to the show at the Sunset Strip’s Key Club, they but they completely ruled. They’re classic rock, but classic rock at their best – great tunes, great guitar rifts and an awesome stage presence.
The crowd was way younger than I expected, most of them obviously born way after the band was founded in 1974, and so into all the songs that they knew what …
