Walking around the 2017 Long Beach Folk Revival Festival was a blissful, if slightly surreal, experience. The craft boutiques that had long since been corporatized at other festivals felt once again local, the stages had an openness to them, and the blankets and folding chairs that dominated Rainbow Lagoon Park indicated a small festival where […]
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Coachella 2018 Comes Correct With the Rock, Despite What the Haters Say
Dissonant groans among music fans shriek toward a fever pitch annually, in the earliest days of the year grâce à the unveiling of Coachella’s polarizing line up. Lately though, the complaints have taken on somewhat of a theme; the festivals distance from the “Rock ’N Roll” acts that brought the desert event to prominence from […]
Local Record Review: 'Four Steps in Corsets' by Yellow Red Sparks
Yellow Red Sparks Four Steps in Corsets ORG Musicwww.yellowredsparks.com The pure poetry of singer-songwriter Josh Hanson is accentuated by tightly interwoven arrangements on Four Steps in Corsets, the debut EP from OC's premiere indie folk-rockers Yellow Red Sparks. Released by ORG Music, the reflective, melancholic tone of heartache throughout the album makes for a compelling […]
James Felice of the Felice Brothers: I Drive An Ambulance And Comparisons To Bob Dylan Are Uninsightful
Somewhere on the road between 2009's Yonder is the Clock and Celebration, Florida released this spring, the Felice Brothers took a turn from the browned dusty road they've traveled since 2005 and walked toward the flashing lights of an electric big city. Their new album has keyboards very much in the foreground, as opposed to […]
