As my local news this week filled with video of mudslides damaging homes in the Montecito area of Santa Barbara – including Oprah’s and Ellen’s - and taking lives, I was reminded...
The center of Hollywood is not the famous intersection of Hollywood Blvd and Vine Street, at least not for musicians. It is actually a small alley off of Selma Ave between Sunset...
No one really knows how many recording studios or record producers operate in Los Angeles. The Southern California studio list of The Music Connection Directory of Music runs for 6 pages of...
Recently I had Christopher Sluka on my radio show, the founder and lead guitarist of the Gothic influenced hard rock dance music band SLUKA, his song "Number One" from the most recent album Colorful...
One of LA’s most popular music festivals was held last weekend in a cemetery. Not just any cemetery, but the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, final resting place of Johnny and De De Ramone,...
One of LA’s most sought after music venues is not open to the public, is not actually a music venue, and is not in the City of Los Angeles. But I was...
During the day, if you drive by the address listed for the Echoplex music venue on Glendale Blvd where it passes under Sunset, all you see is a blue painted tattoo parlor,...
(Santa Monica) Have you ever been on a press junket? Probably not unless you are a reporter or broadcaster or editor. As a writer I go on press junkets, which in the...
