The Southern California stops of Vans Warped Tour are fast approaching, and if you’re overwhelmed by everything that goes along with this year’s festival, don’t worry because Kia has released a new Warped widget that will help you get the most out of your stop. Heading out with the festival for the sixth consecutive summer, Kia is the official vehicle of Warped Tour and is helping concertgoers manage their day with their new Warped widget.
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Englishman Marlow Bevan and Norwegian songstress Milla Sunde, the members of multi-national European electro-pop duo The Green Children, first met while enrolled at Sir Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts. The duo hit it off, began creating beautiful music together, and eventually signed to Jackson Browne’s label, Spinside Records.
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Kaskade holds a special place in a lot of trance and house music fans’ hearts. Mainly, because he’s pretty prolific and his music is generally good. His latest effort, “Atmosphere,” is a spacious, progressive house track with one major difference from his other works: Kaskade himself provides the vocals.
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Some incredible music is being released this week, including albums from two of my favorite artists, Kanye West and Empire of the Sun. Be sure to check out the rest of the albums below and don’t forget to let me know in the comments what you’ll be listening to this week!
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In case you haven’t noticed, the latter half of this century’s first decade and now its second have had a musical infatuation with that far away decade known as the 1980s. You know, the ’80s — that mysterious time when many of today’s musicians could barely grasp a bottle on their own, let alone a guitar. Built to Spill’s bassist Brett Nelson is not immune to such an infatuation.
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It’s June, which means that lemonade drinking, sunbathing, and of course, jangly pop music listening have all become a part of our daily routines. Now, we realize that not everyone has time to plan and research their summer activities in advance BUT fortunately for you, LA Music Blog knows just how you can pass the time this weekend…by watching folk duo She & Him live in concert, of course!
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Festival producers announced the preliminary line-up today, June 17th, for the 5th Annual Epicenter Festival taking place September 21, 2013 at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine, California.
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How’s this for a great summer night? It’s a Saturday in late June. You’re in Las Vegas, and you’re going to see one of the biggest DJs in the world perform a sunset set at one of the hottest clubs on the Strip. But wait, it gets better. This whole evening comes courtesy of your friends at LA Music Blog! It may sound too good to be true, but it’s not because we’re giving one lucky reader a pair of tickets to see Skrillex at Eclipse at Daylight Beach Club this Saturday night (June 22) during EDC week.
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Let’s admit it. In LA we are kind of obsessed with working out. It’s not our fault. We just like to look good, and there is definitely a reason so many people wear earbuds at the gym — if I have to run while listening to “I Like To Move It” one more time, I’m going to scream. I don’t hate EDM, but listening to the same six house songs on repeat while trying to get my run on drives me insane. Here are a few of the indie tracks that I listen to to break up the monotony of typical workout songs.
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Some books you read, toss aside, and promptly forget. Others you take a little more seriously. You reread a book of this second sort and delight in the fresh perspective each new viewing brings. You jot your excited epiphanies in the margins of the book, which for the purposes of this introduction, is a real honest-to-God book made out of paper and glue. You recommend the book to your friends and urge them to read it so that you may discuss it together, even going so far as to lend your dog-eared copy to the more trustworthy of the bunch.
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