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"Look for me between stone and ocean," Pablo Neruda once wrote. "I will return to be the churning of the water."
The famed poet's "Yo Volver?" is just one of many poems inspired by his fascination with Chilean coastline where he made his home in Is...
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Time to get Merloted
Over the weekend, Outside Lands--San Francisco's marquee music festival--served us more than just a quality lineup for its 8th anniversary. Beyond Elton John and Mumford and Sons their existed a place so apropos for San Franci...
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As the culture of spring and summer music festivals gets more bloated and overwhelming each year, it's become difficult to discern one from the other. Nearly identical lineups, experiences and locations are all starting to garner a certain amount of ...
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Future in Williamsburg
By: Luke O'Neil
Recently, a writer for Pitchfork attended a Purity Ring concert in Melbourne, Australia. Nice. While such a scenario might normally come coupled with some degree of purple musings about synth textures and beg...
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Lemmy Kilmister
Everyone knows that guitars are the heart and soul of rock 'n' roll, but it's the bass that plays the unsung hero. Without a solid rhythm section, there's nothing to carry the song along as the guitar takes off into solos and scale...
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This has been a big year for Sterling and Samantha Wilson, a.k.a. NWLYWD. After recording their first album, the husband and wife duo hit the road to play their tunes and promote themselves. On June 21, during Fullerton's Day of Music festival, they ...
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Attendees of this year's ScareLA will now have to wait another two months until they can once again immerse themselves in the trappings of Halloween. This past weekend, the third annual ScareLA Halloween convention showed that there are no signs that...
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You may know Ramble Jon Krohn--better known by his stage name RJD2--from his critically acclaimed debut album Deadringer or Mad Men where his song "A Beautiful Mine" is the theme. Fifteen years into his career as a DJ-producer, Krohn continues to dev...
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Good deeds don't go unnoticed and in our eyes, there is no better deed then serving our country. Justin Wood did just that with the US Army and even though technically his time in the military is over, it would seem that he can't stop serving. Case i...
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Kendrick Lamar
Now on its eighth year, San Francisco's Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival has quietly emerged as one of the best festivals in the country. Though it's not nearly as ballyhooed as Coachella, Bonnaroo or Lollapalooza, legions of fan...
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Bloodhound Gang is Here to Get It On
You would think that in this era of content-content-content, the Internet wouldn't hesitate to give every album's 20th anniversary a proper acknowledgement. Turns out, this isn't the case, as evidenced by July ...
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It only takes one hit song to launch a career and worldwide publicity tour. OMI (pronounced 'oh-mee') is leading the Billboard Hot 100 for a fourth week as the top-selling song in the U.S. with his reggae-pop hit "Cheerleader". Amazingly, OMI has not...
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Terminally Ill in the Doggie Bus
Years from now, the members of irreverent punk rap troupe Terminally Ill will have to separate their career into two major phases: pre-Doggie Bus and post-Doggie Bus. On the outside, the vehicle once dedicated to t...
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Zakk Wylde's Les Paul Joanna Corwin
The guitar has always been at the center of rock 'n' roll, ever since its roots in blues music. Musically, visually, physically, it's the single backbone of modern music's most famous genre, although some are mo...
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Steve Miller Band. NOT PICTURED: Mythical Pegasus
It's August, the hottest month of the summer! Now, whether your summer began when school let out in May, or at the equinox in June or the day after the 4th of July when you could really relax, chan...
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Many people believe that it is tragic that every day is not Halloween. Sure, one can always pop in [or click on] a horror movie, and throughout the year there are periodic horror film festivals or the occasional Monsterpalooza for fans of make-up, mo...
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"Rowdy" Roddy Piper 1954-2015
Wrestling fans the world over are in mourning as veteran wrestler/actor/comedian "Rowdy" Roddy Piper (n?e Roderick Toombs) died in his sleep from cardiac arrest July 30 at the age of 61. Piper, who competed in the mai...
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Rejoice, guys who grew up liking blondes in the '90s! Gwen Stefani is about to be single again. The singer ended things with Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale this week. Stefani, 45, filed the petition in Los Angeles Superior Court, citing irreconcilable...
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Evan Stone (center) and the Translucent Ham Sandwich Band
Look at the photo above. What do you see? Go on, stare (if you need a larger version, click here). If you can gaze at it for at least five seconds and make any kind of judgement about it, t...
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It's been a pretty hot summer, and it doesn't look like it will be cooling down anytime soon. However, since neither whining nor becoming actively green are going to change the climate by this weekend, one might as well celebrate the heat in style by...