“Freshly Cut”: jazz, blues and something extra in The Strands debut album.
Due for release Feb. 16 in Santa Monica, Freshly Cut is thoroughly enjoyable and should put The Strands on everyone’s radar. [...]
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NAMM Saturday. Technology, BINX and Stevie Wonder.
The day began when we walked into the Media Center across from Hall E and ran into Stevie Wonder being interviewed by a TV network. Foreigner, News Day, and Buckcherry followed. [...]
NAMM2019 Friday: hip hop harps, a revolutionary keyboard and She Rocks.
NAMM 2019 Friday: hip hop harps, a revolutionary keyboard and She Rocks Awards [...]
NAMM Report: Sunday and final wrap up
NAMM2019 wrapped u p with 114,000 people, 7000 products at over 2000 booths and a lot of tired but mostly happy people. [...]
Over 100,000 people. NAMM report: Thursday
Patrick O’Heffernan. Host, Music FridayLive!, It is a good thing that the Anaheim Convention Center added the new North Hall because NAMM is really using it. Attendance [...]
A $2 million dollar guitar strap. A watch that tunes your instruments. A comfortable keytar. NAMM 2019 report – Wednesday.
Patrick O’Heffernan. Host, Music FridayLive!, (Anaheim Convention Center) A $ 2 million dollar guitar strap. A watch that tunes your instruments and more, a guitar that [...]
Into the Blue by Alice Wallace is a burst of sunshine in your ears
Patrick O’Heffernan. Host, Music FridayLive!, Alice Wallace carries her own sunshine with her. Her radiant smile and cascading sun-gold hair on stage, the luminescence [...]
PBS SoCal/Independent Lens “Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World” is a must-see for music lovers
Patrick O’Heffernan. Host, Music FridayLive!, If you ask most Americans about Indians in rock music they will usually point to “Cherokee Nation”, the John D. [...]
A CD launch in a legendary garage studio
Patrick O’Heffernan. Host, Music FridayLive!, It had stopped raining around 4 pm last Sunday when I squeezed my 10 year-old Ford Escape into a parking place on a [...]
The magic of an orquestra
Patrick O’Heffernan. Host, Music FridayLive!, I experienced magic Saturday night. I may also have witnessed history, but that will take a while. First some background. [...]
Christmas in Mexico: not much rock, but great Mariachi opera
Patrick O’Heffernan. Host, Music FridayLive!, The Music Friday Live Radio team is back from its Christmas vacation in Mexico where we absorbed local culture and a little [...]
“Lipstick Tomboy” EP by Lisa Bouchelle stands out while it lays back.
Patrick O’Heffernan. Host, Music FridayLive!, Lisa Bouchelle sees herself as a lipstick tomboy; I see her as a renaissance woman – who is also a Lipstick Tomboy, the [...]
The magic of a pop-opera orquestra
Patrick O’Heffernan. Host, Music FridayLive!, I experienced magic Saturday night. I may also have witnessed history, but that will take a while. First some background. [...]
Christmas songs are here. My two favorites this season.
Patrick O’Heffernan. Host, Music FridayLive!, My mailbox – both electronic and physical has been stuffed with Christmas music. Rather than run a list of who is doing [...]
Doe Paoro lights up the Lodge Room.
Patrick O’Heffernan. Host, Music FridayLive!, “We are having sound problems so you will have to go around to the alley,” said the affable young man at the door of [...]
Carlos Sé’s debut EP introduces the Sé Sound of East LA.
Carlos Sé, a friendly East LA roquero singer/songwriter with a light touch on the guitar and a knack for clever penetrating lyrics, handed me a copy of his debut EP [...]
Whitney Tai in LA ‘s Classiest Dive Bar.
Patrick O’Heffernan. Host, Music FridayLive!, Los Angeles was originally called “El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Ángeles del Río Porciúncula” [...]
Violet Days “Made in My Head” and we feel it all over. Album review.
Patrick O’Heffernan. Host, Music FridayLive!, Violet Days’ music has always been addictive. This Swedish collaborative project made up of singer-songwriter/artist [...]
Fire and music in California
An update on the impact of fires on music in California. [...]
Blasting off at the Bardot with JØUR before the mid-term election.
JØUR turned the Bardot into a West Coast Cape Canaveral, rocketing the audience into a black hole on the dark side of the moon, swung it screaming around into the sun, pulled it back at the last moment and slid it into a nightmare. [...]