A review of Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions’ September 29, 2009 live performance at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Tags: Around My Smile, Bavarian Fruit Bread, Blanchard, Bon Iver, Charlotte, glockenspiel, Grey's Anatomy, Hollywood Forever, Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions, KCRW, live review, Los Angeles, Masonic Lodge, Mazzy Star, Through the Devil Softly, turducken

A review of Manic Street Preachers’ September 25, 2009 live performance at the Avalon in Los Angeles.

Tags: A Design for Life, A Journal for Plague Lovers, Avalon, Coldplay, Eddie and the Cruisers, Holy Bible, Jackie Collins Existential Question Time, James Dean Bradfield, Jarvis Cocker, lead singer's disease, live review, Los Angeles, Manic Street Preachers, Michael Pare, Nicky Wire, Placebo, Richey Edwards, Sean Moore, Stereophonics, Supergrass, Tindersticks, to be or not to be, You Love us

Re-trending lately, Spike (can seemingly do no wrong) Jones video for Pharcyde’s track “Drop”. If you haven’t already paid worship, or ever seen it, check out this amazing video by the maverick video director, shot entirely in reverse.

Tags: hip-hop, LA music blog, maverick, music video, Pharcyde, reverse, Spike Jones, trending, video director