Past Stories
Awesomely Warped
Riverside represents with No Bragging Rights
The scorching summer season is upon us once again, and for Inland Empire concertgoers that translates into a plethora of summer music festivals. Among the horde of shows, there is th...
The Folk Revival
Henry Rollins and 30 years of the Claremont Folk Festival
In 1970, it’s likely no one expected that a regular gathering of dulcimer players in Claremont’s Memorial Park, would evolve into one of the area’s most beloved an...
Musical Riot
Sublime With Rome is Still Qualified to Represent
Sublime with Rome will certainly spend part of its Ink-N-Iron performance on Saturday soaking up some sun. That should come as no surprise as the band—whose roots are inextric...
Livin’ The Dream
From Vegas youngsters to heavy metal icons, Escape The Fate is basking in its success
“I can’t tell you what the scene in Vegas is like now but I can tell you what the scene in Vegas used to be…
Walking the Line
Crafting honest American music
It’s becoming increasingly rare to walk into a bar or nightclub and see a live band on the bill. More often than not, the expectation in the digital age is to find the modern equivalent of…
Classical Masters
Riverside County Philharmonic schools us in extraordinary greatness
Classical music is set apart from all other forms—folk, pop, techno, etc.—in that it is an inherent challenge for all parties involved. Composers challenge...
COMMITTED
Heavy Punk Legends Suicidal Tendencies are back in action!
In Los Angeles’s long, esteemed punk history few bands have risen to such levels of success and infamy as Venice Beach’s Suicidal Tendencies (ST). Blasting out of t...
Hold Fast
Punk at its finest—back in Riverside
The Conditionz are an anomaly in the world of punk rock. Bands form and fall apart, merge and splinter and sell out quite frequently. Throughout the shifting landscape of American music, T...
Oh, that Sweet Southern Sound
Stagecoach Music Fest offers great goodies for all
At the end of each April, hipster fedoras are replaced by cowboy hats at Indio’s Empire Polo Club field as country music’s Stagecoach picks up where the rocking Coachella l...
Dazed and Amused
The pilgrimage to inspiration
No one expects a music festival to be convenient. The tickets are expensive (for the majority of those attending), the elements are on their worst behavior and there isn’t a klean kanteen large e...
This Year’s Guide to Coachella Music
If you’re planning to attend America’s greatest modern musical spectacle, the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in mid-April, you may wonder inwardly if a few more holograms, like that memorable one of Tupac Shakur...
Back to Our Roots
Paul Chesne Band Evokes the Americana in All of Us
If you listen to any amount of Paul Chesne Band music, you’re going to hear a plenty of songs about girls and a lot of songs about Jesus. Sometimes, both…
A Date with Daedelus
We get some one-on-one time with the electro-rock star just before he mesmerizes the masses at The Glass House
When Alfred Weisberg-Roberts, who performs under the name Daedelus, plays live, he doesn’t exactly perform the kin...
Swaying and Smiling
Leftover Cuties are lighting up the IE with its bright and vibrant sound.
It’s not often that a band is able to imbue its music with its surroundings in such a way that the group’s songs take your imagination to…
The Story We Don’t See
Pop-punk band The Story So Far opens up about live performances, hard work and adventure.
As they return with a sophomore album and a likely packed show at Pomona’s Glass House on March 16, maturing pop-punkers The Story So F...
Going Home with Pride
The Ghost Inside pushes forward with passionate vigilance
By For Jonathan Vigil, vocalist with L.A. metalcore meteors The Ghost Inside, headlining Pomona’s Glass House on March 8 feels like a homecoming.
“Two of the best ...
Skin Tones
Young buck rapper Kid Ink gets ready to drop bars for UCR’s Heat Music Festival
Ever since he moved to the majors earlier this year, rapper Kid Ink may have to change his name to just Ink—hip-hop scribes and critics…
Keep Calm and Carry On
20+ Years of bringing Ska to the Masses
If you’re into Ska music, then you know of Madness, The Specials, and later No Doubt and Sublime as being the bands to help push Ska to the mainstream. ...
For Poppy
Reunions and Rememberings at The Glass House
Sadly, Poppy DaSilva will never meet her dad. The baby girl, who was born Feb. 7, lost her father before her big debut. Her father, longtime Chain Reaction soundman, Christian DaSilv...
Brotherly Love
Every Time I Die explores Ex Lives in the IE
There’s a common music business stereotype that if brothers play together in a rock band, there is usually some serious sibling conflict. However, Every Time I Die has been going&h...
Shock and Ska
Buck-O-Nine has come a long way from writing songs in their underwear
Experiencing a Buck-O-Nine show these days is about the same as it’s always been over the past two decades or so since this popular SoCal ska-punk group’...
Divine Message
Photos by Max Epstein
Sounds of Satellites, appropriately enough, looks to the heavens for inspiration
Sounds of Satellites is an Orange County rock band fronted by Chance Espinoza, and this band’s music is passionate to the...
Basic Instinct
Photos by Eliot Hazel
Indietronica duo Niki & The Dove is ready to ease your mind
Malin Dahlström (vocals) and Gustaf Karlöf (production) comprise the mysteriously named dance duo, Niki & The Dove. As you might guess...
A New Classic
Photo by Stephen S. Taylor
Victoire’s new paradigm blends centuries-old instrumention with indie rock touches
In 2010, the seven-piece group Victoire saw its debut record, Cathedral City, land on several critics’ year-end ...
Untitled
Finish Ticket is on the verge of releasing a new record but its title is a secret . . . for now.
Brendan Hoye (lead guitar) and Alex DiDonato (lead vocals) are both members of the band known to the…
Not Preaching to the Choir
While Little Faith has built its career on gospel, most of its members are atheists
Jack Maeby, keyboardist for Little Faith, has been a professional musician and producer for decades, having previously worked for industry grea...
A Sacred Celebration
Photo by Angel Ceballos
Zola Jesus and Brooklyn Label Sacred Bones team up for one helluva party
If the Mayans are correct, we’re all in for it—and soon. So if Friday really is going to be our last day on…
A Fantastic Metaphor
I See Hawks in L.A. invites you to look closer
Which cities come to mind when you think of breeding grounds for country music? Certainly Nashville, maybe Austin, but what about Los Angeles?
According to Rob Waller, front man fo...
