California’s best kept secret: the Inland Empire arts scene
The legitimacy of the Inland Empire music and arts scene has always been a hot topic of debate between folks from Los Angeles and people from the Inland Empire (IE). This subject gained even...
Tame Impala’s dive into the ‘20s: a look into the legacy and future of...
Tame Impala might have been the biggest band of the previous decade. The band’s debut album “Innerspeaker” came out in 2010 and played a huge role in ushering in a new era of psychedelic...
NAMM 2020: A brief glimpse into the global music industry
The National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) is the world’s largest music technology convention in the world. Held in Anaheim, California one January weekend every year, thousands of major and minor names in various...
Bombay Bicycle Club attempts to bring indie music back together with ‘Everything Else Has...
There was a period of time in which radio-friendly indie music had its Golden Age, when every song sounded slightly similar to one another. Every hit single had a self-reflective theme of youth or...
The 2020 Grammys and the traditional conundrum of turning art into a competitive sport
When it comes to award shows, three names rule over everything else in terms of what the world considers prestigious: The Oscars, The Emmys and The Grammys. For a quarter of a century, all...
Remembering “KUCR: A Retrospective”
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During September of 2019, a group of KUCR DJs gathered at the radio station for a weekly meeting to discuss how an exhibit at Pain...