It’s All It’s Cracked Up To Be

After releasing their first self-titled EP in 2006, Fleet Foxes quickly swept the indie folk scene. It wasn’t until 2008 when they released their second EP “Sun Giant” did the band start to make a greater impact in the indie music world. After their 2011 release “Helplessness Blues,” the band’s then drummer and now superstar […]

From the Founders of Funk

Many artists that we listen to today inspire us, but we never really seem to think about or ask who inspired them. George Clinton, the founder of funk bands Funkadelic, Parliament and joint band Parliament-Funkadelic, helped to establish the basis of funk music and culture in the ’60s and ’70s. Other music has since been […]

Songs About Donald Trump or My Girlfriend

Saturday, Oct. 21 in Santa Ana, behind the glass display of a local music shop known as Beatnik Bandito Emporium, Ryan Alexander of Civilian begins to set up for an intimate night of heartfelt music. Among the classic vinyl records and dust settling on collectible guitars, most of the crowd decided to sit on the […]

Morrissey Making a Statement

Steven Patrick Morrissey, otherwise known as Morrissey from the Smiths, released a music video on Oct. 17 for his new single “Spent the Day in Bed.”  The music video is directed by Sophie Muller and stars the English soccer player Joey Barton. Barton portrays a wheelchair-bound caretaker for Morrissey who finds Morrissey and his band […]