EPIC WIN! TV on the Radio @ Hollywood Bowl on 9/25

Your Girl in Music, in her typical benevolent fashion, with an exclusive ticket giveaway. You’re welcome, LA. This time, thanks to some seriously righteous friends in music’s high places, you could win two tickets to see art rock gods TV on the Radio at the Hollywood Bowl in what I’m officially calling the most epic […]

W!N: Get “One Step Closer” to Shane Harper at the LA County Fair this Weekend!

Pop-rock fans may remember 18-year-old Shane Harper from his video for “Dance With Me,” which made a splash on the pop music scene last summer. Since then the triple threat actor, dancer, and musician has been busy writing and recording his self-titled debut album with industry hit-maker Adam Anders, the musical producer for Glee.  The […]

OKGo: Happy Artists <3

=>true confession: sometimes, i ♥ OKGO so much that it actually hurts. What do you mean, WHY? Cuz i can have nothing but pure adulation for, & massive appreciation of their being unabashedly happy artists, thus making it OK for me to be an artist without having to try and suffer and/or self-destruct as part […]

Werewolves We Wanna Kiss

Music + Moxie delivers the two-part not-quite-official MTV’s Teen Wolf Season One Playlist: “Werewolves We Wanna Kiss” from your girl in Music. You are welcome, fellow teen-wolf groupies, we’ll get through this TW famine together, god-willing. PART I: Songs chosen by Show Runner Jeff Davis, aka Another Awesome Jeff (#AAJ*) his fave per episode, in […]

The Music+Moxie Interview: Alex Marshall of the Cab

Las Vegas band The Cab inked its first recording contract while the bands founding members were still in high school and released their first full-length album, Whisper War, in 2008, garnering much love and enviable praise from that fickle beast known as the music press. With next week’s release of their long-awaited and much-anticipated follow up […]

Anything Else

Anything Else is really Annie Hall just recycled for the modern era. I’ll admit that Annie Hall isn’t nearly as compelling in the early aughts as it was in the 70s. Zeitgeists: how do they work? Jerry Falk: …I was actually listening to this last night, and I thought of you. Amanda: You were listening […]

Review: Decemberists Fake It Twice at LA’s Greek Theater

2011 has been a banner year for the Decemberists. Having enjoyed a respectable and sustained success in relative obscurity, their unexpected Billboard #1 hit with January’s The King Is Dead turned the bookish indie-folk-pop quintet into bona-fide mainstream rockstars, which somehow escaped the notice of your normally alert girl in music until later in the […]

Australia-Land

Have I ever mentioned how wonderful Australia is? Australia is a beautiful country filled with beautiful people doing beautiful things…beautifully. If you were to ask me “Ses, what’s the one country in the world with which you could find no fault?” I would quickly answer, without a moment’s hesitation, “Australia.” The music, the people, the […]

indie

indie is dead. because indie won. A brief excerpt from The End of Indie” or “We Are All Indie Now” by Richard Nash. “You see, to the extent that indie meant anything, it was as its root word, independent. It was about seizing the means of production. Independently produced. Aesthetics can be imitated, ethics faked, […]

When I Was A Beatle

The perfect playlist for your next Bed-In… including the requisute ‘mysogynistic Lennon’-song plus the requisite ‘Lennon atones for prior mysogyny’-song. Side A Norwegian Wood Woman Is The Nigger Of The World Come Together A Day In The Life Ticket To Ride Strawberry Fields Forever Whatever Gets You Through The Night Revolution Dig A Pony Working […]

Teen Wolf: Who’s Gonna Die Next Week?

OK, phew! Thanks to three-hour fireworks courtesy of the city of Los Angeles last night,  I have only just now finished watching the latest episode of Teen Wolf and plan to diligently and defiantly hold my breath until we find out who dies next week. Remember, I was afflicted with this obsession when I interviewed […]