Radiohead released their achingly beautiful ninth LP, A Moon Shaped Pool today, May 8th, 2016. No doubt drawing on the disintegration of his 23 year relationship with Rachel Owen, Thom Yorke’s college sweetheart and wife, Pool is replete with moments of pure heartbreak, loneliness and emotional despair in its blunt exploration of human intimacy, a theme […]
Still a Novice: Masters of Sex – Season 1
So I’m finally marathoning the Masters of Sex show, after watching the pilot last fall. IDK, I think Virginia would’ve had a lot more ish to deal with from society at large being that ‘independent’ back then, particularly sexually (I mean honestly, I know plenty of women who still do, and none that don’t, even […]
Pulp: a Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets
Not quite rockumentary, never just a concert film, Pistachio Pictures Pulp film directed by Florian Habicht somehow manages to rate as one of the very best rockumentaries we’ve seen, and a whole new approach to the stale cliche that is the concert film. When Bono started floating across screens in 3D and the Stones were lazily […]
Review: Capsula with Os Mutantes at the Troubadour – May 2, 2013
As Your Girl In Music is as much a product of David Bowie’s 80’s cinematic triumph that is Labyrinth as she is the lace-and-leather rock scene that ran rampant in that same era, her curiosity was piqued at the unexpected but more than welcome discovery of the Spain-by-way-of-the-Argentine trio Capsula. At first glance and listen, […]
Kirk House Brought Sexy Back to On The Rox
West Hollywood’s Sunset Strip has long tradition as a legendary scene in Rock and Roll history. From the House of Blues to the Whiskey A Go Go, the Viper Room to the Roxy, the musically inclined, young and old, hip and square, crowd into clubs, spilling out onto the streets and drink the noise kool-aid. […]
New Music Spotlight: Mariee Sioux
Few albums embody the folksy, ethereal essence of a golden state songstress so well as Gift for the End, the sophomore offering from California’s own Mariee Sioux. Recorded in the summer of 2011 at Placerville’s Moonsoon Studios and Nevada City’s Sun Dial studios, the new song-cycle breathes as easily and resonates as warmly as 2007’s […]
i <3 Nouela's New Noise
Your Girl In Music cannot get over the new noise echoing in her ear drums. The culprit? Nouela, the half-Korean, half-Norwegian spirited songstress ‘from’ Seattle (by way of Korea) who is poised to finally revolutionize Indie Girl Rock in the early 2010′s. This is no case of hyperbole or exaggeration. Listen for yourself, feel that […]
50 Shades of Something
Okay, friends. It’s time to talk mommy porn (Mom, I’m sorry for using that phrase, but I promise I didn’t make it up). In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past month or so, allow me to explain: There’s a book called Fifty Shades of Grey. It’s written by a British woman […]
Review: The Hang at Genghis Cohen – 04.13.2012
Some 150 miles away, in the desert, many an Angeleno’s teeth chattered on the soggy polo grounds during the Black Keys headlining set at opening day of the 2012 Coachella Music & Arts Festival, weekend one. Back here in LA however, those of us still in the empty and rain-washed city crowded into the intimate […]
Clark Graham at Hotel Cafe – 3.20.12
Almost one month to the day after his debut in the venue, British Columbia native and LA transplant singer-songwriter Clark Graham did the near impossible and filled the house at 7 pm on a Tuesday evening at Hollywood’s Hotel Cafe. Then, for a brief interlude, time stood still and Clark wove his melodic spell over […]
Album Review: Sparkadia – The Great Impression
Sparkadia is the project and musical vision of alternative pop musician and lyrical mastermind Alexander Burnett. The band formed in Sydney in 2004 and were originally known as The Spark. The brainchild of Alex Burnett (vocals, guitar) and Dave Hall (drums), Sparkadia became a reality with the addition of Nick Rabone (bass) and Josephine Ayling […]
Album Review: Brandon Schott – 13 Satellites
Do you remember the first album you listened to that truly allowed you to lose yourself in the moment and the music – that you could get thoroughly lost in, but was as familiar as your own snuggly and comfy skin? That, my friends is 13 Satellites, the 4th full length album from LA artist […]
Elizavetta Dazzles at Hotel Cafe
LA’s favorite flower alchemist and pioneer of the sound she calls “popera” stole the shine from the stars at Hotel Cafe last night. If you think my praise too high, you’ve clearly never seen or heard the ephemeral songstress. Easily one of Angel City’s premier standout artists in the sea of talented indie singer-songwriters […]
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 […]
Review – Teen Wolf: You’ll Want Your MTV (Again)
Twilight, schmilight! Vamps are so last season: as in cold and dead, both literally and figuratively. Werewolves, on the other hand, are warm-blooded creatures of wanton carnality – now that’s hot.
GoodReads Review: Rockettes, Rockstars and Rockbottom
Rockettes, Rockstars and Rockbottom by Keltie Colleen My rating: 5 of 5 stars This uniquely personal yet universal autobiography in progress should be required reading for every girl out there. Maybe instead of impressing upon our daughters the values from the Frog Prince, which just teaches young girls to inanely go about kissing toads and […]
Hole @ The Music Box at the Fonda
She can keep you waiting nearly an hour, offering an unapologetic apology when she arrives. She can forget the words to her songs and tell you to shut up while she tries to remember them. She can ramble on and on, hopscotching through a dozen different attitudes — from pandering to verbal abuse to […]