Review: Sara Jackson-Holman – Cardiology (2012)
Sara Jackson-Holman was just a student when she was discovered in 2010. Studying piano and writing at Whitworth University, she didn’t even have a demo recorded yet at the time. Anthony McNamer, the president of Expunged(Blind Pilot’s record label) saw a fan post she had left for
CONCERT REVIEW + PHOTOGRAPHY: MONCEF GENOUD TRIO AT VITELLO’S (LOS ANGELES, CA)
Moncef Genoud (Switzerland), Andy Barron (UK) and Bänz Oester(Switzerland)July 12th, 2012Vitello’s in Studio City (Los Angeles), CA Gallery: Jim Brock Photography/©Eye on the Music Jazz is constant discovery. Notes become threads, stories become journeys. Artists find a
Concert Review: Scream the Prayer Tour at The Attic (Kettering, OH)
On the tour: Demon Hunter (Seattle, WA), Emery (Seattle, WA), Sleeping Giant (Redlands, CA / Salt Lake City, UT), mychildren mybride (AL/CA/MS/Switzerland), Close Your Eyes (Abilene, TX), Hundredth (Myrtle Beach, SC), The Great Commiss
Concert Review + Photography: Robert Walter Residency, with the 20th Congress at The Mint (Los Angeles)
Robert Walter (New Orleans, LA), Simon Lott (Baton Rouge, LA), Chuck Parada (San Diego, CA), and Chris Stillwell (San Diego, CA)June 13th, 2012The Mint in Los Angeles, CA Gallery: Jim Brock Photography/©Eye on the Music There is no sound quite as satisfying
CONCERT REVIEW: VIENNE MON AMOUR AT LA FLÈCHE D’OR (PARIS)
Monsterheart, Clara Luzia (Vienna, Austria), Ginga (Vienna, Austria), and B.Fleischmann (Vienna, Austria)June 14th, 2012La Flèche d’or in Paris, France [Instagramming in a pinch.] In German, there is a saying that roughly equates to (and all apologizes for messi
REVIEW: THE ALTOS – ALTOS (2011)
When I had stepped into Madison, Wisconsin over a year ago, before the move to Paris, there were enthusiastic talk around several bands that always elicited gasps. After having just left Chicago, how some bands slipped under my radar were beyond me. Collections of Colonies of Bees and 
CONCERT REVIEW: HOUSSE DE RACKET AT LA CIGALE (PARIS)
Housse de Racket (Paris, France), The Dodoz (Toulouse, France), and Kid Bombardos (Bordeaux, France)June 1st, 2012La Cigale in Paris, France After America had their chance to catch France’s Housse de Racket, who criss-crossed North America between SXSW and Coachella,
NUCLEAR SO & SO’S AT THE BOOTLEG THEATER (LOS ANGELES, CA)
Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s (Chicago, IL), Dinosaur Feathers (Brooklyn, NY)May 23rd, 2012The Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles, CA Rushing to the show after work, I’m finding myself in a very secluded part of town that must only exist to be a home for this venue. The st
CONCERT REVIEW + PHOTOGRAPHY: DOOMTREE & YELAWOLF AT LA CIGALE (PARIS)
As a Midwesterner who splits time between Chicago, Madison and Minneapolis, learning and anticipating spending a good chunk of the next year in Europe, like many others, instantly calls forth premature nostalgia for all things 3:30 AM diner trips, craft brews (recently Cave à Bulles solved that), f