Have you ever noticed how every now and then you will rediscover a song that you had heard before but hadn’t gone nuts over initially? Then suddenly, weeks, months or sometimes even years later, you stumble across it again and this time it gets embedded in your conscious and you just have to listen […]
In June/July I traveled to Budapest, Hungary and was blown away by some of the excellent psychobilly bands there. One of the bands I was most impressed with was Silvershine. Their live performance simply rocked. Missed the write up? See it HERE. I’m heading to France & Spain next in my continuing effort to bring […]
We know why people do voting contest right? It’ drives mad traffic for their website. And we act like monkeys and respond by voting, and asking our friends to vote, etc., etc. Yet it’s not every day one of our artists gets a chance to be MTV’s favorite artist of the week, so I’m going […]
MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA: I finally made it to my “2nd home” of Medellin, Colombia and despite the big “Feria de los Flores” (Festival of Flowers) festivities going on all week, I immediately got to work. First stop was lunch with my amigo and Dorados Rockabilly Trio founder and lead singer Felipe Ossa. Felipe and I discussed […]
Congrats to Dorados Rockabilly Trio for their feature on MTV’s Iggy site. Cool article. Thanks MTV! You can check the article HERE and you can check Dorado’s music HERE
Kiev, Ukraine. Site of the big Ukrabilly rockabilly festival. Home to EXCELLENT Ukrainian rockabilly band the Wise Guyz. So we traveled thousands of kilometers (and miles) just to visit Kiev and get a little glimpse of their punk, psychobilly & rockabilly subcultures. Despite our best efforts to interview the organizers of Ukrabilly rockabilly festival in Ukraine, […]
What do you get when you combine a rockabilly band in Medellin, Colombia (Dorados Rockabilly Trio), with a couple of Russian interns serving as Asst. Directors and a cool El Salvadorian/American pin up model in Los Angeles (Miss Nentini)? Just add a talented editor in Moscow (Evgeny Chernyshiov.. AKA “Noodles”) and you get one pretty kick […]
One of my favorite rockabilly bands in the world comes from Colombia. Not exactly a hot bed of Rockabilly activity you say? correct! But its definitely on the rise, in a large part thanks to “Dorados Rockabilly Trio” , a trio of cool cats who play original and unique rockabilly music in Spanish and English. […]
Yes, the U.S. puritanical roots are slowly but surely fading away. Back then there were those who’d prefer that everyone’s moral outlooks reflect their own and if it didn’t, well, then they could just lock ’em up. BUT that whole freedom of speech and expression thing gets in the way EVERY time.
Woke up late on Saturday, packed up my camera and I and my painfully chapped lips and headed over to the Viva Las Vegas Car Show at the Orleans Hotel. Other than my aforementioned chapped lips, I love the desert air in April and it was an almost picture perfect day for any outside activity. It’s been five […]
Here is a little video clip from the Atomic Drifters (Denver) Performing at Viva Las Vegas.. Enjoy!
Yesterday was Day 1 of the big Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender and despite our intentions to leave bright and early, we left around 1 pm and thanks to a car accident on the outskirts of Los Angeles arrived kind of late to Vegas, hungry and tired. The hungry part was addressed with some cheap […]
For all of you following the Black Cat / Rich Vreede Scam drama on DontDragMeDown.com (AKA Scumbagpromoter.com) you may have read about the cool new hot spot Torino Lounge in Paramount, California. If not, then now worries, I’m here to tell you about it. It just opened and next weekend they got a big rockabilly […]
In 2006 I happened to be in Las Vegas for some business reason or another when Viva Las Vegas was in town. I stumbled upon the pool party by accident and saw a guy named “Pachuco Jose y Los Diamantes” playing his brand of boogie woogie out by the pool and all these tattooed and retro […]
It was like Deliverance meets the Warped Tour and I loved it!
It took a little longer than we anticipated, having interrupted our work flow by traveling to Latin America and all for a year, but we did finally get interview edited from our good buddies The Quakes. They had just played a gig in Los Angeles and we were able to catch up with them the […]
So this weekend I made my way East (Living in Santa Monica, I can’t go much further west), to the Irwindale Speedway to take in the big Mooneyes Car and Music Festival. It’s an annual X-mas event that’s been around for quiet sometime but it was my first. And what better way to get into […]
MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA – I’m back in the U.S. of A… but that doesn’t mean I don’t have my finger on the pulse of the burgeoning rockabilly scene in Colombia. The Dorados Rockabilly Trio has been busy working on their new CD and they recently played the Expo Tattoo 2011 convention in their hometown of Medellin. […]
I don’t ride Motorcycles. Don’t like them, think they are dangerous and loud and annoying. The last time I was on one was when I was 11 years of age and I wrecked my buddy’s new motorbike the day after X-mas. So why on earth would I venture out to the Venice Vintage Motorcycle show? […]
You may have seen that we’ve written a little about the emerging rockabilly and psychobilly scenes in Colombia. We’ve featured interviews with bands like Los Chiclosos Desmembrados (Dismembered or Chewed Up Gum) and Salidos de la Cripta (Leaving the Crypt) who are representing some emerging psychobilly music from Bogota (more from those bands coming later […]