Article by: Bylle Breaux Matt Mann and the Shine Runners are releasing a new album next month and it’s their finest yet. Lead singer/songwriter, Mann, moved from Los Angeles to Nashville just over two years ago and it’s proving to be the right choice. His budding friendship with new lead guitarist,
Author: Bylle Breaux
Tool // Live @ Staples Center // 10.21.19
Article and Photos by: Matt Stasi Los Angeles, CA -- After a provocative rendition of the title track off their recently released “Fear Inoculum” album, enigmatic TOOL frontman Maynard James Keenan greets the Southern California audience with an assuring, “L-fucking-A. That wasn’t an earthquake last night. That was just us.” And
The Ponderosa Aces // Live @ The Escondite // 2.2.17
Article by: Bylle Breaux // Photos by: Matt Stasi Just east of downtown Los Angeles, where multi-million dollar skyscapers glare down over those that outshine them with nothing but aspiration, sits a perplexing watering hole straight out of a Spaghetti Western. The Escondite, a.k.a. The Hideout, is strategically weathered and criminally
Album Review: Nick Nash – Fear of Perdition
Article by: Bylle Breaux Twenty something singer/songwriter, Nick Nash, tip-toes surreptitiously onto the Americana scene like a “Wolf in the Wheat,” which is also the title of one of his songs on his new E.P., “Fear of Perdition.” Now living in Nashville and more than halfway through a law degree from
