The Noise

Street performers have needed to face a variety of changes in recent years to continue their acts along the famous Venice Beach Boardwalk, from entering a lottery system for spaces to having different sizes and designations of those spaces. Read More

As I show my ID and hand in my mobile phone at the entrance, I hear a low rumbling like distant thunder. Read More

In these tech-savvy, DIY times, the spectrum of a band's economic options has widened to include more ways of doing business. Read More

Allen Toussaint The Bright Mississippi ; We don't spend enough time escaping our normal comfort zone on this site, and as such albums like this normally slip through the cracks, but for whatever reason we took a flyer on Allen Toussaint's first album in a decade and fell in love with the soulful jazz found throughout it. Read More

I'm not completely happy with this list. Read More

British film director Edgar Wright was on BB6's A Month of Matinees program this weekend (pre-taped) and discussed a few interesting soundtrack details about his upcoming film, " Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World ." Read More

YOU'D think Sir Paul McCartney is such a big star that anyone else in the music world would pale into insignificance. Read More

But it can't be often that the feeling is shared with heading on for a thousand other people. Read More

I've gone on and on about my favorite recordings of 2009 here and here , but live music is the backbone of any good scene. Read More

For music nerds, the end of the year means one thing: lists. Read More