Category Archives: Local Establishments/Venues
Manhattan Murder Mystery Writeup in LA Times
DHR would like to give LA Times writer Daniel Siegal kudos for recognizing one of LA’s shreddingest underground bands – the Manhattan Murder Mystery.
It’s exciting and important to us when a DHR band receives accolades; because we believe in this music scene, and it means the world to us when others do too. MMM’s appearance in one of our city’s most popular rag sheets is big news. Good work guys, and good job Daniel Siegal.
MMM saw the spring release of [...]
DHR Presents: Seasons w/ Manhattan Murder Mystery @ Casey’s, May 27 (+ DHR EXCLUSIVE new Seasons’ track!)
DHR is presenting and DJ-ing the Seasons’ climactic Friday night residency show at Casey’s Irish Pub in downtown Los Angeles, Fri May 27. They intend to go out with a bang, so we can expect an energetic performance to close their sets while opening the extended holiday weekend.
Seasons are on the cusp of releasing their newest EP “Autumn”, which is in the finishing throes of completion and should surface (aptly) in the fall. You best be believing that [...]
DHR Song of the Day 5/7/11: C-horse, “Tongues”
Some like to use the expression “bringing it hot”, as in “damn, she is bringing it hot.” Well, at the risk of sounding like a goofball (more so), I’m going to say that C-horse is bringing it warm and smooth.
Yes, warm and smooth; gently lathering retro-pop over your brain, while exfoliating your cerebrum with psychedelic drippiness, and toweling you off with a familiar cloth cut from the tenets of rock ‘n roll.
Here’s “Tongues“, by Pasadena and greater LA’s one and [...]
New Temporal Love single, “Nowhere To Go”. Hallelujah!
With only 2 tracks formally on the streets, one thing is already clear about Temporal Love: they kick ass!
These kids just might be your next Black Keys. They’re chopping out some thick, raw blues-psych jams, establishing themselves as a power-trio-force to be reckoned with.
Don’t say we didn’t try to tell you NOW, so that you could reflect back on being one of the “cool” people who knew and followed this band before they were big… You’ll be seeing [...]
Blue Water and Bluegrass (DHR in Easy Reader Newspaper Archives)
The Grascals
My general rule of thumb is: If it’s got banjo in it, it’s probably awesome. The only thing that makes banjo better is a violin accompaniment. Fiddle is like the fair maiden upon the shore, bereft from her traveling banjo-mister lost at sea; lying in wait, while crooning songs of adventure and longing. And when they reunite, the marriage is magical. Banjo + Fiddle = Magic. That being said, the South Bay (Los Angeles Ca) may have a [...]
Alma Desnuda comes to Los Angeles! Apr 8 @ Room 5 Lounge.
San Francisco Bay area’s Alma Desnuda will be gracing Los Angeles on April 8, 10:30PM at Room 5 Lounge.
If you like good vibes, upbeat music sans cheese, and superb vocals accompanied by quality musicianship… well, then duh – Alma Desnuda is here. And they’re usually down to do more than just play music; like bringing the audience a moving experience, almost a spiritual sermon of a sort (sans cheese).
LA is lucky to see these bay boys drop thru. Check ‘em [...]
Dirty Phunk To Shake Yo Booty! Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk @ Saint Rocke, Hermosa Bch Mar 26. (DHR Easy Reader Archives)
Dumpstaphunk plays Saint Rocke Saturday night.
Dumpstaphunk will be dropping by Saint Rocke in Hermosa Beach this Saturday night. They come straight outta’ New Orleans with a brand of funk highly acclaimed to get your booty shaking itself onto the Richter scale.
Giving a whole new meaning to the peculiar expression “Dead on the heavy funk” (James Brown), Dumpsta is pushing the envelope of the genre itself.
In an interview with Dennis Cook for JamBase.com, Ivan Neville of Dumpstaphunk [...]
Manhattan Murder Mystery LP Release Party @ Origami Vinyl 3/26/11
The much anticipated full length debut from LA rock n’ roll band Manhattan Murder Mystery finally comes to completion. Los Angeles will see an initial and exclusive local release of the album this weekend as they perform for the occasion at Origami Vinyl, Sat Mar 26.
There’s been a string of MMM cuts and an EP or more streaming out over the last couple of years to hold us over, but we know the band is as excited about this release [...]
Birdhand On Cusp of Taking Flight
*Originally written for print in South Bay Ca weekly news publication Easy Reader, by Jeff Vincent – DirtyHippieRadio.com
There’s a little band out of Santa Cruz Ca that you’ve never heard of. Their name is about a time, a place, an event, a guy, anguish, hardship, hope, a palm tattoo, a hand signal, a family, and not beating around the bush. For some reason they’re called Birdhand. They play rock and roll. You might be wondering why any of this [...]
Welcoming, Birdhand!
I usually like to talk about the bands we come across here at DHR, but this time around I’m going to let someone else cover this stellar up and coming Santa Cruz Ca band: Birdhand. (Taken from a write-up by Darryl Jenifer, from none other than the little old band known as Bad Brains! Jenifer also produced Birdhand’s eponymous debut EP, featured here for listening enlightenment.)
~Dirty Jeff
“First of all Birdhand is the future of rock and roll; the first [...]
