Embodying qualities of a poet, shaman, and cultural/musical revolutionary, soul singer-songwriter Coultrain is on the verge of widespread recognition with The Adventures of Seymour Liberty. Many Los Angeles heads have caught a breeze of Coultrain’s essence on Garth Trinidad’s Suite 903  >>

Funk is not dead. As a matter a fact it's stankin' worse than a pair of socks that's been worn for two weeks straight. I went to see BabyStone at The Temple Bar last week and they were so funky my eyes were burning. BabyStone is the brainchild of Novena Carmel (daughter of  >>

Substantive lyrics and shake your ass Funk are not mutually exclusive. Listen to any Elevaters song for proof. Their debut LP Rising is a collection of thought provoking verses, and make you sweat Soul-ed out tracks. In this final installment of The LA2DAY two-part interview with  >>

Witnessing Elevaters in concert is like a spiritual experience. You reach for the sky in exaltation. You shout, making a "joyful noise". You hug your neighbor. If it weren't for a missing Bible, or the absence of someone shouting "Thank you, Jesus", you'd swear you  >>

Alan McGee is cool. My colleague Marlon Ray, and I meet him in the restaurant in The Standard Hotel in Hollywood, wearing his ubiquitous fedora pulled down so low that it covers his eyes. You can barely see that he's wearing shades. He greets us pleasantly and seems almost as eager to do the  >>

Sex. Indulgence. Anarchy. Decadence. To some, the pillars of societal decay; to others, symbols of a genre of music that permits, in fact requests, these innate traits and desires to surface, if only for the duration of a tune. Rock music in all of its exquisite forms carries with it an  >>