by Downtown Magazine | Oct 22, 2015 | Coming Up, Culture, Events, Music
As a musician, actor, songwriter and poet, John Doe does not have the easiest career to define. Many people know him as the co-founder of seminal L.A. punk band X; a band that was “punk” before the concept of “punk” existed as a mainstream concept. Other people know...
by Downtown Magazine | Oct 22, 2015 | Coming Up, Culture, Events, Music
To most people, a band is a band. They tour, do interviews and make music, leaving the business to the businesspeople. However, there are plenty of notable exceptions to this thinking, and The String Cheese Incident is one of them. Not only one of the most popular...
by Downtown Magazine | Oct 21, 2015 | Coming Up, Culture, Events, Music, Out On The Town
One of the biggest compliments for me as a writer is when someone reads one of my “Really Busy People” columns and offers a suggestion of a great interview subject. This is how I found out about Jen Lyon, and after hearing about her career, I was disappointed in...
by Downtown Magazine | Oct 20, 2015 | Coming Up, Culture, Events, Music
Hailing from Providence, Rhode Island, The Dear Hunter began as a side project for Casey Crescenzo in 2004 while there was downtime from his band The Receiving End Of Sirens. A few years later, after parting ways with TREOS, The Dear Hunter became his primary musical...
by Downtown Magazine | Oct 20, 2015 | Coming Up, Culture, Events, Music
Formed in Edinburgh in 1995, 2015 marks the 20th anniversary of influential Scottish rock band Idlewild. With a string of gold albums in the U.K., the band finds themselves in a unique position of playing major festivals and theaters in most of the world, yet playing...