It’s all about your first time. No, not that time, jeez, what kind of freak show do you think we’re running here? Over the past year our humble blog has been privy to what can only be truly described as the most fascinating backstories when it comes to what makes you independent artists we’re so […]
BEFORE I DIE: youbloom | HEADROOM #3 with Featured Artists from the Los Angeles 2015 Music Festival
People make a big deal of bucket lists these days. The Top 100 Desserts You Have To Eat In Your Lifetime…You Haven’t Lived Until You’ve Knitted These 8000 Items…Don’t Leave This Mortal Coil Before You Do These 72 Things With Snails. Really. It can all get a bit…distracting. Except when it comes to the things […]
youbloom | HEADROOM #2: Featured Artists from the Los Angeles 2015 Music Festival
There’s nothing quite as devilish as a little dish, is there? You know it’s true, otherwise, you wouldn’t be here at HEADROOM, the official source of all dirt dug on the artists who’ll be tearing up the stages of this December’s youbloom LA 2015 Music Festival . We’ve got over 50 bands lined up already […]
youbloom | HEADROOM #1: Featured Artists from the Los Angeles 2015 Music Festival
Welcome back to the HEADROOM! The only place on the web where music freaks such as yourselves can get acquainted with unsigned bands before they hit the stages of the youbloomLA 2015 Music Festival. Here at HEADROOM, we take pride in our poking and prodding abilities. We’re bona. fide. gossip merchants, born at your great auntie Joan’s […]
First Listen | Artists playing the youbloomLA 2015 Music Festival
Ah, Los Angeles. That great meeting of desert and sea, where razzle dazzle meets dusty trail, heartbreak meets lucky break, and practically everything has the potential to be seismic. Few towns on earth can boast such creative corpulence; the talents of this town run the streets, they walk the beat. They create a hum, if […]
How to Totally Suck at Touring
Don’t bring merch. Alison Shaw summed it up perfectly in August for youbloomTV: if a person (likely in a state of inebriation) who has never seen you before decides they like what they hear, they’re going to want to take something home with them that they can listen to again, or a T-shirt they can […]
A Consumer’s Guide to Song-snatching (Part Two)
We know you’ve been anxious for part two of Clinton Heylin’s article on the art of song-snatching, so here it is! If you missed part one, you can find it here! 6. James Bond Theme In 2001 fabled film composer John Barry was finally forced to defend a libel suit brought by Monty Norman after […]
A Consumer’s Guide To Song-snatching (Part One)
Perhaps best known for his extensive writing on Bob Dylan, Clinton Heylin has been called “a formidable rock historian” (The Australian), “Arguable the world’s greatest rock biographer” (The Irish Independent), and “One of music writing’s foremost practitioners” (Irish Examiner). His work also includes biographies on Van Morrison and Sandy Denny in addition to numerous other […]
4 Incredible Music Organizations You Should Know About
The world can be a challenging place. From disease to poverty; from war to climate threats to the fight for equality across all interpersonal lines, we humans have got a hard row to hoe. When the going gets tough, the tough usually get something amazing going, and as much as we can hurt, we can […]
youbloom HEADROOM VIP : Stephen Kennedy from the Dublin Beatles Festival
It may be nothing but a car park now, but the nondescript white building on Middle Abbey Street on Dublin’s north side was once Ireland’s premier art deco movie and live music palace. It was a place abuzz with glamour and entertainment – and, on one particular night, the scene of riots, mania, and a […]
youbloom artist spotlight: Trevor Lyon
Introducing Trevor Lyon: I had the pleasure of hearing Trevor Lyon’s performance last year at Griffin’s of Kinsale in South Pasadena, CA for youbloomLA 2014 and recently reconnected with him to find out more about him as an artist and what has been going on since the festival. Both a solo artist and a […]
The Five Strangest Stories From Musicophilia
The combined worlds of psychology, medicine, science, and music lost a true master last week with the passing of Oliver Sacks. Sacks, perhaps best known for authoring books in which he chronicled the accounts of some of his most interesting and inspiring patients, was particularly taken with music, using it in his personal recuperation methods […]
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