Before we met Brinley , I came across her Instagram account thanks to the almighty algorithm gods and I was intrigued by this young woman shredding old-time classic rock riffs on her Gibson. She was sharing reels of herself performing her favorite riffs from Led Zepplin or Aerosmith and I thought to myself "what the hell is happening? Is there a niche for everything now?" Well, I suppose, and the good news is that a 20 something-year-old girl can build a solid fan base with her axe, throwing lea...
Oct 05, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 1
At the heart of Fox Violet 's art, there's truth, honesty, and sincerity. Thea aka Fox Violet won't compromise and that's why her music is so important. It's a living testimony that an artist does not need to bow to the market or trends to be relevant. Fox Violet shows us the only way to be relevant is not to be streamed a million times but to propose something that is unique, singular, something that comes directly from someone's guts. And Thea's music resembles her character by being unapologe...
Oct 05, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Mike was a busy drummer before the pandemic. Touring the world with Death By Stereo or the legendary Adolescents , he was barely home so when the all virus thing happened he had to learn to stay home for a while. But Mike is not gonna let a pandemic shutting his creativity down and that's why he started another venture with his friends from Zebrahead and together they made a new supergroup: Fear No Empire , produced by none other than Paul Miner , which we had the pleasure to have on the show in...
Oct 05, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Oh, the algorithms' mysterious ways... Well, sometimes there's a Hallelujah when you find new music that seemed was tailored for you. That's happened to me when I crossed paths with Giant Killer Bats on Spotify. I used to feel I was stuck in my musical bubble, Spotify feeding me with the same music I've been listening to since 2003. But ever since we started this podcast and were forced away from our comfort zone to look for new acts, Spotify seemly understood I was in for discovering new musica...
Oct 05, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Cody went to high school with The Strokes . You can say he was at the right place at the right time. Well, that's probably true but if you don't have the talent, you won't get much of it. And The Strokes were fortunate enough to get that one friend who could document their teenage years and their rise to stardom. Cody learned his craft from his parents. His mom was a photographer and she got her share of rock royalty snapping too. She used to work with iconic New York legends like Lou Reed or Jo...
Sep 18, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 16
A few months ago we fell in love with Giant Killer Bats ' music. Under this moniker, we discover a talented young man called McCoy. We invited him on the podcast and we had a blast. During our conversation, he mentioned he got his stage name from a tour with Teenage Wrist, for which he was hired to play guitar. Fernanda and I just discovered Teenage Wrist with their new record "Earth is a black hole" (Epitaph) so we asked McCoy if he could put us in touch with the band. A few weeks after, we wer...
Jul 13, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 21
I landed in the US in august 2010 and one of the first friends I have made were Jeremy and Robert . I first met Jeremy at Pappy and Harriet's , a wonderful restaurant and concert venue lost in the desert, 2 hours away from Los Angeles. With Yard Of Blondes , my band, we looked around and see where we could crash some Open Mics and booked our first DIY tour around some desert towns. Teddy Quinn , the open mic host, and legend on his own let us perform that night and he actually let us perform mor...
Jun 24, 2021•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 20
If anyone knows something about hanging on the Sunset strip it's her! Jes Fama is an indie journalist and she's been hosting and covering many musical events around LA for many years now, which makes her a key witness of a scene with many talents, yet still struggling to join forces and overcome the fierce competition that is happening between bands. She advocates for building something together, more authenticity, and more professionalism and she promises she will be there for anyone playing wi...
May 15, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 17
I heard about Never Loved through Kenton Remmey, the singer from the OC band Silence of you. They got a tour coming up together supporting Armor for Sleep (as of today, it's still happening!). Well, I'm glad he did because Camm's journey is pretty inspiring for new bands. After a few years of playing just for fun in the Florida scene, he craved for more. He wanted to show up with a professional project and start a real career. His talent convinced Matt Squire ( Underoath , Panic! at the Disco , ...
Apr 19, 2021•52 min
I read somewhere that Bruce Springsteen and Jack White are fans of Pete Molinari . I’m not surprised he would seduce such seasoned songwriters because Pete is accomplishing kind of a magic trick with his music. With his songs and words, he transports his listeners to another era where songwriters were also poets and where a good song would stick in your head for days. That’s what « I don’t like the man I am » did to me. I’m still humming it at the moment. One of our common friends, the very tale...
Mar 22, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Today Jack and Dylan from Dead Poet Society are joining us. It's very special for me because Dylan used to play in my band Yard Of Blondes for about a year. I'm very proud of his journey and I'm glad he's now playing with a great band with friends he met back in 2013 when they were all studying at Berklee Music School in Boston. I remember seeing them a few years ago at the Viper Room and they were already a very energetic band. I saw their music evolve over the years and they gradually became m...
Mar 10, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Brian O'Connor is at the center of our local LA community. He's the initiator of Bands in a Barbershop , a really cool alternative space that got the attention of Echo Park Rising last year as he ended up curating a live-streamed edition of the festival. It was featuring a band we love and know well at Hanging On Sunset , I'm talking about Speed Of Light , which Brian manages too. But ss one of our favorite local clubs, The Satellite , is being turned into a weed shop and a restaurant, he's not ...
Feb 28, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 11
When we asked Machinekit what they did to save rock n' roll, they couldn't care less because, at the end of the day, they're really trying to save Techno. Joke aside, it says a lot about them. I had the feeling that "Rock" is a label that scares them. What really matters for them is the DIY community, people who make music for the sake of it, not to become famous. They're not afraid the rock scene might be dying because the underground always finds a way to resurrect. They have witnessed the ris...
Feb 22, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 10
We started the podcast to build a community. And it works! We're making new friends along the way and these friends introduce us to more friends. At the end of the day, it's all that matters. Being surrounded by friends who care for the same things, share the same passion, and try to create something bigger than themselves, that's what motivates us ultimately. Well, folks, we have a new friend, and this friend has many friends! As a matter of fact, the producer (and founding member of Death By S...
Feb 03, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 9
When we started this podcast our goal was to try to get rock n’ rollers to unite. We thought that something was wrong with our scene, that the culture of live bands was disappearing in our town and somehow, we’re discovering we were wrong. We meet a lot of new bands that are proving every day that rock n’ roll is not dead…. A young band like Speed Of Light will give you hope for more and more decades of rock n’ roll. They might be newcomers but frankly, they are teaching a lesson to many posers....
Jan 12, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 8
I got a phone call from Kenton sometime in 2019. My producer Billy Grazaidei (Biohazard) gave him my contact because he'd knew I had some connections with the Viper Room in West Hollywood... You know, that club on the famous Sunset Strip ... I was performing there with Yard Of Blondes almost on a monthly basis at the time. I'm glad I got Silence Of You their first gig over there and I couldn't wait for them to return the favor so we can all play in Orange County at the Wayfare r. Unfortunately, ...
Jan 05, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Analog party is an LA-based rock/grunge band that knows how to make great music but they also know how to talk about it. Animaan insists on making a clear difference between rock culture and rock music. Yes, there might be a comeback of rock in the mainstream scene, but it's only a cultural comeback... so far. It doesn't mean that rock is dead, don't say that to Analog Party, they think guitar-driven music is well alive, it's just not the chosen genre of the media. Right on, we're here to change...
Dec 11, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Today, Fernanda and her co-host Vincent (of the band Yard Of Blondes) are chatting with Billy Graziadei, the hardcore legend. Billy is a founding member of the band Biohazard and has launched two new ventures in recent years. He has teamed with Sendog from Cypress Hill and together they have formed Powerflo. Billy has also started a solo career under the moniker Billy Bio and when he's not on tour, he's busy producing in his LA studio, Firewater Studios. He has produced the upcoming album of Yar...
Nov 27, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Today, Fernanda and her co-host Vincent (of the band Yard Of Blondes) are chatting with the band Of Limbo from Long Beach. No doubt that the guys in Of Limbo are rock n' roll! They don't hold back, they stand by the sacred principles of rock n' roll and they know how to party! They told us about the importance, for a band, to get along with other bands to succeed. For them, it was Joyous Wolf that opened the doors to shows and then their booking agent TKO. Because live performances are the core ...
Nov 16, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Today, Fernanda and her co-host Vincent (of the band Yard Of Blondes) are chatting with the band Crash Overcast Very interesting conversation with an Emo band from the LA area that played the last edition of the Warped Tour. Alex, the singer has started his Tik Tok account during the pandemic and already has gained 20K+ followers in the last few months with his emo fueled comedy bits. We were skeptics but trust us, he's hilarious! The good thing is that it might help us understand that the new r...
Oct 31, 2020•59 min
Today, Fernanda and her co-host Vincent (of the band Yard Of Blondes) are chatting with Lexie aka Bloodboy. Lexie got attitude, I'm telling you! And she got plenty of things to say... So beware because today we're bringing you someone very special. Influenced by David Bowie, Blondie, and The Cars, she sits somewhere between the Kills and St Vincent in our hearts... Together, we're starting a conversation about saving Rock N' Roll in the City of Angels. Casually talking from the Sunset Strip, we ...
Oct 22, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 2
This is the pilot of our podcast and today, Fernanda is chatting we the co-founders of the podcast, the LA band Yard Of Blondes . Together, they're starting the conversation about saving Rock N' Roll in the City of Angels. Casually talking from the Sunset Strip they are launching a movement with their collective called Team Nowhere and they are calling artists & fans to unite. If you are in a band, or if you're a photographer, a developer, a hairstylist, whatever your craft... In other work,...
Oct 15, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 1
