Researchers have discovered that most of your earliest memories are lost to the eroding forces of time by the time you turn 7. Since most adults don’t retain recollections from before the age of 3, that means that you’ve got four good glory years in childhood where only the best times come out of the […]
BEFORE I DIE: youbloom | HEADROOM #6: with Featured Artists from the Los Angeles 2015 Music Festival
So you’ve gotten this unweildy aircraft of a music career off the ground, and you’re – stably enough – coasting on the thermal currents. You’ve dealt with turbulence, and maybe even a storm or two. Respect. It take serious cojones to launch yourself into the puzzling, seductive atmosphere of rock ‘n’ roll. But the point […]
THE PLUNGE: youbloom | HEADROOM #5: with Featured Artists from the Los Angeles 2015 Music Festival
“The journey of a thousand epic guitar solos begins with a single lick.” So said someone, somewhere…probably. Hijacked chinese proverb aside, there’s truth in this little sentiment. We all have to start somewhere. The little kid who bops along to his parents’ records would never turn into one of the future shredders or wailers of […]
MY FIRST TIME: youbloom | HEADROOM #4: with Featured Artists from the Los Angeles 2015 Music Festival
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 […]
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 […]
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