Music Union : Live Your Music

Story and Illustration by Alexis Hawkins

Hipster Kiwis laying down the funk at The Good Luck bar in Wellington, New Zealand. (…)

Mariana Knabben, Journalist, Brazilian
Wow! I turned my party mode on! I’ve been hitting the Hollywood club scene hard lately. (…)

Mariana Knabben, Journalist, Brazilian

One year ago I published my first article on this website about the jazz festival at the Hollywood-Highland Center. (…)

Big thanks to Molly B. for snapping this great shot of psychedelic minstrel Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Henry Hauser, Rock Crit, City By The Bay

Idaho stalwarts Built to Spill cast aside the linearity of time, hurling their disciples into a nostalgic fit of euphoria with “Reasons” off 1994’s There’s Nothing Wrong With Love. Martsh’s nimble digits blurred the frets with spectral virtuosity, as his right leg pulsed in spastic jolts.

Henry J. Hauser, Skeptic, NY Transplant
Gothic chandeliers dip and dangle overhead the Fillmore Auditorium, as flannel clad folksters scrupulously survey burgundy velvet curtains. (…)

By Henry Clay Hauser, Great Compromiser, NY Transplant

Steel Train front man Jack Antonoff, clad in shredded jeans and that denim jacket from Born in the USA, emphatically pumped his fists while storming the Great American Music Hall stage, no doubt paying homage to the Garden State’s larger than life son, Bruce.

Kicking off America’s birthday weekend with skittering, soaring piano and resilient, survivalist lyrics on “I Feel Weird,” Antonoff is drawn headlong into the self-destructive and oft pointless blame game, howling “if something is lost than there’s something to frame” — voice straining and cracking in passionate agony, “a fire burns and it’s for you!”

Mariana Knabben, Journalist, Brazilian

I found out about them by accident one day when I went to the Santa Monica Public Library. (…)

Mariana Knabben, Brazilian, Journalist
Caetano Veloso. When you hear his name, for those who know him, automatically you associate it with one of the best and most popular musicians from Brazil. (…)

Mariana Knabben, Journalist, Brazilian
I get lost thinking about the number of amazing artists that are out there that I would love to see. (…)