Tom Reardon

We talk politics, performance art and internet shaming with the actress, performance artist and Bongwater legend....

Don Bolles and Nora Keyes' "absurdist clubhouse" enters its second decade....

The legendary punk bassist's new solo material will surprise fans of his work with Joe Strummer, Circle Jerks and Thelonious Monster....

With more restless energy than musicians half his age, the former member of The Germs and 45 Grave juggles a dizzying array of bands, DJ nights and collaborations....

Abby Travis is one badass bassist. She just recently ended the final Go-Go's tour after playing with the storied Los Angeles band for much of the last half-decade, but that gig was just one notch on the talented four-stringer's bass strap. Travis, who got her start in the mid-'80s with......

Whenever you pop a new record onto the turntable or download a new track, you're going on an adventure of sorts. Some are about as exciting and predictable as a trek to the nearest Ralph's. But sometimes listening to new music is like going to a another planet. RSMGW Vol......

For some, choosing a band name like Sex Stains would be risky enough, let alone using it as the title of your first record. But there's nothing tame about this L.A.-based five-piece, who drop their debut album today on Don Giovanni Records. Led by the double-threat vocalist team of Allison......

As a teenager, Cait Brennan spent time searching for fabled singer/songwriter/engineer Emitt Rhodes' Hawthorne residence. Sometime next month, she will actually get to record with him. “He has a home studio where he recorded all his classic albums, and I'm recording there with him later on this summer," Brennan says......

A conversation with Steven McDonald of Redd Kross, OFF! and now The Melvins is always a treat. While the term elder statesman applies to McDonald, it seems inappropriate to use “elder” to describe anyone who brings so much youthful enthusiasm to his work. Especially in his latest endeavor, playing bass with the......

They say necessity is the mother of invention, right? For Tony Aguilar, a native Southern Californian, and his wife/partner, Meg Castellanos, Eastside Rehearsal became a necessity when storied band practice space Downtown Rehearsal closed on Dec. 1, 2015. The couple, longtime musicians who moved to Los Angeles in 2009 after almost......