A KCRW affair is always a classy one. This year’s Halloween Masquerade did not disappoint. From the gorgeous setting at the legendary Park Plaza to the central casting styled beautiful people in costumes fit for a movie shoot, there was everything needed for a visual and aural bacchanal.
The grand staircase of the Park Plaza was [...]
November 3, 2009
Categories: dj, electronic, entertainment, fashion, music, nightlife, parties, spin, turntablism, urb magazine . Tags: DJ Shadow, 45s, cupcakes, thriller, the shining, kcrw, Michael Jackson, sea wolf, edward sharpe, Garth Trinidad, Jason Bentley, little dragon, halloween, masquerade, Park Plaza, the legendary park plaza, costume ball, The HAngover, Zach Galifianakis, Amadeus, trance, Bikrams, day of the dead, skeletons, central casting, Kojis, Sprinkles, border grill, blu blockers, glitter, feathers, fur, vegas, neo-gothic, Kool Haus, Gothenberg, Evita, siouxie, New Moon, Teen Wolf, jack white, meg white, big bird, super mario bros., alex brown church, jonestown, manson, manson family, pioneertown, polyphonic spree, Ima robot, golden shower, joshua tree, moses . Author: aliontheair . Comments: Leave a Comment
Rock has a reputation for being a beer and whiskey kinda night. OK, maybe a rum and coke, then a shot of tequila, then eleventy beers kinda night. But somewhere along the way, I traded in my plastic tumbler for a wine glass. If I drink much at all, I strictly drink wine.
It seems it’d [...]
September 8, 2009
Categories: dj, entertainment, host, interviews, music, nightlife, parties, rock, rocknroll . Tags: ali maclean, ali on the air, beer, California, chardonnay, coffey, Dashboard Confessional, Everclear, festival, Foundation room, gang of four, grenache, grotto, house of blues, indie rock, Ingrid Michaelson, Jack Johnson, Low vs Diamond, MGMT, muscat, ncork, neu, Pat Monahan, peaches, pinot grigio, pinot noir, red wine, reggae, rhapsody, rock n roll wine, sommelier, sommeliler, sunset strip, Sunset strip music festival, swinghouse studios, syrah, VIP, whiskey, wine, wine tasting, zinfandel . Author: aliontheair . Comments: Leave a Comment
The host hazy and dusty race tracks are not the normal habitat of wolves. No, I picture wolves living in the misty mountain hops of vampire infested forests up in Northern America. But I wasn’t interested in spotting your average wolves. I was jonesing to see the kind of hard rock wolves who are native [...]
August 26, 2009
Categories: dj, entertainment, interviews, music, news, parties, rock, show biz, vj . Tags: 2012, album, ali maclean, ali on the air, Alice In Chains, andrew stockdale, Australia, backstage, Boots Riley, Bossanova, Communication Breakdown, cosmic egg, dolphins, ear plugs, end of days, Epicenter Festival, fairplex, guns, hard rock, healthcare, Hindu, Hollywood Undead, intellectual, Iraq, It Might Get Loud, james brown, kroq, laser tag, led zeppelin, Linkin PArk, lower emissions, meth lab, Monster, Nostradamus, Palin, Picasso, Pomona, Return Of the Jedi, Street Sweeper Social CLb, the environment, the Mayans, tom morello, tool, universe, whales, wolfmother, wolves, yoga . Author: aliontheair . Comments: Leave a Comment
Ut oh. Another reason to work out… A LOT.
With electro tunes, ecstasy and Sparks, there isn’t much reason needed for nu rave kids to shed their clothes and rub up against each other on the dance floor, but Calvin has created another reason to wear nothing but one of those lame American Apparel bikinis – [...]
August 16, 2009
Categories: dj, electronic . . Author: aliontheair . Comments: 1 Comment
Tuesday night was the first official The Voice Project fundraiser event.
The Voice Project Foundation is a not-for-profit public benefit corporation. The foundation’s mission is to raise awareness and financial support for those using art to enact meaningful social change by using art for said change.
Hunter Heaney and I conceived this organization back in January, and [...]
July 20, 2009
Categories: dj, entertainment, fashion, music, nightlife, parties, rock, show biz, tv personality . Tags: 30 rock, akiva schaeffer, alex ebert, ali maclean, ali on the air, art of change, awareness, black eyed peas, charity, charity event, chris holmes, congo, david and david, devendra banhart, Dj poet, DJs, dr congo, edward sharpe, hipsters, hollywood parties, hunter heaney, Im On A Boat, jack mcbrayer, jospehy kony, lindsay lohan, lindsey lohan, lonely island, magnetic zeros, nancy sinatra, night swim, nightswim, orphans, oxfam international, roosevelt hotal, sudan, the voice project charity, tom green, tropicana bar, uganda, Voice project . Author: aliontheair . Comments: Leave a Comment
When I heard that The Juan MacLean was in town, I knew I had to talk to him, not only to chat about his new album The Future Will Come, being part of the uber cool electro mafia: DFA Records, but also to finally figure out how the hell we are related. Two MacLeans from [...]
June 22, 2009
Categories: dj, electronic, entertainment, host, interviews, music, nightlife, parties, publishing, show biz, spin, technology, turntablism, vj . Tags: ali on the air, ali maclean, dj, obama, vinyl, serato, lcd soundsystem, kurt cobain, The Juan MacLean, DFA records, The Future Will COme, Silver Apples, Gloucester, Boston, Jerry Springer, Juan MacLean, Happy Home, Death From Above, mp3, DJ Hero, Human League, grace Jones, Bookashade, Alan McGee, BP Fallon, Agaisnt Depression, Peter Kramer, Providence, Happy House, Marc Bolan, Drakkar Noir, Old Spice . Author: aliontheair . Comments: Leave a Comment
Space Oddities – Looking For Rock In All The Weird Places
by Ali MacLean
In this town, it’s easy to get jaded. Every club or party these days seems to need to top some pinnacle of bacchanale… a regular night with drinks and music just wont do. A warehouse rave is just ordinary. It has to be [...]
June 19, 2009
Categories: dj, electronic, entertainment, host, music, news, nightlife, parties, rock, rocknroll, show biz, tv personality, urb magazine . Tags: 3rd street promenade, ali maclean, ali on the air, Antiquiet, bat for lashes, ben christophers, bjork, car wash, cemetery parties, Coachella, conor mcnicholas, dark crystal, dodgeball, edward scissorhands, elvis costello, glasvegas, hollywood forever cemetery, ice sculpture, james allan, jeans, kcrw, kira, leonard cohen, Lucky Brand, lucky brand neighborhood soical, misshapes, Natasha Khan, neighborhood social, nme, paul cantelon, rab allan, ramada, ray bans, spirit animal, squeak e clean, suds, tom morello, wurlitzer, zither . Author: aliontheair . Comments: 1 Comment
The people at Worn Free Tees had the ingenious idea to license and recreate old soft worn in rock tees that have been seen on some of the greatest rock n roll stars of our time. Culling from the archive photos and closets of legends like Joey Ramone, John Lennon, Debbie Harry, Joan Jett, Kurt [...]
June 19, 2009
Categories: dj, entertainment, fashion, host, interviews, nightlife, novel, rock, urb magazine, vj . . Author: aliontheair . Comments: 2 Comments
I’ve been hustling my little bunny tail all over Southern California recently. Lately, I’m in high demand to cover shows. But once you enter the realm of music journalism, the shows become work and it’s hard to detach from being the observer, rather than the music fan.
Sometimes you just want to have a blast, and [...]
June 17, 2009
Categories: dj, entertainment, music, nightlife, parties, rock, tv personality, urb magazine, vj . . Author: aliontheair . Comments: Leave a Comment
Not only does this tribute feature my childhood hometown musical hero, Black Francis, but it also boasts Maynard from Tool, The Flaming Lips, A Place To Bury Strangers, Chantal from Morningwood and my favorite San Francisco Silverlakers, Film School.
Plus it was produced with love (and rockets) by Christopher the Minister from Sirius Radio and the [...]
June 2, 2009
Categories: dj, electronic, entertainment, music, news . Tags: ali on the air, ali maclean, film school, silverlake, sirius radio, the pixies, tool, Love and Rockets, tribute album, flaming lips, maynard, maynard from tool, puscifer, morningwood, black francis, frank black, a place to bury strangers, shepard fairey, phil jaguiri, swinghouse studios, daniel ash, dandy warhols, ali amclean rock journalist . Author: aliontheair . Comments: 3 Comments
