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
Les Paul passed on today. Most of the men (and chicks) I know wouldn’t be standing on a stage today if it weren’t for this man. A moment of silence for the man who helped us create so much music…
From Gibson.com:
New York, NY…August 13, 2009…Les Paul, acclaimed guitar player, entertainer and inventor, passed away today [...]
August 13, 2009
Categories: entertainment, host, music, news, rock, rocknroll . . Author: aliontheair . Comments: Leave a 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
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
Dammit, I wish I still had my 1974 Chevy Monza. She was an old beater, white, with wood paneled interiors and an 8 track player. I only had 4 cassettes I picked up at a garage sale: Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack, Foghat, Sweet and some musical (Chess?), but it was a bad-ass car. Not that [...]
June 5, 2009
Categories: entertainment, host, interviews, music, news, nightlife, rock, rocknroll, urb magazine . Tags: 3 of clubs, ali maclean, ali on the air, aruba, Band of skulls, beemer, black keys, brody dalle, chevy monza, courtyard studios, emma richardson, foghat, hamer museum, heart, iroc, lollapalooza, radiohead, rumble at the three of clubs, russell marsden, shangri-la music, spinerette, sweet, vine street, viper room, white stripes, wolfmother . Author: aliontheair . Comments: Leave a Comment
Mike Doughty led the one-of-a-kind Soul Coughing in the 90s, one of the original “alternative” rock bands, and one that really tested the limits of the genre, with improv jazz, odd samples and glitch-punk experimentation.
Soul Coughing broke up in 2000; Doughty was battling a heroin addiction when he wasn’t battling band mates over credits and [...]
May 11, 2009
Categories: dj, entertainment, host, interviews, music, news, parties, rock, rocknroll, show biz, urb magazine, vj . Tags: 27 Jennifers, 90's, ali maclean, ali on the air, alt rock, Andrew Scrap Livingston, ATO Records, Bonaroo, Boxers, briefs, Busking, castle, Dave Matthews, depression, drunks, economy, estate, female music journalist, female rock journalist, Gatsby, gold, Golden Delicious, inspiration, Jar, metals, Mike Doughty, music, New York, on tour, Question Jar, rock journalist, Scrap, Skittish, songwriting, soul coughing, subway station, tour, vlaze, yaddo . Author: aliontheair . Comments: 1 Comment
Nico Vega, LA based and openers for The Von Bondies, hung out in the dressing room and answered some of my questions.
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April 2, 2009
Categories: dj, electronic, entertainment, fashion, host, interviews, music, nightlife, parties, politics, rock, rocknroll, tv, tv personality, vj . Tags: Aja, album, album release, ali maclean, ali on the air, Billy Corgan, congress, downloading, downloading music, eponymous, free downloads, hollywwod, interviews, lion, Los angeles, music, music news, myspace, myspace music, myspace records, Nico Vega, obama, plitics, rock, social networking, sunset strip, sxsw, The Roxy, tom anderson, tour, von bondies, whiskey . Author: aliontheair . Comments: 2 Comments
