The GRAMMY Museum welcomes soulful singer Ruthie Foster to the Clive Davis Theater to celebrate the release of her new album Let It Burn, a combustible blend of soul, blues, rock, folk, and gospel featuring an eclectic collection of cover songs ranging from Adele to Los Lobos and the Black Keys to Johnny Cash.

Foster will perform a selection of songs, take questions from the audience, and discuss (alongside Vice President of The GRAMMY Foundation and MusiCares Scott Goldman) how the new album is her most personal journey yet. Showtime is 8pm.

Read more about this exciting event HERE!



Ruthie Foster
Let It Burn
Blue Corn Music
$13.98

Los Angeles traffic has driven Eddie Solis' and his hardcore punk duo It's Casual to the brink of madness...municipal outrage even. Dealing with the inequities of public transit in the most rawkin' way they know how, Its Casual has a new video for their song "The Red Line" and it's directed by photograher and Jackass Rick Kosick.

We highly recommend you check out their album The New Los Angeles. Their follow-up, The New Los Angeles II, made with producer Billy Anderson, will be out soon!

If you are in the Bay Area and seeking a rewarding and fun thing to do for this coming Monday's Martin Luther King Jr holiday then seriously consider  volunteering at John O'Connell High School in San Francisco with the Center for Music National Service and MusicianCorps' MLK Day of Song & Service on January 16, 2012. The upcoming event comes on the heels of last year's "wonderfully successful, daylong event at Oakland School for the Arts (OSA), which brought together 250 community members and volunteers from a wide variety of ages and background to make music, paint murals and celebrate diversity" according to Alaia Zeno - the community programs & service leader with The Center for Music National Service (MNS) who recalled how at last year's premiere event, "Participants honored the spirit of MLK Day with a group performance of the classic Bill Withers soul song, “Lean On Me,” and came together to show the power of music, artistic expression and shared community." See above video.

For this year's MLK Day event participants/volunteers (all ages welcome), whether musicians or not, are invited to join in the fun and give back to the community at the same time. The emphasis for this year's event, according to organizers, is "focused more on beautifying the under-served public school setting we have selected. Led by MNS Staff and MusicianCorps Fellows, volunteers will focus their efforts on improving school grounds, organizing supplies in art classrooms, painting murals, and other small projects." Additionally folks who volunteer will have the opportunity to participate in a mid-day open mic performance as well as an end-of-day sing-along. This year's event, which runs from 10am to 4pm, takes place at John O'Connell High School in San Francisco's Mission District. Breakfast, snack, and lunch will be provided to all volunteers. To register and find out more information click here.  And below is a video from compiled from various sources including some national news reports (NPR, NBC) on MusicianCorps' work. Good stuff!

Once a month, Los Angeles's Natural History Museum stays openlate and features live music, exciting scientific discussion, and behind-the-scenes curatorial tours as part of the First Friday program. Amoeba is excited to sponsor this fabulous series of live music, discussion, concessions, tours, DJs and more.

Join us on February 3rd from 5-10pm for a live performance from The Soft Moon and Light Asylum, KCRW DJs Anthony Valadez and Mario Cotto, and a guest lectures from Dr. John Harris ("A Brief Sprint Through Human Evolution") and biological anthropologist Amy Parish  (“The New Science of Darwinian Feminism: Evolutionary Insights from Bonobo Social and Sexual Interactions”).

Find out more HERE!

The Soft Moon


Light Asylum

Dark Allies - Light Asylum from Grant Worth on Vimeo.