The Sunset Strip Music Festival scored an amazing interview with Dead Sara frontwoman Emily Armstrong. The band, who has Sunset Strip roots, has successfully climbed the Billboard charts and this year will perform on the outdoor stage at the August 18 SSMF street festival alongside Marilyn Manson and The Offspring.
Get to know Armstrong! Read the full interview on SSMF.com.
Brent X Mendoza interviewed The Offpsring's guitarist Kevin “Noodles” Wasserman, as he discussed the band's nearly 30-year career, growing up in Southern California, his favorite Sunset Strip shows and who he's excited to see perform at this year's Sunset Strip Music Festival.
Get all the details and read the full interview!
The Avenues: Art, Fashion and Design District of West Hollywood presents their signature fundraising event, Taste Music, an extraordinary dining experience where rock culture plays the muse, August 15, 2012 at the Sunset Marquis Hotel.
Taste Music will present a multi-course menu and wine pairing inspired by legendary photographer and featured guest Bob Gruen, fashion designer Logan Riese and to be announced musical guest. The evening is a backstage pass into music history with Gruen’s forty-year legacy ranging from Muddy Waters to Madonna as well as his iconic image of John Lennon wearing a New York City t-shirt.
Looking for a way to mix up your week? Stop by the Cocktail Lab at Bar 1200 for an interactive mixology course with “creative director” Matthew Salinas (P.J. Clarke’s, The Bowery, Hotel Gansevoort). These aren’t your usual summer school courses. (In fact, this is probably the first time you’ll look forward to homework.) The biweekly courses teach you how to make some of the most popular and interesting cocktails as well as provide helpful tips on when to shake instead of pour and what bar tools are really essential for the home.
The courses are held the first and third Thursday of every month and limited to six students at a time. The cost is $45 per person and includes instructions on how to craft three cocktails, plus sampling your creations and light bar snacks.
Ready for your course syllabus? Upcoming courses include:
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince were right: It’s time to sit back and unwind. DineLA is helping you accomplish these summertime goals with a new edition of their famous Restaurant Week. Once relegated to the spring and fall, this new edition allows local restaurants and chefs to highlight some of the freshest seasonal produce available.
DineLA features pre-fixed three course meals at each of the participating restaurants. Prices range from $15-$25 for lunch and $25-$45 for dinner. The summer edition runs from July 16-27.
Participating Sunset Strip restaurants include:
Asia de Cuba
BLT Steak
BOA
Boxwood Café by Gordon Ramsay
Crossroads at House of Blues
Gordon Ramsay at the London West Hollywood
Katana
Mirabelle
Night+Market
Rosa Mexicano
As the weather gets warmer, the days longer and the music louder, you know festival season is upon us. Music festivals, whether they last a day, a weekend or even an evening can make or break not only bands but fans and music lovers alike as well.
I recently met up with avid concertgoer – and familiar Sunset Strip face — Trina Green (aka @dharma69 of High Voltage Magazine, The Owl Magazine and MXDWN.com) at Rock & Reilly’s to discuss the most successful survival techniques for eager fans in a live music setting.
It’s summertime and since everyone loves sharing what they’re doing, we thought we’d give you and a friend the chance to attend the Sunset Strip Music Festival street fest on August 18!
The theme of this Instagram contest is “Summer of Music,” and to enter all you have to do is follow @SSMF on Instagram and tag your summer/music related Instagram photos with #SSMF! Don’t skip on the quality of photo, though. Only the best of the best will win this awesome prize pack.
Start taking photos today and the winner will be announced July 20 via @SSMF on Instagram!*
*Contest winner will receive two (2) GA tickets to the Saturday, Aug. 18 street festival. Tickets are nontransferable.
The Eveleigh restaurant recently launched an exciting new "Sunday Supper" dining series that literally brings the farm to the table. The family-style dinners feature meat and produce direct from California farms as well as an educational component, with guests learning about the participating farm and farmers.
Past dinners have included a full seafood supper and presentation from Channel Islands Harbor fisherman Chris Williams and a pork supper from Devil’s Gulch Ranch, which included a butchery lesson.
The series continues on Sunday, July 15 when The Eveleigh’s Chef Jordan Toft and Bill Neiman of BN Ranch present a meal featuring California grass-fed beef. BN Ranch’s cows graze on fresh grass along the California coast throughout the year. The seasonal, grass-fed beef is only available in the months of June through December.
Two of The Sunset Strip’s sexiest and most ferocious female rockers—Jodie Schell (photo 2), frontwoman for The Shakers, and Candice Levinson (photo 3), guitarist for Warner Drive — have been playing (and singing) circles around many of their male musician contemporaries as their respective bands take the regional rock circuit by storm, selling out shows wherever their spike-heeled stilettos step foot.
Gearing up for two very hyped, headlining shows at the world famous Viper Room, these stage sirens recently took a break from grueling rehearsal schedules to do a little window shopping at The Sunset Strip’s home furnishings flagship, Diva Rocker Glam, and interview each other, swapping stories and comparing notes on what it means to “play like a girl.”
Are you ready to rock the 2012 Sunset Strip Music Festival?! In addition to August 18 street festival performances by Marilyn Manson, The Offspring, Steve Aoki, Bad Religion, Black Label Society, Far East Movement, De La Soul, T. Mills, Dead Sara and The Mowgli’s on outdoor stages, the three-day festival has announced new additions to the venue lineups on August 16 and 17 as well as performances in the venues during the August 18 street fest. Without further hesitation….
Here’s the full lineup for SSMF 2012!
