Groove
Reviews of music to travel by and to getting you into the perfect mood to enjoy all of those festivals and road trips.
Pop. Boom. Dinah 25 Does it Again.
The Dinah 25, the world’s largest women’s event showcasing breakout female talent adds Bebe Rexha and Ivy Levan to the lineup. by Heather Cassell What women’s event features the most emerging female performers about ready to bust open the music billboards? If you answered The Dinah, you are correct. This year won’t be any different […]
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DJ WildFire Gets Women Into The Groove
Blending music together creating an eclectic energy throughout the dance floor is what got Jennifer “Jenn” Davis, better known as DJ WildFire, hooked on spinning for any party.
It’s a meditative practice that resonates in her soul and inspired her to be a DJ nearly 20 years ago.
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Lorie Moore Is Ready For More #HardWork
Music and football have been Lorie Moore’s life, but you won’t see her on the sidelines cheering on her team in a skimpy outfit. She’s on the field as a semi-pro female football player who also by the way is often tapped to sing the US National Anthem during the half-time entertainment.
Last year, she took her music career up a notch wowing audiences in NBC’s The X Factor and started working with TV star Tisha Campbell-Martin performing with the songstress on “Tisha Tuesdays” at the Xen Lounge (10628 Ventura Boulevard; 818-505-3513; ; XenLounge.com) in Studio City, California.
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Beverly McClellan Returns To Her Roots
Beverly “Bev” McClellan hushes her birds and dogs as she looks out onto the porch and up into the sky at the swirling clouds threatening another thunder and lightning storm at her new home in Ashville, North Carolina.
After 20 years living in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the Gate City, Virginia native has returned home, settling in a log cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains about an hour and a half from where she grew up on the border of Virginia and Tennessee.
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Iconic Sheila E Beats To Her Own Drum
Sheila Escovedo, better known as Emmy and Grammy nominated Sheila E, is singing her own songs and drumming to her own beat these days.
Sheila E hit it big in the 1980s with songs “The Glamorous Life,” “A Love Bizarre,” and her collaboration with her friend and former lover Prince, “Erotic City.”
The Oakland native, who currently lives in Los Angeles, is following up the released her latest album, Icon, at the beginning of the summer with her tell-all memoire, The Beat of My Own Drum: A Memoir, available September 2.
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Top 5 Women’s Music Festivals
Get into the groove with these five women’s music festivals. We can’t promise that you will fall in love, but we do promise you will have a great time and memories to last a lifetime.
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Rising Star: Goapele Sings A Happy Tune
The Bay Area has been producing some of the most original artists for decades, Oakland native Goapele’s star is rising fast as the most recent to break out of the East Bay’s independent music scene.
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Soul Dance: An Interview with Vicci Martinez
Get ready to rock this summer with Latina rocker Vicci Martinez. She’s hitting the road this summer promoting her latest album Otra Cancion featuring the title track “Otra Cancion.”
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4 Non Blondes Reunite for One Night at “An Evening with Women”
4 Non Blondes are reuniting to perform for the first time in two decades for one night only at the “An Evening with Women” benefit gala for the Los Angeles Lesbian and Gay Center.
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70s and Sunny: A Walk Down Memory Lane with Andrea McArdle
Broadway star and Tony-nominated actor and singer Andrea McArdle fell in love with music in her family’s Philadelphia home. She would tune her parent’s two stereos to her favorite stations and sing-a-long to the decade’s greatest hits.
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South Asian Mixtress DJ Rekha Turns Up the Bhangra in Oakland
Oakland will be turned into “Little India” for a night when world renowned DJ Rekha turns up the Bhangra beats on Saturday.
Read MoreIdafLO Takes Flight
Raised on the sounds of world beats, San Francisco’s IdafLO is about to break out of the Golden Gate on a musical journey.
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