Photo by When You Awake Last week Last Call with Carson Daly did a tour around Los Angeles doing special 30 minute episodes entirely dedicated to an up and coming artist. On Thursday Carson dedicated an entire episode to Echo Park's own Robert Francis . At one point he even compares Robert to Bob Dy...

I was kind of tired after yesterday so I had a good lie in this morning, and the children pretty much amused themselves. Actually, they pretty much amused themselves all day - Small’s bedroom is a whole lot tidier than it was last night, so that’s a good thing. Big is trying really hard ...

Save the date - Your favorite radio station and mine KXLU 88.9FM will be doing a fundraiser show at The Regent Theatre downtown in April. There will be art, food and merchandise sold by independent vendors along with a record swap and sale! And of course - MUSIC! I'm sure more details and artwork is...

You may remember that Rock Insider participated the first year out at SXSW. The event is still going strong and this year's lineup features some of the best of the best Aquarium Drunkard, Gorilla Vs Bear, Largehearted Boy, My Old Kentucky Blog and You Ain’t No Picasso are all participating in the ...

Another of Labour’s supposed successes has been stripped of its baubles, with yesterday’s damning investigation into the state of Britain’s primary schools, describing them as being in “severely utilitarian and philistine times�. I suppose one should be glad that the charade has finally be...

I hope everyone had a lovely Valentines/President's Day weekend. I fell off the map for a few days in an attempt to rest up for the crazy week ahead. That and I had a new addition to the Rock Insider family:Everyone meet Liona - the cutest damn cat you will ever see. She was a stray that had been ha...

I was very tired yesterday, not least because Tim and I stayed up unfeasibly late the night before catching up on TV (As an aside I highly recommend Big Bang Theory - Season 1 [2007] especially for those of us with geeks or nerds in the family ). So I didn’t [...]...

Seriously What the hell is Joaquin Phoenix on? If this is method acting he's doing one of the worst Devandra Banhart impersonations I've ever seen....

On the average day I wake up around 8 am, get ready, and switch on my computer to start mapping out the day. Well this morning My macbook decided it was done waking up. All I got was the sad folder with a blinking question mark. Just a few days earlier my external hard drive decided it didn't want t...

I have been out of the local loop for the past fortnight laid up with the flu. Just because I've been incommunicato doesn't mean I don't keep up with what's going on. Ladies and gentlemen - the ROCK INSIDER KNOWS ALL AND SEES ALL. A brief little catchup on what's going around the LA Scene right now....