Author Archives: Julia Lofstrand

LP, also known as Laura Pergolizzi, had been working as a songwriter in New York City for years before she made the move to Los Angeles. It was around that time she started to put more attention and focus into playing her own material. 

The first time I heard LP was four years ago. It was my friend Oliver’s birthday AND we were sitting on the bus after a show. He mentioned that he had also been playing drums for “this bad-ass chick” back in LA, and they recently finished recording a live EP. As soon as I heard the tracks my jaw dropped to the floor and I thought, “Wow, this woman really is something special…”

The title track from this live EP, “Into the Wild” ended up landing in a Citibank commercial. This exposure and success helped push her career forward and two years later she released her first full length album, Forever For Now. Most recently LP has released another five song EP, in preparation for a second full length release on Vagrant Records. She is also preforming every Monday in March for a residency at the Echo in Los Angeles.

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The very first Girlschool Field Day Weekend was held at Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles. Girlschool is a new music and arts collective founded by Anna Bulbrook (The Bulls, the Airborne Toxic Event) that aims to support and celebrate female musicians and artists.

The festival stretched over three nights and included a dynamic and eclectic range of some of LA’s most popular female fronted acts such as Kitten, Veruca Salt, White Sea, The Bulls, Dead Sara, Conway, Kera and the Lesbians, Gothic Tropic, and Kim and the Created.

The first evening began with a discussion panel moderated by Eve Barlow (NME, Spin, Vice, Noisey) and featured several top women leaders in the music industry. All proceeds from Girlschool Weekend will be donated to Rock n’ Roll Camp For Girls LA.

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This Thursday, Baltimore’s favorite pie man, Rodney Henry continues his tour of the west with a show at Genghis Cohen in West Hollywood.

Rodney owns Dangerously Delicious Pies, with several locations in Baltimore, DC, and Detroit. He learned to bake at a young age while spending summers in Indiana with his grandmother and great aunt. As the frontman for the Glenmont Popes, he spent years touring and slinging pies along the way. Thus, Rock and Roll Pie style was born.

In addition to Dangerously Delicious and The Glenmont Popes, you may recognize him from the latest season of The Next Food Network Star as well as Chopped and Throwdown with Bobby Flay. Welcome to LA, Rodney!

Over here at TVD, we’re always really stoked to hear new and original music.

Flybys is a new rock and roll project by Jon Siebels, songwriter, producer, and guitarist for EVE6. The newly released five song EP was performed, produced, recorded and mixed by Siebels, and written by himself and Max Collins.

They will be playing their first show in Los Angeles this Friday at Los Globos in Silver Lake. Max Collins and Western Scene will also be performing.

Siebels recently told us, “I’m excited to debut the project I’ve been working on for the past year….looking forward to having some fun playing live…!” We’re excited, too, Jon.

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