Double the badass women! Kali Uchis and Jorja Smith have confirmed a spring co-headline tour with a Los Angeles concert date at the Greek Theatre on May 14. Additionally, the empowering women will also perform at the Santa Barbara Bowl on May 17. Trust, catching these two powerhouses, live, in one event not to be […]

Los Angeles nights are most definitely about its diverse music. The Shrine Auditorium is on that tip and hosted a night of modern soul full of Latin flavor delivered by Kali Uchis and Gabriel Garzon Montano. The two threw down a most stunning performance. Colombian-American singer Kali Uchis is on tour for the first time since […]

At the center of Kali Uchis’ debut album Isolation is a very basic question about personal identity, one that seeks to reconcile the process of defining and preserving it with attempts to realize the dreams that tend to ignite it. While Uchis wrestles with this universal angst throughout the album, she puts forth a rather poignant […]

Rising Colombian-born singer Kali Uchis has released a new track called “Only Girl,” and it’s packed with some heavy features. Burgeoning rapper Vince Staples as well as Steve Lacy of The Internet are on the track, which is also produced by Kaytranada. Lacy opens the track singing “There’s only one girl for me, come on […]

Subsuelo DJs Canyon Cody & DJ Ethos Red Bull’s Sound Select #30DaysInLA has taken Los Angeles by storm. This past Sunday, at the Legendary Park Plaza Hotel, a hurricane of beats and soul enveloped the historic hotel for a spicy day of music built to make you groove. In attendance were a most stylish (and sexy) […]

When I was a kid, I bought a CD called Billboard Top Hits: 1961. It was a compilation album that featured songs like Ben E. King’s “Stand by Me,” Dion’s “Runaround Sue,” and “Blue Moon” by The Marcels. I wore through my copy of that album by playing it so many times. Though doo-wop and […]

After taking a bus from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and flying into Austin from there (cheaper flight, y’all), I hit the ground running for South by Southwest (SXSW) on Wednesday. After waiting in line at the House of Vans at Mohawk for about an hour, I finally got in and was able to see […]

Monday night, there was a line like I’d never seen wrapped around The Echo to see Colombian-born and Virginia-bred singer Kali Uchis. Playing to a mostly younger crowd — which undoubtedly played perfectly into the hands of her 9 p.m. start time — Kali Uchis proved to be quite a performer with a large following […]