Jake Uitti

2 days ago | vice.com | Jake Uitti

It’s impossible to understate the importance and influence of the Los Angeles-born band, Fishbone. The list of groups the untraditional collective has inspired is long and includes names like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and No Doubt. Their brand of ska-punk-rock-jam has defined explanation and been foundational for many. Started in 1979, Fishbone continues to rock stages today, albeit with some new faces over the years.

3 days ago | vice.com | Jake Uitti

It’s hard out there. Ask any musician and they’ll tell you, life ain’t easy. It’s hard to learn an instrument, it’s hard to write a song, it’s hard to make an album and it’s hard to get any attention. And then, if you do succeed somehow at all those things, fans and record execs want you to make a second album? Jeez! Sometimes bands don’t handle that massive pressure well—can you blame them? But the fact of the matter is that, for whatever reason, some bands peak with their debut LP releases.

3 days ago | vice.com | Jake Uitti

Listening to music from the 28 year old, Mexican-born artist Silvana Estrada feels a bit like time traveling. In a world where so much of the songs we hear today sound like they were created with computers and AI bots, Estrada’s stuff feels tactile, numinous and, well, that much more essential. Today (June 25), Estrada has released her latest single, “Lila Alelí,” a lilting yet powerful work that looks at rejection square in the eye. When times get tough, so often we want to run the other way.

4 days ago | vice.com | Jake Uitti

Life is a strange, strange thing. For instance: paradoxes. You would think that the more you know about something, the simpler it gets. But the reality is, the more you know about something, the more complexities you see in it. The more extravagant and anomalous it can feel. For evidence of this, see: guitarist Adrian Quesada. The Oscar-nominated Quesada has seemingly done it all when it comes to music. From playing with Prince to co-founding the Black Pumas, he is a stalwart in the art form.

6 days ago | vice.com | Jake Uitti

It can be hard to pinpoint when exactly grunge music began. Did it start off in the 1970s with heavy, dark and brooding bands like Black Sabbath? Was it the 1960s, as some artists think, when Jimi Hendrix began to play hefty blues-rock riffs on his electric guitar like no one before him or since?