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1 week ago | 
independent.com | Kat Sophia
Imagine if the two artists behind the number one song on the Billboard charts right now went on tour together. Imagine one of them just headlined the Super Bowl Halftime Show and won five Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Imagine the other’s most recent album breaking records for the biggest streaming week ever for an R&B album by a woman.
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Mar 2, 2025 | 
independent.com | Kat Sophia
Review | Regina Spektor Eclectic Singer-Songwriter Brought Thoughtful Piano Playing and Whimsical Storytelling to SoCal Show By Kat Sophia Sun Mar 02, 2025 | 5:48pm Add to Favorites Regina Spektor | Photo: Courtesy I was in middle school when I first heard Regina Spektor’s “Fidelity.” What is this beautiful song? It felt like it was tapping into all of the emotions I never had the words for. I listened a few more times, letting my brain process all the new happy emotions over and over again....
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
independent.com | Kat Sophia
Review | The ‘Flood Tour’ with Hippo Campus This Favorite Indie Band Washed L.A.’s The Wiltern with the Sounds of Their Most Vulnerable Record Yet By Kat Sophia Fri Feb 28, 2025 | 4:03pm Add to Favorites Hippo Campus at The Wiltern | Photo: Kat Sophia Hippo Campus is that one band, for me, that I was always dancing on the edges of becoming obsessed with. I owned their records on vinyl but rarely played them, I listened to them in the car with friends but never alone. I never interrogated why,...
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Kat Sophia
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Maggie Rogers was one of the first artists I truly dove headfirst into. I, like most who were introduced to her in 2016, first found her through her viral song “Alaska.” I blasted it in the car on the way to school, “cut my hair and rocked back and forth” to it in my bedroom, and, a few years later, used it as my “song to listen to as you read my application” when a college application asked me to put one down.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
independent.com | Kat Sophia
Review | The Don’t Forget Me Tour with Maggie Rogers The Indie Songstress Brought Her Signature Folk Pop Charm to The Kia Forum in Inglewood on The Last Stop of her North American Tour By Kat Sophia Mon Nov 11, 2024 | 10:45am Add to Favorites Maggie Rogers | Photo: Courtesy The Don’t Forget Me Tour Maggie Rogers was one of the first artists I truly dove headfirst into. I, like most who were introduced to her in 2016, first found her through her viral song “Alaska.” I blasted it in the car on...
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
independent.com | Kat Sophia
Review | The What Now Tour with Brittany Howard The Alabama Born Musician Takes The Greek Theater on a Whimsical Journey Through Her Heartfelt Catalog By Kat Sophia Mon Oct 28, 2024 | 1:28pm Add to Favorites Brittany Howard | Photo: Bobbi Rich “I already feel like doing it again, honey.” Those were the opening lines of what would become one of my favorite songs of all time: “Stay High” by Brittany Howard. A multi-talented musician, Howard first rose to prominence in her band Alabama Shakes....
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
independent.com | Josef Woodard |DJ Darla Bea |Kat Sophia |Tyler Hayden
Aimee Mann Hits Santa Barbara in Her First Tour in More than a Decade The Grammy Winner Gives Her Take on Writing Musicals, Finding Inspiration, and Squirrel Paintings By Gabriel Tanguay Sun Oct 20, 2024 | 11:42am Add to Favorites Aimee Mann | Photo: Courtesy “Right now, I’m thinking about making another record; there’s a musical I’m working on; and I’m writing a graphic memoir, which is a process,” says Grammy-winning Renaissance woman Aimee Mann. Over the past four decades, Mann has...
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
independent.com | DJ Darla Bea |Kat Sophia |Nataschia Hadley |Tyler Hayden
Mali Calling: Habib Koité Returns Legendary Malian Musician Makes His Way Back to Town via UCSB Arts & Lectures By Josef Woodard Sat Oct 19, 2024 | 9:44pm Add to Favorites Habib Koité performs at Campbell Hall on October 30. | Photo: Courtesy For all the riches and diverse avenues of music making their way through Santa Barbara on this year’s concert calendar, sounds from outside the Western world — so-called “world music” — have been all too rare. Some of that lack will be addressed, in its...
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
independent.com | Nataschia Hadley |Josef Woodard |Kat Sophia |Tyler Hayden
Fletcher | Photo: Sebastian Faena A true pop star of the modern era, (one that couldn’t have truly existed prior to this age), Fletcher is what queer kids concocted in their heads as a fictitious dream a few decades ago. A mix of pop-rock and poignant lyrics, the New Jersey-born singer doesn’t care about the fact that she sings about women, she just happens to.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
independent.com | Josef Woodard |Kat Sophia |Tia Trinh |Isabelle Walker
At their every show, I lose myself to the world that is Jungle. There’s something about this collective of musicians — the way they bind you to their enticing loops of oranges, beiges, and yellows. And for the next two hours, your mind will only move within their shadows and lights. The band started as a DJ duo, initially consisting of members Josh Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland. Today, they play as a full band, playing most of their instruments live onstage.
