The Dance Hall Pimps are a Los Angeles based band, that has their own unique sound. I got to hang with their lead singer and main songwriter RJC for a grip of minutes and discussed the upcoming album and all things Dance Hall Pimps. Go to the CHTV player now and watch the two part [...]
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The Great Depression Couldn’t Stop the Ford Model A From Being a Hit With 4.5 Million Model A’s Sold between 1927-1931. Look What Happens When a Pasadena Builder Goes to Work: It’s Miller Time!
Back in ChopperHead, Issue 5, we featured Scott Miller and his Sloppy Seconds car. Since we thought it a perfect match to [...]
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A good friend of mine John Darin told me a few years ago about this dude who didn’t ride, but he was gonna ride across India. It sounded interesting and then I completely forgot about it. Well here we are in 2012 and I had the great pleasure of meeting Adam Schomer who did this [...]
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I was cruising around downtown Los Angeles a few weeks ago with Matt Klekner, our ChopperHead media man, when he suggested we stop by this custom bike shop on the corner of Alameda and 3rd(SupoerCo Customs). I was not familiar with the shop, but I hada an intuitive feeling that I wold know somebody there. [...]
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ALVARADO – WAITING FOR THE SMOKE TO CLEAR
Posted on 10. Feb, 2012 by Art "The Armenian" Bandarian.
Real American Music Ain’t Dead, That’s the Funeral Pyre of the Record Industry Monopoly Burning Out of Control, While Alvarado, The Best New Band You Haven’t Heard of Yet, Well, They’re Just Waiting for the Smoke to Clear.
Alvarado is a new band that came together as bands often do these days. A group of like-minded [...]
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Roni Zulu has been in the tattoo game for a grip of years now. He originally hails from the Siesta Key Island of Florida. He came to Los Angeles in the early 80’s as a musician in a Rock n Roll band. After years as a touring and studio musician, Zulu worked in graphics design. [...]
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Scoring a Trifecta at the Beverly Hills Film Festival, This Sleeper Hit Will be Released Nationwide This Fall.
How long has Paradigm Pictures been in business and what got you into filmmaking?
Paradigm Pictures was formed in 2003 while I was still part of the Mandalay Entertainment Group. My goal was to create a company that would [...]
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I was introduced to Billy Cook through the Devin the Dude camp out of Houston. Billy is part of the “So South,” Texas scene also known in part as S.L.A.B. culture. Slow Loud and Bangin’ is what it stands for and the cars they ride are candy colored customized rods like you’ve never seen before. [...]
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Coop is an Oklahoma native who headed out to California in the late 1980’s and soon became regarded as one of the most respected underground artists of his time. From his colorful, sexy and inspired by car culture, R. Crumb and a host of other pop culture elements, Coop gave birth to the smoking devil, [...]
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Suffering Is Necessary to Achieve Something and for
A Band Called Pain It’s Gonna’ Hurt… All the Way to the Top!
I happen to have been introduced to A Band Called Pain by the same chick who hipped me to BloodSugar. She called me on the phone one night and begged me to take her to see [...]
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