Former protégé of super producers The Neptunes, Vanessa Marquez has sang alongside big names like Justin Timberlake, Usher and Nelly. Marquez, best known as the female voice on Timberlake's hit single "Rock Your Body" is on her own and looking to make a name for herself. The Rialto native, who takes the stage tonight at the National Orange Show Fairground in San Bernardino opening for Omarion and Marques Houston, took some time out from a...
LAist Interview: Vanessa Marquez
Prisoner of the Pit: Rock the Bells Recap from the Frontline
What would you do to see a newly reunited Rage Against the Machine playing on the same stage and day as Wu-Tang Clan, Cypress Hill, Public Enemy, The Roots, Nas and Talib Kweli? If you said: Drive over an hour, stand in a line for 80 minutes in the 99 degree sun, avoid a restroom for nine hours, sit in possibly the worst parking lot traffic the Western Hemisphere has ever seen and inhale...
Eclectic Musical Experiences
This weekend we attended three distinctly different music events in the LA area, which is by no means a hard thing to do, but we had a good time and took some photos along the way. We started with a drum'n'bass nightclub in downtown LA on Friday night. Next on Saturday we journeyed all the way out to the IE to a massive rave at the Orange Show. Then finally on Sunday we made our way to the venerable Hollywood Bowl to catch David Byrne, Arcade Fire and Extra Action Marching Band

