Jeff Mahin is a chef/partner at Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises (LEYE), the co-founder of the consumable nutrition company Split Nutrition (splitnutrition.com) and the brains behind the restaurants Stella Barra Pizzeria (Santa Monica, Hollywood, Chicago, and Bethesda), Summer House Santa Monica (in Chicago and Bethesda), Do-Rite Donuts (Chicago) and M Street Kitchen (Santa Monica). He was also a contestant on Season 1 of... read full bio
American rock group Rocket from the Crypt was founded in San Diego. After the release of their album Circa: Now!, the band received favorable reviews and the interest of a major record label, which resulted in a recording deal with Interscope Records. With the publication of the albums Scream, Dracula, Scream! and RFTC, along with a large number of vinyl singles and... read full bio
Michael Voltaggio is an American chef from Pasadena, California who is most well known for being the winner of the sixth season of Top Chef, a cooking competition reality show on the Bravo network. He competed against his brother Bryan in the show. They both ended in the finale alongside Kevin Gillespie. Judge of Top Chef, Tom Colicchio, stated on... read full bio
Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo are partners and co-owners of Animal, Son of a Gun, Jon & Vinny's, Helen's Wines and catering company, Carmelized Productions. Growing up on opposite sides of the Florida coast, they have been working together for over a decade working on their ideas for recipes and restaurants together and even eventually being credited with innovating and... read full bio
Tokyo-born Austin-bred, Tatsu spent most of his upbringing in restaurants. At a young age, he took a job as a dishwasher and continued on this path working his way from line cook, sushi chef to executive chef. Eventually, he made a trek to LA to immerse himself in Japanese cuisine at the Michelin rated kaiseki, Urasawa in Beverly Hills. Tatsu... read full bio
Radical Face is the solo project of Ben Cooper (mainly of Electric President fame). Cooper, from Jacksonville Beach, FL is the sole member of the band although he has enlisted the help of fellow Electric President Alex Kane, Cooper’s friend Mark Hubbard and his brother Emeral. The album “Ghost” was released by the label Morr Music. Under his ‘Radical Face’ moniker... read full bio
French chef, restauranteur, and king of the pop-up restaurant, Ludo Lefebvre trained in France for twelve years before moving to Los Angeles where he quickly won the prestigious Mobil Tavel Guide Five Start Award…at two separate restaurants. Since, he has opened two restaurants - Trois Mec and Petit Trois - and created the LudoBites concept, a multi-city restaurant tour. Lefebvre... read full bio
Sneaker Pimps were a downtempo/trip-hop band which formed in Hartlepool, England in 1995. The band best known for their first album Becoming X released in 1996, and particularly its highest charting single “6 Underground”. DJs and childhood friends Chris Corner and Liam Howe (from Middlesbrough and Hartlepool in the NE of England) released two EPs: “Soul of Indiscretion” and “World... read full bio
Chef, food advocate, TV personality, culinary innovator, and restaurateur Hugh Acheson has a lot on his plate. Chef Acheson believes that every choice we make – from the food we eat, where it comes from and how we prepare it – has a lasting impact on our children and the world they will inherit. A staunch supporter of No Kid... read full bio
Troy Johnson was the host of Crave, a program on the Food Network. He has appeared in national magazines like Surfer, Spin, Mojo, Paper and Rolling Stone and has even hosted a music television show on San Diego's Fox affiliate called Fox Rox. The show won two regional Emmys and gave some of Troy's favorite bands a live, in-studio platform, including... read full bio
POLYSICS is a Japanese new wave/synth pop/punk/rock band, hailing from Tokyo. The band started in 1997 but got their big break in 1998 at a concert in Tokyo. They created high energy music, fusing conventional guitar music, with synthesized and computer-generated sound to create a unique mixture of punk and electro-pop. Their song lyrics often consist of... read full bio
The somber music of Mimicking Birds simultaneously evokes warmth and a general compassion for life without sounding amateurish or inviting you to a misery party. Consider galactic psych-folk with mystical melodies and themes based on universal logic, evolution and the infinity of the transient. Nate Lacy started Mimicking Birds as a solo endeavor. Later came Adam Trachsel on bass, Ian Luxton on guitar, Aaron Hanson... read full bio
Since 2012, The Guru Guru has been enjoying success in the realm of borderline rock by frenziedly blending angular guitars with dissonant, polyrhythmic beats, all of which are complemented by erratic and insane voices. While METZ, Pere Ubu, Deerhoof, The Jesus Lizard, The Mars Volta, and Andy Kaufman are all cited as influences, the indie-math-psycho-noise rulebook is blown apart, creating... read full bio
As a co-presenter on Skylab with Lori and the cashier at Northside Records, Sophie is no stranger to Melbourne's music industry. Without restraint, Sophie has been freely launching jams onto dance floors, collaborating closely with Crown Ruler and different dance communities, and becoming a musical friend to everyone. It would be a great insult to Sophie McAlister's talent to sum... read full bio
After a brief but hilarious skit with Christopher Walken's character from Pulp Fiction, Captain Koons, Pan Amsterdam's unforgettable debut film The Pocket Watch offers us our first look of the film's mysterious director. His cutting rhymes and superb trumpet lines establish a picture of a gifted artist who is peripheral to the status quo. From that point on, our journey... read full bio
Vaclav Smil is an expert on the history of technological innovation. He points out that the energy industry—which includes production, processing, transportation and distribution, coal and uranium mines, oil and gas fields, pipelines, refineries, fossil-fuel fired, nuclear and hydroelectric power plants, tanker terminals, uranium enrichment facilities and transmission and distribution lines—constitutes the world’s most massive, most indispensable, most expensive and... read full bio
Polish native Ilona Europa’s unique sound of Pop combined with Rocktronica has landed her in features in Billboard Magazine, Remix Magazine, Women Who Rock magazine, EQ Magazine, and Best Magazine to name a few. Her single “Live Forever” debuted at #66 on the Global Dance Traxx chart and her single “Degree of Love” was licensed for the blockbuster dance game... read full bio
Toronto's Ducks Ltd. and Evan Lewis (guitar, bass, drum programming) met at a Dilly Dally show around the time they were both applying for permanent residency and playing in different local bands, and they were immediately drawn to one another because of their shared love of underappreciated '80s indiepop like Sarah Records (specifically for Tom, U.K. groups like Close Lobsters,... read full bio
Chef Sue is a Pennsylvania native who graduated from the Culinary Institute of America with a fellowship in seafood and fish. She relocated to New Orleans and like so many talented people before and after her, she began in the kitchen of the Commander's Palace before transferring to Gautreau's. When Sue took over as executive chef, she made sure Gautreau's food honored... read full bio
The ever-so-charming singer-songwriter gets a pass when you consider Matt Wertz's relentless touring schedule, a split with his major label, a new deal with Nettwerk, and the difficulties of life. It's these experiences that have actually influenced the creative songs on Wertz's new album, WEIGHTS & WINGS, so in that sense, the wait was well worth it. Before any of... read full bio
