United Music Scene

"...my advice is to stay original. The world desperately needs new good music. Be yourself." @Phil Gates Mistah Wilson : Greetings, Phil Gates! What a tremendous honor it is to have you here with us for this exclusive interview with ThaWilsonBlock. How have you been? Phil Gates : I’m good. Making it happen all the time. Mistah Wilson : Respectively, you are arguably the most experienced musician we've interviewed to date. But, for our younger audience reading this, could you hit us with a quick background on yourself? Phil Gates : A quick one? LOL I’m a musician who taught myself guitar, and singing. I’ve been very fortunate to have been included on some amazing projects. I am involved in session work as a guitarist, I am also a recording engineer, Mix Engineer, Producer and Author. Mistah Wilson : First and foremost, we MUST talk about your founding of The Los Angeles Blues Society. In what in ways are you working to preserve and evolve and the genre? Phil Gates : ...

Wednesday, July 18, 2018, 7pm The Sorting Room @ The Wallis 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd. Beverly Hills, CA Kosine, 9x Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum producer-songwriter and 1/2 of the LA-based production duo Da Internz, will be introducing emerging ASCAP songwriters, giving them the opportunity to showcase their original songs and provide a sneak peek into their craft. Be the first to hear their songs that may just be headed to the top of the charts. Featuring Joelle James , Kam Parker and Alex Vickery. Click here to get tickets and more info .

The 4th Annual Truck Adventures For Kids benefiting Make A Wish Foundation is an event for children to see, touch, explore vehicles of all types: fire trucks, police cars, construction, military vehicles and many other vehicles. The event is Saturday, April 29, 2017, from 9am-3pm at Santa Anita Racetrack, 285 West Huntington Drive, Arcadia, CA 91007. This unique, fun filled event, allows children of all ages to get up close to & even sit in more than 100+ trucks and vehicles that they see on the road everyday. Some of previous year’s participants include Kraft Foods, Harley Davidson, LA Fire Dept Shakey Quakey Van, Nickelodeon, Fedex, Hertz, LA Port Authority TransPORTer, City of Hope, Colgate, Time Warner, DirecTV, AAA, City of Arcadia Police, Fire & Public Works depts, Sunstate Equipment, Quinn Rental, Los Angeles Police Department SWAT, DEA, Brinks Armored Trucks, US Forestry, Waste Management, Republic Services, US Navy, Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps, California Nationa...