Nick Waterhouse, you have to take notice. Waterhouse takes classic benchmarks from his chosen genre – sassy back up singers, killer saxophone parts, sharp looking clothes, etc. – and uses them wisely.

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

Bleached was next. They have flat, snottily affectless yet harmonized vocals and a vaguely surf-inflected wall of guitar noise that sounded impeccable over the Seaport’s massive sound system. They ...

Nick Waterhouse isn’t old, but he is old school. For his debut album out this month, Time’s All Gone, the 25-year-old Echo Park resident takes a quick trip in the way-back machine, dishing out ...

Why hasn’t Nick Waterhouse played New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fesitval yet? His combination of the Stax and Motown sounds, overlaid with cool jazz, tight guitar and Raelettes-style backup singers, ...

This week’s edition of 15 Minute Live Performances (watch previous sets from UPSAHL, KANDLE, Cha Wa and Rozzi) features one of the best talents to emerge from Orange County, California in the past ...

To paraphrase Brian Wilson, Nick Waterhouse just wasn’t made for these times. As if to confirm that, this new album, his sixth in a decade-long career, is recorded in mono. But the cool, ...

As the first artist to grace the stage for KCRW’s Apogee Sessions this year, Nick Waterhouse did so with the exact degree of style and suavity you’d expect and then some. Dressed in a simple, but ...

A bad breakup, a dead-end job, and a music career on the skids: Add some rhythm to those blues and you've got the makings of a serious R&B club hit. That's exactly what Nick Waterhouse got in 2011, ...

From the first note you'll hear, it shouldn't be hard to tell that Nick Waterhouse is not of this era. Too many critics fall into the trap of categorizing the Huntington Beach native as an R&B artist, ...

Singer-guitarist Nick Waterhouse is only in his late 20s, but if you judge this musician by his output and the influences he's dropped in interviews, he sounds four decades older. The Huntington Beach ...