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• ALL ACCESS WITH HEIDI SIEGMUND CUDA: To All My Friends….

• So in the few short weeks I’ve been back on the scene, it’s already about the people. The music is secondary to the doormen and doorgals, the djs, the bartenders, the nightclub owners, the promoters, the celebrities, the valets and the miscreants.   After bathing myself in the “a star is born” moment at Meg [...]

• ALL ACCESS WITH HEIDI SIEGMUND CUDA: Death and Taxes

• Feels good to be back on the scene…. like I ain’t never been gone. The warm embrace from the Viper Room and the Roxy has been particularly heartening. There is nothing more O.G. than walking in the backdoor of the Viper, except maybe texting Dayle Gloria to find out what brand of cigs “On the [...]

• All Access with Heidi Siegmund Cuda: Casting Out Demons

• ALL ACCESS: I was killing time before a late-night ron-day-voo, when I ran into Dayle Gloria at the Roxy. She was DJing a locals-only set between the gypsy rockers Vera Mesmer and the return of Orgy. She said, “Girl, you gotta hear this….” and she played me Meg Myers “Monster.” I was immediately smitten by [...]

• ALL ACCESS with Heidi Siegmund Cuda

• ALL ACCESS: It’s been 20 years since my first L. A. Times column debuted, and in celebration of that anniversary I’m launching a new column. The Viper Room, the site of many epic music experiences in my life, has graciously volunteered some cyber real estate for my words and for that I am grateful. It’s [...]

• DUFF MCKAGAN COMES FULL CIRCLE WITH INTIMATE PERFORMANCE AT THE VIPER BY BRENT MENDOZA

• Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and founding member of Guns N’ Roses, Duff McKagan returned to The Sunset Strip for two back to back, sold out shows at The Viper Room this month. For night one of this intimate engagement, McKagan, promoting his memoire It’s So Easy: And Other Lies, played an acoustic “storytellers” [...]