"Never have I had a rational mind," Sallie Ford spits out defiantly between stomping drumbeats and coolly fuzzed-out reverb guitar chords that hang ominously in the air on her aptly titled third album, Untamed Beast. "Never gonna apologize for being so intense. How the hell would that make any... More >>

Sarajevo-born composer and bandleader Goran Bregovic leads a scarifyingly tight ensemble of strings, horns, choir, brass and percussion. The group is a purveyor of traditional Balkan tunes for any occasion. Best known for his score for the 1989 film Time of the Gypsies, Bregovic delivers a... More >>

When Conor Oberst introduced himself as Bright Eyes in the 1990s, he inadvertently launched a version of emo rock that spoke to teenagers in shadowy bedrooms around the world. Whether or not the lyrics he sang were fictional, Oberst's fixation on isolation and dark memories led him down a... More >>

Singer Fiona Apple and guitarist Blake Mills are calling their current tour of a dozen North American cities Anything We Want, after the surreally hopeful tune on Apple's 2012 album, The Idler Wheel. Touring in a stripped-down duo format will indeed give the pair the flexibility to do almost... More >>

John Fogerty, who as leader of late-'60s hitmakers Creedence Clearwater Revival managed to cleave to old-school American rock & roll vernacular at the height of the Flower Power era's patchouli-doused self-indulgence, has endured a bizarre course of thwarts and vexations. Perhaps the only... More >>

The Dogs were punk rock before the term even existed, forming in 1969 in Lansing, Mich., where they were inspired by such high-energy forebears as The Stooges and The MC5. But when The Dogs headed West, relocating to Hollywood in the mid-1970s, their songs became shorter, faster and meaner,... More >>

For Subsuelo's Los Tres Marks event, three of the most daring and experimental musicians -- all named Mark -- come together to dismantle and then reassemble hip-hop, funk, soul and ferociously rare vintage keyboards and even children's toys, too. Jurassic 5 alum Nu-Mark has an entire set... More >>

Emphasizing the cultural diversity thing, Filter's annual rock and pop extravaganza boasts a nicely varied slice of some of the best bands we've currently got going in L.A. and beyond, as Culture Collide includes acts from England, France, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Hungary and Singapore.... More >>

Warpaint are fairly popular in England, where they often appear in music polls and on magazine covers, but the quartet got their start here in L.A.. No matter. Their sparkling reveries aren't limited by geographic boundaries, although there are some commonalities with British hazy-pop bands... More >>

Throughout their 32 years of activity, Pet Shop Boys have sold an impressive 50 million records worldwide and collaborated with heavyweights including David Bowie, Elton John, Liza Minnelli and Madonna, among an array of talented others. After 28 years with the label Parlophone, the U.K.-based... More >>

They've been called the world's loudest band, they've been called robots, and they've in fact been called far worse things. Regardless, Tokyo's garage kings reign supreme. Guitar Wolf stars Seiji (Guitar Wolf) on vocals and guitar, Toru (Drum Wolf) on the drums, and U.G. (Bass Wolf) on, that's... More >>

Primal Scream have always been most comfortable exploring the boundary between rock and rave, although that also means the group's sound is regularly stranded in the purgatory between good and weird. Ever since 1991's game-changing Screamadelica, the output of these groovy Scottish... More >>

Raw Geronimo reveal a new side of themselves on "Magnetic Love," from their debut album, Dream Fever. In a short, 2½-year career, the local sextet has already moved back and forth from caffeinated punk and jaggedly funky new wave to dreamy art-pop and percussive, tribal incantations. In... More >>

The Ramones were inarguably one of America's finest rock & roll bands, and for fans, the grim four-year period between April 15, 2001, and Sept. 15, 2004 -- during which we lost Joey, DeeDee and finally Johnny Ramone -- was like a slo-mo wide-awake nightmare. Nearly a full decade later, those... More >>

Atoms for Peace is the super-est of supergroups. Composed of Radiohead's Thom Yorke, along with that band's uber-producer Nigel Godrich, The Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea, R.E.M./Beck's Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco, the group's collective love of Fela Kuti–style Afrobeat spawned Atoms... More >>

The trio of sisters (and recent L.A. Weekly cover stars) known as Haim returns to L.A. for a show that probably will feel more like a grand homecoming than a typical gig. Guitarists Danielle and Alana and bassist Este Haim are on the verge of mainstream success with the late September release... More >>

New Wave of British Heavy Metal pointmen Diamond Head are among the more prominent victims of the music industry's fickle hand of fate. Formed in 1976, they were a hugely palpable influence on the fledgling Metallica, who debuted in L.A. five years later and covered numerous DH tunes (including... More >>

One of the great things about the sprawling, three-ring circus known as Gogol Bordello is that no animals are ever harmed during their riotous performances. Except for human animals, that is. Lead singer Eugene Hutz usually remains unscathed when he flings himself about the stage, climbs into... More >>

It's hard to stand out in a sonic landscape where singer songwriters are a penny a dozen, especially when armed only with an acoustic guitar. But for the past decade, Kate Victoria Tunstall, better known as KT Tunstall, has defied the odds. Tunstall's breakout track, 2005's "Black Horse and a... More >>

It's sometimes forgotten today, but when Gary Numan first emerged as a solo performer from the ashes of his breakthrough band Tubeway Army, in 1979, rock critics initially dismissed the English singer as a mere clone of David Bowie. At the time, the classic-rock establishment was seriously... More >>

Remember life before Low End Theory? So quiet. So normal, even. Seven years ago, if you wanted your head to explode, you really had to work at it. But then Low End revealed itself as a new beginning, as founders Daddy Kev, Nobody, Gaslamp Killer, Nocando and edIT (later succeeded by D-Styles)... More >>

Once a humble grassroots event, Angel City Jazz Festival has steadily grown into an annual powerhouse, bringing to L.A. a remarkable number of creative improvisers from the ever-evolving front lines of jazz. Now co-produced by the Jazz Bakery, ACJF plays out over the next two weekends at LACMA,... More >>