In September 2012, a would-be pop star who goes by BAKER — one word, all caps — was scheduled to play the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip from 8 to 9 p.m. Tickets were available... More >>
The day after headlining Webster Hall in New York, the Haim sisters hoist their equipment out of a black van and lug it across a sidewalk to the entrance of WNYC, which is kind of like the Big... More >>
It's the last Friday in August and rapper Dom Kennedy's Other People's Money camp is throwing a promotional party at Little Tokyo's RIF consignment store; the suffocatingly hot half that's been... More >>
fri 9/13 Monophonics THE MINT Monophonics are like a whole section of the record store come to life — especially that wall above the register, where they keep the serious stuff. The Bay... More >>
fri 9/6 Anticon 15th-Anniversary Party featuring Baths, Daedelus, Doseone, et al. ECHOPLEX Tip your hat to 15 years of Anticon greatness: The label/collective founded by Oakland's Adam "Doseone"... More >>
Chelsea Wolfe is looking at a picture of herself. It's on the cover of the deluxe vinyl version of her new album, which is out this week. She's seeing it now for the first time, sitting at the... More >>
There's a magenta slash of ink on Dean Spunt's gray pants. His beard betrays the stubble of the self-employed. His long, brown hair is slightly wet and looped behind his ears. He looks more like... More >>
In Room 8 of the Joshua Tree Inn on Sept. 19, 1973, Gram Parsons died of an overdose, a combination of morphine, pills and tequila. The body of the 26-year-old singer — who, through work... More >>
In North Hills, Valley lawns are dry from no rain. Heat radiates from parked cars, baking under the midday sun. Damien "Dame" Ritter, 32, sits in his childhood home, blasting the AC and working.... More >>
fri 8/2 Kitten THE TROUBADOUR Kitten, local kids born in the '90s yet channeling the '80s, are an A&R exec's dream. The group is a collision of vibrant youth and timely nostalgia for a decade... More >>
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