Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Sunset Strip Music Festival - West Hollywood - Aug. 1-3, 2013

Sunset Strip Music Festival Sunset Strip, West Hollywood Aug. 1-3, 2013 The Sunset Music festival sought to reverse sagging attendance this year, and the line-up got a shake-up. There was less emphasis on head-banging, with instead such artists as rap-rock arena rockers Linkin Park, a mix of hip-ho ... More >>

Music Picks: Hard Summer, Sunset Strip Music Festival and Bob Dylan

Linkin Park, Awolnation, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, et al.

The Best Concerts to See in Los Angeles This Week

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Monday, May 20 Holy Ghost! TROUBADOUR It's been two years since the release of Holy Ghost!'s eponymous debut. Often hailed as LCD Soundsystem's heirs, the NYC-based duo's sound falls somewhere between Phoenix's precocious li ... More >>

The Best Concerts to See in Los Angeles This Weekend

Friday, April 20 The Call THE TROUBADOUR The Call couldn't have imagined its rousing song "Let the Day Begin" would be the rally cry for not one (Al Gore) but two (Tom Vilsack) presidential campaigns. The Northern California group, who came into their own in the 1980s, haven't had a release since 2 ... More >>

20 Musicians We Will Miss: 2010, the Year in R.I.P.

20 Musicians We Will Miss R.I.P.

Music Picks: Tift Merritt, Clinic, Microscopic Septet

Also, J. Cole, the Crazy Squeeze, Wild Flag and others

This weekend: HARD Haunted Mansion, Ninja Tune 20th Anniversary, KCRW Masquerade, Of Montreal, Stone Temple Pilots

Perou.co.ukUnderworld​Whether you're all about the costumes or just in it for the tunes, Halloween weekend offers some massive show-going choices ... starting with, well, something very close to a massive. HARD Haunted Mansion, with an eclectic electro lineup including Bloody Beetroots, Busy ... More >>

This is What Jim Morrison Would Have Sounded Like if He Had Gotten Old and Bald: Stone Temple Pilots Suspend Tour After Scott Weiland's Onstage Antics

Stone Temple Pilots Suspend Tour After Scott Weiland's Onstage Antics

Memorial for The Call's Michael Been Tonight in Santa Monica

Memorial for The Call's Michael Been Tonight in Santa Monica

The Call's Frontman Michael Been, Father of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Bassist, Passes Away Backstage at BRMC Concert

The Call's Frontman Michael Been Passes Away

Live Review: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club @ the Echoplex

Six albums of girls-gone-bad and civilian unrest fantasies supplied Black Rebel Motorcycle Club with more than enough material to fill their three-show stint at the Echoplex this past week. On Friday (night two), perfectly back-lit by a rolling blue mist, bassist Robert Been greeted the audience and ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Star Warz, SXSW, HARD 13, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Despite the legions of Angelenos headed to Austin for this year's South by Southwest, the city hasn't slowed down one bit. We started the weekend with Devil's Playground's latest Star Warz show and finished with fist-pumping jams at Hard 13. Devil's Playground Presents Star Warz Josh "CuriousJosh" ... More >>

Music Picks: Laura Veirs, Experience Hendrix, Boyz II Men, Earthworm Ensemble

Also, David Scott Stone, Slow Club, Little Boots and others

Band of Horses, Tom Morello, and BRMC strip down for Pablove

View more photos in the Pablove Benefit slideshow. Anna Webber​The Pablove Foundation has found a pretty hip way to raise money for kids with cancer by throwing benefit concerts with talent like Silversun Pickups, Neon Indian, Peter, Bjorn and John, and Avi Buffalo. Most of the performers hav ... More >>

Ride the Final Miles of Pablove Across America's Cross Country Trek

Ride the Final Miles of Pablove Across America's Cross Country Trek

Band Of Horses, Sea Wolf Added to Pablove Across America Benefit Nov. 21st

Band Of Horses and Sea Wolf Added to Pablove Across America Benefit Nov. 21st

Pablove to Throw Benefit Show in Honor of Founder's Cross-Country Ride: Tom Morello, BRMC, Others Confirmed

Back in September we announced the then-pending cross-country bike trek of Dangerbird co-owner Jeff Castelaz, riding from the far end of Florida to our own Hollywood Hills in 30 days to raise money for The Pablove Foundation. Castelaz founded that non-profit in honor of his late 6-year-old son -- Pa ... More >>

Buddyhead Redux

L.A.'s most loved and feared music Web site is back, leading the never-ending quest for music that doesn't suck

Darker My Love Live @ Echoplex, December 19

By Paul Rogers If an Eastside indie show was portrayed in a mainstream movie it might look like Friday night at Echoplex. Bearded 'n' baseball-capped Brite Spot brunchers politely gathered in the Echo's low-slung basement to witness a psychedelic pop band deftly meld shoegazer staples Jesus and ... More >>

Rock Picks: The Duke Spirit, New York Dolls, Lil Wayne

Also, Darker My Love, X, Legal Weapon, and others

Here Comes the Pride!

What to do in L.A., June 6-12

Swervedriver Gazes Back

A chat at the pub reanimates one of the great also-rans of '90s British guitar rock

Rock & Roll Power Outage

Few and hard between; Kitty come home; Bra Boys roll in

Bored of the Dance

Book signings gone wild; Spindrift, BRMC at Safari Sam's; Sundance from afar

Rock Picks

For the week of May 24-31

Brit Boppers

And blog hoggers

Paint It Black

Geesh, a lot of songs have the word "Black" in them don't they? Okay, this is my last time using one as a headline. Promise. The above is the best, anyway. Forgot to mention that the "goodie bag" for the Imitation of Christ show was Smashbox makeup: a magenta lipstick called "Enchanting," black cre ... More >>

Nightranger

Mean Streets?

Music Picks

For August 24 - 31

The Kidz Are Alright, Mate!

    There was an Aussie Assault at the Troubadour earlier this week, and I got hit, hard! The night started smashingly with a literal rock star parking space: none other than Seal was sitting in a Ferrari convertible outside Dan Tana's, so my uber rock chick friend Laurel chatted up the si ... More >>

Music Picks

For the week of March 10 - 16

Don't Touch Me There

DEAD MEADOW, SILVERSUN PICKUPS at the Troubadour, February 3

Live in LA

Sex and Drugs and Sex and Rock & Roll

Michael Winterbottom’s monomaniacally intoxicating 9 Songs

Mr. Fold's Wild Ride

A Man Out of Time

Rodney Bingenheimer on life as the erstwhile Mayor of the Sunset Strip

Rubble Rockers

The Defiant Ones

The Year in Music

LAWMA Rama

How To Be a Rock Promoter

And not get punched in the face more than once

L.A. Weekly Music Awards 2001 nominees

The Wild Ones

BRMC comes to your town