Cold War Kids

Gothic Tropic Don't Know What the Hell They Are, But It's Clearly Compelling

Cecilia Della Peruti prefers to be barefoot when she's performing. The 23-year-old singer and guitarist for three piece jungle-garage rock outfit Gothic Tropic says she doesn't wear shoes because it allows her to "dance and go crazy, not feel like I'm going to trip on my feet." She, along with bassi ... More >>

Five Must-See L.A. Bands at SXSW

Initially a place where music executives could check out a bunch of emerging bands in the span of a few days, SXSW has become the spring break of the music biz. Bands from all over the globe descend on Austin hoping to convince the masses they're the next big thing. While megastars like Bruce Spring ... More >>

Music Picks: Overdoz, The Cure, Lucinda Williams

Also, K. Flay, The Civil Wars, Bob Mould tribute

Club Moscow Seven Year Anniversary Party: Mr. Downstairs, Standing Shadows, and Roey Rider

Lina Lecaro Moscow Girls.​Club Moscow, the popular 18 live music and dance night marked seven years strong last night at Boardner's. Even after all this time, the place is still packed with the hippest haircuts and happiest faces at a Hollywood club. The bands are pretty much always good he ... More >>

Music to Pick Up/Download

Lollapalooza Lineup: L.A. Bands Make a Strong Showing!

​ Is it already time to think about summer music festivals? Indeed, with SXSW and Coachella firmly behind us, we must now turn to the upcoming festival of festivals that has come to mark every summer. First major fest to reveal its lineup is Lollapalooza, which celebrates its 20th anniversary ... More >>

Music Picks: Coachella, Girls in Trouble, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Paul Simon

Also, Mary Anne Hobbs, Yoni Wolf, Emmylou Harris and others

Top 5 Things to Do This Weekend in L.A.

​ The weather is doing that weird thing we hate wherein there is a forty degree swing in temperature between noon and midnight. Advice: dress in layers if you're going to go out after work on Friday, or you'll be one of those poor fools standing in line outside the club in flip flops and a ta ... More >>

Coachella Lineup Announced: We Told You Odd Future Was in There!

​This is the official press release: Coachella 2011. Music. Art. Culture. Community. With the Coachella line-up announcement serving as the official kick-off to the annual U.S. festival season, festival organizers Goldenvoice can now reveal details for the 2011 Coachella Valley Music & Art ... More >>

Coachella: Now You Can Vote for the Headliner Right Here

lee.org​ With the lineup for Coachella still unannounced, rumors are flying as to the possibilities for the headliners. Here are the some unconfirmed (but widely rumored) potential headliners, as well as our best guesses as to why each will (or will not) make the cut. We'd like you to vote fo ... More >>

MUSIC PICKS: Ruben Guevara, Buika, Bill Frisell's Beautiful Dreamers

Also, Combichrist, Papercranes, Simone White and others

Nightranger: Step Into Liquid

Catch Up or Die: An Open Letter to the Sunset Junction Festival (or, How FYF Fest is About to Own You, Big Time)

​Dear Sunset Junction,   What the hell happened? You used to be it. The local music festival. The best of local talent -- upcoming national acts, even music legends, they all beat a path to your door. You weren't just a music festival, you were a local institution. Hell, you were instrumenta ... More >>

Aging With Delta Spirit

The Long Beach band channels old folk on its mature new LP

Tonight: Concrete Blonde, We Barbarians, Tame Impala, Frank Fairfield, Diego Garcia

Amber BoggsConcrete Blonde​If only there were movies and TV shows about vampires for songs like the ones on Bloodletting. Oh, wait. There are. Few, though, are as truly dark and compelling as Concrete Blonde's seminal (so to speak) 1990 album, which gave the band its biggest hit in "Joey" and ... More >>

826LA and the Pity Party Look Out for the Kiddies [MP3]

Chickens in love in Echo Park (Cindy Bennett)​Over the weekend, the Echoplex played host to a mini-festival benefiting 826LA, the local branch of Dave Eggers' countrywide youth writing nonprofit. The curious event, which involved on-the-spot punk haircuts and an appearance from a heavy metal ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Radiohead, Black Lips, Cold War Kids

There was a lot of music filtering through Los Angeles this weekend. Check out which shows we hit up below. Radiohead @ Henry Fonda Theater Timothy Norris​ Radiohead scheduled a last minute gig at Henry Fonda Theater as a benefit for Oxfam International's work in Haiti and the only thing more ... More >>

Cold War Kids' Lukewarm Saturday Night at the Wiltern

Cold War Kids' Lukewarm Saturday Night at the Wiltern

Kids’ Rock

Ten Best LA Recordings 2009 (So Far)

​Last week as we were sorting through our piles of CDs and accumulated MP3 files, we started to notice how big the stack of recent excellent LA music was. It became apparent that we're in the middle of a pretty great year for Los Angeles releases, and decided to give mid-year props to our fave ... More >>

The Ten Best LA Releases of 2009 So Far, Part II: Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros and Frankel

​Last week as we were sorting through our piles of CDs and accumulated MP3 files, we started to notice how big the stack of recent excellent LA music was. It became apparent that we're in the middle of a pretty great year for Los Angeles releases, and decided to give mid-year props to our fave ... More >>

MATT POPIELUCH ON FOREIGN BORN

Why his band's not pop, or rock, or anything predictable

Rock Picks: Pelican, Herman Dune, Rasputina, Bill Frisell, Random Patterns

Also, the Rakes, Cold War Kids, Idan Raichel Project and others

Last Night: Airborne Toxic Event Return to LA

Timothy NorrisAirborne Toxic Event backstage at their show at the Wiltern in the fall By Jeff Miller Awkward homecomings can be harrowing for anyone, but for the Airborne Toxic Event -- whose spiral to rock stardom on the heels of their fantastic, ubiquitous, Arcade-Fire-biting single "Sometime Ar ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Department of Eagles Live, Dr. Susan Block's Orgy for Obama, Peter Bogdanovich at New Beverly

This weekend was our first with new president Barack Obama and Los Angeles celebrated the only way it knew how with sold out rock concerts, orgies, jam-packed art openings, film screenings and more. Sunday morning I awoke to find my apartment floor scattered with an array of party favors like Obama ... More >>

Henry Clay People Debut New Line-Up at Spaceland

The Henry Clay People Spaceland, Saturday, January 10th (all photos by Timothy Norris) The third of five new songs that the reconfigured Henry Clay People debuted at Spaceland starts with the lyric, "It was the end of an empire," a frighteningly zeitgeist-seizing sentiment made all the more poign ... More >>

Rock Picks: Digable Planets, Pigeon John, the Wedding Present, Prima Donna

Also, Josh Rouse, the Raconteurs, Chicha Libre and more

Yosi Sergant and the Art of Change: The Publicist Behind Shepard Fairey's Obama Hope Posters

The facilitator talks Obama, art, the DNC and Fairey's Denver arrest

Sunset Junction: Germs, Sparks and Blood

Getting the Shaft at the Sunset Junction Street Fair

Black Moses mojo was conjured all over this year's Sunset Junction Street Fair, from the beauteous Isaac Hayes painting done by local artist Kofie (live and to the beats of the nearby I&I Sound System reggae ice cream truck), to the numerous Hayes shout-outs at the Sanborn stage (which was a non-sto ... More >>

Outside Lands Day 1-Don't Quote Me On It, But I Think This Radiohead Band Has a Chance to Get Big

(all photos by Christopher Victorio) Don't expect much. No one with an iota of common sense would attend a music festival after being struck by the snarling combination of African Sleeping Sickness/Mono/Ricketts/Gout/Scurvy that waylaid me for a full two weeks of misery and and continues to leave ... More >>

Rock Picks: Sunset Junction Street Festival, El Vez, Café Tacuba

Also, Veruca Salt, Mike Einziger, Kings X and Junior Brown

Word on the Street

Sunset Junction Schedule: Black Keys, Broken Social Scene, Antibalas, !!!

Ahh, Sunset Junction. Leather daddies and 100 degree heat. Crappy carnival rides and an ever-increasing admission price that pisses off the locals. Still it's usually prettygood music. Here's this year's line-up: They've posted the schedule at their site and it's got some good stuff. Entranc ... More >>

Rock Picks: Ray Davies, Beth Orton, Justice

Plus other March 27-April 3 shows

Rock Picks: HorrorPops, Steve Earle, Ace Frehley

And other March 20-27 music shows

Rock Picks: John Fogerty, Band of Horses, Eek-a-Mouse, Gram Rabbit

For the week of November 23 - 29

The Deadly Syndrome

“We stand around and smash stuff”

Rock Picks

For the week of February 22 – March 1

My(Space) Secret is Out: Cold War Kids Play For Free

If you have a MySpace page, then lucky you. You can diddle away hours at work, perp for dates, check up on exs, plug your band, and now...you can attend their secret shows. Well, they've been going on for a year, whether you knew you were invited or not. Last February, MySpace launched "Secret Show ... More >>

Rock Picks

For the week of Feb. 15 - 22

Rock Picks

for the week of January 25 – February 1

Rock Picks

For the week of Jan 18 – 25

The Year Blogs Got Lame, Business Got Hip and Nostalgia Was King

Deaf & Dead

Summer Songs, Blues Hollers and Genre Actions

Last Train to Snoresville

Two Gallants at the Troubadour, April 4

Rock & Pop Listings

For February 10 - 16

Rock Listings

For Feb. 10 - 16, Country & Folk listings follow

Rock & Dance Club Listings

For February 3 - 9, 2006