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You Can Be the Next Food Star: At The Grove, At Any Rate

Flickr/deb roby​The first ever A Taste at The Grove takes place this Saturday, June 26th, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. And you could be one of the culinary stars scheduled to perform. Submit your most brilliant recipe online right away. The winner will be announced at an invitational VIP party that ... More >>

Live in L.A.: Make Music Pasadena (with Matt & Kim, Natalia Lafourcade, Warpaint), Opening Night at the Bowl, Freestyle Fellowship, Jamie Lidell, Erykah Badu, Billy Joe Shaver

Warpaint​Pasadena is used to its parades, but on Saturday its denizens will be traipsing around Old Town to get an earful of music rather than an eyeful of rose pedals. What's impressive about the annual Make Music Pasadena is how many constituencies the festival is serving over one day. With ... More >>

Producer Daniel Lanois in Intensive Care after LA Motorcycle Accident

​The NME reports that producer and performer Daniel Lanois, known for his atmospheric collaborations with Brian Eno, U2 and Bob Dylan, suffered a motorcycle accident in LA that forced him to postpone a UK tour. The report is not specific as to the details: The Quebec-born musician/producer, b ... More >>

Live in L.A.: Ben Folds, Diane Birch, V.V. Brown

Ben Folds​There's no Five with Ben Folds on his current tour -- it's just the 43-year-old singer-songwriter, his musical weapon of choice and his current fascination with Chatroulette. His "Ben Folds and a Piano" tour has featured stripped-down versions of songs from his deep catalog (yes, he' ... More >>

Deadmau5 Blazes New Trails In The Desert

Deadmau5, the young DJ from Toronto, has been one of dance music's most-electrifying stories of the last five years. He's a former computer geek who came out of nowhere to blast digital dance music retailer Beatport with some of its best-sellers. He came of age in the download era and didn't even ha ... More >>

Last Night: Amon Amarth at the House of Blues

Váli, Norse god of vengeance paid Los Angeles a visit, and he brought his boys. Last night, under Hoth's moon, Sweden's melodic-death-metal sons of Thor, Amon Amarth, (and Swiss folk-metal outfit Eluveitie) played House of Blues. Everyone looking for a metal photo-op was at Club Nokia checking o ... More >>

Manny Pacquiao Merchandise Weirdness: The National Slippers

Of all the bizarre Manny Pacquiao boxing merchandise, these plush slippers have got to be some of the weirdest. Saw these at his concert at the Glendale Embassy Suites a while back. They were selling them for $5 each. Classy! I truly regret not buying a pair. ​

Lisa Germano to Tour with Radiohead's Phil Selway

Last week when Radiohead played their surprise Haiti benefit at the Henry Fonda Theater, those of us lucky enough to get onto the guest list (we still donated $$, for the record) received confirmation via email. In the email was a document containing the entire guest list, which for a Radiohead show ... More >>

Ariel Pink Signs To 4AD, Readies Euro Tour

Ariel goes Juggalo?​Local freak-folk ambassadors Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti only just returned from touring Europe, and they're looking to head back across the pond on Friday. Consider this trip a victory lap, however, as the psychedelic five-piece has just been announced as the latest sign ... More >>

Nosaj Thing Talks Beat Junkies and The Smell, Performs for Sampler Porn (video)

It's hard to believe that it was only half a year ago that Nosaj Thing's fantastic Drift came into our world. That record not only feels like an archetypal example of the kind of electronic ingenuity pouring out of the local Beat Music scene, but we've been playing it enough to know it like we know ... More >>

Last Night: Brother Ali and the Night of Three E-V's (Evidence, Evelyn and ... Everlast)

It's easy to think that underground hip-hop is dead. The Internet has equalized everything to the point that there isn't much difference between Mos Def's and Mickey Factz's marketing plan, or Elzhi's and Eminem's, or Wale's and Will.i.am's. During the WWWization of the rap world, the next generatio ... More >>

Dead Man's Bones to Play Two Halloween Shows at the Echo

We're sick of writing about Dead Man's Bones. We've covered them non-stop over the past few months, at least a post a week on a band that only has one album out. But despite the band's lineage, any budding musician looking for publicity would be wise to study their methods. First, become famous as a ... More >>

Rock Picks: Broken Nobles, Anny Celsi, Seu Jorge, the Killers

Rock Picks: Broken Nobles, Anny Celsi, Seu Jorge, the Killers

Also, Destroy L.A., Sunset Strip Music Festival, the Drones and others

Mack 10’s Hustler Handbook

When in doubt, says the veteran rapper, heed the late Eazy-E’s advice: “Always stay about your money”

Thelonious Monster to Play Surprise Echo Show Tonight in Advance of Warped Dates, Feature Film

Thelonious Monster is reuniting for their first show in 5 years tonight at the Echo, a surprise gig featuring a pretty impressive line-up of LA punk veterans, including: Mike Martt (Tex & The Horseheads, Steve Earle), Zander Schloss (Circle Jerks, Two Free Stooges) and Dix Denny (The Weirdos), bassi ... More >>

Linda Perhacs to Perform Music from Parallelograms Live for the First Time Ever

Big news from Dublab headquarters. Psych-folk singer Linda Perhacs, whose unsung 1970 classic, Parallelograms, was reissued last year, will perform music from the album for the first time ever at Redcat at the beginning of October. Perhacs, who is now a dental hygienist, has been popping up at misce ... More >>

The Anatomy of a Web Hit: Wallpaper's Autotuned Mash-Up of Jay-Z's "Death of Autotune" Explodes, Subsides

About three weeks ago, Oakland's Wallpaper (signed to L.A. indie Eenie Meenie), made headlines by remixing Jay-Z's "Death Of Autotune" and AutoTuned Jigga in the process. Wallpaper's primary songwriter Eric Frederic has long used AutoTune satirically under the guise of his frontman alter-ego Ricky R ... More >>

The Legendary Mundell Lowe at Spazio, Femi Kuti at the Bowl

Brazilian Fest at the Ford

Cinc It Down

No Age to Cover Entire Husker Du Album with "Special Guest" at All Tomorrow's Parties

But which one? Which album, that is, and which special guest? Based on this excellent interview that No Age did with Bob Mould, and vice versa, for the LA Record, we've got a pretty good idea. The entire conversation feels like a Mutual Admiration Society meeting, and as a result the talk is ope ... More >>

Coachella Adds Joss Stone to Saturday Line-Up

We're trying to wrap our heads around this one. Not three minutes ago we had a conversation in which we said we kept waiting for some sort of April surprise for Coachella, and, then, lo, this lands in our box: JOSS STONE TAKES CENTER STAGE IN CALIFORNIA HEADLINING CLUB NOKIA IN LOS ANGELES, THURS ... More >>

Leonard Cohen to Gig at the Nokia a Week Before Coachella

Leonard Cohen just announced an extended spring tour, and will hit the Nokia Theater on Friday, April 10 -- a week prior to his Coachella appearance. Which is great for those of us who were a little worried about seeing one of our favorite songwriters surrounded by a bunch of drunken/tripping/coke ... More >>

Tonight at the Grammy Museum: Charlie Haden Talks Jazz

Legendary acoustic bass player Charlie Haden, whose work with Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon and pretty much every other jazz player of any import, will speak jazz and business with Grammy Museum director Robert Santelli at the museum's new digs in L.A. Live. The public conversation, part of the Duke ... More >>

The Bird and the Bee Announce Leno, Kimmel Appearances, Offer First Glimpse of New Album

LA's The Bird and the Bee have been doing rehearsal gigs around town for the past couple months, so it's not like you haven't had ample opportunity to catch them live. But in anticipation of their upcoming second full-length, Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future, the duo of Inara George and Greg Kurs ... More >>

Live Nation's Crown Jewel: Hollywood Palladium Reopens This Week

From Blue Eyes to Jay-Z, venue has played host to the history of American music

We Are Scientists, Morning Benders, The Blood Arm, El Rey, 7/1/08

We Are Scientists with Morning Benders and The Blood Arm, El Rey, July 1, 2008 Photos by Timothy Norris Last night The Blood Arm performed the first truly excellent theme song for the economic recession of 2008. Dedicated to Jay-Z, referencing Wesley Snipes' three-year jail sentence for tax evasi ... More >>

Advance Warning: David Bowie's Classic 1972 Bootleg, Live Santa Monica '72, To See the Light of Day

David Bowie in Santa Monica in 1972 (photo by Jon Levicke) We just received an advance of the soon to be issued Live in Santa Monica '72 disc, the first legitimate version of a classic David Bowie show recorded during his first U.S. tour in 1972. The gig, recorded for LA radio station KMET ("The ... More >>

Presets Preview

The Presets play Los Angeles Tuesday, May 20 at the El Rey Theater. Sorry, sold out. But hey, don't go away sad. Here's the new video for the "You Are the One" from their new album, Apocalypso. You can also download an MP3 of a different mix of the song from the Modular Records blog here. And f ... More >>

Stew's Passing Strange Receives Seven Tony Award Nominations

From Spaceland to Broadway: Stew Passing Strange, the Broadway musical created by longtime fixture on the LA music scene Stew, received seven Tony Award nominations this morning. The show, which started Off Broadway but moved to the Big Dance in the spring, has gone on to become one of the most cr ... More >>

Elbow, Avalon, 5/9

Elbow, Air Traffic Avalon, May 9, 2008 Photos and words by Timothy Norris Shortly before Elbow took the stage Friday night for the final show of their latest North American tour, someone asked me, “Why aren’t Elbow bigger than they are?” I've got no good answer for that. Although I'm a re ... More >>

Black Keys, Jay Reatard, Wiltern, 4/1

Black Keys, Jay Reatard The Wiltern, April 1 By Jonah Flicker We’ll get to the white-boy blues-rock in just a sec, but first we have a very serious matter to discuss: the awesomeness of Jay Reatard. I have had his most recent release, Blood Visions, playing on repeat for the past few months, and ... More >>

Black Lips, El Rey, 2/14

Black Lips, El Rey, February 14 By Jonah Flicker Reports of Black Lips’ onstage antics have apparently been greatly exaggerated. The Atlanta quartet, which released Good Bad Not Evil on Vice Records this past fall, is renowned for committing alleged acts of debauchery at live shows including, bu ... More >>

Heart of Glass

The Italians Do It Better label delivers deep, dark disco

Point/Counterpoint: Meet the Battling Brunettes

The latest twee-pop purveyors from the land down under

Da Camera and Dim Sum

Melody of China performs at Empress Pavilion

One of Those Weeks

Christopher Rouse's Requiem and Mark Robson at Zipper Concert Hall

Rock Picks

For the week of December 14 � 21

Street Drum Corps

Rock The Bells!

Summer love-in for underground hip-hop fans

Donkey Kong in the Bowl

An 8-bit evening with the LA Phil

Breakfast with Tiffany

Different Drum

After Vegas, Linda Ronstadt finds refuge in L.A.

Whistling Tunes

Neil Finn escapes from a crowded house

Up a Creek

The Band that rings like a bell

Smell the Boyz

Where Eagles Dare

Don Henley�s life in the diamond lane

Don't Touch That Redial

Ever wondered how the scalpers always get tickets?