Concerts and Tours

Rolling Stones at the Echoplex Tonight: Hysteria Hits Los Angeles

UPDATE 2:29 pm: Who got in and who didn't? Details at the bottom of the post. The Rolling Stones are playing the Echoplex tonight. Tickets are onsale right now at the El Rey. $20, cash. It's a lottery. They're handing out tokens at this moment. The official announcement just came down within ... More >>

Paid Dues - San Manuel Amphitheater - 3/30/13

Paid Dues Independent Hip-Hop Festival San Manuel Amphitheater 3/30/13 Traffic was hellish. Parking was a mess, the outhouses were a disaster, the lines for food were ridiculously long, and one edifice labeled "will call" was not, in fact, will call. The dust was Coachella-like, and after the boil ... More >>

Black Flag Are Back Together

Black Flag is back together, and are almost done with a new album, according to an SST press release. See also: Black Flag's Damaged Changed Punk, and L.A.: 30 Years Later, Its Impact Is Still Felt The lineup is Greg Ginn on guitar, Ron Reyes on vocals, Gregory Moore on drums and Dale Nixon on bas ... More >>

Coachella 2013 Lineup Announced

The Coachella lineup is here. It's actually here! There have been ten tons of fakes, some quite convincing, and many of which had the Rolling Stones headlining. (West Coast Sound, however, broke the story that they would not appear.) But never mind all that! The lineup is here, and the headliners a ... More >>

Local Natives' Big Vaulted Ceilings

On their new album, the rising indie-folk act show who they are and what they've become

Herbie Hancock Celebrates Peace - Hollywood Bowl - 8/29/12

Herbie Hancock Celebrates Peace Hollywood Bowl 8-29-12 Better than...the Republican National Convention. Let's get this out of the way early: I like peace. Obtaining peace and air conditioning are my two highest priorities these days and peace is winning by a mile. I also like pianist Herbie Hanco ... More >>

[Updated] Indio: New Mexican Beer in Town Debut Tonight at La City Bar

Update: 4:28 p.m. The event tonight at La Cita was originally a private event and is now officially sold out. But don't fret, Guelaguetza has confirmed that there is plenty of Indio available at its restaurant. By now, you've probably seen a few Spanglish billboards around the hipper parts of town ... More >>

Lower Dens - The Troubadour - 6/30/12

Lower Dens, No Joy, Alan Resnick The Troubadour 6-30-12 Saturday night at the Troubadour, Lower Dens showed they aren't easily classified. Fronted by singer Jana Hunter, the Baltimore band first introduced their inimitable strain of hazy, experimental indie rock on the 2010 full-length Twin Hand Mo ... More >>

Van Halen's Babysitter

The band's record label assigned Ted Cohen to go on tour with them in their glory years. Here's what he saw

Punk Rock Bowling and Music Festival - Las Vegas - 5/26 - 5/28

See also: *Punk Legends Pennywise Have a New Singer, But You Shouldn't Write Them Off *The Adicts on Football Hooliganism, Masturbation, and Running Up $400 Bar Tabs Better than: Fucking Coachella. Punk rock has its own festival in the middle of a desert somewhere -- Las Vegas. Organized by the St ... More >>

Toni Monroe Is a Big Beautiful Rapper

See also: Top Ten Sexiest Fat Chicks in Music Toni Monroe is beautiful. She has a powerful stage presence, and doesn't need a hype man. But yet, she's something of a hard sell. For one thing, she's white. For another, as her press release says, she is rap's "biggest" new artist -- a reference to he ... More >>

Tragedy and Nails - Echoplex - 4/29/12

Tragedy, Nails Echoplex 4-29-12 Better than... the Bee Gees cover band of the same name. Most musicians nowadays are accessible via Twitter or Facebook, making Portland hardcore/crust punk group Tragedy quite the anomaly. Since their formation in 2000, they have shunned interviews, photo shoots, ... More >>

John Cage: Here's a Rundown of Local Events Celebrating America's Most Influential Composer

See also: The Classical Music Concerts We're Most Looking Forward to in 2012 This year is the 100th anniversary of the birth of America's most influential composer, John Cage. He was born and raised -- and studied composition with Arnold Schoenberg -- right here in L.A. The man was one of the great ... More >>

Young the Giant Blows Up

Last year was a busy one for Irvine's Young The Giant. They released their first album on a major label, toured all over the world and played at both the VMAs and MTV Unplugged. Meanwhile, the band's two singles, "My Body" and "Cough Syrup" both were in rotation on rock radio stations nationally. B ... More >>

R.I.P. Don Cornelius; Soul Train Creator Dead of Apparent Suicide

​Don Cornelius, creator of Soul Train, is dead from a reportedly self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He was 75. As our news blog The Informer reported this morning, Cornelius was found in his Sherman Oaks home and taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center around 4 a.m. Investigators from LA ... More >>

Fuck Dance, Let's Art

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The Pixies - The Music Box - November 19, 2011

Andrea Domanick​The Pixies The Music Box November 19, 2011 If you're just learning that indie rock deity the Pixies were in town last night, there's no need to cry -- most folks didn't know about the gig either, as it was announced exclusively in emails to fans through the band's website. T ... More >>

Paul Stanley, Lita Ford, Kip Winger -- Playboy Mansion -- 11/12/11

Eric Charbonneau, Le StudioPaul Stanley and friends​See also: Paul Stanley Analyzes KISS's Success: "I don't want to buy a t-shirt with a guy on it who looks like my neighbor." If you're like most folks, your rock star fantasies require nothing more than a pair of tight jeans, an air guitar, ... More >>

Amber Tamblyn's Drums Inside Your Chest Series at Largo Looks For Poetry That's 'Punk' and 'Dangerous'

Matt WignallBeau Sia performing at a previous installment of The Drums Inside Your Chest​ Poetry shouldn't cause flashbacks to snooze-inducing high school English class, a point well-noted by Amber Tamblyn, the poet and actress behind the poetry series The Drums Inside Your Chest and co-founde ... More >>

Tech N9ne - The Roxy - October 14, 2011

​Tech N9ne The Roxy 10-14-11 Tech N9ne has been around more than a decade, and gone platinum without a major label. He's been touring on and off since May in support of his last album All 6's and 7's, which #4 on the Billboard Top 200. He's on Tha Carter IV. Not exactly a lightweight. In fa ... More >>

Robyn, Royksopp

IAMSOUND Announces Fall Lineup For Mondrian Sessions at Skybar

Andrea DomanickLittle Boots, SBTRKT and NewVillager are all slated for this fall's Mondrian Sessions​ A free show? Great. A free show curated by a local label? Even better. A free show curated by a local label at a swanky rooftop bar? Count us in. L.A.'s own IAMSOUND Records is teaming up on ... More >>

The Ettes, Sade, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Benefit for Nick Curran

Also, Kendrick Lamar, the Punk Rock BBQ, Katy B and others

How Many Adult Swim Musical Tie-Ins Can You Name?

MC Pee Pants​Adult Swim is integrating all sorts of hip music folks into its late-night shows: Odd Future shot a pilot for the cable channel, and word is that Major Lazer has something in the works. But the cutting-edge programmers have long been musically inclined. MC Chris came to prominen ... More >>

LA Weekly Presents LA 101: Airborne Toxic Event to Headline

Airborne Toxic Event​It's that time of year again. The headliner for this year's LA Weekly Presents LA 101 is Los Angeles' own Airborne Toxic Event. Held at Gibson Amphitheatre on October 23, 2011, the all-ages festival features music, art, vendors and food trucks. Supporting musical acts ... More >>

Attention Incubus Fans: Top Secret, Invite-Only Shows Start Tomorrow!

Top Secret Incubus shows are happening this week!​Starting tomorrow, Incubus will be unleashing a week's worth of special events for fans in Los Angeles to celebrate the release of their new album If Not Now, When? From June 30-July 6, select fans can attend chats with the band, musician's cl ... More >>

The Sublime Webb Sisters

X Japan Releases first U.S. Single 'Jade' on June 28

​X Japan's U.S. fans are a patient bunch. You've waited almost two decades since the band initially formed for this moment. You may have heard about the influential Japanese rock group's L.A. video shoots back in January of 2010, caught the acoustic benefit show in July of that year, the Lolla ... More >>

Adele's Tour Cancelled

​Adele's North American tour has been cancelled. The singer was scheduled to perform in Los Angeles this Monday, June 6, at The Greek. From the press release: British singer Adele has been forced to cancel the remaining 9 dates of her sold-out North American tour due to ongoing illness. A ... More >>

Virtual Singer Hatsune Miku to Appear in 3D Concert at Anime Expo

Hatsune Miku, the wildly popular character from the Vocaloid family of synthetic voice programs, will appear in concert Los Angeles on July 2 at Nokia Theater in connection with this year's Anime Expo, according to the Miku-Fes 2011 website. Much like her sold-out show in Tokyo (see the above vide ... More >>

Lil Wayne's Los Angeles Show at Staples Center Rescheduled

​From concert organizers Live Nation: LOS ANGELES, CA (April 11, 2011) Due to the Los Angeles Kings' first round NHL Stanley Cup Playoff series versus the San Jose Sharks, in which Game 3 is scheduled at STAPLES Center on April 21st, the Lil Wayne concert has moved to:

Girl Talk vs. Deadmau5: Which Non-DJ Rocks the Party Harder?

Timothy NorrisThe dance floor at the Palladium for Girl Talk.​Read more in Ali Trachta's story "Mash-Up Party in the USA: The LA Weekly Interview with Girl Talk." Over the course of the past week, both Deadmau5 and Girl Talk, two of the biggest names in dance-oriented music, have played Los A ... More >>

SHAM SHAM SHAM

How to Headline Coachella the Right Way: Top 5 Coachella Headliners and Acts

Coachella by Night ​ It's getting close to the announcement we're all waiting for: the headliner for Coachella, the festival that kicks off the first of many multi-day music and arts festivals that will take place over the summer, in sweltering heat. What started as a small music festival ele ... More >>

WHAM BAM THANK YOU ANN!

Coachella 2011: Who Should Be the Headliner? Rumors Swirl around Arcade Fire, Daft Punk and ... Coldplay?

​Rumors about who will be headlining Coachella 2011 pretty much started the moment the last harmonics stop resonating at the Indio Polo Field last spring. With 2011 fast approaching, and Goldenvoice ticket layaway plan under way, the guessing game encouraged by the festival through its ever-ac ... More >>

Tonight: Guided by Voices, Tired Pony, First Aid Kit, Twin Shadow, Radars to the Sky, Evan Voytas, Wet & Reckless

Guided by Voices​You could almost feel the pop geeks pinching themselves when Dayton, Ohio's favorite former fourth-grade schoolteacher Robert Pollard announced earlier this year that Guided by Voices would reunite to play the Matador at 21 festivities, and then do a reunion tour too. The tou ... More >>

Richard "Scar" Lopez, Founding Member of Pioneering East LA Chicano Rock Combo Cannibal and the Headhunters, Dead at 65

Richard "Scar" Lopez, founding member of pioneering East LA Chicano rock group Cannibal and the Headhunters died last July 30 of lung cancer, the LA Times reports. Most obituaries about Lopez's life and career (and the band's monster hit "Land of 1,000 Dances") are drawing from a great 2005 artic ... More >>

KID ROCK

Tonight: My Morning Jacket, Avi Buffalo, Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal, Coheed and Cambria, Porcupine Tree, Budos Band, Hot Club of Cowtown

​ My Morning Jacket, Avi Buffalo at the Greek "Of late, My Morning Jacket singer Jim James has been devoting the majority of his time to projects sporting his inexplicable Yim Yames moniker, so it's a bit of a relief to find him once again at the helm of the exceptional band that first put the ... More >>

THERE'S NO BEAT LIKE A FREE BEAT

Music Picks: Buzzcocks, Diana Ross, Isis, the xx

Also, Compton Metal Night, Health, Thao and Mirah

CLUB KIDS: THE NEXT GENERATION

UNFORTUNATELY, "CORN FLAKES" IS NOT A EUPHEMISM FOR ANYTHING

JUMPIN' JACK STABBED

Raise Your Arms, Flick Your Bic, and Close Your Eyes

Fresh Sounds

Word on the Street

Come Out and Dance!