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Gibson Amphitheatre To Shut Down

Gibson Amphitheatre, the mainstay mid-size concert venue at Universal City, will close its doors in September, according to its operator Live Nation Entertainment. As announced in December 2011, the 6,200-capacity amphitheatre is expected to be demolished to make way for The Wizarding World of Har ... More >>

The Five Best EDM Performers at Coachella

The first weekend of Coachella was packed with EDM revelers; in fact, dance music lovers are growing in numbers so much that every other car in line at the campgrounds checking in was blasting some sort of EDM anthem. The festival even dedicated a new, underground-leaning stage this year, called the ... More >>

The Worst of SXSW

Security and Cops Gettin' Wild: Look, I get it. Every drunken dickhead in town "knows someone" or thinks he has pull at the door, but that doesn't mean the hammer goes down on everyone. I was stopped by two cops who didn't want me to walk 50 yards from where the Smashing Pumpkins would be playing an ... More >>

How to Become a Music Snob In Four Simple Steps

I'm not going to begrudge anyone for not knowing who Coachella headliners The Stone Roses are. The simple fact is that their first album, (the only one that really matters), came out in 1989. If you're in college now, you most likely weren't even born then. Plus, The Stone Roses were a bigger deal i ... More >>

In Advance of his 12-Hour 12/12/12 Extravaganza, Peanut Butter Wolf Picks His Top 12 12" Inch Singles He Bought at Age 12

Since unleashing his metal-themed 666 mix and DJ set on June 6, 2006, Stones Throw chief Peanut Butter Wolf has spent the last half-dozen years watching the signs of the beat. July 7, 2007 brought forth his 777 spiritual podcast mix, following by performances on seven consecutive nights in seven c ... More >>

The 20 Greatest EDM DJs: The Complete List

Electronic dance music's recent resurgence has made the genre more popular than ever before, but it's still often not taken seriously as an art form. World's Douchiest DJs: The Top Five The 20 Worst Hipster Bands Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre And yeah, many goofily-dressed ravers are ... More >>

The 20 Greatest EDM DJs: 10-1

See also: The 20 Greatest EDM DJs: 20-11 Electronic dance music's recent resurgence has made the genre more popular than ever before, but it's still often not taken seriously as an art form. And yeah, many goofily-dressed ravers are so high they'll literally dance to anything. But below we've highl ... More >>

Joey Danan, Instructor at Valleywide Driving School, Charged With Molesting Teen Student During Lesson

The LAPD fears that the owner of Valleywide Driving School in Granada hills, a 44-year-old Filipino man named Joselito Valencia Danan (but known locally as "Joey"), may have a habit of coming onto his driver-ed students. A 17-year-old boy claims he was sexually molested by Danan during a driving le ... More >>

Audrey Napoleon Performs Like She Has Sex

Audrey Napoleon is a lot to look at: all ink black precision-cut hair, pale skin, black cat eyeliner, four inch gold heels and perfectly applied red lipstick. Sitting in front of a wall of windows a dozen floors above Hollywood on an overcast Friday morning, she's a perfectly assembled goth dream gi ... More >>

M83's Anthony Gonzalez Makes Soundtracks, Without the Movie

Jonathan Gold Reviews Saint Estephe Menu at Rivera

Top 10 Totally Awesome Artists Inspired by the Valley, plus She Wants Revenge's Valleyheart

​ She Wants Revenge releases Valleyheart today, the band's third full length release, which sees them submerging themselves in blissful nostalgia. Not for dark '80s sounds as they are unremittingly accused of (though, yes there is still some of that), but for the breeding grounds that made the ... More >>

Legends of Synthpop Tour Hits the Echoplex with De/Vision, Mesh and Iris

Shannon CottrellDe/Vision​See more photos in Shannon Cottrell's gallery, "Legends of Synthpop with De/Vision, Mesh and Iris @ The Echoplex." Calling a tour Legends of Synthpop when the bands aren't quite as easily recognizable names as Depeche Mode and Erasure may seem a bit bold. Some might ... More >>

Music Picks: Roseanne Cash, Theophilus London, Acid Mothers Temple

Also, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Raphael Saadiq, Wu Man and others

David J. at Part Time Punks- Life (And Death) After Bauhaus and Love & Rockets

Lina Lecaro A ghostly image of J. ​David J. has always had a flair for the theatrical, and the busy ex-Bauhaus/Love & Rockets songwriter/musician brought it last night to Part Time Punks, presenting a dark cabaret-styled set with Portland's Adrian H and the Wounds as his backing band. The sho ... More >>

Top 10 Wine And Band Pairings: Or, How About Some Air Supply With That $2 Chuck?

Flickr user 1808wineThe Vintage Cadillac Essentials​Heavy metal drinking is really the only excuse for naming a wine Sledgehammer. Either that, or you're a mega-millions corporate exec type trying to hook us on cheap inexpensive wine (see #2 when you turn the page). And so begets a Top Ten lis ... More >>

Last Night: Muse at Staples Center

Timothy NorrisMuse, rising victorious after avenging Emerson Lake and Palmer's murder by the forces of Punk​ [For many more exclusive photos of the show, see Timothy Norris' slideshow "Muse @ Staples Center"] Walking into Staples Center right before the Brit trio Muse hit the stage, there was ... More >>

Music Picks: Sasha & Kazell, She & Him, Efterklang, Xiu Xiu

Also, Holly Miranda, Les Blanks, Mumiy Troll and others

Cold Cave Does Southern California, Plays the Glass House & Echoplex, 'Guest Curates' Origami Vinyl (w/ Free Colt 45)

Up-and-coming darkwave sensation Cold Cave are in town. Tonight they will be appearing at the Echoplex, for a sure-to-be-packed show in their natural habitat. Last night, however, the band ventured out for a preview to Pomona, where they played the far less hipsterastic Glass House venue. If you ha ... More >>

Villains w/Lykke Li at Echoplex Tonight AND Villains' EXCLUSIVE 5 Decade Remix Wishlist Free Remix MP3's

Villains w/Lykke Li at Echoplex Tonight! Villains' EXCLUSIVE 5 Decade Remix Wishlist Free Remix MP3's

Echo and the Bunnymen Play Ocean Rain in its Entirety at the Nokia

Echo & the Bunnymen at the Nokia Theater, Oct. 24. Seeing a maddeningly underrated and undervalued band like Echo & the Bunnymen is a good way to keep the ears and soul in check, especially the day before a cold front from Dublin swoops in to take over all of SoCal, and to remind us who pays for Th ... More >>

LA Rave Champion Swedish Egil Plays Downtown Saturday Night

Saturday night's Rave L.A. event will bring together the old school and new when Swedish Egil, one of the major forces behind popularizing techno and house in the city, joins Bul!m!atron and DJ S!n for a downtown all-nighter. "Swedish" Egil Aalvik began his DJ career in Europe in the 1970s and relo ... More >>

Post-Coachella Recovery at Shadowscene, Linda Perry's Evening With Women

The Ding Bat Show (Starring Clown College Alumni)

Top 5 Songsmith Remixes: Fudging a Microsoft Program to Create "Music"

Songsmith, by Microsoft: a time-sucking monster One has to wonder if Microsoft knew what type of time-sucking monster they had created upon releasing Songsmith. An extension of the MySong project, the program allows even the musically inept to formulate a song and gives skilled players what the com ... More >>

New Postal Service Record in the 21st Century? Perhaps, Perhaps Not

We keep waiting and waiting, the indie-geek version of hair-metal freaks wondering about Chinese Democracy, for the follow-up to the great first Postal Service album. Every once in a while a little tidbit of news will come from either singer Ben Gibbard or producer (and LA native) Jimmy Tamborello ... More >>

Oasis at the Staples Center in LA: 'I Am the Walrus' All Night Long?

(All photos by Timothy Norris. Click photos for entire slideshow)Seven albums and seventeen years into their career, Oasis still doesn't seem to have listened to a record made after 1973. The band's recently-released Dig Out Your Soul offers echoes of their era-soundtrack second album, 1995's (Wha ... More >>

Between the Lines

The music at the edges

Record Reviews: The Knux, Robin Thicke, Gang Gang Dance

Yaz, Orpheum Theatre, July 8

Yaz, Orpheum Theatre, July 8, 2008. (all photos by Timothy Norris) Near the end of Yaz's triumphant Los Angeles debut -- 27 years after they recorded one of history's great synth-pop albums, Upstairs at Eric's -- vocalist Alison Moyet, visibly moved, thanked the crowd for "a brilliant, brilliant we ... More >>

The Weekend Report: Robyn at the Wiltern

Robyn: built to last (Photos by Timothy Norris) Swede pop darling Robyn capped off her spring 2008 tour at the Wiltern on Saturday night with a propulsive, mechanized set of dance pop numbers about falling in love, falling out of love, falling for the wrong man, longing for a good one. Love: the u ... More >>

T.C. Conroy

Fearless femme

Son of Rambow: Young Blood

Garth Jennings' comedy illuminates the joys of DIY filmmaking

Coachella Day Two: The Triumvirate of Kraftwerk, Portishead and Prince

The Coachella mainstage on Saturday night was a glory to behold, a spirit-lifting evening celebrating joy through technology, through contemplation and through celebration. In a single four hour chunk of time, the lucky masses at Coachella witnessed two-and-a-half humongous performances, two of whic ... More >>

Joy Division to the World

Ian Curtis’ afterlife seems like it’s been one big after-party

Duuuuude!

Deftones at Avalon

Dirty Sanchez

Local bands, man

Venue Directory

Music Picks

For the week of June 15 - 22

Puttin' the Hella in Coachella

A festivalgoer’s diary

Festivus Maximus

Do you enjoy crowds, music and exhaustion?

Rollin' With the Homegirls

L.A.’s own Derby Dolls skate and rate the local rinks

KCRW’s A Sounds Eclectic Evening

Universal Amphitheater, March 12

Gimme Sheltered

Post-revolutionary Patti

Styles of Beyond

Riff-Boom-Bap

Side Tripping

DJ Muggs smokes alone

One Band, Under God

Knock 'Em Dead, Kid

Rebirth of the Uncool

The Von Steins know it’s only new wave, but they like it

Soulful Spirit

Dance Kontrol

Let’s have sex on the beach. Or not.