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She & Him - Hollywood Bowl - 6/23/13

She & Him Hollywood Bowl 6/23/13 Better than...Watching Failure To Launch on basic cable When Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward first joined forces for what was supposed to a fun side project in 2007, they couldn't really have thought they'd eventually be playing the Hollywood Bowl for a second time. Wa ... More >>

The Best Concerts to See in Los Angeles This Weekend

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Friday, June 21 Sea Wolf EL REY THEATRE On the third Sea Wolf album, Old World Romance, lone wolf Alex Brown Church embraces adulthood. These beautifully crafted songs showcase Sea Wolf's signature emotive nature by turning ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, December 21 "Christmas 101" with Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Van Dyke Parks, Emmylou Harris, Carrie Fisher UCLA ROYCE HALL Rufus and Martha Wainwright's late mother, Canadian folk singer Kate McGarrigle, created the annual "Christmas 101" holiday event, which features carols from around th ... More >>

Music Picks: Chino XL, Marissa Nadler, As Blood Runs Black

Music Picks: Robert Glasper, Nick Waterhouse, Omar Rodriguez Lopez

The Five Best Shows in Los Angeles This Week: Garbage, Nick Lowe, Culture Collide

Tuesday, October 2 Garbage WILTERN When they formed in 1994, future chart fixtures Garbage had the makings of a sterile vanity project. Created by veteran studio rats (including Butch Vig, producer of Nirvana's Nevermind), with a grafted-on unknown vocalist, their formula appeared better suited to ... More >>

Music Picks: Culture Collide, Nick Lowe, Screaming Females

Best of Coachella: Sunday, April 22

See also: Our complete Coachella coverage By the third day of Coachella's second weekend -- the sixth and final day of this year's festival -- folks had more or less learned to ignore the dust and the heat. Here are our intrepid writers' favorite things about the final hours of the 2012 event.

Music Picks: Ravi Shankar, Marilyn Scott, Duran Duran, Burkina Electric

Also, Emmylou Harris & Her Red Dirt Boys, Odd Future, Gillian Welch and others

Falling James' Gig of the Week: Haroula Rose, Early Winters and Nicole Eva Emery at the Bootleg Theater, 6/22

Falling JamesHaroula Rose and Nicole Eva Emery​This unusual, three-headed bill had a familial, down-home vibe, as members of each band sat in on one another's sets or stood supportively in front of the stage and -- in a modern rarity -- actually listened to the other musicians. Even with this ... More >>

Falling James' Gig of the Week: The L.A. Bluegrass Situation with the Watkins Family Hour and Friends

​ WHO: The L.A. Bluegrass Situation with the Watkins Family Hour WHERE: Largo WHEN: 4/28/11 The sounds of old-time Appalachian music were audible even before the audience entered Largo's sold-out Coronet Theater, as a crew of bluegrass musicians strummed, plucked and fiddled an impromptu aco ... More >>

Emmylou Harris at El Rey Theatre: Live Review

Falling JamesEmmylou Harris​There were rumors that a surprise special guest would open Emmylou Harris' show Thursday night at El Rey Theatre. Beforehand, fans tried to guess who the secret performer might be -- no easy task since Harris has collaborated with so many pop celebrities, including ... More >>

Music Picks: Prince, Amanda Jo Williams, Kendrick Lamar, Xzibit, Civet,

Also, Miguel, L.A. Bluegrass Situation, Heidecker and Wood, the Ditty Bops and others

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

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

BRICK'S PICKS: A CHARLIE O'S CHRISTMAS

Brick's Picks: LOOKS LIKE A HAPPENING

Tonight: Fool's Gold, Dirty Projectors, All for the Hall benefit, Chinese White Bicycles, Jim Jones Revue

Marianne WilliamsFool's Gold​You almost wonder what Fool's Gold can do for an encore. The L.A.-based purveyors of pop and world-beat jambalaya have now toured the globe with their songs for a multinational, friending (in the true sense) the likes of Malian musical rebels Tinariwen and challen ... More >>

Music Picks: Grizzly Bear, Muse, Dark Dark Dark, the Charlatans UK

Also, Tonya Watts, Modeselektor, Heart and others

This Weekend: El Guincho, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Harlem, Dawes, Peter Case

El Guincho​Yes, that's the voice of Julieta Venegas on the re-imagined "Mientes," one of the five tracks on El Guincho's new EP Piratas de Sudamérica. El Guincho, the nom de tune of Barcelona experimentalist Pablo Díaz-Reixa, fueled some underground buzz with his 2007 album Alegranza. A pri ... More >>

Music Picks: Free Kutmah Benefit, Amanda Jo Williams, Rosie Ledet

Also, Svarte Greiner, Miike Snow, School of Seven Bells and others

Rock Picks: Prefuse 73, the Gaslamp Killer, VoicesVoices, Beyond the Pale

Also, Do Make Say Think, the Living Sisters, Wale and others

Sup Pop Signs Avi Buffalo! Releases 7-inch, Gets "Puffed-Up"

Hot off the press. Seattle mega-indie Sub Pop has just announced the signing of Long Beach's Avi Buffalo, which might be our favorite band that still has a member in high school. A 7-inch, "What's In It For" b/w "Jessica," is scheduled for release on December 8 (pre-order here), BUT, as an email fro ... More >>

Keeping Up With the Times

Rock Picks: Rain Machine, Pearl Jam, Wallpaper, Bon Iver, Dodos

Also, Seasons, Brodinski, Autolux and others

Tom Wilkes: Ten Classic LP Covers from a Master of the Genre (and Ten Others That Are Just as Great)

The great Southern California based art director, designer and photographer Tom Wilkes, who died on June 28, left a lasting impact on the Los Angeles music scene. His covers, some of the most iconic of the LP era, presented the area's music with striking images presented in vivid color . He took ful ... More >>

Rock Picks: Daedelus, Peanut Butter Wolf, Femi Kuti, Isis

Also, The Choke, Nouvelle Vague, Wilco, Sunset Rubdown and others

A Half-Century of McCabe's Guitar Shop

Little shop of adorers

The Breast of Times: Go Topless Protest Day

And other things to do in L.A., August 22-28

Heads and Heart

Rock Picks: Rupa & the April Fishes, Gnarls Barkley, Emmylou Harris

Also, Black Kids, Chromeo, Alejandro Escovedo

Rock Picks: Ruins, Beirut, Turbonegro, Metric

Also, Bill Callahan, Emmylou Harris and more picks for the week of October 4 –11

Rock Picks: Air, Rufus Wainwright, Arctic Monkeys, Bad Brains

For the week of September 20 – 27

Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Loads of BBQ

Stagecoach Country Music Festival at the Empire Polo Fields, Indio, May 5-6

Stagecoach Country Music Festival

At Empire Polo Grounds, Indio

I Just Shit My Pants

Well, no. Not really. But I just heard that Golden Voice is adding a first ever COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL (it hasn't been given an official name yet) to their Coachella festivities! They are also adding another day to the Indie rock fest, that's right 3 days (Friday, April 27, Saturday, April 28 and ... More >>

Twin Stars

Leigh & Chandra Watson are more than indie-rock backup singers. The Watson Twins are magical

Run Run Run

Local bands, man

Picks for Saturday, February 11

Picks for Sunday, February 12

Sunday, February 12

Performing Shrimps and Parading Boats

Melancholy Baby

Daniel Lanois on Brian Eno, Mexican jukeboxes, and his gorgeous new Belladonna

South of Here

Greg Leisz essays the roots

Forgive Me, Meshell

Ndegeocello’s latest, reconsidered

Baby Blue

Restless nights with Julianna Raye

Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk

Rufus Wainwright poses as rock star, makes an imperfect-summer record

Super Furry Sound

A year in music

The Sun Unplugged

Beats, blood and Infesticons

Shout at the Devil

Public Enemy rants to the music

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