This year, our sister papers the Dallas Observer and Houston Press teamed up to document the SXSW madness for you amusement and/or edification. Here are the 12 best shows and moments they saw.
With the anticipated return of big-name indie bands like Phoenix, Arcade Fire and Vampire Weekend this year, 2013 is shaping up to be big. But aside from the usual suspects, there are also some newcomers and reunited acts expected to make noise this year. Here are some albums we speculate may end up ... More >>
With the anticipated return of big-name indie bands like Phoenix, Arcade Fire and Vampire Weekend this year, 2013 is shaping up to be big. But aside from the usual suspects, there are also some newcomers and reunited acts expected to make noise this year. Here are some albums we speculate may end up ... More >>
Hot Chip, Passion Pit, Omar Souleyman Hollywood Bowl 9-9-12 Better Than: passionless pits, cold chips, obvious puns. When it comes to intricately grand disco-infused future rock for dance-loving adults, despite our continued sadness and confusion over LCD Soundsystem's breakup, we can take comfort ... More >>
Friday, August 31 Mark de Clive-Lowe BLUE WHALE As one might expect from a hapa Japanese-New Zealander who arrived in L.A. via Boston, New York and London, this keyboardist/DJ/music producer is a complex synthesis of musical styles and cultures. Mark de Clive-Lowe honed his craft in the United King ... More >>
This week is our annual theater issue, which looks at ensemble-created work -- work that's not written by a playwright typing by themselves on a computer, but created during collaborative rehearsals involving an entire company of actors and directors. The issue includes an essay from our head theat ... More >>
X, Dead Kennedys, the Avengers MOCA at the Geffen 1-28-12 (Much) Better Than ... hearing many of these same songs butchered on punk rock karaoke night at the local sports bar. Of course there's something oddly oxymoronic about a museum inviting punk rock bands over to play (albeit safely outside o ... More >>
Jennie WarrenBy Justin Bolois See also: Glen Palmer Makes Clothes for Rock Gods: Living on Tom Petty's Malibu Estate, He's Tailored Duds for Everyone From Bob Dylan to Fleetwood Mac In this week's music feature, we profile rock n' roll tailor Glen Palmer and his helter-skelter journey desig ... More >>
From the film Zabriskie PointSee also: What To Do This New Year's Eve With a galactic alignment and Mayan prophecy fulfillment on the horizon -- not to mention the Aquarian dawning -- 2012 is poised to be a pretty cosmic year. So as you embrace your turquoised-out, biker hippie wizard love ... More >>
Danielle BacherLindsey Buckingham Royce Hall 10/13/11 Some men gain weight as they get older, and many lose their hair. Lindsey Buckingham, however, has beaten the odds. Reed-thin with a shock of gravity-defying gray hair that reminds one of Jack Nance in Eraserhead, he retains a yout ... More >>
Andrea DomanickCut Copy, Washed Out The Palladium October 12, 2011 Better than... Kanye's Workout Plan. Summer and all its carefree sentiments may be behind us, but a look at L.A.'s concert circuit this month would tell you otherwise. From The Rapture to the Culture Collide fest to last ni ... More >>
Danielle BacherSo & So Viper Room September 7, 2011 Better than: Being stuck in a steam room with 98.7 FM on the radio.Los Angeles-based folk-rockers So & So performed a triumphant gig at the center of a nuclear reactor last night. . . oh, wait. It was actually the Viper Room, which se ... More >>
Beware fellas, bad things may be coming your wayOn New Year's Eve 2009, Chris Cornell made a Twitter declaration: "School's back in session." The implication was that Soundgarden was reuniting. However, it took several months for the official announcement. The grunge pioneers would be putting ... More >>
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS (after the jump) NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Merry Wives of Windsor in Topanga Canyon and Griffith ParkBrian HelmOthello​On a care-free, car-free Carmageddon weekend, all of our critics got to their shows. Among the favorites, Lovell Estell III's warm apprai ... More >>
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS (after the jump) NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Merry Wives of Windsor in Topanga Canyon and Griffith ParkBrian HelmOthello​On a care-free, car-free Carmageddon weekend, all of our critics got to their shows. Among the favorites, Lovell Estell III's warm apprai ... More >>
[By now we hope you have figured out that at LA Weekly music we don't do "hype." You can go to a bunch of other places to hear about "buzz" (why do publicists use that word as if it were a good thing?), "relevance" and "this week's hot band." Go through our "Page Two" coverage and you'll see ... More >>
Must-see Friday show No. 1: Caitlin Rose
Ozomatli and USC meet on SaturdayTwo L.A. music institutions will come together during Saturday's USC home game vs. Notre Dame. During halftime, Latin rap/pop/rock nine-piece Ozomatli will perform with the 315-piece the Spirit of Troy marching band. As rare of an honor as this is -- other US ... More >>
Matt Popieluch (Big Search, Foreign Born, Fool's Gold) writes on his favorite solo projects.Guest blogger Matt Popieluch is not only the lead singer in Foreign Born and riddim guitarist for Fool's Gold, but an "artist gone rogue" in his own right. He's celebrating the release of the debut alb ... More >>
White Arrows gets the Ibiza treatment on Superhumanoids' "8050" remix.Currently buzzing local psych-rock crew White Arrows wrapped up its gratis residency at Spaceland last night, but that doesn't mean the free music should stop anytime soon. The band, which features Dios' John Paul Caballer ... More >>
White Arrows gets the Ibiza treatment on Superhumanoids' "8050" remix.Currently buzzing local psych-rock crew White Arrows wrapped up its gratis residency at Spaceland last night, but that doesn't mean the free music should stop anytime soon. The band, which features Dios' John Paul Caballer ... More >>
Also, Svarte Greiner, Miike Snow, School of Seven Bells and others
Photograph by Paul R. Giunta courtesy of Prefix MagazineThe NationalBefore seeing The National at The Wiltern, I already had cheap shots ready for this introduction, all centered on one cold, snarky question: Is Joy Division from Brooklyn? On Saturday night, as the sun dropped into the down ... More >>
Photograph by Paul R. Giunta courtesy of Prefix MagazineThe NationalBefore seeing The National at The Wiltern, I already had cheap shots ready for this introduction, all centered on one cold, snarky question: Is Joy Division from Brooklyn? On Saturday night, as the sun dropped into the down ... More >>
Courtney takes you down to her place near the riverWe have it on pretty good authority that when she was a young lass Courtney Love hated traditional rock'n'roll (including the Stones) and was obsessed with two things: Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks and ... Leonard Cohen. Well, she seems to ha ... More >>
L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper of record, has apparently released a list of their Top Ten Rock Albums. We're saying apparently because most links to this story lead back to articles in the British press reporting this. The Osservatore's website--a bizarre Umberto-Eco-worthy labyr ... More >>
Dirty Projectors Offer New Music and Free MP3's
Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet On Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs' new Under the Covers 2, the pair tackle classic 1970s rock tunes by, among others, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, Grateful Dead, Carly Simon and, in a daring maneuver, prog rock band Yes ("I've Seen All Good People"). The pair gig the Gra ... More >>
View Larger Map Well, it makes sense on a practical level. All you have to do is zip down San Vincente from Ticketmaster's WeHo HQ on Sunset, hang a right on Santa Monica and bingo, a few blocks past the Troubadour is LiveNation's Beverly Hills HQ. Or, in these lean times, executives can just catch ... More >>
Music is exceptionally - my wife may say irrationally - important to me. I can walk into a store, determined to spend hundreds of dollars, only to turn around and walk right back out if something horrible is playing inside. Music has never been disposable background noise; it's defined me, inspired ... More >>
It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To
It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To
Bastide reopens
Bastide reopens
‘Mac daddy Lindsey Buckingham on painting, Pet Sounds and Tusk
Reviews of Willie Nelson's Songbird and Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose
Gil Mantera’s Party Dream at Spaceland, May 30
The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam once again roam the earth
The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam once again roam the earth
For Friday February 24 - March 2
For Friday February 24 - March 2
Petra Haden + The Who = ♥
ALEC HANLEY BEMIS on the casualties and survivors in the war between the Cynics and the True Believers
ALEC HANLEY BEMIS on the casualties and survivors in the war between the Cynics and the True Believers
ALEC HANLEY BEMIS on the casualties and survivors in the war between the Cynics and the True Believers
ALEC HANLEY BEMIS on the casualties and survivors in the war between the Cynics and the True Believers
Mercury Rev’s bedtime stories
Mercury Rev’s bedtime stories
Mercury Rev’s bedtime stories
This aging punker really feels like a creep in exile
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