Fleetwood Mac

Haim: From a Family Band to International Acclaim

Dave Grohl - Hollywood Palladium - 1/31/13

Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, Stevie Nicks, Queens of the Stone Age, Rage Against the Machine, and others Hollywood Palladium 1/31/13 When Dave Grohl announced late last year that the Foo Fighters were going on an indefinite hiatus, folks weren't quite sure how to interpret the news. The band had just ... More >>

Dave Grohl On His Film Tribute to the Studio That Gave the World Nevermind

By Whitney Friedlander The lobby of Dave Grohl's Northridge-based 606 Studios has a Joan Jett book on the coffee table and a row of classic arcade games like Donkey Kong Jr. against one wall. On top of a photo booth sits an iconic "Moonman" MTV Video Music Award, festooned with a roll of toilet pap ... More >>

The Ten Best Country Albums of 2012

By Alan Scherstuhl This list of the year's best country albums is assembled with two important premises in mind: First: If the people who record and listen to these records consider them country, than they're damn well country. Purists who argue that country should still sound like '68, '76, '84 o ... More >>

Music Picks: FYF Festival, Jillinda Palmer, Gaslamp Killer

Foster the People - Gibson Amphitheatre - June 30, 2012

Foster The People Gibson Amphitheatre June 20, 2012 Our Foster the People profile Live Review: Foster The People at El Rey Theatre Better than... yet another "Pumped Up Kicks" remix. Last night, Foster the People leader Mark Foster made it known that it was good to be home. "It's crazy how muc ... 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

Best Coast - The Wiltern - 5/18/12

See also: The Branding of Best Coast: The Duo Partners With Urban Outfitters, Inspires Internet Wrath Best Coast, Jeff the Brotherhood, Abe Vigoda The Wiltern 5/18/12 Better than: listening to The Only Place on a "My First Turntable" from Urban Outfitters. Last night I was officially converted t ... More >>

Rufus Wainwright - Orpheum Theater - 5/12/12

By Oliver Wang Rufus Wainwright Orpheum Theater 5/12/12 See also: Exclusive: Rufus Wainwright On His New Album, "I've Done That Whole Ponderous, Psuedo-Genius Thing" Better than: ...the ham elevator next door at UMAMIcatessen At the Orpheum last night, Rufus Wainwright opened his show by beginn ... More >>

The Branding of Best Coast

The Duo's Singer Bethany Cosentino Partners With Urban Outfitters, Inspires Internet Wrath

Music Picks: Demdike Stare, A Musical Tribute to Gil Scott-Heron, Natalie Merchant

Also, Lindsey Buckingham, Los Lobos, Kenny Garrett and others

Haim: Three Sisters On The Ascent

Bella LieberbergEste, Alana and Danielle Haim​"It's hysterical to think about now," says Danielle Haim, guitarist from Los Angeles band Haim. "But honestly we never even knew we could make money playing shows. We played for free so many times that we could have gotten paid; I felt bad even ask ... More >>

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

Make No Mistake: Bleached Are Punk as Fuck

Smooth out punk's crinkly guitar riffs, replace the genre's frenetic deliveries with soothing harmonies, and give its drums a low dose of Xanax, and you have Jennifer and Jessica Clavin's brand-new band, Bleached. Like the visuals from their recent "Think of You" video, their sound is that of a vint ... More >>

Ice-T vs. Soula Boy: Who Won?

​[Editor's note: In honor of Soulja Boy's performance at L.A. Memorial Sports Arena this Saturday, August 20, along with Kid Ink, Travis Porter and many others, here's an excerpt from my book Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop, which wa ... More >>

Maroon 5 at Hollywood Bowl 7/25/11

Addison BurbankSweatpants, not just for lazy dads anymore​Maroon 5 Hollywood Bowl 7/25/11 Better than ... Sitting at home on a beautiful Monday night "C'mon, everyone stand up and sing. This is L.A., don't be too cool, I'm from here and I invented too cool," Maroon 5 lead singer Adam Levine ... More >>

Nine Things You Didn't Know About Weird Al

​Piece by Sam Bloch An Evening With "Weird Al" Yankovic The Grammy Museum 7-25-2011 Better Than... A lost evening on Wikipedia. After 30 years in the music industry, Lynwood's own "Weird Al" Yankovic sat down yesterday at LA Live's Grammy Museum for a candid look back at his career. Talking ... More >>

Live Review: Lord Huron at Troubadour

Danielle BacherLord Huron​WHO: Lord Huron featuring Calder Quartet, The Union Line and Milo Greene WHERE: Troubadour WHEN: 5/14/11 Never have a headliner and their venue been a better fit in name. Ben Schneider, the Michigan-born singer-songwriter who began to record as musical alter ego Lord ... More >>

The Man Who Invented The Monkees and The Archies, Music Promoter Don Kirshner, Dead at 76

Everything's Archie! MyspaceA cartoonized Don Kirshner presents The Archies with their gold record​ Just a word here about the passing of a giant, Mr. Don Kirshner, who died today at the age of 76. Now, some of us who were around back in "the day" might appreciate a bit of context-putting-in ... More >>

Rock Picks: DJ Spinna, Bodega Girls, Andre Nickatina, Elevated Suspects

Also, Hilary Hahn, People Under the Stairs, KROQ Almost Acoustic Xmas and others

Top 10 Solo Projects by Guest Blogger Big Search, a.k.a. Matt Popieluch of Foreign Born and Fool's Gold (Also: an Exclusive New Big Search Song)

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 >>

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

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

Over the Weekend: The National ( Ramona Falls) at the Wiltern

Photograph by Paul R. Giunta courtesy of Prefix MagazineThe National​Before 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 >>

Dâm-Funk: Keytar Hero

“I’m not doing the neo-soul thing. I’m a funkster. I’ve been doing this since I was a kid”

Raising the Romantic Bar a Little High: Girls at the Troubadour

Caution, a Girls concert induces post-amorous nostalgia. You'll seek the last time someone lovingly said "nothing compares to you" during "Ghostmouth," and if nobody's fought for your honor lately, "Goddam" is a downer. Singer Christopher Owens raises the sensitive romantic bar a little high. Timo ... More >>

Rock Picks: Camper Van Beethoven, Cass McCombs, AC/DC

Also, Twilight Circus Dub Sound System, Magda, Hedgehog, Mos Def and others

HEALTH: Color-Coded

L.A. noiseniks reveal the hidden inspirations behind their remarkable new album

One Item Only, Basterds: Quentin Tarantino Signs at Amoeba

Nicole CamposThe QT has landed.Any night is a bad night to do road work in front of Amoeba Records, but Thursday night in particular made for bad rush-hour congestion on a date where the Hollywood record mecca was about to play host to Quentin Tarantino, signing the soundtrack to Inglourious Basterd ... More >>

Foreign Born Throws Record Release Show At Vacation Vinyl

Chris Martins Flannel shirts and friendly faces packed Vacation Vinyl on a balmy June afternoon in order to celebrate Foreign Born's Person To Person, released yesterday on Secretly Canadian. The band was to go on at 7 p.m. (despite what the sign said), and the narrow space was brimming by a quar ... More >>

The 50 Best Albums of the Year (#20-11) (Sponsored By Teen Wolf Too)

Some might say this was the finest work Jason Bateman would ever do. 20. Al Green-Lay It Down (Blue Note) What more did you want from Al Green? Did you want him to wear Levar Burton sunglasses and use auto-tune? Did you want him to do a ladies only tour? Did you want him to employ interplanet ... More >>

F Yeah: Frickin' Yes in the Summertime

This weekend's fest offers a glimpse into the future of rock & roll

Sunshine Superman

After mingling with the mainstream, Matthew Sweet has found solace on his new album, in a secret place called Lolina Green

In Plain Sight's Concealed Federal Witnesses and Swingtown's Suburban Sexual Adventurers

Hide and seek

Stephin Merritt Undistorted

An interview with the Magnetic Fields frontman

The "West Coast Sound": Lauded Songwriters Grapple With Its Genesis

(It's the humidity, stupid)

Entrance’s Death Jam to Infinity

The doomy blues

Hip-Hop Is Dead

...and other reports that have been greatly exaggerated

Rooms With a View

Pet Sounds

Petra Haden + The Who = ♥

Penetration

Today’s Iron Maiden sticks it to ya

Stripping Lessons

Bliss Factory

How To Play a Mountain

One Band, Under God

The Reunion Sessions

Ballerina Bon Voyage

Re-enlightenment

New fiction from Peter Gadol, Gary Soto, James Gunn

Out of the Woods

Loren Mazzacane Connors, ax hero

Like It That Way

Pair o’ Dice and the Blues