Glastonbury

Haim: From a Family Band to International Acclaim

The Best Concerts to See In L.A. This Week

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Monday, September 16 The Weeknd GREEK THEATRE No matter what Abel Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd, sings about, there's often an air of melancholy gliding by in the distance or welling up in the back of his voice. His vo ... More >>

Music Picks: Mad Decent Block Party, Weeknd, Cold War Kids

The Orb

Courtney Love Speaks On...Everything You Want to Know About Her

Long before Courtney Love was a household name, a famous rocker, actress, drug addict, widow of an icon, estranged mother or social media rabble-rouser, she was Courtney Michelle Harrison, girl from Northern California obsessed with music and consumed by dreams of Hollywood stardom. When she moved t ... More >>

Deap Vally Is Bad For Your Body

Lindsey Troy and Julie Edwards met at a crocheting class in Silver Lake in 2011. From there, the duo has emerged as a sort of rock 'n' roll Thelma and Louise; hitting the road at a relentless pace and proving that you don't need a bass player or a pair of testicles to reclaim the spirit of '70s-styl ... More >>

The Economics of Music Festivals: Who's Getting Rich, Who's Going Broke?

By Chris Parker It's as though the sad, lamentable death of recorded music was accompanied by a kick-ass wake. Sure, label executives have had to sell their fancy homes and put their kids in public schools, but the rest of us have been feasting on a musical smorgasbord. Nothing better exemplifies ... More >>

Local Natives' Big Vaulted Ceilings

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

Quit Hating on Kings of Leon, Even If You Disliked "Sex On Fire"

[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] I have several friends who should ostensibly like everything about Kings of Leon, but they strongly dislike the Nashville ... More >>

The Pulp Revival Continues With Eve Woods' Documentary The Beat Is Law

Screen shot from The Beat Is LawJarvis Cocker on stage at Glastonbury​On August 10, L.A. Pulp fans gathered at Cinefamily for a sold-out screening of The Beat Is Law: Fanfare for the Common People, part of this year's Don't Knock the Rock film festival. The movie is Eve Wood's follow-up to the ... More >>

Dance Club Pick: Silence, Steampunk, Submission

Over the Weekend: Chemical Brothers at the Hollywood Bowl

Timothy NorrisWine, cheese and blockrockin' beats: The Chemical Brothers at the Hollywood Bowl​ LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip, Klaxons and all other dance-rockers currently carving a profitable niche owe a debt of gratitude to electronica's "Born Slippy"-era--namely the holy trinity of stadium DJs ... More >>

Live in L.A.: Chief, We Barbarians, the Fling, Line and Circle, Willoughby, Rainbow Arabia

Andrew TonkeryChief​Chief are four guys from southern California who got together in New York City and make music that sounds as if it came from the remote woods. Well, where there is a very good recording studio, of course. Chief's pristine folk-rock is the stuff of sparkling guitars, twinkli ... More >>

Day 1: Volcano, Disorganization Can't Stop the Music

We're tempted to tell you about Jim Morrison and the really interesting remixes of their old catalog featured on the soundtrack to the new documentary People Are Strange. This is because we spent a few hours listening to it trapped in traffic trying to get to the parking lot so we could get to spend ... More >>

The Specials: Back in Black and White

Lynval Golding on the return of ska's magnificent seven (minus one)

'Beatles are Bigger than David Crosby,' Says the Vatican

​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 >>

Interview: 2020Soundsystem's Ralph Lawson "Ready To Rock Huge Gigs"

Ralph Lawson is a British mainstay in the DJ world, a spinner known for his refined house music that contains a touch of electronic progressivism. In the mid-1990s he held down the Back To Basics club night in Leeds that helped inspire his 2020Vision record label and put him on the international spi ... More >>

Mullen on Music

Brendan Mullen the Writer: Highlights of his Work for the Weekly

In addition to opening punk club the Masque, LA DIY music giant Brendan Mullen, who died at age 60 yesterday after suffering a stroke on Saturday, was a longtime LA Weekly music writer whose prescient insight and in-the-trenches curiosity captured the experience of being a music head in LA in the 8 ... More >>

Adam Freeland Combines Remix Culture and Fan Art, Hosts a Cover Art Remix Competition

​ Freeland, the band created by superstar DJ Adam Freeland, is combining remix culture and fan art in its latest venture. In connection with the forthcoming remix album of its debut, Copeâ„¢, Freeland is hosting an "Art Remix" contest. In order to enter, you'll need to download the component ... More >>

On the Road to Burma

Globetrotting with Ozomatli, unlikely U.S. diplomats

This Weekend's Electric Daisy Carnival: An Interview with Promoter Pasquale Rotella

By Dennis Romero For the 13th year Los Angeles promoter Pasquale Rotella and his company Insomniac are putting on one of the nation's largest dance music festivals, Electric Daisy Carnival. We say festival because rave just doesn't do it justice, even though he started off in the glowstick undergro ... More >>

Anvil! The Story of Anvil: A Canadian Metal Band's Great Feature-Length Doc

Duo will make you laugh, cry and cheer with songs like "Hair Pie" and "Show Me Your Tits"

Coachella: Indio Times 10

Goldenvoice’s Paul Tollett on the decade-old music festival

Up With People Under the Stairs

Hip-hop duo celebrates a decade in L.A.

Tonight at the El Rey: People Under the Stairs Come Up for Some Air

"We'd been around the world ten times and done Glastonbury, Redding, and Leeds before people had even thought about leaving LA. And we've never been heralded by any local media."

"Jockin" is JV-The Lethargy of Post-Retirement Jay-Z

Rock Picks

For the week of July 5 - 11

Feb. 23. 2007

The Town the Law Forgot by JEFFREY ANDERSON. No Peace in the Valley by STEVEN MIKULAN. Li'l Dickens Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Make Love to the Vice President by JERRY STAHL

Glastonbury: The Sound and the Filth

A muddled, wasted tribute to Britain’s infamous music fest

Apocalypse in Progress

In Daniel Pinchbeck’s world, that’s not such a bad thing

Oh, You Brut!

In a world of blog hysteria and terminal hipsterism, Art Brut kick ass, take names and get naked. (About time.)

They Don’t Make 'Em Like That Anymore

Crust Never Sleeps

Warped 'n' Woofers

Great Unwashed scrubbed squeaky clean

In Praise of Witchy Women

Spirits in the material world

Tribal Gathering

Coachella festival: It's all in the mix

Moist 'n' Meaty

A hairy Palm Pictures production