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

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Tuesday, May 28 Lissie HOLLYWOOD FOREVER CEMETERY When Elisabeth Corrin Maurus first came to attention with early releases Catching a Tiger and EP Why You Runnin', her folk-pop songs had a restlessly rootsy intimacy. Lissie ... More >>

Music Picks: Gilles Peterson, Boris, Gothic Tropic

The Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, February 25 The Residents EL REY THEATRE Somewhere between rock & roll's spiritual mystique and a distinctly unhinged surrealist pathology, you'll find the lair of bizarro-art-imitates-music tribe The Residents. Unprecedented, with no discernible frame of reference save for a magnificently ... More >>

The Living Sisters Let Themselves Go, And Their Harmonies Are More Remarkable For It

The Living Sisters serve sweet vermouth, cheesy puff pastries, dark chocolate and red wine at a late-November get-together, which they hold in the cozy living room of founding member Eleni Mandell's Echo Park apartment. Her 2-year-old twins sleep in a nearby bedroom. True to their whimsical musical ... More >>

Music Picks: Too $hort, Best Coast, Brad Mehldau Trio

Also, Lee Fields & the Expressions, Simon Stokes, Sonnymoon, and others

Van Dyke Parks, Inara George - Getty Center - 11/5/11

Christina Limson O'Connell​See also: Van Dyke Parks Re-emerges with a Set of Singles An Invitation with Inara George and Van Dyke Parks The Harold M. Williams Theater at the Getty 11-5-11 Better than...listening to Shelley Duvall sing for an hour and a half. High above the 405, in a theater ... More >>

Van Dyke Parks Re-Emerges With A Set Of Singles, Each Covered By Works Of Art

Illustration by Art Spiegelman​Story by Erik Himmelsbach Van Dyke Parks lives on the fringes of the city, up the hill in the northeasternmost nook of Pasadena. He's comfortable there; it's a geographic mirror of his own five-decade career as a culty wingman whose fingerprints are conspicuous ... More >>

Stomp Grapes at Malibu Family Wines Food Fest

Flickr/MulsanneFirst, take off your shoes.​ If you've ever wanted to stomp grapes a la Lucy and Ethel, now's your chance. The 11th Annual Malibu Family Wines Grape Crush & Harvest Festival is being held this Sunday, September 25 from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. at Saddlerock Ranch in Malibu. And, beca ... More >>

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

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

This weekend: FYF Fest, Dolly Parton Tribute, Mumiy Troll, Mark Burgess, Stereo Total

Amanda MertenSchool of Seven Bells​The best thing about Saturday's FYF Fest at Los Angeles State Historic Park downtown is that with its wildly diverse lineup and 36 bands, it's a bargain for 30 bucks. The worst thing about Saturday's FYF Fest is that there are only so many hours in the day. ... More >>

Music Picks: John Lee Hooker Jr., Faun Fables, Tribute to Dolly Parton

Also, Ray LaMontagne, Wait. Think. Fast., Crooked Fingers and others

This weekend: The Swell Season, MGMT, One Day as a Lion, Die Antwoord, Shelby Lynne

Piper FergusonThe Swell Season​Boy, girl. Boy, girl. Boy, girl. It's a bill made for date night on Sunday at the Hollywood Bowl as some of music's favorite collaborative couples team up to provide a soundtrack for your wine and cheese. Of course, the Swell Season -- Glen Hansard of Irish r ... More >>

Music Picks: Cobra Lilies, Gaslight Anthem, Shelby Lynne, Die Antwoord

Also, The Dead Weather, New Pornographers, the Swell Season and others

Live in L.A.: School of Seven Bells, the Living Sisters, Hot Hot Heat, Cute Is What We Aim For

School of Seven Bells​Benjamin Curtis became every wannabe-shoegazer's idol in 2008, when School of Seven Bells unleashed its floating-through-the-stratosphere fuzz-pop on the world -- finding the ex-Secret Machines guitarist situated squarely in between fetching identical twins Alejandra and ... More >>

Download: Free Music from Inara George and Charlie Wadhams

Sargent Singles, Vol. 1​The increasingly fascinating music label-collective-initiative Vosotros has just kicked off a new monthly release series with a pair of free MP3s from Inara George and Charlie Wadhams. Willoughby mastermind Gus Seyffert produces and co-writes both "Q" -- starring the s ... More >>

The Living Sisters: Sibling Harmonies

The crystal-clear vocal world of Inara George, Eleni Mandell and Becky Stark

Music Picks: Laura Veirs, Experience Hendrix, Boyz II Men, Earthworm Ensemble

Also, David Scott Stone, Slow Club, Little Boots and others

Bigger Than Both of Us

Rock Picks: Van Dyke Parks, Chicago Underground Duo, Rickie Lee Jones

Also, Clipse, Imaad Wasif, Josh Charles and others

The Living Sisters sign with Vanguard and prepare new album

The Living Sisters sign with Vanguard and prepare new album

Wait. What? Jackson Browne, Inara George, and Fran Drescher at the Million Dollar Theater?

Wait. What? Jackson Browne, Inara George, and Fran Drescher at the Million Dollar Theater?

Harper Simon to Join Brian Wilson at the Disney Concert Hall

Harper Simon Joins Brian Wilson at the Disney Concert Hall

Da "Bomb": Free Inara George MP3 (courtesy of KCRW)

Last year chanteuse Inara George released An Invitation, her lush collaboration with legendary arranger, lyricist, composer and singer Van Dyke Parks. After the largely positive--though slightly muted--reaction to that collection, Inara went back to the drawing board and has just issued a digital so ... More >>

Harper Simon Record Release at the Echo Tonight

Harper Simon Record Release at the Echo Tonight

First Listen to Essential Rhino Box: 'Where The Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets, 1965-1968'

​Times are tight, for sure. A box set is a luxury that few can afford these days. Given the choice between a 4 cd collection and paying the phone bill or buying a bottle of Scotch, well, let's just say you can't download a bottle of Scotch. But if you're at all curious about the history of th ... More >>

Music Picks: Sky Saxon Tribute, Daddy Kev, Grace Jones, The Mekons

Also, Jarvis Cocker, Regina Spektor, Ida Maria, Themselves and others.

The Bird & the Bee: Ray Guns in Their Future

Duo’s new album has sparkly tunes about meteors, Japan, witches and the life span of a fly

The Bird and the Bee Announce Leno, Kimmel Appearances, Offer First Glimpse of New Album

LA's The Bird and the Bee have been doing rehearsal gigs around town for the past couple months, so it's not like you haven't had ample opportunity to catch them live. But in anticipation of their upcoming second full-length, Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future, the duo of Inara George and Greg Kurs ... More >>

Pacific Heights: L.A. Weekly's Top 10 L.A. Recordings of 2008

No Age, Chapin Sisters, Mia Doi Todd, the Knux, Flying Lotus, Madlib and more

Rock Picks: Antony & the Johnsons, Kings of Leon, Jay-Z

Also, Joan Osborne, Earl Zero, Petra Haden and more

Best L.A. Record Label: Stones Throw Records

Record Reviews: Inara George and Van Dyke Parks, Darker My Love

Also, Hawthorne Heights, the Starlite Desperation

Rock Picks: Rooney, Lili Haydn, Dizzee Rascal

Also, Wolf Parade, Pierced Arrows, Summer Darling

Rock Picks: B.B. King, Matmos, Coldplay

Also, Supergrass, Ratatat, the Duke Spirit

Memorial Day Weekend in LA: Music galore (and MP3s)

Ah, Memorial Day Weekend, the perfect three-day break, tailor-made for chilling in the comfort of an abandoned LA. As long as you stay away from Hollywood Boulevard and the tourists imported from Hell, you can relax, go out to dinner, catch some music, sleep in, drive to the desert, take some LSD, c ... More >>

Blurbs of Paradise

What to do in L.A., May 23-29

L.A. Phil Contemplates the Sound of the City

"Frequency" Response

Everybody Do the Medulla Oblongata!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Rilo Kiley at the Santa Monica Civic

With Under the Blacklight , their first major label album out in August, the L.A. band played a sold out show Monday night at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Timothy Norris was there to shoot the shindig. Click here for more photos. The Bird and the Bee, Greg Kurstin and Inara George, opened ... More >>

Rock Picks: Akron/Family, Duncan Sheik, PJ Harvey, Jill Scott

For the week of Oct. 11 - 18

Change Artists

Let me tell you about the Bird and the Bee costumes

Totally Buzzed

The Bird and the Bee The Troubadour

Pleasant princess Castle

The Bird and the Bee

Local bands, man

Rock Picks

For the week of Oct. 5–12

Eye of the Storm

Mike Andrews: Making sad and beautiful music for grown-ups

Music Picks

For Feb. 17 - 23

Walk-ins Welcome

From Jarvis Cocker to Van Dyke Parks, you never know who’ll drop in on the “Open Mike Andrews”

Psychedoolde

Drive Around Fast A Lot