My Bloody Valentine

The Best Concerts to See in Los Angeles This Weekend

Friday, April 20 The Call THE TROUBADOUR The Call couldn't have imagined its rousing song "Let the Day Begin" would be the rally cry for not one (Al Gore) but two (Tom Vilsack) presidential campaigns. The Northern California group, who came into their own in the 1980s, haven't had a release since 2 ... More >>

Amy Linton of the Aislers Set was the Victim of a Shockingly Discerning Record Thief

By Mike Appelstein Being robbed sucks. Being robbed of your record collection -- especially if you are a music fan -- is worse. But how about if your collection was robbed selectively? If it wasn't merely the work of a desperate meth addict, but someone who actually had the time to methodically pic ... More >>

Culture Collide Festival - Zola Jesus, Resplandor - 10/5/2012

Zola Jesus, Dean Wareham, Resplandor, The Balconies Culture Collide Festival 10/5/2012 Better Than... losing the last round of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? on live TV. Friendly folks came to Echo Park this weekend from far flung places to play the Culture Collide festival. Sure, there ... More >>

Fujiya & Miyagi - The Echo - 2/1/12

Fujiya & Miyagi, Evan Voytas, TV Girls The Echo 2/01/12 Better than... listening to Fujiya & Miyagi through headphones. There were moments where it felt incredibly awkward to stare at Fujiya & Miyagi, the British four-piece, as they played at The Echo last night. Frontman David Best would back awa ... More >>

M83's Anthony Gonzalez Makes Soundtracks, Without the Movie

Permanent Records: Powered by Demand for "Shit That You Can't Find Anywhere Else"

Sam Bloch​STORY BY SAM BLOCH Britt and Amanda Brown (above) of Eagle Rock's psychedelic record label Not Not Fun spun Dadawah and Indeep records they bought "for fifty cents" at Poo-Bah in Pasadena. "Nothing too crazy," said Amanda of her set Saturday during Permanent Records' opening. "It's ... More >>

Music Picks: Julieta Venegas, Deicide, Yefim Bronfman, Chick Corea and Gary Burton

Also Conspiracy of Beards, Lykke Li, Khaira Arby and others

Bassist Mark Tulin, the Missing Link Between Psych Legends the Electric Prunes and the Revamped Smashing Pumpkins, RIP 1948-2011

​We received news from the Smashing Pumpkin's camp that their friend and collaborator, bassist Mark Tulin from 1960s psychedelic garage legends the Electric Prunes, passed away this weekend. Here's a moving tribute by Billy Corgan, courtesy of StudioDog Kerry Brown: A Few Thoughts on the Pa ... More >>

Top 5 Things to Do This Weekend in L.A.

​ Yes, it is Valentine's Day Weekend. Couples will be canoodling in a desperate attempt to prove to themselves and everyone else that they still have it; singletons, meanwhile, will be in defensive party mode, making Marrieds jealous, or weeping themselves to sleep after engaging in a helpin ... More >>

Coming of No Age

The Smell darlings graduate to the Hollywood Bowl (with a Craigslist amp)

Live Review: School of Seven Bells at the Echo

Timothy NorrisSchool of Seven Bells​"Look! The people from the Internet! They're here! They're real" The dude saying these words at the School of Seven Bells show at the Echo on Wednesday night was being facetious, but there was a kernel of truth in there. The place was packed with a very mix ... More >>

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

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

GnR's Duff McKagan Confirms 'Association' with Jane's Addiction, Also Visits Silver Lake and Feels Validated by Hipsters

"Yes, you ARE my monkey!": Self-confessed "dork" McKagan​In case you didn't know, former Guns n Roses' bassist Duff McKagan has a sorta regular column that runs in our sibling publication the Seattle Weekly. Yesterday McKagan granted an interview to his editor there explaining why he had been ... More >>

The 10 Best L.A. Albums of the ’00s

From Beck and Dilla to Fiona, Jenny and Quasimoto, a mishmash decade of Southern California sounds

HEALTH: Color-Coded

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

Living Large: A Sous Chef at Cut Does Coachella, Creates Midnight Feasts, Trusty Crock Pot Involved

Imagine that table filled with eight tired but overjoyed Coachellans This past weekend at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio was pretty memorable: Leonard Cohen at sunset; singer/vegan Morrissey's classic between-song nugget of food criticism directed at the BBQ shack -- "I smell burnin ... More >>

Over the Weekend: RIP J.G. Ballard, Three Days of Coachella Madness, Plus Zombie Invasion at Fangoria Convention

We don't know about you but we are the very definition of exhausted. Three days of music, parties and the desert heat at the 10th annual Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio has left us completely wiped. But damn if we didn't get some great coverage while we were there. Randall Roberts put tog ... More >>

Movie Reviews: The Haunting in Connecticut, Three Monkeys, 12 Rounds

Also, The Education of Charlie Banks and Spinning Into Butter

Coachella: Indio Times 10

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

Movie Reviews: Growing Out, I’ll Be There With You, The Lodger

Also, Prometheus Triumphant, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, and more

Rock Picks: The Duke Spirit, New York Dolls, Lil Wayne

Also, Darker My Love, X, Legal Weapon, and others

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

Also, Hawthorne Heights, the Starlite Desperation

Record Reviews: Gnarls Barkley, Evangelista, No Age, Destroyer

Also, The Knux, Ghost on the Highway, The Little Ones

Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#5-1)

5. Dungen-Tio Bitar [Kemado] Dungen did not tour this record in America. This is because the band's mastermind, Gustav Estjes was rumored to be alone in the snowy Swedish hinterlands, ingesting enough hallucinogens to give Hunter S. Thompson pause, and trying to untangle the beautiful mess of sou ... More >>

Rock Picks: Jimmy Scott, the Raspberries, Sharon Jones, Wreckless Eric

For the week of November 30 - December 6

Blackouts, Sellouts and Freakouts

Band of Horses and Dinosaur Jr.

Band of Horses and Dinosaur Jr. at the Wiltern, September 8

Sonic Youth Rides its Masterpiece

Don't Daydream it's over

Rock Picks

For the week of May 24-31

Rock Picks

For the week of Jan 18 – 25

Rock PIcks

For the week of Nov. 24 - 30

Beautiful Dreamers

Mew wake up America

Love in the Time of Xanax

TV on the Radio have message of peace, hope, harmony, possible werewolves

Soul Men

Pearl Jam’s traveling love-in hits the Fonda

Music Picks

For the week of June 15 - 22

The Sound of Escape

Autolux’s antimatter supernova

Wanted: Good Times

Vetiver

Joiners in Believing

Prog rock is back, and it’s coming for your hipster children

Abloom’s Day

The future of heaviness

Think Pink

Sandblasted Standards

Back in Black

And Now for a Little Melodic Chaos

Use Your Allusion

Lift to Experience Texas two-step with the angel of the Lord

A Dossier of Desperate Measures

Godspeed offshoots light the fuse.

Frozen Entrée

Hope Sandoval wants to make you cry

The Weather Prophet

This Is Our Music

The Napster museum of cultural heritage

A Bowed Guitar Runs Through It

Sigur Rós come in (through the out door) from the cold

Personal Electronics

Brad Laner’s wired for sound