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Wilco, Joanna Newsom - Hollywood Bowl - 9/30/12

Wilco and Joanna Newsom Hollywood Bowl 9-30-12 Better than...waiting for the Sepulveda Pass to re-open. Wilco's name has graced more marquees in Los Angeles this year than a majority of bands that actually live here. Last night, under a full moon and amid looming Santa Ana winds, Wilco wrapped up ... More >>

Wilco - Hollywood Palladium - 1/24/12

Wilco Hollywood Palladium 1-24-12 See also: Our Wilco slideshow Better than: A swimming pool full of Banana Split Dippin' Dots. Few contemporary American bands command Wilco's critical and fan adoration. Jeff Tweedy and Co. managed to sell out the Palladium in a flash, and they have two more sho ... More >>

Universal Consciousness

Living legends gather to pay tribute to Alice Coltrane at UCLA

This weekend: Plastic Ono Band, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, School of Seven Bells, the Avett Brothers, Fountains of Wayne

Yoko Ono​John Lennon would have turned 70 next week, and among the events celebrating the legendary Beatle are two shows this weekend featuring a reconstituted Plastic Ono Band, the loose collective of musicians Lennon assembled 40 years ago. His widow Yoko Ono and son Sean Lennon (the musica ... More >>

HOW DO YOU TAKE YOUR JAZZ?

Brick's Picks: Angel City Jazz

This weekend: Sunset Strip Music Festival, Boris, Cyndi Lauper, the Antlers, Morris Day, Cap'N Jazz, Something Corporate, Chemical Brothers

Christina M. FeliceVanaprasta​By now, we're sure you have your strategy mapped out for Saturday's street festival portion of the Sunset Strip Music Festival. You're hitting the Sunset Strip early for Semi Precious Weapons; you're darting between outdoor stages for the likes of Travie McCoy, ... More >>

Music Picks: Dr. John, Herbie Hancock, Sunset Strip Music Festival

Also, Funkfest, Chromeo, Slayer and others

Watch: Indie Luminaries Covering Skip Spence and Neil Young

In celebration of the holiday spirit of sharing, we've got two shining visual examples of how to do just that below, each of which offers up an indie world collaboration of cream-in-your-jeans proportions. First up is the latest entry in Beck's ongoing Record Club -- a full-album covers series that ... More >>

SASSAS Holiday Fundraiser with Lucky Dragons, Daedelus, Cryptacize, and more

SASSAS Holiday Fundraiser with Lucky Dragons, Daedelus, Cryptacize, and more

Wilco at the Wiltern, Night One: Tweedy, Cline, Kotche and Company Offer Hoodoo Voodoo, Hummingbirds

View more photos in the "Wilco, Night One" slideshow. What, you're gonna ask a music writer to assess a Wilco show? That's like asking a cop to review a doughnut shop. "The sprinkles here are the best ever. The icing, creamy. The jelly filling? Drool-worthy." It was a fantastic first night of a thr ... More >>

Record Review: Wilco's Nels Cline and Twin Bro Alex Cline Issue Dueling Solo Albums on the Same Day

Nels Cline / Coward / (Cryptogramophone) Alex Cline / Continuation / (Cryptogramophone) There's something funny about the fact that local heroes the identical twin Cline Brothers -- Nels (Wilco/Geraldine Fibbers/Scarnella/Nels Cline Singers guitarist) and Alex (Alex Cline Ensemble/Julius Hemphil ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Angel City Jazz Festival, Sweet & Hot Music Festival, and more

Outside Lands Day 3-We Have a Winner

Ted DiBiase knows a winner when he sees one. That's how he earned the nickname "The Million Dollar Man" when those Cash Money clowns were still learning to ice their first teeth. And rest assured, Teddy B. would've inevitably proclaimed Day 3 of Outside Lands, the winner of the match, even if he wo ... More >>

Understanding Carla Bozulich

Evangelista: "Hardcore pony princes on a different dirty throne every night in a different dirty town"

The Weekend Report: Widespread Panic, The Orpheum, Friday, June 20

Widespread Panic, the Orpheum Theatre, June 20 By Jeff Weiss (photos by Timothy Norris) Sometimes, I think music critics hate jam bands for the jokes. After all, on that endless litany of items capable of inspiring comedic rancor, nothing is easier to mock than hippies, save for maybe George Bush ... More >>

Rock Picks: RZA, Etta James, Zola Moon, Tori Amos, The Monolators

For the week of December 14 - 20

Go Tell It On Grand Avenue!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Rock Picks: Deborah Harry, Björk, Richard Hawley, Shonen Knife, Bang Sugar Bang

For the week of December 7 - 13

Wilco at the Greek, 8/29

Wilco Greek Theatre, August 29, 2007 by Jonah Flicker I’m sure there were plenty of celebrities peppered throughout the crowd at the Greek Theatre as perennial underdogs/yuppie-faves, Wilco, took the stage on a balmy Wednesday night. My celebrity sighting, however, was limited to one Mr. Fred Sav ... More >>

The Avant Guardian

Jeff Gauthier

The Vinny Golia Tabloid Interview

Let It Be

Alice Coltrane and Carl Stone

Natural History à Gogo

Breaking the museum sound barrier

Rock Listings

For Feb. 10 - 16, Country & Folk listings follow

Jazz Listings

January 27 - Feb 2, 2006

Hard and Harder, Abstract and Abstracter

2005 in metal and jazz

In Memoriam: Derek Bailey, 1930–2005

Live in LA

13 Great CD Reissues You May Have Never Heard Of

The Duds, the Clubs, the Jazz

What I Saw at the Parisian Room

When It Blows Its Stacks

Neuralgia nostalgia at the Queen Mary

California Tuffy

Carla Bozulich in the time of the preacher

Viva la Revoluçion

Sound and sedition at the LAMC

Charged

Scott Amendola: Diversity in the first degree

Support Your Local Independents

A selected list of L.A.-area labels, all of which will deliver right to your door:

Sound and Beyond

The music of art, the art of music

The Year in Music

Don’t Be Afraid

Nels Cline applies the hot iron

Get-Well Tune

Balls of the Belle

Selling Really Weird Music

Restrung

The Eric von Essen you never knew

AC Buddha

The general electricity of G.E. Stinson

And the LAWMA Goes to . . .

The World's Most Dangerous Musicians

L.A.’s post-jazz scene

The Beatin' Path

Merging atoms with Adam Rudolph

Third Ear

Space Sparks

Vinny Golia's not blowin' in the wind

Third Ear

In the Realm of the Senses