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Stephen Glassman Wants to Create Billboards Made of Trees

The helicopter hangs in the air over downtown L.A. for what seems like a very long time, its whirring blades adding the slight chill of potential alarm over the otherwise quiet Sunday night streets. The airship hovers at around a hundred fifty feet, it's powerful bluish spotlight illuminating the ro ... More >>

Jenny Lewis, Ab-Soul, Céu

Also, Vinny Golia Sextet, Mary Anne Hobbs, Delta Rae and others

Vinny Golia: Far From the Whole Wheat Movement

When free jazz, multi-instrumentalist Vinny Golia first set foot in Los Angeles in the early 1970s he wasn't expecting to stay. But circumstances dictated he was here for good, so Golia embarked on a project that helped him become one of the most important guardians of the more experimental pockets ... More >>

Music Picks: Agnostic Front, the Latebirds, Def Leppard, Jay Rock

Also, Kristeen Young, Diego Garcia, the Human League and others

Music to Pick Up/Download

BRICK'S PICKS: A Special Kind of Madness

Music Picks: Laurie Anderson, Onibaba, Superchunk

Also, Hoodoo Gurus, Die Antwoord, Jonsi and others

Over the Weekend: Pavement, Sonic Youth, No Age at the Hollywood Bowl, reviewed by Pulitzer-Prize winner Jonathan Gold!

Timothy NorrisSonic Youth's Kim Gordon at the Hollywood Bowl​ [For more exclusive photographs of this show, see Timothy Norris' slideshow "Pavement, Sonic Youth, No Age @ Hollywood Bowl"] Do the gods of programming have a sense of humor? Because Thursday night, three massive shows split the a ... More >>

Mike Watt Finishing His Third "Punk Opera"

​Local hero Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE, etc., etc.) is almost ready to unveil his third "punk opera." "I'm finishing my third opera ("hyphenated-man") w/bass brother tony maimone at studio g in brooklyn now," Watt writes from the studio. Hyphenated-Man is the third opera the busy San Ped ... More >>

The Living Sisters: Sibling Harmonies

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

INCHES reviews Baron Zen, Bohren & Der Club Of Gore, Soft Circle High Places, I Heart Lung [MP3]

In the strange wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES reviews the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (artists and labels, indie or other), believing that good m ... More >>

Beck and Co. Cover Skip Spence's "Weighted Down," featuring Leslie Feist and Some Wilcos

We've been slacking on Beck's consistently fascinating series of covers over at Beck.com, and have missed the fact that he and his band of crazies has been covering the entirety of Alexander "Skip" Spence's mope-rock classic, Oar. Our favorite track on the album is probably "Weighted Down," though w ... More >>

Avi Buffalo: Young, Gifted and Slack

Long Beach teens sign to Sub Pop

Rock Picks: Broken Nobles, Anny Celsi, Seu Jorge, the Killers

Rock Picks: Broken Nobles, Anny Celsi, Seu Jorge, the Killers

Also, Destroy L.A., Sunset Strip Music Festival, the Drones and others

FYF Fest 2009: Parks and Inspiration

Event's new mission: Save Our State Parks (and deliver a mind-bending roster of punk, electronics and noise)

Rock Picks: Daedelus, Peanut Butter Wolf, Femi Kuti, Isis

Also, The Choke, Nouvelle Vague, Wilco, Sunset Rubdown and others

Rock Picks: Doves, Ceci Bastida, Carina Round, New York Dolls

Also, The Detroit Cobras, the Aggrolites, Loney Dear and others

Rock Picks: The Wailers, Thelonious Dub, Halfmonk, Mike Watt & the Secondmen

Plus, Good for the Jews, Legowelt, Resistant Culture, and others

Brick's Picks: Boys, Toys and Noise

Jazz in L.A., September 5-11

Rock Picks: DJ Quik, Alejandro Escovedo, Ratatat

Also, the Bad Plus, Amos Lee, Built to Spill, and more

Rock Picks: Spindrift, Randy Newman, The Gutter Twins

Also, Zola Moon, David Banner, Naïm Amor, and more

Brick's Picks: Tigran Hamasayan, Kneebody, Nels Cline and more

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

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

Mike Watt: Mr. Engine Driver

From Minutemen to Stooges to Kelly Clarkson, seasoned staff-thudder dredges the bottom with his bass

Rock Picks: John Fogerty, Band of Horses, Eek-a-Mouse, Gram Rabbit

For the week of November 23 - 29

The World According to Björk, Aoki, Tweedy and a Gaggle of Teenage Guitar Girls

Rock Picks

For the week of March 1 - 8

Rock Picks

For the week of Feb. 8 - 15

Rock Picks

For February 1–8

Beasts

Rock & Pop Listings

For February 10 - 16

Jazz Listings

WTF?

Rhino Records’ last parking-lot sale, minus the parking lot

Rock and Pop Listings

Clubs Other Rock & Pop Events

Picks for Sunday, February 12

Sunday, February 12

The Darts

Pet Sounds

Petra Haden + The Who = ♥

Photos of Ghosts

Stop Making Sense

Strut That Art

Is This Jazz?

The school of Bobby Bradford

Rubble Rockers

The Minimax

Line Space Line Concert Series

Björn Again

Blues From Mars

Fish Fry 2002

Memory Train

Between the Strings

Letters