Friday, November 2 Grace Potter & the Nocturnals THE WILTERN If anyone should be a star, it's Grace Potter. Commercial enough to sing duets with Kenny Chesney, she's also freaky enough to trip out occasionally with folks like Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne and Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, who produced part ... More >>
Friday, November 2 Grace Potter & the Nocturnals THE WILTERN If anyone should be a star, it's Grace Potter. Commercial enough to sing duets with Kenny Chesney, she's also freaky enough to trip out occasionally with folks like Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne and Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, who produced part ... More >>
Also, Neon Indian, Moab, Damien Jurado and others
Also, Hot Snakes, Strange Boys, Ken Parker, Flash Express and others
Also, Dengue Fever, Jessie Baylin, Reigning Sound, Black Bananas and others
Also, Norma Jean, Jonathan Richman, Jay-Z and Kanye West and others
Also, Peanut Butter Wolf, Lucy Woodward, Chromeo and others
Also, Leon Russell, Chris Brown, Azar Lawrence Quintet and others
Also, Emmylou Harris & Her Red Dirt Boys, Odd Future, Gillian Welch and others
Also, No Age, Crystal Antlers, Imelda May and others
Also, Gutbucket Chamber Orchestra, Pegi Young, Mike Stinson and others
Also, Mary Anne Hobbs, Yoni Wolf, Emmylou Harris and others
Also Parkway Drive, Martha Wainwright, Anna Tijoux, the Deadbeats and others
The Soft PackDuring their year of touring dangerously, San Diego-bred, L.A.-based quartet the Soft Pack have succeeded in getting everyone to forget their old band name ... you know ... the one that people misunderstood ... and they tired of answering questions about ... what was that name, a ... More >>
Also, Combichrist, Papercranes, Simone White and others
Perou.co.ukUnderworldWhether you're all about the costumes or just in it for the tunes, Halloween weekend offers some massive show-going choices ... starting with, well, something very close to a massive. HARD Haunted Mansion, with an eclectic electro lineup including Bloody Beetroots, Busy ... More >>
Rx BanditsFew would have thought that the Orange County ska-punk kids who a decade ago started playing as the Pharmaceutical Bandits would grow up to be a Coachella band. But the quartet now known Rx Bandits has, their party in the desert last spring certifying Matt Embree and crew as musica ... More >>
Also, Tonya Watts, Modeselektor, Heart and others
Christina M. FeliceVanaprastaBy 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 >>
Babysitters for miles around were kept busy Saturday night as metal vets Scorpions' farewell tour enticed 7,000 mostly 30- and 40-somethings into downtown's sleek Nokia Theatre. Over a quarter-century since they first ambushed America at San Bernardino's vast US Festival, the Teutonic quintet showed ... More >>
Piper FergusonThe Swell SeasonBoy, 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 >>
WarpaintPasadena is used to its parades, but on Saturday its denizens will be traipsing around Old Town to get an earful of music rather than an eyeful of rose pedals. What's impressive about the annual Make Music Pasadena is how many constituencies the festival is serving over one day. With ... More >>
Rapper Talib Kweli and producer Hi-Tek are officially back in business as Reflection Eternal -- a full decade after their first album, Train of Thought. The new Revolutions Per Minute (out this week) might not feel as revolutionary as their debut, but it'll put a smile on the face of anybody ... More >>
Also, Tenacious D, Lady Gaga, Local Natives and others
Also, Cold Cave, Ceci Bastida, Califone, and others
Also, Cold Cave, Ceci Bastida, Califone, and others
Also, Simian Mobile Disco, Wolfmother, El Perro del Mar and others
Also, Yacht, the Woolly Bandits, Linda Ronstadt and others
Also, Ghostface Killah, Pi, Brother Ali and others
Also, Bob Dylan & His Band, Motorhead, John Doe & Exene Cervenka and others
Also, Kylie Minogue, the Joe Perry Project, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks and others
Also, Seasons, Brodinski, Autolux and others
Also, Slavic Soul Party, Pet Shop Boys, the Humpers and others
Also, DAT Politics, Mika Miko, Etta James and others
Also, Au Revoir Simone, Patrick Wolf, The Field, Fortress of Amplitude and others
Also, Jesca Hoop, Jerkagram, Puscifer and others
Also, Jesca Hoop, Jerkagram, Puscifer and others
Also, the Von Bondies, Tindersticks, Dave Rawlings Machine & Gillian Welch, and others
Also, Faun Fables, Chris Darrow tribute, Allen Toussaint and others
Academy Awards weekend in L.A. is madness so rather than exhaust ourselves party hopping the typical Oscar bashes, L.A. Weekly opted to check out what the rest the city had to offer. We indulged our inner geek at Skirball Cultural Center's new exhibit "Zap! Pow! Bam! The Superhero: The Golden Age of ... More >>
Also, Extreme Animals, Andrew Bird, Peach Fuzz, and others
Also, the Head Cat, the Spanks, Jimmy Webb and others
Really, there aren't any essential shows tonight. You could go to the big-ass rave downtown, could go see a sad and obviously shattered Scott Weiland perform with Stone Temple Pilots at Club Nokia, but really why would you want to do that? Yeah, the little clubs have their indie rock and indie dance ... More >>
Plus, Good for the Jews, Legowelt, Resistant Culture, and others
Also, the Hanson Brothers, Oasis, Azure Ray and others
Also, Uh Huh Her, James Intveld, Miranda Lee Richards and more
Also, Electric Six, Heartless Bastards, Scissors for Lefty and more
Also The Ruins and more
Björk at Nokia Theatre, December 12
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