Pink Floyd

The Killers - Los Angeles Sports Arena - 5/2/13

The Killers Los Angeles Sports Arena 5/2/13 "Tonight, the City of Angels and Sin City are getting together," said Brandon Flowers last night at the Sports Arena, lead singer of the Las Vegas based Killers. "We'll try not to corrupt you." For 90 minutes, Flowers and company danced and moved on stag ... More >>

The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, March 8 Nickodemus SUBSUELO AT KOBO'S Nickodemus' multicultural Turntables on the Hudson compilations and New York City-based events have brought together flavorfully funky house and Latin-based sounds from around the world. The DJ then took the series global with his creation of the ongoin ... More >>

The Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, February 11 Hindu Pirates SILVERLAKE LOUNGE The days of oh-so-crude adjectives like "surf" and "garage" are well behind O.C.'s Hindu Pirates now. For while the Pirates are in fact darlings of the surf-skate industry, as evidenced by their clean and pristine session last year at Hurley's in- ... More >>

Dostoevsky's Notes From the Underground

Top Ten Los Angeles Metal Albums of 2012

Twenty twelve was another strong year for Los Angeles metal bands. What's especially cool is that we're not just kicking ass in one kind of metal -- L.A.'s got it going on in just about every metal sub-genre. Without further ado, then, here are our top ten Los Angeles metal albums of 2012. See also ... More >>

Top 5 Blues Rock Bands That Don't Totally Suck

The 20 Worst Hipster Bands Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time One common theme recurred again and again about our 20 Worst Hipster Bands list: People are amazed that we don't like the B ... More >>

The Sloths' Jeff Briskin Hired a Private Detective to Track Down His Former Bandmates

Try as time might to diminish this filthy city's hot brat-beat heritage, there's never a shortage of dormant talent lurking deep within the twisting corridors of our rock and roll maze of myth and history. While squandered legacies and the yoke of mediocrity befall so many once promising players, th ... More >>

Rigoletto - Hollywood Bowl - August 12, 2012

Rigoletto The Hollywood Bowl 8/12/12 Better than... the guy outside the Bowl with a dog puppet doing a one-man a capella version of Handel's Hallelujah chorus. Most American orchestras coast during their summer season with puffery such as symphonic arrangements of Pink Floyd, Broadway show tunes, ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, August 10 Bomba Estéreo LEVITT PAVILION, MACARTHUR PARK Bomba Estéreo draw upon traditional styles of music like cumbia and champeta, but the Colombian quintet is too musically restless to be strict revivalists. Instead, band leader Simón Mejía pumps up their folkloric influences with h ... More >>

The Band Fartbarf Tell Us About the Name Fartbarf

Josh McLeod is the lead singer of Fartbarf, a South Bay band that performs something they call analog electronic thrash music. They've gotten hate mail saying their music's not really thrash, but who cares? They're called Fartbarf. We contacted McLeod to talk about how they came up with the name Far ... More >>

The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #15-11

​See also: The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #20-16 ​15. Spinal Tap This Is Spinal Tap soundtrack (1984) Rob Reiner's brilliant mock-rockumentary sends up longstanding hard-rock obsessions like Druids and getting super-heavy. (Aspiring local hair-metal god Paul Shortino of Roug ... More >>

Amon Tobin - The Music Box - 10/16/11

Brian Erzen ​Amon Tobin The Fonda 10/16/11 Better than: All that shit that happened at Burning Man while you were on acid and can't remember anyway. For trogedytes and other uninitiated, Amon Tobin is a Brazilian electronic composer and producer now in the middle of a mad project to radicall ... More >>

Live Review: My Morning Jacket at The Village Last Night

Jeremiah GarciaThe Jacket wailing away​ Music studios create magic -- that much we know. However, when a band is able to convert its supersized amphitheater show into 250-person capacity venue (which is smaller than The Troubadour FYI), that's what makes this night more special than the avera ... More >>

Foo Fighters: Live Review PLUS Where to Find the 'World Exclusive' CD Edition of Record Store Day's 'Medium Rare' Covers Album!

Jena ArdellHey Dave Grohl, cut your hair so we can get a better look at you!​ Two hundred fans who pre-ordered the Foo Fighters' new album, then raced to Fingerprints record store in Long Beach on April 4th, were given wristbands to attend an intimate show inside the store last Saturday, where ... More >>

Countdown to Records Store Day: We Found Sasha Grey's Favorite Record Store!

​ Wombleton Records sells an amazing collection of rare- and not-so-rare imports--though its stated mission is to further cultural exchange between Los Angeles and Glasgow, it does all that and more carrying everything from Suzy Quattro and Zounds LP's to original pressings of Dutch freakbeat ... More >>

Charlie Gilmour, Son of Pink Floyd's Guitarist, Charged with Violent Disorder at Student Riot (and with Stealing a Mannequin's Leg)

​While the children of American rock stars wallow in decadence and (repeatedly) try to get their own reality shows, British rock children are trying to become, as Mick Jagger once taught them, "street-fightin' men." Witness the exploits of young man Charlie Gilmour, long-haired son of Pink Flo ... More >>

Tonight: Betty LaVette, Jews on Vinyl Revue, Eastern Conference Champions, Wallpaper, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Jets Overhead

Elizabeth FladunBetty LaVette​One of the best Betty LaVette stories came out of the veteran soul singer's performance a couple years ago at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C. In a nod to one of the year's honorees, the Who, LaVette delivered a show-stopping rendition of "Love Reign ... More >>

L.A. 'Street Artist' Mr. Brainwash Takes Manhattan (With a Velvet Rope, Of Course)

By Barbara Celis David Bowie, U2, Madonna, and the Rolling Stones. What could they possibly be doing together in the Meatpacking district of New York yesterday? Just hanging out at a party with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Damien Hirst and Barack Obama. Kind of. Slash, by Mr. Brainwash​ They we ... More >>

Flaming Lips at the Montalban: Coyne Announces 'Dark Side of the Moon' Collab With Peaches, Rollins

Live review: Flaming Lips at the Montalban

Rock Picks: Pink, the Grates, Doug Paisley, Ooh La L.A. Festival

Also, Slavic Soul Party, Pet Shop Boys, the Humpers and others

Phish to Take Over Coachella Site for Halloween Festival. Like, Whoa.

Whoa. This could be huge! Billboard is reporting that Phish has announced a three-day festival called "Festival 8" at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio. Writes Billboard's Michael Ayers: After several weeks of speculation and a shape-shifting "Save the Date" map decorating its homepage, Phish h ... More >>

Keith Jarrett at Royce Hall, Pharoah Sanders at the Jazz Bakery

Live in L.A.: Pop Levi and the Parson Red Heads at the Echo, August 15

Pop Levi and the Parson Red Heads at the Echo, August 15 Photos by Timothy Norris I'm kinda obsessed with this Pop Levi guy right now, and finally saw him Friday night at the Echo during week three of his residency. I tried to catch him on week one, and showed up at 10 o'clock thinking, 'cool, go ... More >>

Foxtail Wagging

Bolthouse unlocked; playing out; reel rock & roll

Phrancly, Tommy, I Don't Give a Proops

What to do in L.A., June 13-19

Coachella Wrap-Up: Is Santogold This Year's MVP?

If there was one transformative performance at this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, I'd say it was Santogold's Friday night statement-of-purpose. The festival, which wrapped up last night with a Pink Floyd flashback courtesy of Roger Waters and a furious day-long Sahara tent throwdo ... More >>

Black Mountain's Stormy High

Los Angeles always seems strange in the rain. Jim Morrison once may have said something to that effect. Then again, Jim Morrison once declared himself the lizard king and was known to drink blood at wiccan ceremonies, so maybe he wasn't the best best guy to take advice from. But he was right in th ... More >>

Jesus & Mary Chain, Wiltern, 10/23

"Hiya. How ya doing?" Well, hey! Someone's in a talkative mood tonight. In the first five seconds of coming out on stage the Jesus & Mary Chain have already chatted the audience up more than they might have in an entire North American tour in the late-80s. But why shouldn't they be in a good moo ... More >>

Shine On, You Crazy Loft-Liver

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Rock Picks

April 12 – 19

Is There Anybody Out There?

What to do in Los Angeles from January 5 – 11

Pure Energy

The death and life of the beloved Laserium

Punky Boy Floyd

SECRET MACHINES at Avalon, October 23

Aerobic Exorcise

Danava: Too much, and then... more!

Rock Picks

For the week of Oct. 5–12

Anxious Animation

Shit & Payola

Radio killed the radio star

Eyes Opened Eyes Closed

Two CalArts-sponsored mash-ups celebrated MOCA's "Visual Music" exhibit

A Small New Future

ALEC HANLEY BEMIS on the casualties and survivors in the war between the Cynics and the True Believers

Ray Charles Hits the Road

Songs, Songs, Songs

Secrets of the Sun

The Mars Volta in space and time

Midnight Movies at the Planetarium

Peace operatives Super Furry Animals’ non-proliferation treatise

Centrifugal Force

Jucifer in Hell.A.

Canon Fodder

Redemption Song

Jason Pierce on Spiritualized space

Day-Tripping

Deflections in the light

The Decline of Western Civilization Part III: The Tribute Years

Satori Night Fever

A Ghost in the space-time machine

Music Reviews