Queens of the Stone Age

Blaak Heat Shujaa: Desert Rockers

Paris is considered one of the most romantic cities in the world. But guitarist/vocalist Thomas Bellier and bassist Antoine Morel-Vulliez -- co-founders of psych-rock outfit Blaak Heat Shujaa -- had no problems high-tailing it out of there for Los Angeles in 2010. "Paris is the most fucking borin ... More >>

The Best of SXSW

This year, our sister papers the Dallas Observer and Houston Press teamed up to document the SXSW madness for you amusement and/or edification. Here are the 12 best shows and moments they saw.

Black Moth Super Rainbow - The Echoplex - 5/12/12

Black Moth Super Rainbow The Echoplex 5/12/12 Better than: watching Usher sing over watered-down techno on Saturday Night Live. In a rare live appearance at the Echoplex on Saturday, enigmatic psych-pop band Black Moth Super Rainbow exceeded their fans' expectations with a mind-expanding performan ... More >>

Postcard on the Run App: New L.A. Company Will Send a (Scented!) Postcard From Your iPhone or Android for $1.99

Startups is a new column about new companies, big ideas and bold discoveries happening in the L.A. area. The idea was simple: Take all those moments captured on smartphones and make something tangible out of them, fusing the online and the offline world. That's what Josh Brooks set out to do when h ... More >>

Kyuss Lives - The Wiltern - 11-17-11

Timothy NorrisKyuss Lives​See also our post on Kyuss Lives: Five Reasons To Embrace The Group Without Josh Homme Kyuss Lives The Wiltern 11/18/11 Better than...16 years of waiting to see members of Kyuss perform these songs live. John Garcia, Nick Oliveri, and Brant Bjork have been touring ... More >>

Music Picks: Roseanne Cash, Theophilus London, Acid Mothers Temple

Also, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Raphael Saadiq, Wu Man and others

Lemmy's Guide to L.A.'s Gentlemen's Clubs

Nick Cave's Grinderman at the Music Box

Timothy NorrisNo, YOU da man!: Nick Cave and his grindermen​ [For more photos, see Timothy Norris' slideshow "Grinderman @ Music Box"] Nick Cave's merry band of wizard dervishes Grinderman came to a packed-to-the-gills Music Box last night. The crowd was oh-so-Hollywood: like-minded celebs a ... More >>

A Magical Skill

Chris Goss, the godfather of desert rock, on the return of Masters of Reality

Rock & Roll, Entry Level

What does the perennial L.A. dream of stardom look like circa 2010?

Tonight: My Morning Jacket, Avi Buffalo, Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal, Coheed and Cambria, Porcupine Tree, Budos Band, Hot Club of Cowtown

​ My Morning Jacket, Avi Buffalo at the Greek "Of late, My Morning Jacket singer Jim James has been devoting the majority of his time to projects sporting his inexplicable Yim Yames moniker, so it's a bit of a relief to find him once again at the helm of the exceptional band that first put the ... More >>

Live Review: Sweethead, Nico Vega at the Troubadour

Falling JamesLeapin' Troy Van Leeuwen! (behind Sweethead's "striking blonde beauty" Serrina Sims)​ A few years ago, back when there was a functioning music industry and A&R departments were still signing promising bands, it would have been easy to predict Sweethead's future success. Formed by ... More >>

Nightranger: Ritual de lo Rock Show

Destination Coachella

L.A. bands take to the desert for three days of music overload

Rock Picks: Loudon Wainwright III & Richard Thompson, Miss Jilly, Mission of Burma, The Mountain Goats

Dangerbird Special: INCHES reviews Darker My Love, Silversun Pickups, Sea Wolf, Eulogies (MP3s)

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 >>

Rock Picks: Camper Van Beethoven, Cass McCombs, AC/DC

Also, Twilight Circus Dub Sound System, Magda, Hedgehog, Mos Def and others

Rock Picks: Future of the Left, Deerhoof, Ronnie Mack's Barndance, The Urinals

Also, Torche, Alejandro Escovedo, Quintron & Miss Pussycat, and others

Cinc It Down

Last Night: Beyond the Stage with Eagles of Death Metal at Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Check out the slideshow for behind the scenes footage of the band killing time in the dressing room and rehearsing their big TV performance. The last time I spoke with Jesse "Boots Electric" Hughes, the Eagles of Death Metal frontman and I casually discussed the idea of collaborating on a series ... More >>

Tonight: Eagles of Death Metal Shake Up the Mayan, Jesse Hughes Promises "The Greatest Night of Your Life, It Will End Rancor in Politics for All Time"

Well, he may have been kidding about that last part but Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse "Boots Electric" Hughes was dead serious about ensuring tonight's gig at the Mayan will be straight-up, hip-shaking, good time rock and roll for all who attend. The Los Angeles-based band led by Hughes and Q ... More >>

Rock Picks: Warped Tour, Pop Levi, Valient Thorr

Also, Previously on Lost, Raphael Saadiq, Liz Pappademas

Point-Counterpoint: The Pros and Cons of Steve Aoki

The Daily Swarm collects an argument currently consuming the web regarding the relative merits of L.A.'s reigning superstar DJ, Steve Aoki. A few days back Pitchfork (predictably) slammed Aoki's new mix, Pillowface and His Airplane Chronicles. Reviewer David Raposa gave it a 2.5, writing: "After 5 ... More >>

Hot Chip: Epics in Minutes

Why this is the most entertaining band in the world right now

Greetings from Suburbia

The Vegoose Music Festival pleases some of the people some of the time

Rock Picks: Detroit Cobras, Gore Gore Girls, MF Doom, Squeeze

For the week of August 9 – 16

Rock Picks: Bob Dylan, Martin Rev, The Saints

For the week of July 19-26

A Whole Lotta Whoop-De-Do

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Music Picks

For the week of August 17 - 24

Music Picks

For the week of August 3 - 10

Given to Flier

Run Run Run

Local bands, man

Look, Ma, No Cheese

Pearls and Brass’ The Indian Tower is rockly rocker’s rock

I’m Dreaming of a Kitsch Christmas

Grand Theft Autolux

Shit & Payola

Radio killed the radio star

Gonorrhea Gorgonzola

System of a Down’s fourth album, Mezmerize, is some crazy-ass bring-your-own-bong-style shit

Instant Rock for the People

With “Blue Orchid,”the White Stripes bring the rock the old-fashioned way: really fucking fast

Coachella 2005: The Year of the Cult

A highly opinionated user’s guide

Waves of Sympathy

Ain't Been Licked

Getting There

Re-Tooled

Knick Knack Paddy

Larger Than Life

Casting shadows with Fatso Jetson

Cocked and Loaded

Blowing away the music machine

Kid AAAA

Let There Be Rock

Super Furry Sound

A year in music

For Earth Below

Nebula: Synthetic dreams of metal machines