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Soundgarden - The Fonda Theatre - 11/27/12

Soundgarden The Fonda Theatre 11/27/12 Better than...watching reruns of Headbanger's Ball When Chris Cornell announced on New Year's Eve three years ago that school was back in session and Soundgarden was reforming, no one knew quite what to expect. Would the band simply hit the road for a one-of ... More >>

Music Picks: India.Arie, Merle Haggard, Endangered Blood, Little Dragon

Also, Lupe Fiasco, Yelawolf, Miguel Migs, Chad VanGaalen and others

Michael Cera No Longer in Indie Band Mister Heavenly. Turns Out He Never Was?

Evan CulbertsonMichael Cera​Story by Ian Joulain Back in December the music blogosphere got all hot and bothered. Turns out there was a new indie supergroup afoot, with Michael Cera on the bass! The band was tweely named Mister Heavenly, and it featured Islands' Nick Thorburn, Man Man's Hon ... More >>

Music Picks: Adele, Wanda Jackson, Bootsy Collins, Buffalo Springfield, Gayngs, Amor de Dias

Also, Cerebral Ballzy, Sea of Bees, Shabazz Palaces, Miasmal and others

From the Archives: Jonathan Gold's "13 Ways of Looking at Nirvana" (Kurt Cobain, RIP 17 Years Ago Today)

Kurt Cobain, RIP (1967-1994)​Today, on the 17th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's untimely death, we reprint the following reflections from Jonathan Gold, originally written seven years ago. 1. A friend's East Village studio somewhere in July 1989. Nirvana, who had slept on the floor, are pissed, ... More >>

Michael Cera Joins Mister Heavenly's All-Star Indie Lineup for West Coast Tour

Michael Cera Joins Mister Heavenly's All-Star Indie Lineup for West Coast Tour

Today's New Releases: Stereolab, Girl Talk, Dum Dum Girls and Tommy Santee Klaws

​ STEREOLAB, NOT MUSIC (DRAG CITY) Twenty years and 12 albums in Stereolab gives us Not Music, a record derived from the same sessions that produced 2008's Chemical Chords and released during their self-imposed hiatus. This mix of "new" songs and remixes of "old" ones is fantastic, but if you ... More >>

Music Picks: Neil Innes, Korean Music Festival 8, Avi Buffalo, Lupe Fiasco, Coheed and Cambria

Also, No Age, Sheila E & the Escovedo Family, Greg Laswell and others

Music Picks: Gary Numan, Ana Moura, Mark Sultan, XBXRX

Also, California E.A.R. Unit, Bonobo, Mr. Gnome, Grouper and others

INCHES reviews Ascend, Blank Realm, Active Child, Ernest Gonzales [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 record-making community (artists and labels, indie or other), believing tha ... More >>

The 10 Best L.A. Albums of the ’00s

From Beck and Dilla to Fiona, Jenny and Quasimoto, a mishmash decade of Southern California sounds

Rock Picks: J. Tillman, Peaches, Japandroid

Also, Franklin Bruno, the Vic Chesnutt Band, the Moore Brothers and others

Last Night: Avi (and the Bunnyman) Get Pro @ the Echo

Review by Daiana Feuer. Back in the distant mists of last April, the Echo held its first ever all-ages residency for Avi Buffalo (then and now supported by his mate Bobb Bruno). Since then, it seems 18-year-old Avi Zahner-Isenberg and his bandmates skipped much of the learning curve and went strai ... More >>

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 >>

INCHES reviews Lambo, Marshmallow Ghosts (mbrs of BMSR, Appleseed Cast), Bipolar Bear, and Pink Noise (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 >>

Grizzly Bear and Beach House at Palladium

View more photos in the "Grizzly Bear, Beach House @ Palladium" slideshow. Last night New York band Grizzly Bear made its Palladium debut to a packed house of head-nodders and quiet groovers. It was a night in which the human voice reigned supreme. Timothy NorrisVictoria Legrand of Beach HouseR ... More >>

Rock Picks: Steve Earle, Polvo, These Arms Are Snakes, Correatown

Also, Bob Dylan & His Band, Motorhead, John Doe & Exene Cervenka and others

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: Pelican, Herman Dune, Rasputina, Bill Frisell, Random Patterns

Also, the Rakes, Cold War Kids, Idan Raichel Project and others

Will the Stink of Success Ruin the Smell?

Downtown L.A.'s DIY haven tries to keep it real as the club's best-known ambassadors - No Age, Mika Miko and Abe Vigoda - hit the mainstream

Tonight at the Smell: The Godfather of Indie, K Records' Calvin Johnson

Among Calvin Johnson's many accomplishments over the course of his illustrious career: He was part of the petri dish that morphed into Sub Pop Records in the early 1980s. He founded K Records in 1982, a label that has gone on to release some of the first and best recordings by Beck, Bikini Kill, ... More >>

The 50 Best Albums of the Year (#20-11) (Sponsored By Teen Wolf Too)

Some might say this was the finest work Jason Bateman would ever do. 20. Al Green-Lay It Down (Blue Note) What more did you want from Al Green? Did you want him to wear Levar Burton sunglasses and use auto-tune? Did you want him to do a ladies only tour? Did you want him to employ interplanet ... More >>

Rock Picks: Antony & the Johnsons, Kings of Leon, Jay-Z

Also, Joan Osborne, Earl Zero, Petra Haden and more

F Yeah: Frickin' Yes in the Summertime

This weekend's fest offers a glimpse into the future of rock & roll

Rock Picks: Spindrift, Randy Newman, The Gutter Twins

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

Wolf Parade’s At Mt. Zoomer: Great Record, Terrible Title

Regardless of what you think of their music, you've got to respect Wolf Parade. When Apologies to the Queen Mary dropped in late 2005 and every music journo prematurely slapped "next Arcade Fire" tags on them, they very easily could've played the comparison to the hilt, touring relentlessly, made ... More >>

Another guide to more LA Bands at SXSW

In our ongoing attempt to prop some worthy musicians headed to Austin this week, yet another list of LA bands/songwriters to chase down at SXSW in Austin this week. This is a tipsheet for those of you with $$$ in your eyes. Looking for a band to break, license, co-opt, manipulate, convince to sell o ... More >>

Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#10-6)

10. Spoon-Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga [Merge] Sasha Frere-Jones is a joke and Spoon can prove it. I mean, if all I had to judge indie rock on was the Arcade Fire and the Decemberists and Sufjan Stevens (all acts I like), maybe I might come up with something as hackish as his risible blow-up, but the best R& ... More >>

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

For the week of August 9 – 16

Math Rock, M.I.A., and the Secret of iTunes Plus

Rock Picks

For the week of May 10 – 17

Sales Go Soft. Shins Go Limp. Rock Critics Go Limper.

Given to Flier

Music Picks

For Feb. 17 - 23

A Boy Named Rogue

You know rogue states and Rogaine; now meet Sub Pop’s Rogue Wave

Lit Up and Emotional

Body Invaders

Sonic booms and Comets on Fire

The Muffs Grow Up

Ray Charles Hits the Road

Motor City Madness

A garage full of Detroit rock

Get Loose

Afro-beaten, Afro-burned

Flannel Surfing

Peppermint Twist

The White Stripes’ blues in the red zone

For Earth Below

Nebula: Synthetic dreams of metal machines

The Tao of Pop

Saint Etienne unbounces back

Imaginary Things

Dispatches From the Devil’s Road

Under Desert Skies

Beachwood Sparks, sons of the pioneers