Taj Mahal

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

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Friday, June 14 LoveyDove CASEY'S PUB One of Los Angeles' choicest homegrown musical sensations, boy-girl adventure team LoveyDove have created an unusually irresistible blend of artful expression, psychedelic atmospherics, ... More >>

Gatsby Is Sometimes Great But Not Always Good

Feel Like Going Home

Bob Dylan Turns 70

An L.A. Weekly birthday tribute

Cheerio, Magna Carta: Nine Important Historical Documents in L.A Right Now

Magna Carta​ A document can make a big difference, as the Birthers are currently proving in all the wrong ways. The Magna Carta -- a document whose Madonna-level status requires you to drop the "the" and refer to it simply as "Magna Carta" -- reframed the relationship between royalty and us re ... More >>

Grammy Party Report #3: Relentless Rhythms at Roots Jam and The Black Keys on Deck at Hemingways

Lina LecaroRoots' Capt. Kirk Douglas and Jimmy Fallon- less talkin,' more rockin.'​ You never know who might pop up on stage at the Roots Jam, which was, with the exception of Clive Davis' A(ss)-list kiss/croon-a-thon, the most buzzed about bash Saturday night. It was wishful thinking of cour ... More >>

West Africa Meets West Coast: Vieux Farka Touré and More Malian Guitar Greats

West Africa Meets West Coast: Vieux Farka Touré and More Malian Guitar Greats

This weekend: Sufjan Stevens, Interpol, the Temper Trap, Shakira, Monster Massive, Bobby Brown

Denny RenshawSufjan Stevens​If you take in Sufjan Stevens' shows in Los Angeles this weekend expecting some warm-and-fuzzy orchestral pop from a banjo-toting folkie, you've got another thing coming. In fact, dancing shoes may be in order. Stevens' newest album The Age of Adz is full of insist ... More >>

Music Picks: Batusis, Interpol, Minus the Bear

Also, Taj Mahal, Shakira, Sufjan Stevens and others

Tonight: The Dead Weather, the Gaslight Anthem, Rihanna, Keane, Gram Rabbit, Chris Shiflett & the Dead Peasants

Floria SigismondiThe Dead Weather​What can we say about the Dead Weather that you don't already know? That they really really could have done better on the video for "Blue Blood Blues?" That Jack White covering "Creep" with Conan O'Brien was stranger than fiction? That Alison Mosshart has a ... More >>

Complete 1966 Otis Redding Show Live on the Sunset Strip To Be Released

​Here's a scoop for you: We hear from very reliable sources that Stax Records (the current version of the classic Southern Soul label recently revived by Concord Records) will be releasing a completely restored version of Otis Redding's legendary 1966 appearances on LA's very own Sunset Strip ... More >>

Busy LA Weekend: Dudamel, Yorke, Byrne, Eagle Rock Music Fest, Faithfull

Busy weekend of music ahead, one of the most action-packed of the season. We, in fact, are being pulled in about six different directions. Tonight, if you're lucky and/or connected, you may be at Thom Yorke and band's first ever show, which is at the Echoplex. Across town in Pasadena, David Byrn ... More >>

SONGSTRESS-MUSICIAN SUNNY WAR

She's going to blow your mind

Shutting Down Public-Access TV

AT&T and L.A. City Hall quietly lead a national push to silence the little guy

Rock Picks: Ice Cube, Bob Dylan, Dog and Pony Show

Also, Chuck Berry, Southern Culture on the Skids, Paul Weller, and more

Long Beach Calling

Long Beach Calling!

What to do in L.A., August 29-September 4

Riverside's Castle Park: Southern California's Minigolf Mecca

Splendor in the "grass" among pagodas, minarets and mine shafts

Ben Harper, Jackson Browne, Claremont Folk Festival, 5/3

Ben Harper, Jackson Browne Claremont Folk Festival, Sycamore School May 3, 2008 Photos and Text by Ryan Colditz Nestled neatly inside the Inland Empire is Claremont, an unassuming, quaint city with a "small town" feel. But there's much more to Claremont than clean streets and a great record store ... More >>

Claremont Folk Festival

By Ryan Colditz Get the folk out of the city on Saturday and mosey on over to Clarmont (just a few miles past the Glass House in Pomona) for the 28th Annual Claremont Folk Music Festival, held at Sycamore Elementary School. Sounds boring, right? WRONG. A full day of art and music performances ... More >>

Record Reviews: Toumani Diabate, Wye Oak, Boris

Also, Wighnomy Brothers, HEALTH, Elbow

Ash Grove: The Other Side of Melrose

Think the "freak folk" movement is a new conceit?

Rock Picks: Lucinda Williams, Fuck Buttons, The Sword

Also, Kanye West, The Black Heart Procession and more

Tasty Comments on Bacon-Wrapped Dogs

And more from the Weekly's audience

Movie Reviews: The Bucket List, Persepolis, The Great Debaters

Also National Treasure: Book of Secrets, and more

Rock Picks: Stevie Wonder, Lucinda Williams, The Frames

For the week of Aug 31 – Sept. 6

So Long, Summer 2007, We Hardly Knew You

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Edward James Olmos

The Chameleon

Inside Looking Out

In a new documentary, Robert Wilson takes center stage

Music Picks

For the week of April 28 - May 4

Music Picks

For the week of April 21-27

The Immense Sweetness of Amadou & Mariam

Malian couple’s collab with Manu Chao proves love is blind, not deaf

The Subway Mayor

How a bus-only politician — and a car-obsessed city — are learning to love the underground

Is It Life or Is It Memorex?

In an extraordinary new film from China, all The World’s a stage

Welcome to Inglewood — Leave Your Aspirations Behind

For Erin Aubry Kaplan, coming home has been a labor of tough love

The Deepest Cut

The Revelators

Martin Scorsese’s blue Christmas

Five Things That Make L.A. Party Style Unique

Event planners Bryan Rabin and David Rodgers of Rabin Rodgers Inc.

Ten Years and a Cloud of Dust

Crenshaw in slow motion

Not a Movie

Watching the unwatchable

Cooked Bakery

Van de Kamp’s to become a hardware giant

Taboo

Jon Hassell, hyperreality and the magic of tone

Shimmy Shimmy Globopop

West Africa's Kora-strumming griots

History in the Baking

Demolition threatens another L.A. landmark

Star Struck

Getting hit on the head in Tina Landau's Space

Offbeat

Pop Purée

Summertime

A calendar of festivals under the sun and stars

Security to the Stage