Warped Tour

Converting from Christian Rock to Indie Rock

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

The Top Five Pop Punk Bands of All Time

Top 20 Greatest L.A. Punk Albums of All Time Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time In the past couple of decades, it's hard to think of a more-maligned genre than pop-punk. (That is, except nu-metal.) But it's a shame; and as someone who spent a lot of time listening to pop-punk in his preteens, I can app ... More >>

Jenny Lewis, Ab-Soul, Céu

Also, Vinny Golia Sextet, Mary Anne Hobbs, Delta Rae and others

Cityzen: Paralyzed From the Neck Down, Singer Toby Forrest Still Belts It Out

When Toby Forrest -- the vocalist for Los Angeles progressive funk rock band Cityzen -- was 22, his dream was to move from Arizona to Colorado to ski, make jewelry and play music. After college graduation, Forrest and his buddies went to the Grand Canyon, where he jumped off a cliff and did a swan ... More >>

Warped Tour - Cal State Dominguez Hills - 8/10/11 (With Gifs!)

Andrew Courtien​Warped Tour, featuring The Devil Wears Prada, Gym Class Heroes, SHARKS, Yelawolf, and more Cal State Dominguez Hills 8/10/11 Warped Tour is the longest running touring festival in the United States, older than the now dead Ozzfest and the immobile Lollapalooza. Throughout its ... More >>

Sum 41's Drummer Steve Jocz: "I Think We're Professional Morons, Not Musicians"

​Interview by Mikhael Agafonov Their latest release, Screaming Bloody Murder, is Sum 41's darkest one to date. Still, on August 10th, the Canadian punk band will make crowd jump during the annual Warped Tour, mixing classics like "Still Waiting" with brand new tracks like "Skumfuk." Steve "St ... More >>

Music Picks: Katy Perry, Phish, Deerhunter, Sia, Warped Tour

Also, Big Audio Dynamite, Jill Scott, Cypress Hill and others

Slaughter Survivors at Key Club 7/21/11

Conducting from the Grave​WHO: Slaughter Survivors Tour with Conducting from the Grave, The Contortionist, Scale the Summit, Rings of Saturn, Volumes, Structures WHERE: The Key Club WHEN: 7/21/11 Better than... Warped Tour Slaughter Survivors Tour, a blatant spin-off of the Summer Slaughter ... More >>

One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other: Our Off-the-Beaten Path Guide To Summer Festivals

​ One of the best parts about being at a festival are those moments you walk by a stage and have that "what the fuck" moment. It's when you hear something that just doesn't fit. It's the feeling some people probably had at Chaos In Tejas this summer when, coming from Unbroken's set, they stumble ... More >>

Music Picks: Willie Nelson's Country Throwdown, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs, Peter Murphy

Also, Erykah Badu, Andre Williams, Animals & Men and others

Full Warped Tour Lineup Leaked Early (Did Somebody Say Crabcore?)

Full Warped Tour Lineup Leaked Early (Did Somebody Say Crabcore?)

Top 10 'Punk' Moments On Film From The Authors of 'Destroy All Movies'

Lina LecaroZack Carlson and Bryan Connolly are voracious about movies and punk rock. ​According to NY music scene pioneer Richard Hell, "punk" stands for two things in our culture. First, "the possibility of pride and haven for kids rejected as worthless" and second, for "unhinged, violent, cr ... More >>

NIGHTRANGER: Maulings and Mohawks at the Movies

Is 10 Bucks Too Much For a Bottle of Water at a Gig?

​A 26 year old man died last Monday at the Bonner Springs, Kansas stop of the Vans Warped tour. The venue released the following statement following the death: Curtis Alan DeForest, age 26 of Wichita, Kansas, a patron attending yesterday's Van's Warped Tour at the amphitheater was transported ... More >>

Tonight: Circa Survive, Cold War Kids, Eels, Rademacher, PB Wolf, William Fitzsimmons

Circa Survive​When vocalist Anthony Green broke away from the Orange County screamo outfit Saosin six years ago, it didn't look like the best of career moves. Saosin was a rising star on the post-hardcore scene and poised to sign a major-label contract; Green was headed back home to Pennsylvan ... More >>

Fear and Loathing Pop-Punk Style: The Vans Warped Tour Kicks Off in Carson

By Colin Stutz Mothers and fathers with furrowed brows, are you concerned for your precious teens' well-being? Nervous that those impressionable youths might stumble down a dark staircase and onto a path of substance abuse, sex addiction, debauchery and crime? Uneasy of the world "out there" and ho ... More >>

This Weekend: Sharon Jones & Dap Kings, Dead Man's Bones, Warped Tour, Black Francis, Danzig

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings​Can it get any more real that Sharon Jones? Well, it can't get any more heartwarming. The leading lady of the Dap-Kings is, after all, a rising star at 54, having shucked the uniforms of her previous careers (corrections officer at Rikers Island, and armor truck g ... More >>

Nightranger: Gamer Gauche

Beach-punks and Ballyhoo: Pac-Sun's Seaside Sound and Swag Fest

The weather may have been breezy, but there was a definite warm-up going on at PacSun's Beach Ballyhoo in Santa Monica this past weekend -- warming up for skimpier fashions, warming up for summer sports like skateboarding and biking, and if the considerable showing of punky, pierced tweens was any i ... More >>

Live in L.A. This Weekend: Angels & Airwaves, Miike Snow, Enrique Bunbury, Flight of the Conchords, Nas & Damian 'Jr. Gong' Marley

Via Fuel.tvAngels & Airwaves​Say what you will about Angels & Airwaves' radio rock (outer-space emo is the phrase that comes to mind), but Tom DeLonge has a plan. Working around the cash register jingle of inevitable Blink-182 reunions, he's made three increasingly ambitious albums with his n ... More >>

Big Wangs, Little Wangs: Bieber, Glambert, Ke$ha and more at Wango Tango

No matter how indier than thou you think you are music-wise, uber pop hits can make it into your consciousness, whether you like it or not. Unless you make an adamant point of blocking them, these ubiquitous confections need not be heard on mainstream radio like KIIS FM, either. They will seep in vi ... More >>

Nightranger: In Bloom

A Fresh New Scent

Thelonious Monster to Play Surprise Echo Show Tonight in Advance of Warped Dates, Feature Film

Thelonious Monster is reuniting for their first show in 5 years tonight at the Echo, a surprise gig featuring a pretty impressive line-up of LA punk veterans, including: Mike Martt (Tex & The Horseheads, Steve Earle), Zander Schloss (Circle Jerks, Two Free Stooges) and Dix Denny (The Weirdos), bassi ... More >>

Videothing Does Black Lips at El Rey: "Better Than the Warped Tour"

Better late than never on this, but totally worth the wait. A few weeks back Videothing used the West Coast Sound guestlist portal to make their way with video camera into the Black Lips show at the El Rey Theatre.

Tonight at 826LA East: LA Music Writers Hold a "Seminar," Discuss Amazing Opportunities in Journalism

Tonight at the ever-inspiring 826LA East in Echo Park, directly behind the Echo Park Time Travel Mart, a bunch of music writers will be discussing their, er, craft, no doubt addressing hot button issues in the ever-exciting world of music journalism, a profession that is growing by leaps and bound ... More >>

Katy Perry Unpeeled — and Other Signs of Life in the Dead of the Grammys PressRoom

Including the buzz over Rihanna and Chris Brown, and revelations from Natalie Cole on heroin addiction

Behind the Scenes at the Grammys: In the Press Room, A Quiet Night Jolted Alive by Chris Brown/Rihanna Allegations

When you tell an outsider that you're "covering the Grammys," it sounds pretty swank. Before I did it for the first time, I imagined glamor, some rubbing shoulders, and, above all, a lot of music. But the reality is different. Those of us not covering the red carpet are planted in a hotel-confere ... More >>

From Cool Kids to Kanye: Top 10 Hip-Hop Albums Of 2008

By Dan Leroy A couple of weeks ago, an expert on the Harry Potter series told an audience of high school kids how lucky they were to have this Big Shared Experience--these seven books and 41,000 words in common. What does Harry Potter have to do with hip-hop in 2008? In an age when many year-end ... More >>

Katy Perry, Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna and Ghetto Gloss at the Clubhouse

Rock Picks: Warped Tour, Pop Levi, Valient Thorr

Also, Previously on Lost, Raphael Saadiq, Liz Pappademas

Beat Streets

Nightranger: Frocked Up

When the lights go down

Hardcore Scores

Son of a Beach

Rock Picks: Los Lobos, No Age, Los Abandoned, Slayer

For the week of August 23-30

Rock Picks

For the week of June 28 - July 5, 2007

Sunset Smackdown

Clowns to the left, hipsters to the right

Street Drum Corps

Hot and Bothered

Rock Out

Music Picks

For the week of July 6 -13

Festivus Maximus

Do you enjoy crowds, music and exhaustion?

See Betty Rock

L.A.’s fave band-you-love-to-hate ask: What’s wrong with rockin’ like high school?

Satire, Punk and Politics

Or, black people don’t like George Bush

Insane Clone Posse

The Hummable Revolution

Warped 'n' Woofers

Great Unwashed scrubbed squeaky clean

Harder ’n Emeralds