Brett Callwood

Elliott Smith Figure 8 (DreamWorks) I remember the first time that I heard Elliott Smith. One of my first childhood girlfriends had burned me a couple...

The thirty-ninth LA Weekly playlist, reviewing the musicians that we’ve been writing about all week, is live now. There’s rock from the Hives and Coachwhips, me...

As I started thinking about the question of the best gig I ever went to, a few times my mind went to Austin, and to South By Southwest. There was Dávila 666 i...

Los Angeles-based party collective Space Yacht recently launched their own record label, and they're currently celebrating their six year anniversary with a...

Yarin Glam was just 14 years old when she moved with her family from a small town in Israel called Arad to the sprawling majesty of Los Angeles. As a child, she...

New York rapper Princess Nokia has come a long way since the 2014 Metallic Butterfly album, highlighted by last year's excellent Everything is Beautiful opu...

The man commonly referred to as Topic has been producing music since he was 16 years old, when his music teacher introduced him to computer-based music prog...

Phoenix metal veterans Sacred Reich are reissuing their first two albums -- Ignorance and The American Way -- plus the 1988 Surf Nicaragua EP through Metal Blad...

Rising Detroit R&B star J. Brown is on the crest of a soulful wave right now. Last year, his "Moon" single became his second to hit the Billboard R&...