The aptly named Kate Tempest sweeps into town like a verbal whirlwind, casting out bold imagery like runes from her latest album, The Book of Traps & Lesson...
Savannah Pope belts out a dramatic, theatrical form of hard rock that’s suffused with surreal lyrics about vivisected animal mutations and apocalyptic tidal wav...
So many tours are packaged with sound-alike bands on the same bill, and many lineups are often determined by musicians’ corporate connections rather than musica...
So many modern bands have the classic punk-rock look down cold. Many are so good at mimicking their forebears that they almost sound like a real 1977-era group....
Masterful showman Buddy Guy pulled out all the stops at his August show at the Hollywood Bowl as the legendary blues guitarist turned his guitar inside and out....
“I think my mother could see in my wet eyes when I was born that I didn’t know how to keep my mouth, the way she would say it — I often felt like my stomach was...
There are guitar heroes, and there are guitar heroes. If you consider technical prowess alone, Alexander Noice is one of this city’s flashiest guitarists. But i...
“We bust the sound of outrage against the hate y’all made,” Chuck D declares, serious as death, on “Made With Hate,” the recent single by rap-rock supergroup Pr...
Jon Langford isn’t finished with L.A. just yet. The singer-guitarist played a satisfying albeit relatively rare local show with Mekons at Lodge Room in July, bu...
In 2003, an unknown singer named Mindy Smith stirred up attention with an especially poignant remake of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene.” A desperate plea to a romantic ...
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