Andrea Domanick

Patrick Wolf Hollywood Forever Masonic Lodge September 13, 2011 Better than... midnight mass. Patrick Wolf has never been one for moderation, whether invoking his howling namesake on 2003's electro Lycanthropy or a lovestruck schoolboy on 2007's orchestral The Magic Position. The Londoner is an artist better defined by emotions than......

(See also: Our The Kills and Eleanor Friedberger slideshow)​ The Kills The Wiltern September 10, 2011 Better than... a date with Jack Daniel's. Opening their nearly-sold out show with the song "No Wow" served as a palette-cleanser for Brit-American duo The Kills. Forget that singer Alison "VV" Mosshart fronts The......

See also: FYF Preview: The Descendents Attempt To Clone Themselves FYF Preview: Drinking Tequila With Tijuana Panthers FYF Preview: Keith Morris of OFF! Speaks on Friends and Foes This year's FYF Fest is rife with reunions, old favorites and up-and-comers. You might consider yourself a fest expert, but how much......

Sunset Junction Fallout, Part I: Charles Bradley Lost A "Major Financial Anchor" Of His Tour Sunset Junction Fallout, Part II: Local Businesses Got Screwed Sunset Junction's cancellation has hit lots of folks in their wallets; yesterday we told you about the affected local business owners. Meanwhile, though some ticket-holders can......

Additional reporting by Liz Ohanesian Sunset Junction's cancellation -- and the organizers' seeming subsequent disappearance -- has had folks scrambling to get their tickets refunded. Now, a week later, there has been some progress. We reported earlier today that those who bought discounted $10 ticket holders at the Silver Lake......

Sunset Junction Fallout, Part I: Charles Bradley Lost A "Major Financial Anchor" Of His Tour Sunset Junction Fallout, Part III: Art Brut Feared They'd Been "Bankrupted" Many Silver Lake businesses expected to take a financial hit when Sunset Junction got cancelled. Well, it turned out they did. "It was very......

Sunset Junction Fallout, Part II: Local Businesses Got Screwed Sunset Junction Fallout, Part III: Art Brut Feared They'd Been "Bankrupted" Last week's Sunset Junction fiasco left many folks disappointed, but the crowd at Charles Bradley's Sunday night Echo gig couldnt've been farther from it. The Screaming Eagle of Soul and......

(Editor's Note: Sunset Junction promoters insist the festival is still on this weekend, despite the denial of their permit yesterday. Artists and club owners are preparing for the worst, however.) Shortly after Sunset Junction's permit was denied by the Los Angeles Board of Public Works yesterday, artists began scrambling to......

L.A. acts like Warpaint, Odd Future, Foster the People and Best Coast have really been making the festival circuit rounds this summer, and this past weekend at Outside Lands in San Francisco was no exception. Eight L.A. artists -- including Best Coast and Foster the People -- were on the......

Leading today's pack of gnashing, anti-establishment wolves are Manchester's WU LYF, a quartet who play self-described "heavy pop." Formed in 2008, they are the latest followers in the Mancunian footsteps of Joy Division, the Buzzcocks and the Smiths, to name a few. Their debut, Go Tell Fire to the Mountain......