Andrea Domanick

Iceage The Echo 7/24/11 Better than...whatever you were doing between 12:15 and 12:35 last night. When it comes to live acts, Copenhagen's Iceage is a bullet train of band: powerful, direct and gone in the blink of an eye. They're even punctual--the punk quartet's L.A. debut at The Echo Sunday......

If Tyler, the Creator is the Father of decidedly unholy L.A. rap collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, then consider Hodgy Beats the Son and Left Brain the Holy Ghost. With the former on the mic and the latter on the beats, they preach the sinister gospel of......

WHO: Big Freedia, Limp Wrist WHERE: The Echoplex WHEN: 7/12/11 It's packed and stifling hot inside the Echoplex--the air has that disconcerting palatable thickness unique to being indoors in July. But the sold-out, sweaty, leather-clad crowd presses against the stage as fervently as ever, because Big Freedia has just thrown......

Shhh! Don't tell anyone, but we've gotten wind that hometown heroes Dawes are playing a suprise show Wednesday night with one Jackson Browne and Jonathan Wilson at The Satellite. The folk rock triumvirate is slated to tour Spain later this month. The show is just the latest in a slew......

Ever chock full o' surprises, organizers of L.A.'s annual Sunset Junction festival announced they've partnered with Silverlake landmark El Cid to host a new sixth stage at its 2011 festival. The news comes on the heels of the recently-announced Hotel Cafe stage at the fest and an awesomely bizarre throwback......

WHO: The Postelles WHERE: The Echo WHEN: 6/28/11 "Come on L.A., prove to me you're louder than New York!" Postelles lead singer Daniel Balk yelled to the crowd at Tuesday night's gig at the Echo. Met by modest cheers, he continued to evoke the age-old battle. "L.A., I know you......

If Wu Tang, Iggy Pop and the Flaming Lips threw a birthday party, it might approximate Odd Future's swag-as-hell show Saturday night at House of Blues Sunset. Swinging stateside amidst their first European tour, the horrorcore collective took the stage in full force: all members of Odd Future Wolf Gang......

Most bands might take pains to avoid having their new record described as "something my dad would like." But when it comes to L.A.'s own Dawes, who play a homecoming show Saturday at the Orpheum, they totally dig it. "I guess we do draw kind of an older crowd," drummer......

The past couple of years have seen a proliferation of summer festivals in the U.S., but many have been accompanied by a proliferation of financial swindles, musical shortcomings and logistical foibles. No festival is perfect, but last weekend's tried n' true San Miguel Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona showed us......