Andy Hermann

Steely Dan fans get a bad rep for being snobby jazzbos who only like eight-minute songs with saxophone solos and overuse the word "musicianship." Which is probably why the Internet's collective mind was blown when it was announced they would be performing at Coachella. How could Steely Dan's pretentious, aging......

We get it, Coachella. You've got over 100 acts and only about 36 hours to cram them all onto your six stages, so there's bound to be some overlap. And for the most part, you do a good job of putting acts head-to-head that have little chance of cannibalizing one......

Before he launched his rap career as one-half of the acclaimed duo U-N-I, Thurz was just another kid from Inglewood, growing up with a single mom and a few J. Dilla and Tribe Called Quest records. "Right Now," the third single off his excellent Designer EP (released last fall via......

Low End Theory co-founder, Hellfyre Club head, and sometime L.A. Weekly columnist Nocando is working on his next album, and so far the material he's releasing from it is pure fire. After creeping us out with the eerie visuals of his video for the menacing "3rd World Hustle (An American......

Jeremy Brown, guitarist for Scott Weiland and his backing band the Wildabouts, had died, according to a post on the rock frontman's Facebook page. Weiland had previously canceled a performance scheduled for Monday night at Bardot's popular School Night concert series, and later confirmed Brown's passing as the cause of......

Every music festival should have a setting as gorgeous as San Diego's Waterfront Park, the impossibly idyllic backdrop for CRSSD, a new electronic music festival that took place over the weekend. With the sparkling waters of San Diego Bay on one side and the stately County Administration Center building on......

An 11-second video of a spinning roulette wheel posted on the HARD Fest Facebook page Sunday fueled a week's worth of wild rumors about this year's HARD Summer festival. As previously reported, the EDM extravaganza was unlikely to return to last year's location, Whittier Narrows, or to its 2010-2013 site,......

It was bad enough when Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams tried to ruin the summer of 2013 with their smug turd of a pop tune, “Blurred Lines.” But that was just one summer, and it was somewhat redeemed by Pharrell's other big 2013 collab, “Get Lucky.” Within a few months,......

Stone Temple Pilots are forging ahead with new lead singer Chester Bennington, who joined the band in 2013 after they fired Scott Weiland. Today the band announced a spring tour with Bennington at the mic, presumably performing classic STP material alongside songs from their five-song EP with Bennington, High Rise,......

Sparks The Theatre at Ace Hotel Sunday, February 15 It's not easy being a Sparks fan. Over the course of their four-decade career, L.A.-bred brothers Russell and Ron Mael have thrived on defying expectations, constantly reinventing themselves and their sound: from glam-rock to synth-pop to chamber music to whatever you......