Andy Hermann

Every December, L.A. Weekly's sister publication the Village Voice polls some 600 music critics and journalists (including several Weekly editors and contributors) to create Pazz + Jop, the mother of all year-end best-of lists. It's so massive it doesn't even come out until January, because it just takes that damn long......

After Tuesday's lineup announcement, three-day passes for both weekends of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival went on sale Wednesday, Jan. 7 at Noon. By 12:40 p.m., they had sold out, making this year's Coachella the fastest-selling to date. Predictably, resellers are already hawking Coachella passes at nosebleed prices......

To hell with the naysayers. Coachella 2015 is going to rock. Here are 10 reasons why. 10. More Latin music. Given Southern California's huge Hispanic population, Coachella's relative lack of Latin and Spanish-language music has always puzzling. This year's lineup still doesn't fully address the imbalance, but it's an improvement......

So Coachella announced its 2015 lineup earlier today, and as usual, the Internet went bazonkers. Why the furor this year? Was it over the presence of a Malcolm Young-less AC/DC? Jack White's first appearance as a solo artist? Reunion shows by Ride and Drive Like Jehu? The general consensus (which......

The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival has announced its lineup for 2015. AC/DC, Jack White and Drake will headline, with Tame Impala, Hozier and St. Vincent among the many noteworthy acts further down the bill. Tickets go on sale tomorrow (Wednesday, Jan. 7) at Noon PST at www.coachella.com. See......

“I’m not even gonna bother you with the gory details,” Travis Ryan, lead singer of Cattle Decapitation, told the mostly black-clad audience at Los Globos. “This next one’s just…gross.” He may as well have been introducing any of his San Diego quartet’s songs. Cattle Decapitation specialize in a sub-genre of......

YG's My Krazy Life was one of our favorite albums of 2014, thanks in no small part to DJ Mustard's infectious beats. It was released way back in March via a major label, Def Jam Records. So is it really possible that Mustard was never paid for his work? That's......

This just in: It turns out famous musicians spend the holidays just like the rest of us! Don't believe it? We combed the Instagrams for proof. Tyler, the Creator went for the suburban holiday nostalgia trip, while also reminding us about his upcoming New Year's Eve show at Club Nokia and......

Anyone who thinks we're not living in another golden age of music videos hasn't spent enough late-night hours surfing YouTube in search of New Zealand electro-pop and Russian techno. Sure, the big budgets of MTV's heyday are mostly a thing of the past, but that hasn't stopped a new generation......

Yet another major regional music festival is coming to the Southland: CRSSD Festival, which will arrive in San Diego March 14 and 15. Co-produced by Goldenvoice and San Diego concert promoter CRSSD FNGRS, the festival will feature an EDM-heavy lineup, including headliners Chromeo, Classixx, DJ Harvey, Flight Facilities and Empire......