Andy Hermann

Insomniac Events has announced the 2015 dates for Electric Daisy Carnival, the EDM festival that, with over 400,000 attendees last year, can now plausibly bill itself as "North America's largest music festival." The 19th annual EDC (and fifth since the festival moved to Las Vegas from its original home in......

Like a lot of young musicians, Jessica Fichot initially wasn’t interested in her parents’ music. Growing up in France, “I only wanted to play and sing American music,” she remembers. But when she moved to Los Angeles after graduating from Berklee College of Music in Boston, that all changed. Watching......

We’ve been big fans so far of Sonic Highways, the HBO series in which Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters visit different cities around America seeking inspiration in their respective music scenes. Previous episodes highlighting cities like Chicago, Nashville and Washington, D.C., have pulled off a nifty balancing act, toggling......

After literally bumping into one another backstage at Coachella last year, singer/violinist/keyboardist Anna Bulbrook of The Airborne Toxic Event and guitarist Marc Sallis of The Duke Spirit decided to form a band together. Their group, The Bulls, offers collisions of a different sort, combining the pair's love of late '80s/early......

In 2012, L.A.-based Cambodian rock band Dengue Fever joined the growing ranks of recording artists taking control of the business side of their craft by founding their own record label, Tuk Tuk Records. They've since reissued most of their early catalog through Tuk Tuk, including their long out-of-print 2003 self-titled......

Taylor Locke has long been a fixture on the SoCal power-pop scene, first as lead guitarist for the band Rooney and later with his own '70s-influenced group, Taylor Locke and the Roughs. Now he's working on his first proper solo album, Time Stands Still — and when L.A. Weekly saw......