Artemis Thomas-Hansard

Is the right to show your nipples a civil rights issue? So claims a movement called #FreeTheNipple, championed by Bruce Willis and Demi Moore's daughter Rumer Willis. Last night  she attended a rally at Skybar - atop the Mondrian Hotel Los Angeles - in support of women having just as much......

Rodrigo Amarante and Jenny O.Bootleg Theatre June 18, 2014 Rodrigo Amarante is a former member of Brazilian alternative group Los Hermanos and throwback indie rockers Little Joy. Last night at the Bootleg marked the kickoff of the Rio de Janerian singer-songwriter's U.S. tour.  While more than half of the songs on......

In 2010 South African songstress Katherine Mills Rymer met Danish composer Jenno Bjørnkjær while he was working on music for Lars Von Trier's Melancholia. From then on, it was clear the two were headed for a dark and dreamy soundtrack of their own. After Bjørnkjær wooed Rymer with his moody, romantic solo recordings, the......

We've been hearing for some time about how the music industry is in crisis. That may be so, but you wouldn't know if from the cost of concert tickets this summer. The below charts, courtesy of secondary ticket marketplace Vivid Seats, gives us the gory details for three of the city's......

Priscilla Ahn found her new album This Is Where We Are difficult to write. Why? Because, notes the 30-year-old Laurel Canyon resident, she's in love. "A lot of my older songs are about wanting to be loved or feeling like I belonged somewhere," says the singer-songwriter, who performs at Hollywood Forever Cemetery's Masonic Lodge......

Lykke LiThe Theatre at Ace Hotel May 19, 2014 Lykke Li performed at the Ace Hotel last night, at its historic 1927 Spanish Gothic style United Artists Theatre. She played before about 1,600 audience members, mostly dressed in all black - including the 28-year-old Swedish songstress herself. The attire seemed appropriate......

Editor's Note: The Vim Dicta is one of three finalists in L.A. Weekly's Best Live Band contest, with a winner to be chosen later this month by our panel of experts. Read about our other finalists, Mars and the Massacre and Yoya. Our third, and final, best live band finalist are the groovy, psychedelic, hard-rocking The Vim......

Iggy AzaleaRed Bull Sound Space 5-9-2014 Friday afternoon, Iggy Azalea took the stage looking like a life-sized Barbie doll. The show was held for an audience of about 200 Amp Radio listeners who had won tickets to the performance, celebrating Azalea's new record, The New Classic.  Booty shorts and charming......

Editor's Note: Yoya is one of three finalists in L.A. Weekly's Best Live Band contest, with a winner to be chosen later this month by our panel of experts. Read about our first finalist, Mars and the Massacre. Over the objections of our copy editor, Yoya spells their name "yOya." But why? "We thought it......

As the temperature rising, the albums coming out of California this spring and summer are pretty hot too. From indie to punk to R&B, here are the most anticipated albums scheduled for release before fall. 5. Kitten KittenDue Date: June 24 Running on the success of their 2011 EP, Cut......