Artemis Thomas-Hansard

A hundred and sixty miles from Los Angeles, past Joshua Tree and Twentynine Palms, down a nine-mile stretch of sun-bleached asphalt called Amboy Road, you'll find the Palms. The family-style restaurant and dive bar occupies a dystopic patch of disintegrating ranches, boarded-up one-room shacks and haphazard strips of mailboxes to......

Look up any other profile of breakout indie-pop singer-songwriter Zella Day and you'll find a story about a young girl, frolicking barefoot through the wide-open fields of Pinetop, Arizona, a place with a population of about 4,200, where the closest guitar lesson was four hours away. A place where Day......

Sure, Los Angeles is expensive as hell (and impossibly expensive if you make under $85K a year), leaving many of us to scrimp and save for our days of fun in the sun. Luckily, we Angelenos are also blessed with a lot of free stuff, like over 300 summer concerts and......

Friday, May 1 Phoebe Bridgers ORIGAMI VINYL Phoebe Bridgers is one of the most dynamic young artists in the local scene, whether playing bass in violently theatrical and totally badass grunge-punk group Sloppy Jane or softly strumming an acoustic guitar, her voice vulnerable as her cadence lilts and wades through words about......

"Sometimes I feel like the word 'community' has this kind of square vibe to it," says Mason Rothschild, bassist of Los Angeles mecha/ fantasy rock act Fever the Ghost. He's talking about stuff like old people arguing grievances in a town hall, "or like, soccer moms" (not that there's anything......

You know those "Shit People Going to Coachella" parody videos on YouTube? Screw that. Reality at Coachella 2015 is stranger and funnier than what any Funny or Die wannabes could come up with. Here are 25 of the most memorable things our professionally trained eavesdroppers have heard on the polo......

When Jasmine Safaeian moved from Iran in 1994, she was seven years old, didn't speak a word of English, and slept on her aunt's floor for nearly a year after arriving in America. She came with her mother, an electrical engineer, while her father, a civil engineer, stayed behind for......

Thursday, April 2 The Giving Tree Band, The Cerny Brothers PAPPY & HARRIET'S PIONEERTOWN PALACE Yeah, sure, we wish Pappy & Harriet's was just a little closer, but when they give us free shows like this? We can't really complain. Catch popular "new age outlaw" folk-rock act The Giving Tree Band......

Burgerama typically draws a pretty motley crew, but most attendees usually fall somewhere along the spectrum of blue-mohawked, tie-dyed, and skater bros. For the past three years, the festival has stayed loyal to acts like White Fence, Black Lips and FIDLAR, with tons of the same bands appearing and then......

This year's Burgerama festival lineup is as impressive, and unexpected (Weezer?!), as ever. We know you're already stoked to see FIDLAR, Ty Segall, Ariel Pink and Thee Oh Sees, but here are our picks for best of the rest: the rare appearances from bands you definitely shouldn't miss, and bands......