Daniel Kohn

For the better part of the past 40-plus years, Paul Stanley has been known as the lead singer of KISS. But there’s more to being a rock icon than painting your face and putting on a dynamic live show. In his autobiography, Face the Music, Stanley mentions early on how......

FIDLAR blew up in 2012 and 2013, with an acclaimed self-titled debut album and tours opening for The Hives and The Black Lips. But last year was one that FIDLAR are glad is over. While sonically they’ve emerged as a more complete band, 2014 was fraught with personal and logistical......

For years, Nicola Berlinsky had been a fan of her colleague Lisa Pimentel’s music. A musician in her own right, Berlinsky — a fourth grade teacher at the Oakwood School in North Hollywood — had seen her friend perform live, which inspired her to dust off her drum kit. One......

As cars zip past the Canyon Country Store on a humid afternoon, Ben Lee glances over his shoulder at the passing traffic, takes a sip of his coffee and flashes a grin. Having lived here in Laurel Canyon for the better part of the past nine years, after nearly seven years......

In the four years since the release of Death Cab For Cutie’s last album, the changes in frontman Ben Gibbard's life have had a profound impact on his music. First there was the well-publicized split from his ex-wife Zooey Deschanel in 2011. Then last year, it was announced that longtime......

In the middle of 2013, Jjamz were lost. Even with local interest in the indie-pop group peaking — as seen in the over-capacity crowds squeezing into their residency at the Satellite — and an album, Suicide Pact, released on Dangerbird, the quintet felt rudderless. The group, most of whose members......

A few weeks before their sophomore album, Dancing at the Blue Lagoon, is set to be unleashed to the masses, Zach and Ben Yudin appear to be disinterested. Hiding behind thick sunglasses on a late June afternoon, the twins nurse an espresso and coffee at Silver Lake’s Casbah Cafe. A......

“This is the first night at this joint,” Spoon singer/guitarist Britt Daniel remarked to the sold-out Teragram Ballroom crowd about an hour into the band’s 90-minute set on Sunday, May 31. “Who’s getting good Instagram photos of this place?” Social jokes aside, the much-ballyhooed venue was worth the wait. First......

Before U2 hit the stage for night two of their five-night run at the Forum on Wednesday, there were murmurs in the crowd that this wouldn’t be like any of the shows on the mostly well-received tour. Early that morning, the band’s longtime tour manager Dennis Sheehan died, leaving fans......