Eve Barlow

Warpaint Fonda Theatre Thursday, October 13 Who goes to a Warpaint show to start a fight? When the curtain goes up at the Fonda at 10:30 p.m. for the L.A. foursome's final show of this first tour to promote a career-best third LP, Heads Up, co-frontwoman and guitarist Theresa Wayman......

There is a line in the sand between generations and it's marked "Frank Ocean." It seems that certain music elders are flummoxed by the internet's incessant begging for a new album from the loosely termed "R&B" visionary since the release of debut Channel Orange in 2012. They're bemused as to......

Minutes before Kanye West's L.A. pop-up store opens on Fairfax Avenue, the Beckhams are checking out the merchandise. Together with father David, Brooklyn (his spitting image, now somehow 17 years old, in a Yeezus T-shirt) and Cruz (11, sporting matching Vans with David) peruse the small space, checking out the......

It's rare to get puked on during an interview. But today, in an act of pure, unapologetic self-expression, Mira Pirrone spews up some off-white gunk over my hand in broad daylight, outside a bar in downtown L.A. She does it without making a fuss, or a sound. The newest member......

Radiohead Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles August 4, 2016 Radiohead return to the stage at the Shrine Auditorium for two encores on their first of two nights in Los Angeles. Taking their positions again for the second encore, proceedings stall. There's something up with the tuning of Thom Yorke's keyboard gear......

Halsey The Shrine, Los Angeles July 14, 2016 It's telling that the one-size-fits-all speech Halsey gives before singing "Hurricane," a track off her debut EP Room 93 (2014) can bend to the events that took place on Bastille Day, 2016. While there's a gravity and sincerity to her rallying cry,......

Beyoncé, Formation World Tour The Rose Bowl May 14, 2016 Two of the Kardashians (I don't know which ones, I'm no expert) are sitting behind me at Beyoncé tonight and they're on their iPhones the whole time texting. Who knows to whom. Maybe it's brother-in-law Kanye West, who's perhaps chilling......

It's a Monday afternoon and Bleached are stealing me away for a ride over the canyons and down memory lane in their big black truck. When they were teenagers, sisters Jennifer and Jessie Clavin built a riotous reputation as part of a '00s downtown scene based around the Smell, a......

Ms. Lauryn Hill Belasco Theatre March 2, 2016 When Lauryn Hill — or rather, Ms. Lauryn Hill, as she's professionally known — starts singing her version of Nina Simone's "Feeling Good" at 47 minutes past midnight in downtown Los Angeles, it is literally a new dawn and a new day......