Falling James

It turns out that you can go home again, especially if you're Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice, it's the last night of your national tour, and you're in front of an adoring hometown crowd. The musical and romantic duo pulled unexpected rarities out of their set-list bag for the occasion,......

A few years ago, the notoriously forward-looking Neil Young was in a curiously sentimental mood, waxing nostalgic on his solo tune "Buffalo Springfield Again": "Used to play in a rock & roll band/But they broke up ... I'd like to see those guys again/and give it a shot/Maybe now we......

In what one hopes will be an annual tradition, Rhino Records returns again this year with a pop-up version of its beloved Westwood retail store, presenting two weeks of cutout-bin sales and surprise in-store gigs by a stellar lineup of pop-rock veterans. The concerts emphasize once again how much Rhino......

The St. Louis singer-provocateur Kristeen Young put on quite the fascinating one-woman show at the Hotel Café, defying the boundaries of technology, the laws of gravity and the mood swings of a fussy soundman. She was decked out in a style that was truly all her own, with a witchy......

As Mark Twain might say, rumors of the death of the Pipettes have been greatly exaggerated. Although the chemistry of the British pop group changed dramatically when Riot Becki and, especially, Rose Elinor Dougall left the band following the release of their first album, the current version of the Pipettes......

WHO: The L.A. Bluegrass Situation with the Watkins Family Hour WHERE: Largo WHEN: 4/28/11 The sounds of old-time Appalachian music were audible even before the audience entered Largo's sold-out Coronet Theater, as a crew of bluegrass musicians strummed, plucked and fiddled an impromptu acoustic set in the courtyard. Inside the......

There were rumors that a surprise special guest would open Emmylou Harris' show Thursday night at El Rey Theatre. Beforehand, fans tried to guess who the secret performer might be -- no easy task since Harris has collaborated with so many pop celebrities, including Linda Ronstadt, Bob Dylan, Mark Knopfler,......