Katie Bain

Lightning in a Bottle is moving to central California. This year's installment of the Do Lab-produced music and arts festival will take place May 29-June 1, 2014 at Monterey County's Lake San Antonio Recreation Area, in Bradley, California, West Coast Sound can exclusively report. Last year's festival, held at Temecula's Lake......

It's not that Raymond Weitekamp isn't making sense, it's just that the things he's talking about right now - polymars and the various wavelengths of the light spectrum and such - are impenetrable topics to someone with only a base level understanding of chemistry.  Wearing safety goggles and describing huge pieces......

We recently put out the call for the best under-the-radar L.A. groups performing live around town, and we heard back from tons of you -  not surprising considering L.A. is the country's musical epicenter.   Now, it's time for second round of voting. Below is a poll that lets you chose among......

Dada Life Avalon January 31, 2014 Better than: Bananarama The last time Dada Life played at Avalon, they caused a riot. Literally. The Swedish electro house duo's 2010 set the Hollywood venue was shut down by police in riot gear after a squirrely crowd trying to get into the over......

Darkside is the music's critical darling of the moment. The duo's recently released debut LP, Psychic, landed on many a best of 2013 list. An extension of the jam-band-in-space psychedelic sound first heard on their 2011 Darkside EP, Psychic is a darkly funky album that incorporates elements of electronic music and......

Bob Marley: I and Eye, an exhibition of photographs of the reggae superstar in Jamaica in the mid-'70s, opens tomorrow at Gallery KM. The show features images by photographer Kim Gottlieb-Walker and is presented by reggae archivist Roger Steffens. Steffens first travelled to Jamaica in the mid-1970s, toured with Marley,......

During the first week of December, you could have seen, among dozens of other shows, rapper Murs on the Sunset Strip, O.C. surf-rock outfit The Growlers in Echo Park, Israeli dubstep hellion Borgore in Hollywood, Latin jazz legend Sergio Mendes at Walt Disney Concert Hall downtown, local psych gods The......

Has selfie culture officially gone batshit? Oxford Dictionaries named "selfie" the word of the year in 2013 (it narrowly beat out "twerk" and "binge-watch") and anyone who goes to concerts sees audience members spending most of the show shooting themselves.   Now a marketing firm called 3d Public Relations is......

With its touchy feely subject matter and sometimes-cheesy visual aesthetic, trance music is sometimes mocked. Still, it boasts a devoted worldwide following. DJ Markus Schulz is one of the genre's marquee names. Based in Miami, he's been on the international circuit for more than a decade, performing a harder, more......

For some time now, many pop music's biggest stars have been producers. You've got your Diplos, your Pharrells, your Danger Mouses. Rick Rubin was a lynchpin of the biggest hip-hop albums of 2013.  But one question: Where the hell are all the women? You'd have to be a troll to......