Kevin Bronson

It won't be until, say, album No. 3, at least, that you read a story about the Belle Brigade that fails to mention their lineage. So let's dispense with that right off the bat, shall we? The Los Angeles sextet is fronted by Barbara and Ethan Gruska, the children of......

Yeah, yeah we know: The Arcade Fire is playing a secret club show in LA. You were probably monitoring Arcade Fire's Twitter feed all week awaiting details about the Montreal group's surprise show tonight. Last night, that feed issued ZIP codes and graphic clues to where tickets for the concert......

Har Mar Superstar may be the unlikeliest dancefloor hero ever to perform in his underwear, but the pasty, diminutive songwriter/producer, born Sean Tillman, has proven over four albums that you don't have to have coiffed hair and a chiseled physique to fashion hooky R&B that moves bottoms. In fact, there......

That Os Mutantes' edgy brand of psychedelia and Tropicalia continues to get big ups from today's hipster nation (after being championed for years by everybody from Kurt Cobain to Beck to David Byrne) is testimony to the unbending passion in their music. The seminal Brazilian band, which last year signed......

The headline earlier this month in the New York Times read: "Young, Gifted and Outrageous: Can Odd Future Survive Popularity?" Which is a fair question. The outrageous L.A. hip-hip crew whose unabbreviated moniker is Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All has seen its profile spike dramatically over the past......

When Nick Cave unveiled Grinderman -- his project with Bad Seeds bandmates Warren Ellis, Jim Sclavunos and Martyn Casey -- the Australian songwriter described the music as a soundtrack to "a massive midlife crisis." So we suppose it's both good (for consumers) and bad (for the 53-year-old frontman) that the......

Almost anything goes in the Theater of OK Go. The art-pop quartet's headlining tour, which concludes Saturday in Los Angeles, has included (according to various online reports): Enough confetti to drown an arena full of Flaming Lips fans; the guys decked out in primary colors; a 3D presentation of the......

Good morning. We know there is quite possibly some tryptophan in your future, and we're here to help. Because a Thursday night is a terrible thing to waste, especially sitting on the couch in the company your television set. New Orleans quartet King Louie's Missing Monuments are here to help......

Just in time for Black Friday, Black Mountain and the Black Angels hit the El Rey Theatre tonight. It's one of the stops on something called the "Dropout Boogie Tour" that pairs the Vancouver psych-rock quintet with the Austin psych-rock quintet, and, cosmically speaking, the stars couldn't have aligned better......