Kevin Bronson

With six decades of rock & roll in our slipstream, music fans are used to the notion that the future is sounding more and more like the past. Spend some time wi...

Need some positive force? Yeah, so do we. Olafela Olafemi Anikulapo Kuti (known as Femi), the son of Nigerian Afro-beat legend Fela Kuti, is renowned for live performances that feature exultant saxophone and even more celebratory dancing adding up to a sweaty spectacle of funk. But, as Kuti told S.F......

"If you were a color, what color what you be?" That inane conversation-starter has serious meaning for Welsh songstress Marina Diamandis. Diamandis, the brains and beauty behind Marina & the Diamonds (the precious gems, in this case, referring to her fans), has a condition known as synesthesia that allows her......

Our daily post might be a little holiday-light this morning, but your show-going plans might not be. And certainly there are some post-July 4 fireworks to be found, especially if you're into free music. Four residencies kick off tonight in Sliver Lake/Echo Park environs. Quickly: -- O.C.-bred Mississippi Man bring......

Chalk it up to one of music's little mysteries -- how the old synths and creaky drum machines on Dâm-Funk's sprawling Toeachizown can sound so new. L.A.'s "Ambassador of Boogie Funk," born Damon Riddick, unleashed that double-CD, five-LP collection on the world last year, and he continues to spring new......

If it's hard to regard the Dum Dum Girls' moody, distortion-drenched pop as anything more than the hipster flavor of the month, it's probably because of the creative left turn taken by frontwoman Kristin Gundred. She was the straw that stirred the drink as drummer-singer in Grand Ole Party, wailing......

The Golden State that emerges in the title track to Admiral Radley's debut album, I Heart California, is not the stuff of picture postcards, Hollywood or the Beach Boys. That much is evident by the end of the delicately sung first verse: "Drugs fall out of diaper bags/while Midwesterners stare."......

On the surface, the songs on the first EP in the Smashing Pumpkins' ambitious 44-song Teargarden by Kaleidyscope seem to reflect the time main man Billy Corgan spent communing with Spirits in the Sky. Spirits, the side project that emerged after the death last year of psych-rock legend Sky Saxon......

Tame Impala's fuzzed-out psychedelia embraces you like a warm drink and a bongload, and right now it's being embraced right back. In fact, in a few short weeks the Australian trio has earned its stripes as a buzz band, 2010 style. The credentials: They toured supporting MGMT. Their album "Innerspeaker"......

If only there were movies and TV shows about vampires for songs like the ones on Bloodletting. Oh, wait. There are. Few, though, are as truly dark and compelling as Concrete Blonde's seminal (so to speak) 1990 album, which gave the band its biggest hit in "Joey" and certified Johnette......