Kevin Bronson

Tonight's musical headliner at the El Rey Theatre has no albums, no mp3s, no songs on the Internet, scant YouTube presence, and not even any merch, unless you count guitar picks from a 2007 tour, and those are sold out. No, with the experimental rock ensemble RRIICCEE, you get only......

Even the coolest of cool kids -- you know, the ones who can eloquently extol the virtues of MGMT's second album Congratulations -- have a soft spot the size of Brooklyn for hits like "Kids" and "Time to Pretend." That's the kind of chewy, sweet electro-pop that New Zealand quintet......

You (and your fellow audience members) have died and gone to the underworld. You're in a waiting room, waiting to be processed. To entertain you, the gatekeeper drags various unsuspecting souls onto the stage to "perform songs defending their character and existence." And you thought American Idol was hell. But......

Andrew McMahon, the 28-year-old Orange County-bred songwriter behind the bands Jack's Mannequin and Something Corporate, is just happy to be here. In 2005, just before the release of the first Jack's Mannequin album, he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia -- which was treated, among other ways, with a stem......

Can we get an exclamation point for Fitz & the Tantrums? The stylish purveyors of old soul helmed by Michael Sean Fitzpatrick and Noelle Scaggs have had a quite a 2010. They started the year practically as a novelty -- a slick band with nice EP and a great live......

Greg Dulli's estimable swagger and charm have been playing awfully well on his first-ever solo tour. The former Afghan Whigs and current Twilight Singers frontman (and one of Los Angeles' favorite saloonkeepers) is winding down a five-country, 29-stop tour on which he's playing stripped-down versions of songs from his bands'......

Color us among the many who were thrown for a loop by Penny Sparkle, the latest album from long-running Blonde Redhead. With Misery Is a Butterfly (2004) and 23 (2007) having elevated the New York City trio beyond cult status, Kazu Makino and twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace took......

"I went from being a college dropout to being NME's top-four cool list," Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino tells the Weekly's own Gustavo Turner in last week's cover story. "It's just bizarre the way life kind of turns and changes sometimes." Yeah, we'd say so. The L.A. trio's modest frontwoman and......

During their year of touring dangerously, San Diego-bred, L.A.-based quartet the Soft Pack have succeeded in getting everyone to forget their old band name ... you know ... the one that people misunderstood ... and they tired of answering questions about ... what was that name, anyway? No, 2010 has......

His late-summer round of warm-up shows having done nothing but stoke the fires of adulation in fans' hearts, Brandon Flowers is now taking on bigger rooms in a U.S. tour that begins this week. The Killers frontman has received a warm embraced for his solo debut Flamingo, which came out......