Kevin Bronson

Delorean's chipper set of dance music was one of the highlights of September's FYF Fest in downtown L.A. -- the Barcelona-born quartet's four-on-the-floor beats proved an exhilarating finish to what, for some, was a frustrating festival experience. With its layered vocals, keening synths and mainly straight-ahead pop songs, the band's......

A Perfect Circle's debut album Mer de Noms is a tick past its 10th birthday, but it has lost little of its sheen. The combination of Maynard James Keenan's aching vocals and Billy Howerdel's guitar veneer gave the quintet an immediate identity outside of its players' other projects, and after......

Whether you're all about the costumes or just in it for the tunes, Halloween weekend offers some massive show-going choices ... starting with, well, something very close to a massive. HARD Haunted Mansion, with an eclectic electro lineup including Bloody Beetroots, Busy P, Crookers, Jack Beats, Rusko, Calvin Harris, Boyz......

Seven albums in and 18 years on, Built to Spill has become a band for lifers -- there's something about Doug Martsch's leaden, catchy guitar hooks that never gets old, no matter how tightly you pack your earplugs. The pride of Boise, Idaho, is winding down what will probably be......

Spaceland manager Jeff Wolfram remembers the time some years back when two black men approached him in front of his Silver Lake club about the name on the marquee: The Negro Problem. "They asked, 'What's that all about?' and gave me some attitude," he says, re-enacting how he simply put......

The festival-closing Coachella set by Gorillaz back in April was as memorable for what it wasn't as what it was. The Damian Albarn-fronted collective went it without its typical big-screen animations and played unmasked -- with the Clash's Mick Jones and Paul Simonon joining for a set that included guest......

File under Halloween-appropriate shows that you don't have to dress up for: Murder ballads -- those creepy little tomes to our dark side -- will be the fare tonight at the Echoplex for a group of artists assembled by the people behind the New Los Angeles Folk Festival. And why......

Japanese duo Boom Boom Satellites have been churning out their stadium-sized electro rock for two decades now, but except for big-beat enthusiasts who probably have some of their albums shelved with Fatboy Slim and the Prodigy and fans who discovered their music in video games, they've never become a big......

If you take in Sufjan Stevens' shows in Los Angeles this weekend expecting some warm-and-fuzzy orchestral pop from a banjo-toting folkie, you've got another thing coming. In fact, dancing shoes may be in order. Stevens' newest album The Age of Adz is full of insistent rhythms, electronic noise and synthesizers......