Kevin Bronson

Our favorite first reaction to the music of The xx came from an obviously hopeless romantic we stood with at a South by Southwest show who deadpanned, "I don't know, I think I like my x's with o's." But that's tangential to the big news of the day -- the......

It's been a revelatory year or so for Kele Okereke. His band Bloc Party put on the brakes in 2009, announcing mid-tour that they were going on hiatus. (Surprise.) He quickly retreated to a London studio to make a solo album, The Boxer. (Surprise.) This spring he came out in......

Not quite 30 years since he founded Tears for Fears with Roland Orzabal, Curt Smith is happily ensconced in Los Angeles as a singer/songwriter/composer, social media maven and -- according to his Twitter feed -- recently certified youth soccer referee. In between following his kids' exploits on the pitch and......

It's been a slow climb, but MEN -- the three-year-old dance-punk trio fronted by JD Samson of Le Tigre -- will release their first album Talk About Body in February on L.A.-based label IAMSOUND. The current LA Weekly cover story, featuring an extensive talk with Samson and bandmates Ginger Brooks......

Danny Seim of experimental rockers Menomena jokes that the three-plus-year wait for his bands's fourth album owes to two years of touring, a substantial period making the new music and some time spent "arguing over it." So, Seims says, "in the wake of brutal disagreements, unrelenting grudges and failed marriages......

Musicians are having a hard enough time selling their wares these days -- imagine if they tried to sell folks on the mere promise of something. That's what signer-songwriter William James "Bleu" McAuley III did earlier this year. Using a campaign through the increasingly popular Kickstarter.com, Bleu joined myriad artists......

L.A.-based trio the Daylights -- Texans Ran and Ricky Jackson and Danish drummer Svend Lerche -- have a nice little buzz going, at least in the FM radio world. The trio's self-titled debut album, out today, bears the fingerprints of plenty of A-listers -- Youth produced it, and guys who've......

Eastern Conference Champions have operated comfortably under the radar since co-founders Josh Ostrander and Greg Lyons forsook their native Philadelphia for Los Angeles three years ago. That was about the time ECC divorced its label, Suretone, which had released the band's 2007 debut Ameritown, and bassist Vern Zaborowski, who passed......

Scissor Sisters' new album Night Work -- three years in the making, and re-making (they scrapped 18 months of work and started over) -- is a typically frisky, preening mash-up of glam and disco that contains a lot of you're-gonna-have-to-be-there moments. Fun, to be sure. But maybe not as rip-snorting......

David Lowery turns 50 years old on Friday, which means the man who gave us one of the finest lyrics of the '90s ("What the world needs now / is another folk singer / like I need a hole my head") is likely to be onstage tonight when the clock......