Kevin Bronson

Ryan Bingham ought to be a lot more famous than he is. The 29-year-old roots rocker has already won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for "The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)," as well as come up big in the scene he had in the Jeff Bridges movie......

The Maine are five cute lads from Tempe, Ariz., who are proving that there's still air left in that balloon known as pop-punk. They did one of those free, not-so-secret MySpace shows (it was announced at the last minute, anyway) at the Echoplex a while back, and there was a......

This summer's tour figures to be a bit bittersweet for the rabid fans who populate the Dave Matthews Band Nation. Matthews has said his group will take next year off so band members can spend time with their families. (Cue the snarky comments from that other nation, the League of......

You've perhaps debated the lineup, read Nightranger's survival guide, gotten the reasoned perspective from Falling James, seen a certain local blog's mixtape and even tried to gauge the hippie traffic patterns. You either have the compunction for Sunset Junction, or you don't. Fact is, it's a busy weekend for live......

One of the best Bettye LaVette stories came out of the veteran soul singer's performance a couple years ago at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C. In a nod to one of the year's honorees, the Who, LaVette delivered a show-stopping rendition of "Love Reign O'er Me." After the......

It's not a Presidential State Dinner -- at which they performed this spring -- but when Rodrigo y Gabriela arrive at the Greek Theatre tonight, it will be as one of the unlikeliest amphitheatre/festival headliners around these days. The Mexican duo of Rodrigo Sánchez and Gabriela Quintero have established themselves......

While the Killers have decided to give their engines a rest after seven years of making hits and touring behind them, frontman Brandon Flowers is keeping his motor running. He's struck out on his own, making a solo album Flamingo from songs he wrote while the Killers were on the......

You have to give it to L.A. art-pop ensemble Fol Chen: They keep it interesting. They're building up steam behind their second release for Sufjan Stevens' Asthmatic Kitty label, "Part II: The New December," an ear tickler of glitchy pop and falsettoed funk. They've made two of the coolest music......

The two most pressing questions about Saturday's HARD Summer in downtown Los Angeles have nothing to do with quality. With Soulwax, Crystal Castles and Major Lazer topping a bill that includes the likes of Flying Lotus and Diplo, promoter Gary Richards has assembled the kind of dance party that'll make......

The sophomore album by L.A. quintet Everest, On Approach, bears little of the twangy Americana that flavored 2008's Ghost Notes, but that doesn't mean the working-class rockers are changing their style. "Oh, we still wear flannel shirts," frontman Russell Pollard says. "Because we're too broke to get anything else and......