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It's been four years since the release of the last album, What Went Down, from Oxford, U.K. alt-rockers Foals. Since then, they've lost bassist and original member Walter Gervers, and have prepared two new albums for release. Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost, Part 1, came out at the start of March, with Part 2 due in the fall. The band play the Shrine this month, so we chatted with frontman Yannis Philippakis.

Some of the best gatherings in L.A. take place not in clubs or theaters but at more out-of-the-box locales such as stores, cafes and workspaces. Providing goods, services and, most notably, experiences inspired by their surroundings, these places reflect their proprietors' passions for their products, as well as their patrons.

Gunderman is perhaps best known as co-founder of contemporary art gallery ACME, which opened in 1992 and closed in 2017 after having made a profound impact on the L.A. art scene across a transformational generation. Since then, he and his wife, interior designer Sarah Walker, have moved from the Hollywood Hills to the ranch where he paints as much as he can, which explains his prolific output over the past eight months.

"The Best Gig I Ever Saw" is a weekly column that will see us ask a musician to chat about their favorite concert thus far. This week it's R&B-pop singer-songwriter Skylar Stecker.

L.A. has countless locales in which to see plays, hear music, catch screenings and experience pretty much anything one can imagine. And the best spaces are as much as about the venue itself as the entertainment offered. Whether they be historic spaces or new ones, these rooms offer sights, sounds and staff that are on point, letting the diverse performances and amusements inside shine.

The End Machine are a new band but the musicians in it are old hands. Classic-era Dokken singer-guitarist George Lynch, drummer Mick Brown and bassist Jeff Pilson (also of Foreigner) have joined forces with current Warrant singer Robert Mason. So is this just Dokken without Dokken?

When you walk into Pikoh, you feel like you’re walking into a Santa Barbara backyard full of kumquat trees and hanging plants. The owner, who likes to remain under the radar, says she wanted it to feel comfortable like her home and inviting to everyone. My first thought was, “This is Lunetta,” but the menu goes beyond your standard day-to-night cafe and explores Peruvian and Asian elements all wrapped into a California cuisine.

Five Feet Apart, Justin Baldoni's freshman directorial outing, follows the heartbreaking love story of two teenagers, both fighting a terrible disease that, tragically (in a vaguely Shakespearean way), links them together yet keeps them apart: cystic fibrosis, a brutal genetic disease that causes severe mucus buildup in the lungs and other organs.

L.A. Weekly publisher Brian Calle chats with Sara Tariq, one of the stars of MTV's new hit series, Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club, on this week's edition of the L.A. Weekly Weekly Podcast.

After 10 interviews for the recent Mötley Crüe and The Dirt cover feature, we were left with many thousands of words of transcription, much of it fantastic. But, of course, you can only fit so much into a 2,500-word feature. So allow us to share some of the unused material as we approach the film's release. Here's director Jeff Tremaine.