A Black Pistol Fire show is always something to mark on one’s calendar most importantly because it will probably sell out (as it did Saturday night at the Troubadour in West Hollywood) and you definitely don’t want to miss it. The two piece plays something like old timey blues and rock-n-roll on a dirty porch […]

Touring in support of their fifth studio album Erase My Mind, Swedish indie-pop band Shout Out Louds are making their long-awaited return to the states. In their fifteen years as a group, they’ve achieved varying degrees of commercial success, opening shows for the likes of The Strokes and The Essex Green in their early years. But […]

Swedish indie-rockers The Sounds have been together for twenty years, now just as much experts on the music circuit as they are about spending prolonged periods of time with other people. Founded in 1988 by lead-singer Maja Ivarsson, Félix Rodríguez, Johan Bengtsson, and Fredrik Blond, the group added it’s final member Jesper Anderberg after meeting him by chance […]

This past weekend Tyler, The Creator and Goldenvoice teamed up for the sixth year of Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival at Exposition Park. The event drew contagious Tyler fans and hip-hop fans from around the globe. During both days of the festival, attendees were rushing back and forth from the Camp stage and Flog stage to […]

Yeah Yeah Yeahs Gloss 15 Years of Fever To Tell at Fonda Theatre As Karen O mentioned near the start of their Fonda Theatre gig Wednesday night, it had been four years since the Yeah Yeah Yeahs played a show. It had been four years since I last caught them live at the Glass House […]

iHeartRadio has announced their inaugural lineup for their ALTer Ego music festival! The festival taking place Friday, January 19 will feature performances by Mumford and Sons, Cage the Elephant, Beck, Spoon, Walk the Moon, Dashboard Confessional, The National and more artists to be announced. For a brand that constantly books the world’s biggest pop stars, […]

Colony House’s tracks can be best described as uniquely indie-rock. With grungier, synthesized songs like “3:20” and soft ballads like “This Beautiful Life”, Colony House’s discography truly embodies the entire spectrum of the genre. Anthemic choruses and uplifting lyrics characterize the bulk of Only The Lonely, the quartet’s sophomore studio album. The Nashville-based band’s lineup […]

Sparks Release 23rd Full-Length Album with Three Los Angeles Dates at the El Rey With a discography spanning decades and legacy of influences across genres, Los Angeles-born pop and rock act Sparks have made a career out of reinvention that’s culminated recently into the release of their twenty-third studio album, Hippopotamus. Comprised at its core of […]

Desert Daze is going off this weekend October 12-15 at the Institute of Mental Physics in Joshua Tree, CA. Nestled in the scenic desert, attendees can enjoy a gorgeous natural landscape (and stars for days) including the visionary architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and son Lloyd Wright. This year’s Desert Daze lineup will include: Iggy […]

Spaceland and Restless Nites have teamed up to deliver the first every Cloak & Dagger Festival. Taking place Friday, October 20 through Saturday, October 21 at the Globe Theatre and The Palace Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles, the Cloak & Dagger Festival will make its debut. Filling two theaters with a unique lineup of acts […]