Forecast: 20 Los Angeles Bands / Artists to Watch in 2020

It’s about that time! We’ve flipped our cards and shined our crystal balls and now it’s time to present you all with our annual forecast of Los Angeles artists / bands to watch in the new year. This year we upped the ante from 15 L.A. bands to 20! And trust, after what we saw […]

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Sandra B. Olinger
echo park rising 2019
45 Must-See Bands at Echo Park Rising 2019

Echo Park Rising is coming to the streets of Echo Park, in East Los Angeles this Thursday, Aug. 15 – Sunday, Aug. 18. Quickly becoming one of the best free summer concerts series in Los Angeles and one of the best Southern California music festivals, 2019’s Echo Park Rising is not to be missed! Every […]

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Sandra B. Olinger
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Brass Box Bring Their Shoegaze Mythology to the Echo for June Residency

If you plan on attending the Echo on Mondays in June, remember your earplugs—there will be noise. Local quartet Brass Box will be the month’s residency headliners, with an overflowing cast of supporting artists sure to worsen your tinnitus. This coming Monday will include Lone Priestess (which includes Kimi Recor of DRAEMINGS) and the dreamy […]

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Zoe Elaine
Lauren Ruth Ward
Lauren Ruth Ward Releases Insatiable New Single ‘Hungry Barber’ and Announces Headlining Tour 

Lauren Ruth Ward recently shared a refreshing new single, ‘Hungry Barber’. A departure from their normal flow, the song reveals a brand new extent to the L.A. songbird. Lauren Ruth Ward also announced a headlining West Coast tour, kicking off April 24 with a Los Angeles show date at the Natural History Museum. Baltimore native […]

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Sandra B. Olinger
Flat Worms
Flat Worms Announce Forthcoming EP Into The Iris, Stream Single “Shouting at the Wall”

Following the sonic boom that was their debut self-titled LP, Flat Worms are planning on hammering through your living room walls with their latest EP Into The Iris via via Drag City imprint, GOD? Records. Yesterday, Flat Worms share their hyperbolic single “Shouting at the Wall”. Listen to it below. Comprised of Will Ivy, Tim Hellman, […]

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Sandra B. Olinger
Petit Biscuit at Fonda Theatre
Grimy Goods’ Best Concert Photography of 2018

So any great concert experiences created this past year in and around Los Angeles. Check out Grimy Goods’ best concert photography of 2018 featuring photos from concerts and music festivals in and around L.A. Our team of photographers captured some epic concert photography in 2018. Their keen eye for energy, light, depth and action truly […]

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Sandra B. Olinger
Trabants
Premiere: Trabants Bring Back the Spaghetti Western With New LP, Nel Cuore Di Una Terra Selvaggia

The last we saw of Trabants, they were playing a set at Echo Park Rising back in August. It turns out that well before then, the band’s leader, Eric Penna, had begun working on a new album. That album, which emulates spaghetti westerns of the 1960’s, is finally finished after a painstaking process, and will […]

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Zoe Elaine
Desert Daze 2018
Desert Daze 2018: An Amalgam of Musical and Natural Sublimity

Rain or shine, those a part of Desert Daze 2018 really know how to forsake all odds in the name of rock n’ roll. In its seventh manifestation, the characteristically psych-inclined fest hung up it’s dusty desert boots to traipse barefoot on the glorious grassy lawns of Moreno Beach in Lake Perris. As visitors entered […]

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Sandra B. Olinger
Dresage Plays the Vengeful Housewife in New Single

It makes sense that one of the freshest up-and-coming pop acts in LA is friends with Carly Rae Jepsen. Keeley Bumford is an LA native and versatile talent currently juggling several projects at once, including her solo act Dresage. Last week, she added to her catalog the unsettling and vengeful new single, “Dinners at Home.” […]

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Zoe Elaine
yOya offer-up a harmonic anthem in new single “I Don’t Wanna Fight”

Since their debut album Nothing To Die, Los Angeles-based songwriting duo yOya have made a point in blurring the line between their acoustic-folk sentiments and the logical electro-pop infusions that inform them. Originally natives of Corvallis, OR, Alex Pfender and Noah Dietterich brought their Graceland-soundtracked childhood with them when they moved to Los Angeles and found themselves sponging-up […]

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Steven Ward
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Interview: Francine Thirteen Reclaims Her Vices Ahead of Her Show at the Standard

To understand ritual pop artist Francine Thirteen, one must open up to ideas of feminism that would make the virtuous cringe. Francine Thirteen wants to recontextualize and redefine lust and power, two aspects of womanhood that have been exploited in centuries past.  Ahead of her performance next week at the Standard, we were able to […]

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Zoe Elaine
Omara Portuondo. Photo by Farah Sosa
Cuban icon, Omara Portuondo of Buena Vista Social Club delivers most memorable performance at The Regent

The Regent Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles opened its doors early with lines eager to get in and see a star. Cuban artist Omara Portuondo from the Buena Vista Social Club has come a long historical way and the show was a reflection of all those years. Omara was born in 1930 and started her […]

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FarahSosa
Tinashe at Air + Style 2018 by Steven Ward
Air + Style brings the momentum of the 2018 Winter Olympics to Southern California

Piggybacking the winter-sporting fever that came with the 2018 Winter Olympics and bringing some of that magic to sunny downtown Los Angeles, Air + Style closed out its weekend in spectacular fashion with a flurry of stunning musical and athletic performances. The festival took on an even greater role in the aftermath of this year’s […]

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Steven Ward
Chicano Batman
Chicano Batman wrap epic hattrick of sold-out gigs at Fonda Theatre with opening acts El Haru Kuroi and Khruangbi

After touring all over the country, Los Angeles band Chicano Batman finally landed back home with three sold out shows at the Fonda Theatre.  Tickets were in great demand after the first two shows were sold out a third night had to be added. The band did not come alone, they brought a stellar line-up […]

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FarahSosa
Umm
Stefanie Drootin and Chris Senseney of Big Harp Didn’t Stutter in New Project, Umm

Stefanie Drootin and Chris Senseney have formed a new apathetic project, appropriately called Umm, with a full-length LP due out next week. The two of them have been playing in bands for over a decade, separately when they were younger and more recently together, with drummer Daniel Ocanto, in Big Harp. Their origins lie in […]

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Zoe Elaine
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Grand Performances announces its 2017 lineup of free summer concerts in Los Angeles

Oh hey, guess what? Yes, indeed! It’s another bangin’ free summer concerts lineup in Los Angeles. Grand Performances have announced their impressive 2017 lineup of free summer concerts. This year you can look forward to a unique variety of acts spanning global genres. Witness artists like Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Peter & the Wolf, Buyepongo, Daedelus and more. View the entire […]

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Sandra B. Olinger