A chance meeting led underground LA music scene veterans Modpods to share the stage with icons The Melvins on Friday at legendary music venue The Troubadour. It was a huge opportunity for founder and front woman/beat maker/songwriter Myriad Slits and her bandmates Mindee Jorgensen and Daniel Guzman who take turns playing bass, guitar, and drums. […]

Youngsters the Yip Yops have passed a lot of big milestones this last year from their first tour with local superstar Lauren Ruth Ward to the July residency spot at The Echo / Echoplex. The band has been gaining momentum and notable fans at a meteoric rate. Yip Yops are vox / guitarist Ison, drums […]

Despite a mid-afternoon brush fire near Griffith Park, the Greek Theatre kept its gates open and Tuesday night’s show prevailed! Starting the night off was the very talented Amber Coffman. The former guitarist/vocalist of indie rock band, Dirty Projectors went solo in 2017 after leaving the band. Her act is nothing short of dreamy. You can check out her debut record […]

Every once and a while a tour will be announced that’ll throw together acts that’ll both make you do a double-take as well hand over all your cash. When Belle and Sebastian revealed they’d be doing dates with art-pop act Japanese Breakfast, it was a curiosity imagining the two playing back-to-back but also an irresistible […]

As part of KCRW’s World Festival and kicking off their 2018 World Tour, Father John Misty played at the Hollywood Bowl Sunday night. Josh Tillman – the much-discussed singer/songwriter of the rock band – brought the sounds of his short (the album comes in at under 40 minutes), but melancholily-sweet new release, God’s Favorite Customer, […]

On its second and final day, Arroyo Seco Weekend was blanketed quite literally by fields upon fields of families setting up areas on the green from which to watch the day’s performers. With the two main stages placed relatively close from one another, there was an area between them that was perfect for fans to […]

When Arroyo Seco Weekend debuted last year with its stellar lineup, excellent food and alcohol options, and soothing Pasadena locale, it proved that a festival could offer the family-friendly environment of a picnic at the park on a large scale. Returning for its second year on the green that surrounds the Rose Bowl Stadium, day one […]

A Place To Bury Strangers — Photo: ZB Images Saturday night A Place To Bury Strangers along with SEXTILE and Prettiest Eyes packed The Regent in downtown LA. Prettiest Eyes an electro punk/space LA band warmed everyone up with bassist/cowboy Marcos Rodriguez’s undulating hips and riffs, while keyboardist Paco Cassanova hid mysteriously behind his locks […]

At first glance of the extensive assemblage of instruments on stage, one might assume indie rock trio Yo La Tengo is actually an octet. Prior to the show, murmurs among the crowd indicated many fans were attending both evenings of their two night stay at the Teragram Ballroom, solidifying LA’s contingent of the die hard, […]

The Echo played host to a flurry of female-fronted badassery ignited by indie-rock darlings Speedy Ortiz‘s stop there late Friday night. The band, led by Sadie Dupuis, let loose wave after wave of face-melting guitar work throughout their set, drawing from their recently released third album Twerp Verse. Hailing from the grungy, unpolished realms of indie-rock that […]