If you’re into dark, goth-like tunes with a ferocious roar, you should have been at The Soft Moon’s show on Sunday, Oct. 30 at the Echo. We’ve covered The Soft Moon a couple times now, from their performance at the Echoplex to their ear-blasting show at SXSW where Dinosaur Jr’s, J Mascis was in attendance to hear […]

The spectacular and unique African orchestrations of Tinariwen graced the Luckman Fine Arts Complex this past Saturday, Oct. 29 with support from  Sophie Hunger. Creating a sweet gumbo of world music with an array of exotic instruments including acoustic and electric guitars, electric bass, drums, and gnarled picking patterns from West African lutes—it was truly a majestic evening that can not […]

With their debut album freshly released September of this year, the powerful and pretty, Grouplove, sets sail on their companion tour. They just played a marvelous show at the El Rey Theater this past Wednesday October, 26 with support from another Los Angeles budding favorite, Family Of The Year. Check out the photos below of Grouplove and Family of the Year at […]

As long as this author has been providing you, my musically interested readers, with show and album reviews—a certain mental check has been in place. Personal bias isn’t something that is usually incorporated into these reviews; that isn’t what I want my readers to focus upon. Still, sometimes…. If you’ve recently heard Green Naugahyde, the […]

The War on Drugs put on a great show last Saturday, Oct. 22 at the Satellite. Check out the photos from their amazing set below. Photography: Matt Draper

Young The Giant have been getting quite the buzz this year and after catching them at an an intimate private show at the 98.7FM Hollywood Tower Penthouse — now we know what all the buzz is about! These guys put on an amazing live show! Check out the photos from their performance below. Photography: Wei Shi   […]

Blowing our minds with one of the most spectacular performances of 2011, England’s Portishead crossed the pond to play two sold-out shows at the Shrine Expo Hall in Los Angeles. On Tuesday, Oct. 18 we were amongst the lucky few who were fortunate enough to attend this show. If you were here, you should be stoked. Word […]

Back in July, we covered Shabazz Palaces‘ Los Angeles debut at the Troubadour and we were thoroughly impressed with both their debut album, Black Up and their live sound. It seems as though the token hipsters-that-heart-hip-hop must have finally jumped on the bandwagon with this former one-part Digable Planets (Butterfly) duo, because the Echo was packed […]

The lovely St. Vincent (Annie Clark) packed up the Music Box last Tuesday, Oct. 18 for an extraordinary sold-out show. Supporting St. Vincent was folk-pop, singer-songwriter, Cate Le Bon. Check out the photos below of St. Vincent and Cate Le Bon at the Music Box! Photography: Monique Hernandez St. Vincent     Cate Le Bon

Blends of different music, no matter how different or eclectic, can always create perfect harmony, as long as they are arranged well. This is what bands like Nisennenmondai and Battles strive to do, and last Sunday’s show at The Glass House in Pomona was yet another demonstration of their skill. A group entitled CGAK was […]

Grammy Award winner, India.Arie brought her gorgeous neo soul to the Luckman Fine Arts Complex this past Thursday, October 13 with Israeli singer-songwriter, Idan Raichel. It was an evening of beautiful world music at a very awesome venue. If you have yet to visit a show at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex, we highly reccommend […]

The second annual Filter Magazine’s Culture Collide Festival came and went with a bang. With five nights of some of the best International indie bands taking refuge all over Los Angeles’ East side venues, Angelinos had a field day taking in all the music. We have plenty of photos of the bands and fans. Take […]

There was a bangin’ dance party at the Hollywood Palladium last Wednesday, Oct. 12. With three amazing performances from headliner, Cut Copy and supporting acts Washed Out and Midnight Magic, nobody went home disappointed. Cut Copy frontman, Dan Whitford was all smiles on this sold-out evening of dance euphoria. A couple highlights of the evening […]