A favorite amongst many of the LA show kids, San Francisco’s Sonny and the Sunsets headlined the Echo last night with support from local band The Belle Brigade and one of our favorite up-and-comers, Tennis. With front-man Sonny Smith’s, genuine lyrics and welcoming voice, Sonny and the Sunsets are always a cool treat to watch […]

How can anyone not love Denver’s hottest band Tennis? Leading lady, Alaina Moore has the delicious voice of a 50s doo-wop angel. Recently signed to Fat Possum, Tennis is one of our favorite new bands. Their Fat Possum debut is set for release in 2011 and we expect it to be some of the best […]

Los Angeles’ The Belle Brigade played quite the endearing set last night at the Echo opening up for Sonny and the Sunsets, along with Tennis. Check out the photos of The Belle Brigade below and give their music a listen here. Photos: Monique Hernandez

I don’t think you can help yourself if you go to a Yelle show, you will dance. The Yelle show at the Echoplex on Friday, November 5, was a sold-out crowd full of helplessly grooving hipsters in their funkiest garb. As one girl out in the smoking deck put it, “I saw all these goth […]

The Echoplex was a packed mad house of show-goers ready to get their dance on as Yelle headlined a sold out show. Opening up for the French darling was Oakland favorite, Hawnay Troof. Check out the photos from his wild performance below! Photos: Wei Shi

The fine gents of Two Door Cinema Club may not have hit the California voting polls this past Tuesday, but the Irish electro pop band definitely struck LA with some major musical force at the Music Box instead. For a band that just released their debut album, “Tourist History,” earlier this year on Glassnote Records, […]

Bringing back those trip hoppin’ UK beats and then some, UNKLE played to a full house this past Monday at the El Rey Theatre. As a total surprise and special treat, The Cult’s, Ian Astbury, joined James Lavelle on stage for “Burn My Shadow” from 2007’s “War Stories.” It was pretty damn cool. Opening up […]

Last Wednesday Sleigh Bells headlined a sold out show at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles. They played the week before with LCD Soundsystem and Hot Chip at Hollywood Bowl but it’s clear that LA fans needed an additional dose of the noise pop duo. With several giant Marshall amps stacked behind them, Alexis […]

Nevermind the earthquakes—Foals shook up Los Angeles with a sold out show at the El Rey Theatre last Monday, October 18th, 2010.  The Oxford band released their sophomore album, “Total Life Forever,” earlier this year through Subpop after the widespread success of “Antidotes.”  Although they’ve traded their aggressive math rock for a more chilled out […]

Supporting Foals last Monday, October 18th at the El Rey Theatre, fellow Brits Esben and the Witch, opened on a nearly pitch-dark stage with foreboding drums and discordant vocals. Newly signed to Matador Records this year, the three-piece band played just in time to fit the mood for Halloween. They’ve mastered a shadowy, nightmarish sound […]