Pacific Festival: OC returns to Oak Canyon Ranch in Irvine, Calif. for it’s 2nd annual event. This year’s 2011 line-up will feature over 30 recording artists from around the world including CUT COPY, STEVE AOKI, !!! (CHK CHK CHK), PHANTOGRAM, TORO Y MOI, CLASSIXX, AFROMAN, ZOOT WOMAN, THE TWELVES, FRED FALKE, THE GROWLERS, HANNI EL […]

This show just brings up some awesome high school nostalgia. Face to Face and Strung Out will be playing the Glass House on Sunday, June 26. Both So Cal punk rockers were two of my favorite bands when I was a wee 17-year-old and they still generate some very cool memories from the good ole […]

Awe yeeeah! Legendary funk bassist, singer and songwriter, Bootsy Collins will headline Club Nokia on Friday, June 3, 2011. This will be his first full set in Los Angeles in two years! Best known as the bassist for Parliament/Funkadelic and leader of Bootsy’s Rubberband, Bootsy has collaborated with some of the top musicians including Herbie […]

Presale tickets to Ms. Lauryn Hill with The Hot 8 Brass Band on Tuesday, May 17 at the Fox Theater Pomona go on sale tomorrow, Friday, April 8th at 10 a.m. Tickets are pretty expensive, just like her El Rey Theatre show. You can buy them for $61 – $75 including service fees. All ages! […]

Due to the passing of bandmate, Gerard Smith, TV On The Radio has rescheduled their Music Box show date to Wednesday, May 11, 2011. All tickets from their original May 3rd show date will be honored. You can purchase your tickets here. If there’s an upcoming show you NEED to attend, it’s TV On The […]

Kid Cudi is making his way to NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE on Monday, June 20, 2011, making everyone’s Monday blues fade away with some slick beats and rhymes. After selling out his April 18th show date at the Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles fans will have another chance to see Kid Cudi. Supporting Kid Cudi will […]

The Chef is making his way to Los Angeles and Orange County for two bumpin’ shows this April/May. I’m talkin’ about Raekwon of Wu-Tang Clan! If you’re a true Wu fan, you already know one of his monikers is “the chef.” Fans will have two opportunities to catch Raekwon live, on stage in two awesome […]

White Denim released an awesome album in 2010 titled, Last Day of Summer that made our Top 20 Albums of 2010 list, along with many other blog and magazines’ lists. Now the boys are ready to deliver some more soul shaken’ indie tunes with their upcoming record set for release on May 24, 2011. In […]

We caught Chuck Berry less than a year ago perform a kick-ass live show about a year ago at the Hootenanny and now the rock and roll legend is back to rip it up some more. And trust me, even at 82, Berry still has it going on! The man can still school a bunch […]

The Local Natives are playing a FREE show next week! It all goes down on Thursday, March 31 at the UCLA Bruin Plaza. And yes, it’s fuckin’ FREE! The show is a rescheduled date from their original UCLA Campus Events performance that was supposed to happen on March 1. Local Natives will take the stage […]

The Arctic Monkeys and The Vaccines are teaming up for some UK radness on June, 2, 2011 at the Fox Theater in Pomona. Presale tickets go on sale, Thursday, March 24 at 10a.m. Tickets will go on sale to the general public the following day, Friday, March 25 at 10 a.m. Open to all ages! […]

Yesterday, My Morning Jacket (MMJ) announced a slew of North American tour dates in celebration of their highly anticipated album, Circuital. The band specifically handpicked these venues to debut their new music. Los Angeles fans will have a chance to see My Morning Jacket live when they come to the Pantages Theater on Wednesday, June […]

We Are Scientists at The Troubadour – Photo by Ivette Orenos for Grimy Goods It’s SXSW week! But there’s still some fun to be had for all of you staying in the city of Angels! Catch some shows here while we bring back some hot new music for you at SXSW! We don’t post every […]

If you don’t know or appreciate who the New York Dolls are and what they’ve done for punk, glam and rock and roll as a whole, I suggest you go pick up the book Please Kill Me and get some history in your head. I can’t deny how stoked I was when I saw that […]

  The Kills have added a second Los Angeles show date at the Music Box on Friday, May 13, 2011. Now L.A. fans of the stylish rock duo have two shows to pick from: the Fox Theater Pomona on May 14 or the Music Box on May 13! Tickets to both shows are now available […]

  If you have yet to listen to the gorgeous soulful voice of Aloe Blacc, you’re serious missing out! Repping Los Angeles and part of the fast growing Stones Throw family, Blacc will be taking his A-game to the Music Box on May 22. Fusing all the dope elements of hip hop and soul with […]

It wasn’t too long ago that supergroup, Middle Brother (John McCauley of Deer Tick, Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes, and Matthew Vasquez of Delta Spirit) made their Los Angeles debut at the Invisible Children benefit back in December at the Troubadour. If you missed their sold-out show, they’re returning to Los Angeles with an intimate show […]

Alright hip hop heads, Atmosphere is coming to the L.A. area with a show at the Fox Theater in Pomona on Thursday, May 5, 2011. As part of his 21-date headlining tour, “The Family Tour,” Atmosphere will be joined by Rhymesayers family members Blueprint, Grieves with Budo, Sab The Artist & DJ Abilities. “The Family […]

Sleigh Bells at El Rey Theatre – Photo by Wei Shi 2010 break-out electro duo, Sleigh Bells, are playing the Glass House in Pomona on Wednesday, April 14, 2011 for a pre-coachella show. If we could equate Sleigh Bells’ music to a type of person it’d be a sassy punk cheerleader: adorably sweet, front-woman Alexis […]

If you’re a regular reader of Grimy Goods, you know how much we dig the Kills and anything Alison Mosshart related. After announcing their 2011 tour dates and forthcoming album details (Blood Pressures) a few weeks ago, we’re stoked to hear that the Kills will be playing at one of our favorite venues, the Fox […]