Live music (with Silversun Pickups, Filter, Dead Sara and more) mixes with all things ghostly in four days of Halloween madness streaming from the Queen Mary. The interactive event starts Thursday.
Eddie Van Halen, who died Tuesday at 65 after a long battle with cancer, was hailed as a prodigy and innovator who never lost his childlike wonder.
It’s not all gloom and doom out there: Behold the Aquabats’ new album, “Kooky Spooky…in Stereo!,” and the video for “Karate Body!” that will have you doing the robot.
Doomy L.A. quartet Iress return with the new single “Underneath,” which, as advertised, is like “falling headfirst into that dark place.” They have a full-length coming in the fall.
Filmed in India with a rainbow cast of performers, Madame Gandhi’s video for “Waiting for Me” carries not just a stoic message but unabashed joy.
Al-Qasar, the striking new project from Thomas Bellier (Blaak Heat, Spindrift), connects the dots between Bedouin soul and 1960s psych-rock. They call it “Arabian Fuzz,” and fans of surf music should expand their horizons with Al-Qasar’s EP, “Miraj.”
Ruby Friedman aims her vitriol at the country’s economic system in her new protest song “Ain’t Got Your Money.” Stomp along the next time the bill collectors call.
L.A. duo BYSTS make darkwave for a dystopian time. Listen to them “Spread Out” on their latest single.
The Alibi, a new venue/nightclub in Palm Springs, is the brainchild of two Los Angeles industry veterans, Melanie Tusquellas and Elizabeth Garo. Expect diverse musical fare, not too far distant from you’d get in an L.A. club.
David Roback, the multi-instrumentalist, producer and songwriter who crafted the sounds of Rain Parade, Opal and Mazzy Star, has died at age 61.
