At an intimate session Wednesday night, Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir traced the lineage of his new album back to cowboy songs, and a summer working on a cattle ranch.
Local Natives’ hometown show at the Greek amplifies the general optimism of their new album “Sunlit Youth.” Ryan Hahn and Taylor Rice talk about the re-energized quintet.
Across cultures, languages and genres, the music of the group Yo-Yo Ma founded is a world apart — by imagining a world, together.
Expect a night rich in music — and stories — when Dr. John heads up Wednesday’s star-studded Hollywood Bowl salute to the legendary Allen Toussaint.
“We want this to be where eco-minded people come to party,” Trapdoor Social’s Skylar Funk say of the Sunstock Solar Festival on June 18. Cults, Wavves and Allah-Las top the lineup.
The debut album from Dre Babinski — dba Steady Holiday — is out in June. But first, a coming out party at Coachella.
Birthed in a country ripped asunder and overcoming their handicaps, Coachella-bound Congolese rumba-rockers Mbongwana Star make visceral, inspirational songs.
Wondrous and weird, the Residents perform “Shadowland” on Saturday after a screening of the documentary “Theory of Obscurity: A Film About the Residents.”
Today, Matthewdavid releases his ambient opus, “Trust the Guide And Glide.” We spoke to him about the process of making this 88-minute chunk of experimental bliss.
“Calling it desert blues doesn’t capture it. Calling it psychedelic rock doesn’t capture it.” Noura Mint Seymali brings her transcendent Mauritanian music to Royce Hall on Saturday.
