Make Music Pasadena takes over the Crown City on Saturday, featuring music at more than 25 locales and including the likes of Surfer Blood, Yuna, Tennis, Finish Ticket, the Record Company, Sylvan Esso, Saint Motel, Moses Sumney, Andy Allo, Shelby Earl, the Janks and Slow Graffiti. It’s free, but organizers are asking than fans make […]
Jackson Browne, Local Natives, Lucinda Williams and Heartless Bastards will top the bill when the lineup is announced later today for the Newport Folk Festival’s two-day Way Over Yonder Festival on Sept. 26-27 at the Santa Monica Pier. Local Natives will headline Friday night, and Browne on Saturday. Tickets, which start at $35 for a […]
Genre-mashing L.A. favorites Ozomatli will kick off the three months of free concerts in the Levitt Pavilions’ Summer Music Series on June 8 – the first of almost 100 shows at two outdoor locations. Ozomatli will be visiting Levitt Pavilion MacArthur Park, which will host the likes of Richard Thompson, Loudon Wainwright III, Young Dubliners, […]
Now here’s a local festival worth a little drive time: Long-running dance-punk band !!! (Chk Chk Chk) will join Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall’s Fuzz, Chicano Batman, Upset, Dead Ships, the Vim Dicta, the Lovely Bad Things and many more at the two-day Viva Pomona. The shows go off July 19 and 20 with music […]
North Carolina-based electro duo Sylvan Esso, who just released their self-titled debut, has been added as a headliner for Make Music Pasadena, the free, one-day festival that takes over the Crown City on Saturday, June 7. Earlier this month, Surfer Blood, Yuna, Finish Ticket, Tennis, the Record Company, Saint Motel and Moses Sumney were announced […]
The Church on York, the fledgling DIY music and arts venue that ran afoul of the City of Los Angeles’ permitting regulations, is closing after almost a year of operation. A statement on the venue’s Facebook page reads, in part: “We have hit some severe roadblocks that have forced us to close our doors for […]
Topping a lineup that plays squarely to the masses, John Mayer and Imagine Dragons will headline the Jay-Z-curated Made In America festival Labor Day Weekend at Grand Park in downtown Los Angeles. The highlights include Kendrick Lamar, Weezer, Cypress Hill, Metric, Capital Cities, Juanes, Dr. Dog, Schoolboy Q, Classixx and Wolfgang Gartner. Two-day passes for […]
Australia’s Jagwar Ma, psych-pop veterans the Zombies, L.A. Latin sensations La Santa Cecilia and soul man Charles Bradley will highlight this year’s Twilight Concert Series at the Santa Monica Pier. The free concerts, part of the KCRW Summer Nights Series, run for 10 Thursday nights from July 10 to Sept. 11. And, speaking of the […]
The Desert Stars Festival – once known as the Clean Air Clear Stars fest – has had an up-and-down record during its seven-year run at Pappy & Harriet’s in Pioneertown. The annual gathering, held in the fall and always leaning toward desert-appropriate psych-rock, has had some epic weekends, and some not-so-epic ones. This year’s eighth […]
KCRW’s stamp will be all over the Southern California live music again scene this summer. The fifth annual KCRW Summer Nights series – part of which was announced this morning – is highlighted by the return of live music to the Annenberg Space for Photography, “Made in L.A.” club nights at the Hammer Museum; and […]
