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New Music Tuesday: Can’s ‘Tago Mago,’ Adanowsky and David Lynch’s Debut by Drewtewksbury HOST: Our regular music critic Drew Tewksbury reviews three new albums. He takes a listen to the latest from the Mexico City performer known as Adanowsky. He also talks about music from the legendary German band Can and the first album by [...]
I recently met up with the Grammy Award-winning musicians at Henson Studios in Hollywood to discuss their first venture into film scoring, philosophies on the future and what happened behind the scenes on the set of Tron: Legacy.
The influential mecca of the “Silver Lake scene” turns 15
Tinariwen are “people of the desert,” poets and musicians from the southern Sahara, who wandered into UCLA’s Royce Hall stage Saturday night to share the sound and vision of a world apart.
Director Keith Schofield makes videos for the viral video age, including Charlotte Gainsbourg, Justice, Fat Boy Slim, and more.
Yeasayer and Warpaint Besiege the Natural History Museum, 2.7.10
Cobra Commander: Dissecting the Improv Music Sessions at Machine Project
Cold War Kids’ Lukewarm Friday Night at the Wiltern
What does a fellow have to do to get a warm, life-endangering Bud in this town?
With influence gleaned from West Africa and lyrics in Hebrew, Fool’s Gold is a highly danceable ployglot band, whose sound and vision fully represent the diversity and eclecticism of Los Angeles.
It’s an industrialized version of hell, half Blade Runner and half Hieronymus Bosch, but for Jaber and the countless freight writers across the world, the train yard is their home.
On the precipice of Sunday morning, amid Hollywood Forever Cemetery’s tombstones and mausoleums, the misty fog and leaning palm trees, Bon Iver provided an ethereal soundtrack to sunrise.
Sara Lov survived a childhood kidnapping. Having to re-release her solo debut is easy by comparison
Frohawk Two Feathers is a man at the nexus of many truths. He’s an alchemist of visual art who turns dull history into golden narratives rich with beautiful subversion and he’s a performance artist who experiments with music, poetry and alter egos. Then there’s Umar Rashid, the mastermind behind it all.
Yahowa 13 is a mindbending pleasure whether you’re tuning in or dropping out.
For multitalented entrepreneur and skateboarder Rob Dyrdek, writing, producing and starring in his first feature film Street Dreams was simply another obstacle to conquer.
Foreign Born’s music, as their name implies, travels. On Person to Person, the band takes musical traditions from around the world, wraps them up in indie-pop, and delivers them neatly packaged as extremely catchy summer songs. We’re taken to the new orleans bayous, south African townships, and the beaches of Lagos. The stomp and sway [...]
Metalheads employ the finest tools of musical vivisection, but the system breaks down with Isis, the prog-metal visionaries who stretch the boundaries of categorization.
Is this hipster Vegas?
Where would the world be without The Terminator? Without the catchphrases “I’ll be back” and “Hasta la vista, baby,” we’d be just empty shells of existence