Music Pick: Anoushka Shankar
It's rare these days that you hear about musicians becoming one with their instrument. Maybe people are just too detached to make it happen as once they did. The late jazz guitarist Emily Remler was...
View ArticleMusic Pick: Maya Jane Coles
April is in full swing, which signals that time of year when Sound Nightclub's Friday night Framework party extends for seven days. Spread over two weekends and the week in between, it's full-blown...
View ArticleMusic Pick: KDAY Krush Groove
The 10th anniversary of 93.5 KDAY's Krush Groove event is being celebrated in style, with some of the biggest names in hip-hop. Headlining is local legend Ice Cube, who put out his typically topical...
View ArticleMusic Pick: Bad Wave
"Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together," reads the bio blurb on Bad Wave's Facebook page.
View ArticleGoLA Pick: Janeane Garofalo
Janeane Garofalo is an irrepressible comedic force who all too rarely performs a solo set in town these days. What often seems to be wildly rambling digression about the vagaries of her personal life...
View ArticleGoLA Pick: Jaime Martín Conducts LACO
Jaime Martín has been designated as LACO's next music director. Although the Spanish conductor-flutist doesn't officially begin his position with the orchestra until next fall during the 2019-20...
View ArticleParty Pick: Giorgio's Disco Goes Big
Giorgio's chic disco vibes are still alive and kickin' at The Standard Hotel on Sunset after six sexy years, and once again, creators Bryan Rabin and Adam Bravin are going big to celebrate. The club,...
View ArticleGoLA Pick: L.A. Phil's Chamber-Music Obscurities
The weekends are generally when L.A. Philharmonic presents its most dramatic and large-scale orchestral performances, but Tuesday nights at Disney Hall are becoming a thing in their own right, in a...
View ArticleMusic Pick: Haunted Summer
For much of the past decade, Haunted Summer have stirred up entrancing songs that are more like meditative incantations than simple pop tunes. Bridgette Moody possesses a lulling voice that’s draped...
View ArticleMusic Pick: Lissie Saves the World
At this intimate appearance at Largo, Lissie is donating part of every ticket sale to environmental-advocacy group the Natural Resources Defense Council. On the Illinois native’s new album, When I’m...
View Article11 Best Music Shows This Week in L.A.
Los Angeles is a hotbed of live music, and L.A. Weekly is here to help navigate this embarrassment of riches. From a rare SoCal set by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs to Malian "desert blues," here are the 11 best...
View ArticleMusic Pick: The Carvels NYC and Vicky & the Vengents
Fronted by the sassy and stylish chanteuse Lynne Von Pang, The Carvels NYC crank out a brand of rock & roll that's equal parts punk, garage rock and girl-group pop. The Carvels NYC are well matched...
View ArticleMusic Pick: The Weirdos
L.A. first wave punks The Weirdos have a storied history. Having formed in 1975, just as the genre as we know was taking shape, and surrounded by the likes of the Germs, Dickies, Dils and X, they...
View ArticleGoLA Pick: A May Fifth Non–Cultural Appropriation Event
A May Fifth Non–Cultural Appropriation Event features an impressive lineup of literary minds who will spill their guts and stories at this coffee and beer bar. The program includes crime/mystery writer...
View ArticleMusic Pick: Shoreline Mafia
Shoreline Mafia is the biggest rap group to come out of Los Angeles this generation, but if you speak to the group's leader OhGeesy, he'll correct you and say they're a family, not a rap group.
View ArticleMusic Pick: Otomo Yoshihide
Otomo Yoshihide is a musician for whom living many lives means that his life has actually been well-lived.
View ArticleMusic Pick: Songhoy Blues
Songhoy Blues are not a typical blues band. The Malian group describe their music as "desert blues," but what comes out on their recent album, Résistance, is something that is far more engrossing,...
View ArticleMusic Pick: Alan Licht
Guitarist Alan Licht can manufacture some mighty mountains of noise. In his solo work and past projects with Loren Mazzacane Connors and Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo, Licht prefers to explore a variety of...
View ArticleGoLA Pick: Joshua Bell, Jeremy Denk & Steven Isserlis
Joshua Bell is a flashy and stylish violinist who often appears as a star soloist with numerous orchestras, but in this concert at the Soraya he breaks things down in a more intimate format,...
View ArticleMusic Pick: Ariana Grande
On Ariana Grande's latest album, Thank U, Next, the singer revels in lust, longing and desire with such seductive idylls as "Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored" and "Needy."
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