Concerts

Atoms for Peace muscles up at intimate warm-up gig

2013-06-15 09:19:00

“This is a rehearsal, right?” asked Thom Yorke not long into his show Friday night with Atoms for Peace, and that was one way of looking at it. Announced online Friday morning (with tickets available through radio stations, record stores and a...

Return of the Aquabats, Interview II: The Q&A

2013-06-15 08:55:00

The Aquabats are a band from Southern California who dress as superheroes and are also the stars of their own television series. In "The Aquabats! Super Show!," which airs Saturday mornings on the Hub, they travel about in their Battle Tram to play...

Big Time Rush kicks into radio action, readies Summer Break Tour

2013-06-15 16:35:00

On a recent afternoon at a Burbank production studio, the members of Big Time Rush were shooting a music video for their song "24/Seven," a characteristically chipper ode to living every day like a holiday. After the shoot the Nickelodeon-bred boy band...

Tom Petty vs. Goatwhore

2013-06-14 06:00:00

The fans queued up outside the Fillmore in San Francisco suspected something was up when they saw me get in line. Three satanic metal bands were on the bill; what was this guy doing here? The jeans and sweatshirt weren’t fooling anyone. No...

Critic's Pick: The Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl

2013-06-13 11:48:00

The question surely came up at some point during last year's Playboy Jazz Festival, which saw the retirement of its longtime master of ceremonies: Can there be a festival without Bill Cosby? Of course, it's just a rhetorical notion because the...

Xbox One: Microsoft unveils new games, price

2013-06-10 14:33:53

'Ringo: Peace & Love' show at Grammy Museum unveiled by the Starr

2013-06-11 15:13:00

Ringo Starr stopped into the Grammy Museum in L.A. on Tuesday to give the media a preview of the new exhibition “Ringo: Peace & Love,” which opens Wednesday. The first major exploration of the life and career of the man born Richard Starkey,...

Tom Petty to offer full refund for shuttered Saturday concert

2013-06-12 10:17:00

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have announced that they will offer refunds to attendees of Saturday night’s shortened gig at the Fonda. Petty’s set, one of six at the 1,300-capacity venue, was shut down early after fire marshals deemed the...

Summer Sounds

2013-06-13 00:00:00

On a Southern California evening, as sunset’s dazzling display turns from molten gold to deep purple, the music scene comes alive. Whether you’re looking for jazz, blues, rock or hip-hop — it’s all happening on the Orange County...

Levitt Pavilion's L.A., Pasadena free concerts resume Saturday

2013-06-13 06:00:00

The Levitt Pavilion’s annual two-pronged series of more than 100 free outdoor concerts in Los Angeles and Pasadena resumes Saturday with songwriter Jimmy Webb, who will perform at the Levitt Pavilion L.A. in MacArthur Park. Country singer and...

Mark Morris choreographs the Ojai Music Festival

2013-06-01 08:00:00

NEW YORK — You hear choreographer Mark Morris before you see him. He's humming as he approaches his front door, maybe a Tchaikovsky fragment, maybe something else. He doesn't even know he's humming, much less what it is, he says later, "but people...

La Santa Cecilia strikes a fiercely personal note in 'Treinta Dias'

2013-06-01 08:30:00

The cast of characters in La Santa Cecilia's melancholy but biting new song "El Hielo (ICE)" are trying to stay out of trouble while living in the shadows of U.S. society. There's Eva, a housekeeper; Jos�, a gardener who can make a yard "look like...

Lime Rock Race Park in Lakeville held its fourth annual Sunday Royals Car Show Sunday, May 26. All the show cars were displayed on the Lime Rock race track, and included Muscle Cars, Tuners & Imports, Street Rods, Motorcycles, Classic Cars, Antiques, Antique Trucks, and Race Cars.

2013-05-26 00:00:00

RATING: *** 1/2 out of 4 Baltimore got a little quieter on Oct. 21, 2011. Make that a lot quieter. When post-punk trio Double Dagger stepped off The Ottobar's stage that night, the loud-and-proud local DIY heroes were no longer a band.

2013-04-22 07:44:15

Peabo Bryson, James Ingram, Stephanie Mills and Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. will provide beautiful hues of holiday soul and RB at the "Colors of Christmas" concert.

2012-12-12 13:54:00