Angeleno cinephiles, and people who want to go out and have fun Monday nights, there's a new event starting this month that should tickle your fancy. Unique LA is launching a Monthly Monday Movie Night at the Echoplex, and all the flicks shown take place in Los Angeles. more ›

After interviewing a member of the Teddybears camp, we knew we had to see their live show to become completely indoctrinated. more ›

It's hard to imagine a band who plays their combo reggae-punk-electronic-pop music live wearing giant teddy bear heads to be anything but quirky when you talk to them about an upcoming gig. We had the chance to check in with The Teddybears' Patrik Arve via email about playing Los Angeles, the genesis of the band's remarkable musical collaborations, and what music they like to listen to lately. more ›

A sad weekend for Eastside hipsters and music lovers just got a little sadder. The band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have announced that their show at the Echoplex isn't happening, and it's all that damn Hurricane Irene's fault. more ›

The Echo and Echoplex are opening their doors this weekend to several bands originally slated to rock the cancelled Sunset Junction Festival. If you haven't heard by now, the L.A. Board of Public Works denied the festival's permit on Wednesday. more ›

Tomorrow afternoon, 70 girl musicians will take the stage at the Echoplex to show off their musical prowess after attending the second annual Rock n’ Roll Camp For Girls in LA. Over the past few days, campers aged 8 to 17 have picked up instruments and learned to rock without fear. Campers learn an instrument, form a band, write a song, and cap it off with a rock-fueled showcase for the public. more ›

Not much can be said about this video lunch that it doesn't say for itself. Inspired collaborations make for delicious flashbacks. Too bad it wasn't followed it up with a rendition of 'Eat It.' more ›

The band has spent the better part of their career playing venues in their home city of Valencia and throughout Spain. They have been featured at premiere music festivals such as Primavera Sound and MTV Europe Winter Festival, playing to crowds of 40,000 plus. But the U.S. will be an entirely new experience. more ›

Well, folks, it seems we're reliving the 90s this week: Yo La Tengo at the El Rey this past Wednesday, followed by Sebadoh at the Echoplex Friday night. While the former's show went off without a hitch, Sebadoh, on tour for Bakesale and Harmacy re-releases, had a smattering of technical difficulties. more ›

I realize I say this with regularity, but it is especially true in this case: IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN/HEARD LES SAVY FAV PLEASE DO SO AT ONCE. I've always been a fan of theirs, but hadn't caught them live until last night when they blew into the Echoplex courtesy of Aquarium Drunkard, and proceeded to do a whole number of shenanigans, half of which I can't really mention. Suffice it say I sincerely hope Tim Harrington's man parts made it through the night. more ›

The Henry Clay People did a wonderful job at the 2nd annual Rock n' Roll Circus. With more than a dozen bands performing, free popcorn, face painting, and costumes and decorations in full force, this year's circus was exhilarating. Bands such as Downtown/Union, the Little Ones, Andy Clockwise, and of course the Henry Clay People turned in great sets alongside a slew of other bands performing full-on electric sets or side stage acoustic sets on the patios of the Echo and Echoplex. Attendance seemed down, or at least nowhere near capacity, which is a shame because the event had none of the pretentiousness that so often accompanies rock shows and instead truly felt like a community event. I for one am looking forward to next year. more ›

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We caught up with bassist, Robert Levon Been, the weekend before their sixth album, Beat The Devil's Tattoo, dropped. We talked about the state of the music industry, BRMC's new drummer Leah Shapiro, and why we don't appreciate things that come to us easily. Here is some of what was said. more ›

The Echoplex, complete with its leather-couched cozy enclaves and dim lighting, was the perfect venue for Brooklyn-based A Place to Bury Strangers, LA's own Darker My Love (opening for White Lies' European shows as of tomorrow), and Atlanta's All the Saints (currently on tour with APTBS). After the openers primed the claustrophobic and moody atmosphere, APTBS took the darkened stage for their electronic noise rock. Murky projected images and an over-active fog machine accompanied the understated three piece as they delivered on their gift for making reverb and feedback danceable, concluding the set with guitarist Oliver Ackermann's much anticipated guitar destruction and restring, all observed through the oversaturated burn of an intermittent strobe light. more ›

Yes, technically the above title is grammatically incorrect. And, depending on your level of education and OCD, you might have a hard time getting past it and on to the rest of this piece. But that’s OK, we’re all a little different, and LA’s The Moth seeks to embrace that fact, while finding the linking commonalities in us all. more ›

That secret Thom Yorke show at the Echoplex tonight is no longer a secret. If you want in, get your booty over to Ticketweb at noon and good luck! Additionally, there will be an afterparty show upstairs from the Echoplex where copies of Muse's new album, The Resistance, will be given away. If you get tickets to the Yorke show, then you've got access to the afterparty. more ›

On a sweltering Friday night at the Echoplex, Sergio Dias led his band mates, Os Mutantes, on multiple musical excursions through rock & roll, samba, and bossa nova, with a bit of Kurt Weill thrown in for good measure. Delivering a rousing set that was exciting, fiery and continuously pleasing, Baptista demonstrated his guitar virtuosity with flashes of references to his early musical icons including George Harrison and The Ventures’ Noke Edwards while marking out his own sonic turf, getting tones of unbelievable beauty, both delicate and powerful, out of his Super Nova Kier. more ›

Trent Reznor has fallen ill, forcing Nine Inch Nails' Wave Goodbye tour to be put on hold. Reznor said he had a cold during last night's concert at the Palladium, which included an appearance by Gary Numan joining NIN on Numan's "Cars." Soon after the show ended the band released the following message on its website: more ›

On Monday night, Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan and Spirits in the Sky -- germinated from the recent Sky Saxon tribute at The Echoplex, whose lineup includes guitarist Dave Navarro and 19 year old drummer Mike Byrne -- performed the final show of their mini tour at the Hotel Cafe in Hollywood. more ›

At first glance, the pairing of Great Northern and Dears seems like an unlikely duo to grace the same stage. Still, there they were on May 23, each taking their turn trying to wow the Echoplex crowd who learned, after a sometimes amazing, but more often average show, that the bands' similarities far outweigh their differences. more ›

Three years ago Peter Walker decided he was tired of the solo life and wanted to settle down...musically. He asked the musicians who were touring with him if they wanted something more permanent. They did and Eulogies was born. Last month, Eulogies released their promising sophomore disk, Here Anonymous, on Dangerbird Records. The album in question is full of the kind of pretty introspective pop that would make Ben Gibbard green with envy. Front man Peter Walker was kind enough to talk with us last night from his home in Los Angeles about his brand new album. more ›

While we can debate over the burritos in LA vs. SF to no end, it is hard to argue over which city has a more prevalent beer culture. Perhaps this is because no one has ever really pushed such a culture here in LA. That is, until now. more ›

If Budweiser and MGD are your two favorite beers in the world, then you might as well stop reading this post now. more ›

Supporting their third album, Welcome to the Night Sky, Nova Scotia's own dreamy, fuzzed out rockers Wintersleep will be playing the Echoplex tomorrow night. Wintersleep came together when drummer, Loel Campbell and Paul Murphy, guitarist, sat down at their 15th floor apartment in downtown Halifax and decided to produce some of Paul's quieter songs that didn't really fit into his current band's aggressive sound. The pair quickly compiled a catalog of songs in apartment and were soon looking for additional musicians, which they filled in with friends from the local scene. Jon Samuel, Paul Murphy, and Tim D'eon were kind enough to speak to us from Austin over the weekend. Here is some of what was said. more ›

It's St. Patrick's Day and where am I? In a pub toasting a nation I technically have no kinship with or have ever had the pleasure of going? No. Out in the bushes pretending to "look for leprechauns" while I retch my guts out in a strong green stream? Nope. This year was spent at the Echoplex with Funeral Party and ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead henceforce known in this piece as Trail of Dead. I was not alone in my decision to forgo or at least postpone the holiday's traditional activities in order to see the show. The Echoplex on Tuesday was fuller than I expected and there was absolutely no green to be seen. more ›

Watch great multi-camera video and soundboard audio of about half of last Monday's set at Echoplex was posted today at Pitchfork.tv. more ›

The Echoplex was hit by a tidal wave of audio marshmallow fluff last Thursday. By the time I arrived, the air was sticky with it. Natalie Portman's Shaved Head was on stage. You want a band that can provoke a reaction just by naming things, it's this one. I mean their album is called Glistening Pleasure for God's sake. Who wouldn't want to own Glistening Pleasure? more ›

Devotees of the DIY rejoice! Tomorrow you can get your hands on some of LA's best handmade goodies at the BUST Magazine Holiday Craftacular. more ›

We haven't seen a Sunday like this since the summertime. We've got Athens-based new wave rock band the B-52's performing at Club Nokia in Downtown. Seattle's own experimental rockers Minus the Bear will be coming through the Henry Fonda Music Box with our favorite Raleigh-based indie pop group, the Annuals. LA locals Tigers Can Bite You are slated to rock at the Alterknit Lounge at the Knitting Factory. And, lastly, singer-songwriter Charlie Wadhams will be continuing his month-long Sunday Night Residency at Tangier. Word on the street is that Tangier will be closing its doors soon due to financial woes. But how could anyone turn down the Part Time Punks Festival at the Echo and Echoplex compound? Not only will some of LA's prominent fringe acts be playing (The Muslims, Mika Miko, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti), but living legends like Manchester's A Certain Ratio will be headlining the predominantly punk-tinged extravaganza. It will be the band's first performance in the US since 1985—the year I was born. more ›

The Dodos are a percussionist's dream. If you like to bang, blow, and hit stuff, this is the band for you. Between the drums, glockenspiel, maracas, trumpets, trombones, and acoustic guitar, these boys were intent on making the most amount of noise possible. Even their poor guitar was drummed, plucked, and beat on within an inch of its life. The result? A brand of music that is perfect for jumping up and down. more ›