Café Tacvba As summer goes along, the Greek Theatre is still happening with many outdoor shows. The upcoming schedule includes the Gipsy Kings, Jethro Tull, The Raconteurs, Sigur Rós, The Swell Season, Jason Mraz and more. But today we're featuring and giving two pairs of tickets away to the Friday, August 22 Café Tacvba show, with special guests, Ima Robot (you can get tickets here) For past contests for tickets to the Greek, we've......

Ringo Starr and his 10th All-Starr Band wrapped up a 31 date tour with a nostalgia-drenched set Saturday night at the Greek. The concept for the evening is simple: In between Beatles and Ringo solo tracks, most of the All-Starr band members - Billy Squier, Edgar Winter, Colin Hay, Stuart Hamish, and Gary Wright - get to take turns performing their own solo material. Gregg Bissonette, thankfully, seems content to just play drums. The evening......

Tickets for 89.9 KCRW's presentation of Sigur Rós on October 2nd at The Greek go on sale Saturday at 10:00 a.m. Lucky for you, LAist running a contest giving you a chance to win a pair of tickets to the show before tickets go on sale. For past contests related to the Greek, we've asked you what to do in Los Feliz and what's so great about Griffith Park. In light of high gas prices......

Photo by Zach Behrens/LAist The people behind SaveGriffithPark.org write in and ask the hard questions: It looks like several powerful corporations and the officials they keep have found an unprecedented way to privatize Griffith Park. If you're in the park this weekend – that is, if you're allowed – have a camera and paper handy to record the goings-on. Press releases posted by Forbes and Business Wire reveal that Saturday, June 21st, Disney-Pixar is......

Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) and Alison Krauss (Union Station), whose critically-lauded, Gold album 'Raising Sand' continues to be a top-seller worldwide, play two shows at The Greek Theatre on Monday, June 23 and Tuesday, June 24 (you can buy tickets here: 6/23 | 6/24). Plant and Krauss - along with 'Raising Sand' producer and band leader T Bone Burnett - are creating a show that will feature songs from their collaborative release, as well as......

Spring and Summer nights in Los Angeles are some of the most beautiful around. And there's no better way to spend them by sitting under the stars in the presence of your favorite music act. Next Wednesday, June 18, Rilo Kiley, along with Lavender Diamond and Benji Hughes, will be hitting the Greek Theatre in Griffith Park for a night of good times. To that end, we're giving away a pair of tickets (you......

Last year we did a lot of Best Of lists, and this year we are on a roll to eclipse the quantity and quality of last year. One thing I have noticed is there seems to be two ways to do a Best Of list. You can do a politically correct one for the hipsters and cynics - which is boring and a lie. Or you can keep it real and talk about how......

Heavy Trash - "Dark Hair'd Rider" Heavy Trash @ The Echo The Octopus Project, Pedestrian, 8MM @ The Roxy Culver City Symphony Orchestra @ Veterans Auditorium Evanescence @ The Greek Theatre Henry Franklin Quartet @ Senor Fish (The Plan to End Homelessness benefit at 4 p.m.) She Wants Revenge @ The Henry Fonda Theater Nathan Hubbard's Everything After @ Cafe Metropol Very Be Careful @ The Regent Theatre......

Still on tour in support of Wincing the Night Away, their third and most recent release from January of this year, The Shins hit up the Greek Theatre on Sunday to a packed house. Up until a few days prior I really only knew the Portland, OR based band from their two songs on the Garden State soundtrack, Caring is Creepy and New Slang. But I packed in some pre-show listens to the newest......

One of the last songs WIlco played in its just over two hour, two encore long set, was the lovely "California Stars" and it was a fitting song for the mood and atmosphere of the evening. The moon was full, those "California Stars" were out, albeit hidden behind the light pollution of LA and the crowd was into it, it was an overall great night for music, especially the brand that Wilco delivers.......

Really, who doesn't love robot sounds and music about outer space? The 900 Number sample at 2:49 ain't bad either. This is clearly the Beastie Boys' world and we're just livin' in it. Ps: Adam Yauch is a dreamboat.......

Beastie Boys @ Greek Theatre [two photo essays of last night's show here and here] Ted Nugent @ House of Blues Manic, Dead Ponies, Minutes til Midnight, Policy @ The Echo Low vs Diamond, Oliver Future, The Lonely H, The Scare @ Spaceland Metal Skool, Tattooed Millionaires, The Unwanted Guests, Ramonas LA @ Key Club Resident Hero, Rama Duke, Hello Vegas, Putnam Hall @ The Troubadour The Crash Kings, Birds & Batteries, Walker Young......

When Licensed to Ill came out in 1986 I was selling car stereos at the Federated Group in West LA. I sold so many good speakers and subwoofers thanks to "Brass Monkey" and "Slow & Low" that oftentimes my favorite demo tape would go "missing". I bought at least six of those tapes within a year. Only a few had been stolen, the rest had gotten worn out. So when the Beasties played the......

British pop new-wavers, Squeeze, have (mostly) reunited and they feel so good. Did you know that Molly Ringwald had a Squeeze poster in her Sixteen Candles room? Did you know that the dreamy blonde lifeguard who worked with me at summer camp had a copy of 45’s and Under in his car. Did you know I can play Yankee Doodle on a ukulele? Slightly subversive post-punk with an energetic and upbeat sound, Squeeze makes......

Whether you are partial to the Annette Bening days, or a fan of the emo-beatle hair phase, everyone's favorite Presidential advisor and American Idol runner up is playing a show at the Greek this Saturday. LAist has one pair of tickets for one lucky person (or their lucky mom). Sincerely though, people are nuts about this Aiken fellow and far be it from me to begrudge them their fetishes. In fact, I encourage them.......

The Fresh - "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley Marina del Rey Summer Symphony @ Burton W. Chace Park Ten Years After @ The Canyon Bob Dylan @ Pacific Amphitheatre Lyle Lovett, k.d. lang @ Greek Theatre Chris Trapper, Craig Range, The Fresh @ Genghis Cohen Jesca Hoop, Laura Jansen, Lissie @ The Hotel Cafe Kiss or Kill @ Alex's Bar Bodies of Water @ Pershing Square The Whirling Dervish, Matador, Guppies @ Relax Bar Sea......

If you have watched any primetime television or new release movies you have most likely heard the bombastic sounds of Snow Patrol. In the past year alone the Scottish group has been featured in more than ten films and television shows; their single "Chasing Cars" was featured on the ABC show Grey's Anatomy not once, not twice, but three times. They are also Zach Braff-approved, with songs on both Garden State and The Last......

The double-header of Redd Kross and Sonic Youth completely blew my mind Friday night at the Greek. I had fantastic tickets (because my husband's online kung fu is the best), a photo pass (Thanks to the kind people at Nederlander Productions) and I was even on the list for the after-party (Thanks to Saccharine Trust and Dave Markey). I have seen Sonic Youth a number of times, starting with the Gila Monster Festival in 1984,......

Don't call it a comeback, but Hollywood Blvd. will soon look very different. Today the Los Angeles City Council approved a $400 million, 7-building, mix-use complex that will feature 1,000 apartments as well as several shops and restaurants. Built on the parking lots around the Pantages theater in the once-glorious center of Hollywood (Hollywood & Vine), the council voted unanimously to change zoning laws to allow for construction to begin at the end of......

Win a pair of tickets to see The Fray (Gomez and Eisley will be there too) live this Wednesday (7/18/07) at The Greek Theatre courtesy of nowwhat.com (they have exclusive behind-the scenes videos, tour photos and more). To enter, leave a comment with your favorite song by The Fray with your registered login (no guest commenting, we can't contact you then). Contest ends at 4:00 p.m. PST today. Good luck! Photo by Rod Blackhurst via......

Over their three years or so of existence in the music realm, the Arcade Fire have collected much praise and hyperbole for their albums, Funeral and this year's superb release Neon Bible. This praise and adoration is rightly deserved, as both albums are amazing, genre defying collections of music that are unlike anything out today. But it is only when you see the band live that these claims can be confirmed. Playing the first......

Arcade Fire ruled last night, heres some video and some pictures and a review of last night's great show. We will have even more photos later here on your favorite blog. Arcade Fire @ Greek Theatre Great Northern @ The Troubadour Mary Timony, The New Trust @ The Echo The Brombies @ Viva Cantina Intervention, Native Root @ The Derby The Randies, Porterville, Bobot Adrenaline, Chissum, Worthington @ Safari Sam's A Kiss Could Be......

They look like they just won the talent show, and they sound like something your grandmother would have liked. Old timey strings and brass arrangements mashed up with Talking Heads sensibilities mixed with a little something called originality and you begin to scratch the surface of the Arcade Fire. Playing an equal assortment of new faves from the recently-released Neon Bible to the old hits off 2004's Funeral, the 9-piece band of multi-instrumentalists from......

They're the best band you'll see all summer. Yes, even better than Rage Against the Machine. Pound-for-pound Arcade Fire has more songs, better songs, and you can't call it comeback. Plus the Canadians will be playing two nights in a venue in a park that will still smell of the remnants of an actual fire. Unless Rage has a stage that looks like a 1970s super computer, another point must be awarded to the......

Jill Scott, Lupe Fiasco, Les Nubians @ UCLA Intramural Field John Doe, Pamela Des Barres @ Topanga Days War @ Greek Theatre Go Betty Go, Invid, Red Team Go, Stoic Frame @ Mr. T's Bowl Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys @ The Derby Humboldt Square, The Congregation, Candygram for Mongo, Latham, Dicktastics @ Viper Room The Henry Clay People, Swim Party, Family Tree Analog, Franklin for Short @ All Star Lanes Bizzart, Weekend......

Pravada: music by Amon Tobin, Cut Chemist, DJ Spooky, Peanut Butter Wolf, J-Rocc, Dublab Soundsystem and others including a ten-piece theremin orchestra, visuals from classic Russian cinema @ Disney Hall Topanga Days: Veruca Salt, Chevy Metal, Minibar, Carina Round, Nutty Nut Nerds, The Tender Box, Spindrift @ Topanga Community House The Love Festival: Swedish Egil, Ladytron, Donald Glaude, DJ Irene, Kid Krazzy, Starkillers, DJ Reza, DJ Sneak, Tony C, Dieselboy, Dara, Aki200 @ LA......

While we're unaware of any specific damage to the Greek Theatre, we're certain it's littered with ash and smells-like-burning. So is Nederlander, the production company that books shows at the Greek. Tomorrow night's Loreena McKennitt concert has been moved to the Gibson Amphitheatre. Today's cooler temps helped firefighters get the Griffith Park fire under control. After consuming over 800 acres, the fire is 50 75 percent contained and will hopefully be entirely contained within......

Before Nirvana there was Sonic Youth and this summer there will be nirvana at The Greek when Sonic Youth plays their entire Daydream Nation album. If June 20th isn't marked on your calendar you probably shouldn't enter this contest. We have a pair of tickets for this show. We also have two posters for the winner as well. To enter tell us a story about Sonic Youth. Tell us what the show is going......

The Greek will be hosting some very impressive shows this year. First Sonic Youth announced that they will perform Daydream Nation at the venue up in Griffith Park, and then The Arcade Fire announced that they'll play on May 29th and 30th. On Saturday at 10am tickets for both Arcade Fire gigs will go on sale. So set your alarm clocks. The Arcade Fire are one of the most-welcome return attendees of Coachella in......

FRIDAY • El Cid features Two Gallants, Holy Ghost Revival and Wires on Fire tonight at 10 PM. Tickets are $8. [18+] • Franz Ferdinand are at the Greek Theatre tonight with TV on the Radio and Cut Copy. The show starts at 7:30 PM; tickets are $29.50=35. • Scottish popsters Idlewild are on stage at the El Rey with Inara George tonight at 8 PM. Tickets are $18.50. Click here for our complete......