Tonight Halifax-based indie rockers Wintersleep, who recently released their fourth studio-album, 2010's New Inheritors, will be warming up the stage at the Troubadour for none other than the City of Brotherly Love's own indie rock maestros Matt Pond PA. Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter April Smith & The Great Picture Show is poised to grace the Hotel Café with New Jersey-bred folk singer-songwriter Jenny Owen Youngs. And, lastly, Culver City/Mar Vista-based indie rock sextet Bikos will be taking on Pehrspace. But we strongly suggest heading over to the Bootleg Theater to catch Portland-based pop folk sextet Loch Lomond. LAist favorites, Seattle's own pop folk outfit Hey Marseilles are slated to kick things off. more ›

Carbon/Silicon took their punk rock pedigrees to the stage at the El Rey Wednesday night and kicked out an inspired, energized set that left the crowd of several hundred white 40-year-olds ecstatic that they’d stayed out past their bedtimes. more ›

Bob Mould - "It's Too Late" Bob Mould @ The Roxy (unplugged) Jill Scott @ House of Blues The Subways, Mobius Band, Blackmarket @ Spaceland Matt Pond PA, Jesca Hoop @ Troubadour Dashboard Confessional @ Orpheum The Brombies @ Viva Cantina The Draft, Dead to Me @ Knitting Factory for the kids, so to speak Happy Hump Day Party for Charity! featuring Adult film star: Ava Rose and her Porn Posse, The Sanchez Band,... more ›

Sea Wolf opened for Sloan last night at the Troubadour. The band featured music soon-to-be released EP, Get To The River Before It Runs Too Low. Lead singer Alex Brown Church, the bands only invariable member and also current member of the band Irving, felt like a young Jeff Tweedy. The kind of guy who can’t help but seem genuine in everything he does. Melodically lilting and filled with hopefully melancholy, the songs fit the... more ›

Tenacious D @ Gibson Frank Black @ House of Blues Sepultura @ Vault 350 Julieta Venegas @ Wiltern The Slits @ The Troubadour MF Doom, Madlib @ El Rey The Mutaytor, Stolen Babies @ Henry Fonda Midnight Movies, The Willowz @ Spaceland Jon Brion @ Largo The Fucking Ocean @ El Cid Golden State, Scissors for Lefty @ Viper Silent Meow, Beatmo, Dollyrots, Last Action Heroes @ Lava Lounge Have Another Monkey, Jeremy Buck... more ›

Last spring LAist went to SXSW where there were 1,300 bands. Many were good, but a few rose to the top. Local trio Honky was one of the standouts. Dirty, sweaty, down home southern rock in the vein of all your favorites. Like if ZZ Top left behind some tattooed bastard sons out there in La Grange. more ›