Tonight Evelyn Evelyn, the musical duo formed by the Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley, will be concluding a three-night stint at Largo at the Coronet. Austin-bred indie rock quartet Voxtrot are poised to call it quits after their current tour, which stops through the Echoplex tonight. And, lastly, local prolific songwriter John Wood, who performs under the pseudonym Learning Music will be gracing Echo Curio with none other than Mooey Moobau and Video. But we strongly suggest heading over to the Troubadour to catch Juno-nominated, Québécois indie rock trio Plants and Animals, who are touring in support of their sophomore endeavor—2010's La La Land. LAist favorites, Chapel Hill orchestral pop collective Lost in the Trees are slated to kick things off. more ›

In honor of this momentous occasion—a newfangled regime and a new lease on life—LAist would like to extend a musical goodie bag of sorts. LA-based record label Vosotros has released their latest endeavor ¡YES WE PUEDE!, a compilation of local artists covering nationalistic public domain tunes in honor of today's Presidential inauguration. The free eight-song disc, released under a CC BY-NC license, features LAist favorites Obi Best (LAist Interview, Review, #2), weyou and Learning Music. After all, we all deserve a handful of sweet songs for roughing it the last eight years. more ›

December is was list-making season. And for us music journalists, it is a time to look back on scores of albums, reflect upon the music and recapitulate our favorites. But this year, just like the last, we took this opportunity to flip that tradition upside down, asking the artists that influenced us what influenced them. The prompt was not limited to albums that came out in 2008. more ›

Last Sunday, local Alex Lilly's solo project Obi Best (MySpace), formerly known as Colorforms (MySpace), performed the first show of her month-long residency, celebrating the release of her debut album , at Tangier in Los Feliz. more ›