Joey Maloney

Boston based synth-pop outfit Passion Pit came through Los Angeles for what seemed to be the 100th time on Tuesday, December 7. Yet devotees of their 2009 release, Manners, packed into the Palladium ready to hear their keyboard-heavy tunes as if it were their first show. This performance was a victory lap of sorts as the band winds down and prepares to do it all again sometime next year when their sophomore LP is released....

Photo by Joey Maloney via Flickr Get ready for the pep rally, root for your team to beat Valley and prepare to pull those pranks on the rival’s because it is homecoming time at the Sundance Film Festival. Not really but with several big name filmmakers making their return to Sundance, it is hard not to get excited to see what many of the festival’s notable alums, now later in their careers, have to...

Photo by Joey Maloney via Flickr The Sundance Institute made the first of three festival announcements today for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Included in the announcement were the Institute’s selections for US Dramatic Competition, US Documentary Comp., World Cinema Dramatic Comp. and World Cinema Documentary Comp. In all, 10,279 films were submitted for consideration marking the first time in the festival’s history that submissions have hit above 10,000. Of the 3,812 feature submissions...

Conor Oberst popped in to the Echo Wednesday night, to play a special/surprise opening set for tour mates the Felice Brothers....

As hard as it may be to believe, punk rockers Green Day have been around for over two decades. Since their rise to prominence in the early 90's and onward, their sound grew to define a generation and with each change in the soundscape and musical environment they have not just survived but thrived. Their latest round of success is no different as they are riding the wave of last year's smash release 21st Century...

"Tonight and every night we need to defend the rights of our brothers and sisters....Si Se Puede!," exclaimed Rage Against the Machine front man Zach De La Rocha as the band played the Hollywood Palladium on Friday July 23rd, their first Los Angeles show in nearly 10 years. Joined on the bill by Connor Oberst, they raised over $300,000 in support of Sound Strike, a coalition of artists protesting Arizona’s contentious SB1070 Immigration Bill. Never...

The band of Followills, comprised of three brothers and one cousin, better known as Kings of Leon played to a sold out Hollywood Bowl Monday night. Led by Caleb Followill, KOL has never sounded tighter and stronger. After their explosion in popularity following the 2008 release Only By The Night, the band has spent the better part of two years touring worldwide and has finished recording a new album....

The xx, one of the big hype bands of the year, made their second showing in SoCal in less than three months at the Wiltern Theater on June 6th. After a breakout Coachella (and every summer festival for that matter) performance, the band returned with, well - nearly the same set. Being that they only have one album, an album that has been met with nearly universal acclaim, it is hard to knock them for...

If one took a quick glance at the lineup for this year's installment of KROQ's annual early summer bash, the Weenie Roast, you might think you had stepped into a time machine (Hot Tub or Delorean, your choice) and were blasted back to the Mid-Nineties. With Hole, Stone Temple Pilots, Devo and Sublime all at the top of the bill, nostalgia was the name of the game at this Weenie Roast. The event boasted 15...

In what was their first Los Angeles show in nearly four years and the first of three consecutive, sold-out dates at the Wiltern, Bristol-based trip-hop legends Massive Attack treated the crowd to a nearly perfect two-hour set of their patented brand of atmospheric music. While the first half of the set was heavy on the newest release—2010's Heligoland—the well-known tracks that delivered them to prominence were not ignored. One of the highlights being a stripped down version of "Teardrop" with former Tricky collaborator and evening opener Martina Topley-Bird, who lent her soulful voice to the band on about a third of the evening's tracks.