Tame Impala continue to ride the wave of their wildly successful single “Elephant” and their sophomore album Lonerism. When you open for The Flaming Lips and hit just about every European festival on the tour scheduling, you are bound to find success and fans around the world. And since “Elephant” Read more…
Sonya Bender of Crystal Sister is ready to take the leap onto your ipod with her self-titled EP, out October 3. But before we get to sample all the goods we get a little taste with the release of her first two tracks: “Take my Hand” and “Suicide Love”. Take Read more…
There is an innate discrepancy between the powers of Rock and Roll and the mystical subculture of Magic the Gathering. Lets face it, the stereotype is that one gets the girls and the other dreams about being a magical Wizard with 10th level spell casting to woo doe eyed nymph Read more…
Its been over fifteen years since The Sounds broke onto the scene with a pop-sense for New Wave. The Swedish band has since released five studio albums, and their latest release Weekend has put them back on the indie-rock map. If the bands latest single sounds like something from Shiny Read more…
Sometimes you just have to mix it up, and Lisa Lampanelli at Club Nokia is the mix up/dust up that you may need. The insult comic is coming to Club Nokia in LA next Saturday and we are giving away a pair of tickets to the show. Don’t ever say that we don’t give you variety here. It’s easy to enter as always and we’ll be announcing winners on June 17th. (more…)
Coachella 2013 is in the books. We went into the festival this year with a ton of questions and some doubts. The headliners didn’t floor us, and with other festivals around the nation and in California booking some pretty amazing bands, we were skeptical. But then we experienced two weekends of music in the Coachella Valley, and it all made sense yet again. Coachella is about the sun, the valley, the music and the people. If you didn’t have a good time, you did something wrong. We went into Saturday thinking it was a pretty weak lineup, and we came out with some of our favorite shows of the weekend. Here’s our list of the Best and Worst of Coachella 2013. (more…)
Zakk Wylde is bringing his brand of heavy metal to Club Nokia on March 6th for a special one-off show by Black Label Society called “Unblackened”. This special “semi-acoustic” performance is being filmed for a Live DVD and album, and Zakk is promising special guests throughout the night. We are going to help you get in! We’ll pick winners at random leading up to the show next Wednesday. There’s a few ways to enter, and we’ll randomly be picking winners throughout the week- so enter soon and enter often. This is your chance to see the longtime Ozzy Osbourne guitarist in his element with Black Label Society in a special Los Angeles performance. Get to entering after the jump! (more…)
Looks like Dead Sara has a warm up date for their tour with MUSE. By warm up date, we mean a super small secret show in Hollywood. Harvard & Stone will be hosting the band next Thursday. Harvard & Stone shows are usually free and pretty easy to get into, but this one might be a tad different. You’ll have to send an e-mail and get on the guestlist. This thing will definitely reach capacity soon, so get to typing! (more…)