Rare Pictures on Earth is guitarist/vocalist Chris Rager (Jail Weddings, Devon Williams and Frankie Rose) and bassist Allie Alvarado, who met while playing the same show and decided to put together a band. Their first show is tonight and their second-ever released song is "Youth," a down-but-not-despondent song that sounds like if the Verlaines were just totally immersed in the works of Jonathan Richman. ►

Photos by Leslie Kalohi Arroyo Seco returned for another weekend of festival fun in the sun amongst the grassy knolls of Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Serving up tasty spoonfuls of nostalgia alongside premiere food and drink, Arroyo Seco proved to be another… ►

Photos by Maximilian Ho After performing “Cicada” off their newly released album Floating Features, lead singer/guitarist Shana Cleveland of La Luz had this to say: “Thank you guys so much for coming. This is truly amazing, and just the greatest thing after being on the… ►

Echo Park (via this continent and one more) musician J. Bonigno is about to release the follow up to 2017's charmingly hazy San Minotauro EP, and here's the especially charismatic A-side. ►

Father John Misty brings his sophisticated folk sound to the Hollywood Bowl where he'll perform cuts from his Grammy®-winning album Pure Comedy and the brand-new God's Favorite Customer. Gillian Welch and her longtime musical partner David Rawlings, pillars of the modern acoustic music world, will perform an intimate set. Opening the night is Big Thief. Info and tickets here! Want to enter to win tickets? Email rsvp@larecord.com with subject MISTY and we'll pick winners at random Friday morning! ►

L.A. experimental guitarist Sean Smith has a new album about to materialize on Castle Face under the name LFZ, and his new song "Naturalistic" is seven scintillating minutes of something like Sandy Bull transformed into Terry Riley-style Rainbow In Curved Air fractal repetition, presented with such depth and clarity you can practically hear the air molecules vibrate and collide. ►