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Thank you Jack White, if for nothing else, than for realizing that great talent doesn’t need to fade with the times. Wanda deserves to be onstage, packing out the El Rey, showing young grasshoppers how it’s done.

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She dated Elvis and is now on stage with White Stripes/Raconteurs/Dead Weather frontman and multi-talented Jack White.  How lucky can one woman get? Legendary Queen of Rockabilly Wanda Jackson doesn’t just sound good “for her age,” she is just good.  Finally receiving more credit where credit is due, White has brought this lovely lady back [...]

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A colorful array of late teens and young adults started to move in circles. The northwest trio played a nice lengthy set including jams like “Returning to The Fold,” “We Were Sick,” and “How We Know.” After one of their songs, someone shouted out “USA!, USA!” and many others riding on adrenaline chimed in.

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MS Paint illustration from The Ark Times, Little Rock, Arkansas This month, Nico Turner of VoicesVoices has been touring across the country in Vincent Gallo’s experimental/improv project, RRIICCEE, along with Woody Jackson, who composed the music for the video game Red Dead Redemption, and films like Ocean’s 11 & 12. The project exists solely in [...]

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Legendary indie rockers Built to Spill made a one-night stop in LA at the El Rey on Thursday to support their latest full-length, There Is No Enemy. Per usual, BTS spent some time with the new material and a lot of time with the old, politely ignoring the drunken hollers from the audience to play [...]

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Los Angeles Venue Directory Below you will find a list of venues in Los Angeles and surrounding communities. If we have overlooked a venue please leave it in the comments field and we will add it to our list. The Echo 1822 W Sunset Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90026-3227 (213) 413-8200 www.attheecho.com The Echoplex 1154 [...]

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The first minute of a new day began at 9PM, when ecstatic emotions surged El Rey as Gil Scott-Heron strolled on stage. The event felt like a rarity—experiencing jazz, poetry and hip hop as it was fused decades earlier, but as Heron said, his music is living music; a non genre sound evident in the varied faces packing the house.

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Silverlake, 2008 moved to the El Rey Theatre for a night and they brought visuals with them for the Tar Fest. The three bands on the lineup all showed that they not only are up to the challenge of performing at the larger venues, they also know how to make use of the additional space, sight and sound.

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It wasn’t just the appearance of this husky crew that made them seem out of place in the chandeliered El Rey—the nature of their music simply belongs in the backwoods of Oregon. The state was mentioned as the inspiration behind several of their songs (“This one’s about a river in Oregon;” “We found this song in an Oregon forest;” “We were thinking about the roller skating rink back home”).

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