With a combination of songs from their newest record, Helplessness Blues, and their first, self-titled album, the set was thoroughly satisfying and the night close to perfect. Everything was copacetic. Just as I had thought years ago, the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur was the perfect places to experience not just live music, but this music.

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This is music for seducing, being seduced, or worse yet, falling in love in some foreign locale while on vacation, giving in to the irresistible intrigue of an exotic lover in a place where the sun seems to be perpetually setting. We all know that, outside of 1980s softcore, this type of scenario never actually occurs in real life. However, if opening night at Staples Center of Sade’s sold-out run of Southern California dates is any indication, that fantasy is the preferred form of escapism for a great number of Angelenos (myself included).

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Yellow Red Sparks on the Terrace Stage There’s nothing better than than enjoying folk music on a surreal ranch in the hills of the San Gabriel Mountains with 500 guests and 28 bands. On August 7th, The 2nd New Los Angeles Folk Festival was held at Zorthian Ranch in Altadena, CA. With four different stages [...]

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Download: Total Wreck x Carlos Rossi + Trina Darling [Audio clip: view full post to listen] DJs Carlos Rossi and Trina Darling will be reinforcing L.A. RECORD at Footsie’s for Total Wreck on Saturday, and they made us this special double-shot mix, including intense personalized introductions! Come out at 10 pm for free fuzz, funk, [...]

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Alison Mosshart “VV” and Jamie Hince “Hotel” were back in LA.  This time at The Wiltern and VV sporting some fierce red hair.  They rocked it as usual. Photos by Debi Del Grande Setlist: No Wow Future Starts Now Heart is a Beating Drum Kissy Kissy U.R.A. Fever DNA Satellite Tape Song Baby Says Last [...]

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Not sure why this show had seats in the pit because NO ONE was sitting down. Photos by Debi Del Grande Setlist: A Warning Web of Deception Lebanese Blonde Take My Soul Until the Morning Liberation Front Overstand Radio R Numbers Game Illumination Is it Over La Femme P Americamacka Culture of Fear Vampires Assault [...]

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Sunset Junction has been canceled. You need a permit to put a ferris wheel and indie rockers in the streets. But, really, the Junc supposedly owed the city 6-figures from last year and it was pay up today or Public Works shut you down and though we can imagine some really cool action sequences to [...]

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The rock band that started on the Sunset Strip was honored after 30 years (of questionable fashion influence) over the weekend. Motley Crue (Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee and Mick Mars) not only sounded as good as ever, their stage complete with fire and Tommy’s insane roller coaster drum set up (with Deadmaus for [...]

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Pairing three great garage bands who should play together ALL THE TIME turned out to be as great in practice as it was in theory. This FYF outing paired So-Cal heroes Tijuana Panthers and Audacity with S.F. sunshine pop darling Ty Segall at Eagle Rock’s historic-library-turned-concert-venue Eagle Rock Center for the Arts.

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“Joy Division’s first show was 15 minutes!” That’s what we heard exclaimed from the stage after iceage’s vicious L.A. debut at the Echo for Part Time Punks. OK, so that comparison is a bit much, but it’s apt in that what Iceage seems to want to do is bring danger to the stage, much like [...]

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