Los Angeles Stuff
Meet Hit Bargain, the LA Queencore Band That Stands on Men's Faces
With songs about gender, power, and the movies, Hit Bargain takes you beyond the visceral thrills of punk while still indulging in them.
Get Your Jujus Out: An Interview with Jennylee
The Warpaint bassist talks going solo, stage jitters, and the future of guitar bands.
This is My Reality as a Woman Music Journalist
Looking back, I realize that I’ve accepted inappropriate behavior from male subjects and disregard from male editors because I was just grateful to be there in the first place.
PREMIERE: Listen to Lucy Sunday's Radiant Cover of Chet Faker's "Talk is Cheap"
Sunday's lush electro-pop cover inhabits the tune so well that we thought it was her original.
Getting Vulnerable at A$AP Ferg's Art Exhibit
"I don’t care if you’re a 12-year-old kid that’s not showing your face. If you’re talking shit on a comment, that shit affects you, you know what I’m saying?"
This Good-Ass Ambient Music Belongs in a Museum, and LA's MOCA Is Doing Exactly That
LA producer Anenon is brining local musicians to MOCA's galleries for a year of live performances. Listen to the premiere of his new song "Mouth" for a taste of what's to come.
PREMIERE: Get Weird with Psychic Love's Surreal Video for "Nancy"
Inspired by true crime shows, the LA dream grunge project is serving Nancy Sinatra meets David Bowie meets a restraining order.
After Two Decades, LA's Latino Ska Scene Is Still DIY as Hell
Born in the early 90s, the local ska scene of inner-city LA has evolved from its origins in grassroots backyard gigs into a cultural youth movement still alive and skanking today.
"Screw Was Just as Slow as His Music": Lil Keke Remembers DJ Screw 15 Years After His Death
The Screwed Up Click member talked Screw's influence and legacy at a retrospective in LA.
PREMIERE: Dance in Front of Your Bedroom Mirror to Party Nails' "No Pressure"
It's a fierce bit of pop that sounds kind of like if Carly Rae Jepsen fronted a New Wave band that made songs for John Hughes films.
Anderson .Paak Takes Us into a New Reality, and We’re Down for the Ride
We joined the Dre protege at Mack Sennet Studios in LA for one of the first-ever virtual reality concert experiences.
Lila Downs, Death, and Celebrity Gravestones at Hollywood Forever's Dia de los Muertos
The largest Dia de los Muertos event in the country is a far cry from the money-grabbing appropriation of so-called Day of the Dead fests.