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Knumears is releasing their debut album Directions on April 3, showcasing their unique sound within the Los Angeles screamo scene. The album is available through Run for Cover and Summer Shade.

Join us for a free night of DJ sets and a lively night market at "Pickin' on the Polk" After Hours on April 25, 2026, from 6 PM to 10 PM.

"Los Angeles is built on culture, creativity, and a passion for world-class experiences. In partnership with Sam Nazarian and sbe, we are setting a new standard for nightlife in LA."

Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew reunite to celebrate the influential record Remain in Light, often cited as Talking Heads' peak, with a concert tour.

When people come in and realize I'm involved, they're always surprised to see me. It's a bit like being at Disneyland and running into Goofy. I sometimes feel like the mayor of Larchmont. Rosenthal enjoys the personal connection with diners at his recently opened establishment, finding satisfaction in the surprise and delight customers experience when discovering his involvement in the neighborhood venue.

Band of Skulls emerged from Southampton, England with a gritty, blues-soaked take on garage rock that felt both scrappy and deliberate. Their breakout album Baby Darling Doll Face Honey introduced a sound built on thick riffs, tight rhythm work, and a push-pull vocal dynamic that gave the songs real tension.

The single-story house was last sold in 1988 by Van Halen rock band brothers Eddie and Alex for $450,000. During the eight years the brothers owned the 3,367-square-foot home, purchased in 1980 for $221,000, they produced such hit tunes as the Grammy-nominated "Jump" (you knew where this was heading), "Dreams" and "Love Walks In."

I've never had such a significant moment around a venue launch. It's the seventh venue we've done, but it has never coincided with such an important creative moment with the band. I have to be very disciplined right now.

We bought the property in 1974 from the Dudley Murphy estate. In 1979, we sold 10 condos designed (and built in 1939 for Murphy as motel units) by famed architect Richard Neutra. The remaining two lots, which have a total of 83 feet of beach frontage, represent what Stern called the first Escondido Beach Road home sites available to the public in more than 20 years.

Head to this free community festival celebrating Lunar New Year on Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood on Saturday! This street festival brings together Korean, Vietnamese, and Chinese cultural traditions with arts & crafts booths, performances, interactive activities and a lively artisan market curated by MAUM. You'll find food trucks and Asian-owned vendors, traditional music and dance and kid-friendly creative stations.

The Boss is heading back to the Golden State. Yes, that's right: Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band are set to perform three big shows in California. In the Bay Area, Springsteen performs April 13 at Chase Center in San Francisco. Tickets go on sale at noon Feb. 20, ticketmaster.com. Springsteen also performs April 7 and 9 at The Kia Forum in Los Angeles area. Tickets go on sale at noon Feb. 21.

The last time Dave Grohl celebrated his birthday at a Los Angeles concert was 2015, and I was there for that one, too. The show was massive: surprise guests, spectacle, the whole deal. Last night at the Kia Forum felt deliberately smaller, if you can call anything in an 18,000-seat arena small. No overproduction, no novelty moments, no parade of spectacle. Just Foo Fighters in their element.

I've felt terrible ever since, because it's such a responsibility to not screw up like that, he said. I was naive, of course people are gonna pick that up. But I just felt it was kind of a private moment. I thought I was safe in the bubble. And it was so fast. If there was ever a too soon,' it was this, he added. And maybe I thought I was on it, or ahead of the curve. But no, it was definitely too soon.

This was 1980 or '81, she reckons, just after she'd come off the road playing percussion for the jazz star George Duke; by 1984, she'd become a star herself with the pop hit "The Glamorous Life," which she cut with her mentor Prince and which went to No. 7 on Billboard's Hot 100. Over the decades that followed, Sheila E. went on to record or perform with everyone from Ringo Starr to Beyoncé.

Rut took piano lessons in grade school, but they didn't stick. He asked his parents for a guitar because he wanted to be Ace Frehley of KISS. When his guitar teacher told him the members of KISS "weren't real musicians," he stopped playing-until high school. "I found a friend who knew all the classic rock riffs. That's when I started hearing songs in my head," he said.

Originally from Illinois and now based in Maine, where he has lived for the past four years, Pokey LaFarge brings a lived-in perspective to American roots music. Drawing from early jazz, blues, swing and folk traditions, his songwriting balances warmth, rhythm and emotional clarity without slipping into nostalgia for its own sake. Over the years, LaFarge has grown into a confident bandleader, known for performances that feel loose but intentional, with space for both musicianship and connection.