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Fitz and the Tantrums Play Their New Album

Posted on 5/10/2013 2:00:00 PM by Robert Spuhler

The Fitz and the Tantrums show last night at Apogee Studios was a double homecoming show. Read More

Where to See Free Music in L.A. in May

Posted on 5/6/2013 1:45:00 PM by Robert Spuhler

Star sightings? Check. Moshing? Highly likely. Tuba? Yup. For L.A.'s live music fans, May residencies have a bit of everything. Here's where to go and who to see this month. Read More

He Makes the Visuals That Make the EDM Kids Go Crazy

Posted on 4/24/2013 2:48:00 PM by Robert Spuhler

While the beats throb in Coachella's Sahara tent, Vello Virkhaus is all business behind the laptops and lighting boards on the VJ platform. Read More

Your Weekend at Coachella, Planned

Posted on 4/11/2013 2:33:00 PM by Robert Spuhler

The hotels are confirmed, the sunscreen is purchased, the car is packed. But before you and 75,000 of your closest friends head to Indio for Coachella 2013, you might want to have a strategy for the show itself. Here are five can't miss acts for every day of the shindig. Read More

L.A.'s April Music Residencies

Posted on 4/2/2013 12:33:00 PM by Robert Spuhler

No desert drives, sunblock, hotel reservations or car camping passes are required to take in one of the local acts performing in L.A. clubs in the month of April. Read More

Can't Go to Coachella? Let Coachella Come to You

Posted on 3/26/2013 1:18:00 PM by Robert Spuhler

Do you enjoy indoor plumbing? Avoiding heat stroke? Paying reasonable amounts for hotel rooms? The two-weekend mega-concert is both a music fan's nirvana and a Darwinian endurance test. Read More

Free Music in March

Posted on 3/4/2013 11:03:00 AM by Robert Spuhler

It might seem like every musician in Los Angeles is heading to Austin this month for South by Southwest, but there are plenty of opportunities to catch up-and-coming acts during a string of residency shows in March. Read More

All Your Music Residencies Are Belong To Us

Posted on 2/1/2013 11:00:00 AM by Robert Spuhler

Impress your significant other with a trip to a free concert at a local nightclub. Here are the bands in residence during February. Read More

January 2013: The Month in L.A. Music Residencies

Posted on 1/4/2013 10:00:00 AM by Robert Spuhler

January is filled with some of the year's longest nights. With winter, such as it is in Los Angeles, in full swing, cut through the malaise of those dark, lonely evenings by taking shelter at one of the following band residencies during the inaugural month of 2013. Read More