Even though LA Weekly’s 1st Annual Detour Music Festival is just this Saturday, tickets (general $35.50 and VIP $50.50*) are STILL available. That’s right, you still have a chance to party in Downtown LA all day long with several thousand people and enjoy headliner acts (all LA bands) Beck, Queens of the Stone Age and Basement…
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'80s Karaoke Night at the Hollywood Bowl
This sounds so awesome: Totally ’80s Karaoke Night at the Hollywood Bowl, featuring three big ’80s groups with Jane Wiedlin from the Go-Gos hosting. The Bowl’s big screens, normally used for close-ups of performers in concert, will instead be put to good use as a karaoke screen jogging your memory about your fave songs. My bro,…
Massive Attack's Hollywood Bowl Debut
Remember trip hop? So 15 years ago. Actually when I heard that Massive Attack was doing a show at the Bowl for their first time, I was really excited. I loved Mezzanine. I love the Bowl. But then my bro, whose musical taste I highly respect, said that they’re not as good as they used…
James Brown & the Bowl: Pretty Spry for an Old Guy
Checking out Angie Stone and James Brown at the Bowl might have been the most surreal Bowl experience I’ve had yet. First, that is a 73-year-old man shaking his groove thang up there. Second, that’s the Godfather of Soul up there. And third, is that James Brown doing “The Running Man”? And the surrealness was…
TONIGHT: Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
My sister was the one whose reach all the way from Japan pushed my bro and me to check out the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players when they played the Viper Room several years ago, even though neither of us had heard of them before or knew what they were about. But we trusted her unfailing good,…
Sunset Junction Street Fair: What's Your Function?
Every year the Sunset Junction Street Fair comes around and every year I feel its pull of its music, food and people but then dismiss it. Too far, too crowded, too much stress. It’s easy for me to dismiss since I live in West L.A. but now that my friend Julie has opened up my…
Beachy Keen Twilight Dance Series at the SaMo Pier
Flickr Shot by Malingering I’ve heard about the Twilight Dance Series at the Santa Monica Pier many times before but it wasn’t until I saw the above picture that I really considered going. How fun is that? The featured band is playing to the masses on the pier above while other music lovers can picnic on…
L.A. Film Festival's Conversation With Danger Mouse
Sure, they are probably two of the hottest djs currently on the music scene, but have you ever wondered if cutting-edge mixmasters Jason Bentley and Danger Mouse secretly harbor bubblegum pop leanings? Now you can find out thanks to L.A. Film Festival’s “Conversation with Danger Mouse.” Today at the Hammer Museum, KCRW’s Jason Bentley will…
OutFest's West Side Story Sing-A-Long
Flickr Shot by mjutabor Who doesn’t love musicals? Especially musicals where the audience is allowed to sing along to their favorite tunes at the top of their lungs? But before you think I’m trying to get you to go to one of those annoying family outings, this one is West Side Story, presented by OutFest…
KCRW's World Festival: Zero 7 & Gotan Project
Bah! The only tickets available for Thievery Corporation/The Flaming Lips at KCRW World Festival’s Bowl show are onesies. I thought I still had some time to buy ’em since the show is all the way in July, and summer Bowl shows rarely sell out. Even tickets for the potentially awesome Sergio Mendes Brazil night with…
