Since 1919
Relationships are not perfect. They have their high and low moments. The Summer Set’s album, “Everything’s Fine,” has arrived and is an emotional roller coaster filled with the joy and pain of falling in love.
“Everything’s Fine” displays the evolution of the band from one of their first albums “…In Color,” on which the band made use of significant auto-tune.
In his first full-length album as Washed Out, Ernest Greene has created a set of electronic songs that represents a bit of a musical head-scratcher.
Every summer, bands release albums in the hopes that they will find commercial and critical success as the soundtrack to the season. Most albums fall a little bit short of such success, while select others create something that perfectly embodies the spirit of summer. Gardens & Villa’s new self-titled debut album is one of the latter.
The Hammer Museum is adding motion to its still life paintings in partnership with public radio station KCRW 89.9 FM for yet another “Also I Like to Rock” free concert series this summer.
Music fans tend to have a love/hate relationship with music from the ’80s. On the one hand, the corny rock and power pop of the decade have helped to create some of the most prevalent guilty pleasure bands of this generation, such as Journey.
Like many other alternative rock bands that formed in the late ’90s, Taking Back Sunday has struggled to define itself in a world where the pre-teen audience it used to cater to has grown up and the current batch of pre-teens has discovered fresh new musical idols.
When UCLA math professor Joseph Teran is not teaching graduate courses, he is practicing and touring with five-piece indie pop band Sweater Girls. Teran founded the band in 2009 with the band’s drummer and singer, and all of the members have been balancing music with their full-time jobs ever since.
