Concerts & Festivals

Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad makes standard dub reggae, for the most part. The song writing is what makes GPGDS stand out, giving them color where they'd most likely just...

Hot Buttered Rum plays bluegrass that is both traditional and instilled with mountains of personality. In our festival preview of All Good 2011 we mentioned how this set would help link the HBR we...

Bass heavy, heart-pounding Beats Antique. You can feel them in your bones. I saw them last weekend at Camp Bisco, but the trio played in the early evening, when the sun was still relatively high in...

Composed, waiting for Nadastrom to finish his set, Tokimonsta stood ready to take the stage. As the only lead female electronic musician at Camp Bisco X, Tokimonsta was a breath of...

Room 5 Lounge // Los Angeles // July 9, 2011 This past weekend, Chicago songwriter Jess Godwin sang for the first time in Los Angeles at The Room 5 Lounge.  She currently has three CDs available and...

I'd never heard of Death From Above 1979 before. I expected an electronic band. There was a lot of hype surrounding them, as the band had been broken up since 2006, and hadn't released a...

Wiz Khalifa, as underground as he was, doesn't have much more time before the spotlight gets the best of him. His rhymes and his messages are not a joke. He aims to make bangers, catchy dance tunes...

Insane projections and gusts of thick smoke fill Ratatat's stage. It's some of the best visuals I've seen all weekend. Ratatat shreds harder than you'd expect, and in the...

Slightly askew and texturally beautiful, Black Moth Super Rainbow has the guts to do better than what they did. Their set at Camp Bisco X was just OK. They were on-time and their songs...

Fighting my way through the dense crowd in the Grooveshark Tent at Camp Bisco X felt like crawling through a humid rain forest inhabited by a tribe of dancing teenagers. Finally getting to...