FIRST FRIDAYS, the provocative series in which live music, discussion and curatorial tours converge in an after-hours event, concludes its 8th season on Friday, June 3. This final evening will center on Dr. Luis Chiappe’s talk “The Dinosaur in Your Backyard.” Dr. Chiappe is head of NHM’s Dinosaur Institute and curator of the upcoming Dinosaur [...]
Jun 01, 2011 | Categories: RADAR | Tags: art culture downtown la, art party, Best of Downtown LA, concert, Culture, Culture DTLA, dirty beaches, Downtown LA, dr.luis chiappe, first fridays, gayngs, live music, Los Angeles, Los Angeles art scene, Los Angeles concert, Los Angeles events, Music, natural history museum, things to do DTLA, what's hot in Downtown | Leave A Comment »
The annual series of FREE Friday night dance events is back at the Music Center Plaza. Starting this Friday, June 3rd with the Line Dance/Two Step, you can shake and groove to live music and amazing DJs. At least two Fridays a month this summer, you and your family can enjoy an active night out. [...]
Jun 01, 2011 | Categories: CULTURE | Tags: art culture downtown la, Best of Downtown LA, dancing, Downtown LA, Free dance lessons, live music, Los Angeles art scene, Los Angeles concerts, Los Angeles events, Music Center Plaza, things to do DTLA | Leave A Comment »
The Salastina Music Society will present a concert at The Colburn School’s Thayer Hall on June 18th, 2011 at 3 pm. The program features Artistic Directors/violinists Kevin Kumar & Maia Jasper, along with a stellar cast of instrumentalists, and offers a diverse range of music from classical, folk, and dance to a world premiere. The [...]
May 23, 2011 | Categories: CULTURE, LAbuzz | Tags: Antonin Dvořák, Art, art culture downtown la, art party, Arturo Márquez, Béla Bartók, Best of Downtown LA, Catherine Ransom Karoly, classical, colburn school, complimentary ice cream, concert, Culture, Culture DTLA, David Parmeter, Downtown LA, Elizabeth Futral, folk, Gregory Cohen, Håkan Rosengren, Jeremy Cavaterra, Julie Ann Smith, june 18th, kevin kumar, live music, Los Angeles, Los Angeles art scene, Los Angeles events, Los Angeles live music, maia jasper, Mark O’Connor, Maurice Ravel, Music, Robert Brophy, Rod Gilfry, salastina music society, scoops gelato, thayer hall, things to do DTLA, Three Neruda Arias, Timothy Landauer, what's hot in Downtown | Leave A Comment »
This Wednesday night Lady Gaga will show her love for her devoted fans with a Born this Way Release Party at the Belasco Theater at 1050 S. Hill Street. Fans will be able to gain admittance by showing a valid proof of purchase of Born This Way or by purchasing the album at the door. [...]
May 23, 2011 | Categories: RADAR | Tags: .99 cents gaga album on amazon, 5/25/11, affinity for dtla, album release party, art culture downtown la, bars in downtown la, belasco theater, Belvedere cocktails, Best of Downtown LA, born this way haus party, Deadmau5, Events in Downtown LA, Gilt City VIP lounge, guest djs, Interscope, la cita, Lady Gaga, live music, Los Angeles, Los Angeles concert, Los Angeles live music, Music, party, Polaroid Grey Label experience, what's hot in Downtown | 6 Comments »
Silverlake Lounge Saturday 1/8/11: Mister Nervous is up first at 6pm, The Ross Sea Party is up at 7 and The Monthlies. at 8. It’s all over by 9pm. We’re gonna give some stuff away too.
Jan 04, 2011 | Categories: CULTURE, Music | Tags: concert, free, indie, indie music, live music, Los Angeles, Los Angeles live music, Los Angeles music, Music, party, pop, rock, show, underground | 2 Comments »
Black Friday 11/26 – with Old Californio, The Sundowners and Mister Nervous at the Old Towne Pub
Nov 19, 2010 | Categories: CULTURE, LAbuzz, Music | Tags: concert, indie, indie music, jam, live music, Los Angeles, Los Angeles live music, Los Angeles music, party, pop, rock, underground | Leave A Comment »
It’s like someone put Reverend Horton Heat, AC/DC, Nirvana and T-Rex in a blender and ran it till the lid blew off.
Nov 13, 2010 | Categories: CULTURE, Music | Tags: concert, Downtown LA, indie, indie music, live music, Los Angeles, Los Angeles music, rock | Leave A Comment »
Adam Bones just wants to RockNroll.
Oct 22, 2010 | Categories: CULTURE, LAbuzz, Music | Tags: concert, indie, indie music, live music, Los Angeles, Los Angeles live music, Los Angeles music, Music, party, pop, punk, rock, show | Leave A Comment »
Mister Nervous plays the GOOD HURT on Wednesday October 6th @ 11pm.
Sep 30, 2010 | Categories: CULTURE, Music | Tags: concert, free, indie, indie music, live music, Los Angeles, Los Angeles concert, Los Angeles live music, Los Angeles music, Music, party, rock, show, venice | Leave A Comment »
The Active Set and Cola Cola bring punchy poppy crunchy fun to Chinatown tonight 9/23.
Sep 23, 2010 | Categories: CULTURE, Music | Tags: concert, Downtown LA, free, indie, indie music, live music, Los Angeles, Los Angeles concert, Los Angeles music, Music, party, underground | Leave A Comment »
Tonight MISTER NERVOUS is heading back over to Cranes to blow the doggone doors off.
Sep 20, 2010 | Categories: Music | Tags: concert, free, Hollywood, indie, indie music, live music, Los Angeles, Los Angeles live music, Los Angeles music, party, pop, punk, rock, show, underground | Leave A Comment »
The Monthlies. bake tasty upbeat pop confections with dark chewy centers
Sep 17, 2010 | Categories: Music | Tags: concert, Downtown LA, indie, indie music, live music, Los Angeles, Los Angeles art scene, Los Angeles live music, Music, pop, rock, underground | Leave A Comment »
Part rock concert, part vaudevillian spectacle and part extreme sports event ELEMENOPY shows are intense adrenaline fueled adventures for the band and it’s audience alike.
Sep 09, 2010 | Categories: Music | Tags: concert, indie, indie music, live music, Los Angeles, Los Angeles live music, Music, party, pop, rock, show | Leave A Comment »
If there’s anything the Sunset Strip is known for, it’s aging rockers, past-their-prime venues, and an overall sense that the ’80s still live on in the hearts of many. This Saturday, Aug. 28, come down to the Sunset Strip Music Festival to celebrate the Sunset Strip at its finest. This year, the Saturday street fest [...]
Aug 24, 2010 | Categories: Los Angeles, Music | Tags: Common, House of Blues, Key Club, Kid Cudi, Kix, live music, Los Angeles live music, Los Angeles music festival, Los Angeles street festival, Metal Mania, Neon Trees, Nico Vega, POD, Semi Precious Weapons, Slash, Slash with Fergie Ferg, Smashing Pumpkins, Steel Panther, Sunset Strip, Sunset Strip live music, Sunset Strip music, Sunset Strip Music Festival, System of a Down, The Whiskey, Travis McCoy, Unwritten Law, Viper Room, Warner Drive | Leave A Comment »
Everyone knows about it, and you either love it or hate it, but this year’s Sunset Junction Street Fair, scheduled to take place this weekend, promises to be one of the best in years, judging from the line-up of music acts. It just might be worth the ticket price this year! The most notable acts [...]
Aug 20, 2010 | Categories: Los Angeles, Music | Tags: a Miles Davis tribute, Aurum, B-side Players, Bad Brains, Balandugu Kan, Big Daddy Kane, Bobo Meets Rhettamatu, Brent Bolthouse, Caroline D'amore, Division Minuscula, DJ Carlos Nino, DJ Dexterous, DJ Doc- Martin, Dj Eric cubeechee, DJ Eric Neutron, DJ Gusto, Dj Jeremy Sole, Dj Pelau, DJ Splyce, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Evelyn Champagne King, Fishbone, Fitz & The Tantrums, Freddie Poole, Ghostland Observatory, Girl in a Coma, hipster, Hyphy crunk, indie, indie music, Insite, Lee Scratch Perry, live indie music, live music, live music festival, Los Angeles festival, Maleco Collective, Mayer Hawthorne, Medusa, Meshell Ndegeocello, Orgone, Palenke Soul Tribe, Party Crash Feat. Dj Ruckus, Permanent Ability, Raheen Cohen, Ray Ricky Rivera, Rhythm Root Allstars, Rolling Radio, Saint Motel, Shiny Toy Guns, silverlake, Silverlake events, Silverlake festival, Silverlake live music, Speakers Junkies, Spellbound, Sunset Blvd, Sunset Junction, Sunset Junction festival, Sunset Junction party, The Ohio Players, The Whispers, Tsunami Coffeehouse, White Apple Tree | 1 Comment »
Downtown LA, it’s time to party. OBD-X is a huge block party happening in the Old Bank District on 4th Street between Spring and Main Streets and Main between 3rd and 5th Streets this Saturday, August 21st from 4PM to 1AM. Admission is free! Think Art Walk. The street celebration will include food and drinks, art [...]
Aug 19, 2010 | Categories: Art, Culture, LAbuzz, Los Angeles, Parties, Play | Tags: Art, Downtown LA, Gedina Jean, Helen Stellar, live entertainment, live music, Los Angeles, Main Street, Mississippi Man, OBD, obdLA.com, Old Bank, Pepper Jack, Sing Orpheus, Very Be Careful | 2 Comments »
Mister Nervous and The Sundowners play at beautiful BORDELLO 8/17
Aug 13, 2010 | Categories: LAbuzz, Music | Tags: concert, Downtown LA, downtown Los Angeles, indie, indie music, live music, Los Angeles music, Music, rock, show, underground | Leave A Comment »
Thomas Pridgen at the Airliner on a Sunday night, hmm? After three years with the explosive talents in Mars Volta, Pridgen has decided to part ways and focus on a project of his envisioning, like everyone else in Mars Volta. He played on the albums Bedlam in Goliath and Octahedron, and was called out many [...]
Jul 18, 2010 | Categories: Los Angeles, Music | Tags: 2FRESH, alternative, Ayahuasca, Babel, Bloodthirsty Unicorn, Dark Tourism, indie music, indie shows, Kiaire, live music, live shows, Los Angeles, Mars Volta, My Enemy's Enemy, Nick Brewer, Seiri, Stars At Night, Taking Fire, The Airliner, The Kill Pills, the Thomas Pridgen Show, Thomas Pridgen, Viveca Hawkins | 2 Comments »
Timur and The Dime Museum are an operatic exploration of modern jazz and current tunes through a bohemian vaudeville looking glass. Covering songs from 1930s cabaret, Russian gypsy composer Vadim Kozin all the way to Radiohead and David Bowie, Timur and the Dime Museum present music as you’ve never heard it before, and most likely [...]
Jun 09, 2010 | Categories: Los Angeles, Music | Tags: cabaret, cabaret shows, Central Library, David Bowie, gypsy, indie, indie shows, live music, Los Angeles indie, Radiohead, steampunk shows, The Dime Museum, Timur, Timur and the Dime Museum, vaudeville, vaudeville shows | Leave A Comment »
If you’re looking to find the best in underground and undiscovered bands, look no further than the Hear Noho Music Fest! Held on the first Thursday of every month, Hear Noho presents eclectic bands that you’ve never heard of in three walkable venues in North Hollywood. This month, they’ve got 3 venues chock full of [...]
May 26, 2010 | Categories: Los Angeles, Music | Tags: Art Institute of California, Atlantic Line Music, Cella Gallery, emerging artists, Flavia, Ghost Note, Hear Noho, Hear Noho live music, indie bands, indie music, live music, Los Angeles, Music, NoHo Arts Center, Noho Arts District, North Hollywood, The Ryoals, unknown bands, Veil Era | Leave A Comment »
SPIRIT VINE conjures a retro-future where folks still read The Doors of Perception, seek enlightenment in shaman directed spiritual sweat-lodges and go Bathing at Baxters.
May 05, 2010 | Categories: CULTURE, LAbuzz, Music | Tags: art culture downtown la, Artwalk bars, bars in downtown la, Best of Downtown LA, concert, Culture, Culture DTLA, Downtown LA, Downtown la Culture, DTLA, DTLA artwalk, indie, jam, LA Artwalk, live music, Los Angeles, Los angeles artwalk, Los Angeles music, Music, rock, show, silverlake, Things to do at Artwalk, things to do DTLA, things to do in downtown la, underground | Leave A Comment »
The Ink and Iron Festival is happening this June under the Gemini moon at the Queen Mary in Long Beach, and you know what that means – all kinds of rockabilly craziness! Ink N Iron is a 3 day rockabilly fest custom made for Los Angeles, featuring art, aerial showladies, tons of live bands, a [...]
Apr 30, 2010 | Categories: CULTURE, LAbuzz | Tags: art culture downtown la, Artwalk bars, bars in downtown la, Best of Downtown LA, burlesque, caberet, classic cars, Culture, Culture DTLA, Downtown LA, Downtown la Culture, DTLA, DTLA artwalk, Hepcat, Ink and Iron Festival, Ink N Iron Festival, Klingonz, LA Artwalk, live music, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Los angeles artwalk, Mad Sin, Merle Haggard, Nine Lives, pin-up girls, pin-up pagent, Queen Mary, Restless, Reverend Horton Heat, rockabilly, Rockabilly Festival, Stiff Little Fingers, Swinging Utters, tattoo festival, The Aggrolites, The Bronx, The Embalmers, The Go Getters, the Reach Around Rodeo Clowns, The Silver Shine, The Southerners, Things to do at Artwalk, things to do DTLA, things to do in downtown la, Wayne "The Train" Hancock, X | Leave A Comment »
Soup Kitchen Rocks, the collective of misfits who put on some of the best underground shows in all of LA is doing it again this Sunday at the Talking Stick in Venice, and they’re throwing it down chick-style with a mainly girl line-up. This kitty’s got claws, though. Fierce ladies like Mather Louth, Jessie Payo, [...]
Apr 20, 2010 | Categories: CULTURE, Music | Tags: art culture downtown la, Artwalk bars, bars in downtown la, Best of Downtown LA, Culture, Culture DTLA, Diamonds Under Fire, Downtown LA, Downtown la Culture, DTLA, DTLA artwalk, Electric Children, film screenings, films, girl rock, Guitar Player Magazine, indie films, Jayme Langford, Jessie Payo, LA Artwalk, Lady Gaga, live music, Los Angeles, Los angeles artwalk, Los Angeles events, Lupe Fiasco, Marilyn Manson, Masque Films, Mather Louth, Nirvana, punk, Radio Noir, rockabilly, S.O.U.P Kitchen, Sandra Powers, SOUP Kitchen rocks, Soup Kitchen Rocks 7, Soup Kitchen Rocks 8, Soup Kitchen Rocks 9, Talking Stick, The Black Eyed Peas, The Talking Stick, Things to do at Artwalk, things to do DTLA, things to do in downtown la, Vans Off the Wall, venice, Venice events, Viva Las Vegas | 1 Comment »
