Freak City Helps Salvage Some HARD

Go HERE for more photos from Erin G. Wesley and tag yourself and your friends! Sad that HARD LA got canceled ?? Didn't make it to Destructo 's “make-up” show at the El Rey on Saturday??

Mos Def Performs, Drops Knowledge On Campus

Go HERE for more photos by Sync Up Video and tag yourself and your friends! Mos Def really needs no introduction, as he is one of hip-hop's most revered artists, and, without a doubt, a success in transcending definitions of underground and mainstream. The hip-hop hero gave an exclusive performance yesterday for a group of lucky Musicians Institute students who packed the on-campus venue and had no problem showing their appreciation for his words and beats.

KT Tunstall Goes It Alone At Hotel Cafe

Go HERE for more photos by Erin G. Wesley and tag yourself and your friends! It was as if KT Tunstall cast a spell over the audience of her Hotel Cafe show last night, with all the room's eyes fixed on the soulful songbird as she performed.

KCRW & The Hammer "Also I Like To Rock" Part II

Go HERE for more photos by Sync Up Video and tag yourself and your friends! KCRW and The Hammer are proving their widespread success and popularity with their summer series “Also I Like To Rock”.  Since last week's installment , KCRW fans and music lovers alike impressively filled the garden at The Hammer Museum to enjoy fine art, refreshments, and the tunes of Admiral Radley, The Happy Hollows, and DJ Anne Litt . Admiral Radley is the love child band born out of two formers, Grandaddy and Earlimart

Spotted At EDC: The Good, The Bad & The WTF

Ravers and beat-thirsty children from all over L.A. came out donning beads and tutus for the annual EDC festivities over the weekend. As one might expect, an event such as this draws a pretty unusual crowd of both lovable and unsavory characters all looking to rage

Beats And Freaks At EDC Friday

For thirteen years rave junkies have been uniting to celebrate “blooming beats, funkified freaks, and full sized carnival rides” at the Electric Daisy Carnival . This year, LA's finest certainly came out in full force, decked out in tutus, bunny ears, and wardrobe stolen from Lady Gaga's closet on crack. Yeah, we weren't kidding about the “funkified freaks.” DJs and electo acts such as Kaskade, Deadmaus, Moby , Steve Aoki , Travis X A-Trak, put ravers in a trance for over 12 hours and encouraged fist pumping, mass moshing, and some good body flailing

Brian Jonestown Massacre and Federale Rock Out The Music Box

Go HERE for more photos by Evan Dumoche l and tag yourself and your friends! Brian Jamestown Massacre and Federale joined forces at The Music Box Thursday night in a performance that eerily awakened memories of a rock superstars in their hay day. Lead singer for Brian Jameston Massacre, Anton Newcombe , hypnotized the neo-psychadelic crowd with his renditions from their latest album “Who Killed Sgt

Get Her To The Greek: Erykah Badu Live

Continuing her reign as Neo-Soul queen, Erykah Badu preached the lyrical word about her second album New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh).

Free Shows Abound At Make Music Pasadena

Go HERE for more photos by Sync Up Video and tag yourself and your friends! If summer jams were what you were craving, then Make Music Pasadena would have been a good place to satisfy your hunger. The all day music fest on Saturday provided entertainment with literally no cost attached. Featured artists were local, such as The Growlers , and international such as Natalia Lafourcade .

Reggae Fest 2010: A Study Of Stoners Young & Old

Go HERE for the full gallery of photos from Reggae Fest 2010! Yesterday was reggae day of the annual two-day JazzReggae Fest on the intramural field at UCLA. The fest brought reggae lovers and stoners of all shapes and sizes together for an afternoon of music, sun, bbq and lots of ganja.  Despite the very heavy police presence, people were blazing up all over the field and the smell of freshly lit green clouded the air.  Headliners Nas and Damian Marley put on a fantastic performance, which served as a wonderful backdrop to what really got our attention–the shameless weed smoking of everyone there.