There are nights when a stadium just feels different the moment the house lights drop, and Friday night at the Alamodome was exactly that kind of night. AC/DC rolled into San Antonio as part of their PWR UP Tour, and the building was packed wall to wall with fans who clearly weren't about to miss a chance to see rock and roll royalty in the flesh. Honestly, it felt like a privilege just to be in the room.
Read MoreSome concerts are designed to entertain and others are built to surprise! On July 26th, the Hollywood Bowl will host one of the summer's most intriguing musical collaborations as electronic music visionary Boris Brejcha joins the legendary Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, under the direction of acclaimed conductor Derrick Hodge, for an unforgettable evening as part of this year's KCRW Festival series. You can find tickets HERE!
Read MoreYou can usually feel it before the singer opens their mouth. The lights drop. A bass note rolls through the room. Someone walks onto the stage slowly—almost annoyingly slowly—while thousands of people scream themselves hoarse. There is no nervous wave, no desperate attempt to win the crowd over. The performer stands there as if the venue belongs to them and everyone else has simply been allowed inside.
Read MoreOn a sweltering Thursday night in Downtown Los Angeles, the 150-or-so souls packed into The Smell got something far more than a pop-up show, they got the first glimpse of UPSAHL's comeback. A full year away from live stages and eighteen months away from releasing music, the Phoenix-bred singer-songwriter stepped back into the room as if the clock had never stopped, and she made sure every single person in that iconic all-ages space was left breathless.
Read MoreOn a night where every inch of The Anthem felt charged with anticipation, PinkPantheress stepped into a completely sold-out room and delivered something that felt bigger than a concert. It was a moment, one of those rare, electric alignments where artist, audience, and atmosphere lock into the same rhythm and refuse to let go. It’s been nearly 24 hours and we’re still thinking about it!
Read MoreOn paper, Comet Ping Pong is the kind of venue you might associate with a casual night out, pizza, chatter, maybe a band humming in the background. But when Boogarins rolled through Washington, D.C. to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of their album Manual, the modest room didn’t just transform, it expanded, warped, and bloomed into something cosmic.
Read MoreThere are performers who command a stage, and then there’s Father John Misty, who seems to dissolve the boundary between stage and audience entirely. On March 23rd, 2026, at Majestic Ventura Theater, he didn’t just play a concert, he conducted something closer to a séance, equal parts rock show, confessional, and theatrical spectacle. If this was the opening night of his latest tour, it set a bar that feels almost unfair to the rest of the year.
Read MoreThere are concerts that roar, and then there are concerts that glow. Jeff Tweedy chose the latter at United Theater on Broadway, delivering a performance that felt less like a spectacle and more like stepping into a carefully lit cathedral of sound. The venue itself set the tone immediately, ornate, luminous, almost cinematic in its grandeur, the kind of place where every note seems to hang in the air just a little longer.
Read MoreHitting the scene in 2010, the group brought moody synth pop into popularity with contemporaries like Purity Ring, Sylvan Esso, and more. Their debut Eyelid Moves was a mainstay on college radio and for me, “Mouthful of Diamonds” was a song that soundtracked much of my time in college. Through the years, their output has remained consistent and strong, most recently with 2024’s Memory of a Day.
Read MoreOutside Lands is officially gearing up for another landmark summer, returning to Golden Gate Park from August 7–9 for its 18th year as one of the most ambitious and experience-driven festivals on the planet. Still proudly holding its title as the largest independently owned festival in the United States, Outside Lands has built its reputation on a simple but powerful idea: music is only the beginning. Food, wine, beer, cocktails, art, and cannabis culture all weave into the fabric of the weekend, turning the park into a fully immersive playground that feels uniquely San Francisco.
Read MoreOn February 27th, 2026, Magic City Hippies turned The Regent Theater into a living, breathing pulse of sound and motion. From the moment the lights dimmed, it was clear this wasn’t just another tour stop. It was a statement. From start to finish, the band absolutely crushed their performance, and it’s not often we say this, but we left the venue needing more MCH!
Read MoreLos Angeles is officially stepping inside the animated, genre-warping world of Gorillaz, as the band opens the doors to the Gorillaz: House of Kong Gift Shop in Downtown LA. Just launched on Thursday, February 19th, just days ahead of their back-to-back, sold-out Hollywood Palladium shows on February 22 and 23, the pop-up arrives as both a celebration and a preview of what’s shaping up to be a landmark moment for fans.
Read MoreTokyo nights have a way of stretching time, and at Cross Roppongi, that elasticity turned electric when You Liang stepped behind the decks at 2:30 a.m. The club itself already feels like a pulse point in the city’s nightlife ecosystem, sleek yet sweaty, designed for bodies in motion and bass in the chest. By the time You began their set, the room was primed, packed with dancers who clearly knew they were in for something special.
Read MoreSome shows are planned weeks in advance. Others sneak up on you, grab you by the collar, and refuse to be forgotten. Mystery at Shinjuku Cactus was firmly the latter. We didn’t walk into the bar expecting a performance, let alone a moment that would feel stitched into Tokyo rock lore. Shinjuku Cactus was already humming in its natural state: dim lights, walls drenched in decades of rock memorabilia, cigarettes curling into the air, drinks sliding across the bar with zero pretension.
Read MoreFoxwarren wrapped up their tour in Los Angeles with the kind of performance that reminds you exactly why they’ve become one of indie music’s most quietly essential bands. At The Bellwether, in front of an intimate crowd that felt more like a gathering of devoted friends than a final tour stop, the Canadian quartet delivered a gorgeously crafted set that managed to be both hypnotically chill and unexpectedly danceable. It was the perfect snapshot of what makes this band so special: immaculate musicianship, understated charisma, and songs that feel like they’re breathing right alongside you.
Read MoreQueens of the Stone Age are no strangers to reinvention, but what unfolded inside the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara was something entirely different; a haunting, cinematic reinvention of the band’s core identity that left 2,000 lucky fans in stunned disbelief. This wasn’t a rock show in the traditional QOTSA sense. It was theatrical. It was intimate. It was atmospheric. At times, it even felt like a strange, beautiful piece of musical theatre. It just might be the rarest, most unforgettable performance the band has ever delivered.
Read MoreOnly a handful of bands can turn a packed Hollywood Palladium into a collective trance, and BADBADNOTGOOD proved once again that they’re one of them. Their latest Los Angeles performance was nothing short of mesmerizing, a night of swirling jazz fusion, airtight musicianship, spontaneous improvisation, and visual artistry that elevated the entire experience into something almost cinematic.
Read MoreThis past weekend the Lodge Room in Highland Park hosted their now annual outdoor festival and block party. Friday night's festivities were headlined by the brilliant Sudan Archives, 3L3D3P, and that night's resident DJ Asphodele. The community vibes were immaculate as families, couples and groups of friends all danced together to the genre mashing mixes being supplied by Asphodele as she warmed up everyone's booties for the night's main show.
Read MoreAfter more than fifty years of shaping the soundtrack of America, JOURNEY is gearing up for one last epic voyage. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame legends have announced The Final Frontier Tour, a massive, full-scale farewell run that will bring their era-defining anthems to cities across North America in 2026. And in true Journey fashion, they’re not easing into retirement, they’re going out with explosive energy, an all-new stage production, and a setlist stacked with some of the most beloved rock songs ever recorded.
Read MoreHalloween in Los Angeles always guarantees spectacle, but this year, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets took the holiday to a delirious new level. Performing at The Bellwether, one of the city's most sonically pristine and aesthetically charged venues, the Australian psych-rock renegades delivered a high-voltage, hallucinogenic set that transformed the room into a swirling, technicolor vortex.
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