Lionel Richie’s career renaissance as enthusiastic, encouraging judge on ABC’s reboot of American Idol may be earning him a fresh legion of younger fans, but ...

Hollywood venue The Hotel Café has become a go-to place for intimate sets by great singer-songwriters, both in its main room, opened in 2000, and ...

Material: The State Social House in Hollywood is a smallish, low-ceilinged, open-raftered room with a slightly bigger-than-a-postage-stamp stage and a very happy bar. A tough venue ...

Material: Though only 30, Katie Ferrara looks and sounds like she stepped right out of 1960’s Haight-Ashbury. Sporting a wide-brimmed fedora and scarf, she looked ...

Material: Wolves combines pop, rock and urban/rap with high energy and youthful lyrics. The Hollywood-handsome trio uses an electric guitar and a standard drum kit ...

One of America’s most iconic bands, the Beach Boys, did a very special Q&A led by Rob Reiner at Capitol Studios in Hollywood, CA on ...

Material: The Eric Tessmer Band is a rock group with their feet firmly planted in the blues and driven by the sounds of Stevie Ray ...

Material: Sibling rivalries be damned. Jocelyn Arndt and Chris Arndt go together like “peas and carrots.” Or better yet, small sweaty blues clubs and rock ...

Material: The Glam Skanks are very punkish in their delivery and are reminiscent of the Runaways when that band first came up–– but with a ...

Sylvan Esso performed energetically and vibrantly at their sold out show at the Hollywood Palladium on Aug. 25. Photos by Noah Kentis