It is an aspiring composer's fantasy "“ one day you're holding jam sessions in the privacy of your tiny Westwood apartment, waving your finger around like Mozart, and the next, you're in a recording studio working on your first album. Read more...

The Mars Volta has once again blown minds onto the streets of America. Read more...

The room was packed, and I stood leaning against the railing of the second floor, watching the twirling lights rotate over the sea of heads and shoulders to make the Troubadour look like an aquarium. Read more...

There may never be another artist who embodies contradictions as effortlessly as Johnny Cash. He was the country music singer who hobnobbed with Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. Read more...

On Oct. 11, acclaimed essayist, poet, and fiction-writer Phillip Lopate, will read from one of his two novellas (either “Confessions of Summer” or “The Rug Merchant”) at the Hammer Museum. Read more...

Each year brings with it an onslaught of music festivals, each with a unique lineup, backdrop and mission. But none are quite like the Detour music festival. Read more...

"Religulous" is Bill Maher's satirical and quick-witted feature-length exposition of his perceptions about organized religion. Read more...