Of Montreal (music group)

High temperatures bring increasingly sparse concert schedules for local venues. With April's average highs rising past 80 degrees, it's clear the low season has begun. The only musician Hard Rock Live has booked for the rest of the month is Roberta...

**1/2 stars (out of four) We all assumed, upon discovering Ra Ra Riot, that they were a synth pop band, right? Or at least some kind of thing you could play at parties? It turned out they were actually a band with a string section, maybe best suited...

Randy Couture is a mixed-martial arts icon and UFC Hall of Famer who has brawled his way to five world titles and is a big reason that UFC is the pop-culture phenomenon it is today. But if there’s one thing he wants you to take away from his...

Solange Knowles returns to music after a four-year hiatus with the release of the single and video for “Losing You.” The singer/songwriter/model's slow sonic evolution has been a captivating one to watch since she released her 2003 debut of...

It's a good news/bad news situation. Passion Pit has postponed its show Friday, July 20 at The NorVa. That's bad. The upside is that Norfolk resident and rising indie star Kishi Bashi -- who was slated to open the show -- will play anyway. The...

With electronic band MGMT’s third disc in the works for months and an expected late 2012 release date already off the table, its label is clearly anxious. MGMT So it’s understandable when a Fenway Records representative asks that a reporter......

This week is is lighter on marquee shows than last, when we had both BRUUUCE and Van Halen. We have Rye Rye and Real Estate, plus a Hunx and His Punx and Big Freedia in our regular round-up of the week's most notable concerts. Ticket prices do not reflect...

Merriweather Post Pavilion has announced its first summer concert of 2012. It'll be the indie band Foster the People. The band, out with debut album "Torches," will play June 10. The album has already been certified Gold by the RIAA, which is probably...

When last seen on stage in Chicago playing a full set, in 1998 at the late, great Lincoln Avenue club Lounge Ax, Neutral Milk Hotel’s Jeff Mangum strummed his guitar so hard it appeared the strings and wood would shatter. He sang vivid stream-of-...

A list of upcoming concerts across the Southland, with on-sale dates in parentheses. Staples Center Red Hot Chili Peppers, Feb. 26; Romeo Santos, March 21 (Fri.) NOS Events Center Cypress Hill Smokeout 2012 with Sublime with Rome and more, Dec.......

Dinosaur Jr. is reissuing its first three albums as the "Cassette Trilogy." The Amherst, Mass., indie rock band Dinosaur Jr. is the latest contributor to the nascent revival of the audiocassette tape format....