Live Music

The heartbreaker herself, Marina and the Diamonds at TD Echo Beach! #toronto #concert…

Charli XCX gets the crowd moving with "I Love It" at TD Echo Beach! #toronto #concert #charlixcx

This years Make Music Pasadena lineup has just been extended and got a little sweeter with the addition of Youngblood Hawke! They just played a headlining show over at the Avalon and will be back in town to play the streets of Pasadena. Make Music Pasadena will be taking place all day on Saturday, June 1st around Old Town. This addition is on top of a jam packed line up that already features Tanlines, Yacht, We Are Scientists, Robert DeLong and so many more. We created a map with all of the set times and stage locations. Expect to do some walking. Click on the link below to save the map on your smartphone. Make Music Pasadena is completely free to attend and most stages are all ages. This should be a good time in Old Town! Download: Make Music Pasadena 2013 Map

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This week, Shout Out Louds will be coming into Los Angeles for not just one but two headlining shows in support of their fourth studio album “Optica”. You can catch them on Thursday May 23rd and Friday May 24th at the El Rey Theatre. Haerts will be opening up for the band each night. Tickets are still available to purchase online through Ticketmaster for $22.00 plus additional service fees.  We were able to get tickets to giveaway to our readers to see Shout Out Louds for free! We only have tickets for the May 24th show. All you have to do to win them is enter in your email address in the widget below, or use your Facebook account. We will choose all winners at random. There are also additional ways to enter to better your chances. Don’t miss out on this contest and get your entry in soon! Purchase: Tickets for Shout Out Louds at El Rey on 5/23 Purchase: Tickets for Shout Out Louds at El Rey on 5/24

KCRW will be hosting the “Music for Better Living” music series this summer. The weekly event will bring in on-air DJ’s to spin a few sets and some good live acts are also on the bill. You can see performances by Classix, Fol Chen, AM & Shawn Lee, The Decoders and Ximena Sarinana. Music for Better Living will be kicking off on June 27th and will keep going every Thursday night at the Hammer Museum until August 1st. You can check out the full schedule after the jump below. The best part about this series? All of these shows are completely free to attend! All you have to do is RSVP and get your name on the list. Click on the links below to RSVP. Also, the Hammer Museum will extend their gallery hours so you can check out the exhibit while at the party. Not a bad way to spend your Thursday nights this summer! RSVP: Music For Better Living at Hammer Museum Thursday, June 27: Jason Bentley & Mathieu Schreyer + AM & Shawn Lee  Thursday, July 11: Anthony Valadez & Eric J. Lawrence + Ximena Sarinana Thursday, July 18: Raul Campos & Valida + Fol Chen  Thursday, July 25: Travis Holcombe & Mario Cotto + Classixx  Thursday, August 1: Anne Litt & Dan Wilcox + The Decoders

The yearly celebration of custom cars, loud rock ‘n roll and greased up pompadours will be back in 2013. Hootenanny revealed their full line up of music acts which includes Social Distortion taking the headlining slot along with Face to Face, Old 97’s, Murder By Death, Phil Alvin & Exene Cervenka, Custom Made Scare and so many more. Other than the music, you can also check out the vendors and car show on the grounds. This years Hootenanny will be taking place on Saturday, July 6th at Oak Canyon Ranch just past Irvine. This is always a good time if you’re looking to get in a couple of mosh pits and have a craving for some classic rock ‘n roll. Tickets for Hootenanny are available to purchase online now through Front Gate Tickets. Ticket prices range between $49.50 for general admission and $100.00 for VIP access. Click on the link below to buy your tickets and get in to see Social Distortion live at Hootenanny! Purchase: Tickets for Hootenanny at Oak Canyon Ranch on 7/6

This month’s out of town musician is Clara Barker from the Isle of Man who’ll be performing our headline slot on Friday 24th May 2013 at the View Two Gallery on Mathew Street. Joining Clara (rhymes with Sarah!) are Rob Gough and Ade Jackson, plus Chester-based duo Just By Chance. This is set to be another great night of live music in the heart of Liverpool. Tickets are £5 in advance from wegottickets.com/liverpoolacoustic or £6 on the door. Doors open at 8.00pm and the music starts at 8.30pm, finishing no later than 11.15pm. Join the facebook event here and listen to the Liverpool Acoustic Spotlight #92 featuring music from each of the performers here. Only Child video If you were at last month’s Liverpool Acoustic Live (and even if you weren’t!) you might want to see some of the videos of Only Child’s set that Graeme Lamb filmed for us. Check them out here >>> // // Clara Barker, Rob Gough, Ade Jackson and Just By Chance this Friday The post Clara Barker, Rob Gough, Ade Jackson and Just By Chance this Friday appeared first on Liverpool Acoustic.

FINALLY! We’ve been waiting for a local Los Angeles show with A Tribe Called Quest, and it looks like it will finally happen in August. The reunited hip-hop group have performed a few shows here and there, but always seem to skip us Angelenos for some reason. They will be headlining the H20 Festival which blends both English and Spanish acts. Last years event flew under the radar and we’re surprised that it’s coming back! The rest of the lineup for this years H20 Festival is not that great, but they will have Big Boi, La Santa Cecilia and some other dude called Ne-Yo (bleh). You can see the full lineup through the festival website and more are expected to be announced in the near future. But lets be real, I would let Miguel leg drop me a couple times just to see Tribe perform live. This will be taking place on Saturday, August 17th at L.A. Historic Park. The same location as FYF and HARD Summer. Tickets for H20 are available to purchase online now through Ticketmaster and range between $39.50 - $95.00 plus additional service fees. This is a rare appearance by A Tribe Called Quest and is not to be missed! Click on the link below to buy tickets. Purchase: Tickets for H20 Festival at L.A. Historic Park on 8/77

This is sad festival news that we don’t want to hear. Bloomfest producers have announced today that Bloomfest will be postponed to the fall. October 16th is the date that is floating around right now but not confirmed as the festival might be cancelled all together. Bloomfest has brought us some amazing acts in the past years including, Grouplove, The Neighborhood, Superhumanoids, NO and more. We even got to produce our own stage last years event, so this is really sad for us to hear.  So what’s the reason why Bloomfest is postponed? Here is a bit from the statement made from the organizers: “BloomfestLA will be postponed this summer, according to a LARABA board report at the April 2013 meeting. The decision was made two months after event producers Edgar Varela and Melissa Richardson Banks shared that they were unable to produce the event this year due to “an increase in projects and clients for our own successful full-time businesses, the impact of local construction on the area’s available parking for a large-scale event, and escalating costs of presenting a free community festival on the streets of Los Angeles.” …the impact of local construction on the area’s available parking for a large-scale event, and escalating costs of presenting a free community festival on the streets of Los Angeles. For the past two years, we were in a position to donate our expertise and services that resulted in BloomfestLA becoming such a resounding success. Unfortunately, with heavy hearts, we came to realize that it was not the case for 2013.” We do hope Bloomfest returns in October and doesn’t go away for good. This was a great free event for the whole family that dedicated itself to good up and coming talent in a beautiful section of Downtown Los Angeles. We’ll keep you guys posted if any more info comes out in the future.