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Jack White to Play at the Lodge Room & Mayan

Jack White is back with a pair of intimate shows right here in Los Angeles! Now that we can't see him perform at Desert Daze 2024 after the festival was unfortunately canceled, Jack White will be giving fans the opportunity to see him in an even smaller venue when he headlines the Lodge Room in Highland Park on Thursday, October 10, (with opener Memo PST) and at The Mayan in Downtown Los Angeles on Friday, October 11. The show is in support of his latest release, No Name.

The Bird and the Bee at the Grammy Museum

If you missed The Bird and the Bee earlier this month at the Ford Theatres this month, you're in luck! Greg Kurstin and Inara George are ready to rock another hometown show in support of new album Interpreting The Masters Volume 2: A Tribute to Van Halen, when The Bird and the Bee play an intimate show at the Grammy Museum on Wednesday, September 11.

Shows Of The Night: Saturday, April 16th

BUY TICKETS: Coachella 2016 at Empire Polo Club

There's even more Coachella 2016 Weekend 1, Scenestar readers! The star power keeps it at the top of our Show of the Night standings with another great day full of live music. This time the Empire Polo Club will feature reunited headliner Guns N' Roses, along with sets by Algiers, AlunaGeorge, The Arcs, Bat for Lashes, James Bay, Courtney Barnett, The Black Madonna, Chvrches, Gary Clark Jr., The Damned, Matthew Dear, Deerhunter, Disclosure, DMAs, Ex Hex, Grimes, Halsey, Ice Cube, Lost Frequencies, Moon Taxi, RÜFÜS DU SOL, Run the Jewels, Shamir, Silversun Pickups, Vince Staples, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Zedd, Zella Day, and many more. Jason Bentley and new co-host Francesca Fiorentini will continue to give you the play-by-play on YouTube, which will stream the fest live starting at 3:00 p.m. Set times for Saturday are available below, while set times for the whole weekend can be found here.

Shows Of The Night: Saturday, June 27th

BUY TICKETS: Ice Cube at Staples Center

The BET Experience has some more cool shows to offer, Scenestar readers! This time around, it will be Ice Cube teaming up with Snoop Dogg and Kendrick Lamar at the Staples Center tonight—and it's our Show of the Night.

If you can't get in to our Show of the Night, your other music options include performances by Art Department, Ben Folds, Erykah Badu, Best Coast, Cypress Hiil, Ryan Hemsworth, Houndmouth, Janelle Monae, DJ Quik, The Roots, Vetiver, and many more. Click here for ticket links and info on all of today's shows as well as upcoming local shows on our concert calendar. For any further updates, be sure to also follow us on Twitter for any last-minute news and set times (posted daily in the comments section) if available for select shows!

The Scenestar's Top Shows & More Of 2014

Photo by Chris Molina of Coachella 2014, Weekend 2

We did it, Scenestar readers! We made it through another year of amazing concerts and musical happenings in our fair city of Los Angeles. We're hoping for more great things in 2015, but for now, we will look back at 2014—including amazing live concerts, moments captured on film, and impressive album releases. To celebrate this past year in music, the Scenestar staff members compiled their top picks of the year. Be sure to let us know yours by commenting below. Thanks for your support as always, and cheers to another great year of musical experiences!

The Scenestar's Top 5 2012 Shows & Albums

Good-bye, 2012! It was a great year in music—from amazing live concerts to impressive album releases. To celebrate this past year in music, the Scenestar staff took a look back and compiled its Top 5 picks of the year. Enjoy!

Oscar Rangel's Top 5 Shows

1. Sigur Ros @ Hollywood Forever (pictured)

2. The Black Keys @ Sayers Club

3. Pulp @ Fox Theater Pomona

4. Local Natives @ The Satellite

5. Amon Tobin @ Greek Theatre

Review: Kate Nash - My Best Friend Is You

BY CHERYL CHENG

Kate Nash
My Best Friend is You
Polydor/Fiction

When Kate Nash first appeared on the music scene, she was a cute, Regina Spektor-like presence who sang songs about heartbreak and first loves. The cover of her debut album, Made of Bricks, features her walking toward a cartoon-like cottage in a swingy red dress; she was adorable with a capital A. Fast-forward three years later, and Kate has changed her tune somewhat. For her sophomore effort, My Best Friend Is You, she has become slightly more serious. Produced by Suede's Bernard Butler, the album features such surprising tracks as "I Love You More," which has Kate howling and screaming, and probably even more shocking, "Mansion House," in which she quasi raps a list of what ails her. Taking on such issues as sexual inequality, Kate clearly has a message—and one that involves more than her love life.

Arms And Sleepers: Matador

ARTICLE BY CHRIS MOLINA

The Scenestar came across Boston based Arms and Sleepers in late 2009 on a particularly still and dark evening while tuned into to DirtyRadio. Max Lewis and Mirza Ramic, are a downtempo, electronic-experimental duo who manage to weave atmospheric soundscpaes, which are often times reminiscent of early Sigur-Ros or The Album Leaf. The latest release Matador, implies the weightless sensation of being strung a long gentle tones that could easily find themselves nestled within a film score. These ethereal moments are summoned in tracks layered with rich textures of crackling particles alongside movement from fictitious contraptions that manage to tingle the very core of the eardrum. There resides a tender narrative in these pieces, streaming emotional tones of bitter sweet memories that fade into monochromatic horizons. Take for example, the intro "Orly" clocking in at just over one minute, it gracefully sets the stage towards a slow decent into the title track "Matador". The rest of the album possess a nice balance of ambient instrumentation and vocals which never seems to arbitrarily overstep their boundaries, but rather guide the listener by a ghostly hand.