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Hotel Cafe to Host UnCancelled Music Festival

The music community has been hit hard during the COVID-19 crisis. As a small, independently-owned venue, The Hotel Café is no exception to that. Music venues across the world have had to close their doors with no idea of when—or if—they’ll be able to reopen. It’s an uncertain time for everyone. In an effort to preserve the culture of live music, and in an effort to support their staff and community of artists, The Hotel Café has partnered with the UnCancelled Music Festival through StageIt, where the Hollywood music venue will have a branded, featured virtual stage running from Thursday, April 2 through Thursday, April 9, where fans can pay what they want to check it out. Hamish Anderson, Colbie Caillat, Zane Carney, William Fitzsimmons, Lili Kershaw, Emily Kinney, Meiko, JP Saxe, Vincint, and more are scheduled to perform.

You can also visit the link to The Hotel Café's COVID-19 Relief Fund donation page to support the venue directly as well. 100% of the proceeds benefit their staff. Some L.A. debuts or intimate shows that The Hotel Café has hosted in the past include performances by Adele, Band of Skulls, Gary Clark Jr., Leonard Cohen, Hozier, Michael Kiwanuka, The Lumineers, Bruno Mars, John Mayer, Mumford and Sons, Katy Perry, Damien Rice, Ed Sheeran, Sia, and more.

Coachella Documentary to Premiere on YouTube

Even though the festival was rescheduled to later this year, we can still look forward to Coachella in April! Goldenvoice has officially announced that their Coachella: 20 Years In The Desert documentary will premiere on Friday, April 10, the date that Coachella 2020 was originally going to kick off. Coachella 2020 will be taking place on Friday, October 9, to Sunday, October 11, (Weekend 1) and Friday, October 16, to Sunday, October 18, (Weekend 2) at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. Frank Ocean, Rage Against The Machine, and Travis Scott will still be headlining both festival weekends.

Nine Inch Nails Release 'Ghosts V - VI' For Free

For those of you that need a soundtrack to the current COVID-19 pandemic, we have two to choose from courtesy of Nine Inch Nails! Trent Reznor tweeted to fans this morning "Anybody out there? New Nine Inch Nails out now. Ghosts V - VI. Hours and hours of music. Free. Some of it kind of happy, some not so much."

Shows of the Night: Tuesday, December 24th

BUY TICKETS: L.A. County Holiday Celebration w/ Los Robles Master Chorale & more at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (FREE - 3:00pm)

Happy Holidays, Scenestar readers! It's Christmas Eve but we have a few things to give you a heads up on for those of you that want to head out tonight, including our Show of the Night pick: the 60th annual L.A. County Holiday Celebration! Taking place at the Music Center’s iconic Dorothy Chandler Pavilion stage, the free three-hour live production features instrumental music, choral music and dance performances and will be broadcast live in Southern California on PBS SoCal (KOCE), and live-streamed on pbssocal.org if you can't make it out.

If you can't get into our Show of the Night, your other music options are listed below. 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!

Shows of the Night: Thursday, December 12th

BUY TICKETS: The Game Awards 2019 w/ Green Day & Grimes at Microsoft Theater

The weekend is almost upon us, Scenestar readers. To help get you there, we're going to give you our local options including a big event taking Show of the Night title: The 2019 Game Awards! The Game Awards are back to celebrate the best video games of the year tonight at Microsoft Theater with performances by Green Day and Grimes.

If you can't get into our Show of the Night, your other music options include performances by Allah-Las, The California Honeydrops, French Vanilla, Conan Gray, JD McPherson, The Paranoyds, SadGirl, Sea Girls, Son Little, Kamaal Williams, Pete Yorn, 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!

Shows of the Night: Sunday, December 8th

BUY TICKETS: KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas 2019 at the Honda Center

It's time to say goodbye to the weekend, Scenestar readers. We're doing that at one of the biggest events to wrap up the year as our Sunday Show of the Night pick: Almost Acoustic Christmas 2019! KROQ will wrap up Almost Acoustic Christmas at the Honda Center tonight with The 1975, The Interrupters, Lovelytheband, Matt Maeson, Mumford & Sons, Of Monsters and Men, The Raconteurs, and Twenty One Pilots.

If you can't get into our Show of the Night, your other music options include performances by The Beach Boys, Chvrches, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Nothing, Patton Oswalt, Ours, Pink Martini, Spindrift, With Confidence, 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!

Shows of the Night: Sunday, November 24th

BUY TICKETS: Kanye West's 'Nebuchadnezzar' Opera at the Hollywood Bowl

Happy Sunday, Scenestar readers. We hope you're having a great day and excited to head out to check out our top pick for Show of the Night: Kanye West! The hip hop artist will follow up his Jesus Is King Sunday Service shows at The Forum with the debut of his opera Nebuchadnezzar tonight, at the Hollywood Bowl. The opera will be directed by Italian performance artist Vanessa Beecroft and will feature his Sunday Service choir, Peter Collins, and Infinities Song. It will also be streaming live via Tidal.

If you can't get into our Show of the Night, your other music options include performances by Julia Jacklin, Madonna, Mana, Meiko, Dustin Wong, The Yummy Fur, 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!

KCRW Limited 'Morning Becomes Eclectic' Vinyl

There's really no easy way to say goodbye to a musical fixture in your life, especially with one that you feel has been there forever. After almost a decade of hosting KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic, Jason Bentley will step down this week, wrapping things up on Friday, August 30. To commemorate his time there, KCRW will be releasing a limited-edition, double-vinyl compilation - Morning Becomes Eclectic: Live from the Basement.

“Morning Becomes Eclectic: Live from the Basement is a collection of live sessions recorded during my tenure as host,” says Bentley. “At the close of KCRW’s basement era, this compilation - limited to 1000 pressings - is a tribute to all the links in the chain who helped cast radio magic into the ether, and the audience who leaned-in to their radios for incredible moments like these.”