Upon hearing The Killers' first single "Runaways" from their forthcoming album, "Battle Born," it seemed that the band was headed in a positive new direction. Read more...

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Grizzly Bear is back from hibernation. Read more...

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In 1999, jazz musician Aram Shelton drove from Florida to Illinois in his brother's orange Trans-Am, a bird with blazing wings adorning the hood. He came with a singular purpose: to seek jazz. Read more...

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Jazz musician Aram Shelton will perform as part of the Aram Shelton Quartet in the Hammer Museum’s JazzPOP series this Friday. (Courtesy of Peter Gannushkin)

While discussing the xx's upcoming sound in a December 2011 interview with Digital Spy, producer Jamie Smith said that club music had a major influence on their next album. Read more...

Sneakers, sunshine, bratwurst and beer. It's a seemingly impossible wish list for curious college students looking for a classical concert to attend. Add not having to worry about applauding in the wrong spot to the list and you're practically looking at a distant dream for most. Read more...

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Wild Up tackles a Brandenburg Cycle, taking something old and making it new. The group offers a vision of the future of classical music.

Since its inception in 2004, FYF Fest has made quite a change. The brainchild of then 18-year-old L.A. native Sean Carlson, FYF Fest has gone from an Echo Park, local-band music party to a full-on, two-day event whose roster reaches well beyond the borders of Los Angeles to include the likes of seminal Swedish hardcore band Refused and the U.K.'s electronic prodigy James Blake. Read more...

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The godfathers of alternative rock Dinosaur Jr. arguably put on one of the loudest performances of the entire weekend.