The normally still walls of the Hammer Museum will come to life this Thursday as they capture the sounds and spirit of independent music in Los Angeles. Local acts The Soft Pack and Hanni El Khatib will play in the Hammer Museum courtyard as part of the summer concert series "Also I Like to Rock," presented by KCRW 89.9 FM and the Hammer Museum. Read more...

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The Soft Pack will be performing at the Hammer Museum this Thursday as part of the “Also I Like to Rock” summer concert series. Hanni El Khatib will also be performing. (courtesy of Morgan Kroll)

Relationships are not perfect. They have their high and low moments. The Summer Set's album, "Everything's Fine," has arrived and is an emotional roller coaster filled with the joy and pain of falling in love. "Everything's Fine" displays the evolution of the band from one of their first albums "…In Color," on which the band made use of significant auto-tune. Read more...

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In his first full-length album as Washed Out, Ernest Greene has created a set of electronic songs that represents a bit of a musical head-scratcher. Read more...

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Every summer, bands release albums in the hopes that they will find commercial and critical success as the soundtrack to the season. Most albums fall a little bit short of such success, while select others create something that perfectly embodies the spirit of summer. Gardens & Villa's new self-titled debut album is one of the latter. Read more...

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The Hammer Museum is adding motion to its still life paintings in partnership with public radio station KCRW 89.9 FM for yet another "Also I Like to Rock" free concert series this summer. Read more...

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Graffiti6’s music has been featured on television shows such as “Teen Wolf,” “One Tree Hill” and “Grey’s Anatomy.” The group will perform this Thursday at the Hammer Museum as part of “Also I Like To Rock,” the museum’s free summer concert series.

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Music fans tend to have a love/hate relationship with music from the '80s. On the one hand, the corny rock and power pop of the decade have helped to create some of the most prevalent guilty pleasure bands of this generation, such as Journey. Read more...

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Like many other alternative rock bands that formed in the late '90s, Taking Back Sunday has struggled to define itself in a world where the pre-teen audience it used to cater to has grown up and the current batch of pre-teens has discovered fresh new musical idols. Read more...

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