Veteran musical comic (or is it comical musician?) Kyle Gass is reclining on a velour ‘70s sofa at Licorice Pizza Records, getting ready for his eponymous band’s very first in-store concert,...

In May 1980, legendary Minneapolitan music savant Peter Jesperson discovered the Replacements and went on to become their A&R rep, manager, producer, mentor, self-described “babysitter,” and the man sometimes described...

Perhaps never in the history of Licorice Pizza Records events has a band made as grand an entrance as Italodisco bon vivants the Dolcevita Brothers. To quote the jet-setting bio...

Rocker Michele Bettencourt may be the subject of the documentary Beautiful Lie, but the fact that her more-fascinating-than-fiction story hasn’t yet been adapted for a biopic — or better yet,...

Almost 15 years ago, guitarist/vocalist Joshua and drummer David De Leon started playing Beatles covers in their Glendale family garage. Then the Guitar Hero-raised brothers made their unofficial public musical...

In 2025, roots-rock road warriors American Mile played at least 200 shows. But that wasn’t the case, obviously, five years ago, when the COVID-19 pandemic wiped everyone’s calendars and canceled...

In 2003, Florida pop-punk band Yellowcard burst onto the KROQ-meets-TRL mainstream with their major-label debut album and its teenage-dreaming breakout single, “Ocean Avenue.” But surprisingly, it took another 22 years...

The Neighbourhood announced this month that they’ll be releasing their first album since 2020, Ultrasound — a record that controversially reunites them with drummer Brandon Fried, who was fired from...

The third LP by Grandson, aka alt/rap/rock musician and activist Jordan Benjamin, is titled Inertia, but his career has been anything but inert. He has always crusaded for social justice,...

Slimdan, aka indie-pop singer-songwriter Danny Silberstein, is sitting at Studio City’s Licorice Pizza Records, not far from the Wienerschnitzel on the corner of Magnolia Blvd. and Laurel Canyon where he...