With DTLA's post-pandemic troubles amid a boom in dance music, Origin's founders hope the scene can help again.

Was' LP "Groove in the Face of Adversity" recalls Detroit's blue-collar ambition. His late friend Bob Weir would love his new tour.

The Village People adopted campy archetypes of masculinity. Paired with bubbly disco grooves and chant-along choruses, they became gay icons.

"I don't think anybody had that ear in them the way that he did," said the Grammy Museum's Michael Sticka.

At Hollywood's Fonda, trans producer-singer Jane Remover turns a three-night stand into a cathartic, raucous pit, signaling a breakout moment after Coachella and their Live…

Keith produced on Travis Scott's hit "Sicko Mode" and Drake and 21 Savage's "Jimmy Cooks."

Ryan Porter was a central figure in the L.A. jazz scene, performing with Kendrick Lamar and Kamasi Washington, and co-founding the West Coast Get Down.

It's impossible to imagine Los Angeles' electronic scene without Das Bunker, founded in 1996 to champion brutalist club music.

Touring is "too risky, and there's not as much upside," said veteran manager Michael Kaminsky.

"That was the most disgusting inappropriate show," one viewer wrote to the FCC about Bad Bunny's set. "I had to make all of my children…