Two high-school buddies embark on an unusual project in The Good Neighbor.

Joel Selvin’s Altamont is the definitive account of the free festival at California’s Altamont Speedway in 1969, from its conception to the courtroom drama that found a Hells Angel on trial for murder.

The four members of Preoccupations could make a strong case against the argument that there is no such thing as bad publicity. Scattered public roiling over their former name Viet Cong spread farther than expected and threatened to derail the group just as their instinctively carved brand of post-punk was mounting mass appeal.

In Operation Avalanche, director Matt Johnson has created a film that is both highly personal and wonderfully stylized.

The residents of West LA had a harder time than usual maneuvering their vehicles home during rush hour on Wednesday August 31st. Glass Animals, who released their second album, How to Be a Human Being, the week before, were participating in a Tumblr IRL event in that neighborhood’s legendary The Village recording studios.

Thomas Haden Church is an unnamed homeless man in Knate Gwaltney’s new drama, Cardboard Boxer.

It’s been constant flux for Cymbals Eat Guitars since they seemingly came out of nowhere in 2009 with the excellent Why There Are Mountains.

The opening sequences of TF:TM are like the wedding sequence at the end of The Godfather, and the Autobots are all of Michael Corleone’s enemies.

Local Natives have, whether through intentional effort or not, established themselves as the go-to band of inoffensive but charming West Coast indie rock.