2020 seemed like the year the music died as the COVID pandemic snuffed out all live music with one swipe of its skeletal hand. After a year and a half of quarantine concerts and live streams, ...

It was 2021, live music had just returned, and Local Natives were set to take the stage at Los Angeles’ Greek Theater. As this writer can attest, the show was brilliant — but little did we know there ...

So, 2021 wasn’t quite the “post-pandemic” return to normal we’d all hoped for. But once again, music carried us through, and not even ever-mutating variants could stop incredible artists from ...