The Best Street Performers In Los Angeles

The Best Street Performers In Los Angeles



The streets of Los Angeles are alive with music, art, pop culture and bizarre shticks. Thanks to the bevy of talented buskers entertaining areas like Venice Beach, Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade, Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood Boulevard and local farmers' markets, dull moments are rare and tourists are charmed. Here are some of L.A.'s best buskers.

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Listen to a new song from The Hush Sound

Listen to a new song from The Hush Sound, its first in 5 years

Indie pop band The Hush Sound burst out of Chicago with 2005’s So Sudden, releasing two more records before going on hiatus in 2009 and branching out into ancillary groups like Gold Motel. Last summer, though, the band started writing together and some of the resulting material will be available for purchase on the band’s site tomorrow at 12pm EST.
In anticipation of that, as well as to hype the announcement of the band’s first full slate of tour dates in five years, The A.V. Club is hosting one of the band’s new tracks. “Not A Stranger” is total summer festival bait, perfect for lazy Sunday listening on porches right as the sun goes down.
A full list of the aforementioned tour dates is below.
The Hush Sound tour 2013May 14—Webster Hall—New York, New York

May 15—Theatre Of The Living Arts ...

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13 stand-up routines about real-life celebrity encounters

Filth flarn filth flarn filth: 13 stand-up routines about real-life celebrity encounters

1. Tig Notaro meets Taylor DayneComedians tend to get great mileage out of stories about celebrities, especially when those stories involve awkward personal encounters. For some unspoken reason, it’s become acceptable for stand-ups to incorporate into their acts stories about meeting famous people in real life—and the results are frequently hilarious. The gold standard might be Tig Notaro’s brilliant tale of the time she ran into forgotten singer Taylor Dayne—one of Notaro’s favorite performers, of “Tell It To My Heart” fame—and completely embarrassed herself. Then she saw Dayne again, and in true Notaro fashion, the embarrassment became something to celebrate. The serendipity of her multiple encounters sounds almost too perfect to be true, but the beauty of her simple retelling is that it is. (On a live This American Life, Notaro did the bit, and was surprised by the real Taylor Dayne coming ...

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