By Jeff Shaw, City Pages Compared with other holidays, Thanksgiving hasn't inspired bards overmuch. There are no traditional hymns, no instantly identif...

Art Brut - Considering another Trip to LA

I love Art Brut as though they were my own children. This band has it all - the wit, the hair, the affable cockney charm...they also have tickets and bo...

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And you may find yourself in a Motel 6 in Van Nuys, And you may find yourself eating a Tommy burger at 2 am And you may find yourself in another part of...

Seventh Letter crew member RIME, aka Jersey Joe, will be showing new work at Ghettogloss this Friday, March 7. The show will run for a couple of weeks, ...


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Michael Hurley tonight, December 20, at The Bordello

Michael Hurley has been kicking around since 1965, when he released for Folkways Recordings his First Songs LP. Those songs introduced his aesthetic, on...

No Human Remains Found yet at Manson Dig

So far…nada. Inyo County sheriff investigators reported today that they have not found any bodies yet at Barker Ranch, the last known hideout of ...


"Dante's Inferno": Hollywood Boulevard & Truck Turner The New Beverly Cinema, April 11 The New Beverly Cinema's runaway-hit series of director-programme...

Here's how the story goes. A boy moves to L.A. from Brooklyn. Let's call him Daniel. Daniel Stessen. Why not. And let's imagine he looks something like ...

FRIDAY, 7:30 p.m. Viper Room There was a lively and fashionable crowd at the Viper Room Friday night for MSO PR's soiree celebrating the launch of their...


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Magnetic Fields at the Fonda, Monday, March 3

photos by Timothy Norris (note: these photos are from Sunday's show, but the band set up identically on Monday) The Magnetic Fields closed a two-night s...


Prince added to Saturday's Coachella Line-Up

This just in: Prince has joined this year's line-up for the ninth COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, CA (Friday, ...

Banksy Elephant Set to Star in Christina Aguilera Video

How Paula Abdul’s “Opposites Attract” Explains Why (Many) Women Like Assholes

One of the most common complaints I hear from my female friends is that they always seem to fall for "assholes." Quite mistakenly, they ask for advice o...

Someone needs to take a poo on Diddy's Clorox white suit

A modest proposal to sully Diddy's Hollywood Star.


Tonight in LA: Berlin techno from Apparat, performed with live band

Berlin-based techno artist Sascha Ring, who records under the pseudonym Apparat, has recorded some of the most beguiling and adventuresome electronic mu...


Making Eyes At Sir Paul, Chatting Up Rodney B

Even though he's a millionaire rock star, it totally sucks to be Sir Paul McCartney. I know, I saw him last night at the EMI Grammy party on the Paramou...

Marc Cooper: Clinton Campaign Stung By Third-Place Finish

Des Moines - After a stunning defeat and finishing third in Thursday night's Democratic caucuses, Senator Hillary Clinton congratulated Barack Obama and...

American Art Core: Behind the Orange Curtain

Coachella Day Two: The Triumvirate of Kraftwerk, Portishead and Prince

The Coachella mainstage on Saturday night was a glory to behold, a spirit-lifting evening celebrating joy through technology, through contemplation and ...

By Randall Roberts If it's true, as many haggard hipsters have dismissively opined, that 'Nobody goes to Burning Man anymore,' then who the hell are all...


Cupcakes, Cocktails, and a Crystal-Studded Cockroach

The Style Council threw their first LA WEEKLY sponsored Fashion Party last Thursday, to celebrate our latest Fashion  Issue— "Hollywood Forev...

By Max Taves Anybody hoping to see some change within UTLA—L.A.’s powerful teachers union—will probably have to wait another three yea...

SXSW Day 1-My Morning Jacket Prove That They May Be Invincible and Britt Daniel is Everywhere

If you do a Google Image search for "Austin" this is one of the first things that pops up. Two girls at the 1998 Austin Corvette Day. Granted, this prob...


Photos by Timothy Norris Puppet show! Cool! Why don't more bands have interesting opening acts like this, I thought, as The Cinnamon Roll Gang set up sh...

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It's not the technology stupid!: Romantic & pragmatic thoughts on what consumers want from recorded music

CDs are kind of fucked, but so are radical new models of music consumption. The key to selling music is still not about convenience, price, or practical...


Here's a link to an extended version of Falling James' interview with Manu Chao appears on L.A. Weekly's website this week.  They cover his first L...

You gotta love the brilliant decision by the respected polling group, Public Policy Institute of California, to once again sneak in subtle test question...


The bad rap on the 'death' of the boompa beat

All day long at 3700 Wilshire Blvd., between Oxford and Serrano Aves. there will be live music on a solar-powered stage, as well as a bike raffle. Micha...

“Die in Anacortes”: Phil Elverum (aka The Microphones aka Mt. Eerie) Interviewed: Part 4 of 4

What happens in Anacortes, stays in Anacortes.


Sure we've seen gas for four-and-change in Cambria and other places up the coast. But this Chevron, with the spankin' new slightly-altered logo signage,...

Voodoo Knife Holders and Other Holiday Gift Ideas

Looking for the perfect holiday gift for your cheating boyfriend or sleazy boss? Well here's one that says it all - the Voodoo Knife Holder. Made in Ita...

Jeffrey Lewis (Interviewed) & Crass (Covered): Part 2 of 3

Jeffrey Lewis: "Whereas the Sex Pistols you might hear that played in any given venue. They probably get played in the Gap or something... The Fugs and ...

The K-Cars auto lot on Santa Monica Blvd. in Hollywood is a bit of a landmark, though if you're like most people, you've probably only ever just driven ...

Emos prepare to rumble in Tijuana, march for peace in Mexico City

The nationwide assault campaign against emos in Mexico continues to surge forward, as word is spreading that emos will be hunted and beaten by anti-emo ...


It's friggin Sunday, I want to finish the book for my book club (Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Garcia-Marquez), I want to finish painting my livin...

Here's a list of LA bands/songwriters to chase down at SXSW in Austin next week. This is a tipsheet for those of you with $$$ in your eyes. Looking for ...


Grizzly Bear and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall, March 1

Grizzly Bear and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Walt Disney Concert Hall Saturday, March 1 photos by Timothy Norris You knew Saturday night was turning ma...


The death of Christian Brando is officially a Los Angeles County Coroner's case. According to sources, the coroner's office took possession of the 49-ye...

Nightclubs of Hollywood, Ballrooms of Mars


Steven Leigh Morris Responds to "Bitter Homes and Gardens" Comments

March of the Phony Progressives Who's on first, when the right pretends to be left? Among the smarter reactions in the comments section of my cover stor...

Madonna, clearly incensed that fellow music icon Robert Plant got to hang with the Style Council in the desert, is now planning a little sandy excursion...

Woman Fatally Shot in Front of Cop as She Asks for Help

A brazen attacker who allegedly followed a woman even as she asked a cop for help opened fire, killing the woman, before he was taken out by the officer...

Lots of great stuff can be found walking around the railroad tracks downtown along the LA River. It is, however, off limits, and can lead to some twiste...


But don't take our word for it. The National Book Critics Circle launched its inaugural Best Recommended List, compiled by polling its members, former b...

By Marc Cooper Zero hour in Pennsylvania. Or is it? We've had to somehow fill the gap of the six weeks since the last primary, so we've sort of convince...

Crystal Antlers at High Voltage Party, Safari Sam's, 1/21/08

Crystal Antlers Safari Sam's, Jan. 21, 2008 The sparkling reputation of Long Beach’s Crystal Antlers drew me out to the High Voltage Magazine part...

The Vegan Beer Festival Returns This May With a Swanky New Location

Now in its 6th year, the Vegan Beer Festival will take place this May with more animal-free food and drinks at a much improved location.


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SXSW Day 4-Pitchfork Party Gets a 6.4, Due to Highly Derivative Partying

A Pitchfork party without Sparks? That's like Eliot Spitzer without whores: fatigued, thirsty and miserable. And rest assured, Sparks flowed like the Ri...


Yet another free download from Trent Reznor is available from the Nine Inch Nails website. No new full-length LP this time - in fact no new NIN music at...

Above: Monsters Are Waiting's lead creature, Annalee. The Oohlas also played the sold out concert. Click the link to see Timothy Norris' full slideshow ...

First of all, the Academy Awards started at 3, and that means drinking started at 3 and so last night was a very long night. I don't have a television, ...


Roger WatersVerizon Wireless, Irvine – June 15, 2007 After making it late to the Roger Waters show (thanks to the 405/133 interchange), I had my l...

Indie 103.1FM is officially on my shitlist. I've had enough of retarded Toyota of Huntington Beach ads and Suicide Girls talking about making out with t...

Live in LA: Aimee Mann Christens the New Largo at the Coronet

Aimee Mann at Largo at the Coronet, June 2, 2008 Photos by Timothy Norris Aimee Mann christened the new Largo at the Coronet last night with a memorable...


Ryan Adams – Easy Tiger By Rossiter Drake With the release of Easy Tiger, critics are eager to celebrate the return of Ryan Adams, alt-country sav...

Best Bar In LA - And I'm Not Telling You Where It Is

I had a real-life Cheers moment last Friday night when some friends and I happened upon a  cool, unpretentious and non-douchey new bar in LA. Crazy...

The Mae Shi jump start the night with some fresh blood. They'll be at the Smell in downtown Jan. 3rd, 2008. The Adolescents get the pit rockin! The hard...


I got some flack a while back after dissing (does anyone say dissing anymore? we probably shouldn't) the knit skull cap, a co-worker even wore one in de...

Every week or so, we'll update a list on concerts announced, shows going on sale, and other things happening soon that you may want to know about. James...


Jane's Addiction reunion at the El Rey, April 23

These days there’s every reason to be skeptical of a reunion concert. After the breakup we watch our heroes get older, buy their post-Great-Band s...

A Nip Driver remembered: Mike Webber's Legacy

Remembering Mike Webber of the Nip Drivers By Jula Bell Being an underground musician in L.A., I'm inundated with music. Everyone is up there rocking ou...


I wish I could tell you to head down to Meltdown's Sunset Blvd. location to check out the Truxtapoz show that debuted Saturday night, but it's over: One...

After four hours at this afternoon's Billion Dollar Babes media/celebrity preview sample sale, I felt a bit like the Babes' patron saint A...


Harry Nilsson Tribute Bordello, Jan. 15 "Happy Birthday, Harry," one of the band's singers said into his mic before a bandmate whispers in his ear. "Wha...

Near a couple of auto body shops (and a sharp new Space Invader mosaic that we'll post soon) near Temple and Westmoreland is a CBS wall with a nice Rat ...

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Here's a list of LA bands/songwriters to chase down at SXSW in Austin next week. This is a tipsheet for those of you with $$$ in your eyes. Looking for ...

Above: Avenged Sevenfold Above and below: Paramore cracks it open! Above and below: Serj Tankian Rise Against rocked it! Gave props to Naked Raygun Show...


The first annual Guacamole Festival, though light on the green stuff, was a good-spirited and relatively well-attended community fundraising event to be...

The Best Grammy Party I Got Invited To (but not really)

SATURDAY, midnight, my bedroom When I saw the invite in my inbox to Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy shin-dig in Beverly Hills, I couldn't rsvp fast enoug...

Kristoff talks: 'I didn't incite the attacks'

MTVMusic VideosMTV ShowsEntertainment News Televisa on-air personality Kristoff has finally broke his silence and addressed publicly the wave of anti-em...


Kings of Leon The Greek Theatre, September 7, 2007 By Jonah Flicker When did the Kings of Leon hire a rock stylist? As they took the stage at the Greek ...

My Bloody Valentine announces two LA shows in the fall

That would be Wednesday and Thursday, October 1 and 2 at the Santa Monica Civic Center. My Bloody Valentine's high-water mark: "Soon."...


The flyer from SMC Students Against Budget Cuts was impressive: A cartoon of the Guv all buffed up, standing behind a podium bearing the California stat...


Nightwatchmen tonight at The Hotel Cafe with .... Counting Crows?

That's the rumor, anyway, and I'm trying to confirm it right now. But it makes sense: the Crows' new album, Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, dropped l...

Bad Brains House of Blues, Sept. 26 By Matthew Flesicher “The bourgeoisie had better watch out for me. All throughout this so called nation, we do...

Anyone who made it out to the American Apparel Flea Market event last Sunday knows what I'm talkin' about when I say it was post-apocalyptic insanity- a...

PJ Harvey at the Orpheum Theatre, October 15 By Randall Roberts Polly Harvey waltzed onto stage last night looking like Emily Dickinson after a rough wr...


Neil Hamburger Spins Bing Crosby Live at Dublab.com NOW!

No, really, you should listen to Neil Hamburger's guest DJ slot at Dublab right now...


Grizzly Bear teams with the Los Angeles Philharmonic

Great news from the L.A. Phil just arrived. Anyone who was at the recent Songs of the City series at Walt Disney Concert Hall and heard Daniel Rossen's ...

Sonic Youth: They Are Not Rock. They Curate Rock.

Marc Jacobs asked Sonic Youth to leap. Their response was "How high?"

Timothy Norris photos from the sold out Polyphonic Spree show concert Wednesday night. The band's new album, The Fragile Army, came out June 19. Click t...

Billboard Liberation on Melrose and LaBrea

On the southeast corner of Melrose and LaBrea:...


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Let me first say, I have always loved Tom Hanks. We both stuffed our bras, though for him, that was during a spell as Buffy on Bosom Buddies, and not be...


The MisShapes: style revolutionaries or hipster hair/skinny jeans/80’s revisionists simply in the right place at the right time? I’m not sur...

The Buzzcocks, at 86 years old, blast 20-year-old bands off the stage, and shame them... and they do so as if it came most naturally to them. They simpl...

The first showing of 2008 for the Carmichael Gallery featured over thirty street and outsider artists from Brazil. Shelley Leopold was at the opening Ja...


“I was the coder, the implementer. The client was the designer.” So says coder-implementer Kevin Kachikian, private eye Anthony Pellicano&rs...

30. Jay-Z -American Gangster Is American Gangster that good or was Kingdom Come that mediocre? They're suprisingly surprisingly similar when you think a...


A few changes at the tents in Culver City this year, for one no VIP tent, which was a better place to hang out, a little more removed from the lobby sle...

15. The White Stripes-Icky Thump Icky Thump is the sound of Jack White remembering how to have fun again. Get Behind Me Satan was cool and all but let's...

I love those nights that don't feel planned or forced in any way, but just become brilliantly memorable, seemingly of their own accord. That's kinda wha...


Coming down from the Grammy lemonade high, I was faced with the fact that the requests I had made to be added to lists for post Grammy parties had never...

Notes from indie and punk shows, and Kristoff in translation

The punks had their day here on Saturday, railing against Mexico City's peace-loving emos in what amounts to at least a psychological escalation of the ...

The Kills, The El Rey, May 21, 2008 By Jeff Weiss Photos by Timothy Norris There’s something primal about the Kills. Not some sort of cheap $2 voo...


I just woke from a food coma. I went home for the holidays to see my family in NY. For us Christmas means lobster, shrimp, crab, lasagna, and proscuitto...

Like many people my age, I learned about Bo Diddley not from any unremembered nostalgia for British Invasion swipes of the ancient bluesman's slippery g...


MANDOE has a stunner on a wall north of an east-west street crossing Gower around Fountain (but not on Fountain). MADNOE, PROSE and FUKM are listed on t...

LACMA Raided! Updated With Search Warrants

County Museum board members busted in illegal art sting The L.A. County Museum of Art got some unexpected visitors this morning, when federal agents arr...


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Fashion Week, Take 2: Marvin & Quetzal line dazzles

Sleek and elegant, but still tinged with that trademark vibe of rascally weirdness, the fall/winter line by Marvin & Quetzal helped finish Fashion Week ...

"It's Hard Out There for A Pimp" from Hustle and Flow won for Best Song tonight. Hip hop hooray!!! Though it's not the first rap tune to win (Eminem's "...


First, she suspiciously played at a indie festival, now I get an email about Madonna Gallerie, a store set up in the lobby of W hotel, selling Madonna a...


Associated Press has a story on Yahoo News this morning about the permitted artwork along the Arroyo Seco that went up last year during the Meeting of S...

Leslie and the Lys, Devon Williams at the Echoplex, 3/7/2008

The Church of Glitter. Photos by Rena Kosnett. For the rest of this review, body glitter = sweat. Iowa’s mainframe zaftig-white-female hip hop sta...


Siouxsie Sioux, The Music Box at the Fonda, February 15

Siouxsie Sioux The Music Box at the Fonda February 15, 2008 By Steve Baltin The calendar may have read as the day after Valentine’s Day, but insid...


Three months ago, County Supervisor Gloria Molina, through an emergency measure passed by the County Board of Supervisors, gave Friends of the Los Angel...

All day long at 3700 Wilshire Blvd., between Oxford and Serrano Aves. there will be live music on a solar-powered stage, as well as a bike raffle. Micha...

Villaraigosa Density Hawks Vs. Angry Valleyites

A Valley smackdown is brewing for tonight's 6 p.m. density Town Hall at the Beverly Garland Holiday Inn in Studio City, with scores of pissed-off San Fe...

New Free Gobbledigook (and Naked People) from Sigur Ros

We're getting spoiled with all of these free albums, right? Just one song for free? Oh well - for a Wednesday morning it will have to do. Click on over ...

Obama Wins in Iowa, Huckabee Crushes Romney

Obama wins the Democratic Caucus in Iowa, with 37 percent of the vote, leaving Edwards and Hillary to battle it out for second. On the Republican side, ...


Between December 2005 and March 2006, Sam Slovick did a stunning series of cover stories for the LA Weekly that took readers deep inside the everyday tr...


G-Funk Week Concluded: 10 Qualities Highly Sought After in a Regulator As Gleaned From Warren G & Nate Dogg's "Regulate"

1. Not being just any geek off the streets How To Avoid Being A "Geek Off the Streets: Learn how to how be to handy with the steel and earn your keep. B...


“Nikki Finke Is a Badass” ... and Other Judgmental Comments

It’s the season for journalism awards, and over the past two weeks L.A. Weekly has emerged with a significant number of fresh honors in four diffe...

I heart the Dixie Chicks. I know, I can't believe it either. If you'd told me a week ago that I would be saying this, I wouldn't have thought it was pos...

Look for full, juicy coverage of GenArt's fashion week kick-off bash in Thursday's paper. In the meantime, a couple snap shots to whet your whistle... T...


Yeasayer at the Ukranian Culture Center 4.25.08

I can’t freakin' wait until Yeasayer come back to Los Angeles. I feel itchy knowing that last Friday's show at the Ukranian Culture Center on Melr...

El-P, Dizzee Rascal The El Rey, May 22, 2008 By Jonah Flicker Last night’s double billing at the El Rey, the final stop of the “No Chiefs Al...

I ran into Martini (yes that's his name) at the Venice hangout "the otherroom" after the LA Weekly art show and party. Martini has written a book called...

"What does it taste like to you?" ask the promo advertisements for the new soft drink Pepsi Retro on bus stations and billboards in Mexico City. Clearly...


Pete Rock needs no introduction. His new album NY's Finest drops on Tuesday. While it might not be a classic on the level of a Soul Survivors or Mecca &...

Chuck Phillips should not resign from being a reporter, but it would be fantastic if the LA Times resigned from being a newspaper

The funniest thing about this scandal is that Philips is one of the few bright spots in an otherwise blighted, stupid, and irrelevant publication.


This Weekend in LA: Foghat, AMC, Naked on the Vague, Robyn, Dirtbombs, Noisy People

Remember, it’s still technically bike to work week, so if you’re working the clubs this weekend and feel like saving the earth, maybe you sh...

Happy Labor Day lovelies! Party hearty but don't drink and drive or you may be forced to rock one of these with your fiercest footwear. The shoes are fr...


I am still waiting on confirmation that the dark haired muffin with pin-up girl bangs in a demure dress was Lily Allen. I swung by Ashley Paige's shop o...

Some older ones,some new ones. There's a huge Britney/Madonna piece up that's getting a lot of talk, but I haven't been able to drive down there yet thi...

Narco war update: El Chapo's son goes down

Fresh off a staggering surge of killings of high-profile anti-narco agents and investigators in Mexico, the latest big-time victim in the country's wild...

I stopped into The Mandrake after Gary Baseman's opening at Billy Shire Saturday night (I'm guessing Caroline will be blogging about the show, so all I'...

In the Jury’s Lap: Pellicano Trial Finishes

The fate of the Pellicano Gang of Five rests with the jury, now that closing arguments have concluded. Attorney Mona Soo Hoo began the morning by announ...


Add three more SXSW bands from L.A. to the list

Last week we offered an extensive list of L.A.-based bands hitting South by Southwest in Austin this year (March 13-16). Alas, we missed three of them, ...

20. Jens Lekman-Night Falls Over Kortedala On first listen, Jens Lekman reminds you of Morrissey. Like the ex-Smith's frontman, the 26-year old Swede's ...

Its The Oscars and I'll Cry If I Want To

It always creeps up on me...the Oscars. Already, Hollywood Blvd is shut off at Highland. I know this because I had to go to the Roosevelt Hotel this eve...


Seventh Letter crew member RIME, aka Jersey Joe, will be showing new work at Ghettogloss this Friday, March 7. The show will run for a couple of weeks, ...


It took a lot to get me out of the house last night in the rain. It took Viggo Mortensen. I was supposed to go with Steffie to Track 16, Bergamot Statio...

Lots of great stuff can be found walking around the railroad tracks downtown along the LA River. It is, however, off limits, and can lead to some twiste...

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Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem and Wild Light, Hollywood Bowl, 9/20

Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem and Wild Light Hollywood Bowl, September 20. By Randall Roberts There was a moment about three-quarters of the way through ...

Neil Hamburger Spaceland, March 30 Walking on stage cradling three drinks in his arms, Neil Hamburger makes his first impression on the audience by spil...


It seems that just about everybody, at one time or another, hated Ike Turner (hell, even the Black Panthers once beat his ass onstage at the Oakland Civ...

The press release, whether deliberate or not, was sent out late in the news cycle on a Friday evening--6:43 p.m. to be exact. 17 months after officially...

On the spot where the old French Cottage used to stand - which you can see here - there was a nice clean brick wall just crying out for some tagging. Pe...

Stars of the Lid interview outtake. ALSO, Donald Trump makes a pass at Rudy Giuliani.

Brian McBride: "I discovered the less that was involved kinetically speaking, the more I was interested. I used to describe it as islands of song, and e...


Weiss' Muxtapes #5 and #6: The Best "Indie" Songs To Get An Asymmetrical Haircut To (2008 Edition)

I won't deny it. Things started spiraling rapidly downhill the moment I started compiling mixtapes of my favorite non-hip hop songs released this year. ...


Time magazine has just published their list of finalists for "The 2008 Time 100." What's that you ask? It's the magazine's list of the world's most infl...


Silver Daggers @ Part Time Punks, The Echo 5.11.08

The Silver Daggers were on the bill to play at the Part Time Punks' Third Anniversary show Sunday night. This is what they did for 20 minutes instead (a...

Yeah, it's that time again. Hollywood is all closed up, and hundred of movie fans have begun to line up outside the Kodak Theater, hoping to catch a gli...

And here's some body shop art on 1st St. Another big set from the CBS yard coming soon. All photos by Mark Mauer...


Leaving a convenience store just now a cashier tried swindling me out of 10 pesos in change. I left the place a little confused then marched right back ...

Harry Nilsson Tribute Bordello, Jan. 15 "Happy Birthday, Harry," one of the band's singers said into his mic before a bandmate whispers in his ear. "Wha...

Happy 4-20 friends! Yes, it's the unofficial toker holiday known as Four Twenty (which hardcore stoners actually celebrate every day, at 4:20 p.m.). We ...

Curbed.la is claiming that Skullphone didn't hack Clear Channel billboards, but actually bought space on them, just like strip clubs and Disney movies d...


That's right the American Idol winner was just chosen to be the "it" girl for the racing sport. But you're not really surprised are you? (Not that there...

Alan McGee says "No Need" for Record Shops Anymore

Alan McGee, legendary British record exec, (referenced in an earlier post about the LA version of his Death Disco club night), posted the following...


Ever since Sunday’s Felt Club craft fair at the Ukrainian Culture Center, I’ve been dreaming of pin cushions. Lots and lots of pin cushions....

Black Keys, Jay Reatard The Wiltern, April 1 By Jonah Flicker We’ll get to the white-boy blues-rock in just a sec, but first we have a very seriou...

But don't take our word for it. The National Book Critics Circle launched its inaugural Best Recommended List, compiled by polling its members, former b...

I heart the Dixie Chicks. I know, I can't believe it either. If you'd told me a week ago that I would be saying this, I wouldn't have thought it was pos...

Missed the sold out Beirut shows? Ahh, lucky you. They're playing at 6:30 tonight at Amoeba Records. Go on over and check it out or read Rena Kosnett's ...


American Apparel Workers Defect as Layoffs Hit the Hipster-Clothing Firm

Layoffs have hit Los Angeles clothing maker American Apparel. Workers are starting to organize.

Go out and visit your local independent record store today, if there is still one within 100 miles or so. You know your business model is in trouble whe...

Okay, I may be the biggest Rolling Stones fan I know (except for maybe Falling James) but I'd defend my hero on this one regardless. Snorting his pops? ...


Pedro Guzman Suing Government for Wrongful Deportation

By Daniel Hernandez Pedro Guzman, the Lancaster man who was wrongfully deported from the L.A. County jail system, filed suit against the federal governm...


I'm not a "designer," but I am a fierce competitor -and a STYLE Councilor- so I figured why not? Watch me compete TONIGHT against 7 other fearless fashi...

Craig Gaines has a Flickr page of trash found around Los Feliz. CCM hockey helmet: Check Brown Sugar and Cinnamon Pop Tarts: Check...

Will i Am Offers Obama Handjob Via Campaign Song

As the voters of Texas, Rhode Island, Vermont and Ohio filed to the polls yesterday to help decide the Democratic Party's nomination for President, will...

(photo from Oreskaband.com) So it happened: That magical, transportive moment of which I have heard rumors.... the moment when you discover a band at So...


Devendra & Natalie sitting in a tree. But are they K-I-S-S-I-N-G?

Is Devendra Banhart a starfucker or just a star?

Put horror king Clive Barker in a room with some naked people and some body paint, and you've got an enraptured crowd of "art lovers" in your gallery. T...

Barack Obama at Gibson Amphitheater Tool at Nokia Theatre. By Ryan Colditz I saw a show no one else will ever see. Senator Barack Obama opening for Tool...

The 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2007 Pt. 3 (#14-10)

Mental Note: Avoid guys with the nickname "Mad Dog." 14. Redman-"Blow Treez" Why did we have to wait until 2007 for Redman, the man who taught a generat...


The "ugly beautiful" model trend goes in a groovy new direction with these new Louis Vuitton ads starring Keith Richards. Of course, our man Keef is alr...

Slash Appeals For Lost Kittie on Get The Fuck Up Radio

Rock overlord Slash called for listeners of Get The Fuck Up Radio to keep an eye out for his poor lost kittie-cat Habib, who has been missing since Apri...


Whorelore: The Magical World of Warcraft Porn

Welcome to a dusty fantasy land of deep-throating elf ears, masturbating trolls, and chain-mail-wearing porn stars. by Bonnie Ruberg, Village Voice Porn...

Del tha Funkee Homosapien Returns From Outer Space

God knows what Del's been doing since the millennium. The guy practically retired around then, after dropping the rightfully canonized Deltron 3030 reco...


The bad rap on the 'death' of the boompa beat

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Beachwood Sparks to reunite for Sub Pop anniversary party

Amidst all the hoo-ha about Jane's Addiction getting back together next week because apparently they're geniuses or something, another reunion's getting...

“Every place has a completely different personality, like, Sony is kinda angry, Fox is where all the really cool people hang out and Radford gets ...

Rain Rain Go Away Charlize Theron Wants To Play


It seems that just about everybody, at one time or another, hated Ike Turner (hell, even the Black Panthers once beat his ass onstage at the Oakland Civ...

Two frosted haired ladies walk stiffly through the ebbs and flows of sidewalk traffic on West Alameda Avenue in Burbank. The street is lined with WGA st...

"It's Hard Out There for A Pimp" from Hustle and Flow won for Best Song tonight. Hip hop hooray!!! Though it's not the first rap tune to win (Eminem's "...

Last Night: The Office Night, UCB Theatre, 12/18

The Office Night Upright Citizens Brigade, Theater, 12/18 Review and photos by Nicole Campos (Right, Brent Forrester) What nuggets of Dunder Mifflin-esq...


Once upon a time, the music editor and maybe 1 or 2 others at LA Weekly would have gotten an advance of a hotly anticipated new album, often months befo...


Jane's Addiction reunion at the El Rey, April 23

These days there’s every reason to be skeptical of a reunion concert. After the breakup we watch our heroes get older, buy their post-Great-Band s...


Dewey Cox and the Hard Walkers at the Roxy, Tuesday, December 3 By Randall Roberts You know what? Dewey Cox can kiss my ass. He’s all back and eve...

Tonight, a trifecta of punk with the Saints, Buzzcocks and Stooges. But first, another panel (I think I am the only one interested in these things). Chu...

Lots of great stuff can be found walking around the railroad tracks downtown along the LA River. It is, however, off limits, and can lead to some twiste...

Queer Town: Tom Whitman Presents... Wonderland

Twelve hours before the Big Gay Parade in Boys Town, I decide to hop into the Chevy, pick up my pals Tyle and Ted, and visit gay nightlife uber-promoter...


Cave Singers Echo, Dec. 4 To call a spade a spade: I’ve been listening to the Cave Singers album Invitation Songs an appreciable amount over the l...

My(Space) Secret is Out: Cold War Kids Play For Free

More fashion critique from New York Fashion Week and The Grammy’s (which we attended) to come today, but for now, check out the designs of the fin...


I managed to miss the Aggrolites, which sucks, cuz they're mean and fun. I caught them at the Getty Museum courtyard earlier in the summer and they were...

Hillary Clinton projected winner in California

By Jill Stewart The networks and Fox News have projected Hillary Clinton as the winner in California, with huge leads among Latinos, Asians and, to a le...


Trader Joe’s Says Don't Freak Out Over Arsenic in Wine

Numerous studies have shown that even small amounts of arsenic have been associated with raising the risk for cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other ...


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She & Him The Vista Theatre, 4/28/08 By Jonah Flicker At 7pm, there was already a long line winding around the corner outside the Vista Theatre in Los F...

LA Brew Co Is For Sale After Most Expensive Failed Bar Rescue In History

Four months after the SpikeTV show filming, the restaurant and bar has not kept any of the changes and is now for sale.

Mr Brainwash is on fire. His solo art show opens in just two weeks, and he's been pasting and painting his icons all over LA. So which gallery is he sho...

According to this TMZ report, Pimp C was found dead in his bed in a Sunset Strip hotel room this morning. The rapper, born Chad Butler, had just perform...


Elzhi's Europass: The Best Rap Album of the Year Thus Far

One of the more frustrating things about hip-hop heads*, specifically those old enough to remember the first two Golden Ages, is the general groupthink ...

SXSW Day 1: Van Morrison, Division Day, The Ting Tings, The Duke Spirit at  SXSW, March 12

Van Morrison at La Zona Rosa, Austin, Texas; Division Day, The Ting Tings and The Duke Spirit at Buffalo Billiards. Van Morrison's pretty cool, wearing ...

(photo from Oreskaband.com) So it happened: That magical, transportive moment of which I have heard rumors.... the moment when you discover a band at So...

Molasky Pacific, a real estate development firm based in Las Vegas, will no longer take part in the effort to build a 40-story skyscraper on Sunset Boul...


Watch this now: new Radar Brothers video

The new video for "When Cold Air Goes to Sleep," from the Radar Brothers' upcoming Auditorium, does exactly what a clip should: sent me racing to the CD...

he ring of the bell is the first thing you hear once in range of the Burning Man Festival in bumfuck Nevada. Two of them, the size of logs, hang from po...


MANDOE has a stunner on a wall north of an east-west street crossing Gower around Fountain (but not on Fountain). MADNOE, PROSE and FUKM are listed on t...

Time to play catch up kiddies. The holidays are behind us, and so far, the ‘08 social calendar is proving to be more jammed-packed -and jammin&rsq...

Its bastardization of The Beatles in those relentlessly dizzying TV commercials aside, we still pledge undying love for Target. Where else can you buy m...


The Hives, Donnas Wiltern, Feb. 19 Photos by Timothy Norris It's been eight years since the Hives started telling us they were going to take over the wo...

On Saturday night the Diane von Furstenberg store in West Hollywood hosted a benefit for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music, the non-profit music scho...

Grammy Friends and Family: Spankrocked and A Change of...Pace?

Now you too can learn to talk like a transvestite shoe-whore from Tarzana - and it's all thanks to an educational YouTube movie current...

Last night I went to see Wendy & Lisa. Remember them? After Prince ended his Revolution, guitarist Wendy Melvoin and keyboardist Lisa Coleman, co-wrote ...


I heart the Dixie Chicks. I know, I can't believe it either. If you'd told me a week ago that I would be saying this, I wouldn't have thought it was pos...


Michael Hurley tonight, December 20, at The Bordello

Michael Hurley has been kicking around since 1965, when he released for Folkways Recordings his First Songs LP. Those songs introduced his aesthetic, on...


BBC has a video report posted on Youtube about Banksy pieces showing up in Bethlehem. There's even a brief phone interview with the artist and a couple ...

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Devendra Banhart Orpheum Theatre, 10/13 By John Curry In every generation of pop music, someone comes along with a fabulous persona to wrap generously a...


Get Your Book On: Book Expo America 2008

It was so deserted at the Book Expo America at the Convention Center today, I was beginning to despair about the state of the book industry. But it turn...

South, The Echo, May 15, 2008 Photos by Timothy Norris Once upon a time, near the dawn of this decade, James Lavelle's Mo'Wax label ruled the record sto...

A few changes at the tents in Culver City this year, for one no VIP tent, which was a better place to hang out, a little more removed from the lobby sle...

I just got back from New York, New York, and since I spent much of my winter holiday hanging with my nieces Flora and Ava, twins aged 18 months, the big...


Low Brow Art and a "Fucking Smorgasbord of Lynchness"

Fellow Style Councilor Lina LeCaro has been busy suckling her newborn these last few weeks, so our friend Jar, a talented writer who lives in Echo Park ...


Christoph Babka, a handsome blonde with a keen sense of duty, was burned out working in Hollywood, so he decided to shake things up. "We try to get the ...

It was interesting that while one side of Cordon's Market had some stunning work on it (click here to see it), the opposite side, which wasn't even fenc...


Walking into the shopping mall with the big pink cherry blossom on the corner of Alameda and 3rd at 8pm on Saturday night, it didn't seem possible that ...


Tim & Eric's Awesome Show live @ the Echoplex 5.5.08

They're so sweet and innocent. Photos by Rena Kosnett. Writing about the experience of seeing Tim & Eric’s Awesome Show Great Job! live on tour wo...


Coachella: Day Three 10:00 a.m. I can barely wake-up, I'm in complete denial that there's another full day to go. The press band and the ID bracelet tha...


Tonight's Hot Chip show at the El Rey cancelled

Bummer to start Monday off with bad news, but, alas, this news from Hot Chip's people: "Hot Chip have been forced to cancel tonight's show at the El Rey...

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Week Day 3: Why "1st of Month" is the Greatest Song Ever Written About Welfare

Sometimes, I feel sorry for the 13-year olds of today. I can't even begin to imagine how disgruntled my adolescence would've been had I been forced to l...


Coachella Day Three: The Dangers of Chromeo

Chromeo at Coachella By Chris Martins Roger Waters was neck-deep in pyrotechnics and paisley. The Gobi Tent was done, abandoned 'til next year, and the ...


40. The Twilight Sad-Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters Take note Bloc Party. This is how you do histrionic, nostalgic and bombastic arena rock for in...

Joan and Melissa Give Us Their Oscar Fashion Predictions

Kings of Leon The Greek Theatre, September 7, 2007 By Jonah Flicker When did the Kings of Leon hire a rock stylist? As they took the stage at the Greek ...


Okay, I may be the biggest Rolling Stones fan I know (except for maybe Falling James) but I'd defend my hero on this one regardless. Snorting his pops? ...

Grizzly Bear live on Morning Becomes Eclectic, Feb. 27

On Wednesday morning, the subterranean temple that is the KCRW studio complex on the campus of Santa Monica College played host to a great six-song set ...

I didn't know Charlton Heston, but I knew Bingo. And I'm sorry to say that Jenny Burman has posted that Bingo was hit by a car and killed last Sunday. B...

10 Haikus About 2007's Most Overhyped Albums

Animal Collective-Strawberry Jam Sounds Like Bad Acid Trip At arcade in New Jersey Let Panda roam solo. Arcade Fire-Neon Bible Right now in heaven Toole...


Sex Pistols at the Roxy, October 25 By Randall Roberts Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you and fuck you. Fuck you Johnny Rotten for wasting most of your No Fut...

Sandow: "So why am I telling this story? To introduce my thought that art and the arts aren't the same thing." ALSO, some kid in a diaper covering The B...

"Dante's Inferno": Hollywood Boulevard & Truck Turner The New Beverly Cinema, April 11 The New Beverly Cinema's runaway-hit series of director-programme...

...and then the cops came. Jay Babcock of Arthur Magazine, the recently re-launched counter-cultural journal, sent out a hush-hush e-mail Saturday, Nov....

Laurence Tribe Tangles with CBS and L.A. City Hall

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s Courtroom 3 - a miniature auditorium with comfortable, smoked salmon-colored seats - wa...


Black Friday is my idea of hell. I would rather pay more money to have less people in my way while I shop. Who are all these people who get up at 3 am t...


Like many people my age, I learned about Bo Diddley not from any unremembered nostalgia for British Invasion swipes of the ancient bluesman's slippery g...

The sun was already going down fast by the time I noticed this gem on retaining walls going up a hill in Echo Park. I took some shots anyway and decided...

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It looks like the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office may have its hands full on June 4 when it goes up against leading First Amendment attorney La...

Right now, this very exact second, I am listening to the Eagles of Death Metal playing "I Only Want You" as they perform live on top of the ...


Cupcake Challenge Winners (We Called It)

Cupcake Challenge took place Saturday in Hollywood. Read about the overload of sugar, butter, chocolate, frosting and wine here. The winners have finall...


Dewey Cox and the Hard Walkers at the Roxy, Tuesday, December 3 By Randall Roberts You know what? Dewey Cox can kiss my ass. He’s all back and eve...

Madonna, clearly incensed that fellow music icon Robert Plant got to hang with the Style Council in the desert, is now planning a little sandy excursion...

Jeffrey Lewis (Interviewed) & Crass (Covered): Part 3 of 3

Jeffrey Lewis: "Musicians have always been the conduits that have introduced people to music. So whether it's making a mix tape for your friends or just...


Siouxsie Sioux, The Music Box at the Fonda, February 15

Siouxsie Sioux The Music Box at the Fonda February 15, 2008 By Steve Baltin The calendar may have read as the day after Valentine’s Day, but insid...

Ah summer TV. It's really shititlicious fun aint it? Painting the town is what I do, but that doesn't mean I don't love my tube time. My DVR always gets...

SXSW or no SXSW, my first sign of Texas pride was the Texas-shaped gravestone in the Texas State Cemetery I noticed outside the airport shuttle. Landed ...


Once again, it's Cache/K4P's impossible to miss chickens along Sunset and on the occasional side street. All photos by Mark Mauer. More after the jump...

LA Weekly Interviews Mark Eitzel of American Music Club

American Music Club, circa 2008 American Music Club’s new album, The Golden Age (Merge), begins with what seems to me two perfect Southern Califor...

Live in L.A.: Qui, the Bronx, Circle Jerks, Melvins and the Locust at the Echoplex

Fergie Cuilda deserves a benefit show just to honor his drumming, but last night's benefit at the Echoplex was bittersweet. While on a summer U.S. tour,...


How do you feel about wall art? I have conflicted feelings about decorative stuff on walls. It's so easy to get sick of posters, even if they're neatly ...

Quelle bummer! On Friday night I'd just enjoyed a lovely meal with a group of friends at the Sunset Junction French bistro Cafe Stella (I ...


A few changes at the tents in Culver City this year, for one no VIP tent, which was a better place to hang out, a little more removed from the lobby sle...

Is Isis, the ancient Egyptian mother-god, related in some mystical way with Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent of Mesoamerican mythology? That's the ce...

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Yeah, it's that time again. Hollywood is all closed up, and hundred of movie fans have begun to line up outside the Kodak Theater, hoping to catch a gli...

After four hours at this afternoon's Billion Dollar Babes media/celebrity preview sample sale, I felt a bit like the Babes' patron saint A...

Hecuba opens your eyes, literary and emotionally.... Isabelle Albuquerque's vocals have a dynamic range as grand as the Alps and her body moves as if sh...


Comedy Meltdown 2: Electric Boogaloo Meltdown Comics, January 25th Who needs too-tightly packed tables and a two drink minimum, especially if there&rsqu...

Willie Nelson, Nokia Theatre, Feb. 13 Photos by Timothy Norris If Willie Nelson had delivered a show with half as much heart, enthusiasm and class, it s...


Grizzly Bear and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall, March 1

Grizzly Bear and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Walt Disney Concert Hall Saturday, March 1 photos by Timothy Norris You knew Saturday night was turning ma...


Shary Boyle tonight at Hammer: Visual collaborator with Will Oldham and Swan Lake

Shary Boyle at the Hammer Museum By Casey Henry No one has better appropriated the image of the chain-smoking single mother than Shary Boyle. Her expans...

Gary Baseman, Vincent Gallo, and the Curse of Numerology

I have a confession to make - I sat next to the rather famous LA artist Gary Baseman on Saturday night and I had no clue who he was. He mentioned his Em...

Bjork at the Nokia Theater, December 12 By Randall Roberts Last night’s Bjork show at the Dystopia – er, I mean Nokia -- Theatre downtown di...

Steven Leigh Morris Responds to "Bitter Homes and Gardens" Comments

March of the Phony Progressives Who's on first, when the right pretends to be left? Among the smarter reactions in the comments section of my cover stor...

Hot Week at Dublab: Live Neil Hamburger, Peanut Butter Wolf, Anticon, Lucky Dragons and others

Our favorite local music collective/studio/radio station/creative non-profit/record label/DJ team/inspiration to us all, Dublab, is offering an amazing ...


Was the Universal Studios Fire an accident?

Early reports are calling the fire that gutted three acres of Universal Hollywood's back lot an accident. However, it is unclear what caused the June 1 ...

Cops are mad he didn't get more time. From the Daily News: Tagger gets year for damaging dozens of buses Deputy, prosecutor decry judge's ruling in case...

This is visible on the south side of Melrose (I lost my notes. I don't know what E/W street this on. Beverly?) if you're heading west through East Holly...

The Kooks, Morning Benders, Troubadour, 2/7

The Kooks, Morning Benders, The Troubadour, February 7 It's been two years to the day that The Kooks' first (and so far only) album Inside In Inside Out...


Filmed before and during that tense six-month window between 2Pac and Big's deaths, Rhyme and Reason has a eerie, unsettling vibe to it. Everyone in the...

Feist and Spoon, Gibson Amphitheatre, 11/12

Feist, with Spoon At the Gibson Amphitheatre, November 12 By Sophia Kercher A few years back among hundreds of urbanite Canucks, I stumbled upon Leslie ...

"Hippie chicks with boob jobs." That's how a (male) pal inaccurately described the annual Topanga Days fest in the Santa Monica hills this past memorial...

American Apparel Workers Defect as Layoffs Hit the Hipster-Clothing Firm

Layoffs have hit Los Angeles clothing maker American Apparel. Workers are starting to organize.


KCRW Launches New Guest DJ Sessions featuring Conan O'Brien, Jason Reitman and others

Everybody has an opinion about music, especially celebrities, and KCRW is harnessing this intrinsic reality with a new online series which launches toda...


Sex Pistols at the Roxy, October 25 By Randall Roberts Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you and fuck you. Fuck you Johnny Rotten for wasting most of your No Fut...

Watch this now: new Radar Brothers video

The new video for "When Cold Air Goes to Sleep," from the Radar Brothers' upcoming Auditorium, does exactly what a clip should: sent me racing to the CD...

Interview by Jonah Flicker Comedian Neil Hamburger released the musically excellent and thoroughly funny Neil Hamburger Sings Country Winners (Drag City...

The show didn't end after Kinky, but my laptop battery did. After a full day of jogging up and down the streets to catch good bands, things seemed to sl...

10. Sea Wolf-Leaves in the River At times, Leaves In the River reads a little predictably quirky, but Alex Church's pop heart salvages this from being t...


Pixies and Mission of Burma Movies - Free Screening This Weekend

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Queens of the Stone Age, Nokia Theater, 10/29

What I experienced at the Nokia Theater was simply phenomenal. Scary in good ways as well as bad. A sign of things to come and remembering the way it us...


Portishead's newly unveiled song, "Machine Gun," rubs your face in change. The mood has shifted from something sexy to something claustrophobic, industr...

Why Biz Markie Should Have Known From the Get-Go That He Was More Than "Just a Friend"

Markie appears to have had a Homer Simpsonian sense of delusion. Had he looked at himself in the mirror? The guy was 30 lbs. overweight, rapped like Cor...


The Yeah Fest formerly know as Fuck has announced its summer tour across the Eastern, Southern, and Middle United States, and a little bit of Canada. Ba...


For a few weeks anyway... Roth, the director of Hostel, Cabin Fever and others, is programming two weeks worth of movies at the New Beverly. Roth will b...

Queer Town: Human Rights Campaign Endorses Obama

The Human Rights Campaign, the ultimate Washington D.C. lobbying group for gays and lesbians, has officially endorsed Senator Barack Obama for president...


Few directors in any genre draw as loyal, faithful and loving a crowd as the maestro of the undead, George Romero. And they turned out in droves - the b...

You gotta love the brilliant decision by the respected polling group, Public Policy Institute of California, to once again sneak in subtle test question...

FRIDAY, 7:30 p.m. Viper Room There was a lively and fashionable crowd at the Viper Room Friday night for MSO PR's soiree celebrating the launch of their...

Cave Singers Echo, Dec. 4 To call a spade a spade: I’ve been listening to the Cave Singers album Invitation Songs an appreciable amount over the l...


I just woke from a food coma. I went home for the holidays to see my family in NY. For us Christmas means lobster, shrimp, crab, lasagna, and proscuitto...

Animal radicals banned from UCLA profs' homes

By Max Taves A judge handed UCLA a big victory over its animal-rights tormentors in Los Angeles Superior Court yesterday. The judge’s order won&rs...

Anyone who made it out to the American Apparel Flea Market event last Sunday knows what I'm talkin' about when I say it was post-apocalyptic insanity- a...

On the south side of Pico near Harvard is this nice two artist piece on the side of a Korean food store. Revok. I'm not sure of the age of the wall. It ...


I remember going to see L7 at London's Brixton Academy as a teenager. It was 1992, I was 15, and L7 were, in my opinion, the crown princesses of grunge....

Perhaps no show on television is more suited to the wonders of TiVo, or in my case, an Adelphia DVR/cable box, than the Academy Awards. Way too many com...

Notes from indie and punk shows, and Kristoff in translation

The punks had their day here on Saturday, railing against Mexico City's peace-loving emos in what amounts to at least a psychological escalation of the ...

Marc Cooper on the Primaries in NC and IN

From Marc Cooper's blog: It's All Over Now, Baby Blue Tuesday night Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic nomination -- again. He did it the ...


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I ran into Tammie Brown at the John Water's Meet & Greet before the mustachioed director's Christmas show tonight at UCLA's Royce Hall. Tammie is a long...

Richard Edson's Beyond the Valley of the Micro-Bops Show

The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art opens a new show tonight by photographer Richard Edson. Here's the info: It's tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. at 107 Wes...

Ghostland Observatory, Henry Fonda, 11/30

Ghostland Observatory Henry Fonda, Nov. 30 The moment the curtains opened, lasers blasted over the crowd's heads to the back walls while smoke machines ...

Margaret B. Plagiarizin'? A little over two years ago, in the midst of the Oprah/James Frey fiasco, I wrote an expose called Navahoax that outed award-w...


From the New York Times: "When news surfaced over the weekend that 50 Cent, Wyclef Jean, Timbaland and other rap stars had been implicated in a steroids...

UCLA hits back at animal rights terrorists

By Max Taves Two weeks after animal-rights extremists fire-bombed the home of a respected primate researcher, UCLA is fighting back—legally, of co...

Somehow, I doubt that Paul Thomas Anderson is going to love this so much that he'll grab it to hang in his house the way Murakmai did with Augor and Rev...

SXSW Day 3: Pissed Jeans, Valet, White Rabbits, Thurston Moore, and an impregnated brain

Last night. Last night? Umm, last night ... What the heck did I do last night? Wait. Where the hell am I? In a hotel room, okay ... yeah ... good. At le...


The dates are the festival official, April 25-27, but little else is. And are there any bands from the 80s and 90s left to reunite/headline for Cocahell...

Flier of the Week: Becky Stark and Ron Rege as The Mystical Unionists

This should be a cool opening. It features singer Becky Stark and drummer/comic artist Ron Rege (both of Lavender Diamond) as The Mystical Unionists. He...


The Verdict on Writers: All Bloody Nuts (Phew)

Woman Fatally Shot in Front of Cop as She Asks for Help

A brazen attacker who allegedly followed a woman even as she asked a cop for help opened fire, killing the woman, before he was taken out by the officer...

The Human Rights Campaign, the ultimate Washington D.C. lobbying group for gays and lesbians, has officially endorsed Senator Barack Obama for president...


Panic at the Disco loses their exclamation point, help sell a Honda

Panic at the Disco at Studio 540 of the Honda Corporation's headquarters, Torrence, January 10. By Julie Seabaugh Around 250 VIPs, suits and press membe...

Out Today in Stores: Larry Norman, "The Father of Jesus Rock," Gets Anthologized

You don't get a head of hair like that without a little divine intervention, and Larry Norman, who, beginning in the late 1960s, started singing about h...

The LA Weekly's "Class of 05" music issue is out now (check out my local class favorites piece here) and the yearbook-themed edition sure took me back t...

A movie about a 12-year old prostitute in jazz-age New Orleans may seem like an unlikely inspiration for a new spring line of clothing, but when the pre...

Photo by Shelley Leopold. Spotted on LaBrea over the weekend - Iron Man posters retooled. If there was any pro-Hillary or McCain street art we'd post th...


I wish I could tell you to head down to Meltdown's Sunset Blvd. location to check out the Truxtapoz show that debuted Saturday night, but it's over: One...

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, Royce Hall UCLA, Jan. 30 By Timothy Norris There’s something inspiring about visiting college campuses. The architectu...

A few changes at the tents in Culver City this year, for one no VIP tent, which was a better place to hang out, a little more removed from the lobby sle...


Grammy Friends and Family: Spankrocked and A Change of...Pace?

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Last Night: White Stripes' Candy Store Rock

White Stripes Icky Thump/Tower Records, June 20, 2007 By Ryan Ward All photos by Timothy Norris - Click here for a slideshow of the concert If you had b...

Philanthropist Daphna Ziman's War for Foster Kids

Sacramento's politicians created a fat budget deficit. Then, local bureaucrats misspent state funds meant for foster kids. Now, foster kids might pay de...

Nightwatchmen tonight at The Hotel Cafe with .... Counting Crows?

That's the rumor, anyway, and I'm trying to confirm it right now. But it makes sense: the Crows' new album, Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, dropped l...


Actor Slaying Rattles Local Theater Company

Darius Ever Truly, who played Bobby Seale in Odyssey Theatre Ensemble's stage production of The Chicago Conspiracy Trial, was fatally stabbed last Satur...

It looks like the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office may have its hands full on June 4 when it goes up against leading First Amendment attorney La...


McCartney Vetoed Weird Al's Chicken Pot Pie

Well, it's been a quiet few days, involving mainly indigestion and a marathon L Word viewing session (seven episodes, back to back). So here's a funny s...

Describing himself as a guy who was "you could say, like a head of state," departing California Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez gave a bizar...

Record cover design finally catches up with "the new ugly"?

Race to the bottom: Lil Wayne vs. Weezer. Worstest record cover wins.

Some New York Times art critic called multi-media artist Matthew Barney the most important artist of our generation, and Los Angeles believed him. Upper...


Naked Raygun Knitting Factory, Dec. 7 "Anyone ever tell you you look like Steve Albini?" "We were just talking about Albini! Did you know that he re-rec...

Perhaps no show on television is more suited to the wonders of TiVo, or in my case, an Adelphia DVR/cable box, than the Academy Awards. Way too many com...


After posting a couple of different Obama art pieces (Iron Man, Obey and Kofie'One), I said that I would happily post photos of pro-Clinton art if only ...


35. Wilco-Sky Blue Sky When music critics scoff that Wilco are "dad-rock," they're absolutely right. Sort of. My dad only listens to sports radio and Is...


This year marked the first time since 2006 that LA Weekly didn't win a Pulitzer, effectively ending our current streak (at one). UCLA professor of histo...

I'm relatively new to the whole blogging thing, and today I learned a lesson —never delete a post because you got a bad comment. I had posted "My ...

By Casey Henry The Hollywood sign may soon have unexpected neighbors. Today, Teles Realtors held a press conference declaring the 138 acres of hillside ...

Silver Daggers @ Part Time Punks, The Echo 5.11.08

The Silver Daggers were on the bill to play at the Part Time Punks' Third Anniversary show Sunday night. This is what they did for 20 minutes instead (a...


My legs hurt. My arms and torso ache. I never excercise, ever. But on Sunday, Steffie, Caroline, and about 10 of our friends played a full-on game of ro...

Slash Appeals For Lost Kittie on Get The Fuck Up Radio

Rock overlord Slash called for listeners of Get The Fuck Up Radio to keep an eye out for his poor lost kittie-cat Habib, who has been missing since Apri...


Portishead's newly unveiled song, "Machine Gun," rubs your face in change. The mood has shifted from something sexy to something claustrophobic, industr...

Autolux at Little Radio and other NYE ideas (well, one other idea)

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More fashion critique from New York Fashion Week and The Grammy’s (which we attended) to come today, but for now, check out the designs of the fin...

Beachwood Sparks to reunite for Sub Pop anniversary party

Amidst all the hoo-ha about Jane's Addiction getting back together next week because apparently they're geniuses or something, another reunion's getting...


There are several Christmas charity shows (and just plain Christmas themed shows) around time this month, like Snoop Dogg's Smokin' Christmas Party at t...


The Vegan Beer Festival Returns This May With a Swanky New Location

Now in its 6th year, the Vegan Beer Festival will take place this May with more animal-free food and drinks at a much improved location.

Apparently thieves broke into a truck and stole $50,000-worth of Taryn Rose shoes destined for the designer's Beverly Hills boutique. $50,000? I went to...

The Islands' "Arms Way," Islands' Kona Pie and The Pros of "Miscenegenation"

Last year when Sasha-Frere Jones wrote his now-infamous piece on the whiteness of indie rock, he repeatedly included the phrase "miscenegation" to descr...

For years now, I only remember the L.A. River clean-up the day after it happens. Wake up on a Sunday morning, and think, "It was yesterday? I missed it ...


SXSW Day 1: Van Morrison, Division Day, The Ting Tings, The Duke Spirit at  SXSW, March 12

Van Morrison at La Zona Rosa, Austin, Texas; Division Day, The Ting Tings and The Duke Spirit at Buffalo Billiards. Van Morrison's pretty cool, wearing ...

Happy (whatever holiday you celebrate) Style Council readers! The other gals are all back in their respective homelands (NYC and the UK) so I'm holding ...

Rolling Stones, Scorsese and Black Girls

"Black girls just want to get fucked all night I just don't have that much jam" I just want to put that out there because it's a funny, mean, maybe even...

Still haven't seen the Simpsons movie, but it's not like I need to what with the massive marketing that permeated the media. At least some of it is clev...


Three months ago, County Supervisor Gloria Molina, through an emergency measure passed by the County Board of Supervisors, gave Friends of the Los Angel...

The trend alarmed me, especially if you search the LA Times online--this city's paper of record--and see them mangle the spelling time after time after ...

Jack is Dead; Radio Listeners Rejoice The Village Voice reports that their version of Jack FM, which is probably very close to our version of Jack FM on...

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Members of the Los Angeles friends of Tibet held a "die-in" outside the Chinese Consulate on Monday afternoon to protest the recent Chinese crackdown on...

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The students of Sunnydale High's class of 1999 have gathered at the Cinerama Dome for their eight-year high school reunion. A demon is here. So is a vam...

Shary Boyle tonight at Hammer: Visual collaborator with Will Oldham and Swan Lake

Shary Boyle at the Hammer Museum By Casey Henry No one has better appropriated the image of the chain-smoking single mother than Shary Boyle. Her expans...

Last weekend was all about Coachella (see this week's paper), but there is much that I didnt have room for and you, the lucky SC reader get extra scoop....

Girl In A Coma Knitting Factory, Feb. 21 By Scott Schultz Girl in a Coma’s Thursday night set at the Knitting Factory demonstrated the growth the ...


Live in L.A.: The Decemberists and Andrew Bird at The Hollwyood Bowl


Can someone please tell me where the good music is to be found in this city? Last night I went to Dance Right at La Cita downtown which was bursting at ...


Darius Ever Truly, who played Bobby Seale in Odyssey Theatre Ensemble's stage production of The Chicago Conspiracy Trial, was fatally stabbed last Satur...

There will be an official 2007 wrap-up from Mr. Gold himself, but with the year drawing to a close, we wanted to do a quick re-cap of some of your favor...

The last of the shots of the graffiti playground going on behind the El Pollo Loco on the south side of Sunset Blvd near Sanborn, as well as some commis...


Van Halen Staples Center, November 20 By Randall Roberts Jack and Coke? Check. Bic lighter? You know it. Rocker passed out on sidewalk, girlfriend exasp...

Chocolate-covered Snails and Other New Year's Delights

Even if they weren't my friends, I would still think Jenna and Oliver from Materials and Applications were totally rad. Their Maximillian's Schell insta...

Seattle Pop Conference kicks off talk of diaspora and hegemony (what else is new?)

There's a reward at the end of this post for those of you who read it, by the way. There are a few words that you don't hear in mixed company, and two o...

Thanks to the suggestion of my friend Nacho Genzon, I have been listening quite a bit lately to Fred Neil, the American singer-songwriter of the 60's & ...

"I've never performed at a festival," says Madonna, "and I'm especially excited about playing at Coachella before I start my own tour." Well la-dee-da. ...


Tonight in LA: Le Switch at the Echo, Harvey Sid Fisher at Pehrspace and Mezzanine Owls at Spaceland

Big ass night for Los Angeles music. If you're in from out of town, you picked a good frickin' Monday to be here. Fortify with a big dinner cuz there's ...

After posting a couple of different Obama art pieces (Iron Man, Obey and Kofie'One), I said that I would happily post photos of pro-Clinton art if only ...


Coachella Envy: Why did the artist formerly known as the unpronounceable symbol guy have to ruin it for all of us curmudgeons?

Video of Prince performing a cover of Radiohead's "Creep" at Coachella 2008.

Rock overlord Slash called for listeners of Get The Fuck Up Radio to keep an eye out for his poor lost kittie-cat Habib, who has been missing since Apri...

So I've been thinkin' a lot about babies. Yes, I've been grappling with the pressure and possibility of taming my wild life to make room for a family so...

Fashion week is officially over, but that doesn't mean the strutting has stopped completely. Thanks to a power outage in my area, I missed the David Yur...


SXSW Day 3-The Unifying Power of Devin the Dude

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."-Hunter S. Thompson "What you gonna do when the people go home/ and you wanna smoke weed but the reefer'...

The "ugly beautiful" model trend goes in a groovy new direction with these new Louis Vuitton ads starring Keith Richards. Of course, our man Keef is alr...

Above painting by RETNA. All images copyright of the respective artists. From a show earlier this month in Barcelona, "Letters First," check out the sli...

We love retro fashion references as much as (maybe more than) the next wear-bear, but the regurgitation coming out of New York Fashion week this season ...

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I'm not sure what Frida Kahlo was doing in her grave last night as a hundred or so people gathered in a real estate tycoon's backyard to sample tequilas...

Autechre - 4/14, Echoplex Bad Religion - 3/4,5,11,13, House of Blues Bamboozle (All-American Rejects, Jimmy Eat World, Paramore) - 4/5, Verizon Amphithe...

The only thing that really stands out about the debate in Hollywood between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is that the softball questions and heavy fo...

Villaraigosa Density Hawks Vs. Angry Valleyites

A Valley smackdown is brewing for tonight's 6 p.m. density Town Hall at the Beverly Garland Holiday Inn in Studio City, with scores of pissed-off San Fe...


Alec (who is the same age as Jesus) responds to his critic. Also, a special guest appearance by Judas aka Bob Dylan (you know, the guy from the panty commercial).

I am 33, the same age of Jesus. Clearly those kids in their teens and early twenties who you're meeting have some work to do to get as arrogant as me. B...

Jane's Addiction Original Lineup Play LA Next Week

For the first time since the band originally split seventeen years ago, the four original members of Jane's Addiction will play in L.A. as part of the N...

Even if they weren't my friends, I would still think Jenna and Oliver from Materials and Applications were totally rad. Their Maximillian's Schell insta...


Philanthropist Daphna Ziman's War for Foster Kids

Sacramento's politicians created a fat budget deficit. Then, local bureaucrats misspent state funds meant for foster kids. Now, foster kids might pay de...

“Preachy Songs”: Phil Elverum (aka The Microphones aka Mt. Eerie) Interviewed: Part 3 of 4

Elverum on Crass: "I don't really like that music of Crass, but I love the band, and I love their way, and their presentation."


Apparently the newest accessory this season, is a tail. No, not that strand of hair you kept growing despite haircuts. I was speaking to a member of an ...

By Marc Cooper It was far too beautiful a day in Southern California to have spent much time following the West Virginia primary. Taking a late afternoo...


I am still waiting on confirmation that the dark haired muffin with pin-up girl bangs in a demure dress was Lily Allen. I swung by Ashley Paige's shop o...

New Daedelus Video for "Make It So" is One of the Best Things You'll Watch Today

Sometimes something arrives that, while small on the surface -- "What, another YouTube clip to watch?" -- manages to overjoy your heart and eyes with it...

It looks like the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office may have its hands full on June 4 when it goes up against leading First Amendment attorney La...


Few directors in any genre draw as loyal, faithful and loving a crowd as the maestro of the undead, George Romero. And they turned out in droves - the b...

Nightwatchmen tonight at The Hotel Cafe with .... Counting Crows?

That's the rumor, anyway, and I'm trying to confirm it right now. But it makes sense: the Crows' new album, Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, dropped l...

Shootin' At The Walls of iTunes (bang bang)

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Yanuk featured models in denim corsets, skinny jeans, and wild frayed coats. And remember the tuck and roll of the 80s? You know where you folded your j...


This Weekend in LA: Foghat, AMC, Naked on the Vague, Robyn, Dirtbombs, Noisy People

Remember, it’s still technically bike to work week, so if you’re working the clubs this weekend and feel like saving the earth, maybe you sh...

At Club Bahia, May 25 By DANIEL HERNANDEZ There's always an element of danger at a Very Be Careful show. They tend to play venues and in neighborhoods w...

Notes from indie and punk shows, and Kristoff in translation

The punks had their day here on Saturday, railing against Mexico City's peace-loving emos in what amounts to at least a psychological escalation of the ...

How do you feel about wall art? I have conflicted feelings about decorative stuff on walls. It's so easy to get sick of posters, even if they're neatly ...


Happy 4-20 friends! Yes, it's the unofficial toker holiday known as Four Twenty (which hardcore stoners actually celebrate every day, at 4:20 p.m.). We ...

A few changes at the tents in Culver City this year, for one no VIP tent, which was a better place to hang out, a little more removed from the lobby sle...


The Parson Redheads make sunny day music. I noted this in my Stylus review for last year's King Giraffe. It is now springtime in Los Angeles and everyth...

The Cure The Shrine Auditorium, June 1, 2008 By Rita Neyter Last Sunday was an absolutely bright and beautiful day, but as the sun slowly descended over...


10 Questions Raised By Mista Grimm's "Indo Smoke" Upon Re-Examination In the Year 2008

1. Is it ever a bad idea for rappers to open their video with shots of them buying 40's at the liquor store? 2. Nate Dogg> a lump of aluminum foil> Akon...


Big ass night for Los Angeles music. If you're in from out of town, you picked a good frickin' Monday to be here. Fortify with a big dinner cuz there's ...

"What does it taste like to you?" ask the promo advertisements for the new soft drink Pepsi Retro on bus stations and billboards in Mexico City. Clearly...


This post starts a look at a few miles of the L.A. River going north from Atwater Village to the 134 that will continue for the next week or so. Because...


I managed to miss the Aggrolites, which sucks, cuz they're mean and fun. I caught them at the Getty Museum courtyard earlier in the summer and they were...

Obama Wins in Iowa, Huckabee Crushes Romney

Obama wins the Democratic Caucus in Iowa, with 37 percent of the vote, leaving Edwards and Hillary to battle it out for second. On the Republican side, ...

Nekromantix / FreakShow Deluxe LA Convention Center April 25, 2008 Could there be a less spooky place for the Nekromantix to play? Even late at night, w...

The Hives, Donnas Wiltern, Feb. 19 Photos by Timothy Norris It's been eight years since the Hives started telling us they were going to take over the wo...


Somehow, I doubt that Paul Thomas Anderson is going to love this so much that he'll grab it to hang in his house the way Murakmai did with Augor and Rev...

“My Megalomania”: Phil Elverum (aka The Microphones aka Mt. Eerie) Interviewed: Part 2 of 4

Elverum on Elverum: "I think I'm trying to one-up my megalomania [pauses] -- or however you pronounce that" - "I am trying to get old people interested ...

It's not the technology stupid!: Romantic & pragmatic thoughts on what consumers want from recorded music

CDs are kind of fucked, but so are radical new models of music consumption. The key to selling music is still not about convenience, price, or practical...

Low Brow Art and a "Fucking Smorgasbord of Lynchness"

Fellow Style Councilor Lina LeCaro has been busy suckling her newborn these last few weeks, so our friend Jar, a talented writer who lives in Echo Park ...


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Steven Leigh Morris Responds to "Bitter Homes and Gardens" Comments

March of the Phony Progressives Who's on first, when the right pretends to be left? Among the smarter reactions in the comments section of my cover stor...


Underworld Hollywood Bowl, September 9, 2007 By Jonah Flicker Underworld’s recent appearance at the Hollywood Bowl felt strangely momentous. No de...


By Ryan Colditz Get the folk out of the city on Saturday and mosey on over to Clarmont (just a few miles past the Glass House in Pomona) for the 28th An...

What's gayer than Jeffree Star turning up at the Abbey on Friday with a Tarina Tarantino haircut and Perez Hilton on his arm? Or gayer than the parents ...


I got lucky Saturday when just a few blocks from my apartment I came across Retna and Dame working on a new wall on Virgil. Above, Dame working on his p...

Kings of Leon The Greek Theatre, September 7, 2007 By Jonah Flicker When did the Kings of Leon hire a rock stylist? As they took the stage at the Greek ...

Coachella Offers Reward for Return of Inflatable Pig

I wish I could say that this was a joke, but I saw the damned pig float away myself Sunday night during Roger Waters' set at Coachella. As it drifted up...

Why Biz Markie Should Have Known From the Get-Go That He Was More Than "Just a Friend"

Markie appears to have had a Homer Simpsonian sense of delusion. Had he looked at himself in the mirror? The guy was 30 lbs. overweight, rapped like Cor...

Mass Murder in Winnetka takes life of popular SWAT officer, a former Villaraigosa bodyguard An LAPD SWAT officer was shot to death and another was wound...


Its bastardization of The Beatles in those relentlessly dizzying TV commercials aside, we still pledge undying love for Target. Where else can you buy m...

She & Him The Vista Theatre, 4/28/08 By Jonah Flicker At 7pm, there was already a long line winding around the corner outside the Vista Theatre in Los F...

The death of Christian Brando is officially a Los Angeles County Coroner's case. According to sources, the coroner's office took possession of the 49-ye...


Auto Repair art on Santa Monica Blvd. and Ardmore

Two very different styles across the street from one another on Ardmore just south of Santa Monica Blvd...

Signing On: Massive WGA Strike at Fox Plaza

Yesterday, one of NBC’s head writers marching on the picket gripped his high-tech cell phone and waved it in frustration. “Someone at NBC sc...


Greetings from the first annual Marfa Film Festival

I got on a bus in Los Feliz yesterday at about 1 p.m. headed for Marfa, Texas, to attend the first annual Marfa Film Festival. If you've been to the mov...

Tonight at Family: Gary Panter, Who True Punkers Know as Illustrator for Slash Magazine

If you're looking for something cool to do after the BBQs or naps or hangovers or bender-continuations or whatever it is you're doing this afternoon, th...

(Photo of Brother Reade by day19.com)  Things went from "totally awesome!" to "way less than rad..." in mere seconds after cops shut down the Broth...

As usual, there were a bevy of bare boobies on the runways during LA Fashion Week a couple weeks ago, and it got me thinking- why does anybody get boob ...

10. Spoon-Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Sasha Frere-Jones is a joke and Spoon can prove it. I mean, if all I had to judge indie rock on was the Arcade Fire and the Dec...


Tonight's Hot Chip show at the El Rey cancelled

Bummer to start Monday off with bad news, but, alas, this news from Hot Chip's people: "Hot Chip have been forced to cancel tonight's show at the El Rey...

Timothy Norris spotted this nice piece on the Northeast corner of Pico and La Cienega. Timothy writes, "Not the best time of day for the shot, but dig t...

eMC's The Show: The First Great Rap Album of 2008

"This is the number one rule for your set/In order to survive, gotta learn to live with regrets/And through our travels we get separated, never forget/I...

Out Today in Stores: Larry Norman, "The Father of Jesus Rock," Gets Anthologized

You don't get a head of hair like that without a little divine intervention, and Larry Norman, who, beginning in the late 1960s, started singing about h...

Black Lips, El Rey, February 14 By Jonah Flicker Reports of Black Lips’ onstage antics have apparently been greatly exaggerated. The Atlanta quart...


Here's the second day's worth of photos from the incredible Meeting of Styles graffiti event that took place at Arroyo Seco in Highland Park next to the...

Lil Wayne to Play House of Blues on June 16

I'll post Lil Wayne's incendiary anti-Bush song, "Georgia Bush," any chance I get, as most people don't know one of the best protest songs of the 21st c...


Victoria's Secret launched its first "What is Sexy" list. (why? your guess is as good as mine) But it leaves me seriously wondering if Victoria has any ...

Linda Immediato recently lost her blogging virginity and is making up for lost time. She's a born and bred New Yorker who was an on-air news reporter fo...

Ok, so I guess I'm supposed to comment on who wore what, if they looked good or not, yada yada... since this is a style blog. But I was so pissed off al...


Love or hate the music, I'll argue with you for hours (if we've got beer), that the physical album cover of Radiohead's In Rainbows sucks. And love or h...

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SXSW Day 3-The Unifying Power of Devin the Dude

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."-Hunter S. Thompson "What you gonna do when the people go home/ and you wanna smoke weed but the reefer'...

How often have I had blissful dreams like the picture above? In the dream, I am hungry. Then some kind stranger appears from nowhere and smilingly hands...

Welcome to  LA Weekly's coverage of Fashion Week. Our Style Council is ready to fuck you up -- kicking it off at the Gen Art show tonight at Barker...


She & Him The Vista Theatre, 4/28/08 By Jonah Flicker At 7pm, there was already a long line winding around the corner outside the Vista Theatre in Los F...


Right now, this very exact second, I am listening to the Eagles of Death Metal playing "I Only Want You" as they perform live on top of the ...


Heading a couple of blocks south of HK Super on Western near 3rd Street, you can make a left and see a beautiful piece in reds and blues along the side ...

It's a fact of life for street artists that their work is going to get covered up, torn down, painted over, or if you're Man One, billed for tens of tho...

Pearl Jam Düsseldorf, Germany, ISS Dome June 21, 2007 By Ryan Colditz The German crowd at the ISS Dome Germany was more reminiscent of a fütbo...

Dear Men of Los Angeles, I am declaring a moratorium on the knit skull cap. I'm talking about the little beanie things seen on the likes of Wilmer Valde...


Missed encounters: You—driving a white BMW with "CA Bunny" vanity plates, didn't use your turn signal. Me—aggro driver on my morning commute...

Pellicano Defense Finishes Its First Week It’s a crime to lie to the FBI, so I won’t: The courtroom was bored to tears with Friday's appeara...


"U.S. imprisons one in 100 adults, report finds," sez NY Times. What would Crass do? Don't matter. Punk. Is. Dead.


Discovering Jandek: his oeuvre & some typical Jandek jams

The sounds Jandek documents on his records are clearly intentional, yet it'd be nearly impossible to argue those sounds provide anything more than a voy...

The Crewest Gallery downtown held their fourth annual Day of the Dead exhibit with more than 100 ceramic skulls painted, decorated, reassembled and scul...

Joe Strummer Tribute, Key Club, December 22 Words and photos by Aimee Candaleria Three Bad Jacks pay tribute to Strummer. This evening a packed house ca...


10 Reasons Why The Wu-Tang Clan's "The Heart Gently Weeps" Video Might Be Their Worst Ever

1. Who made the decision to have an Asian Bjork clone perform a feather dance for one of the video's main plot threads? Okay fine, we all know the answe...

The Presets play Los Angeles Tuesday, May 20 at the El Rey Theater. Sorry, sold out. But hey, don't go away sad. Here's the new video for the "You Are t...

The press release, whether deliberate or not, was sent out late in the news cycle on a Friday evening--6:43 p.m. to be exact. 17 months after officially...

RICO Suave: Closing Arguments at Pellicano Trial

“Sitting up there in the second row is a dirty cop. A dishonest cop. A corrupt cop. A man who sold his badge for $2,500 a month.” Say what y...


Girl In A Coma Knitting Factory, Feb. 21 By Scott Schultz Girl in a Coma’s Thursday night set at the Knitting Factory demonstrated the growth the ...

The analog pleasures of Radiohead's digital revolution by Randall Roberts (Photo by John Spinks) There are a few different ways to get to Big Sur from L...

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Morrissey Hollywood Palladium, October 1, 2007 By Jonah Flicker On the first night of his self-described ten-night “residency” at the Pallad...

Inyo County sheriff investigators officially called off the dig for human remains Wednesday at remote Barker Ranch, the last known hideout of Charles Ma...


The Parson Redheads make sunny day music. I noted this in my Stylus review for last year's King Giraffe. It is now springtime in Los Angeles and everyth...

Lily Allen Attracts Gwen, Orlando, Lohan, Lennon - and Taylor Dane


I wish I could tell you to head down to Meltdown's Sunset Blvd. location to check out the Truxtapoz show that debuted Saturday night, but it's over: One...


“Nikki Finke Is a Badass” ... and Other Judgmental Comments

It’s the season for journalism awards, and over the past two weeks L.A. Weekly has emerged with a significant number of fresh honors in four diffe...

BOXeight: You Wear It Well Film Festival, The Mayor and Eduardo Lucero

(Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa flanked by two women. He sat front and center at Eduardo Lucero to show his support for BOXeight and LA fashion, and pretty ...


I got on a bus in Los Feliz yesterday at about 1 p.m. headed for Marfa, Texas, to attend the first annual Marfa Film Festival. If you've been to the mov...

Tokyo Hardcore Starring Davey Havok and Jeffree Star

No, it's not the name of some Japanese bukkake film, Tokyo Hardcore, is a series of clips presented by Tarina Tarantino to launch her latest collection....

Three months ago, County Supervisor Gloria Molina, through an emergency measure passed by the County Board of Supervisors, gave Friends of the Los Angel...

By Guelda Voien Global climate change put the brakes on that celebrated preamble to summer in Los Angeles - the inaugural screening at Hollywood Forever...


Heidi Montag may be the most annoying person on television (and that includes Donald Trump, Dr. Phil and the entire cast of every dating/singing/dancing...

Liars El Rey, Feb 22, 2008 By Jonah Flicker Liars are a constantly shifting band, taking a new tack on dark post-punk, experiments in early industrial m...


G-Funk Week: 10 Questions Raised By “Game Don’t Wait” Upon Re-Examination In the Year 2008

In honor of Nate Dogg (who's currently recuperating in a rest home after somehow having a stroke at 38)) and because I really just want to watch old G-F...

Sex Pistols at the Roxy, October 25 By Randall Roberts Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you and fuck you. Fuck you Johnny Rotten for wasting most of your No Fut...

Hair Today, Still Freakin' Hair Tomorrow

Product Placement - The Striker Gourmets

Today was Bring-Your-Kid-to-Picket Day at the WGA strike, and the three-foot-and-under marchers were in abundance proudly waving their signs. A favorite...


(photo from Oreskaband.com) So it happened: That magical, transportive moment of which I have heard rumors.... the moment when you discover a band at So...


Crass chose iconography and dissed photography

Crass preferred resting their image on stencils, flyers, collages, newspaper articles, forged documents, banners, patches. Whenever they had an opportun...

I ran into Tammie Brown at the John Water's Meet & Greet before the mustachioed director's Christmas show tonight at UCLA's Royce Hall. Tammie is a long...

Newsflash: Iceland is not as unbearably cool as one imagines

Icelandic innovation includes the "bumper dumper," a flip-down toilet seat on trucks' rear end for use in the wild.

Thanks to the suggestion of my friend Nacho Genzon, I have been listening quite a bit lately to Fred Neil, the American singer-songwriter of the 60's & ...


The wall full of Hyenas wearing oil company bling was previously a Seventh Letter wall covered in a lot of complex, almost dizzying, writing. These pict...


Jeffrey Lewis (Interviewed) & Crass (Covered): Part 2 of 3

Jeffrey Lewis: "Whereas the Sex Pistols you might hear that played in any given venue. They probably get played in the Gap or something... The Fugs and ...

Gay and Happy at a West Hollywood Candle Shop

The phone started ringing at Timothy Jay Candles a little bit after ten o’clock in the morning, and it didn’t stop for the rest of the morni...


Bob the Lefsetz vs. Antony & the Johnsons. ALSO, some words about Coachella.

Why we love Antony and why we hate Coachella.

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This week's dance shows include a festival with an impressive gathering of local troupes, a 5th and 35th anniversary celebration, a dual debut and Brazi...


I got 5 minutes. That's it. 5. To ask John Waters whatever I could. But you may have to wait for the LA Weekly "list issue" to read what he had to say, ...

he ring of the bell is the first thing you hear once in range of the Burning Man Festival in bumfuck Nevada. Two of them, the size of logs, hang from po...

A few changes at the tents in Culver City this year, for one no VIP tent, which was a better place to hang out, a little more removed from the lobby sle...

They are the modern versions of monster stories. True Crime writers seek out such tales every day, finding them in two sentence-long police blotter blur...

Movie money vs. music money. Also, more evidence of why Dylan rules.

Glenn Hansard on the prospect of moving to LA post-Oscar: "Everybody just assumed we were going to move to Hollywood, and next year try to get another o...


By Timothy Norris It's a big night in Los Angeles for Psych Rock. Dead Meadow's also doing their thing over at the EchoPlex. I've never heard tonight's ...

Yeah, Kanye West keeps it real. First his Bush comments on the Katrina telethon, then his stance on the MTV/Britney debacle. (One word: “exploitat...

I went to Sunset Junction on Sunday and while I found headliners The Cramps to be quite boring, I was truly moved by the hellbilly thrash of Hank...

According to this TMZ report, Pimp C was found dead in his bed in a Sunset Strip hotel room this morning. The rapper, born Chad Butler, had just perform...


Maywood Hires a Convicted Ethics Professor as Interim Police Chief

For a town looking to repair its police department's reputation as corrupt and brutal, Maywood took the unusual step Friday of holding an emergency sess...


By Casey Henry The Hollywood sign may soon have unexpected neighbors. Today, Teles Realtors held a press conference declaring the 138 acres of hillside ...

I met Anna Nicole Smith last year when she showed up at Hamburger Mary's in West Hollywood with her now-deceased son Daniel. It was Bingo night, and Dan...


Tonight in LA: Ghanian Hip Hop, Blowfly and Les Nubians, Among Others

Okay, so on the surface perhaps a slow Thursday night in LA. No grand slams, it would seem, few hipster throw-downs. But I would like to present a few p...


The bad rap on the 'death' of the boompa beat

Weiss' Muxtapes #3 and #4: The Best Hip-Hop Songs of the Year Thus Far

In case you missed it, Sach O of Oh Word touched down briefly last week, taking a break from trying to find Manuel Noriega in the Philippines (He has a ...

Some excellent Timothy Norris photos that didn't get put up a few days ago when they should have been: Editors Live at the Wiltern September 24 with Bif...


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Led Zeppelin/A Tribute to Ahmet Ertegun O2 Arena, London, December 10 By Steve Baltin As was the case for so many people, Led Zeppelin began my ascent i...


The first annual Guacamole Festival, though light on the green stuff, was a good-spirited and relatively well-attended community fundraising event to be...

It pains me to say this about Old Crow Medicine Show, because the Nashville quintet just seem so nice.  Kind.  Smiley.  Like the good country boys they ...


I just got back from the Folk Yeah festival up in Big Sur this weekend, having journeyed up the PCH with my man to attend the two-day gathering in the r...


Alan McGee says "No Need" for Record Shops Anymore

Alan McGee, legendary British record exec, (referenced in an earlier post about the LA version of his Death Disco club night), posted the following...

With Under the Blacklight , their first major label album out in August, the L.A. band played a sold out show Monday night at the Santa Monica Civic Aud...

The Bravery At the Maxim Style Awards The Avalon, Sept 18th By Tatiana Simoneon I always feel bad for bands playing at big sponsored parties, which is i...


Cops are mad he didn't get more time. From the Daily News: Tagger gets year for damaging dozens of buses Deputy, prosecutor decry judge's ruling in case...

Peter Saville explains why he won hearts & minds with his record cover designs

On record cover design: "But you don't get much work to do when you're young, because you haven't learned how to do it yet... You're given simple, dispo...

Bukowski's Bungalow Named A Cultural Landmark

Brushing aside allegations that Charles Bukowski was a Nazi sympathizer, the Los Angeles City Council approved the designation of Buk's former bungalow ...


You can complain all you want about Coachella 2008's roster, but the reality that I'll be seeing Kraftwerk followed by Portishead followed by Prince on ...

Coachella Day Two: The Accidental Tourist, or Can We Please All Agree To Stop Using the Phrase “Coachella-Ella-Ella-Ella”

I ran into a guy I knew from high school standing in line for the restrooms in the VIP area. I hadn't seen him in a decade but was about four glasses of...


Billboard Case Slated for Federal Court of Appeal

Oral arguments will be heard in front of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal on June 4 in the case, Metro Lights, LLC vs. City of Los Angeles. The federal b...

I'd be lying if I said I didn't check out the Babeland goody bag (see Where Do You Get Off? post below) while waiting in line at Pinks. I'd be lying aga...

Neurologist Conclusively Proves Snoop Dogg Has Smoked Himself "Retarded"

After an intense scrutiny of the video for "Sensual Seduction" confirmed what a battery of MRI exams had already hinted at, neurologist Gerald Schwartz ...


If you think the hottest spot at LA Fashion Week is backstage with the models or front row with the celebs, you're sadly mistaken. Those in the know hav...

10 Reasons Why The Wu-Tang Clan's "The Heart Gently Weeps" Video Might Be Their Worst Ever

1. Who made the decision to have an Asian Bjork clone perform a feather dance for one of the video's main plot threads? Okay fine, we all know the answe...

Black Friday is my idea of hell. I would rather pay more money to have less people in my way while I shop. Who are all these people who get up at 3 am t...


Its bastardization of The Beatles in those relentlessly dizzying TV commercials aside, we still pledge undying love for Target. Where else can you buy m...

Timothy Norris spotted this nice piece on the Northeast corner of Pico and La Cienega. Timothy writes, "Not the best time of day for the shot, but dig t...


These were seen recently in the area of Melrose and LaBrea near Gallery1988, PInk's and Babeland. "Death to the Normals" and then a headless chicken. We...

At Club Bahia, May 25 By DANIEL HERNANDEZ There's always an element of danger at a Very Be Careful show. They tend to play venues and in neighborhoods w...

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Coachella Day Three: The Dangers of Chromeo

Chromeo at Coachella By Chris Martins Roger Waters was neck-deep in pyrotechnics and paisley. The Gobi Tent was done, abandoned 'til next year, and the ...

Last weekend was all about Coachella (see this week's paper), but there is much that I didnt have room for and you, the lucky SC reader get extra scoop....

The Weekend in Music: Quiet Storm Action with Keith Sweat, Abe Vigoda, Punky Reggae and The Parson Redheads

If you're looking for some nookie this weekend, as in: your special one has been hesitatin', and you've been motivatin' but there is no reciprocatin', w...

And the Oscar Goes To....Lina Lecaro, for being the only member of the Style Council sober enough to actually write anything on Oscar night. We had such...

Live in L.A.: Tokyo Police Club at the Troubadour

Driven by sporadic guitars and pulsating urgency, their danceable garage rock has been compared to the Strokes.  They opened with lead singer/bassist Da...


Neil Hamburger Spins Bing Crosby Live at Dublab.com NOW!

No, really, you should listen to Neil Hamburger's guest DJ slot at Dublab right now...


We've been calling plus-size punny (lad)y Jackie Beat our "favorite drag queen" for years (and that's saying something... we know a lot of crossdressers...


un:armed The Echo, August 27 By Nazanin Arandi They are armed with black, gray and white ensembles, bringing endless energy to the stage and into the au...


The Best Free L.A. Art Parties This Week

This week’s edition of our art-party picks is all about music and photography. We’ve got two free nights of sonic artistry combined with art-centric sou...

Grammy Friends and Family: Spankrocked and A Change of...Pace?


Comedy Meltdown 2: Electric Boogaloo Meltdown Comics, January 25th Who needs too-tightly packed tables and a two drink minimum, especially if there&rsqu...


Right now, this very exact second, I am listening to the Eagles of Death Metal playing "I Only Want You" as they perform live on top of the ...

That's right the American Idol winner was just chosen to be the "it" girl for the racing sport. But you're not really surprised are you? (Not that there...

BOXeight: You Wear It Well Film Festival, The Mayor and Eduardo Lucero

(Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa flanked by two women. He sat front and center at Eduardo Lucero to show his support for BOXeight and LA fashion, and pretty ...

Fashion Week, Take 1: Paola Hernandez dolls it up

It's Fashion Week Mexico right now, a week-long fair of new moda showcasing the fall and winter collections from many of Mexico's established designers ...


This morning, the California Supreme Court denied a request to rehear its May 15 ruling that legalized same sex marriage. Gay and lesbian couples can no...

Cause not all pedophiles like girls...Wait a cotton brief minute!!!  Do you think that's Dov Charney's crotch?...

SXSW Day 5-The Triumph of the Blogosphere...High Times at High Times...Why in God's Name Am I At The Perez Hilton Party?

Bloggers are every journalist's favorite whipping boy. If a shitty band gets too popular, blame the bloggers. If the standards of professional journalis...


Underworld Hollywood Bowl, September 9, 2007 By Jonah Flicker Underworld’s recent appearance at the Hollywood Bowl felt strangely momentous. No de...

The Shins, The Lashes, Panic! at the Disco, The Frames, Wu-Tang Clan and many more descended on Seattle for three days of music, arts and fun. Photo by ...

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She & Him The Vista Theatre, 4/28/08 By Jonah Flicker At 7pm, there was already a long line winding around the corner outside the Vista Theatre in Los F...