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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...


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Newsflash: LA Times ruins P. Diddy's weekend

What you can do to help poor Diddy regain his reputation.


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Nigeria Disco Funk Special: The Sound of the Underground Lagos Dance Floor 1974-1979

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This will be the second Valentines Day in a row I have no official object of affection. But this year, February 14th singledom feels perfectly OK, ...

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Queer Town: Acrobats at the Abbey, No Shirts at Here

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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...

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The French Cottage hotel stood a few feet away from Sunset and Highland, near a stretch of old hotels and motels which are vanishing as steadily and unn...

Sitting still has never been one of my strong points, unless, of course, it involves nodding off with a work of literature delicately balanced on my nos...


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 ...

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Queer Town: Human Rights Campaign Endorses Obama

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McDonald's All Day Breakfast, Ordering Pizza by TV: This Week in Food

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

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Janine Kahn at OC Weekly took her camera to the Marilyn Manson / Slayer show at Verizon Amphitheater on Friday, Aug. 25. More of Janine Kahn's photos at...

When a Succubus Makes You Talk About Your Sex Life

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Hey it happens. I guess. Agent Provocateur's got your areolas covered with their nipple balm, called Titillation. The "nipple refresher" also comes with...

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As LA Weekly readers already know Prince will be performing a string of dates at the Roosevelt Hotel in H-Wood, just around the corner from the LA Weekl...

David Bazan Spaceland, December 11, 2007 By Jonah Flicker The most revealing moment of the man formerly known as Pedro the Lion’s intimate set at ...

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Ima Robot and the Myth of the MC Hammer Pants


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

In our ongoing attempt to prop some worthy musicians headed to Austin this week, yet another list of LA bands/songwriters to chase down at SXSW in Austi...

Wale ft. Bun B & Pusha-T: "Back in the Go-Go"

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Why Three Pairs of Stilettos Are Absolutely Vital When Backpacking Around Mexico

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Angelina on Angelina, Jennifer and Celebrities These Days


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

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Ryan Adams - Royce Hall, Jan. 30 & 31 Dave Alvin - McCabe's Jan. 18 & 19 Autechre - Echo, April 4 Bad Religion - House of Blues, April 4 & 5 Big Sandy, ...

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...


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 ...

Live in L.A.: The Universal Consciousness Orchestra, 8/9

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Wired got someone from Clear Channel on the line to confirm that their annoying electronic billboard was not hacked. Clear Channel's Tony Alwin is unhap...

Godlike Geniuses! Jane's Addiction to reunite, solve the mystery of "dark matter"

Plato, Leonardo da Vinci, Hildegard von Bingen, Albert Einstein, Susan Sontag, Manic Street Preachers: the smartest of our breed, humans whose brains te...


Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Week Day 4: Searching For the Elusive Identity of the "Ghetto Cowboy"

I actually own this on CD-single, which is either keeping it real, or keeping it really retarded. From the first moments of the reel, one can immediatel...

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

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 ...

Before you even start reading this, open a new browser window and head to http://www.myspace.com/mia. After a few seconds, M.I.A.'s recent single, &ldqu...


Piece of the Pink Floyd Pig Perhaps Found in La Quinta

There are very few breaking news stories in the music biz, and Pink Floyd's escaped flying pig ranks pretty high up there. Sources tell us that there ar...

Guilty As Charged: Anthony Pellicano trial ends with prosecution victory

Anthony Pellicano, onetime “P.I. to the Stars,” was convicted today of 76 of the 77 counts he faced for racketeering, wire fraud and identit...

Rapper Pimp C, one of hip-hop's most influential figures, died accidentally due to a combination of cough medicine and his prior history of sleep apnea,...


Billboard Inspection Program Still a Bust

“It is the Los Angeles dodge and delay program,” said a frustrated Marilyn Cohon, the Vice President of Westwood South of Santa Monica Homeo...

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So I forgot to mention in my last post that Steffie and I also popped into the ol' Short Stop last Sat for an end-of-the-eve nightcap (tip: Going to bar...


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,...

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...

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...

Clementine Takes Grilled Cheese Month Very Seriously

No restaurant in L.A. takes this month-long holiday more seriously than Century City’s Clementine, where it’s not just about cheesy sandwiches, it’s abo...


Ill-Thought Out Observations From This Year's Grammy's

Because Live Blogging is so gauche. Occasionally the Grammy Committee's old fogey sensibility yields huge dividends. See the inclusion of Morris Day and...

LA Fashion week is in full swing, and though it's too early to make judgments about the season as a whole, some definite trends are already emerging. He...

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...

Life is like a Reese's peanut butter cup: "You got rock'n'roll in my politics."

RIYL, Bruce Springsteen, Scarlett Johansson, Obama, Portland based indie rock bands, catch phrases from feature films and television commercials.

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


Pellicano Briefs: Keith Carradine's Blues

The Pellicano trial turns into divorce court Who's that tapping, gently wiretapping, at my trailer door? actor Keith Carradine may well have wondered in...

Coachella line-up: Lots of Everything (and Danny Tenaglia and Roger Waters, too)

Questions to ponder: Will they give Tenaglia his own stage to do a ten hour set, and if that's the case why didn't they book Villalobos? How the hell di...


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


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...

I had the good fortune of meeting these three, Laura, Heather, and Ariel on the bus on the way to the Grammys (we're in full costume at this point). The...


Once the epicenter of all that was hip and cutting edge in fashion, Melrose -at least the part between La Brea and Fairfax- is now just a mish-mash of k...

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...

She proposes in her new disc that this is the Third World Democracy, and there’s no arguing here. M.I.A. did a lot of jumping from continent to co...

SXSW Round-Up: The Kills Put On The Best Show Of SXSW By A Band Not Named My Morning Jacket…And Why Jenny Lewis Isn't the Hottest Woman In Indie Rock

Unlike Sasha Frere-Jones, my main gripe with indie rock don't stem from it's lack of blackness. More than anything, I have trouble dealing with the idea...


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'...

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"Everybody knows I give the best blowjobs in Hollywood, but there's gotta be something in it for me too," said a fairly subdued Courtney Love at her not...

My pals at World of Wonder (who did the amazing 24 hour James St. James podcast this past Sat.- see previous posts) have been hinting about it for a whi...

Wilco Greek Theatre, August 29, 2007 by Jonah Flicker I’m sure there were plenty of celebrities peppered throughout the crowd at the Greek Theatre...

Villaraigosa's Pico-Olympic One-Way Plan Killed

It's got to come under the category of "what was City Hall thinking?' that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa kept insisting his plan to funnel commuters onto P...


By Pandora Young I have loved Arianna Huffington since she was the voice of the right wing on KCRW's Left, Right & Center. I loved her before I knew she...

So by now you've seen the Madonna-Gorillaz performance at the Grammy's on Wed. Holograms of the animated band rock-stared it out above what looked like ...

Juan MacLean Avalon, August 24 By Jonah Flicker The parking gods were smiling on this chilly Friday night. It’s 11:45, I’m in the area aroun...

So I finally tried Pinkberry, and folks, I've just got one question- what's the big wup? Okay, it's pretty tasty and the place is cute (despite the name...


(photo credit: 2005 SRL show by Mack Reed, see new post,  )Nothing could have prepared me for what I was going to experience on Saturday night. Whe...

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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...

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...


Dysfunctional business as usual at Pellicano trial When we last left the trial of Anthony Pellicano and four co-defendants, the proceedings had been thr...

Radiohead at the Hollywood Bowl: August 24 and August 25

Yep, just announced: Radiohead at the Hollywood Bowl on August 24 and 25, which is a little weird because it's a Sunday and a Monday. Presales begin Apr...

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...

The Future of Reading for Non-Readers: Book Expo America 2008

Book Expo America is supposed to be "for the trade" only. So says the program. That is a move in the wrong direction. Book events, especially the massiv...


Shields Club Violanie at Roberto's, Chinatown By Ryan Ward Every third Saturday of the month, Roberto's in Chinatown becomes Club Violaine and opens the...


Playin' With the Queen of Hearts: Susan Cianciolo Show

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Smashing Pumpkins SDSU Open Air Theatre, Sept. 19 By Carlie Armstrong As far as southern California nights go, Wednesday night was alarmingly chilly. Ho...

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...


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...

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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.


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...

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 ...


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

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The 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2007 Pt. 2 (#19-15)

This list has very little to do with Back to the Future II. However, I am writing it from the inside of a Delorean. 19. Pete Rock ft. Styles P & Sheek L...

Billboard Liberation on Melrose and LaBrea

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


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...

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

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

The buzz surrounding the 23-year old Washington DC rapper Wale has grown pretty loud in the last month or two. Everyone from Entertainment Weekly to Rol...


Memorial Day Weekend in LA: Music galore (and MP3s)

Ah, Memorial Day Weekend, the perfect three-day break, tailor-made for chilling in the comfort of an abandoned LA. As long as you stay away from Hollywo...


Roving photographer Timothy Norris was in Chicago for Lollapalooza - the non-traveling festival now firmly anchored in the Midwest.

And so begins LA Weekly's last day in Hollywood. Sunny, 72 degrees... 12 minute commute. As of Monday LA Weekly will be run out of offices nestled into ...

Spirit Army like bubbles. Photos by Rena Kosnett If you were concerned about local dynamic duo Dante Adrian and Jeff Ehrenberg vanishing from the music ...


Who Shot Tupac At The Quad: The LA Times teaser press release

On the afternoon of Friday, March 14, the LA Times' Stephan Pechdimaldji, senior manager of media relations, tossed out an email to his media list annou...

Charles Bukowski’s bungalow is safe – at least for now. On Thursday morning the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission voted three-to-one ...

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...

Coachella Day Three: Neil Diamond's Amazing Performance Opening for Justice

Sunday at the Empire Polo Field is softer than Saturday, more like Seurot than the previous day's Van Gogh, a little hazy and lazy and everybody's sleep...


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Why to Love This Song: The Dodos "Fools"

How does Pitchfork.tv stack up against YouTube? ALSO, let's just talk about how rad this song is, okay?

Two cats in Hollywood: The yellow one near the Roosevelt Hotel on a parking sign, and other near the shuttered Fox Theater in Hollywood And a damsel in ...

Hillary Wins Massachusetts but Loses Her Alma-Mater Wellesley

Hillary Clinton may have dominated the Massachusetts Democratic primary last Tuesday, weathering the endorsements of both Ted Kennedy and John Kerry for...


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Make that 129 bands: Swervedriver to reunite at Coachella, and again at the Fonda

Swervedriver was the roughest, heaviest, least wistful of the early 1990s British guitar-band invasion. Yeah, like their compadres, the Oxford-born band...

Five hundred Los Angeles Laker fans swarmed the Hollywood Billiards Sports Bar & Grill on Thursday night to watch Kobe Bryant and the boys take on Kevin...


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...

Lily Allen Rumored to Be Next Face of Chanel

Just yesterday I was talking to Lily Allen's manager Neale and he mentioned something "big and fashiony" was about to happen with Lily, but decli...

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...

McCartney Fans Stake out Amoeba for Free In-Store Performance

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...


Advance Warning: David Bowie's Classic 1972 Bootleg, Live Santa Monica '72, To See the Light of Day

David Bowie in Santa Monica in 1972 (photo by Jon Levicke) We just received an advance of the soon to be issued Live in Santa Monica '72 disc, the first...

(a beaming Jeffery Sebelia after his epic 52-look show at Vibiana) COSA NOSTRA BOXeight festivities were off to a slow start last night. When we arrived...

Can't Go to Your Friend's Birthday Party? Hire Someone

Last week, the site TaskRabbit — where you can hire people for various personal assistance tasks — launched a social media contest to determine the best...

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...


Part 1: Thoughts on Music Now. (The festival that is. You'll have to wait for my multi-volume treatise on the state of music today.)

The rise of classically informed indie music, one awesome photograph of MC 62 Foot Jesus, and my thoughts on "conflict of interest" in music criticism t...


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...

Live in L.A.: Entrance at Safari Sam's, 8/3

Entrance are not who you think they are.  They are not a quiet, mellow trio nipping at the heels of the psych-folk pack mule, despite their long hair, s...

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...


Piece of the Pink Floyd Pig Perhaps Found in La Quinta

There are very few breaking news stories in the music biz, and Pink Floyd's escaped flying pig ranks pretty high up there. Sources tell us that there ar...

At the U.S. Federal Courthouse in downtown today, civil rights attorney Steve Yagman has finally been ordered to surrender to prison authorities on Mond...


David Beckham Joins LA Galaxy (it's a soccer team)

Becks is coming to LA in July to start a five year contract with LA Galaxy! He will be paid around $1million a week! LA will become the soccer ep...

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"Everybody knows I give the best blowjobs in Hollywood, but there's gotta be something in it for me too,"...

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...


Peaches is one hot bitch. I had the pleasure of interviewing her for the cover of Bust magazine (on stands in January) a couple of weeks ago and yeah, I...

(Photos by Patrick Range McDonald. Above: Aaron Savvy) On a chilly Wednesday night, the swanky West Hollywood nightclub Eleven hosted a promotion party ...

Sex crimes investigator assassinated in Juarez

Berenice Garcia Corral was commander of the sex crimes unit of Chihuahua state's State Investigation Agency before masked men shot her in her driveway i...

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...


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...

Weiss' Muxtape #1-Science and Metaphors Will Slow Up the Dough

I've resisted the Muxtape meme that's been spreading across the blogosphere over the past month, but when Goathair of the very excellent Blowtorc...

Wheatpasted posters across from the Tiki-Ti and KCET on a Sunset Blvd. billboard pole near Virgil. More pasting - and stickers - on Santa Monica Blvd. n...


Janine Kahn at OC Weekly took her camera to the Marilyn Manson / Slayer show at Verizon Amphitheater on Friday, Aug. 25. More of Janine Kahn's photos at...

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

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Tuesday was Ray Turner’s day in court, although he elected not to take the witness stand on his own behalf. Turner, the “phone guy” co...


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 ...


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...

We get mail at Lurker! Today we're posting a batch of pictures sent in by Kasim Patton Kasim sent in a nice variety pack of stuff: Some shots of the LA ...

Want to get a guided tour of these Melrose back alleys by the excellent graffiti author Steve Grody? The Alleys of Melrose Join Steve Grody, photographe...


Beards, Blazers & Glasses or Jens Lekman, This Charming Man

Every time I write about Jens Lekman, I'm tempted to compare him to Morrissey, even though I know I shouldn't. After all, both songwriters specialize in...

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

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 ...

Politically incorrect as it may be, I have to say it. I am a full on "fag hag." BTW, I asked my gay boyfriends if it was okay for me to say it or if the...


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...

Rain Rain Go Away Charlize Theron Wants To Play


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...

Becks is coming to LA in July to start a five year contract with LA Galaxy! He will be paid around $1million a week! LA will become the soccer ep...

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...


Billy Childish at London's Dirty Water Club, 4.11.2008

Photos by Rena Kosnett Taking 4 late night buses from Camden down to Brockley, yelling at one stranger who sneezed into my hair, standing for 45 minutes...


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 ...

Calling All Label Whores: Intermix opening in LA

Kitson is about to get some fierce competition... Intermix, the über popular NYC fashion boutique has announced it will open its first West Coast s...

"Talking Heads are the Enemy" (aka Dirty Projectors as Black Flag, Jeffrey Lee Lewis as Crass)

Has the post-modern condition taken hold to the degree that all artists have left is the ability to comment on what has come before?


"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 "...

A little rain fell, but no damage done. Air, whose new one, Pocket Symphony, is their best in a while, played the usually dry Greek Theatre along with N...

Playin' With the Queen of Hearts: Susan Cianciolo Show

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Witness shocker throws trial in turmoil For days Chad Hummel had been uncharacteristically quiet as the trial of famed private eye Anthony Pellicano and...

The buzz surrounding the 23-year old Washington DC rapper Wale has grown pretty loud in the last month or two. Everyone from Entertainment Weekly to Rol...


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...

Wearing cashmere makes me feel validated. Empowered. Like a big girl. So when I noticed my roommate floating around the house in beautiful knitted wraps...

Fashion Weeklings? LA Observed Notices Our Abscence


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On May 5, 1989 the L.A. Weekly printed a cover story, written by Jonathan Gold, about N.W.A., the most notorious band in the U.S., let alone in Los Ange...

We arrived back at Vibiana Saturday well into the all-day BoxEight Eco-Nouveau event which included spoken word, a couple of films and a music performan...


Halloween is for amateurs. If ya wanna party with the real freaks this week, don't wait for Saturday or even Tuesday…. go down to the Henry Fonda...

Pellicano Briefs Team Pellicano is now taking its turn at bat, but the past few days of the defense’s case have seemed like prosecution by other m...


Ryan Adams - Royce Hall, Jan. 30 & 31 Dave Alvin - McCabe's Jan. 18 & 19 Autechre - Echo, April 4 Bad Religion - House of Blues, April 4 & 5 Big Sandy, ...

LOUIS VERDAD Louis Verdad's show didn't really have a theme. There was no through line for the collection, other than all of the pieces being really pre...


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No, I'm not talking about the surfing, though I did take a lesson with "surf teacher to the stars," Tide Rivers, whose dad founded the Maui film festiva...

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...


If you Google the phrase "Giant Joystick," one of the first names that comes up isn't a well-endowed porn star, but artist Jason Torchinsky, who actuall...


Several hours after I heard Robert Nudelman had died at the age of 52 at his father’s home in Tucson, Arizona, I was driving on El Centro Avenue, ...

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 ...

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...

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Catching up with Crass today: 33% visionary, 33% crochty, 33% right on and at least 1% annoying

Penny Rimbaud: "What is classified as ‘punk' music these days is absolutely empty and gutless."


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...

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...

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...

So I finally got round to seeing Brokeback Mountain, on Sunday at the movie theatre on Vermont in Los Feliz. I went with two girlfriends, one of whom ha...

One down. Two to Go! Coachella Friday was actually very easy breezy. Okay, we left Thursday night thereby avoiding most traffic and we spent a big chunk...


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...


CFIWest / Steve Allen Theater, Hollywood May 7 (l-r) Scott Thompson, Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch A line of comedy fans dozens deep snaked around the cor...

Want to get a guided tour of these Melrose back alleys by the excellent graffiti author Steve Grody? The Alleys of Melrose Join Steve Grody, photographe...

The Buddhas can be seen at the corner of Western and Marathon A map to the hidden Buddhas: More on RETNA, one of the Buddha's creators, here...

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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 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...

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How PM Dawn Could’ve Avoided Getting Set Adrift On “Memory Bliss”

Maybe instead of wallowing in unchecked misery over "the girl with the fat diamond ring" (really, the fat diamond ring is the main thing that you rememb...

Construction Site on Santa Monica and Wilton

That windowless brick of a Sears store may be closed, and a lot of the old auto repair spots are being torn down for who knows what, but there's some co...


Photos by Timothy Norris. Text by Ryan Colditz Eddie Vedder is taking it solo. Pearl Jam has broken up and all that is left is Eddie Vedder. Just kiddin...

There's no L.A. date, so don't get too excited, but the video itself is pretty funny: And oh yeah - He's going to play some dates in Europe too, though ...

Some performances from last year's Detour Festival... Beck - Mixed Bizzness Basement Jaxx Beck - Clap Hands Oh No! Oh My! The 2nd annual Detour Festival...


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,...

This is what I woke up to this morning. In my inbox, in between press releases about Josh Homme's new side project called 5:15 (how many side projects c...


Ben Harper, Jackson Browne, Claremont Folk Festival, 5/3

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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...

Former Kraftwerk and Neu! percussionist Klaus Dinger dies

You've heard the Motorik beat, one of the seminal rhythms of the late 20ths century. Created in the early 1970s by Dusseldorf, Germany percussionist Kla...

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


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 ...

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 ...


(Brief note regarding Lina's very complete Do and Don't list: I'd like to add one thing: DO bring your tickets! I overheard someone saying they got with...


Remembering the Time: Minor Epiphanies Gleaned Upon Re-Watching Michael Jackson's "Remember the Time" Video 17 Years Later

In honor of poor Teddy Riley. Nothing says "epic video" more than a hourglass filled with shifted sands. Nothing. I'm fairly certain that "Remember the ...

One thing keeps puzzling me...Why was Porn Star Queen Jenna Jameson at so many LA Fashion Week shows? She got a lot of front row action this fashion wee...


The Future of Reading for Non-Readers: Book Expo America 2008

Book Expo America is supposed to be "for the trade" only. So says the program. That is a move in the wrong direction. Book events, especially the massiv...

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.


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...

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...

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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...


Immagine In Cornice "Picture in a Frame"- A Pearl Jam Film By Ryan Colditz I have been on Pearl Jam overload the past few months. That's saying a lot if...

As I type, my friend Brooke is at the Emergency Room of Hollywood Presbyterian hospital getting shot up with antibiotics. You wanna know why? It's becau...

(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...

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...

Sparky remembers to forget On Thursday the prosecution’s guns in the racketeering trial of Anthony Pellicano and four co-defendants fell silent as...


If you are the kind of person that actually pays attention to this kind of thing, then here's a full list of this year's Grammy nominees . Yes, Amy Wine...


Love them or hate them, Cache's chicken murals along Sunset Blvd in Echo Park have become quite the landmarks. And considering a lot of the street art i...

Talk about hot wheels: look who channels ONJ in the new video for her song "Sorry." I guess that makes it official - roller disco is back, baby! Not tha...

So, I need to tell you about the show of the festival. My mind is blown, dude! I'm sitting in this bar, reading my Archies comics, because I am desperat...


Halloween is for amateurs. If ya wanna party with the real freaks this week, don't wait for Saturday or even Tuesday…. go down to the Henry Fonda...

McCartney Fans Stake out Amoeba for Free In-Store Performance

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...

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


Rain Rain Go Away Charlize Theron Wants To Play


No, I'm not talking about the surfing, though I did take a lesson with "surf teacher to the stars," Tide Rivers, whose dad founded the Maui film festiva...

The 10 Rules of Pimpology According to the Video for Do or Die's "Po' Pimp"

10. The ability to acquire flaming pennies (these were also reportedly Shaquille O' Neal's last words upon leaving Orlando). Such magic coins will give ...

Vince McMahon Gets Star on Hollywood Blvd.

Well, he is an entertainer... Vince McMahon, World Wrestling Entertainment's head honcho, and the man who turned regional pro wrestling into a multi-bil...


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 ...


The mysterious case of the Microphones who climbed away to Mt. Eerie

Our newest musical voices who, a decade a ago, might have been tempted to call themselves Moon Flower or Dog Park proudly go by their given names: Sufja...

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Some performances from last year's Detour Festival... Beck - Mixed Bizzness Basement Jaxx Beck - Clap Hands Oh No! Oh My! The 2nd annual Detour Festival...

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

Hours before the Democratic debate takes takes place at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, hundreds of supporters of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton fille...


Wired got someone from Clear Channel on the line to confirm that their annoying electronic billboard was not hacked. Clear Channel's Tony Alwin is unhap...

McDonald's All Day Breakfast, Ordering Pizza by TV: This Week in Food

McDonald's will begin testing all day breakfast this month in San Diego. If it goes well, we may see all day breakfast roll out around the country. It's...

Radiohead not playing L.A. until late summer at the earliest

The bad news: we're gonna have to wait until the fall. The good news: we've got frequent flier miles. RADIOHEAD CONFIRMS MAY 2008 U.S. DATES & VENUES RA...

Today, I spent two and a half hours on the phone to Bobby Seale, the 70-year-old co-founder of the beret-wearing, gun-toting, Little Red Book-waving Bla...


How Phil Elverum keeps mystery alive Pt 2: the uncoolest song

Our topic: Smokin. Our debaters: Motley Crue vs. Mt. Eerie.

Take That Chuck Norris. As you can see from his "Real American" video above, Hogan has the endorsement of the real JFK, not his younger, drunker brother...

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...

Photos from the four day festival in Tennessee.  Above, Black Angels helped kickoff this year's festival with a Thursday night set at This Tent. Ph...


These are members of the Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra (FPDT), during a reggae and ska festival in San Salvador Atenco on Friday. They took ...

Villaraigosa's Pico-Olympic One-Way Plan Killed

It's got to come under the category of "what was City Hall thinking?' that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa kept insisting his plan to funnel commuters onto P...

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...


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...

Bonde Do Role - Solta O Frango - excellent summer morning music


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

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."...

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...


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(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...

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...


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...

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...

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...


Jay Electronica: Much Better Than His Name Would Suggest

You may not know who Jay Electronica is yet, but I'm willing to bet that you would had he chosen a better name. Jay Electronica does not sound like the ...

White Stripes Cancel Dates, Including the Forum

The White Stripes have canceled their North American tour, including the band's show on the 19th at the Forum. "Health issues" and Meg White's "acute an...


By Randall Roberts Top Songs (that aren’t trance or prog house) heard last night kicking out of any of the hundreds of rolling sound systems (or s...


Here's a little relic that won't be around long. It's been 42 years since a Studebaker rolled off the line. Yet, almost right across the street from the...

Stone Temple Pilots, Jimmy Kimmel Show, 5/1

Stone Temple Pilots Jimmy Kimmel Live, May 1 By Ryan Colditz "One time a thing occurred to me What's real, and what's for sale? Blew a kiss and tried to...


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...

Jeffrey Lewis (Interviewed) & Crass (Covered): Part 1 of 3

Jeffrey Lewis: "For myself it's not so much that there's been a resurgence because...don't call it a comeback I've been here for years."

And so begins LA Weekly's last day in Hollywood. Sunny, 72 degrees... 12 minute commute. As of Monday LA Weekly will be run out of offices nestled into ...


And by "listen," I mean "look" or "read." LA Weekly's political cartoonist and equal opportunity offense machine Mr. Fish was listed by Best Life magazi...


Nightclubs of Hollywood, Ballrooms of Mars

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, ...

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

Courtney Love
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"Everybody knows I give the best blowjobs in Hollywood, but there's gotta be something in it for me too,"...


DJing on EastVillage Radio.com right now!

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Bondies Battle On It’s been nearly 4 years since The Von Bondies breakthrough Pawn Shoppe Heart helped them pierce the indie-rock bubble of obscur...

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 ...

Mark "The Cobrasnake" Hunter hit NYC's Fashion Week and returned with pictures of runways, parties, ingenues and behind the scenes looks at what happene...


Dave Navarro Wants The Style Council Naked

A few minutes ago I had a conversation with tattooed rock superstar Dave Navarro. I was listening to his Camp Freddy Radio show on Indie 103.1FM and he ...

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...

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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 ...

Saturday, October 6. Gates are at noon. Here are the stage lineups: City Hall East Bloc Party 10-11:30 Teddybears 8:30-9:30 Satellite Party 7:10-8:00 Ki...

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

Live in L.A.: The Universal Consciousness Orchestra, 8/9

Universal Consciousness Orchestra, with the Ashram Community Choir and Flying Lotus Japanese American National Museum, August 9, 2007 By Randall Roberts...


Por El Suelo on Virgil: Retna, AWR, Dame, Werc

The wall that went up a couple of weeks ago on Virgil a few blocks south of Santa Monica is looking beautiful. Here are some sections that weren't finis...

A police officer guards SWAT Officer Randal Simmons' white hearse in front of the Crenshaw Christian Faith Dome on Vermont Ave. Dozens of colorful wreat...

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...

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...


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...

Which Van Halen? The Diamond-Dave fronted VH, of course. The band is slated to play the Staples Center on November 20. As previously speculated, the ban...

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...

Spirit Army like bubbles. Photos by Rena Kosnett If you were concerned about local dynamic duo Dante Adrian and Jeff Ehrenberg vanishing from the music ...

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 ...


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...

Radiohead not playing L.A. until late summer at the earliest

The bad news: we're gonna have to wait until the fall. The good news: we've got frequent flier miles. RADIOHEAD CONFIRMS MAY 2008 U.S. DATES & VENUES RA...

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...

Sparky remembers to forget On Thursday the prosecution’s guns in the racketeering trial of Anthony Pellicano and four co-defendants fell silent as...


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

Why we love Antony and why we hate Coachella.

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...

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Comments from around the Web: Chuck Philips' debunked Tupac story

Among the hundreds of responses to this week's debunked LA Times story on the murder of Tupac Shakur, and Sean "P. Diddy" Combs' alleged involvement in ...


Remembering LA Firefighter Brent Lovrien

Hundreds of firefighters and other emergency workers gathered to remember Los Angeles city firefighter Brent A. Lovrien, who died in a freak accident on...

Thousands Predicted To Attend Fallen SWAT Officers Funeral

Thousands of mourners and a swarm of media are expected at Friday morning's funeral for fallen Los Angeles Police Department SWAT Officer Russel Simmons...


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...

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

What happens in Anacortes, stays in Anacortes.


R. Kelly Trial: Set It To Music, and It's Trapped in the Closet, Pt. 23

In its ongoing coverage of the R. Kelly trial currently under way in Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times has been diligently reporting the details of the pro...

Live from Seattle: A bunch of geeks talking about music

This fellow is thinking about newsreels, protests, charidee and shock absorption in popular music. "How does music resist, negate, struggle? Can pop int...


L.A. River Along the Golden State - Three

All photos by Mark Mauer. More after the jump...


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...


L.A.'s hardcore band Strife haven't put out a record or played live for several years now, but you wouldn't have known it from their Saturay night show ...


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...

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...


Cheetahs never prosper In a Dickensian twist, Anthony Pellicano was confronted this past week by women whose lives he had touched over the years –...


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...


Queer Town: Good Fun at the Cock Ring Toss

It is six o'clock on a warm Saturday evening, and the Christopher Street West Gay Pride Festival on San Vicente Boulevard is jammed. Nothing much is hap...


There's no L.A. date, so don't get too excited, but the video itself is pretty funny: And oh yeah - He's going to play some dates in Europe too, though ...

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By Randall Roberts The Burning Man, which was prematurely torched by burner-assassin Paul Addis on Tuesday morning, has returned. This morning at about ...


Waiting for Bowiedot Act I Caroline: Let's go! Linda: We can't Caroline: Why not? Linda: We're waiting for Bowiedot ok, that's my interpretation ...


Ben Harper, Jackson Browne, Claremont Folk Festival, 5/3

Ben Harper, Jackson Browne Claremont Folk Festival, Sycamore School May 3, 2008 Photos and Text by Ryan Colditz Nestled neatly inside the Inland Empire ...

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...

No, I'm not talking about the surfing, though I did take a lesson with "surf teacher to the stars," Tide Rivers, whose dad founded the Maui film festiva...


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...

A little rain fell, but no damage done. Air, whose new one, Pocket Symphony, is their best in a while, played the usually dry Greek Theatre along with N...


Vampire Weekend Amoeba Records, Feb. 4 It's packed. You maybe thought of coming down yourself, but if you did, you were way back in one of the clearance...

Is this Auger making this insane mess? It's one of the most unsettling new pieces I've seen, which makes me think it's life-span will be short - and tha...

Missed the Red Carpet pre-Oscars coverage this year (think we may have still been in bed when E! started airing its tedious fawning sessions with Ryan S...

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 ...


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...

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...


To kick off their North American tour, Swedish indie-poppers Peter Bjorn and John started at The Henry Fonda. And, to start the night off right, they in...

Five hundred Los Angeles Laker fans swarmed the Hollywood Billiards Sports Bar & Grill on Thursday night to watch Kobe Bryant and the boys take on Kevin...

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 ...

Juan MacLean Avalon, August 24 By Jonah Flicker The parking gods were smiling on this chilly Friday night. It’s 11:45, I’m in the area aroun...


Photos by Timothy Norris. Text by Ryan Colditz Eddie Vedder is taking it solo. Pearl Jam has broken up and all that is left is Eddie Vedder. Just kiddin...

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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 ...

“Cold Desolate Places”: Phil Elverum (aka The Microphones aka Mt. Eerie) Interviewed: Part 1 of 4

Phil Elverum: "It's so weird here right now. It's snowing but the sky is blue and it's not really that cold. I don't know where the flakes are coming fr...

The David Lynch Tribute Show Was Stolen by... Duran Duran?

Moby, Donovan, Lykke Li, Jim James, that lady who sang a cappella in "Mulholland Drive" and David Lynch himself were all there. But the night belonged t...


Coonskin of My Yellow Country Teeth: The Hipster Davy Crockett?

“You may all go to Hell...I will go to Texas”-Davy Crockett Davy Crockett's tombstone reads: "Davy Crockett, Pioneer, Patriot, Soldier, Trap...


Hundreds of firefighters and other emergency workers gathered to remember Los Angeles city firefighter Brent A. Lovrien, who died in a freak accident on...


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...


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


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,...

The One Am Radio's "Brittle Filament" and some feedback on Elv(e)rum

The One AM Radio's video "A Brittle Filiment" was a recent YouTube hit, and a wonderful introduction to Hirway's thing.


Guilty As Charged: Anthony Pellicano trial ends with prosecution victory

Anthony Pellicano, onetime “P.I. to the Stars,” was convicted today of 76 of the 77 counts he faced for racketeering, wire fraud and identit...


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...

It's St. Patrick's day and I'm working my regular shift at new Melrose hotspot, The Village Idiot, which is a welcoming haven on this Saturday night for...

The 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2007 Pt. 4 (#9-6)

The film that ended the Cold War. 9. Hi-Tek Ft. Talib Kweli & Dion-"Time" "People get caught up in a time and what that song represents to them at the t...


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 ...

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

Why we love Antony and why we hate Coachella.

So, I was bored one evening (tonight, as it happens) and as we do in the digital age I decided to google my name and find out what other Steffies exist ...

The Block Is Hot: Hot Chip Take Over the Jimmy Kimmel Show

The Green Room backstage at the Jimmy Kimmel Show is one of the more supremely wonderful places on earth. It's Xanadu--a place specifically designed to ...


Do we need to count down backwards? For a change, why not start with the best and just work our way back to the merely excellent. Frankly, when you get ...


SXSW Round-Up: The Kills Put On The Best Show Of SXSW By A Band Not Named My Morning Jacket…And Why Jenny Lewis Isn't the Hottest Woman In Indie Rock

Unlike Sasha Frere-Jones, my main gripe with indie rock don't stem from it's lack of blackness. More than anything, I have trouble dealing with the idea...

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...

The prognosticators have been speculating for weeks on who LA-based producer Daedalus was going to endorse for president. We had our money on Ron Paul, ...


Hmmm...Hmmm...I am trying to think of something nice to say, so I don't get death threats this season. But I could sum up this collection by saying I fe...

Location of Most Awesome New Bar in LA Revealed

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"Yea Sweden!" Someone from the crowd yelled at John Englebert from Johnossi, "You've got good health care!" "Yeah - California loves Sweden," he replied...

My secret is out and it's one that big tees, loose sweaters and even my favorite empire waist dresses just aint gonna hide anymore. I'm knocked up&helli...


Opposite the huge exposed wall in the old Silver Lake community garden is a more hidden, smaller wall with some very nice work on it. You may have to ju...

Who are these 128 bands, collectively? As one big amalgam, what are they? Click here to read Randall Roberts' essay on this year's festival, then check ...


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...

Newsflash: LA Times ruins P. Diddy's weekend

What you can do to help poor Diddy regain his reputation.


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...

Not one but three people I went to high school with were nominated for Oscars last night (Matt Dillon, Dan Futterman, and Bennett Miller) ...

Daedalus and TI$A team up for Obama video

Well, in case you were wavering on whether to vote for McCain or Obama, this should help you decide. Sa-Ra's front man Taz Arnold (TI$A) wanders through...


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

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 ...


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 ...

Girl School/Hell Ya! Night at the Viper Room

Timothy Norris checks out the Viper Room on a Thursday Night. Lady Tigra, Wallpaper and Buddy Akai perform. Click here for more photos from Timothy Norr...

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 ...

Jessie Evans with Toby Dammit at Bordello, 1/31/08

“Are we ready?” was the question Jessie Evans put to her drummer Toby Dammit right before she dropped her heavy, black winter coat to the Bo...


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...

45. Joe Buhdha Presents Klashnekoff: Lionheart: Tussle With the Beast Exactly three British rappers have managed to "break" the American market in this ...


I went to Metal Skool at the Key Club again last night. I've had three hours sleep and feel like an Anne Rice vampire with a hair band fetish. I knew Li...

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...

Sam Lanni, the owner of Safari Sams in Hollywood, has decided to let musicians see shows in his club for free. Here's an excerpt from the SS w...

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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...


At the U.S. Federal Courthouse in downtown today, civil rights attorney Steve Yagman has finally been ordered to surrender to prison authorities on Mond...

Pearl Jam, Copenhagen, Denmark June 26, 2007 By Ryan Colditz This show was 7 years in the making... While playing at the nearby Roskilde Festival in Den...


If nothing else Obama's candidacy is at least inspiring people to make music. Alas, for the most part the songs haven't been very good. Will.i.am's mess...

Chuck Philips, Tupac Shakur, Sean Combs and The Con

The amazing Page One Los Angeles Times article today, correcting a probably libelous Times Calendar story published on St. Patrick's Day and written by ...


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 ...


Election cross-over dreams become a nightmare Last Friday members of the nonpartisan election group, CourageCampaign.org, were surfing the Web when they...


What you can do to help poor Diddy regain his reputation.

Why we love Antony and why we hate Coachella.


New works by Jersey Joe aka RIME went on display at Ghettogloss on Friday. More photos after the jump. Check out the art in person at Ghettogloss on Gle...


We arrived back at Vibiana Saturday well into the all-day BoxEight Eco-Nouveau event which included spoken word, a couple of films and a music performan...

Peter Bjorn & John at the Henry Fonda, 7/31

If you missed Peter Bjorn & John's sold out show last night, worry not. They'll be returning to the Wiltern Monday, Sept. 17th with the Clientele. Click...


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

The Klaxons El Rey Theatre, July 10, 2007 By Sandy Kanphantha It's almost like any other night at the El Rey. Lines are stretched along the side of the ...

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

Jay Electronica: Much Better Than His Name Would Suggest

You may not know who Jay Electronica is yet, but I'm willing to bet that you would had he chosen a better name. Jay Electronica does not sound like the ...


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...

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...

If Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was hoping for a quick injection of gay dollars into California's ailing economy this summer, it may not happen. Oppon...


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

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Madonna to Lead Large Pilates Session at Dodger Stadium on Nov. 6

Well, at least that's what her performances of the last few years have seemed like: big muscle-flexing sessions, with music. Where's the bouncing? The j...


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 ...

One of the great things about New York is that it doesn't really change. Sure restaurant names change but I found all of my old haunts still there, happ...


Guess What - Another Music Festival This Weekend!!!

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...

"We do like to keep it quite elusive. I really like the aesthetics of terrorist videos - how grainy and far-off yet immediate they seem - there’s ...

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...


Yeah, it's actually an ad for Helio... Kind of. There's a small Helio logo off to the left side. But for the most part it's just a cool huge original pa...

Can't Go to Your Friend's Birthday Party? Hire Someone

Last week, the site TaskRabbit — where you can hire people for various personal assistance tasks — launched a social media contest to determine the best...


Will the long-overdue billboard fee inspection program start at long last? Don’t count on it. On May 27, Los Angeles’ Department of Building...


Wale Realizes the Full Potential of the Mixtape

Last November, Zeus wrote a post dissecting the differences between albums and mixtapes for the benefit of crits and fans who had been mistakenly confla...

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...


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


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...

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...

Live from Seattle: A bunch of geeks talking about music

This fellow is thinking about newsreels, protests, charidee and shock absorption in popular music. "How does music resist, negate, struggle? Can pop int...


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...

Pearl Jam - Rock Werchter Festival, Belgium

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Hilarity ensues at the opening of new John Varvatos store at former CBGB's site

Reminder from NYC: It kind of sucks here now. Our favorite placard from the protesters: "One small loss of a music space, one giant leap for pants."

Vegoose Music Festival, Las Vegas, Saturday, October 27. By Randall Roberts Back and forth we walk, through fairway-cut grass, soft and padded on practi...


The amazing Page One Los Angeles Times article today, correcting a probably libelous Times Calendar story published on St. Patrick's Day and written by ...


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 ...

...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...

G-Funk Week Continued: 10 Things An Alien Would Conclude About Mankind After Watching the Video For "Girls All Pause"

1. If one were ever to try to lure a human woman back to one's spaceship for a late-night probe, it is highly advisable to try to find women dancing in ...


I was not stoned for the High Times sponsored comedy night at the Hollywood Improv tonight. I repeat, not stoned. At first I was mostly just pissed off....

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...

So I'll be covering SXSW next week for the LA Weekly. I have never been nor do I have any idea of what to expect. I'm pretty excited to go though. I've ...

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...

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.


Lily Allen Rumored to Be Next Face of Chanel

Just yesterday I was talking to Lily Allen's manager Neale and he mentioned something "big and fashiony" was about to happen with Lily, but decli...

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...

Hmmm...Hmmm...I am trying to think of something nice to say, so I don't get death threats this season. But I could sum up this collection by saying I fe...

My pals at World of Wonder (who did the amazing 24 hour James St. James podcast this past Sat.- see previous posts) have been hinting about it for a whi...


Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers announce two area shows

Hot on the heels of LA Weekly's map of Tom Petty's Los Angeles, and a few days prior to their appearance at the Super Bowl, Tom Petty & the Heartbreaker...


Jim White Amoeba, March 24 Jim White's songs depend on a good deal of atmosphere, and no doubt when he plays tonight (Tuesday) at the Silent Movie Theat...

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...

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...

How Phil Elverum keeps the mystery alive Pt 3: hard work


Krist Novoselic Says Flipper Still Rules, OK???

If you're going to listen to any aging punk rocker wax nostalgic for a cult-band like Flipper - and we've all probably heard more than we need to - is t...


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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...


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

Ghostface Killah has 115,000 MySpace Friends But No Sales

Watch as Ghostface comes face to face with the new math reality of the downward death spiral that we call the recorded music industry. You got to love h...

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 ...


Ill-Thought Out Observations From This Year's Grammy's

Because Live Blogging is so gauche. Occasionally the Grammy Committee's old fogey sensibility yields huge dividends. See the inclusion of Morris Day and...

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...

Art Show Openings: Luke Chueh, Miles Thompson, Audrey Kawasaki

There are a lot of art shows around town well worth checking out. Miles Thompson's show, "CA," at La Luz de Jesus on Hollywood Blvd. in Los Feliz runs t...


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...

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 ...


The Frames Henry Fonda Theater, Sept. 6 By Mark Mauer Two crowds showed up to see Dublin's The Frames Thursday night. First there were the die-hards, li...


“No Guns” leader peddled guns while City Hall paid him to fight gangs Hector Marroquin founder of the gang intervention group No Guns, was s...

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...

The buzz surrounding the 23-year old Washington DC rapper Wale has grown pretty loud in the last month or two. Everyone from Entertainment Weekly to Rol...

At the end of James' rather excellent live set this morning on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic, Nic Harcourt let slip a little leak that the band would ...

Point-Counterpoint: The Pros and Cons of Steve Aoki

The Daily Swarm collects an argument currently consuming the web regarding the relative merits of L.A.'s reigning superstar DJ, Steve Aoki. A few days b...


"Ho ho ho, Bush must go! Santa wants peace for Christmas!" shouts the jolly guy on roller blades as he zips by the Hotdog on a Stick stand. A nice lady ...

Ok they weren't really flip-flops, more like comfy black slides with rubber soles, and they were hidden under an entirely appropriate long and billowy 7...


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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...

Foo Fighters Secret Location, Los Angeles By Ryan Colditz The Foo Fighters were filming live material on Tuesday night for an upcoming appearance on Nis...

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...


Daedalus and TI$A team up for Obama video

Well, in case you were wavering on whether to vote for McCain or Obama, this should help you decide. Sa-Ra's front man Taz Arnold (TI$A) wanders through...

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...


Nigeria Disco Funk Special: The Sound of the Underground Lagos Dance Floor 1974-1979

Let's be real for a moment--I don't know much about the sound of the underground Lagos Dance Floor during the years 1974-1979. The truth is those years ...

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,...

Death Cab for Cutie to play secret show at Spaceland at 5 p.m. today

It's a KROQ show, so there's no chance of getting in at this point. But you never know. I'm on my way over there now, though with LA Weekly's recent mov...

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...


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 ...

I'm not sure if any of us Style Council gals were at the denim shows last night... Buffalo, Yanuk and Taverniti were the designers showing, and even tho...

(Gen Art's fresh faces) There it was— the Peterson Automotive Museum splayed out along the corner of Fairfax and Wilshire. I could see part of its...


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...

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...

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? ...


Wale ft. Bun B & Pusha-T: "Back in the Go-Go"

With a spot on Entertainment Weekly's "8 to Watch in 08" and Ann Powers' SXSW rave in the LA Times, the Wale hype is getting pretty loud, yet it exists ...


Here's a stunning new wall up on Santa Monica near the recently closed Sears store. There were at least four spots along there that had some new writing...

(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...

Meghan Fabulous— The Name Says It All...

At the end of James' rather excellent live set this morning on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic, Nic Harcourt let slip a little leak that the band would ...


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...

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'...


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...


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Q: What's the best thing to do on a cold, rainy Saturday night? A: Go to the movies with your friends and drink hot chocolate! I almost st...


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...

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...

Why Three Pairs of Stilettos Are Absolutely Vital When Backpacking Around Mexico

Everyday there are songs and musicians that attempt to do what they believe is meaningful. Pseudo-laureates and full-on liars buzz around our heads on a...


Pearl Jam - Rock Werchter Festival, Belgium

The Night Marchers, All Star Lanes, Feb. 10

The Night Marchers All Star Lanes, Feb. 10, 2008 By Ryan Ritchie Photos by Timothy Norris Two songs into The Night Marchers’ L.A. debut on Monday ...

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...

No, I'm not talking about the surfing, though I did take a lesson with "surf teacher to the stars," Tide Rivers, whose dad founded the Maui film festiva...

Mark "The Cobrasnake" Hunter hit NYC's Fashion Week and returned with pictures of runways, parties, ingenues and behind the scenes looks at what happene...


Anyone watch The L Word on Sunday night? I have just three words for you - Rosanna Arquette, Shane the Hairdresser, and a strap-on. OK that's more than ...

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. ...

Ryan Adams - Royce Hall, UCLA, Jan. 30 and Bridges Auditorium, Claremont, Jan. 22. Both shows on sale Saturday Avenged Sevenfold, Atreyu, Suicidal Tende...


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...

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....

Biggie Smalls Shuts Down Sunset Boulevard

Ah, if only. But shooting has commenced in LA for Notorious, the Biggie Smalls biopic slated to be released in 2009. Earlier today, the crew was working...

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...


Queer Town: Acrobats at the Abbey, No Shirts at Here

The nights go nearly sleepless, but the last day of Gay Pride Week is no time to flake out. Promises are made and need to be kept, so I head over to the...

Which Van Halen? The Diamond-Dave fronted VH, of course. The band is slated to play the Staples Center on November 20. As previously speculated, the ban...


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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...

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...


Ask A Ninja and Patton Oswalt, El Rey, 12/5

Another Day of the Ninja has come and gone, leaving us all a bit sad for its passing, as this holiday season can sometimes do. Hundreds of budding young...

We arrived back at Vibiana Saturday well into the all-day BoxEight Eco-Nouveau event which included spoken word, a couple of films and a music performan...

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 ...

Sometime after 50 arrived, the art of the narrative wandered into a blizzard of coke raps, artificial hood mythologizing and pandering simplicity. Compl...


"EL CHAVO!" has an excellent post up at Metroblogging Los Angeles about Estrada Courts in Boyle Heights. This picture is my favorite, covering all the b...


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...

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

Obamanation Photos and text by Shelley Leopold A mural appeared in Mid-Wilshire on a recent morning — not on a rooftop or an overpass, but at the ...

(Photos by Patrick Range McDonald. Above: Aaron Savvy) On a chilly Wednesday night, the swanky West Hollywood nightclub Eleven hosted a promotion party ...

Amazon.com launched their new MP3 store today to go head to head with Apple's iTunes store. In a nice bit of irony the #1 selling song on Amazon was "12...


Rain Rain Go Away Charlize Theron Wants To Play

17th Annual Divas Simply Singing featuring Natalie Cole, Linda Hopkins, RuPaul and others

17th Annual Divas Simply Singing Wilshire Ebell Theater, October 6, 2007 By Ernest Hardy When former choir nun Darlene Koldenhoven let loose a piercing ...


Photos of Gogol Bordello at the Henry Fonda Theater. Photos of Wilco at the Greek Theater Photos by Timothy Norris...

SXSW Flashback: Interview With Del Tha Funky Homosapien

It was my third night in Austin. Devin had just blazed through an epic set that had been celebrated in the appropriate fashion , El-P was currently on-s...


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...


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...

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When it opens this weekend, Rob Marshall's adaptation of Memoirs of a Geisha will already be trailing a long stream of scandal: the Japanese community i...

Mountain Goats, The Annuals, Natural History Museum, 6/6

The Mountain Goats, The Annuals, Natural History Museum, June 6 It's packed again for First Fridays at the Museum. There's a line of people waiting to g...


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...

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


On Monday, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen officially certified the anti-gay marriage ballot measure. If passed, the initiative would overturn...

Canadian indie rockers Wolf Parade and Holy Fuck played a sold-out show at the El Rey Thursday night. Timothy Norris was there and shot it. Click here f...

Will the long-overdue billboard fee inspection program start at long last? Don’t count on it. On May 27, Los Angeles’ Department of Building...

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."...


Millions of passengers use the Mexico City metro daily. It is one of the largest and most used systems in the world, a crowning achievement of the capit...

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...


SXSW Day 2-Formed a Band, Everyone Formed A Band

Hey, Aren't You Juliette Lewis? Walking down 6th street yesterday, you had to wonder if everyone in the world somehow heard that Art Brut song, "Formed ...

The 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2007 Pt. 4 (#9-6)

The film that ended the Cold War. 9. Hi-Tek Ft. Talib Kweli & Dion-"Time" "People get caught up in a time and what that song represents to them at the t...


Des Moines, Iowa -- Barack Obama capped off his quest to win the statewide Democratic presidential caucuses by emotionally exhorting the youthful core o...

The Buddhas can be seen at the corner of Western and Marathon A map to the hidden Buddhas: More on RETNA, one of the Buddha's creators, here...

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...


Dan Monick - Very Good Photographer, Looks Pretty in Wigs

Hair Today, Still Freakin' Hair Tomorrow

Get this Muthaf***ing Toupee Off My Mutha****ing Head

Baby's first words: "You're fired." I've seen dogs in Chanel. I've seen cats with diamond collars, but I never thought I'd see this— Baby Toupee. ...


Bobby S. saw and snapped this on Melrose near the New Beverly on the site of a previous Banksy piece. Check out his bigger picture and write-up here on ...

There was something that made me feel sexy about the unveiling of Brian Lichtenberg’s Spring and Summer Collection at the Museum of Architecture a...


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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 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...

The Birmingham band played a short, sweet set on the outside stage for the Kimmel show. Click here to see all of Timothy Norris' photos. The Editors ret...


Arresting Citizens land in the City of Angels

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...

I love this adorable little skirt by Mexican artist/fashion designer Amor Munoz...Even though it does feature a naked masturbating girl showing her cooc...


By Randall Roberts Top Songs (that aren’t trance or prog house) heard last night kicking out of any of the hundreds of rolling sound systems (or s...


Ryan Graeff, Sharktoof and Pingping at Ghettogloss This is what's going on in Los Angeles right now: You drive to an art gallery having a show. On the w...

DAY 2: Mr. Nobody and Other Fashion Week Friends

MONDAY AT SMASHBOX STUDIOS, CULVER CITY, CA: PHOTO 1: So it's like, raining and stuff, everyone's late for the shows, PR people are all upset - but this...

French graffiti forefather Blek le Rat is in town for his upcoming gallery show at Subliminal Projects. Photos by Clare O'Callaghan Click here for more....