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Notes from indie and punk shows, and Kristoff in translation

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McCartney Fans Stake out Amoeba for Free In-Store Performance


My Bloody Valentine announces two LA shows in the fall

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

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Random observations on dancing at Vegoose and elsewhere: photographs by Timothy Norris Shins fans don't dance. I know this because it was at the beginni...

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

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The Fug Girls on Rock & Republic in New York: "72 separate, skanky looks!"

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Live in LA: Elvis Costello Goes Way Late at the El Rey, May 28

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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...

Chris CornellThe Wiltern, July 11 Chris Cornell brought it. He brought Soundgarden. We love that. He brought Temple of the Dog. We love that too. He bro...


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 Supreme Genius of King Khan & The Shrines

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The wily civil rights lawyer from Venice Beach just won’t go quietly. Even though Steve Yagman was found guilty of multiple money laundering charg...

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Universal Fire Triggered by Worker's Blowtorch

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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...


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

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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...

Once upon a time, Elliott Smith and Aimee Mann were nominated for Oscars, and despite the KCRW-ness of it all, it still felt good to watch them up there...

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 ...


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...


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

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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...

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

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The Sex and the City movie is finally gonna happen. Whoo hoo! The edited repeats of the show on TNT may be sanitized sex-wise, but they’re still s...

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...


Huge columns painted by Retna stood throughout Zero One's downtown gallery. The multi-artist show Dysmorphic Visualization Syndrome, opened Saturday nig...


Radiohead Has Cake, Eats it Too, Thinks About Seconds...

There are quite a few twists to the story of the new Radiohead album that broke on the band's website last night . One that is getting very little atten...

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 ...

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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...

OZER and SEVER on Hollywood Blvd. and St. Andrews

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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...

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...

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...


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...


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 ...

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...

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...

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...


Old Crow Medicine Show - A Disssenting Opinion

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The LA Times probably had its farewell lined up for weeks. Last year, the newspaper went after the California State Assembly Speaker for his sleazy hand...

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 ...


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...

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...

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

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Smashbox DAy TWO: The Verdict:  Heatherette is Fierce

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A fierce debate is still brewing among my pals who went to Little Radio's New Years Eve shindig. Reports had trickled in about rude staff, a missing pag...

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

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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...

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

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

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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 ...


Crystal Castles: Not Total Hipster Bullshit

You'll have to forgive me this one. I know I'm late. Ian Cohen tossed a 7.8 to Crystal Castles' in his Pitchfork review of their eponymous debut back in...

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, ...


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

"From the margins of the culture, through graffiti, stencils and stickers, every day the streets are screaming about things," opens the gallery statemen...

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...

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...


Andy Pratt, Mika, Pitchfork, and the anti-poppers

It's easy to critique. It's much easier to critique than to do. Having said that, I would like to lodge a complaint about this year's panels. I understa...


Gutter Twins, Great Northern, Avalon, 4/2

The Gutter Twins, Great Northern Avalon, April 2 It's raining in Los Angeles. Twice I slip on the slick Hollywood Walk of Fame in my terribly-unsuited-f...

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...

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...

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...


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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...

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 ...

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

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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...

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...


Marka27's Echo Park Mural: Libertad Poder Revolucion

This is simply one of my favorite street art wall murals in Los Angeles. Done by MarkA27 The face of César Chávez has gotten some ugly tag...


Star Me Kitten: Can LA Handle Another Fashion Week?

This just in: The Standard Downtown will be hosting Kitten Fashion Week, created by designer and publisher Mike Vensel to allow designers who don't have...

Rutling Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery

The Rutles: 30th Anniversary Reunion American Cinematheque March 17th It was here - well, not here, really, but in fact several thousands of miles away ...

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...


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...

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


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...

Tonight at the Silent Movie Theatre: Becky Stark, Mia Doi Todd and Others

Our favorite sprightly happy-cake, Becky Stark, presents a "first glimpse" screening of her band Lavender Diamond's new film, Imagine Our Love, tonight ...

When a Succubus Makes You Talk About Your Sex Life

Writer-director Michael Phillip Edwards drew inspiration for his spooky comedy Blood from a Jamaican storyteller he knew in childhood, a man named Parso...

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...


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...


Pictures of these two pieces have been sitting on my computer for a while now. I took them when I started noticing more and more gang tags appearing on ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Calling All Label Whores: Intermix opening in LA

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Spoon Little Radio, downtown, July 16 By John Curry Photos by Timothy Norris It was at least 100 degrees in the slam-packed, converted, downtown warehou...

Billboard Liberation on Melrose and LaBrea

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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...


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...

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, ...


Grupo Fantasma Echoplex, Feb. 14 A musical question -- when was the last time you saw dueling trombones? Personally, I've seen dueling pianos in Memphis...


Braving 'New Worlds' at the Jumex Collection

The Jumex Collection art museum is located at a industrial plant in the rough-edged northern outskirts of metropolitan Mexico City, in the municipality ...

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...


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...

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...


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

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...


Pixies and Mission of Burma Movies - Free Screening This Weekend

6 Great Free Things to Do in L.A. This Week

Jon Ronson, Tommy Lasorda and more things to see and do in L.A.

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...

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...


Product Placement - The Striker Gourmets

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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...

Riding rollercoasters at midnight with a crew of teenage skate kids was the last thing I expected to be doing tonight, but hey - sometimes you just gott...


New Release Tuesday: Jandek's 52nd album is almost definitely less interesting then #s 1-51

A few sad truths about the Jandek phenomenon in the internet era. Note to Jandek: "We're just not that into you."

Who do I gotta blow to get a drink around here? It's very annoying that you have to choose between drinks and seeing bands. The "beer garden" is roped o...

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

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Storm drains in the ritzy Hancock Park area couldn't handle an inundation of water from a storm the National Weather Service says dumped 4.2 inches on B...

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...

Wolf Parade’s At Mt. Zoomer: Great Record, Terrible Title

Regardless of what you think of their music, you've got to respect Wolf Parade. When Apologies to the Queen Mary dropped in late 2005 and every music jo...

yeah, yeah, yeah, The Police reunited and it felt so good (and Sting still looks so good). But the best thing about this year's Grammy Awards was the ho...

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...


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McCartney Vetoed Weird Al's Chicken Pot Pie

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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...

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...


Jane's Addiction Original Lineup Play LA Next Week

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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...

Nine days ago, PolitickerCA.com wondered aloud if former Daily News editor Ron Kaye, who had just left the Valley newspaper, would be running for city c...


Costume contest at the Key Club Monday Night Havent been back to Metal Skool's Monday mash since I used to deejay the VIP room, and thankfully nothing's...

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

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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...

Star Me Kitten: Can LA Handle Another Fashion Week?

This just in: The Standard Downtown will be hosting Kitten Fashion Week, created by designer and publisher Mike Vensel to allow designers who don't have...


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


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 ...


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...


Meghan Fabulous— The Name Says It All...


If I hear Outfield’s "Your Love,” one more time I’m gonna hurl. It’s definitely this year’s answer to Hall & Oates’ ...

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

"What kinda horn you got on that thing?" Ben Watkins yells into his megaphone as a bus crawls to a stop before Fox Studios' main gate. The bus driver gr...

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...


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...

L.A. River Along the Golden State - Five

The farther north you go, the more you see these massive letters 20 feet high or more... While others stay out of the river and instead work topside. Al...

Kanye West goes to space, sees weird lady mannequin there

Kanye West with Rihanna and N.E.R.D., April 21, Nokia Theatre L.A. Live If you're going see Kanye West's second of two shows at the Nokia tonight, you s...


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...


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...

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...

All photos by Mark Mauer The side of the Korean supermarket "HK Super" hasn't changed much in a the past couple of years, which is pretty wild consideri...

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...

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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...

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...

Seventh Letter time elapse film for May: RIME, SEVER, and RUETS REYES Art Show...

"From the margins of the culture, through graffiti, stencils and stickers, every day the streets are screaming about things," opens the gallery statemen...


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...

Ima Robot and the Myth of the MC Hammer Pants


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...


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...

Regardless of what you think of their music, you've got to respect Wolf Parade. When Apologies to the Queen Mary dropped in late 2005 and every music jo...

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...

I have a confession to make. I'm a junkie, but my speed is eyeshadow, my smack is lipstick. I got hooked young, 13. I would skip religion classes to buy...


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...


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

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.


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...


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...


Clear Channel Messed with LA Weekly and Lost!

Recently, reporter Christine Pelisek asked the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety for a list of all legal and illegal billboards in L.A. - an...

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

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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...

L.A. Weekly blogger and former staff writer Daniel Hernandez uncovered a wild story about attacks on "emo" youths in Mexico City on LA Daily and his own...


Seventh Letter time elapse film for May: RIME, SEVER, and RUETS REYES Art Show...


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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...

Tall, striking, and as piercingly eloquent as ever when addressing throngs of dedicated supporters, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is back at the top of a ...


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


I'm not purposefully trying to focus on these guys, but their pieces really do jump out at you when you see them. All photos by Mark Mauer More after th...

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...

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...


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...

Where are the ginormous Lotus flowers of years past? I wondered as I strolled about the Echo Park Lake this past Saturday for the annual Lotus Festival....

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...


Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams (Loud/SRC/Universal) By Ben Westhoff The long awaited fifth Wu-Tang Clan album, 8 Diagrams, just leaked, and it’s fucking ...

"So, did you get hit in the face with a ball yet?" one business casual fellow asked another on the interminable line for drinks at last ni...

Live in L.A.: Ferraby Lionheart, Great Lake Swimmers, Marissa Nadler and Eleni Mandell


Companies that put up huge “supergraphics” on buildings and the building owners who allow the gigantic illegal signs could be fined $2,500 a...


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...

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...

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...

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...

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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...


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

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...


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...


My '70's fetish is probably most evident by the Technicolor collection of maxi frocks in my closet. I've been amassing these vibrant columns for years (...

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 ...


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...

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...

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...


Tuesday Night's main event was such a producer's nightmare I almost* wanted to volunteer to help. Due to a major communication breakdown, the headsetted...

Los Angeles always seems strange in the rain. Jim Morrison once may have said something to that effect. Then again, Jim Morrison once declared himself t...

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...


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...

Beards, Blazers & Glasses, Or Yeasayer, The Indie Spin Doctors

Yeasayer are a jam band, they just aren't aware of it yet. At one point during the Brooklyn four-piece's set Saturday night at the Echoplex, lead singer...


A Whiskerino competitor in his natural habitiat. Sweet Jesus I've waited so long and now it's finally here. Whiskerino, the amateur beard growing compet...

The Sex and the City movie is finally gonna happen. Whoo hoo! The edited repeats of the show on TNT may be sanitized sex-wise, but they’re still s...

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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 ...


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 ...

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...


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...


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...

My Conversation with Charles "Cookie" Thornton

I don't remember much about the conversation, but enough of it to know that this morning when I heard NPR report that a lone gunman had walked into a ci...

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...


L.A. Weekly blogger and former staff writer Daniel Hernandez uncovered a wild story about attacks on "emo" youths in Mexico City on LA Daily and his own...


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...

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

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

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...

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...


Andy Pratt, Mika, Pitchfork, and the anti-poppers

It's easy to critique. It's much easier to critique than to do. Having said that, I would like to lodge a complaint about this year's panels. I understa...

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, ...

Entropy at the French Cottage, Hollywood

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...


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...

The Police at the Hollywood Bowl 5/27: Once More Gentlemen Please, But This Time With Bad Feeling

The Police at Hollywood Bowl, May 27, 2008 By Paul Rogers Sting’s ego alone could fill the Hollywood Bowl, but on Tuesday night his band’s p...

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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...

“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...

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...

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...

Photos from the Calvin Harris show, Wednesday night, at the Henry Fonda Theater by Timothy Norris More after the jump. All photos by Timothy Norris...