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...

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

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

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...


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50. Redman-Red Gone Wild Other than M.O.P., Redman is the only East Coast rapper able to conceptually re-make the same album since 1992 and get away wit...


Fashion Weeklings? LA Observed Notices Our Abscence

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...

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...


Cupcake Challenge Winners (We Called It)

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

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 ...


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

My friend Anne was moving back to San Francisco from San Diego, and she wanted to spend one night in a swanky L.A. hotel by the beach. Only problem was,...


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

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 ...

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

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


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...

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...

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

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

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

Sonic Youth at Urban Outfitters, July 21

Walking through Santa Monica’s 3rd Street Promenade mall, on my way to see Sonic Youth perform at Urban Outfitters, sponsored by Toyota’s Fr...


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

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

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...

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


Michael Hurley tonight, December 20, at The Bordello

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

For the past several years the empty lot near el Pollo Loco on Sunset and Sanborn has been a little community farm growing flowers, tomatoes and vegetab...

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

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...

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


Speaking of Project Runway (below post), this will come as no surprise to those you’ve read our past posts: we actually kinda liked drag designer ...


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

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...

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


Slash Appeals For Lost Kittie on Get The Fuck Up Radio

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

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 ...

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...

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

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...


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...

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...

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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...


Portishead at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange, Scotland 4.12.08

Photos by Rena Kosnett Claiming that I just happened to catch a Portishead concert during my recent visit to the UK would fashion me a liar. The trip wa...


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...

Retna, el Mac on Hollywood Western Bldg.

At the corner of Hollywood and Western (right across the street from the Metro stop), a strange confluence of art, architecture and bureaucracy exists, ...

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...

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...

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...


My Name is Caroline and I'm a Slothaholic

When I was younger I went to a relatively posh private school in London, full of high-achieving daughters who had DJ boyfriends and started nightclubbin...

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...

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

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...


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 ...

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

A Nip Driver remembered: Mike Webber's Legacy

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

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...

Los Angeles area well represented at South by Southwest 2008

Want proof that L.A.'s in the middle of an astoundingly fertile period of musical expansion? See the list below. We're going to have our hands full this...


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...


Mexican President Felipe Calderon announced an ambitious plan last week to confront rising food costs in Mexico and to prevent the type of shortages and...


Xiu Xiu The Echo, April 11 It was good to see lots and lots of kids out at the Echo this past Friday night for Xiu Xiu’s LA appearance, the same k...

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Gag me with a glove. The only reason I saw the "romantic" "comedy" Shopgirl, based on Steve Martin's novella of the same name, was because my friend and...


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...

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...

The Cobrasnake was at the Daft Punk show at the Sports Arena on Saturday, July 21. Click here for a slideshow of more from the concert, as well as a tri...

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 ...


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

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

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

Joan and Melissa Give Us Their Oscar Fashion Predictions

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...

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


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...

Weiss'  Muxtape #2: A Tribute to Albert Hofmann-Pour Out a Little Lysergic

Lost somewhere in the shuffle of the 43,214 stories on the potential impact of Obama's ex-pastor's crack-pot comments*, was the news that Albert Hoffman...


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...

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

Slick Mural on Santa Monica Blvd. near Sunset


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...


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.

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...


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...

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 ...

Live in L.A.: Slint at the Henry Fonda Theatre

The tension between the dweebs and the rockers was palpable last night at the Henry Fonda Theatre. The dweebs, giddy at the opportunity to hear Louisvil...

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 ...


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

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...

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...


I accompanied Miss Steffie to the annual Billion Dollar Babes sale yesterday, and just so ya know, it was only pure guilt that kept me from doing the sa...

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

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...

LA Weekly Detour Festival: A Race for the Prize

LA Weekly Detour Festival Downtown Los Angeles, October 6. By Randall Roberts You can tell a good music festival by the number of sprinters, joggers, an...


Above and below in Silver Lake on Sunset Blvd. Below, found in West Hollywood on Santa Monica Blvd...


Coachella Day 3-Never Underestimate How Long It Takes to Blow Up An Inflatable Pig

By the third day, we were knocked out, loaded. Hungover, weary, wandering the festival grounds like lethargic lemmings, queuing in lines off instinct, j...

Los Angeles area well represented at South by Southwest 2008

Want proof that L.A.'s in the middle of an astoundingly fertile period of musical expansion? See the list below. We're going to have our hands full this...

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 ...

The leopard loving lass is a special kinda gal. She can be a sweet kitty cat, but get on her bad side and she'll scratch you. I've been a leopard print ...


Snoop Goes Country! Snoop Dogg Live at Fox Studios, March 6

photos by Timothy Norris Snoop Dogg gigged with an 18-piece backing band in a Fox Studio sound room last night for the Nissan Live series shown on Yahoo...


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...


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...

What’s with the meat? Our web editor brought in his bacon wallet a few days ago. Then one of our computer guys said that he had a bacon wallet, to...


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

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...

Tonight's Hot Chip show at the El Rey cancelled

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

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...

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...


(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...


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...

I haven't wanted to listen to anything but Fela Kuti for weeks. It's getting a little weird. In the car, Expensive Shit/He Miss Road has monopolized my ...

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


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...

SXSW: One perspective from an official representative of the Music Industry

Van Morrison + Lou Reed: 2 points. SXSW festival: ZERO.

50. Redman-Red Gone Wild Other than M.O.P., Redman is the only East Coast rapper able to conceptually re-make the same album since 1992 and get away wit...


White Williams, Magic Bullets, Echo 1/27

White Williams, Magic Bullets The Blakes, Tribal Tats The Echo, Jan. 27 How do people in Seattle do it? It's downright cold tonight, and raining so much...


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

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

Chris Anderson + Wired explain the business of free.

Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson explains how the new "free" economy is turning buyer-seller transactions into an ecosystem of many parties, only so...

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Juicy Bits from the LACMA Search Warrant

You can download the entire search warrant issued to Los Angeles County Museum of Art here, but these two pages provide the most details of LACMA's invo...

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...


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...


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...

It dawns on me this groggy, windy morning that Santa Fe Time (SFT) is one hour ahead of Los Angeles Time (LAT). I rationalize a lazy day to acclimate to...


The tension between the dweebs and the rockers was palpable last night at the Henry Fonda Theatre. The dweebs, giddy at the opportunity to hear Louisvil...


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?

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


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 ...

Banksy Elephant Set to Star in Christina Aguilera Video


Click here for Timothy Norris' photos of Roger Waters, Sia, Love & Rockets, My Morning Jacket and more...

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,...

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...


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...


Stew's Passing Strange Receives Seven Tony Award Nominations

From Spaceland to Broadway: Stew Passing Strange, the Broadway musical created by longtime fixture on the LA music scene Stew, received seven Tony Award...

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

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

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...


Mexican President Felipe Calderon announced an ambitious plan last week to confront rising food costs in Mexico and to prevent the type of shortages and...

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

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

Rogue Wave El Rey, October 11, 2007 When the red curtains parted, Zach Rogue stood on the drum riser pumping both fists in the air like a prize fighter,...

Newsflash: LA Times ruins P. Diddy's weekend

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


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For the past several years the empty lot near el Pollo Loco on Sunset and Sanborn has been a little community farm growing flowers, tomatoes and vegetab...

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...

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...


Maria Shriver, the first lady of the state of California and cousin of Caroline Kennedy, has endorsed Senator Barack Obama. Shriver made an impromptu ap...


Rolling Stones, Scorsese and Black Girls

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

Cool New Parking Signs to Debut in DTLA Today

Easy-to-read parking signs will be installed in downtown Los Angeles.

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

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 Report: Robyn at the Wiltern

Robyn: built to last (Photos by Timothy Norris) Swede pop darling Robyn capped off her spring 2008 tour at the Wiltern on Saturday night with a propulsi...

Newsflash: Iceland is not as unbearably cool as one imagines

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


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...


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...

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


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

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

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...

I've been missing in action for a week and you don't wanna know why. It aint glamorous or seedy or anything, but let's just say I've been in a post-NYE ...

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...


Tonight's Hot Chip show at the El Rey cancelled

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

Damien Hirst, Tom Waits, the Beatles, and the birth of the ubiquitous contemporary persona. PLUS, some cool shit I saw while I was in London and some thoughts on the Amerindie aesthetic vs. the Anglophile aesthetic.

This post RIYL: Damien Hirst, Amerindie record labels, Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors, Islington's Union Chapel, pretentious statements about life.

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

Brand new MBW stuff up in remembrance of the 40th anniversary of MLK's assassination.* Strong thanks to the artist for marking the day. And of course to...

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...


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

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


All photos by Timothy Norris. More after the jump...

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


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...

Public Enemy, EPMD, Mos Def, The Roots, Wu-Tang Clan and a reunited Rage Against the Machine played in San Bernadino over the weekend. Timothy Norris wa...

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...


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

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"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 "...

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...

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...


The vibe was heavy at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood on Thursday night, and an always blood-thirsty press didn’t imagine it into existence. With U...

Juicy Bits from the LACMA Search Warrant

You can download the entire search warrant issued to Los Angeles County Museum of Art here, but these two pages provide the most details of LACMA's invo...

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...


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


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...

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

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

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

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....

David Mixner, a gay politico who was an integral part of former Bill Clinton’s kitchen cabinet during his successful 1992 run for the White House,...


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...

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...


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...

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...


Hawaiian born, LA based artist and illustrator Ekundayo had a small, but very cool showing at Suru on Saturday the 24th of May. The store had previously...

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...

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...

By Shelley Leopold n the early morning hours in mid-December, an amazing masterpiece of epic pink proportions appeared above the Melrose strip. Not MOCA...

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...


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...

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


The 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...

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It's funny the first time Shatner yells it out. It is, after all, the named-turned-curse heard throughout a galaxy. That one word - that one syllable - ...

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...


Get Your Book On: Book Expo America 2008

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

The 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2007 (#25-20)

25. Chamillionaire ft. Slick Rick: "Hip Hop Police" Chamillionaire's a good rapper. His flow kind of reminds me of Krayzie Bone had he grown up chugging...

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...

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...


I'd like to think that I'm way more popular in real life than I am on Myspace. I've only got like 50 friends, but that's probably because I only say yes...

New Beck song, "Chemtrails," streaming at Beck.com

photo by Autumn Dewilde It starts off lightly with Beck Hansen in soft, sad falsetto mode, his moan high lonesome and sounding like a missing Beach Boys...


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


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

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

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...


Pigeon Poop Blamed for Safari Sam's Sign Spontaneous Combustion

In the Jury’s Lap: Pellicano Trial Finishes

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

Oh boy oh boy! 1 Million (or as Dr. Evil would say, ONNE MILLLION) garments are supposed to be available for the pickin' this Sunday at the American App...

(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...


David Mixner, a gay politico who was an integral part of former Bill Clinton’s kitchen cabinet during his successful 1992 run for the White House,...

I drove by the Ambassador last night inadvertently, trying to find some way to shave a couple of minutes off of my commute. The last bit of the hotel's ...


Beards, Blazers & Glasses or How Hot Chip Prove that My Sense of Rhythm Isn't Racist

It happened again. The dancing thing. I'm not quite sure how and I'm not sure why. I know we talked about this the other day but I'm not ready to move o...

The Village Voice's Siren Music Festival took place over the weekend with performances from M.I.A., New York Dolls, Elvis Perkins, The Black Lips and a ...

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...


In need of a good weekend read? Check out this excerpt from Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi's new book The Great Derangement, in which he ...

I hate lines. They're somewhere in the lower rungs of my own personal inferno along with club kids in fedoras, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the abstract ...


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

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The Hidden Pleasures of Coachella, Part I: Linton Kwesi Johnson

One of the pleasant little surprises of this year's festival is the arrival of Jamaican born, British-bred poet Linton Kwesi Johnson. He made his mark b...


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

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

California Supreme Court Legalizes Gay Marriage!

Citing the 60-year-old landmark case Perez v. Sharp, which struck down California's ban on interracial marriage, the California Supreme Court ruled toda...

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


Coachella news: Kraftwerk! Madness! Portishead! Madness! Roger Waters! Kraftwerk!

This just in! (kudos to Joshua Glazer at Urb)...

Tonight's Hot Chip show at the El Rey cancelled

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

Mexican President Felipe Calderon announced an ambitious plan last week to confront rising food costs in Mexico and to prevent the type of shortages and...


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

Michael Hurley tonight, December 20, at The Bordello

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


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...

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...


Caetano Veloso Pasadena Civic Auditorium, November 14 By John Payne At age 65, sweet-voiced singer-composer Caetano Veloso represents perhaps the ultima...


!!! Avalon, Sept. 26 Reviews and pictures by Jonah Flicker !!! lived up to its punctuation at its Hollywood appearance last night, delivering an exclama...

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 ...

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...


By Brick Wahl Ya gotta love my buddy Dean, he's a nut. And inspired, brilliant, funny, knows everything and everybody Sicilian motormouth of a musician ...


"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?

What’s with the meat? Our web editor brought in his bacon wallet a few days ago. Then one of our computer guys said that he had a bacon wallet, to...

Being a woman - sometimes it sucks. We bleed, for starters. Then our bodies create the cottage cheese-like substance called cellulite that seeps like ma...

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 ...


Brooklyn-based street artist Bast opened a rare LA show at New Image Gallery in West Hollywood this past weekend. Click here to see more photos from the...

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 ...

Final Check Yo Ponytail tonight starring Dan Deacon and Erol Alkan

I Heart Comix's long-running Check Yo Ponytail series comes to a close tonight at the Echoplex. The legendary party ends its run with a doozy: Dan Deaco...

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


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

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 ...

"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...

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Tell 'Em Why You Mad: The Guide to Hipster Haberdashery

If home is where you hang your hat then Silver Lake is rapidly turning into the world's largest hat rack. Over the past 12 months, it has become de rigu...


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

With only two shows in the US currently slated around the release of her new album, White Chalk, PJ Harvey's concert at the Oprheum downtown had even mo...

The Weekend's Music in LA: Jonathan Richman, Simone White, Billy Bragg, free vegan pancakes (and No Age) at The Smell

FRIDAY, JUNE 6 There are many immortal words in rock and roll, but one of the great expressions of untethered joy was originally uttered by Jonathan Ric...


Fanatics! A Brand-New Song From VUM's Forthcoming Album, Cryptocrystalline

Rollins fires up another two hours of adventurous music from VUM, Wand, Rites of Spring, Suzuki Junzo, Ty Segall, Pere Ubu and many more.


Shootin' At The Walls of iTunes (bang bang)

This Christmas, I had hoped to fly back to London, gorge myself on Mum's turkey and sip sherry with my long lost Brit posse. But Fate, it turned out, ha...

The LA Times Retracts Its Tupac Shakur Story

In this morning's Times, and an apology to Puffy Diddy Daddy...


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...

da ramones. da clorox girls. and da jazz.


It's a match made in hipster heaven. Disheveled shutterbug du jour Mark "The Cobrasnake" Hunter (with whom I still proudly share space with in the paper...

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

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

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

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


In need of a good weekend read? Check out this excerpt from Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi's new book The Great Derangement, in which he ...


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

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

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 ...


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

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...


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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.

"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...

Chris Anderson + Wired explain the business of free.

Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson explains how the new "free" economy is turning buyer-seller transactions into an ecosystem of many parties, only so...


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...

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...


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...


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...

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...


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...


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...

I'm a karaoke slut, but just like most real ladies of the night, I have to be properly liquored up before I give it up (on the mic). Brass Monkey, Smog ...

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

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


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...

If anyone has been down to the Arroyo since they supposedly blasted off a good deal of the art that was created (with permission, I might add) at Meetin...


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

Being a woman - sometimes it sucks. We bleed, for starters. Then our bodies create the cottage cheese-like substance called cellulite that seeps like ma...

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...


Some shots here of various Melrose paste-ups, many by MBW. The Ray Charles and Britney ones are gone by now...


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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...

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,"...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...


Spiritualized the Vista Theater November 12 By John Payne Praise the Lord and pass the collection plate. No, no, no, that’s bitter, I know. But th...

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...

Skullphone hacks Clear Channel electronic billboards

UPDATE: Curbed.la is claiming that Skullphone didn't hack Clear channels billboards, but actually bought time on them. And while that's kind of sad, it'...

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...


KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas, Gibson Amphitheater, 12/8

KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas, Gibson Amphitheater, December 8, featuring Linkin Park, Bad Religion, Serj Tankian, Angels & Airwaves, Avenged S...


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...

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...

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


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...

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

Don't want to sit at home watching the primary returns, biting your nails and pulling your hair? The National Book Critics Circle is sponsoring events i...

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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...

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 ...


Coachella Offers Reward for Return of Inflatable Pig

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

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...

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...

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...


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...

I just got back from interviewing Amanda Demme, the so-called Queen of LA Nightlife, and marketing brain behind 'hot' nightlife venues like Teddy's and ...

Arresting Citizens land in the City of Angels

Metallica and Scars on Broadway Unload at Benefit for Silverlake Conservatory of Music

Metallica / Scars on Broadway: Benefit for Silverlake Conservatory of Music The Wiltern, May 14. By Paul Rogers Metallica, with Flea, at last night's be...


I hate lines. They're somewhere in the lower rungs of my own personal inferno along with club kids in fedoras, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the abstract ...

The first First Friday of 2008 at the Natural History Museum featured local faves Sea Wolf. DJ's keep it rolling the lounge, with a captive audience in ...

Fishbone and Slightly Stoopid, Wiltern - 12/01

Fishbone, Slightly Stoopid Wiltern, Dec 1 Strange and depressing things were afoot in Los Angeles on Saturday night. Up until arriving at the Wiltern wi...

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...

!!! Avalon, Sept. 26 Reviews and pictures by Jonah Flicker !!! lived up to its punctuation at its Hollywood appearance last night, delivering an exclama...


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...

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

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

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...


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

Dodos, Akron/Family, Natural History Musuem, 5/2

Akron/Family, The Dodos, Natural History Museum First Fridays May 2, 2008 By Mark Mauer For the past couple of years, one of the best venues in town to ...

Yeah, I originally had this posted this morning as Push & Ayer - Sorry. It looked like a Retna piece, but I saw the Ayer in there and thought that must ...

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

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

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...


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...

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.


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...


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

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

It dawns on me this groggy, windy morning that Santa Fe Time (SFT) is one hour ahead of Los Angeles Time (LAT). I rationalize a lazy day to acclimate to...

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...


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

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

Is Devendra Banhart a starfucker or just a star?


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...

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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...


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...


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...

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 ...

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

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

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

For those of you wondering if I ever made it to the Cavalli collection's opening day at H&M in the Beverly Center, the answer is no. Just to be safe, I ...


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...

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

Pixies and Mission of Burma Movies - Free Screening This Weekend

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...


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...

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...


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

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...

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

When I finagled the invite to the Murakami Gala at MOCA, my girlfriends bombarded me with the same question: "What are you wearing?" It was a legitimate...


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

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


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

Manifesto in Echo Park: Scorn Joy, Scorn Tragedy

Pasted on a box coming off the 101 offramp into Echo Park is this bi-lingual manifesto. There's something very honest in the frustration voiced here: An...

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...


Gorgeous getups or no, I just can't sit through another 3 hours of E! pre-Emmy red carpet coverage this year-- even if Ryan Seacrest has moved from kiss...

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

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'...


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...

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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...

Peanut Butter Wolf to spin at Obama's California party tonight

This just in, offering further proof that Obama's down with the scene. PEANUT BUTTER WOLF SPINS TONIGHT AT CALIFORNIA FOR OBAMA PARTY AT THE AVALON Also...

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 ...


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

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...

Lucinda Williams El Rey, September 9 By Tom Cheyney Lucinda Williams kept a firm grip on her joy during the Sweet Old World night of her ambitious &ldqu...


Coachella Day One: The Raconteurs Stomp the Bejeesus Out of Vampire Weekend

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New Beck song, "Chemtrails," streaming at Beck.com

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Lost somewhere in the shuffle of the 43,214 stories on the potential impact of Obama's ex-pastor's crack-pot comments*, was the news that Albert Hoffman...


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Rutling Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery

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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...


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The Best Free L.A. Art Parties This Week

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

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Yes, one half of Whitley Kros is Mrs. Beck, Marissa Ribisi. The other half is Sophia Banks, Marissa's long-time friend. Beck was of course, the musical ...


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Dan Monick - Very Good Photographer, Looks Pretty in Wigs

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Radiohead at the Hollywood Bowl: August 24 and August 25

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


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...

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...

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...


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Cute brunette girl invites people to sample the hors d'oeuvres at the Tastemakers "Class of 2008" public exhibition, spearheaded by style-guru Laurie Pi...

Los Angeles area well represented at South by Southwest 2008

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


Grizzly Bear live on Morning Becomes Eclectic, Feb. 27

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Kids of Widney High, Amoeba Records, Feb. 28, 2008 By now, I hope that most people reading this know who the Kids of Widney High are, so I'll only brief...

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 ...


LA Weekly Detour Festival Downtown Los Angeles, October 6. By Randall Roberts You can tell a good music festival by the number of sprinters, joggers, an...


Old Crow Medicine Show - A Disssenting Opinion

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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...

Hell yeah! Sleeping bags that you can walk around in. We like these. You need never buy a bed again because your bed will follow you wherever you go. Ac...

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


5. Dungen-Tio Bitar Dungen did not tour this record in America. This is because the band's mastermind, Gustav Estjes was rumored to be alone in the snow...

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...

Skullphone hacks Clear Channel electronic billboards

UPDATE: Curbed.la is claiming that Skullphone didn't hack Clear channels billboards, but actually bought time on them. And while that's kind of sad, it'...

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 ...

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

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

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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 ...


Coachella Day 3-Never Underestimate How Long It Takes to Blow Up An Inflatable Pig

By the third day, we were knocked out, loaded. Hungover, weary, wandering the festival grounds like lethargic lemmings, queuing in lines off instinct, j...


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


Grammy week... Fashion week (in NYC)...the writers strike... Britney... There so much to do and watch and bitch, uh write, about.... Our new year's reso...

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...


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 ...

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

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


After "the otherroom," half the Style Council headed across the street to the gay bar called Roosterfish. Once again I had to wait for the white-haired ...

Old Crow Medicine Show Avalon, August 8 By Ryan Colditz Having grown up in the boonies of Northern California, far from the smog and street lights, "Cou...

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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...

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

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

Fishbone and Slightly Stoopid, Wiltern - 12/01

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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...

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My friend Anne was moving back to San Francisco from San Diego, and she wanted to spend one night in a swanky L.A. hotel by the beach. Only problem was,...

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...

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

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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...

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


When three quarters of the Style Council (Steffie, Linda and myself) decided to go to Joshua Tree for a weekend of high desert jinx, we knew to expect t...

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...

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."


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

Bishop Lamont-The Next Great West Coast Hope?

I...listened to all that Death Row stuff....and Lords Of The Underground, Busta Rhymes, Redman and Keith Murray, where your takes had to be so clean and...

The staggering idiocy of Bob Lefsetz boiled to its essence

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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...

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


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...


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

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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...

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

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

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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...

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


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

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Hope everyone's having a great holiday weekend. I wasn't able to make my fellow style council-or's T-day gathering, but family obligations for an LA gal...

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...

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


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Artists giving away their music for free, a chronology. 1906, Brant Rock, Massachusetts. Sailors off the coast of the Atlantic hear an eerie, otherworld...

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...

"How many boulders can we possibly have to climb over?" I chuckled to my friend Julie, when she warned me that her boyfriend David's friend Ben had aske...

The Worst Kept Secret in LA: Foxburo Hot Tubs are Green Day, and They Play the Roxy Tonight

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The man who founded Factory Records in Manchester, home of Durutti Column and A Certain Ratio (as well as Joy Division, New Order and Happy Mondays) has...

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Metallica and Scars on Broadway Unload at Benefit for Silverlake Conservatory of Music

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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...

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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...

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...

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...


These pictures are from late '07, and never got posted. The plan was to go back at another time, and get over the fences to get more pictures. Unfortuna...


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

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

Newsflash: LA Times ruins P. Diddy's weekend

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

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


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 ...

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

Gary Baseman, Vincent Gallo, and the Curse of Numerology

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


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

Metaform-Standing On the Shoulders of Giants

It's reductive to say that if you like Deadringer and Entroducing, you'll probably like Standing on the Shoulders of Giants. Then again, that's just the...


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'...

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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...

When news of Gwen Stefani’s Harajuku Lovers lawsuit against our favorite cheapie chic mall chain Forever 21 got some buzz last week, I couldn&rsqu...

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DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist Hollywood Bowl, June 25 By Carlie Armstrong What began as an interestingly ethnic, slightly gimmicky evening at the Hollywood Bow...


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

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


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...


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

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

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


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...

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...

From grungey Southern comfort to saucy high glamour, my world has been one of extremes the past weeks. Just got back from Texas' South By Southwest Musi...


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

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

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 ...

The Magic of David Lee Roth's voice, naked

Attention producers: I defy any of you to listen to this vocal track of David Lee Roth singing "Runnin' With the Devil" and not stumble across some samp...

"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 ...


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 ...

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

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


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...

Fans started lining up early to get to their seats! Some arrived at 5. Skaters stopped in to check out the chicks. And lots of limos. Group of girls mad...


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

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

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

I've been missing in action for a week and you don't wanna know why. It aint glamorous or seedy or anything, but let's just say I've been in a post-NYE ...


On a low wall near an empty lot on Franklin near Cahuenga in Hollywood there's a fast and mean REVOK / AUGER tag...

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...

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...


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...

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...

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...

"More boobies, RIGHT NOW!" roared the crowd at the El Rey theatre as alternaporn starlets the Suicide Girls jiggled their pastied jubblies during the fi...