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

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

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

Universal Fire Triggered by Worker's Blowtorch

Los Angeles County Fire investigators found that three employees repairing a roof on one of the studio’s back lots caused the Universal Studios fi...


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If you haven’t yet experienced the phenomenon of people walk-dancing, apparently the best place to witness this is at a Rapture show. Here’s...


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

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...

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...

Piece of the Pink Floyd Pig Perhaps Found in La Quinta

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


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 ...


The Kidz In the Hall Demonstrate the Power of A Good Rolodex

When ex-Just Blaze proteges, Kidz in the Hall released their debut album, School Was My Hustle on the newly revived Rawkus Records, I didn't listen to i...

Sure, this is Brooklyn, but couldn't it easily be Silverlake? Echo Park? Ah, hipsters making the world a smaller place, one MySpace profile picture at a...


Vice Magazine's Tales of Colt 45 at King King

Photos and text by Guelda Voien While Vice magazine represents many things, most prominent is the value on stupid, constant debauchery. Crystal Antlers ...

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...


DUI Crackdown Greets the First Weekend of April in L.A.

Los Angeles police and sheriff's deputies have DUI checkpoints and patrols planned for the weekend.

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...

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

Tonight (Wed, 10/4) kicks off the month-long Fashion Targets Breast Cancer (FTBC) charity event at Beauty Bars across the nation. The Council of Fashion...


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...

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...

25. Wu-Tang Clan-8 Diagrams 8 Diagrams is east coast hardcore rap that doesn't sound like it was made on the east coast. It was recorded in LA but it do...

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...


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

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...

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...

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Biggie Smalls Shuts Down Sunset Boulevard

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

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


Product Placement - The Striker Gourmets

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

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

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

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...


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

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...


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


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

When ex-Just Blaze proteges, Kidz in the Hall released their debut album, School Was My Hustle on the newly revived Rawkus Records, I didn't listen to i...

Yeasayer at the Ukranian Culture Center 4.25.08

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


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

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...

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

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

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


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...

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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...

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

Fashion Weeklings? LA Observed Notices Our Abscence

Well, they weren't exactly the Oscars, but the red carpet was rolled out for the first ever LA Fashion Awards Friday night just the same. (And I've just...

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...


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...

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 ...

Ahhh, the problem with me, a neophyte, blogging... I just found out an image I pulled off the Survival Research Lab site for my post "Saturday Eve of De...

"Rage Against the Machine, The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Bjork to headline Coachella" - just announced today. It's a bit too early to start planning our...


L.A. River Along the Golden State - Four

A rough patch of the river here, but there will be some better looking stuff coming up tomorrow, though we get a couple glimpses of the massive pieces, ...

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.

The Kidz In the Hall Demonstrate the Power of A Good Rolodex

When ex-Just Blaze proteges, Kidz in the Hall released their debut album, School Was My Hustle on the newly revived Rawkus Records, I didn't listen to i...

Newsflash: LA Times ruins P. Diddy's weekend

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

Paul McCartney Played Lots Of Beatle Songs

Ok, I got in to see Paul at the free Amoeba in-store show. The crowd was a buzz wondering if he would play any Beatles songs or mostly stuff off the new...


Watch this now: new Radar Brothers video

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

Marfa Film Fest Dispatch: World Premiere of Heath Ledger-directed music video

(photo by Randall Roberts) Today's a travel day for me, having just experienced the best little festival I've ever attended, the first annual Marfa Film...

"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 "...

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...

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


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...


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...

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...

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 ...

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


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 ...


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

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

By Shelley Leopold Not much street art found on a recent trip to Japan, but what was there was conveniently located in a compact area. EVIL deconstructs...

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

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


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

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


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

Elvis Costello and the Imposters, El Rey, 5/28 By Randall Roberts Photos by Timothy Norris Elvis Costello performed a jumbo show at the Hollywood Bowl w...

Two more firefighters rake in fortunes – this time for reverse discrimination Two fire captains who were suspended after black firefighter Tennie ...


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...


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...

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

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


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...

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The headline, if you can't read it, is: "Topanga's Hippest Hippie Devendra Banhart Plus More Cali Madness." I mean, come on...

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 ...


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


My first and last Coachella: Photos and notes from Saturday

Arguably the most interesting part of the Coachella experience is the drama of getting there and back, and what happens at night when the gates are clos...

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...


Last week, DJ Khaled announced the creation of his We the Best Music, a new vanity label that will be distributed and released under the Def Jam umbrell...

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

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

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


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...

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 ...

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...


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

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...


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.

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

By Guelda Voien Of all the things upon which to base a docu-drama, a recounting of ballots, accented with heart-warming characters such as Katherine Har...

Thousands of strikers and supporters made their way down Hollywood Blvd. this afternoon as the WGA strike continued. All photos by Steven Mikulan...


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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 ...

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...

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

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

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


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

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


Former Kraftwerk and Neu! percussionist Klaus Dinger dies

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

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


News Flash from the Playa: The Man Upstaged the Moon By Judith Lewis Here's the news. While the full eclipsed moon still floated above the Playa like a ...

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...

Chris Rock Guest-Stars at the Pellicano Circus

For once Chris Rock played the straight man. From the moment he stepped into court Friday to testify at Anthony Pellicano’s racketeering trial, Ro...


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...

New John Mellencamp Album Unveiled with Fancy New T-Bone Burnett-developed High-Def Process

It's going to take a lot for me to forgive John Mellencamp for 2007 and that the whole Ford Chevrolet commercial nightmare. While it's true that maybe I...

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


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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Well, they weren't exactly the Oscars, but the red carpet was rolled out for the first ever LA Fashion Awards Friday night just the same. (And I've just...


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...


Forty percent of Hollywood’s homeless youths ended up on the streets at some point after having been removed from their homes by a city, county or...

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

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


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

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....

Doncha Wish Your Girlfriend Was A Reality Slut Like Me?

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The court has not only ignored the will of the people and imposed a redefinition of marriage on Californians, it has inflicted years of legal chaos, qui...

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...


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...

I heard from a Smashbox freelancer yesterday that traipsing back and forth through leaky tents in Culver City may be a thing of the past. Smashbox merge...


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

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


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

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

SXSW Flashback: Interview With Del Tha Funky Homosapien

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


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

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...

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...

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


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...

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...

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

What happens in Anacortes, stays in Anacortes.


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

(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...

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

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...


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

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...

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

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


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

L.A.'s Lush Lawns Are in the Crosshairs as Officials Tackle Drought

The city of Los Angeles is considering an ordinance that would limit lawn watering to two days a week.

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...


The King of France Can't See The Helio Sequence

The fact that it was Friday the 13th and there was a full moon only compounded the creepiness of certain co-incidences I found myself entangled in last ...

Last night I went to a party thrown by Ian Gerard, co-founder of Gen Art with my friends Ildiko, a prolific and amazing writer; Jenn, a singer, the voic...


I know, I know - ever since God invented cell phones that can tell the time, no-one wears watches anymore. Watches are annoying. You have to put them on...

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

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


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


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...

Gay and Happy at a West Hollywood Candle Shop

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

L.A. River Along the Golden State - Three

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Voodoo Knife Holders and Other Holiday Gift Ideas

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


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

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


The Best Free L.A. Art Parties This Week

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

Grizzly Bear make mustaches actually cool rather than ironically cool.

Just half a block away from the oil hyenas on Melrose is Bicycle Kitchen. Across from that gathering place for cyclists is this mural: We think the arti...


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


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

Pearl Jam - Rock Werchter Festival, Belgium

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Whorelore: The Magical World of Warcraft Porn

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

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

I 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...


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...


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...

SXSW Postmortem...but first a word from our sponsors

Now you name your band Fuck Buttons and you figure: that'll keep the wolves of commerce at bay, right? Well, welcome to the brave new world of indie rock.

Live in LA:  Femi Kuti at the House of Blues, July 20

Half-way through Femi Kuti’s first song of the night, the powerful “Truth Don Die,” a strange realization hit me -- Femi’s weari...

Rolling on the Coachella Express to Indio

On the Coachella Express, there are a few distinct types of people: the media, which was invited to document the maiden voyage of the Amtrak line that d...


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...

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...


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...

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...

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

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

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...

Cool New Parking Signs to Debut in DTLA Today

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


"What are you going to be for Halloween this year?" I asked a friend of friend last week.    "I'm gonna be a 'ho," she replied m...

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...


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

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

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...

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 ...

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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 ...


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

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


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...


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

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


Newsflash: LA Times ruins P. Diddy's weekend

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

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

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...

Coachella Fashion: Sundress Mess, (No On) Neon and The Headband's Last Hurrah (We Hope!)

Props to those who actually managed to write coherant blog posts from Coachella on a daily/nightly basis. After spending about 1 1/2 hours in traffic le...

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...


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

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

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


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...


Shootin' At The Walls of iTunes (bang bang)

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...


You can almost see their personality in this shot photographs by Timothy Norris The only notation I have from the Daft Punk show last night is in this i...


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

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,...

Marc Cooper in Iowa: Obama Strategist "Optimistic"

Obama campaign top strategist David Axelrod said, "He can't help but be optimistic about tonight's results." He described the energy bubbling at the Iow...

Pedro Guzman Suing Government for Wrongful Deportation

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

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


Old Crow Medicine Show - A Disssenting Opinion

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...

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...


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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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...

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


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

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

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...


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.

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

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...

Neurologist Conclusively Proves Snoop Dogg Has Smoked Himself "Retarded"

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


Sometimes I feel like I need a shower after I read it, but I'm gonna be honest right now and admit that Perez Hilton's gossip blog is a fairly frequent ...


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...


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 ...

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

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...

L.A. River Along the Golden State - Four

A rough patch of the river here, but there will be some better looking stuff coming up tomorrow, though we get a couple glimpses of the massive pieces, ...


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...

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...

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


DAY 2: Mr. Nobody and Other Fashion Week Friends

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

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


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...

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...


Chino Prison Guard Accused of Nazism on Hunger Strike

It was a surprise to get another letter from Shayne Allyn Ziska, a former correctional officer at the California Institution for Men in Chino, who has c...

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

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


Bukowski's Bungalow Named A Cultural Landmark

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


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

Last Night: White Stripes' Candy Store Rock

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


Prince added to Saturday's Coachella Line-Up

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

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

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...

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...


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...

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

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


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...


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


Just half a block away from the oil hyenas on Melrose is Bicycle Kitchen. Across from that gathering place for cyclists is this mural: We think the arti...


Remembering LA Firefighter Brent Lovrien

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

Marc Cooper in Iowa: Obama Strategist "Optimistic"

Obama campaign top strategist David Axelrod said, "He can't help but be optimistic about tonight's results." He described the energy bubbling at the Iow...

The Apple and Stunt Rock @ The New Beverly Cinema, March 25th Little gives an LA cinephile greater joy than to see the New Beverly Cinema booming at the...


Lil Wayne to Play House of Blues on June 16

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

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


SXSW Day 2: Songs That No One In Their Right Mind Should Cover

There are a lot of sacred songs in the rock and roll canon, songs that are so connected with their composer that any attempt to replicate them, to put y...

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

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

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


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...

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...

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


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


Live in L.A. Morrissey at the Hollywood Bowl, June 8

All the elements of a going-down-in-history Morrissey concert were there: sold-out behemoth venue, two full hours, tight band, a whopping ten stage-dive...

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...

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...


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...

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


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, ...


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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...


Lisa D'Amato Likes Balls, Jason Bentley "Not Sure" About Elephants


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 ...

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

Grey Ant hasn't been seen on an LA runway since 2005. And thank God for its return! It was my favorite show so far this fashion week. It seemed to incor...


The Apple and Stunt Rock @ The New Beverly Cinema, March 25th Little gives an LA cinephile greater joy than to see the New Beverly Cinema booming at the...


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...

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...

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

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...


The Duke Spirit, Ohhlas Troubadour, May 10, 2008 By Timothy Norris Liela Moss of The Duke Spirit at the Troubadour. The band's new album, Neptune is out...

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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...

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

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

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

Coachella, Day One It was hard to watch, honestly. There was blood all over the place. The security guys kept pulling Jack White off of Vampire Weekend ...


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...


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


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

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...

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

The 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...

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


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...

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


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...

Hairs Looking at You: Backstage at Shay Todd


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...

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...


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...

Whorelore: The Magical World of Warcraft Porn

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

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....

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

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....


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

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...

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


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...

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

Editors Jimmy Kimmel Live! July 25, 2007 By Timothy Norris OK, so we’ve all heard about it and Jimmy’s Green Room really is the best. I was ...


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...


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

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

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

Elvis Costello and the Imposters, El Rey, 5/28 By Randall Roberts Photos by Timothy Norris Elvis Costello performed a jumbo show at the Hollywood Bowl w...


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

A modest proposal to sully Diddy's Hollywood Star.

How Phil Elverum keeps mystery alive Pt 1: creative booking

Phil Elverum does which other artists don't. Consider this particular stretch of tour dates.


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...


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


McCartney Fans Stake out Amoeba for Free In-Store Performance

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...

If you weren't there, it sucks to be you. The LA Weekly hosted a kick-ass show at Spaceland last night to celebrate their new music issue featuring The ...


Mark your calendars if you're making the trip to Austin for South by Southwest this year. The LA Weekly party is Friday, March 14 from noon to 5:00, at ...

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

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


The 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...


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...

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...

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Nightclubs of Hollywood, Ballrooms of Mars

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...


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

"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...

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...

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

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...


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

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


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

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...

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...


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...

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

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

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 ...

Smashbox DAy TWO: The Verdict:  Heatherette is Fierce

Ok, I've finally gotten out of my Heatherette-induced K-hole. I've had a lot of time to think about what I saw. If you asked me yesterday what I thought...


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

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


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...


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

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...

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

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...


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

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


Billboard Liberation on Melrose and LaBrea

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LA Weekly Interviews Mark Eitzel of American Music Club

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

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

A 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...

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 ...


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

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


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...

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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...

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

Is it Sunday already? Well, I attended the Photo LA opening reception last week. It was hosted by Diane Keaton but I didn't see "Miss-I'm-Gonna-Milk-Thi...


You can almost see their personality in this shot photographs by Timothy Norris The only notation I have from the Daft Punk show last night is in this i...


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...

Sometimes I feel like I need a shower after I read it, but I'm gonna be honest right now and admit that Perez Hilton's gossip blog is a fairly frequent ...

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...


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...

After the beautiful, yet co-dependent energy suck that was my five-year relationship with a Swedish painter, I am happily unattached. And while single&r...

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...

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 Randall Roberts He’s out there somewhere. I know it. He apparently comes every year. At least that’s what they tell me up in Seattle, whe...

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I skipped out on the St. John show Thursday night, leaving Caroline to man the post, and followed Lina and Steffie (fellow council members) down the str...

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 ...


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...


DUI Crackdown Greets the First Weekend of April in L.A.

Los Angeles police and sheriff's deputies have DUI checkpoints and patrols planned for the weekend.


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...

Whorelore: The Magical World of Warcraft Porn

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


It's A Wrap- LA Fashion Week Trend Report

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

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


"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...

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

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...


You're Not Invited to L.A.'s Observatory for the Eclipse, but Some VIPs Are

The Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles will be closed for Saturday morning's lunar eclipse, but journalists are invited.


Lots of Yucks Tomorrow Night at the Echo: Eugene Mirman, Marc Moran and Andy Kindler

We usually leave the comedy tips to the obsessive freaks who follow the scene, but we've been kind of focused on Eugene Mirman for the past, uh, forever...

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...

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...

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


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Chris Rock Guest-Stars at the Pellicano Circus

For once Chris Rock played the straight man. From the moment he stepped into court Friday to testify at Anthony Pellicano’s racketeering trial, Ro...

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 ...

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...


Editors Jimmy Kimmel Live! July 25, 2007 By Timothy Norris OK, so we’ve all heard about it and Jimmy’s Green Room really is the best. I was ...


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...


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


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...

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...


Last Night: White Stripes' Candy Store Rock

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Newspaper industry death watch vs. music industry death watch: Why did the NY Times fire music biz reporter Jeff Leeds?

Seriously, I don't understand. It's not like he was publishing fake stories about how P. Diddy offed Tupac.


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

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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...

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 & ...


UCLA hits back at animal rights terrorists

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

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

It's hard not to love Liz McGrath. There's the art, the music she make with her band Miss Derringer, heck, the very building that she lives in is so coo...

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...


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...

"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...

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

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

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Actor Slaying Rattles Local Theater Company

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

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...


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...

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...

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


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

Live in L.A. Morrissey at the Hollywood Bowl, June 8

All the elements of a going-down-in-history Morrissey concert were there: sold-out behemoth venue, two full hours, tight band, a whopping ten stage-dive...


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 ...

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...

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.


Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Week Day 2: "Thuggish Ruggish Bone" And the Importance of "Branding"

Whether consciously or not, rappers have understood the concept of branding since the on-and-on-to-the-break-of-dawn days. You can listen to everything ...

A Nip Driver remembered: Mike Webber's Legacy

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The best view of the Grammy Awards from where I sat. The coolest thing I learned last night in the media room at the 50th anniversary Grammy celebration...


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...


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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 ...

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

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


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...


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

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...


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...

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

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


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 ...

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...

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...


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

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...

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...

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

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 ...


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...


So I'm thinking about suing the city of Hollywood. I'm not kidding. The Hollywood Walk of Fame might be pretty to look at under the reflection of the bo...

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


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

Searching for real resistance on May Day

May Day, Dia Internacional del los Trabajadores, is a national holiday here. On Thursday most stores and shops were closed and people didn't work, givin...

Vince McMahon Gets Star on Hollywood Blvd.

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


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...

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

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...


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.


Mick Jones' Carbon/Silicon, Troubadour, 12/3

How long has it been since Mick Jones played L.A.? He said on stage he hadn't been here in 12 years, which would put us back into Big Audio Dynamite ter...

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

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...


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


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

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

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


Arresting Citizens land in the City of Angels

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...


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...

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

The staggering idiocy of Bob Lefsetz boiled to its essence

As long as we're on the subject of Bob Lefsetz, let's talk Bob Lefsetz. I've stayed away from mentioning Santa Monica-based music biz prognosticator Bob...


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

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...


By Randall Roberts He’s out there somewhere. I know it. He apparently comes every year. At least that’s what they tell me up in Seattle, whe...

Cool New Parking Signs to Debut in DTLA Today

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

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

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

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 ...


Tiger Army Wiltern, 11/17 I love the stand-up bass. It's a ridiculously big, bulky instrument that looks cool as hell, especially when painted dark blue...

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

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


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

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...

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...


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...

YOU are cordially invited to the LA Weekly Style Council's VIP advance screening of The Devil Wears Prada at the Grove, on Thursday June 29th @  7 ...

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...


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

Narco war update: El Chapo's son goes down

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


Flight of the Conchords Amoeba Records in-store, April 24 Clement (left) and McKenzie There’s a lot of l’amour in this room tonight. The rac...

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

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

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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...


Feist and Spoon, Gibson Amphitheatre, 11/12

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

Signing On: Massive WGA Strike at Fox Plaza

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


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

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

Still recovering from Paper mag's slew of events last week at Acme gallery, though I missed the Saturday night fevah of Los Super Elegantes (which I hea...


Biggie Smalls Shuts Down Sunset Boulevard

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

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


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

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

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 ...

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...

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...

The Supreme Genius of King Khan & The Shrines

Something's slightly skewed inside King Khan's skull. Pause to look at his press photos, where he's either dressed for beach season in Nice or simply in...


Three large tags on a wall in an empty lot. Painted some time in June or July? More pictures after the jump. See something cool? Email pictures to lurke...

LA Weekly Interviews Mark Eitzel of American Music Club

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


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

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

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

The best kept secret, though, is that the Hot Tubs are way better than Green Day, and sound to us more like the product of Estrus Records than Warners. ...

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...

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

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


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 ...

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Universal Fire Triggered by Worker's Blowtorch

Los Angeles County Fire investigators found that three employees repairing a roof on one of the studio’s back lots caused the Universal Studios fi...

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


Once again, the name of Ray Cortines is buzzing around the halls of Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters, according to today's LA Times. The...

Last night I attended a party at my friend Zoe's teeny-tiny adorable Silver Lake cottage on a hill, which comfortably holds a maximum of maybe fifteen p...

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

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...


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


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 ...


As I've reported at my personal blog Intersections, emos are under attack in Mexico. Here are a few good primary sources to better understand what's hap...

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


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

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

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


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...

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

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


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

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


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Hair Today, Still Freakin' Hair Tomorrow


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


Gay and Happy at a West Hollywood Candle Shop

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


Down a little driveway alley next to Brooklyn Projects in Echo Park is an excellent collaborative piece between OBEY and SABER. Enjoy: All photos by Mar...


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

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...

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


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...

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


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...

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...

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


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 ...


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

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

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...

Jane's Addiction Original Lineup Play LA Next Week

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


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...

Product Placement - The Striker Gourmets

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


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...

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

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 ...

Foo Fighters The Forum, with Against Me!, Serj Tankian March 5, 2008 Photos and text by Timothy Norris More photos here. What can be said about the Foo ...


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

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


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

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...


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

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


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...

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


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 ...

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 ...

Guantanamo Detainee Mysteriously Contracts AIDS

Fresh air for prisoners at Guantanamo Abdul Hamid al-Ghizzawi, a Libyan meteorologist currently designated an "enemy combatant" and imprisoned by the U....


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...

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 ...


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

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


Introducing Teenage Kicks + A Moment of Rock Crit Glory

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

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

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


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

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


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

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

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

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


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 ...

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

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...