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

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Billboard Liberation on Melrose and LaBrea

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

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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...

Alan McGee says "No Need" for Record Shops Anymore

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DAY 2: Mr. Nobody and Other Fashion Week Friends

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Guilty As Charged: Anthony Pellicano trial ends with prosecution victory

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New Free Gobbledigook (and Naked People) from Sigur Ros

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Joan and Melissa Give Us Their Oscar Fashion Predictions

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Last night at the Brit Awards, Paul Weller was honored for his Outstanding Contribution to British Music. Now 47, the Original Style Councilor (OSC, lik...

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

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

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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 ...

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


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Queer Town: Human Rights Campaign Endorses Obama

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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 Kooks, Morning Benders, Troubadour, 2/7

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So the DVF party on Sat was a fun lil fete (see Steffie's post below) but heck, I haven't even told ya about my Grammy week craziness…. Well you ...

Between all the schmoozing and the boozing, the cruising and the perusing (someone stop me, please), it was near impossible to find the time to do any a...


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...

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...

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

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


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

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

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

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, ...

The Black Lips at the Troubadour, 10/19/07

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


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...

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...

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 ...


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

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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 ...

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...


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

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


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

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 ...

Rutling Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery

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

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


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...

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...

Jon Spencer, Jail Weddings at the Echo, 11/10

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Treat Yourself: Head To Bittersweet Butterfly

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

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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 ...

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


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

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Ima Robot and the Myth of the MC Hammer Pants


The Supreme Genius of King Khan & The Shrines

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

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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...

Cool New Parking Signs to Debut in DTLA Today

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

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


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...


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

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...


Rain Rain Go Away Charlize Theron Wants To Play

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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...


With The National, I traveled to the never fashionable north London district of Wood Green to visit the home and studio of Southern’s founder John...

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

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


Heavy Trash, Jail Weddings The Echo, Nov. 10 Photos and review by Rena Kosnett I’m just trying to understand why Jon Spencer is doing this. This e...

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


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...

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

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

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

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

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


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...

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

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

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.


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

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

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 ...


Angelina on Angelina, Jennifer and Celebrities These Days


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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...

(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...

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

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


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

Dave Navarro Wants The Style Council Naked

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

I was still posting some shots taken in the alleys south of Melrose where CBS crew puts up a lot of new work when I made a return trip and found a few n...

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...


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...

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

Hairs Looking at You: Backstage at Shay Todd

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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...


Joan and Melissa Give Us Their Oscar Fashion Predictions


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...

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

White Williams, Magic Bullets, Echo 1/27

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


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

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...

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

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

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...


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...


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...


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


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White Stripes Cancel Dates, Including the Forum

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

LA Weekly Detour Festival: A Race for the Prize

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


Product Placement - The Striker Gourmets

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

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...


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

Construction Site on Santa Monica and Wilton

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


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...

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

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Banksy Elephant Set to Star in Christina Aguilera Video


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

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...


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...


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

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

The 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...


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...

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

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...


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...

Fashion Weeklings? LA Observed Notices Our Abscence


(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...

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...

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

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 ...


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...

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

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

Last night at the Brit Awards, Paul Weller was honored for his Outstanding Contribution to British Music. Now 47, the Original Style Councilor (OSC, lik...


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

"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...


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...

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Queer Town: Good Fun at the Cock Ring Toss

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

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


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 ...

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...


Hair Today, Still Freakin' Hair Tomorrow


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

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

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

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

The recently shuttered Old Spaghetti Factory on Sunset east of Vine didn't take long to get a new paint job. These pieces went up within the past week. ...


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

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

He might be a crazy character, but it aint from GHB! All charges against Germs drummer Don Bolles will be dismissed after additional testing of the pepp...

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


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

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

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

Craigslist Post of the Week - Studs Seek Sugarmama

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...


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...

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...

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...

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...

American Art Core: Behind the Orange Curtain

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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...

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...

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...

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

Live In L.A.: Prince — Straight, With Chaser


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...

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

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

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

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...


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

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

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

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


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...

Thousands Predicted To Attend Fallen SWAT Officers Funeral

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


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

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...

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

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

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

The 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...


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. ...

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...

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


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

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

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

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...

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


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...

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

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

Too many gallery posts, not enough grimy street art. Sorry. I've been trying to figure out how to get photos of pieces I see along our freeways, particu...


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

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

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

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...

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....


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

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

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 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....

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

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

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

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

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


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...

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...

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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...

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

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

Live in LA: Iron Maiden invokes Coleridge, Crowley, Eddie in Irvine

Iron Maiden at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Irvine, May 31 By Skylaire Alfvegren (photos by Anne Varak). “I’ve got to pinch myself and say...


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


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

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

Los Angeles Unified School teacher Michael Zeno was sickened when he pulled into his regular shopping area at Lincoln Boulevard and Rose Avenue in Venic...

Queer Town: Good Fun at the Cock Ring Toss

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

By Peter Fletcher I was reminiscing with my buddy, Bruce Duff, after watching Celebrity Skin at the Detour festival in downtown LA. We were talking abou...


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 ...

Tobacco of Black Moth Super Rainbow & Aesop Rock-"Dirt"

On last year's None Shall Pass tour, Aesop tabbed Pittsburgh psych weirdos Black Moth Super Rainbow to open for him. It was an inspired move and one tha...

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 ...


Hillary Clinton projected winner in California

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


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...


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


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


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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...


Pigeon Poop Blamed for Safari Sam's Sign Spontaneous Combustion

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

Metaform-Standing On the Shoulders of Giants

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

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

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


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 ...

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...

The Verdict on Writers: All Bloody Nuts (Phew)


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...


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

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

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


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 ...

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 ...

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...


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

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


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...

Catching the fashion bug takes on new meaning during flu season, or so we've discovered. The collections and presentations at Mercedes Benz fashion Week...


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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...


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

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


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


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

Dave Navarro Wants The Style Council Naked

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

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

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


SXSW Day 3-The Unifying Power of Devin the Dude

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

McCartney Fans Stake out Amoeba for Free In-Store Performance

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


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....

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

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...

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...

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

Guilty As Charged: Anthony Pellicano trial ends with prosecution victory

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

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...

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...


Ten artists made up the new Snow Angels show at ThinkSpace including new works by Stella Im Hultberg. Above, Hultberg's “Heartbeats,” Availa...

Braving 'New Worlds' at the Jumex Collection

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


Anthony Pellicano discovers Tarita Virtue is her own reward For four days ex-Pellicano employee Tarita Virtue wore black to court as she testified under...


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


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

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


I've always thought of West Hollywood as a shiny, happy sort of place - but apparently Boys Town isn't always as fabulous as you'd think. I got an email...


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...

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...

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...

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.


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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 ...

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

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

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...

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...

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...


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

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...

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 ...

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

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...


Kids Get Retarded at City Hall, Make Out in Confessionals

Thousands of urban urchins took hits on bowls and marveled at their shroom trails while sitting on the steps of City Hall during the LA Weekly's Detour ...


“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...

Photos by Pandora Young Sweet blowjobby metal! Dethklok are legend. They are so metal they once played a show in an active volcano. It was so brutal the...

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


"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...

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

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

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...

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 ...


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

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

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...

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...

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...


Billy Childish at London's Dirty Water Club, 4.11.2008

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

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.

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...


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...

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

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

Gutter Twins, Great Northern, Avalon, 4/2

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

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


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

What happens in Anacortes, stays in Anacortes.

You know how MySpace has that section called "cool new people," and how, at least from the photos, these people always seem anything but cool? Club Prom...


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...


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

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

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

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


Black Crystal Wolf Kids Are Like Seeing All of Coachella in One Band

Want to hear "Seven Nation Army" and "Dog Days Are Over" without standing in a field full of sweaty hipsters? You can, thanks to Black Crystal Wolf Kids...

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

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...

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...


Slick Mural on Santa Monica Blvd. near Sunset


Hillary Wins Massachusetts but Loses Her Alma-Mater Wellesley

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

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

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

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...

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


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

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

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


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 ...

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...


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

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...

Happy holidays everyone! More to come soon, but in the meantime, a little slice of roadside art in upstate New York.....


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...

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

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

Tapes ‘n Tapes The Troubadour, May 8, 2008 By Jonah Flicker Photos by Timothy Norris About halfway through the first night of Minnesota’s Ta...

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...


Last Night: Unsane, 400 Blows, Mouth of the Architect

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 ...

Sex crimes investigator assassinated in Juarez

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


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 ...

Guilty As Charged: Anthony Pellicano trial ends with prosecution victory

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

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

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

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More bands added to Coachella. But their names don't start with Radio and end in head

Ordinarily announcing a SoCal date for Aphex Twin would be pretty damn cool. In fact, I was just wondering recently if the guy was ever going to come ou...

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

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...


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...


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

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...

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...

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


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 ...


Fashion Week, Take 2: Marvin & Quetzal line dazzles

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

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

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

Up until now, it's been a lot of pleasant surprises: bands that maybe a lot of people hadn't been too familiar with, but ended up digging. Not so with K...

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

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. ...


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 ...


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

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

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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...

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


All photos by Timothy Norris. Vampire Weekend appear in broad daylight, above and below. Kim (or Kelly) Deal of The Breeders Jack White with The Raconte...

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, ...


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

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...

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...


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

Saturday, June 7th Queen Mary, Long Beach The greasers, rockers, 'billies and Betties couldn't ask for a better summer shindig than Saturday at the Ink ...

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

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

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


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

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...

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...

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...


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

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

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

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

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

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


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Last night at the Brit Awards, Paul Weller was honored for his Outstanding Contribution to British Music. Now 47, the Original Style Councilor (OSC, lik...

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...


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

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

Elbow, Air Traffic Avalon, May 9, 2008 Photos and words by Timothy Norris Shortly before Elbow took the stage Friday night for the final show of their l...

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

Who's the "Boss?": The True Definition of Boss According to Rick Ross

If there are any aspiring young rappers out there reading this, now is the time to rejoice. With his second album, Trilla, Rick Ross has proven that all...

Yesterday, the LA Times released an amazing poll of Californians' views on same sex marriage. One startling fact--from the gay point of view, at least--...


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


Caroline and I swung by Get The Fuck Up Radio last night, check her blog, coming soon, I'm eating leftovers, working, drinking cheap red wine, and blogg...

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

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


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...


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

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

Newsflash: LA Times ruins P. Diddy's weekend

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

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

Chris Anderson + Wired explain the business of free.

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


White Williams, Magic Bullets, Echo 1/27

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

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...

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

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

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


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 ...

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


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...


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...

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


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...

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...

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...

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Urb magazine's website is reporting that Portishead will be one of Coachella's 2008 headliners. Read the full story (reported by occasional LA Weekly fr...


Billy Childish at London's Dirty Water Club, 4.11.2008

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

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 ...


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

Treat Yourself: Head To Bittersweet Butterfly

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, ...


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...

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

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

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 ...


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 ...


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

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 ...

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


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...

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 ...

Last Night: Unsane, 400 Blows, Mouth of the Architect

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...


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

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...

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

Resolved: If a greying man promises you he's going to revolutionize the music industry, be skeptical.

Allan Klepfisz, CEO of Qtrax, telegraphs the company's death spiral. Lesson: Do not trust graying, comfortable men when they tell you they've seen the f...

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...


Marc Cooper on the Primaries in NC and IN

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

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


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


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

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....


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...


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...

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...


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...

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


Gutter Twins, Great Northern, Avalon, 4/2

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


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.

Rain Rain Go Away Charlize Theron Wants To Play

Elbow, Air Traffic Avalon, May 9, 2008 Photos and words by Timothy Norris Shortly before Elbow took the stage Friday night for the final show of their l...

"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...

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...


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

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


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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...

Queer Town: Human Rights Campaign Endorses Obama

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


Whew! What a New Year's Eve celebration! I was invited to an Upper East Side mansion, think Mr. Drummond from Diff'rent Strokes, no, think Silver Spoons...


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

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

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


"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...


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

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


I woke up this morning with my cowboy boots on, laying face down fully clothed on my couch. I didn't even make it into my bedroom.You know you were at a...

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...


Hillary Wins Massachusetts but Loses Her Alma-Mater Wellesley

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

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. ...


Craigslist Post of the Week - Studs Seek Sugarmama

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

Perhaps, the Material Girl (see post below for back story) had another reason for creating the temporary Madonna Gallerie— to sell her wares outsi...

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


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

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...

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


Resolved: If a greying man promises you he's going to revolutionize the music industry, be skeptical.

Allan Klepfisz, CEO of Qtrax, telegraphs the company's death spiral. Lesson: Do not trust graying, comfortable men when they tell you they've seen the f...

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

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

(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...


Pearl Jam - Rock Werchter Festival, Belgium

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

Grizzly Bear live on Morning Becomes Eclectic, Feb. 27

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

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


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...


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


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

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 ...

Chris Anderson + Wired explain the business of free.

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


Last night's Paul Smith store opening bash on Melrose was a rousing and rosy affair befitting its pink exterior and attracting a huge crowd full of fash...

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

Who needs voters? The fix was in on the Eastside last night By Max Taves Waiting for a full vote count didn’t get in the way of a good time at the...

Saturday, June 7th Queen Mary, Long Beach The greasers, rockers, 'billies and Betties couldn't ask for a better summer shindig than Saturday at the Ink ...

After my dinner debacle last week (see my last post) I was ready for a little plushness and pampering, and I got a lot of it with three Alexis Carringto...


Maybe it was payback from the hater gods for being too happy and too much in love on Valentines Day, but the romantic dinner I  bragged about havin...

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...

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

Between all the schmoozing and the boozing, the cruising and the perusing (someone stop me, please), it was near impossible to find the time to do any a...


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...

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


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...

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...

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


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.

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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...


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

Maywood Hires a Convicted Ethics Professor as Interim Police Chief

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


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...

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

It sure seems like there has been an awful lot of murders in Los Angeles County since January. Every time I look at the newspaper or check out the night...


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...

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...


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...

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...


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....

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...

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 ...

Dave Navarro Wants The Style Council Naked

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


It's BCS Championship Game time and, two years after Katrina, New Orleanians are no doubt ecstatic to have the Sugar Bowl back in their fair city. They ...


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...

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


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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 ...


The flier likened it to WWD meets WWF, but the Style Wars event at Cinespace on Tuesday night was more like Iron Chef meets Martha Stewart's Craft Corne...

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

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 ...