Brendan Mullen

While Superbowl Sunday is ragin’ full-on for the rest of America, Ian MacKaye is busy meetin’ an’ greetin’ fans and old friends while simultaneously loading out gear after the Evens’ all-ages sold-out-at-five-bucks throw-down in the backroom at McCabe’s in Santa Monica. “Who cares about a ball game if Ian’s in......

He’s lost count. There’ve been around 30 different lineups of his band, the Fall. His discography includes some 30 studio albums, 50 singles, 50 live and compilation albums. (He once accidentally made it onto the British pop charts.) He can’t remember the number of times he’s played L.A. over the......

Photo by Michael Fox Hot on the spiked heels of the notorious 1976 "Prostitution" showstopper at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, Genesis P-Orridge and his chief partner-collaborator at the time, a stunning exotic dancer turned performance artist named Cosey Fanni Tutti, turned up in L.A. to perform at......

Photo by Ted Soqui THE HIP AND THE INFORMED HAVE COME TO regard gangsta rap as an irradicable virus created by fabulously wealthy producers and entrepreneurs, long gone from the ghetto (if they were ever there in the first place), now living in gated communities in Calabasas, pandering to dopey......

Marc Moreland, guitarist, songwriter and co-founder with Stan Ridgway of the electro-pop band Wall of Voodoo, died in a Paris hospital on March 13. He was 44. He had been in failing health in recent years and underwent a liver transplant two months ago. The operation was apparently successful, but......

Enlarge image Jack Costanzo is an overlooked hipster saint who thrived everywhere he went throughout an amazing and still-going-strong 55-plus-year career, and herewith follows the case for his canonization in the Big Book of Jazz Hipsterology. Sometime around 1947, renowned big-band leader Stan Kenton was inspired by Cuban legend Machito......