Email Author Gustavo Turner

Awards

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published May 13, 2010

  "Roger & Me"

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published March 6, 2010

  "The Cool Maestro"

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published September 30, 2010

  "Listening to Yoko"

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2010 Stories by Gustavo Turner

• Unbelievably Offensive Taiwanese TV Animation of Elton John and His Partner Welcoming their New Baby

  published Dec 30, 2010

  Every time some worldwide newsworthy event makes it to Taiwan, a certain Taiwanese TV show does a creepy computer animation illustrating in a sort-of comedic way such event. They first came to our at... More >>

• NPR Claims Electric Daisy Carnival Rave Was Bigger Than Coachella in 2010

  published Dec 30, 2010

  NPR's blog The Record just published an interesting end-of-the-year survey of the current rise of dubstep, and it's frattier doppelganger "bro-step" (read the comments thread for that post for a kind... More >>

• William Eggleston, Superstar

  published December 30, 2010

  "Poet of the mundane." That's what the LACMA press material calls photographer William Eggleston, and that's how "the... More >>

• Motorhead Announces World Tour, LA Date

  published Dec 28, 2010

  Los Angeles strip club Patron of the Decade Lemmy and his current crop of Motorhead bandmates have announced a world tour that will take them all over the US and then over to Australia and South Amer... More >>

• Rapper The Game vs. Canoga Park Mall: A Tale of (Allegedly) Thieving Valet Parkers, (Allegedly) Racist Cops and a Louis Vuitton Duffel Bag with $75,000 in It

  published Dec 27, 2010

  Billboard reports an amazing tale concerning rapper The Game's Christmas shopping misadventures at a local mall. Apparently Game and his associate Avante Rose (also, apparently a Tila Tequila associat... More >>

• Ke$ha's "Tik Tok"-- the Christian Version! (Watch)

  published Dec 22, 2010

  Daily Swarm points us to today's WTF moment: a trio of peppy Christian girls entertaining a wholesome Middle America crowd with a Christian adaptation of Ke$ha's "Tik Tok" that gives props to their go... More >>

• Badly Drawn Boy Finally Apologizes for LA Meltdown at the Troubadour

  published Dec 21, 2010

  Badly Drawn Boy (aka Damon Gough) finally took to his Facebook account to apologize to the Troubadour audience (though not to those he claims were heckling him). As we reported during the show and in ... More >>

• Rob Zombie Now Selling... Coffeer

  published Dec 21, 2010

  If you had any doubts that Rob Zombie is the modern world's Gene Simmons--that is, a shlocky shock rocker who turned his cartoonish persona into a marketing bonanza--, well, here comes Rob Zombie Hell... More >>

• The Troubadour to Angry Badly Drawn Boy Customers: No Refund for You!

  published Dec 20, 2010

  [NEW UPDATE, 12/21/2010: Badly Drawn Boy Finally Apologizes to LA Audience for Troubadour Meltdown.] Last week Badly Drawn Boy (aka, Damon Gough) came to Los Angeles to "play" a "show" at The Troubad... More >>

• R.E.M and Eddie Vedder Team Up for New Song (Listen)

  published Dec 20, 2010

  This would have made people run to Tower Records circa 1993 (we miss Tower Records...), but thanks to the Internet (because we live in the future) you can stream the brand-new R.E.M.-Eddie Vedder coll... More >>

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  Peaches at the Orpheum and Killing Joke at the Wiltern Over the Weekend

  published Dec 20, 2010

  [For more photos, see Timothy Norris' slideshow "Peaches Christ Superstar @ The Orpheum Theatre".] This weekend, we reviewed Peaches at the Orpheum Theater, performing Peaches Christ Superstar, and ... More >>

• The Day Captain Beefheart Outsold the Beatles, the Stones and Pink Floyd

  published Dec 19, 2010

  It is a widely known (and kind of sick) fact of the music business that nothing helps sales of the back catalog of an artist like the death of said artist. The massive sales bump caused by people rus... More >>

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  Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet), Dead at 69

  published Dec 17, 2010

  [See also, "Top 14 Reasons Why Captain Beefheart Was a True American Genius" and "Captain Beefheart: The Legendary 1980 Profile by Lester Bangs"] Don Van Vliet (1941-2010), the genius surreal poet, ... More >>

• Waka Flocka Flame's Mom Denies Being a Pimp

  published Dec 17, 2010

  Flamboyant rap star Gucci Mane (see yesterday's awesome list) and his "associate" Waka Flocka Flame (who maybe is a novelty rapper, maybe not, we don't know, maybe the joke's on us, maybe not) are bot... More >>

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  Badly Drawn Boy Has Bizarre Meltdown During Troubadour Show, Leaves after C-Word Rant, Returns to Whine about Everything [UPDATE: Video]

  published Dec 16, 2010

  [NEW UPDATE, 12/21/2010: Badly Drawn Boy Finally Apologizes to LA Audience for Troubadour Meltdown.] [UPDATE: Fans tried to get a refund from the Troubadour. This is the reply they got.] [For Moll... More >>

• Thurston Moore's New Solo Album Was Produced in LA by ... Beckrrr

  published Dec 16, 2010

  The NME reports that in an interview with a Philly paper, Sonic Youth very tall person Thurston Moore revealed that his new solo album was recorded in Beck's LA home, produced by the enigmatic local g... More >>

• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2011 Inductees Leakedr

  published Dec 14, 2010

  A much less momentous version of Wikileaks has interfered with the mysterious selection process for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Website Hits Daily Double apparently got hold of the list of Rock an... More >>

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  Coachella 2011: Who Should Be the Headlinerr Rumors Swirl around Arcade Fire, Daft Punk and ... Coldplayr

  published Dec 14, 2010

  Rumors about who will be headlining Coachella 2011 pretty much started the moment the last harmonics stopped resonating at the Indio Polo Field last spring. With 2011 fast approaching, and Goldenvoice... More >>

• Melvins Reveal Albums They Will Be Playing at Their Spaceland Residency (EXCLUSIVE)

  published Dec 10, 2010

  A short while ago, Spaceland Productions announced that local indie demigods The Melvins will be playing a Friday residency during January 2011 at the Silver Lake club formerly known as "Spaceland," a... More >>

• Coachella 2011 Layaway Plan Begins Today

  published Dec 10, 2010

  Don't wanna splurge on pricey Coachella tickets all at oncer Too irresponsible to run your own savings account (and make a little interest)r The Coachella Layaway Plan begins today, offered to you by ... More >>

• Read Johnny Cash's Homoerotic, Biracial Fantasy in His Own Handwriting!

  published Dec 09, 2010

  The recent auction of Johnny Cash's own memorabilia yielded some interesting web commentary, but buried in the catalog we found an incredibly strange item that made us reassess the super-macho image t... More >>

• Elephant 6 Orchestra to Bring '90s Psych Pop Revival to the Satellite in March (Get Tix)

  published Dec 09, 2010

  The spirit of Elephant 6, the '90s collective behind cult albums by Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control and many, many others, will be revived this coming March at the Satellite (aka, the Venue ... More >>

• Best Kanye West Remix for People Who Can't Stand Kanye West (Listen)

  published Dec 09, 2010

  A lot of people love Kanye West. A whole bunch of other people, however, think he's a fine musician but a kind-of-obnoxious person and wish he would reverse the ratio between his mouthing off and his ... More >>

• The LA Times Uncovers Echo Park Gentrification with Insane, LULZy Trend Piece!

  published Dec 03, 2010

  It's generally a bad idea to mock our fellow old-media LA institution the LA Times too much because a) it's too easy and b) they've been known to hire LA Weekly music editors after their stint in o... More >>

• Johnny Marr to Conservative British Prime Minister David Cameron: "I forbid you to like The Smiths"

  published Dec 02, 2010

  Conservative politicians and non-conservative pop musicians are always having altercations about the former's use of the latter's music and hipness for nefarious political purposes. The latest spat... More >>