Email Author Randall Roberts

Awards

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 25, 2009

  "On the Road to Burma"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Bon Iver at Hollywood Forever Cemetery"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 12, 2009

  "Katy Perry Unpeeled"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 23, 2011

  "The Day the Music Died"

• 2008 - Association of Food Journalists Awards, published April 25, 2007

  "Chinatown Confidential"

• 2006 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published June 1, 2005

  "It Was Just Like Beverly Hills"

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2007 Stories by Randall Roberts

• 2007's Long Players You Might Have Missed

  published December 27, 2007

  It’s enough to make you dig a hole and listen to nothing but Kinks records for the winter: so much stuff out there and so many people... More >>

• Björk: Intruder Alert

  published December 20, 2007

  BjörkNokia Theatre, December 12Last night’s Björk show at the Dystopia — er, I mean Nokia — Theatre... More >>

• A Music Journalist Remembers the Old Dewey Cox

  published December 13, 2007

  Dewey Cox? Yes we do. But not without hesitation. There may be renewed interest in Cox in the wake of Walk Hard, and he may be strutting... More >>

• Are You Not Devo? You Are Mutato

  published December 6, 2007

  The Mutato Muzika building in West Hollywood is painted Day-Glo green and looks like a tipped-over hamster wheel, with mirrored windows as... More >>

• Carpet Bombs

  published December 6, 2007

  Carpet BombsMark Mothersbaugh’s recent art show, “Rugs During Wartime and Peacetime,” just closed at the Scion... More >>

• Van Halen: Reunited (and It Feels So Good)

  published November 29, 2007

  Van HalenStaples Center, November 20Jack and Coke? Check. Bic lighter? You know it. Rocker passed out on sidewalk, girlfriend... More >>

• Bob Dylan’s Most Mysterious Recording

  published November 22, 2007

  In a West Saugerties, New York, house dubbed by its tenants “Big Pink,” Bob Dylan and a band who later named themselves The Band... More >>

• Mending the Gap

  published November 15, 2007

  Nevada City–based composer and harpist Joanna Newsom, who performs on Friday at Walt Disney Concert Hall, has released two of the most... More >>

• Program Notes: Hippies at the Phil, a Primer

  published November 8, 2007

  Hippies at the Phil??By Randall Roberts?Walt Disney Concert Hall, Friday, November 9, 2007?Joanna Newsom(b. January 18,... More >>

• Greetings from Suburbia

  published November 1, 2007

  Back and forth we walk, through fairway-cut grass, soft and padded on practice fields, the kind that feels really good beneath bare feet. As... More >>

• Buy It, Use It, Break It, Fix It

  published October 25, 2007

  {mosimage}This Saturday night at the Vegoose Festival in Las Vegas, Daft Punk will conclude its revelatory summer American tour. Praised by both... More >>

• The Rainbows Connection

  published October 25, 2007

  1906, Brant Rock, Massachusetts: Sailors off the coast of the Atlantic hear an eerie, otherworldly sound emanating from a box given to... More >>

• Man-Sized

  published October 18, 2007

  PJ Harveyat the Orpheum Theater, October 15Polly Harvey waltzed onstage last night looking like Emily Dickinson after a rough... More >>

• Taking the Downtown Detour

  published October 11, 2007

  WALKING TOWARD THE City Hall East stage at Saturday’s L.A. Weekly Detour Festival, a grumpy girl in red Chuck Taylors... More >>

• And Justice for All

  published September 27, 2007

  The guys who make up the French electronic duo Justice don’t seem to want to be in Los Angeles on this particular day, the day after they... More >>

• Band of Horses and Dinosaur Jr.

  published September 20, 2007

  Band of Horses and Dinosaur Jr.at the Wiltern, September 8Before Band of Horses began their set at the Wiltern as openers for... More >>

• Breaking the Trance

  published September 13, 2007

  One version of the Burning Man experience goes like this. You’re riding from Los Angeles in a rented RV with three other dudes who have... More >>

• A Diamond Is Forever

  published August 16, 2007

  The booze is flowing early on this Monday morning at the Four Seasons. Just because Eddie’s stopped drinking doesn’t mean we have... More >>

• Sunset Salutation

  published August 16, 2007

  Ask a dozen music fans about the Sunset Junction festival and you’ll get some polarizing responses. Some will say it used to be better.... More >>

• No Sympathy for You

  published August 9, 2007

  Pullquote:Talk to Long Gone John about his early days as an entrepreneur, and you’re left with a single, indelible image, one that... More >>