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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2009 Stories by Randall Roberts

• Five Hours of Hot and Cool With Prince at L.A. Live

  published April 2, 2009

  There’s a lot of responsibility to go around for the wildly uneven Five Hours of Prince gig at L.A. Live on Saturday... More >>

• SXSW: Who Would Leave Metallica for Black Cobra? Our Man in Austin

  published March 26, 2009

  The first official night of South by Southwest music, you’d think, would be kind of a pacesetter, a warm-up night. But... More >>

• Out of the Fog: Will Oldham's Warm and Fuzzy Return to L.A.

  published March 26, 2009

  In the Moroccan-tiled patio of downtown L.A.’s Hotel Figueroa, Will Oldham and a half-dozen friends and acquaintances... More >>

• Coachella: Indio Times 10

  published March 19, 2009

  Ten years on, Coachella is an institution, the first big event of the American festival season. It’s also a barometer of... More >>

• West Coast Sound: An L.A. Music Pro's Guide to South by Southwest

  published March 12, 2009

  At least 171 Los Angeles–area acts will represent at the South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas, next... More >>

• Ticketmaster and Servants: Bands Get Cut of Service Fee

  published March 5, 2009

  The service charge. Is there any more ridiculous and utterly transparent lie in American commerce? It’s like telling us... More >>

• Jacksonian Seizure: The Rise and Fall of Michael Jackson and His Investments Mirror Americans' Spendy Ways

  published February 19, 2009

  Children and optimists, avert your eyes for a moment, because we’ve got some bad news: Dreams die. As we’re now... More >>

• Katy Perry Unpeeled — and Other Signs of Life in the Dead of the Grammys PressRoom

  published February 12, 2009

  When you tell an outsider that you’re “covering the Grammys,” it sounds pretty swank. Before I did it for... More >>

• Maybe We're Amazed: Notes on the Fairly Odd Coachella 2009 Lineup

  published February 5, 2009

  They come from 17 countries on five continents, the musicians of Coachella 2009, though the majority are, as always, natives... More >>

• West Coast Sound: Kaki King on Timbaland, Playing Solo and Being Frightened by the Cure

  published January 29, 2009

  Last week we got an intriguing e-mail from the wonderful guitarist/singer Kaki King’s people reminding us of her show in... More >>

• The Day the Music Died: The End of Indie 103.1

  published January 22, 2009

  About three months ago, while I was driving home from LAX on a Saturday night, the car stereo was barely on, my mind was far... More >>

• Heath Ledger's Projects With L.A. Art Collective 'The Masses' Reach Fruition

  published January 1, 2009

  Last month, quietly and without fanfare, the high-rise ad for The Dark Knight on the building at the corner of... More >>

• L.A. Weekly's "Top Seven Music Things of the Year That Weren't Compact Discs" List

  published January 1, 2009

  For much of the ’00s, music writers have spent the first 11 months of each year opining on the inevitable demise of the... More >>