Email Author Rebecca Haithcoat

2012 Stories by Rebecca Haithcoat

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  The Exorcist at the Geffen Playhouse

  published July 19, 2012

  At a certain point in life, a person feels that he has sorted out his religious beliefs. The aim of John Pielmeier's stage adaptation of... More >>

• Baron Von Luxxury on His Friends' Double-Suicide, Five Years Later

  published Jul 17, 2012

  See also: The Theresa Duncan Tragedy: A writer-game designer and her boyfriend commit suicide, and a facade falls away Blake Robin is a nu-disco producer and DJ who performs under the name Baron von ... More >>

• Azealia Banks - Fonda Theatre - 7/14/12

  published Jul 16, 2012

  See also: *Our review of Azealia Banks at Coachella *Slutwave, Tumblr Rap, Rape Gaze: Obscure Musical Genres Explained Azealia Banks Fonda Theatre 7/14/12 Hip-hop remains one of the last bastions ... More >>

• The Cataracs Are Not Like a G6

  published Jul 12, 2012

  It's a Friday morning, and David Singer-Vine and Niles Hollowell-Dhar sit on the sun-dappled patio of their favorite taco stand, Silver Lake's El Siete Mares. But they don't order food. "It's too earl... More >>

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  Cunning Linguists: Five Recent Rap Songs About Going Down

  published Jul 06, 2012

  With a few exceptions -- Lil Wayne, call us -- male rappers historically have come off as very ungenerous lovers. It's always been, "Hey, eat/suck/gobble/choke on my dick!" with the only promise of r... More >>

• Leading Ladies

  published June 28, 2012

  Ken Ludwig's a sophisticated guy. The playwright is responsible for some of the more glamorous Broadway productions of the past 20 years or so... More >>

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  D'Angelo - House of Blues - 7/4/12

  published Jul 05, 2012

  D'Angelo House of Blues 7/4/12 Comeback stories are as American as baseball and apple pie. D'Angelo -- the R&B singer who's had to shoulder the weight of being most-likely-to-succeed to both Marvin ... More >>

• Issa Rae and Awkward Black Girl Fill a (Tiny) Niche

  published Jun 27, 2012

  Check out our entire YouTube issue here. In front of the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf at the Grove, someone is scraping lightweight plastic chairs across the pavement instead of picking them up, and the s... More >>

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  Adam Weiss: Decidedly Caucasian Dude Throws Some of the City's Grimiest Parties

  published Jun 25, 2012

  See also: *Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time Somewhere right now, Adam Weiss probably is spazzing out and shouting the word "swag" over sleazy rap songs with... More >>

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  The Pharcyde's Bumpy Ride

  published June 21, 2012

  Last month, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Pharcyde's seminal album, Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde, label Delicious Vinyl... More >>

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  Here's Scientific Proof That Dubstep Makes You Want to Kill People

  published Jun 19, 2012

  Top Ten Awkward Electric Daisy Carnival Dance Move GIFs World's Douchiest DJs: The Top Five Top Ten EDM Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Dance Music Ten EDC Girls Who Are Out of My League ... More >>

• You're a Kid Who Wants to Scratchr Hit Up Tina T's Camp Spinoff

  published Jun 15, 2012

  DJ Tina T's motto is "Less skin, more skill." "I never wanted people to say I got where I am because of who I was sleeping with," she says recently, sipping an iced green tea on the patio of Sunset ... More >>

• Lil' Kim - Key Club - 6/13/12

  published Jun 14, 2012

  Sean Healy Presents Lil' Kim Key Club 6/13/12 We have all been unfair to Lil' Kim. Try to imagine how scary it must have been to be the first female rapper to lay bare her sexual proclivities for ... More >>

• Patty: The Revival

  published May 24, 2012

  Meshing Patty Duke and Patty Hearst, creator-director Patrick Kennelly’s musical explores our fixation on the cult of personality and our... More >>

• The Internet, Kilo Kish - The Echo - 5/25/12

  published May 26, 2012

  See also: Odd Future's Syd the Kyd Joins The Internet The Internet, Kilo Kish The Echo 5/25/12 In September, Odd Future subgroup The Internet (producer Matt Martians and DJ/producer/engineer Syd th... More >>

• The Laughing Cow

  published May 3, 2012

  "What do you do when someone hands you information that makes you look at the world a little differently?" There's almost a Jerry... More >>

• The Pharcyde - The Roxy - 5/23/12

  published May 24, 2012

  See also: *The Pharcyde's Bizarre Ride, 20 Years Later: rAn Appreciation *Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List The Pharcyde The Roxy 5/23/12 Better than ... listening to ... More >>

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  Hit Boy: Whatever Kanye Wants ...

  published May 18, 2012

  One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. "Ni**as in Paris," last year's most popular song, exploded in roughly the sa... More >>

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  Rock the Bells 2012 Lineup Announced, Includes Bone Thugs, Deltron 3030, Missy Elliot

  published May 16, 2012

  See also: Our review of Rock the Bells 2011 Last night Guerilla Union announced this year's Rock the Bells 2012 dates, headliners and lineup. Beginning in 2010, the hip-hop festival's headliners --... More >>

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  Toni Monroe Is a Big Beautiful Rapper

  published May 04, 2012

  See also: Top Ten Sexiest Fat Chicks in Music Toni Monroe is beautiful. She has a powerful stage presence, and doesn't need a hype man. But yet, she's something of a hard sell. For one thing, she's w... More >>

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  Glasses Malone Has A New, Highly-Objectionable Song With the Chorus: "Treat It Like Rihanna"

  published May 03, 2012

  See also: Pop Bottles: Glasses Malone's Debut Album Finally Drops A few months ago, Watts rapper Glasses Malone stopped by LA Weekly to chat about his oft-stalled debut album on Cash Money Records. W... More >>

• The Record Company Got Drunk, Then Made Blues Music in the Backyard

  published May 01, 2012

  The backyard of The Record Company's Los Feliz house is the kind of place where you want to sit and stay a while. Birds are chirping, a lawnmower whirs in the distance and a dog slumps happily on the ... More >>

• Cobb

  published March 8, 2012

  No matter what kind of myth you are, another man eventually will come along and replace you. Ty Cobb set around 90 records in baseball, many of... More >>

• Ten Hot, Sweaty, Silly Coachella Dances, In GIF Form

  published Apr 23, 2012

  See also: *Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs *Our Complete Coachella Coverage During Coachella's second weekend, temperatures topped 100 degrees every day. Yet somehow folks were dancing eve... More >>

• Azealia Banks - Coachella - 4/21/12

  published Apr 22, 2012

  See also: Our Complete Coachella Coverage Safe bet that thousands of people shouting, "I guess that cunt getting eaten" in unison has never happened at Coachella before. Yet that's exactly what was ... More >>