Vli, Norse god of vengeance paid Los Angeles a visit, and he brought his boys. Last night, under Hoth's moon, Sweden's melodic-death-metal sons of Thor, Amon Amarth, (and Swiss folk-metal outfit Eluveitie) played House of Blues. Everyone looking ...
Tijuana-based electronic musician Pepe Mogt, aka Fussible from the outstanding Nortec Collective (and his Latinsizer project) has gotten his hands on an iPad with the Electribe app, and the results are more than promising. Mogt is no stranger to cu...
Much has been written about Devo's return to the spotlight after a relatively quiet two decades. Following a retro tour that found the band performing its two biggest records on back-to-back nights, the strange brains behind the now L.A.-based band...
Here's what he posted about his find at Los Feliz's amazing metalhead-run-and-operated mecca for used and new vinyl Vacation Records: I got this record I picked up at the excellent Los Angeles all-vinyl store called Vacation. It's an old compilatio...
"For me Malc was always entertaining, and I hope you remember that. Above all else he was an entertainer and I will miss him, and so should you." -- John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten (through his publicist), pays homage to his discoverer Malcolm McLaren...
On Friday frequent LA Weekly contributor Jeff Weiss throws the first in a series of "Passion of the Weiss presents..." shows at Spaceland. The inaugural fete is headlined by L.A. via Nawlins garage-rap duo the Knux, with support from Philly noir-ho...
The UK paper The Independent reports that Malcolm McLaren, artist and conceptualist behind the punk rock explosion in the mid-1970s, has died of cancer this morning in New York. From The Independent: His spokesman Les Molloy told The Independent: ...
A quick followup to the "Anne Magnuson Banned From Facebook" post: Here are a few examples (gleaned from a very cursory, 5-minute troll through Facebook) of the kind of things the social media network has not banned, while CENSORING ANN MAGNUSON FOR...
[UPDATE 4/9/10 12:00pm: Apparently, Ann's fan page is back on Facebook, but the Roxy Music picture's still missing. Again, kids, that's how censorship works. Ask for Ann's panties back!] [Thanks to Lina Lecaro for the tip.] Facebook, which started ...
Fittingly named, The Best Sampler Ever, the compilation includes tracks from Elliot Smith, The Thermals, Sleater Kinney, Bikini Kill, Decemberists, Deerhoof, and Depeche Mode. Ok, not Depeche Mode, but everyone else. Honest. Full Track listing and ...
In case you didn't know, former Guns n Roses' bassist Duff McKagan has a sorta regular column that runs in our sibling publication the Seattle Weekly. Yesterday McKagan granted an interview to his editor there explaining why he had been missing dead...
Tonight the Quentin Tarantino-owned-and-operated New Beverly Cinema will be showing David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, one of his most misunderstood masterpieces about the strangeness of everyday American culture (even the ubiquitous power ...
TMZ and other reputable news outlets noticed that former Guns n Roses guitarist Slash totally punked Jay Leno last night by wearing a "Team Coco" pin on the air. Here's the evidence: NBC (through TMZ) Conan and GnR go way back. Watch: ...
Perhaps you've seen Leimert Park's bergrooven resident Dm-Funk dancing around, keytar in hand, on the music websites you frequent. If the school bus-yellow background didn't tip you off, Funk's lent his image and abilities to a pretty sweet viral...
[Via Topless Robot.] Now, you either wanna look at a middle-aged Japanese man dancing around to hypnotic lounge music in his little bedroom wearing nothing but a French maid's uniform and pigtails or you don't wanna look at a middle-aged Japanese ma...
During our South By Southwest coverage, West Coast Sound very casually broke the news that hard-working Glendale band the Henry Clay People had become label-mates to Radiohead. The specifics, that they'd signed to TBD Records, were buried in a paren...
With a subtle narrative, fine imagery and careful balance, director Kahlil Joseph's video for the song off Husayn's outstanding Shafiq En' A-Free-Ka debut album, feels like a short film, or a montage in a movie. It's a conversation between sound and ...
The Scenestar reports that there's a special pre-sale for the much-anticipated Flight of the Conchords live show at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday, May 30. Tickets go officially on sale this Saturday, April 10, but you can secure advance tickets today...
Sultry English crooner Gemma Ray has slowly been casting a strange spell on the indie powers-that-be since the release of her 2008 album The Leader. Her second album, Lights Out Zoltar! (2009) was named for the fortune-telling dummy inside electroni...
So the legend of Sea of Bees -- aka Julie Ann Bee, aka Julie Baenziger, aka Jules -- goes like this: One day at the Hangar recording studio in Sacramento, the bass player of a small Central Valley band, an open-hearted coffeehouse worker, was on ...
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