Aimee Mann

5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week, Including Greg Behrendt and Dave Anthony's Podcast

5. The Incubator Sean Conroy and Kyle Kinane present this "open mic but without all the uncomfortable silence, crickets and yawning." Nerdmelt at Meltdown Comics, Mon., Dec. 17, 9 p.m. 4. The Dork Forest with Jackie Kashian Jackie and Bil Dwyer talk golf in a supremely dorky fashion. Nerdmelt at ... More >>

The Best Concerts To See in L.A. This Weekend: Oct. 12-14

Friday, October 12 Busdriver BOOTLEG THEATER Behold rapper Busdriver, the polysyllabic polymath who is truly, beautifully and persistently on his own thing, including collabs with DIY experimental punk bands and the routine dispensation of Can references. He first blinded minds with a wordcram MC ... More >>

Music Picks: Neil Young, Aimee Mann, Low End Theory Anniversary

Last Night the Songs From Boogie Nights Were Performed. Rollergirl Was in Effect

Last night a lavish postmodern public masturbation session went down at the Rockwell in Los Feliz, with a full cast performing the movie music of director Paul Thomas Anderson. The show, titled For The Record: Boogie Nights, also featured music from other Anderson films including Magnolia, Punch Dru ... More >>

OneKid OneWorld Benefit Show

Music Picks: Bettye LaVette, Johnny Thunders, Johnny Hallyday

Also, Kate McGarry, Enter Shikari, Hype Williams and others

Starfish Circus Post-Valentine's Revue

Aimee Mann Christmas Show - The Wiltern - 12/11/11

L.J. Williamson​See also our preview: Aimee Mann's Christmas Show For People Who Don't Really Like Christmas Aimee Mann opened her sixth annual Christmas show with dialogue from A Charlie Brown Christmas, quoting Chuck himself: "I think there must be something wrong with me -- Christmas is co ... More >>

Music Picks: Andrea Bocelli, Carina Round, A Hero A Fake

Also, Norma Jean, Jonathan Richman, Jay-Z and Kanye West and others

Aimee Mann's Christmas Show for People Who Don't Really Like Christmas

See also: Ho, Ho, Hoes? Garfunkel and Oates Have Our Number The annual Aimee Mann Christmas spectacular is becoming a venerable Los Angeles holiday tradition. Now in its fifth year, it's a "Christmas show for people who don't really like Christmas," in Mann's words. We'd call it a blend of comedy ... More >>

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY BOY!

PAUL SCHEER

Top 8 Twitter Tools: Threatening Thugs, Homophobic Hip Hoppers and Musical Idiots Who Are Worse Than Courtney Love

8 Threatening Thugs, Homophobic Hip Hoppers and Twitter Idiots Worse Than Courtney Love

Rock Picks: DJ Spinna, Bodega Girls, Andre Nickatina, Elevated Suspects

Also, Hilary Hahn, People Under the Stairs, KROQ Almost Acoustic Xmas and others

Music Picks: Sweaters, Jonathan Richman, Hanni El Khatib, Henry Rollins

Also, Aloe Blacc, Maren Parusel, the Greenhornes and others

This weekend: Plastic Ono Band, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, School of Seven Bells, the Avett Brothers, Fountains of Wayne

Yoko Ono​John Lennon would have turned 70 next week, and among the events celebrating the legendary Beatle are two shows this weekend featuring a reconstituted Plastic Ono Band, the loose collective of musicians Lennon assembled 40 years ago. His widow Yoko Ono and son Sean Lennon (the musica ... More >>

Live Review: Brad Mehldau at Largo - The Art of the Solo

Brad Mehldau is not an L.A. guy. Born in Jacksonville Florida, the pianist spent much of his childhood in Connecticut. He went to school in New York, started playing with Joshua Redman in New York, and now lives in Brooklyn, but his concert at the Largo on Tuesday night felt like a homecoming. Larg ... More >>

Rock Picks: Jon Brion, Andrew Bird, Tortoise, Vice Squad

Also, Beyonce, the Datsuns, the Veils, the Germs and others

OLIVER SACKS REALLY WANTED TO BE A DRUMMER

Pacific Heights: L.A. Weekly's Top 10 L.A. Recordings of 2008

No Age, Chapin Sisters, Mia Doi Todd, the Knux, Flying Lotus, Madlib and more

Rock Picks: AC/DC, Dressy Bessy, Meshell Ndegeocello

Also, the Submarines, Ruben Guevara, the Coup and more

ROCK OUT WITH THE BLOCKS OUT: Kid Stuff with Cool Cred

This week we profiled the ebullient pre-school TV sensation Yo Gabba Gabba, but the show (created by two So Cal rocker dads) isn't the only alternative for parents sick of dumbed-down cartoons and uninspired kiddie ditties. More and more artists from the rock world are exploring the children's mark ... More >>

Grab The Believer's Music Issue While It's Still on the Racks -- It's Totally Worth It

Though it's been out for the past month or so, I'd highly recommend that you race to your nearest newstand to grab the recent music issue of The Believer, which is still on the newstands this week (or so we've been told) but on the verge of vanishing. There are a number of sublime highlights in ... More >>

LAFF 2008: I Can't Drive 66

The Weekend's Music in LA: Jonathan Richman, Simone White, Billy Bragg, free vegan pancakes (and No Age) at The Smell

FRIDAY, JUNE 6 There are many immortal words in rock and roll, but one of the great expressions of untethered joy was originally uttered by Jonathan Richman: "Roadrunner once, Roadrunner twice/I'm in love with rock & roll, and I'll be out all night." Covered by everyone from Joan Jett to the Sex ... More >>

Live in LA: Aimee Mann Christens the New Largo at the Coronet

Aimee Mann at Largo at the Coronet, June 2, 2008 Photos by Timothy Norris Aimee Mann christened the new Largo at the Coronet last night with a memorable set of old and new music, some hilarious between-song banter, duets with both comedian Paul Tompkins and composer Jon Brion, and a two-piece ba ... More >>

How the Hell Is It June Already?

What to do in L.A., May 30-June 5

Glen and Marketa at the Oscars

Once upon a time, Elliott Smith and Aimee Mann were nominated for Oscars, and despite the KCRW-ness of it all, it still felt good to watch them up there against the Celines and the Disney movie stuff. Of course, it was always Celine Dion or Phil Collins or whomever that walked away with the award ... More >>

Christmas Charity Shows

There are several Christmas charity shows (and just plain Christmas themed shows) around time this month, like Snoop Dogg's Smokin' Christmas Party at the House of Blues on the 15th (and don't forget Snoop's timelessChristmas classic "Servin' Season!"), and Aimee Mann's second annual Christmas show ... More >>

Neko Case: Deep Red Belle

She's an auburn-haired Caucasian woman of Ukrainian descent. Is Case also the blackest woman in indie rock?

Rock Picks: Los Lobos, No Age, Los Abandoned, Slayer

For the week of August 23-30

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For the week of August 17 - 23

Rock Picks: Detroit Cobras, Gore Gore Girls, MF Doom, Squeeze

For the week of August 9 – 16

It's Wonderful to Be Here

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Rock Picks

For the week of April 19–27

Rock PIcks

For the week of December 7 - 14

Forget About Your Cares, it Is Time to Relax at the Junction (Sunset Junction)

Eat Books, Save Lives

Jon Brion's Amazing Musicquarium

The Nowhere/Everywhere man on Kanye West, Fiona Apple, Frank Sinatra, quantum physics, Roxy Music, acoustic alchemy, God and extreme coffee drinking

Baby Love

The hippie-capitalist wisdom of CD Baby founder Derek Sivers, hero to 93,000 indie musicians and counting

The Contemporaries

Time of the Session

When the music was fast, and the players anonymous

Orton Hears a Hansen

Edited by Kateri Butler

Advocacy Journalism

Edited by Kateri Butler

The Raw and the Cooked

Edited by Kateri Butler

Oldies But Goodies

The television event

Don't l Look Like Myself?

Super Furry Sound

A year in music

Queens of Noise

From Lollapalooza to IPO

Festival founder Marc Geiger bets on online music

Pop Purée