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Top 10 Geek Heroes of 2012

In 2012, Stan Lee got his own comic book convention, Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo came to town, web sensations like the comic Homestuck and series Dick Figures had wild success on Kickstarter and Lloyd Kaufman put a whole ton of Troma films on YouTube. Sure, there's plenty more that happened in 2 ... More >>

Do Kickstarter Bands Have To Pay Taxes? Accountants Aren't So Sure

Boy band Allstar Weekend are Poway's answer to One Direction. The San Diego county-bred group got its start on the Disney Channel music competition Next Big Thing back in 2009. They took second place on that show, but the exposure helped the band ink a four-album deal with Hollywood Records, book a ... More >>

Get Your Initials on Esthero's Ass, For Only $150,000

Esthero, the local chanteuse with Toronto roots, emerged in the late 1990s and has collaborated with the likes of DJ Krush, Ian Pooley and Kanye West. Her solo oeuvre includes everything from trip-hop to country, all with pop sensibilities and a unique vocal register (not to be confused with Nelly F ... More >>

Here Are the Music Costumes You're Guaranteed To See on Halloween

Each Halloween you see scads of folks wearing the same costumes. Last year it was the damn black swan, and meanwhile Slash and the LMFAO guys seem to turn up annually. See also: *10 Best and Worst Music-Themed Costumes At KCRW's Masquerade and LACMA's Muse Ball *LMFAO 'Bikini Girl' Says She Was F ... More >>

Amanda Palmer's Dopey Topless Protest (NSFW)

See also: Exclusive: Amanda Palmer's New Track, "In My Mind" and Interview Here at West Coast Sound we love it when musicians would rather be naked than wear fur. (Particularly when it's Waka Flocka Flame.) Indeed our sympathies quite often lie with activists who are poorly-clothed. So even though ... More >>

Amanda Palmer Brought Her Traveling Art Party to Her L.A. Kickstarter Backers

On Thursday night, Amanda Palmer brought her traveling art party to Los Angeles' Pop tART Gallery. One of only six such events Palmer was throwing in the U.S. and Europe, the party was exclusively for people who donated at least $300 to her wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. Holly Rushing was ... More >>

The Best Five Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, July 16 Animal Raps LOS GLOBOS By day, Paul Prado is one of the brevity-obsessed comic geniuses at L.A.'s own 5 Second Films. He's their in-house Method actor -- a guy who takes what he does so seriously, he'll shave his head clean for a five-second spoof of Citizen Kane. He can occupy a ch ... More >>

Music Picks: Aesop Rock, Azealia Banks, Toots & the Maytals

Also, Mariachi El Bronx, Phil Ranelin, Spaceghostpurrp and others

Music Picks: Digital Underground, Beady Eye, Erykah Badu

Also, Jane Birkin, Human Drama, Big Jay McNeely

Music Picks: Amanda Palmer & Jason Webley, Tinariwen, Mastodon

Also: Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers, Danzig and others

Amanda Palmer talks David Lynch and Neil Gaiman

Exclusive: Amanda Palmer's New Track, "In My Mind" and Interview

​Interview by Roselle Chen "It's a beautiful fucking day in Boston," says punk-cabaret performer Amanda Palmer from her home. She is best known as one half of The Dresden Dolls, and has a wildly-popular solo career, but she's on the phone mainly to talk about her work with the David Lynch Fo ... More >>

The Writing Is On The Food: What Australia Tried To Do To Amanda Palmer...

Cathy Kirkpatrickfan food, with mysterious message​ A few days ago, we ran a couple of photos of punk-cabaret singer Amanda Palmer, her fans and what Palmer calls "fan-prepared food." In the background of one of the photos was a mysterious shot of something -- a casserole? a nut-loaf ? -- with ... More >>

Music Picks: SWANS, Sebadoh, Arbouretum, Cass McCombs

Also Meshell Ndegeocello, Kaki King, Local Natives and others

I Bring The Music, You Bring The Food: Backstage With Amanda Palmer Her Catering Fans

Cathy KirkpatrickAmanda Palmer (center) at a backstage family meal in Australia​ A couple of weeks ago, we learned how comedian Kathy Griffin enhances the quality of what she eats on the road by getting her more than half million Twitter followers to direct her to small mom-and-pop restaurants ... More >>

Goth Wedding of the Decade!: Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman Get Married

www.pinkcakebox.comGoth nuptials of the decade: Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman get hitched (illustration, like that of Sea Monkees, is fanciful)​ The nerdery on the interwebz is all aflutter with news that Boston's eyebrowless princess of musical theater Weimarlesque Amanda Palmer (formerly of ... More >>

Top 10 Cover Songs of 2010

Top 10 Cover Songs of 2010

How to Sell Your Merch: DIY Advice from Profitable Indie Goddess (and Her Assistant)

​So you've built your musical brand and you've got "a following." Are you ready to monetize this motherfucka? Well, profitable indie goddess (and quirky personal brand mistress) Amanda Palmer--aka, the no-browed Dresden Doll--just posted an informative post on her blog entitled, natch, "How to ... More >>

Coilhouse Co-Founders Zoetica Ebb and Meredith Yayanos Talk Comic-Con

Over the course of the past two years, Coilhouse, both the blog and exquisitely designed print magazine, has become required reading for those who enjoy geek culture as much as they love art and fashion. Co-founders Nadya Lev, Zoetica Ebb and Meredith Yayanos have taken their "loveletter to alternat ... More >>

Listen: Scarlett Johansson Covers 'Bullet' By Jersey Folk-Rockers Steel Train

ScarJo meets SteeTray​We suppose the shock value's faded, since ScarJo has already proved she's a rocker. Or at least, that she aims to be one. Within a year of her unexpected debut album, a collection of Tom Waits covers called Anywhere I Lay My Head, she teamed up with singer-songwriter Pet ... More >>

Top Ten Strangest Covers of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean"

Michael Jackson had many hits from the time he was a little kid until his untimely death last year, and even after that. But for some reason there seems to be a certain agreement that "the" quintessential MJ hit is "Billie Jean," from the record-breaking 1982 Thriller album. The impossible-not-to-d ... More >>

Music Picks: Evelyn Evelyn, Booker T. Jones, Kaki King, Pete Rock

Also, the National, Entrance Band, Noodles, Bunbury and others

Siamese Twin Folk Singers Coming to Largo

Evelyn and Evelyn Neville, the Siamese Twins who graduated from Nightmare Alley-style carnival sideshow to sensations in the tightknit folk universe have started their world tour and they will be coming to Largo next month (May 25-27). The conjoined singers, mysteriously sponsored by artsy prankste ... More >>

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE CORALINE

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Rock Picks: Daedelus, Peanut Butter Wolf, Femi Kuti, Isis

Also, The Choke, Nouvelle Vague, Wilco, Sunset Rubdown and others

LA Weekly Coachella Awards 2009: The Best and Worst of the Festival

View more Coachella pics here: Day One, Day Two, Day Three, Half-Dressed People & Scenes from the Desert Timothy NorrisCoachella 2009, at the awards ceremony Weirdest Between-song Banter: Paul McCartney, bless his heart, played an epic set, staked a claim on a body of work that only fools would i ... More >>

Over the Weekend: RIP J.G. Ballard, Three Days of Coachella Madness, Plus Zombie Invasion at Fangoria Convention

We don't know about you but we are the very definition of exhausted. Three days of music, parties and the desert heat at the 10th annual Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio has left us completely wiped. But damn if we didn't get some great coverage while we were there. Randall Roberts put tog ... More >>

Ten Great Cover Songs from Coachella 2009 (and a few extras)

Timothy NorrisEven the machinery was flashing the horns. Nothing says "I love you" like a cover song. Artists at Coachella like to acknowledge their influences, love to thrill the crowd with a surprise singalong. This year bands drew from music of many genres, from ragtime to post punk to hip hop. ... More >>

National Record Store Day in LA and at Coachella: Celebrating Brick, Mortar, Mom, Pop

Patrick O'DellFatbeats' DJ Rhettmatic Celebrating record stores as part of the second annual National Record Store Day, which is tomorrow, should be a no-brainer for Southern Californians. After all, the region is the undisputed center of the vinyl industry, with RTI, Rainbo and Erika all pressing ... More >>

Coachella 2009 Announced: Amy Winehouse, Paul McCartney, My Bloody Valentine ... Throbbing Gristle! Leonard Cohen!

Yeah, so all the silly speculation probably isn't done yet, as Goldenvoice always adds a few heavy-hitters after the initial announcement, but the initial line-up is up. Click through to see it in all it's glory. We'll start analyzing it soon, but for now: Throbbing Gristle! No Pavement? Let the ... More >>

Rock Picks: Amanda Palmer, Metallica, War Tapes

Also, J.D. Souther, Von Iva, Juliette Commagere and others

Rock Picks: Peanut Butter Wolf, Serj Tankian, Conor Oberst

Also, Carrie Rodriguez, Dolly Parton, Buddy Guy, and more

Rock Picks: The Dirtbombs, Robyn, Dizzee Rascal

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