Avril Lavigne

Gil Turner's, Liquor Store to The Stars on Sunset Strip, Robbed: Suspects Nabbed Fast

If you rob the high-profile liquor store patronized by the rich and famous on the Sunset Strip, you better have a good exit plan. Gil Turner's place is known for hosting shoppers such as Mary-Kate Olsen, Jessica Alba and Avril Lavigne. It also was the site of a robbery over the weekend, West Hollyw ... More >>

Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: The Complete List

*Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List What we talk about when we talk about sex and rock 'n roll is often dudes, the lusty front men and axe-grinders who, perhap ... More >>

Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: #5-1

*Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: #20-16 *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: #15-11 *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: #10-6 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List 5. Avril Lavigne Combining ... More >>

Miley Cyrus Is Hipper And More Liberal Than You. Oh, And She Hates Rick Santorum

She's just being Miley.​Miley Cyrus' Hannah Montana is one of the easier Disney shows for adults to sit through. Her voice and wide eyes aren't totally unlike a young Lucille Ball. Still, that might not be enough to make an adult investigate her music. But her surprisingly not-overplayed cat ... More >>

Top 10 Gratuitous Acoustic Pop Covers

​Watching Katy Perry's cover of Lady Gaga's "Born this Way" reminded us: In college, roughly 68% of undergraduates (a figure we made up for purposes of sounding researched) take up the acoustic guitar. Think of it as a rite of passage marred by awful covers of Neil Young and the inevitable Bla ... More >>

You are the punk-rock lion Christ of Human Resources: 3 motivational business books based on deeply stupid metaphors

​Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. For years the most popular method of getting through the workday for America's busines ... More >>

Alice in Wonderland Exhibit

Music Picks: Stagecoach Festival, Yoshitake Expe, Hole, Chicha Libre

Also, Aquaserge, Norah Jones, Dr. Dog and others

Rock Picks: Al Kooper, Year Long Disaster, Steven Severin, the Phenomenal Handclap Band

Also, Kimya Dawson, the Cigarette Bums, Willi Williams and others

Keeping Up With the Lopezes

Music Picks: Sky Saxon Tribute, Daddy Kev, Grace Jones, The Mekons

Also, Jarvis Cocker, Regina Spektor, Ida Maria, Themselves and others.

Nightranger: Thriller Nights Before, During and After Halloween

Steel Wheels, Darling Stilettos and the Boo-Over

Robert Plant Rules Out Led Zeppelin Reunion

Rock critics speak, art mavens debate, Mideast authors talk peace

Fallen Idols of All Shapes and Sizes

Rock Picks: 88BoaDrum, Projekt Revolution, Juana Molina

Also, Flosstradamus, Bigelf, The Crystelles

Movie Reviews: Kabluey, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Meet Dave

Also, Homo Erectus, Garden Party and more

State Funding Provides Daytime Gig for Musicians

Hot for teacher

Rock Picks: Supersuckers, Bloc Party, Melvins

Dec. 27 - Jan. 3

Coming Up

Every week or so, we'll update a list on concerts announced, shows going on sale, and other things happening soon that you may want to know about. James Blunt - Wiltern, Feb. 7 with Sara Bareilles. Tickets go on sale Saturday Cave Singers - Echoplex, Dec. 3 Circle Jerks - Henry Fonda, Jan 4. On ... More >>

X-ers and Exes

Nightranger paints the town

Power Pop Ain't Noise Pollution

Film Reviews: Arctic Tale, One to Another, Punk's Not Dead

Also this week's pick, The Real Dirt on Farmer John, Lindsay Lohan's I Know Who Killed Me and Who's Your Caddy?

Rock Picks

For the week of July 12 – 19

Rock Picks

For the week of June 28 - July 5, 2007

Primp'n Hos

Uncovering the goods in Hollywood Boulevard’s legendary stripper-ware shops

Rock Picks

For the week of June 7 - 14

Film Reviews

Backstage, Charlotte's Web, Eragon and more

The Meat of the Matter

Richard Linklater maps out his Fast Food Nation

Dylan Goes Gay for Guillen

Eternal collective consciousness holds breath

Crazy Snake

We Heart Denim...Honest

I'm not sure if any of us Style Council gals were at the denim shows last night... Buffalo, Yanuk and Taverniti were the designers showing, and even though denim and sportwear are LA's greatest exports - or at least most lucrative - how exciting can a pair of jeans get, right? Maybe that's why I ... More >>

Sho' Nuff!

Big Primpin’ Bigmouth Strikes Again Sayonara, Suckas

To Be Real

Is The Game playing for keeps?

Genesis Regenerated

After the Lights Go Down

What's up at AFI Fest 2004

SK8ER Girl

The Contemporaries

Time of the Session

When the music was fast, and the players anonymous

Revenge against the ’70s (and other hostile decades)

Sounds Like a Hit

Pop potentates the Matrix go for The Grab

Defending Liz Phair

(4 times better than she does)

Mr. Fantastic, Superduper Star

Chris Jackson is a Backyard wrestler. All he wants from this media-saturated world is a little bit of glory, a little bit of fame. Even if it takes blood. Or having a fluorescent-light tube jammed

We Are Familia

Rock, romance and Go Betty Go

Monomania

A Thousand Teens Bloom

Dischord's moments in grace

HOLLYWOOD REUNION: Behind the Musical