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Babylon

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2012

    Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: World Debut of J Mascis/Heavy Blanket Album

    KCRW Broadcast #162 for Saturday, April 28, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Down Under and 
Hard to Find Fanatics! Hello from beautiful Sydney, Australia. I am a few hours away from another show here. I have been finding some great records here that will find themselves in our upcoming ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    Slim the Mobster Has An Amazing House

    Slim the Mobster​Slim the Mobster and I are scheduled to do an interview at a Northridge gun range, set up by his publicist. But as the rapper pulls up and peers out from under his black Dodgers baseball hat, he looks hesitant. "I don't want my picture taken with a gun, you feel me?" he says ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: The Complete List

    ​See also: *Chuck Klosterman's Favorite Hair Metal Albums One day I was sitting around thinking I want to write a song about ménage a trois...and the line 'love in stereo' came into my head. Inspiration can happen anywhere at any time. -Jani Lane, Hit Parader magazine History has not been ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2011

    The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #10-6

    ​See also: *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #20-16 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums of All Time: #15-11 ​10. Warrant Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich (1989) RIP Jani Lane. Warrant's lead singer, who was found dead in Woodland Hills this summer, didn't have the strongest voice, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 16, 2011

    The Culturists Win

    ​See also: *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #20-16 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums of All Time: #15-11 ​10. Warrant Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich (1989) RIP Jani Lane. Warrant's lead singer, who was found dead in Woodland Hills this summer, didn't have the strongest voice, ... More >>

  • Music

    December 30, 2010

    Music Picks: Nicole Eva Emery, Hard NYE, Peter and the Wolf,

    Also, Jesus Makes the Shotgun Sound, Octavius, Cosmologic and others

  • Music

    December 16, 2010

    Ari Up: Punky Reggae Icon

    Honoring the Slits singer with a never-before-published interview

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2010

    Live Review: LA 101 with Massive Attack and Thievery Corporation

    timothy norrismassive attack​ See more of Timothy Norris' photos in 'LA 101 with Thievery Corporation, Massive Attack and more.' By any metric, last night's LA 101 at the Gibson Amphitheatre was a success--save for maybe the fact that the headliners didn't hail from LA. Of course, Massive At ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2010

    Over the Weekend: Scars on Broadway at the Avalon

    When Scars on Broadway frontman Daron Malakian pulled an eleventh-hour plug on their debut tour two years ago, it seemed like the impish songwriter had succumbed to clichéd rock star meltdown (Malakian is also in System Of A Down). But seeing him and his delightfully robust band (including SOAD ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    Stage Raw: Wuthering "Heights"

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGEWUTHERING "HEIGHTS"​Lin-Manuel Miranda stars in his own Broadway hit, In The Heights, now at the Pantages. Photo by Joan Marcus "Wuthering" actually means windy not withering. Though the former is preval ... More >>

  • Stage

    June 24, 2010

    Theater Reviews: Hollywood Fringe Festival

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGEWUTHERING "HEIGHTS"​Lin-Manuel Miranda stars in his own Broadway hit, In The Heights, now at the Pantages. Photo by Joan Marcus "Wuthering" actually means windy not withering. Though the former is preval ... More >>

  • Music

    May 6, 2010

    Music Picks: Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, VoicesVoices, Peter Gabriel, Jakob Dylan

    Also, Ane Brun, the Melodians, Kate Miller-Heidke, Ian Whitcomb and others

  • Film+TV

    April 22, 2010

    Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles: the 2 Percent Solution

    Yearly event culls the cream of Bollywood and beyond

  • Film+TV

    January 21, 2010

    3 Backyards: Secrets and Insides

    Director Eric Mendelsohn on the suburbs, working for Woody Allen and his new film

  • Music

    December 10, 2009

    J.ROCC, THE THRONES, BAND OF SKULLS, THE SLITS AND BRETT DENNEN

    Also Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Espers, a Nicollete Larson Tribute, and others.

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros' New Star-Studded Video for "Kisses Over Babylon" Released

    Part II of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros' video cycle was released today, and it's a beautiful, star-studded affair that sees Sharpe wandering in the desert, getting picked up in a vintage car, and taken to jail. Directed by Isaiah Seret, it features some pretty big names, including the great ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    Stage Raw: ZAR

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on producer Sir Cameron MackintoshStage Raw: ZAR Theatre ZAR from Wroclaw, Poland has been in Southern California for over a week, conducting workshops of their choral-physical technique at UC Irvine and UCLA. Their Tryptich opens next w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2009

    Stage Raw: Impacted Wednesday

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Charles Duncombe's The Trojan Women and Julie Hebert's TreeIMPACTED WEDNESDAY​ Equivocation: Photo by Michael Lamont Three big openings on Wednesday: The  U.S. premiere of TR Warszawa's T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. (Polish director Grzego ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2009

    25 Years of Sexy - and Hilarious - Vivid Entertainment Cover Art (SFW)

    Gary Busey's Angelo Pappas said it best in Point Break: "22 years. Man, L.A. has changed a lot during that time. The air got dirty and the sex got clean." When it comes to porn, the cineskin business has also changed a lot since the '80s. The plot lines got kinkier and the hair styles got a helluv ... More >>

  • Articles

    November 12, 2009

    Theater Reviews: Nibbler, Polyester the Musical, The Ghost Building

    Gary Busey's Angelo Pappas said it best in Point Break: "22 years. Man, L.A. has changed a lot during that time. The air got dirty and the sex got clean." When it comes to porn, the cineskin business has also changed a lot since the '80s. The plot lines got kinkier and the hair styles got a helluv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    Stage Raw: Does Your Acting Career Have That Sinking Feeling?

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83DOES YOUR ACTING CAREER HAVE THAT SINKING FEELING?​Captain Smith looks out over oceans of opportunity There's still hope of a rescue! Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, seeks an actor to play the Titani ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2009

    Stage Raw: The Browning Version

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83NEW REVIEW THEATER PICK THE BROWNING VERSION​Photo by Victor MartinsThough not as widely known or acclaimed as his contemporary British playwrights, Terence Rattigan was a superb dramatist and chronicler of hum ... More >>

  • Music

    October 8, 2009

    Boxes in Flux: Where the Action Is!

    Rhino Records’ landmark volume captures an important moment in L.A. music history. But does it also mark the end of an era?

  • Calendar

    September 10, 2009

    BEWARE OF GLITTER

    Rhino Records’ landmark volume captures an important moment in L.A. music history. But does it also mark the end of an era?

  • Film+TV

    May 28, 2009

    Steppe Up: Sergei Dvortsevoy Has His Way With Camels and Shepherds Alike in Tulpan

    Rhino Records’ landmark volume captures an important moment in L.A. music history. But does it also mark the end of an era?

  • Stage

    September 6, 2007

    Put Your Bra Back On!

    How Cirque du Soleil made Vegas a family town

  • Columns

    July 26, 2007

    Phil Noir: In a Lonely Place

    With friends like Punkin Pie...

  • Film+TV

    June 21, 2007

    Do Tell: Semper Fi – One Marine’s Journey

    Saluting the gay, the proud, the Marines

  • Music

    July 20, 2006

    A Rasta-Colored Dixie Flag

    If ’60s turned out to be ’90s: Brightblack Morning Light

  • Art+Books

    January 19, 2006

    Night Vision

    Jim Shaw's "The Dream That Was No More a Dream"

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2006

    Rock Like an Egyptian

    a.k.a. The Year in Greg Burk: Metal Went Mideastern, Paul Rodgers became Freddie Mercury, and Diana Krall did not become Ella Fitzgerald

  • Music

    December 29, 2005

    Tommy, Pamela and a Pole

    a.k.a. The Year in Greg Burk: Metal Went Mideastern, Paul Rodgers became Freddie Mercury, and Diana Krall did not become Ella Fitzgerald

  • News

    October 6, 2005

    Native in a Stranger’s Land

    Giant doughnuts, drive-thrus and apocalypse

  • Calendar

    September 8, 2005

    Getting The Hookah Up

    Smoke is the new drink at these bars

  • News

    May 19, 2005

    Exile in Godville

    Profile of a postmodern heretic

  • News

    May 12, 2005

    Celebs to the Slaughter

    Why Arianna’s Blog Blows

  • Art+Books

    January 20, 2005

    Night Vision

    Jim Shaw’s "The Dream That Was No More a Dream"

  • News

    December 23, 2004

    Materialistic Fetishism Reconsidered

    (A last-minute gift-giving guide)

  • News

    November 6, 2003

    Dub

    The once and future music of revolution

  • Stage

    October 2, 2003

    Marked

    The transgressions of a nice Jewish girl

  • Music

    September 18, 2003

    Unaborted

    Love and crap from the Sex Pistols

  • Art+Books

    September 11, 2003

    The Sound and the Fury

    Lester Bangs and the relevance of rock criticism

  • News

    August 14, 2003

    Pennies Striking Dust

    The short, almost happy life of the Los Angeles Writing Club

  • News

    June 12, 2003

    Exhuming the Graves of Mahawil

    Nasir Hadi tells of surviving the massacre and 12 years of silence

  • Music

    November 28, 2002

    Universal Recycling

    Nasir Hadi tells of surviving the massacre and 12 years of silence

  • Art+Books

    August 22, 2002

    God Save the King

    August 16 marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley. Four and a half months later, on January 2, 1978, the Sex Pistols arrived in America for their brief abortive tour, and the seam of history unraveled. Coincidence?

  • Film+TV

    January 24, 2002

    On and Off Our Backs

    Sex and satire in The Fluffer

  • News

    September 14, 2000

    The Moralist

    Neil LaBute, Latter-Day Filmmaker

  • Stage

    September 23, 1999

    The Domingo Principle

    Neil LaBute, Latter-Day Filmmaker

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