Babylon

Matthew Weiner Explains Betty Draper, Mad Men's "Melancholy Dame"

The 20 Worst Albums of the '90s: The Complete List

Sure, you had the Bill Clinton blowjob scandal, OJ, Pakistan and India going nuclear, mad cow disease, the Rodney King decision, and Titanic. But what made the '90s truly awful was its music. That's not to say that there weren't bright spots -- early Beck, say, or Ok Computer and much of hip-hop's g ... More >>

The 20 Worst Albums Of The '90s: 20-11

Sure, you had the Bill Clinton blowjob scandal, OJ, Pakistan and India going nuclear, mad cow disease, the Rodney King decision, and Titanic. But what made the '90s truly awful was its music. That's not to say that there weren't bright spots -- early Beck, say, or Ok Computer and much of hip-hop's g ... More >>

Hollywood Museum Spotlights Women on TV, Including...a Naked Marilyn Monroe?

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Marilyn Monroe's Seven Never-Before-Seen Mostly Nude Photos Two extremely significant moonwalks took place on television. One occurred when Neil Armstrong took his first extraterrestrial steps. The other occurred when Michael Jackson walked backwar ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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

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 >>

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 >>

Theater Reviews: Hollywood Fringe Festival

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 >>

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

Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles: the 2 Percent Solution

Yearly event culls the cream of Bollywood and beyond

3 Backyards: Secrets and Insides

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

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

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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?

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?

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?

Put Your Bra Back On!

How Cirque du Soleil made Vegas a family town

Phil Noir: In a Lonely Place

With friends like Punkin Pie...

Do Tell: Semper Fi – One Marine’s Journey

Saluting the gay, the proud, the Marines

A Rasta-Colored Dixie Flag

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

Night Vision

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

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

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

Native in a Stranger’s Land

Giant doughnuts, drive-thrus and apocalypse

Getting The Hookah Up

Smoke is the new drink at these bars

Exile in Godville

Profile of a postmodern heretic

Celebs to the Slaughter

Why Arianna’s Blog Blows

Night Vision

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

Materialistic Fetishism Reconsidered

(A last-minute gift-giving guide)

Dub

The once and future music of revolution

Marked

The transgressions of a nice Jewish girl

Unaborted

Love and crap from the Sex Pistols

The Sound and the Fury

Lester Bangs and the relevance of rock criticism

Pennies Striking Dust

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

Exhuming the Graves of Mahawil

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

Universal Recycling

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

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?

On and Off Our Backs

Sex and satire in The Fluffer

The Moralist

Neil LaBute, Latter-Day Filmmaker

The Domingo Principle

Neil LaBute, Latter-Day Filmmaker