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What Would Beyonce Do?, the Comedy Show

Scroll through What Would Beyonce Do?, one of many Tumblr sites dedicated to Beyonce, and you'll find Queen Bey being Queen Bey -- on a yacht, in front of a Rolls Royce, holding her Grammys. Luisa Omielan's stand-up show is also called What Would Beyonce Do? And like Mrs. Carter, she's 31. But that ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including an Occult Ritual With Strobe Lights

This week, one artist poses as a hypnotist, another digs deep into occult ritual and a third makes an uncharacteristically buoyant ad. 5. Low-stakes Breathalyzers and eye charts for fun DMV: After Dark is one event at alt art space Machine Project that I remember even though I wasn't there. I saw ... More >>

Here Are My Dad's Thoughts on Van Halen's Debut

[Editor's Note: Shea Serrano sometimes writes about Why This Song Sucks, and sometimes about his hilarious and poignant life and times. Better put your shoes on because your socks are about to be blown off.] I've had no small amount of car issues in my 16 years of driving. Were I to guess, I'd plac ... More >>

Beyonce - Staples Center - 7/1/13

Beyonce Staples Center 7/1/13 Just when you think Beyonce has exhausted all of her surprises for the evening, she'll attach herself to a zip line and glide 20 feet above the general admission area onto an impromptu second stage. By the time her ensemble of backing dancers reach the area, she's al ... More >>

The Best Concerts to See In L.A. This Weekend

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Beyoncé STAPLES CENTER Like her fellow Texan Erykah Badu, Houston-raised Beyoncé is part of the opening-night festivities at the BET Experience. But Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter's worldview is markedly different from Bad ... More >>

Music Picks: Beyoncé, Snoop Dogg and Crazy Squeeze

Jay-Z's Great Gatsby Soundtrack Is a Failure

When the first trailer for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby was released a year ago, it was set to the music of Jay-Z and Kanye West's "No Church in the Wild," from the sometimes duo's incredibly self-important Watch the Throne album. On the surface it made sense. Jay-Z -- who retired as a rapper i ... More >>

Kim Kardashian & Kanye's New Bel Air Home Has A Real Housewives Connection

As if the prospect of Kim Kardashian wooing East Coast rapper Kanye West to L.A. for an explosive super-coupling not seen since Beyonce and Jay-Z first hid their love, they're buying a house from another celebrity crush. The $11 million, 10,000-square-foot Bel Air abode (with plenty of room in the ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, December 28 Fishbone, Quinto Sol KEY CLUB Fishbone have gone through a lot of changes since emerging from South Central L.A. in 1979, but the group can always be counted on for a funky good time. Lead singer/saxist Angelo Moore, bassist Norwood Fisher and crew have evolved from a ska-reggae ... More >>

Music Picks: Fishbone, the Growlers, Redd Kross

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Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Beyonce Singing to the HIV Virus

This weekend, a dinner pays homage to Jonathan Swift, a virus dances to Beyonce and the politically minded star of a soft-core film crosses paths with a pair of kings. 5. Imaginary island dinner In Jonathan Swift's satirical Gulliver's Travels, Lilliput is an island inhabited by tiny people involve ... 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 >>

Etta James Dead at 73 in Riverside

At 73 years old, R&B legend Etta James has finally lost a drawn-out battle with leukemia. The Los Angeles native and longtime resident passed away at Riverside Community Hospital, a medical center near her most recent residence in Riverside, where she had been receiving 24/7 in-home care. She was a ... More >>

Blue Ivy OG Marijuana is Born

Eager to prove that they really are all about scientific, medical solutions for the ailing, as prescribed by state law, embattled area marijuana dispensaries have in the last week taken to naming a particularly potent form of cannabis after ... ... Beyonce and Jay Z's newborn baby girl, Blue Ivy Ca ... More >>

Master Cleanse, aka 'Lemonade Diet': I Tried it During Christmas. Here's How That Went

In our new column, First Person, L.A. writers tackle the good, the bad and the funny about life as they know it. Deciding to go on the master cleanse in December was either inspired or idiotic. Since I got the idea while in the far-too-familiar haze of a wine buzz, I blame it on the alcohol. You'r ... More >>

Why This Song Sucks: Beyonce's "Party (Remix)" Featuring J. Cole

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Beyonce's "Party" featuring J. Cole History: "Party" is the fourth single from Beyonce's fourth studio album, 4. That's three fours in a row, bro. Three ... More >>

What Will Be The Most Popular Music-Related Halloween Costumes This Year? And How Can They Be Made Slutty?

​By Lina Lecaro and Andrea Domanick Nothing is a more fun cultural zeitgeist indicator than what folks wear for Halloween. And, of course, musical personalities are prime fodder. So here are our predictions for what will be the most common music costumes this year. Of course, despite the fa ... More >>

Big Freedia's Top Five Celebrity Asses

​Big Freedia is an ass connoisseur. A leading figure on the New Orleans bounce scene, he has helped take vigorous rump shaking to a wider audience through live shows and videos to songs like "Y'All Get Back Now." That track's video even prompted MTV to nominate Freedia for a Too Much Ass For T ... More >>

Michael Jackson Tribute Concert Offers Buy One Get One Free; Desperation Grows

​Update: In a sign of further chaos, the tribute organizers have abruptly canceled the buy one get one free ticket promotion. Stay tuned for more updates. In July told you about how (part of) the Jackson Family announced the Michael Jackson tribute concert -- scheduled for October 8 in Wales -- in ... More >>

Hustler's Lady Gaga and Beyonce Porn Movie: A Review

​Hustler's latest celebrity-impersonating porn parody, This Ain't Lady Gaga, ranks up there with Edward Penishands, Who's Nailin' Palin? and Untrue Hollywood Stories: Miley Cyrus' 18th Birthday. Er, it probably does, anyway. We haven't seen them. In fact, who watches these things? Someone must, ... More >>

How Katy Perry Tied MJ's Singles Record, and Why She's More Relatable Than Beyonce

Xposurephotos.com​Yesterday Katy Perry's boppy single "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" rose to the number one slot, making Teenage Dream the first album in the near 19-year history of Billboard's Mainstream Top 40 chart to produce five number ones. Big news. But today could bring Perry's career ... More >>

Britney, Beyoncé, & Foster the People's Guide to Your Post-Apocalyptic Future

A group of angry apocakids from the video for Foster the People's "Helena Beat" (Sony Music)​As the debt ceiling languishes unraised, whole regions of the US lie under floodwaters while others dry into baked earth, and the wedding cake topper industry finds itself facing major overhauls, peopl ... More >>

MTV VMA Best New Artist Nominees: A Field Guide to Kreayshawn, Big Sean, Foster the People, Tyler the Creator, and Wiz Khalifa

Kreayshawn​Article by Shea Serrano On Sunday, August 28th, MTV's Video Music Awards will wander into town. MTV, by the way, is a television station. They play music and whatnot, but more importantly, they allow a handsome troglodyte named CT to exist. Also, younger readers: A television s ... More >>

Top 10 Music Managers Who Fucked Over Their Clients

The family Knowles in happier times​In light of the surprising news over the reasons Beyonce fired her longtime manager (and longtime father for that matter) Mathew Knowles, we remembered a time when scummy managers were not only the norm, but expected. Here are the Top 10 Managers in Music Hi ... More >>

Trannyshack L.A. Returns With A Bang (And Wang) for July 4th Weekend

Lina LecaroSF's Heklina messes up the stage. ​Saturday at the Echoplex offered an explosive evening of pocket rockets, piccolo peters, hot snakes, and (eye) poppers ... and there wasn't a firework to be seen. Yes, we're talking about another kind of banger all together, friends. It was Trannys ... More >>

Natali and Lady Gaga? How About The Five Most Truly Talented Sets of Siblings In American Music?

Over the weekend we became aware of the fact that Lady Gaga a) has a little sister named Natali Germanotta and b) that Natali is pretty stylish, just like her big sis. This got us thinking about all the other famous musicians out there with siblings that are just as talented as they are, even if ... More >>

Eleven Weirdo Rock Star Alter Egos

​Something about achieving major fame in music seems to drive creative artists to assume new personae. Whether it be fodder for an epic concept album, a stab at a different genre or just plain boredom, many of our favorite stars have conjured up characters in order to explore and indulge their fan ... More >>

Jennifer Hudson Will Write a Book to Feed Our National Obsession, Weight Loss

Watch her do it with no hands​Jennifer Hudson is writing a memoir. No, it's not about her struggle as a singer breaking beyond the American Idol stereotype. Nor about dealing with the triple tragedy that struck her family in 2008. Neither is it about her triumphs as an actor. Nope, all we ... More >>

Black Women Are Scientifically Proven to be Less Attractive to Other Females?

Psychology Today​When we saw links to this piece on Facebook we wrote it off as a hoax or a hack. The headline read, "Why Are Black Women Rated Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women ... ?" Didn't make sense to us in the age of Beyonce and all her womanly features, which seem to be admir ... More >>

PCH-Adjacent Homes Up in Smoke in Spectacular Sunset Beach Fire

KTLA NewsFire in the O.C.​Update: This thing had more legs than Beyonce -- and it kept going overnight. Details at the bottom of the next page. A wild blaze right on the edge of the Pacific ocean claimed one home and appeared to damage another in Orange County's Sunset Beach this afternoon. ... More >>

Who Cares About Bieber, Gaga, or the VMA's? You Do! Winner Recaps Past and Present

Who Really Cares About Bieber, Gaga, or the VMA's? You Do! Winner Recaps Past and Present

Gay-Cougar Alliance Commemorated with Liza Minnelli's "Single Ladies"

This comes allegedly from the much anticipated/much reviled (depending who you talk to) Sex & The City 2: The Wrath of Menopause. It's Liza Minnelli singing Beyonce's "Single Ladies" (and saying "shit" a lot--it rhymes with "it"). That sound you heard is a bunch of heads in WeHo exploding.

Day 3: Jay-Z and Beyonce Nerd Out Over Thom Yorke Just Like Everyone Else

Gustavo TurnerThat blurry guy with the hat? It's Hova--swear to God!​ It's official: Jay-Z and Beyonce loooooooove Thom Yorke's difficult solo material. Coachella audience members to the right of the Outdoors Theater soundboard waiting for Thom Yorke to start his set of material from his sol ... More >>

Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson and the Lizard People: The Incredibly Strange World of Music Conspiracy Theory

​Last month we reported on the persistent Internet rumor that Lady Gaga is actually a puppet of occult forces. That post was extremely popular and our amazing readers used it as a springboard to engage in a lively, still ongoing debate in the comments section (44 and counting!). Well, this mo ... More >>

Grammy Winners Meet Jersey Shore

Grammy Winners Meet Jersey Shore: Hypothetical Jerzification

DJ Earworm Mashes The Hits of 2009 To Create A Sucky Masterpiece

You'll either love this track or want to kill yourself. San Francisco-based DJ Earworm just posted his annual mashup of the year's biggest hits, which means you can get all the '09 pop music you need in one five minute burst. Featuring Drake, GaGa, Black Eyed Peas, Rihanna, Beyonce, and many one-hit ... More >>

And The Nominees For The 52nd Grammy Awards Are ...

Grammy Awards​Here's a running count of some of the more interesting nominees for the 52nd Grammy Awards, which were being announced Wednesday night at the Nokia Theater in downtown Los Angeles. Song of the Year: "Poker Face," Lady Gaga. "Pretty Wings," Maxwell "Single Ladies," Beyonce "You ... More >>

The Girls' Guide To Rocking: Wanna Start a Band? Jessica Hopper, Mika Miko Break It Down in LA Today

OK, so imagine you're a girl, and you like to rock. Your mom's boring, your dad likes Beyonce, your brother sneaks away to listen to the Jonas Bros. when no one's paying attention. That leaves you in your bedroom with your garage-sale ukulele and some sort of foggy notion about wanting to learn how ... More >>

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

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

Cage Goes Hollywood: "I Never Knew You" Video Shot in L.A. Spotlighted on YouTube

In February L.A. Weekly was on set for the making of the music video for Definitive Jux rapper Chris "Cage" Palko's newest single, "I Never Knew You," shot in downtown Los Angeles and directed by actor Shia LaBeouf. Today you can find "I Never Knew You" as the top spotlighted video on YouTube Music ... More >>

Psst: Grammy Week Parties with MGMT, Black Eyed Peas, New York Dolls, Chelsea Girls, DJ AM and (maybe) Whitney Houston

The Grammy telecast might be a snooze, but during awards week its host city is anything but. Surprise stage jams and DJ sets, official and unofficial shindigs and a overall anything-can- happen/anyone-might-show vibe and excitement takes over LA's clubs and events... You don't need to be Jay-Z and B ... More >>

WORN OUT: What Real Girls Can Learn From Drag Queens

It's been a wonderfully wiggy/winky week in LA, but last night's bash at World of Wonder gallery for Rupaul's new TV reality competition Drag Race, definitely took the (pan)cake.  Above, babes in line for RuPaul's Drag Race bash. Dresscode: color, sparkle and fake hair with flair.

Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were dem ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Hunger, One Day You'll Understand, A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy

Also, Frost/Nixon, The Black Balloon and more

Last Night: Antony and the Johnsons Deliver the Perfect Music for the Times at Disney Hall

It did feel like a Moment, like the crowd last night was part of something Big and Important, an event which in better times with less distraction and attention deficiencies might even have been a Landmark. For reasons perhaps too obvious to state, the reception that Antony Hegarty was given in one ... More >>

How Shit Be

Freestyle riffs & ruminations on black music and pop culture at the dawn of 2007

Dreamgirls and Inland Empire: Performance Art

Condon’s Dream works; Lynch’s Empire enthralls

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