Billy Joel

The Best Concerts to See in Los Angeles This Weekend

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Friday, May 17 The International Swingers VIPER ROOM With New York's Met Gala "punk" event and exhibit dominating the media last week, it's sadly ironic that the innovators and music makers responsible for this in-your-face ... More >>

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 >>

Carry On My Wayard Son

Garth Brooks Is a Genius, and He Revolutionized Nashville

[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] Huey Lewis is a dick. It's not hip to be square -- it's square to be square, the thing that the hip will always fight aga ... More >>

Fall in Love With Frank All Over Again

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 >>

Top 10 Hottest Music Videos Featuring Supermodels (In Honor of Evan Voytas Somehow Getting Kate Moss for His Latest)

Top 10 Music Videos Featuring Models (Featuring Evan Voytas' Kate Moss Cameo)

The First Jo-el

Theater Reviews: Groundlings Holiday Show, The First Jo-el, Diva on the Verge

Also, Bob Baker's Nutcracker, Broadway Holiday and more

Stage Raw: Holiday Listings

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset LimitedHOLIDAY LISTINGS:To be honest, the quantity of theater playing this week in Los Angeles is about as thin as it gets. Still, our comprehensive LISTINGS are back up. Things do pick up in January, so ... More >>

The First Jo-el

Stage Raw: Diva on the Verge

The COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS feature will return next weekNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Helen Hunt and Tom Irwin in Much Ado NEW REVIEW GO DIVA ON THE VERGE ​ Photo courtesy of the Odyssey TheatreIn her compelling one-woman show, soprano Julia Migenes, who has sung more leading roles ... More >>

Live Review: Frightened Rabbit at The Mayan Theater

Andrew HansonScott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit greets the crowd.​ Last night Scottish natives Frightened Rabbit spent their last night in Los Angeles in grand fashion at the Mayan Theater. The strangeness of the choice of venue was not lost on the band. Looking up wonderingly at the walls ... More >>

Dublab and Leaving Rec's Keep Cassette Culture Alive in Silver Lake (Plus: Lapti, From Russia with Fuzz)

Raid your own collection for cassettes to "spin" at Top Tape in Silver Lake.​On Friday night (tonight) at Silver Lake's Hyperion Tavern, Dublab and Leaving Records are asking cassette owners to help DJ a night filled exclusively with reel-to-reel music. Die hard tape aficionado and casual "ju ... More >>

Live Review: Jukebox The Ghost, Hooray For Earth, and AB & The Sea at the Echo

Jessica DustonAB & The Sea​ Last night the pop came in three varieties at the Echo: traditional, experimental, and extra sweet. It was almost like being in Galco's, something for everyone. The first band up was AB & The Sea, who were dressed up prim and proper with collared shirts and cardiga ... More >>

I was a Texas Jewboy

They ain't makin' Americans like Kinky Friedman anymore

BRIAN MAY BE AN ODDBALL

Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston

MAKE US LAUGH FUNNY GIRL!

Katie Lee On Brownie Binging After Billy Joel Her New Cookbook, Cooking Classes (At Newport Beach Next Week) & A Chocolate-Cherry Holiday Cookie Recipe

The Comfort Table Cookbook​When you're young, beautiful and Billy Joel's ex-wife, apparently you can get away with sitting on the stoop of your four-story Greenwich Village pad, casually nibbling peanut butter cookies while pretending to read the newspaper. And offering authoritative statement ... More >>

5 Great LA Dive Bars: From the Lost & Found to the Wild Goose

A truly great dive bar is like a successful horror movie: it's a little gross, maybe a bit scary, but always a fun adventure, and filled with an eclectic cast of characters. Some dives are time machines, frozen in forgotten eras, while others make for the perfect spot to lose an hour or three or ten ... More >>

From the Archives: Paula Abdul Looking Seductive in Some Sort of Kimono

The West Coast Sound photo archives are legendary among music bloggers. where the majority of sites scour Google Image to find photos for use, we've got a secret weapon: a vast world of file cabinets housing thousands of old press photos. This is an amazing collection that we could use to blackmail ... More >>

Labia, Sarah Silverman, Phantom of the Opera and more!

What to do in L.A., January 23-29

THE GREAT WHITE PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY

Britpop Piano Man: Adam Unknown Pays Homage to Five Decades of U.K. Music

At Royal Clayton's, a British pub on the bottom level of the Toy Factory Lofts, Adam Unknown leans into a microphone as he tickles piano keys. At times, it seems as though the clang of silverware against glass wants to compete with the performer's subtle croon, but the background noise never qui ... More >>

Houston Press' Top 10 Reissues of 2008

By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionall ... More >>

Grab The Believer's Music Issue While It's Still on the Racks -- It's Totally Worth It

Though it's been out for the past month or so, I'd highly recommend that you race to your nearest newstand to grab the recent music issue of The Believer, which is still on the newstands this week (or so we've been told) but on the verge of vanishing. There are a number of sublime highlights in ... More >>

Escape from Allentown

Beardo’s long journey into teenage wasteland

Film Reviews: The Last Winter, The Jane Austen Book Club

Also Resident Evil: Exintction, Over the GW, Sea of Dreams, Sydney White and more

Big Noise From Little Radio

Spoon at Little Radio, July 16

Film Reviews: Disturbia, Perfect Stranger and More

Also Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Thetaers, The Ritchie Boys and this week's pick, Red Road

Ascots and Madness

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Trout-Faced Piano Man Sings of Sex, Dogs

Welcome to The Dungeon

Basted days and nights in a 20th-century dormitory basement

Gentlemen's Disagreement

Putting the testosterone back in dandyism

Hipsters Must Die

10 signs of the (Yindie) apocalypse

My Life With the Radical Nuns

Immaculate Heart, home of the brave

Call me Nostradamus

10 signs of the apocalypse

A Small New Future

ALEC HANLEY BEMIS on the casualties and survivors in the war between the Cynics and the True Believers

Just the Way She Is

The world of Twyla Tharp, and Billy Joel’s Movin’ Out

Sick of Jazz

The Contemporaries

Letters

Before the Fall

Showtime in Gotham

Crush and Cuddle

The sheer heart failure of Ozzfest 2002

A Fan's Notes

Death Mix 2001