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Frankie Eder: The 13-year-old DJ

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. Last year Frankie Eder DJed at underground beat music club Low End Theory, joining the ranks of Thom Yorke, Erykah Badu and Flying Lotus. Pretty cool. He's no professional musi ... More >>

Spring Breakers Review: Godard Meets Girls Gone Wild

The Best Concerts To See in L.A. This Week: Oct 29-Nov 2

Monday, October 29 The Monolators, et al. THE ECHO In a week already oozing with Halloween events, this particular Monday oozes very competitively with four decades of alt-classics via five much-loved local bands. Most intriguing is the warhorse indie-pop band Monolators' Bee Gees set. Will they do ... More >>

'Gangnam Style' Flash Mob at The Grove Today; Psy Tells El Monte to Rehire Lifeguards

As the whole world has gone "Gangnam Style," even Saturday Night Live over the weekend, a flash mob featuring the song's rapper, Psy, was planned for 2 p.m. at The Grove shopping center today. (Kind of takes the "flash" out of flash mob when you know all the deets hours ahead of time). But the big ... More >>

Grimes and Blood Diamonds - The Echo - June 19, 2012

Grimes & Blood DiamondsThe Echo6/19/12Better than: Bumping lines, in the back of an El Camino, at the edge of the universe. Last night's incarnation of the beast that is The Echo's monthly "Check Yo Ponytail" event popped off hard with performances by Blood Diamonds and Grimes that could only righ ... More >>

Know Your L.A. Hip-Hop Dances: Locking Is So Easy, Even Dom DeLuise Can Do It

[Editor's Note: Writer Jessica A. Koslow is a USC master's student writing her thesis on krumping. Know Your L.A. Hip-Hop Dances explores some of the most popular street dances in our city.] Locking Not to be confused with popping, locking is the signature move of Rerun from What's Happening!! T ... More >>

Identity Festival: Steve Aoki, Jessie and the Toy Boys, Chad Hugo and More - Hollywood Palladium - 9/4/11

Roselle ChenJessie And The Toy Boys​Steve Aoki, Booka Shade, Jessie and the Toy Boys, Chad Hugo Identity Festival Hollywood Palladium Sunday, September 4 See also: Identity Festival Preview: We Talk With Steve Aoki, Nervo, Figo, Jessie And The Toy Boys and Others Sunday's Identity Festival a ... More >>

Top Five Rappers Who Are Worse Then Lil B

The Game​For all of the disses and shots Game is throwing out lately, you'd almost think he had a new album due next week or something. (Well, he does, and he's going to be on our cover, too.) The latest to find themselves on Jayceon's shit list is Bay Area phenomenon Lil B, whom Game this we ... More >>

Kid Cudi brings The Cud Life to Nokia Theater, Britney Fans Swarm Next Door at Staples

photo by Wendy GilmartinKid Cudi​ L.A. Live played host to a hip hop-meets-dance pop mash-up Monday night, with Britney Spears on one side of the street and Kid Cudi on the other.

Vanessa Hudgens Did Cocaine in the Coachella Sunshine? We Would Be Shocked

allieiswired.comHudgens at Coachella.​Disney is to actresses what Catholic school is to other women. While on the surface they would seem to be places of wholesome goodness and conservative values, somehow their kids end up hiking their skirts up (Britney Spears) and rebelling like Amy Winehou ... More >>

What 78-Year-Old Woman Beat Lady Gaga and Britney to the Top of the Billboard Dance Chart? (And It Was Her 6th Consecutive #1)

​Earlier this month, Billboard announced that someone had beaten the likes of Lady Gaga, Britney Spears and every high-profile DJ you know (yes, even Tiesto!) to the top position on their Dance Music chart. That someone was a 78-year-old woman. The track in question was called "Move on Fast, ... More >>

L.A. Power Couple Khloe Kardashian, Lamar Odom Seriously Creeping Us Out With Unisex 'Unbreakable' Ad (VIDEO)

YouTubePlease stop​In what is possibly the most god-awful truly madly deeply-style celebrity fragrance commercial since Britney Spears' fairyland "Fantasy," Valley entrepreneur Khloe Kardashian enlists her otherwise pretty bad-ass boyfriend, thoroughly whipped Lakers star Lamar Odom, for a uni ... More >>

Nightranger: Lash and Learn

LA's Coolest Producers (Daedelus, Schlomo, etc.) Do Prince, Lady Gaga, Mariah Carey, Soulja Boy and More (Free Download of Entire Album)

​ Los Angeles' Friends of Friends Music has spent 2010 figuring out how to reinvent the way music is released and as a thank you for a successful year, FoF is giving fans a free download of its Pop Massacre compilation. FoF gave its favorite producers simple instructions: "choose a song from a ... More >>

DANCE CLUB PICK: WHO LOVES THE '90S?

Top 10 Popstar Clothing Lines that Put Madonna and Lourdes' New "Material Girl" to Shame!

In this week's Nightranger column, we cover last week's Macy's Passport "Glamorama" event at the Orpheum Theatre downtown. The event was scaled back from years past live music-wise (Macy Gray and Eric Hutchinson performed short sets in between the runway looks) but the production was still top-notch ... 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

Nightranger: Everybody Talk About Pop Muzik

Is Lindsay Lohan On Death Watch?

​Google "lindsay lohan death watch" and you'll get about 652,000 results, including many dating back to last year. But with bizarre behavior, heavily powdered feet, a famous diss of her home base of L.A., and a worrisome pronouncement from cops, Lindsay Lohan's dizzy, after-hours spiral seems ... More >>

Naruto Tops American Idol in 2009 Yahoo Searches

Check out Shannon Cottrell's timeline "Britney Watch Out, Naruto Dominates." It's not that Naruto hadn't made Yahoo's top searches of the year before, but when we saw the anime series sandwiched in between Britney Spears and American Idol, we couldn't help but notice the rank of the anime/manga fra ... More >>

Villains w/Lykke Li at Echoplex Tonight AND Villains' EXCLUSIVE 5 Decade Remix Wishlist Free Remix MP3's

Villains w/Lykke Li at Echoplex Tonight! Villains' EXCLUSIVE 5 Decade Remix Wishlist Free Remix MP3's

Har Mar Superstar Locker Poster! Free! MP3

Har Mar Superstar Locker Poster! Free! MP3

Jack Peñate and Miike Snow at Spaceland MP3s

Jack Peñate and Miike Snow at Spaceland MP3s

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Facing the Muzak General Growth Properties Inc., the mall-owning corporation that owns the Glendale Galleria and Northridge Fashion Center, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, becoming the largest real estate bankruptcy in U.S. history. L.A. TimesHospital Triage The national streak of gunmen runnin ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Sheriff to Close Jails? Going far beyond the early release of county inmates, Sheriff Lee Baca may also close a jail or two to cope with a massive budget shortfall that his department faces. L.A. TimesCandidate Boycotts Own Press Conference L.A. City Councilman and City Attorney candidate Jack Weiss ... More >>

In Her Madgesty's Court

Also, Paper's trail and Punk Rock Karaoke

Party Like A Rockstar: MTV VMAs Take Over LA

After last year's chaotic (if much talked about) ceremony in Las Vegas, MTV has brought the annual celebration of video vamps and hams back to good ol' Los Angeles. The ceremony will be held this Sunday at Paramount Studios, and like the Sin City edition, different segments are set to take place in ... More >>

Rock Picks: The Dirtbombs, Robyn, Dizzee Rascal

And other May 15-22 shows

10 Musicians Definitely Not on Steroids

From the New York Times: "When news surfaced over the weekend that 50 Cent, Wyclef Jean, Timbaland and other rap stars had been implicated in a steroids investigation, some hip-hop fans were shocked, but to many in the industry the accusations seemed inevitable." Oh, how our collective pride in t ... More >>

Lisa Lampanelli

West Hollywood Ho!

Where to meet The Meat Puppets

The Way We Wore

Our unofficial guide to vintage rock T-shirts

Lamb of God to Bless Hyundai Pavilion

Rippin' & Dippin'

Move over, mashups! Now there’s somethin’ meatier: DJ Girl Talk’s Night Ripper

Revenge of the N.E.R.D.

Pharrell’s long-delayed solo debut, In My Mind, is not completely horrible

Living Dolls

Myspace Taste of the Week

I'd like to think that I'm way more popular in real life than I am on Myspace. I've only got like 50 friends, but that's probably because I only say yes to requests from peeps who truly are friends. Call me a weirdo. Anyway, the pals I do have, happen to have thousands of friends and way too much ... More >>

The Psychic Hipster’s Pop 10

When Legend Precedes

The erstwhile John Stephens’ uphill battle with the hype

A Small New Future

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

Strange Memes and Nascent Trends

2001 In Review

The Feminine Mistake

Between a lark and a hard place

Electronica News: A Guide to the Guides

Capsule Band Profiles

Dressed To Chill

The low-power wardrobe

Dive In

The Drinkin’s Fine

How To Ruin Everything

Tyro Mania

The teen dreams of Popular, Freaks and Geeks and Roswell

Busta Rhymes, All the Time . . .

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