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Top 5 Things to do for Cinco de Mayo in L.A.

​Is it already time to celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of Puebla, where Mexican forces soundly defeated the French under the direction of General Zaragoza? It certainly is (tomorrow)! What follows is a list of the best street parties, musical events, and other such activities in and ar ... More >>

Music Picks: The Psychedelic Furs, Orgone, Raekwon, Beach Fossils, The Raveonettes

Also, Thao & Mirah, Sun Araw, Cass McCombs, Trinket and others

The Free Association of Anarchists Plan to Unleash a Weapon of Collective Organization

Sam SlovickLinda, Omar, Matt, Tobie, Frank, Richard and Miguel gather to figure out how to subtract government from the equation.​ Tobie Castle is one of the last to arrive at Chuco's on Sunday morning. The 17-year-old self-proclaimed socialist/anarchist street punk came from East L.A. to Ing ... More >>

Music Picks: Liz Phair, DeVotchKa, Peter Murphy, Fergus & Geronimo

Also Whitechapel, Motorhead, Juanes and others

California Controller John Chiang to Probe L.A. Redevelopment Agency, 17 Others

John Chiang takes on the L.A. CRA​Looks like we Angelenos may have raised enough of a ruckus about the last-minute $1 billion money transfer between the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency and the L.A. City Council for a state official to get involved. Welcome to the shitshow, Controll ... More >>

Top 10 U.S. Customs Seizures Of 2010, Including $9 Million Train-Load Of Pot In California

U.S. Customs and Border ProtectionDamn leafhopping aliens resorted to pineapple transit in August​Jumping at another chance to flex some red-white-and-blue muscle this New Year -- and surely aware of the Internet's obsession with Top 10 lists -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials rel ... More >>

Phillip Pelayo, L.A. Homicide No. 202: 31-Year-Old Man Stabbed By Older Brother, Who Then Flees For Mexico

Google Maps​A 31-year-old Latino man was fatally stabbed by his 42-year-old brother around 4:15 p.m. on Sunday, October 10. The two were arguing at their shared Hollywood apartment in the 1500 block of Winona Boulevard, when Edgar Pelayo took out a knife and began stabbing the victim repeatedl ... More >>

Music Picks: Plastic Ono Band, Ooh La LA Fest, Belle & Sebastian

Also, Marianne Dissard, Bad Company, Matador 21 and others

Los Angeles County Cities Have Highest Sales Taxes In The State, Including 10.75 Percent In Pico Rivera And South Gate

Slices of Light via Flickr​Updated after the jump with comments from the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce's CEO, who says high sales taxes could hurt car sales. Originally posted at 1:38 p.m. Eleven cents on the dollar in sales tax? Believe that. As five California cities, including two in Sou ... More >>

Music Picks: Grizzly Bear, Muse, Dark Dark Dark, the Charlatans UK

Also, Tonya Watts, Modeselektor, Heart and others

Free Download: Calexico's 'Live in Nuremberg' LP

Calexico, not in Nuremberg​They're based in Tuscon but have more in common with the Californian southwest than anywhere else. For one, the name: The original Calexico is a SoCal border town just a hop and a skip away from its Baja counterpart, Mexicali. Secondly, Calexico's sound -- and we' ... More >>

Three Killed, 233 Injured In Baja Quake Felt Throughout Southwest

zikeyros via Twitpic: http://twitpic.com/1db211A sign fell on a car in the Mexicali area.​The death toll from Sunday's 7.2 Baja earthquake felt across the Southwest increased to three Monday, with at least 233 people, mostly in the Mexican border town of Mexicali, reporting injuries, according ... More >>

Jerry Brown Announces Successful Prosecution Of Mexican Mafia Cell

​State Attorney General Jerry Brown on Thursday announced the last of a series of successful prosecutions against a Mexican Mafia cell that worked in Imperial and San Diego counties. Imperial County resident Patrick Ralph Ponce, 44, pleaded guilty this week to drug, weapon, kidnapping and ext ... More >>

Over the Weekend: RIP J.G. Ballard, Three Days of Coachella Madness, Plus Zombie Invasion at Fangoria Convention

We don't know about you but we are the very definition of exhausted. Three days of music, parties and the desert heat at the 10th annual Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio has left us completely wiped. But damn if we didn't get some great coverage while we were there. Randall Roberts put tog ... More >>

Ten Coachella Picks: Ariel Pink, Genghis Tron, Vivian Girls, Mastodon

Plus, A Place to Bury Strangers, Mexican Institute of Sound, Gui Boratto, MSTRKFT and more

Seminal Indie Label Touch & Go Lays Off 20, Leaving Crystal Antlers Without a Label and PPM Without Distribution

Very very sad news in the world of true-blue punk rock. Estimable Midwest label Touch & Go announced today that it was laying off its 20 employees and scaling back its operations. The label, responsible for releasing some of the great post-punk records of 80s, 90s and 00s, played home to legends, i ... More >>

Maybe We're Amazed: Notes on the Fairly Odd Coachella 2009 Lineup

Our only hope — that Macca gets Ram tough

Coachella 2009 Announced: Amy Winehouse, Paul McCartney, My Bloody Valentine ... Throbbing Gristle! Leonard Cohen!

Yeah, so all the silly speculation probably isn't done yet, as Goldenvoice always adds a few heavy-hitters after the initial announcement, but the initial line-up is up. Click through to see it in all it's glory. We'll start analyzing it soon, but for now: Throbbing Gristle! No Pavement? Let the ... More >>

Simone White: Daughter of Invention

Lineage may have placed her on the stage, but her gorgeous new album will keep her there

Record Reviews: Silver Jews' Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea

Also, Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III

Rock Picks: Dethklok, Billy Bragg, Erykah Badu, Mr. Gnome

Also, shows by Listing Ship, Detroit Cobras and more

Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#10-6)

10. Spoon-Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga [Merge] Sasha Frere-Jones is a joke and Spoon can prove it. I mean, if all I had to judge indie rock on was the Arcade Fire and the Decemberists and Sufjan Stevens (all acts I like), maybe I might come up with something as hackish as his risible blow-up, but the best R& ... More >>

Pedro Guzman's Return

Wrongly deported to Mexico, a developmentally disabled man is found safe

''Just Be Butt Naked. With Glitter.''

Before the Music Dies screened at Circus Theatricals, November 16

Moca Brings the Noise!

Greed Runs Through It

One man’s journey to the end of the Colorado River

Eyes Wide Shut

Glenn Spencer, frightened by what he saw in L.A., moved to Arizona to keep watch over the border

Minuteman Divisions

Internal squabbles tear at anti-immigrant movement

Girls Incited, City Burned

The Wal-Mart Equation

It all adds up to a supermarket strike

Trading With the Enemy

The DEA's dirty deal down under