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Chris Brown (Singer)

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2013

    The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Week

    Monday, April 8 Thao & the Get Down Stay Down THE TROUBADOUR Usually, when songwriters are as wickedly intelligent as Thao Nguyen, they tend to write morbidly gloomy and/or overly serious anthems of great meaning and purpose. That's not to say the Virginia native doesn't have her grand and heavy mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2013

    Here's What I Listened To While I Underwent Incomprehensible Dentist Torture

    "You're going to bleed, ok?" There were a lot of things said to me Monday afternoon, but that was the only thing I heard. It was said to me by Teresa, an otherwise perfectly pleasant dental assistant. Big as Barack Obama becoming the first Black President, big as Thomas Edison coming up with the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2013

    Chris Brown Faked Community Service With Help Of Police, L.A. D.A. Says

    Chris Brown is the new Lindsay Lohan. First he's accused of socking somebody. Now L.A. prosecutors say he violated his probation by essentially faking his community service papers. And police in Richmond, Virginia are implicated in the scam, prosecutors indicate. The L.A. County District Attorney' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2013

    Top 10 "You Can't Tell Me Nothing" Rappers

    In Macklemore's forthcoming single, "Can't Hold Us," he raps, "Nah they can't tell me nothing," thus continuing a long line of rappers to whom one can not tell nothing. It makes one wonder: Why are people always trying to tell rappers something? Why do the rappers refuse to listen? Why all the doub ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2013

    Chris Brown Allegedly Punches Frank Ocean Over WeHo Parking Spot

    Sheriff's investigators want to talk to Chris Brown after the pop singer allegedly punched crooner Frank Ocean over a parking space at a West Hollywood recording studio overnight. The fracas happened last night in the 7200 block of Santa Monica Boulevard, according to a sheriff's statement. While ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2013

    The Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

    Monday, January 21 Baron von Luxxury, Yellow Alex, Yung Skeeter THE SATELLITE Electro-pop comes in splendiferous shapes and sizes. And Baron von Luxxury brings the wicked-wit version, in which DeBarge, ELO, Hall & Oates and other formerly uncool '80s soul stylists float through the disco in super-s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2013

    This Is What It Feels Like In My Stomach Right Now

    There is an evil inside of me. It is brooding and malevolent and vicious. It is absolute darkness. It is rotting my body on a cellular level. And it is there because I thought a bad idea (getting a burrito at the mall right before it closed) was a good idea ("HEY, LET'S GET A BURRITO FROM THE MALL B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 2, 2013

    Here's What Didn't Suck About B.E.T.'s Top 100 Videos Of 2012

    On December 31, BET showed their Top 100 videos of the year. It was a block of television that ended at 10 p.m. and began, if I'm remembering accurately, around 48 BC. I'd planned on watching all of it, absorbing the videos and then using that information to reach some grand, great point about rap ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2012

    Stand Back: These Los Angeles Bands Are About To Blow Up

    The new year couldn't come at a better time. Forget Superstorm Sandy, school shootings, Snooki's baby, Rihanna and Chris Brown's reconcilliations. Let's start fresh, and let's do it with some new music. Here are eight fantastic local bands, all of whom are set to break big in 2013. The best part? Y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2012

    The Five Most Annoyingly Overplayed Songs at Greystone Manor

    Greystone Manor is the trendy WeHo nightclub usually filled to capacity with A-listers, desperate housewives, Arabian sheiks, ball players, dot-com CEOs and others who have something to do with reality television. Any given Sunday night you might witness Drake buying twenty bottles or Rihanna and Ch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2012

    Rihanna 'Nude' Coming To Century City Mall Saturday; Hundreds Of Fans Expected

    Holiday shoppers, if you thought Black Friday was a spectacle, just wait until you see the teenyboppers and fans rushing to see ... Rihanna. The star with the allegedly off-and-on relationship with Chris Brown will be making an appearance at Macy's in Westfield Century City Mall Saturday. And orga ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2012

    Chris Brown's "Don't Wake Me Up": Why This Song Sucks

    [Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Chris Brown's "Don't Wake Me Up" History: "Don't Wake Me Up" is the hyper danceclub track from Chris Brown's latest album, Fortune. Apparently, wherever ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2012

    Rick Ross, "Hold Me Back": Why This Song Sucks (There Are Zero Fat Jokes, So There)

    [Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Rick Ross, "Hold Me Back" History: Rappers Meek Mill and Wale released a song called "Actin' Up." It was loud, boisterous and aggressively circular (the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 4, 2012

    Darnell and Tania Washington, Bonnie and Clyde of L.A. County, Wanted for Wild Crime Spree in Carjacked Minivan

    An attractive Southern California couple is wanted in two counties this morning for the jailbreak and joyride of a lifetime. San Bernardino County Sheriff's officials say that 24-year-old robbery suspect Darnell Washington escaped from county jail on August 28 with the help of his wife, 25-year-old ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2012

    These Five Rappers, Like Frank Ocean, Should Boycott Chick-fil-A

    See also: Frank Ocean - The Wiltern - 7/17/12 Why Is Frank Ocean's Coming Out a Big Deal, But Not Syd the Kyd's? Depending on your political point of view, Chick-fil-A is either a patriotic chicken chain whose brass advocate "traditional" marriage or a homophobic gulag to be avoided. R&B singer F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2012

    Top 10 Sexiest Hip-Hop Video Vixens

    LMFAO 'Bikini Girl' Says She Was Fired For Being 'Big Boned' Top Ten Sexiest Album Covers We've Ever Seen Top 60 Worst Lil Wayne Lines on Tha Carter IV Top Ten Rap Albums For People Who Don't Know Shit About Hip-Hop Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List Thoughts From A Rando ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2012

    Jose Lucero, 22-Year-Old Stagehand for MTV Movie Awards, Dies in Scaffolding Fall at Universal CityWalk

    Updated at the bottom: Cal/OSHA confirms that Lucero was taking down the MTV Movie Awards set, and says he may not have been wearing fall protection. Originally posted at 1:05 p.m. A young man who said on his Facebook that he was on the MTV Movie Awards set this week has died tragically in a 60-fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    Glasses Malone Has A New, Highly-Objectionable Song With the Chorus: "Treat It Like Rihanna"

    See also: Pop Bottles: Glasses Malone's Debut Album Finally Drops A few months ago, Watts rapper Glasses Malone stopped by LA Weekly to chat about his oft-stalled debut album on Cash Money Records. When asked about the delay, his theory was, "I'm not willing to make a fool of myself to get attentio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2012

    Why the Grammys Stink

    See also: *2012 Grammys: The Best, the Worst and the Weirdest *Deadmau5, Rihanna - House of Blues - 2/13/12 *Dan Wilson: From "Closing Time" to Adele's "Someone Like You" So, our Grammy credentials were fairly limited last night. In fact, we were trapped in a room for eight hours, with journalists ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    January 12, 2012

    Glee in the Megachurch

    Joyful Noise review

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2011

    Best L.A. Twitter Beefs of 2011 (and Who Won)

    ​Like most news bloggers, we probably spend too much time on Twitter. Tips arrive in real time -- quicker than on news television, or over the wire -- and Twitpics open us up to a world of witnesses. In effect, we might also talk about it too much. (Online celebrity rags are guiltiest of all: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2011

    Know Your L.A. Hip-Hop Dances: Popping Birthed The Moonwalk

    [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.] Popping Popping is harder than it looks: Like a robot, or even a mime, your body is stiff and you move slo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2011

    Pancake Rap Spoofs Chris Brown's "Look At Me Now"

    Mac Lethal Raps About Pancakes​ We're not sure what's more impressive: that rapper Mac Lethal can cook pancakes while rapping over the beat to Chris Brown's "Look At Me Now" or that his spoof song, "Cook With Me Now," actually sounds better than the original version. Either way, it's impressiv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    Chris Brown - Staples Center - October 20, 2011

    Timothy Norris ​See also *More photos in Timothy Norris' slideshow "Chris Brown at Staples Center" *Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Chris Brown Can Do No Wrong Chris Brown, T-Pain, Bow Wow, Tyga Staples Center October 20, 2011 Chris Brown seems much older than 22. Of course, he's been famous since h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2011

    Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Chris Brown Can Do No Wrong

    ​[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilt Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] It was fall 2005, and I was sitting in an Internet café in Berlin. Juelz Santana's "There It Go (The Whistle Song) ... More >>

  • Music

    October 13, 2011

    Music Picks: Shelby Lynne, Marsha Ambrosius, John Scofield Quartet, Wiz Khalifa

    Also, Leon Russell, Chris Brown, Azar Lawrence Quintet and others

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2011

    Countdown to Record Store Day: An Interview with RSD Co-Founder Michael Kurtz

    ​We've been looking forward to Record Store Day (or RSD) for awhile now. For one, it provides a welcome diversion for those of us not going to Coachella. Also, we are looking forward to all of the limited-edition vinyl releases, in-stores, and sales that come along with RSD. We keep hearing a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2011

    Chris Brown's 'GMA' Rampage Gets Taiwanese Animation Treatment: It's Not Pretty

    YouTubeChris Brown, hunted down?​Chris Brown's rampage backstage at Good Morning America this week got the Taiwanese animation treatment, Tiger Woods-style. This one sent to us by Next Media Animation seems to display a little cultural insensitivity (but hey, they're Taiwanese), as Brown is s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Chris Brown Goes on Rampage Backstage at 'Good Morning America' Over Rihanna Questions

    Chris Brown is breezy. Really.​Chris Brown flipped out backstage at Good Morning America after he had been asked about Rihanna. You know, the 2009 Grammy Awards-weekend assault in Hancock Park that appeared to leave her pummeled. According to ABC's own account, the 22-year-old pop singer (R&B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    Top 8 Twitter Tools: Threatening Thugs, Homophobic Hip Hoppers and Musical Idiots Who Are Worse Than Courtney Love

    8 Threatening Thugs, Homophobic Hip Hoppers and Twitter Idiots Worse Than Courtney Love

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    Today in Surreal Television: Bettye LaVette Sings Amazing Soul-Style "Quadrophenia" Cover for Katie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb

    When Bettye Met Katie Lee and Hoda​We love Bettye LaVette, the Detroit soul survivor whose career has been rebooted by the wonderful folk at local Anti- records. This is no surprise, as everyone loves Bettye LaVette. We caught her intimate, cabaret-style show at Largo last month, where she s ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    September 2, 2010

    Movie Review: Takers

    When Bettye Met Katie Lee and Hoda​We love Bettye LaVette, the Detroit soul survivor whose career has been rebooted by the wonderful folk at local Anti- records. This is no surprise, as everyone loves Bettye LaVette. We caught her intimate, cabaret-style show at Largo last month, where she s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2009

    Top Entertainment Stories of 2009 Named; Jackson, L.A. Dominate List

    ​The death of Michael Jackson topped a list of top-ten entertainment stories for 2009, and headlines emanating from Los Angeles dominated the list. The survey of news editors was conducted by Associated Press. Its top stories: 1) The death of Michael Jackson; 2) the rise of singer Susan Boyle ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2009

    People Make Mistakes: Chris Brown Fan Appreciation Tour @ Avalon (11/18)

    The shrieking washed through Avalon in a solid wave of 14 year-old girls wearing short dresses from Forever 21 and boys whose bright sneakers gleamed in the darkness like the eyes of ghosts trailing sparkly wallet chains. Chris Brown's Fan Appreciation show last Wednesday was morally tormenting. I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2009

    Twitter Nation Unusually Fixated on Rihanna's Forehead

    www.rihannanow.com/Advertise Your Business Here (too soon?)​Ah, the Twitterati... What an interesting collection of people with varied interests. How varied, you ask? Well, today everyone's talking about one of the hottest Twitter trending topics for this week, which saw both Rihanna and Chris ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2009

    Game Drops "The" Then Drops New Street Single

    ​As The Game, LA rapper Jayceon Taylor released three incredibly solid albums, but is now switching it up a little bit for his upcoming fourth release, "The R.E.D. Album" (December 8th). He's redacted the The and will now be referred to simply as Game. He's promised two singles this week, the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2009

    Did LAPD Officers Sell Rihanna Abuse Photos?

    The Enterprise Report claims that the Los Angeles Police Department is close to nabbing the officer or officers suspected of providing a police photo of the battered singer Rihanna to the gossip website TMZ.com.TMZ​According to the online blogsite, two officers have been "assigned to home" - in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    He-e-e-r-re's Eddie! Ed McMahon, the sidekick's sidekick, who for 30 years suffered and shone as Johnny Carson's foil, straight man and MC, has died of undisclosed causes at the age of 86. L.A. TimesSheriff Stops DNA Search Blaming budget woes, L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca has halted his department' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Chris Brown Deal in the Works? R&B singer Chris Brown's attorney, Mark Geragos, may be close to making a plea deal with the District Attorney's office regarding the charges Brown faces in the alleged beating of singer-girlfriend Rihanna. Brown's arraignment has been scheduled for 3 p.m. Monday. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2009

    Chris Brown: Not Guilty, Not Guilty

    R&B singer Chris Brown, 19, had his arraignment downtown today and, despite earlier talk of his lawyer, Mark Geragos, massaging a plea deal with the D.A.'s office, Brown ended up pleaded not guilty to two felony charges: assault and making a criminal threat. Brown allegedly beat his girlfriend, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2009

    Chris Brown Remains Nickelodeon's Kids Choice Nominee

    Chris Brown, the R&B crooner, is facing jail time if convicted of two felonies arising from the alleged February beating, in Hancock Park, of his pop-star girlfriend, Rihanna. Still, Brown, who has already lost an endorsement deal with Wrigley gum because of his troubles, got some good news tod ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Candlelight for 200 Several hundred same-sex marriage supporters backing the overturn of Proposition 8 held a rainy vigil in downtown L.A. on the eve of state supreme court hearings on the measure's constitutionality. L.A. TimesD.A. to Decide on Chris Brown The District Attorney's office might decid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2009

    Chris Brown Charged -- Arraignment Later Today

    The District Attorney filed a felony complaint against R&B star Chris Brown this morning, charging him with "willfully and unlawfully commit[ting] an assault on ROBYN F. by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury." Brown is also charged with making a criminal threat against Robyn F ... More >>

  • Music

    February 12, 2009

    Grammy Week: Magical Music Moments All Over Town

    The District Attorney filed a felony complaint against R&B star Chris Brown this morning, charging him with "willfully and unlawfully commit[ting] an assault on ROBYN F. by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury." Brown is also charged with making a criminal threat against Robyn F ... More >>

  • Music

    February 12, 2009

    Katy Perry Unpeeled — and Other Signs of Life in the Dead of the Grammys PressRoom

    Including the buzz over Rihanna and Chris Brown, and revelations from Natalie Cole on heroin addiction

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Long Beach OK's Wetlands Deal The L.B. City Council has approved a deal to trade a 12-acre parcel from a public service yard for nearly 34 acres of Los Cerritos Wetlands located on Bixby Ranch.Man Ends Barricade Standoff Frank Torres peacefully left his Carson home, which is threatened with bank for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Charter School Teachers Talk Union The L.A. Times reports that nearly 80 percent of teachers from a respected Los Angeles charter school have signed cards requesting union membership. Teachers at the Accelerated School say in the story that the school's administrative decisions have become "opaque a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2009

    Chris Brown & Rihanna: A Bruising Story

    L.A. Observed carries a roundup of dish from TMZ and RadarOnline on the beating R&B singer Chris Brown allegedly gave chanteuse girlfriend Rihanna in Hancock Park this past Saturday evening. The word is that Rihanna was treated and released at Cedars Sinai.Backseat driver: Chris Brown in attorne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2008

    2008's Top Ten Pop Songs

    By Annie Zaleski Pop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2008

    The Tao of Jim Jones' "Pop Champagne" Ft. Special Guest Ignorance from Juelz Santana & Ron Browz

    Thanks to O-Dub for putting me onto this gleeful bit of idiocy. If one cannot convince Rihanna to leave her Caribbean Chris Brown love nest to writhe in your video, one must do the next best thing: get her low-budget, Kool-Aid haired, tatted up, Trinidad & Tobagian equivalent. If ... More >>

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