Debbie Harry

Rock Star Fashions, Without the Douchiness

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Almost everyone has once wanted to dress like a rock star, but most people realize how absurd they look in leather pants and sequins. Wisely, then, Holly ... More >>

G.L.O.W.'s Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, the Female WWF From the '80s, Reunite at Cinefamily

On Tuesday night, Cinefamily screened G.L.O.W.: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, a documentary on the low-budget, female version of the WWF that ran from 1986 to 1990. "Everybody thought G.L.O.W. was about sex," said the show's director Matt Cimber. "But it wasn't at all. The sex was ... More >>

10 Groundbreaking Celebrity and Music Photographers

Right now, there are at least three music-themed photo exhibits going on in L.A., and a few celebrity-themed ones, too. Peter Fetterman Gallery is showing "Forever Young: The Art of Music Photography" through September 8, while Kana Manglapus Projects is exhibiting "Factory 77" through September 10, ... More >>

Michael Ochs

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: All Iggy Pop, All Night

KCRW Broadcast #161 for Saturday, April 21, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Happy Birthday Iggy Pop! Your Biggest Fan, Henry Fanatics! Hello from Melbourne, Australia! Tonight's show is a very special one. Today, one Iggy Pop turns 65 years old. There is no better way we can say happy bi ... More >>

Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: The Complete List

*Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List What we talk about when we talk about sex and rock 'n roll is often dudes, the lusty front men and axe-grinders who, perhap ... 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 >>

Lindsay Lohan Hit-and-Run? 'Reformed' Party Girl Might Have Just Grazed the Wrong A-Hole

Though her sex life is getting stranger and her face is bloating out of control (so much so that the paparazzi recently mistook her for Debbie Harry), Lindsay Lohan has avoided any major missteps with Los Angeles law enforcement these last few months. At her last court appearance for the DUI/neckla ... More >>

Marina Abramovic's MOCA Gala Controversy: Jeffrey Deitch Confronted and the Performers Speak Out

Getty Images for MOCAA human centerpiece at the "Artist Life Manifesto" directed by Marina Abramovic for the MOCA Gala​ The guests at MOCA's annual galas are patrons high in the economic hierarchy: politicians, heirs, celebrities, moguls, entrepreneurs who've made bank. Tickets cost an arm an ... More >>

5 Artsy Things to Do This Week: From MOCA's Controversial Gala to Christmas in Chinatown

Courtesy Cirrus GalleryDoug Edge's Pure Air Hope Chest, made of cast resin in 1971​ Like summer group shows, holiday group shows are hit-and-miss. But two good ones are up right now, one in Inglewood and one downtown, and both mix barely heard-of artists with those who have been around. 5. M ... More >>

Whole Lotta Lens

Blondie - Club Nokia - October 5, 2011

Debi Del GrandeBlondie​See also: An Interview With Debbie Freaking Harry! Blondie Club Nokia October 5, 2011 Better than ... expected. Far better than we could have imagined, actually. When new wave erupted on the back end of punk, there was Blondie, with great hooks, crisp beats and a sul ... More >>

An Interview With Debbie Freaking Harry!

Blondie's new Panic of Girls album is just out, and it's the band's first in eight years. The best thing about it? It sounds like Blondie! Now that's cool, because it's a sound that never gets old. Their rich hash of punky trashy, surfy funky dance-y rockerini came straight out of the grime of d ... More >>

Do Blondies Really Have More Fun?

"So many people come up to me and say, `There's no good music today, it's all downhill!' But I don't feel that way at all. I think there's great music, great bands. It's amazing to me to see how bands evolve and how they take all their influences and come up with their own sound."

MOCA's Jeffrey Deitch Talks 'Art in the Streets,' Widely-Acclaimed Exhibit Closes in a Week

Patrick Range McDonaldLee Quinones: "Debbie Harry" (1981)​With the Art in the Streets exhibit closing on August 8 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown, MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch talks with L.A. Weekly about the impact of the widely-acclaimed show on the public and in the art world ... More >>

Top 10 Strangest Rock Star Action Figures (In Honor of the "Hard Rock Barbie" Lawsuit)

Tiny Rockers! 10 Best Rock Star Action Figures (Not Including HorrorPops' Lawsuit Lovin Bassist)

Why is Armenia Anti-Emo?

Lauryn Hill Schedules Tour, Anti-Emo Armenia, Pearl Jam Makes Festival, Dylan's Lyrics Bring Big Bucks

Rock & Rule Blu-Ray Release: Debbie Harry and Cheap Trick vs. Cartoon Guitar Mutants (and Lou Reed!)

​ How many big-budget rock and roll movies were made by Canadian animators in the early 1980s? How many of them featured at least one cast member from SCTV, the voice-over work of journeyman Don Francks, and a song by Cheap Trick? Well, at least two. Heavy Metal is the quintessential animat ... More >>

Nightranger: Pounding the Pavement

Nightranger: California Paradise

Straight Outta Chocolate's Rock N' Roll Cakes: Joy Division & Iggy Pop, In Chocolate

Want an homage of your favorite rock star? Try a cake depicting Iggy Pop, Dr. Dre or Debbie Harry--in chocolate. Baker, chocolatier and DJ (at Highland Park's Footsies) Kate Steffens specializes in rock n' roll cakes, with musicians depicted in tempered chocolate which she works into elaborate portr ... More >>

WHO REMEMBERS THE MUDD CLUB? OH YEAH, YOU'RE ALL DEAD

SXSSXSW Day 4/Days Late (Pt. 1): On Rap/Rock, The Legacy of the Beasties, and Asher Roth Vs. The Knux

Other than freshman Delta Sigma Theta rushes at Cal-State Chico, no substrata of the American population has worse taste in rock than rappers. Sure, your little brother likes Fall Out Boy, but eventually, he's going to grow up and discover The Clash, then weed, then hopefully Junior Murvin and Lee ... More >>

Nightranger Does Fashion Week

Stephen Sprouse, Lady Gaga and Box 8

Great Night for Music in LA: Tom Verlaine Performs with Silent Films, and Guns 'n Bombs Debuts Club at the Echo

New York guitarist Tom Verlaine possesses one of the strongest and most identifiable tones in rock, with a no-bullshit, clean, Coltrane-esque appreciation of sound and space. He builds solos like an architect designs buildings, line by line, measure by measure. The founding member of New York art ... More >>

Wax On, Wax Off

Car wash, yeah; pole-dancing queen; photo Zone at Drkrm

Sensuous Woman, Mean Men, Dancing Swans

Rock Picks: Deborah Harry, Björk, Richard Hawley, Shonen Knife, Bang Sugar Bang

For the week of December 7 - 13

Get Off Your Rocker and Slam!!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Rock Picks

For the week of June 28 - July 5, 2007

In the Kodak, in the Pink

And in the dollhouse

Rock Picks

For the week of March 15 - 22

Rock Picks

For the week of December 28 - January 4

Hole, Sweet Hole

The last weekend of CBGB

Have Fun, F*ck Sh*t Up

Youth is not wasted on teen punks Be Your Own Pet

September Girls

The Like’s debut LP delivers hazy, wistful intoxication

Betty Boop, Bowling for Dollars, Brazilian Pop... and a Duck

The Gayest Hoopla Ever!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Waves of Sympathy

Periods, Bras and T-Cells

A father-daughter heart-to-heart in the age of HIV

Paolo Cilione & Claudio Camaione, Mix Fix

Angel in My Trailer

Sarah Polley redeems My Life Without Me

King of the Hill

In the Bag

Fetus Don't Fail Me Now

Edited by Kateri Butler

Back in the Day

Golden Girls

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

If You See Kay

Paul ‘n’ Princess: Very stimulating!

A Night in Orbit

Gay music? It's a body/soul thing