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The Top 10 Memorial Day Weekend Concerts in L.A.

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Friday, May 24 Boris ECHOPLEX Japanese experimental rockers Boris have spent their entire 15-year career making sure that their fans are unable to predict what will come next from the band. One album could consist of thrashi ... More >>

Music Picks: Gilles Peterson, Boris, Gothic Tropic

The Sloths' Jeff Briskin Hired a Private Detective to Track Down His Former Bandmates

Try as time might to diminish this filthy city's hot brat-beat heritage, there's never a shortage of dormant talent lurking deep within the twisting corridors of our rock and roll maze of myth and history. While squandered legacies and the yoke of mediocrity befall so many once promising players, th ... More >>

Cypress Hill Smokeout Festival - NOS Events Center - 3/3/12

See also: Cypress Hill Rallies Medical Marijuana Advocates for Smokeout at City Hall (With Photos) Cypress Hill Smokeout Festival with Rusko, Wiz Khalifa, Korn, Sublime with Rome, Thievery Corporation NOS Events Center, San Bernardino 3/3/12 Love was in the San Bernardino air Saturday. Well, that, ... More >>

'Don't Stick Your Dick in My Mouth Before We've Kissed': Sheri Sanders' 10 Tips on Auditioning for Rock Musicals

Rebecca HaithcoatSheri Sanders​Inside the Lyric Theatre on La Brea, the compact Sheri Sanders is curled in a chair, squinting her eyes and smiling almost apologetically at the nervous girl in Uggs onstage who keeps forgetting her lyrics. "I hate to be a cunt," Sanders murmurs. "I hate to be a ... More >>

HAPPY FUN TIME OF THE WEEK

Music Picks: Bob Dylan, Azalia Snail, Makabert Fynd, Seun Kuti

Also, No Age, Crystal Antlers, Imelda May and others

Carmageddon Survival Guide: 10 Artsy Ways to Salvage Your Weekend

Cult soul singer Evie Sands in the 1960s; Sands is performing at Viva Cantina this Sunday.​ With the impending shutdown of the 405, everyone's unsure of what to do this weekend. Quoth a friend: "Should I leave? Should I stay? And if I stay, what should I do?" Have no fear, we've got you cove ... More >>

Grammy Party Report #3: Relentless Rhythms at Roots Jam and The Black Keys on Deck at Hemingways

Lina LecaroRoots' Capt. Kirk Douglas and Jimmy Fallon- less talkin,' more rockin.'​ You never know who might pop up on stage at the Roots Jam, which was, with the exception of Clive Davis' A(ss)-list kiss/croon-a-thon, the most buzzed about bash Saturday night. It was wishful thinking of cour ... More >>

Music Picks: Nicole Atkins & the Black Sea, Teebs, Los Amigos Invisibles, Rare Grooves

Also Parkway Drive, Martha Wainwright, Anna Tijoux, the Deadbeats and others

Rock Picks: Riot Girl Carnival, Miniature Tigers, Death Cab for Cutie, Deer Tick

Also, Vieux Farka Touré, John Fogerty, Stacey Q, Watts Ensemble and others

Rock Picks: BLK JKS, Lambchop, Efterklang, Yelle

Also, Michael Gira, The Pretenders, Foreign Born, and others

B-Real of Cypress Hill: Smoking "The Birthday Cake" With a Master

Rapper, stoned, is tired of being typecast as "stoner rapper"

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 >>

Rock Picks: Orphics, Roky Erickson, Madonna

Also, Linda Ronstadt, Rise Against and more

Rock Picks: The Kooks, Neil Young, Jerry Cole Memorial

Also, Kaki King, The Notwist and more

Synth-Pop Legend Yaz Makes Its L.A. Debut

A quarter-century after their birth, the duo play the Orpheum

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

Also, shows by Listing Ship, Detroit Cobras and more

Rock Picks: The Slits, Squiddo, Electrocute

For the week of August 2 - 9

Blonde Ambition

The Long Blondes are here to satisfy your Elastica craving (assuming you still have one)

Rock Picks

For Sept. 28 – Oct. 5

Rock Picks

For February 3 - 10

Rubble Rockers

The Cute Ones

Queer As Rock

Edited by Kateri Butler

Do Right Man

Back on Track With Solomon Burke

Up in Smoke

Edited by Kateri Butler

Super Furry Sound

A year in music

Behind Blue Eyes

The return of British soul

When Bobby Met Billy

De Niro, Crystal and Two Smoking Barrels