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The Time Axl Rose and Steven Adler Nearly Killed Each Other

Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal, by Jon Wiederhorn and Katherine Turman comes out today. It's an amazing account of the four-decades-old genre -- more than 700 pages long, with hundreds of interviews, many of them with essential players. It gets into everything from the mu ... More >>

W Hotel Hollywood to See 24-Hour Workers' Strike Over Breaks: Sexy Music Video Dancers to Join in (Really)

NBCLet's hope these video dancers don't show up.​The L.A. hipster is in a bad place right now. Does she join Occupy L.A. and get dirty on the lawn of City Hall or continue to base her activism on the fact that she only wears American Apparel underwear? It's only going to get tougher, because ... More >>

Ten European Artists You Should Have Heard By Now

Parisian rapper Rohff​In the States, it's easy to be stuck in the bubble of our domestic music. Sadly, many European artists have a difficult time breaking into the North American market. Often, this stems from the language barrier, but it can also be due to the straight-up oddball nature of t ... More >>

SXSW Recap: Japan Nite Raises Money for Earthquake Relief

photos by Siran Babayan​ Konichiwa Austin! In addition to showcasing six of the best Japanese artists playing everything from soul to punk to metal, SXSW's annual Japan Nite at Elysium had a bigger cause this year. All proceeds from ticket sales benefitted the Red Cross, making up the nearly ... More >>

Ceci Bastida Interview: "You Need To Feel Free"

ceci bastida​ Tijuana might be better known right now for its crooked cops and affordable prescription drugs, but Ceci Bastida has been sounding off for the border city's next generation since she was a feisty 15 year-old fronting politically-minded Mexican ska band Tijuana No! (famous for th ... More >>

When We Were Fab

Peter Asher's Apple days

Brick's Picks: The Brat Pack, Literally

Cursed Danger Mouse/David Lynch/Sparklehorse Collaboration Finally Given a Release Date

Pitchfork reports that Dark Night of the Soul, the seemingly cursed collaboration between Danger Muse, David Lynch, and the late Sparklehorse will finally be officially released this Summer: Parlophone/EMI will release Dark Night of the Soul July 12 in the UK and July 13 in the U.S. via Capitol. U ... More >>

EXCLUSIVE Interview: OK Go's Tim Nordwind on Why the Band Left EMI

View more photos of OK Go's LACMA Muse video release party in "CuriousJosh: Burnal Equinox, X Fundraiser, OK Go." Last Wednesday, OK Go announced both their departure from EMI and the creation of their own label, Paracadute. Given that this move comes only two months after the release of their lat ... More >>

OK Go Says 'Okay... No' to EMI

OK Go it alone.​Call 'em OK Go For Dolo. The formerly Chicago-based band, now relocated to Los Angeles, who rose to fame on the strength of its superb, Gondry-esque DIY music videos has just announced that it's splitting from EMI. OK Go has founded its own label, Paracadutes. Fittingly, that's ... More >>

The Specials to Play Club Nokia the Night Before Their Coachella Gig

Plugged-in music headz know that the Specials have reformed and are playing Coachella this year. That's old -- but incredibly exciting -- news. What's surprising is that the band has been allowed to circumvent Goldenvoice's dictate that prohibits a band from playing the Los Angeles market in the mon ... More >>

Why EMI's YouTube Policy Is Short-Sighted

On Monday, rock band OK Go issued a statement through its fan forums regarding the release of its latest album as well as the music video for "This Too Shall Pass." Specifically, it's the video that has fans riled. You see, OK Go is affiliated with EMI and, like all bands who are part of that major ... More >>

SASSAS Holiday Fundraiser with Lucky Dragons, Daedelus, Cryptacize, and more

SASSAS Holiday Fundraiser with Lucky Dragons, Daedelus, Cryptacize, and more

Rock Picks: Jon Brion, Andrew Bird, Tortoise, Vice Squad

Also, Beyonce, the Datsuns, the Veils, the Germs and others

HORSE & MOUTH DISEASE

Seven John Smiths, a Bob and a Bamford

What to do in L.A., May 29-June 4

Interview: Moby Talks David Lynch, Wait for Me, and Being a "Free Agent"

Timothy NorrisMoby behind the decks at Giant Maximus 2009It's a strange time to be a musician, to be working on the creative end when the business model that has sustained your industry for so long has spent the past several years in the midst of a nosedive. What do you do when people continuously p ... More >>

Screwed by Blue Note, Van Hunt Still Rocks. and Funks. With Soul

Honoring Alan W. Livingston: Capitol Records' Kingmaker Signed the Beatles, Beach Boys, the Band (and Bozo the Clown)

Alan Livingston is said to have come up with the initial idea for the design of the iconic Capitol Building The legendary longtime Capitol Records president Alan Livingston died yesterday, and with the loss comes the end to a remarkable Los Angeles story. Among his other accomplishments, Livingston ... More >>

Van Morrison to Release Astral Weeks Performances at Hollywood Bowl Next Month

Van Morrison's early November performances of his 1968 masterwork Astral Weeks were supposed to be ready on CD for Christmas, at least in theory, but nobody rushes an expert. It took a few months longer, but the result, Astral Weeks: Live at the Hollywood Bowl, will arrive Feb. 10. Morrison perform ... More >>

iTunes to Go DRM free, Drop Some Prices, Raise Others

A few weeks ago after a visit to the Mac repair shop for my ailing MacBook, one of my favorite albums of the year, the soundtrack to Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park, stopped working on my iTunes because I apparently had used the music on too many computers. Which was a load of crap, of course. I had ... More >>

5 Albums in 9 Years = VP at EMI

New EMI VP to bank on the awesome power of Rush to revitalize the music industry in the 21st century Once upon a time the people who ran record labels were quite simply music freaks. They were producers like Ahmet Ertegun at Atlantic, tastemakers like Tony Wilson at Factory, or musicians like Ian M ... More >>

Stirring, Terrifying

Rating Rattle, Calder at the Zipper, Francophilia at the Phil

Ken Nelson: L.A. Loses a Record Man

1911-2008

Grand Tour

NIcholas McGegan at the Hollywood Bowl

Dark Elegies

Henryk Górecki's other Third and a new disc of Schubert's lieder

Why I Wore Flip-flops to the Grammys

Ok they weren't really flip-flops, more like comfy black slides with rubber soles, and they were hidden under an entirely appropriate long and billowy 70s halter dress. But still I felt pretty earthy and under-dressed sauntering amidst all the Manolos and Choos that flooded the Staples Center last n ... More >>

The Year Blogs Got Lame, Business Got Hip and Nostalgia Was King

An Annual Alphabet

Rebelde Without a Pause

Onward

An Annual Alphabet

Star Tracks

High Notes, and Low

Carrying On

Verona in Waltz Time

13 Great CD Reissues You May Have Never Heard Of

700 Years Old, Still Cool

Anarchy in the Airwaves

Born Again

Clouds and Cuckoos

Synths of Our Fathers

Dim Future, Bright Past

An Ounce of Otello

Is the Corpse Smelly Yet?

Independent music in 2001

Witchcraft

The Notes Between the Notes

Like It That Way

Waxing Nostalgic

Songs Sad and Sardonic