Elvis Costello

The Five Best Shows in Los Angeles This Week: Garbage, Nick Lowe, Culture Collide

Tuesday, October 2 Garbage WILTERN When they formed in 1994, future chart fixtures Garbage had the makings of a sterile vanity project. Created by veteran studio rats (including Butch Vig, producer of Nirvana's Nevermind), with a grafted-on unknown vocalist, their formula appeared better suited to ... More >>

Elvis Costello - The Wiltern - 4/17/12

Elvis Costello The Wiltern 4/17/12 Better than...a show with a standard set list For the past year, Elvis Costello has been challenging himself and fans with his Spectacular Spinning Songbook Tour. With his extensive catalog that includes over 30 studio albums, multiple live albums and appearances ... More >>

Do You Deeply Regret Your Rod Stewart Obsession? Comedy Show For Shame! Will Heal You

Back in November, Jazz Ponce, longtime booker of Hollywood Studio Bar & Grill's Monday-night comedy staple What's Up, Tiger Lily?, began branching out beyond mere stand-up for an interactive, bonding, Mystery Science Theater 3000-style endeavor called For Shame!. Thus far the likes of T.J. Miller, C ... More >>

Music Picks: Elvis Costello & the Imposters, Prince, Ricky Martin, Carrie Rodriguez, The Low Anthem, Mogwai

Also, Gutbucket Chamber Orchestra, Pegi Young, Mike Stinson and others

Top 6 Controversial TV Appearances By Bands, in Honor of Odd Future Playing Fallon Tonight

​The ever controversial Odd Future (OFWGKTA) rap collective is set to perform tonight on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. We're not sure what this means, but we imagine a certain amount of destruction, danger and disrespect will be involved. (At least, we hope.) Earlier today, Roots drummer Quest ... More >>

People's Choice: Commenters Pick 4 More Female Drummers in L.A. for Our List!

Once again, sorry guys: actual, non-controversial-Wonderbra-ad drummers keep their shirts on​ Who knew that our Top 9 Female Drummers in L.A. list would inspire such passion? We are thrilled to be able to give you what commenters asked for--info about more female drummers from the LA area. So ... More >>

Maite Gomez-Rejón's ArtBites Heads Into the Desert for a Vegetarian Cooking Retreat

Cary ConoverA scene from last year's Jeffersonian Feast at the Met in New York City​ From offal to potted preparations to in-house butchering to fabricated cuts, meat has been at the forefront of many recent food world trends. Anyone who has spent a few hours grazing at one of L.A.'s popular ... More >>

PETER AND GORDON AND EVERYBODY ELSE

Punked in Spain

Alex Cox returns to his disaster film Straight to Hell

Top 10 Wine And Band Pairings: Or, How About Some Air Supply With That $2 Chuck?

Flickr user 1808wineThe Vintage Cadillac Essentials​Heavy metal drinking is really the only excuse for naming a wine Sledgehammer. Either that, or you're a mega-millions corporate exec type trying to hook us on cheap inexpensive wine (see #2 when you turn the page). And so begets a Top Ten lis ... More >>

Download: 'Claws' By Local Gaze-Pop Outfit Luna Is Honey

Luna Is Honey (Athena Reddersen)​Luna Is Honey is a group of youngsters from Los Angeles making self described "sunny, morbid" music -- a description we'd have to agree with. Take a song like "Claws" (which you can indeed take after the jump), where upbeat summery rhythms and familiar melodi ... More >>

Re: Versions

How To Make Your Pizza Even More Fun Than Mozza: The Yoda Pizza

Via @Atlantic_Food, here's a very funny catalog of odd pizzas from the blog Now That's Nifty. The best of the bunch: this Yoda pizza. A fitting homage, really. So now, of course, what we really need is an Avatar pizza. Wonder what James Cameron is doing with all that 3D gear right now. Maybe eating ... More >>

Elvis Costello and Hip-O to Release Full Recording of 1978 'Live at Hollywood High' Concert

Great news for fans of Elvis Costello's incendiary early career. The 1978 concert that he performed at Hollywood High is going to be issued in its entirety for the first time on January 12, 2010. The original sleeve to Costello's Hollywood High 7-inch​ The CD/digital release will be issued ... More >>

Falling James on the Beatles Remasters: "Get the Originals Out There First. Desecrate Later"

By Falling James I was surprised to see that the 7-11 up the street had a carton of the new Beatles CDs on sale, sitting on the counter right beside the register. Usually, 7-11 doesn't traffic in such fine musical merchandise, apart from the occasional Miley Cyrus plastic bauble, and definitely not ... More >>

Top 5 Topless Groupies: Women Who Bared It All For Music (NSFW)

​Rock-n-roll and breasts often go (tee-hee) hand in hand. In fact, Motley Crue drummer and groupie magnet, Tommy Lee, has this rule about coming into his dressing room: "You're not allowed in unless you remove an article of clothing. And I'm not talking about your socks. It's pretty f***ing c ... More >>

Rock Picks: Quantic and his Combo Bárbaro, Elvis Costello, Rock & Roll Summer Circus

Also, Flaming Lips, Clipse, Silk Flowers, the Muffs and others

Richard Thompson: the Fairport Convention Founder Who Defined the British Folk-Rock Movement of the 1960s

A New Box Set Captures a Master at Work.

Rock Picks: Fol Chen, Moonrats, Brightblack Morning Light, Bachelorette

Also, the Curious Mystery, Graham Parker, Miss Derringer, Marduk and others

Top 10 New TV Shows From 2008: Hillary & Barack, Gavin & Stacey, Bernard & Doris

The way we watched

Elvis Costello and Ballet: WTF?!

Dance Pick: Miami City Ballet

Tharp collaborates with Mizrahi and Costello on stylish Nightspot

Live in LA: Elvis Costello Goes Way Late at the El Rey, May 28

Elvis Costello and the Imposters, El Rey, 5/28 By Randall Roberts Photos by Timothy Norris Elvis Costello performed a jumbo show at the Hollywood Bowl with the Police earlier on Wednesday night, but apparently he was itching for more, because he and his Imposters headed up La Brea to the El Rey o ... More >>

The Police at the Hollywood Bowl 5/27: Once More Gentlemen Please, But This Time With Bad Feeling

The Police at Hollywood Bowl, May 27, 2008 By Paul Rogers Sting’s ego alone could fill the Hollywood Bowl, but on Tuesday night his band’s performance mitigated any bloated self-esteem. Almost a year to the day since The Police launched their 30th anniversary reunion tour, the trio was a svelt ... More >>

Rock Picks: R.E.M., Von Bondies, Ladytron

And other May 22-29 shows

Nick Lowe in the Age of Experience

While his peers are grasping at straws, Lowe’s work outpaces them all

Rock Picks

For the week of May 3 – 10

Rock Picks

For the week of April 26 – May 3

Where the Crowds Are

What to do in L.A. this week

Sloan Hits Thirty

On their new CD, Never Hear the End of It

Toppled Tower

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

Before the Music Dies screened at Circus Theatricals, November 16

Music Picks

For the week of June 15 - 22

Grouching Toward Bethlehem

Festivus Maximus

Do you enjoy crowds, music and exhaustion?

Stop Making Sense

Last night I attended a party at my friend Zoe's teeny-tiny adorable Silver Lake cottage on a hill, which comfortably holds a maximum of maybe fifteen people, if all the rooms are utilized.  (Note: this word will be discussed at greater length; read on...) By midnight it was so crowded one had ... More >>

Live in LA

September Girls

The Like’s debut LP delivers hazy, wistful intoxication

Girls Incited, City Burned

The Contemporaries

Time of the Session

When the music was fast, and the players anonymous

Big Oscar Cover-up!

Less controversy, more fabric

The Piano Lesson

Do Right Man

Back on Track With Solomon Burke

Everyday He Writes the Book

Summer Calendar

Power to the Peer

you can lead consumers to music, but can you make them pay?

Miss the Water

Baby Lemonade’s last testament

Poison the Hood

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