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

Monday, June 10 Hindu Pirates THE ECHO The Hindu Pirates are young (the five guys range in age from 18 to 22), but they manage to pack a learned wallop in their sets without getting stuck on the garage-surf rock references. Hailing from Orange County, the quintet has distinguished itself by opening ... More >>

'Weird Al' Yankovic Chats About Justin Bieber, Lynwood and Career Longevity, at Gallery 1988

The line stretched out the door and onto the balmy L.A. streets on Friday at Gallery 1988: Melrose, one of the two spaces set up by Jensen Karp to showcase pop culture-inspired art. Fans waited patiently for a chance to look at and buy work from "Is This Thing On? 2, The Weird Year," with with artis ... More >>

Skrillex: L.A. DJ, Producer Is Boy King of Electronic Dance Music

Leads the mashed-up, remixed generation

One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other: Our Off-the-Beaten Path Guide To Summer Festivals

​ One of the best parts about being at a festival are those moments you walk by a stage and have that "what the fuck" moment. It's when you hear something that just doesn't fit. It's the feeling some people probably had at Chaos In Tejas this summer when, coming from Unbroken's set, they stumble ... More >>

Music Picks: Duran Duran, Jessie Evans, k.d. lang, The Dodos, Swahili Blonde,

Also, Janet Jackson, Greg Laswell, The Crystelles, Big Audio Dynamite and others

Music Picks: She Wants Revenge, Nilbog, Lady Gaga

Also, Men, Ice Cube, OMD, the Aussie BBQ and others

Dirt Nasty: Famous for Being (Almost) Famous

A strangely successful indie white comedy rapper conceived by former model/MTV veejay Simon Rex, who early on did porn to pay the bills? Welcome to L.A.!

Over the Weekend: Heart at the Gibson Amphitheatre

Nancy Wilson gets crazy on you​On Wikipedia, the band Heart pops up in search results before the blood-pumping organ does. From the ecstatic beer and arm swaying rapture rattling the Gibson Amphitheater Saturday night, it's possible that over the last 35 years, Ann and Nancy Wilson have become ... More >>

Alternative Press Celebrates 25th Anniversary with VIP Art Exhibit Featuring Marilyn Manson, Adam Jones, Shepard Fairey, Shirley Manson, Tim Armstrong, Travie McCoy and More

"Baby's on Fire," by Marilyn Manson​These days if a print publication is still around after 25 years, well, that's quite an accomplishment. Cleveland-based music and culture magazine, Alternative Press, started out as an underground fanzine in 1985 and has since become an internationally distr ... More >>

Guest Blogger: 'Neil Young's Greendale' Comic Artist Cliff Chiang on the Top Five Music/Comics Crossovers

​[Neil Young has been exploring the possibilities of multi-media work for decades now. So it wasn't much of a surprise when his 2003 concept album Greendale, a narrative falling somewhere between heavy social commentary and mystical fable, reemerged a year later as a feature film. Now Young's ... More >>

Mugshots and Tequila Shots: Rocking out at Pete Wentz Angels & Kings Bar

Not a Pete Wentz fan, let's get that out of the way up front. He may be a nice guy and we've got nothing against guyliner or fellas who know their way around a flat-iron (or even his lip-synching wifey), but having to endure his band Fall Out Boy's pop-"punk" schmaltz once for an assigned live revi ... More >>

A&R Star Makers: The Vanishing Gatekeepers

The once-powerful executives have become an endangered species

Pearl Jam at the Gibson Amphitheatre, Night One

View more photos in Timothy Norris' Pearl Jam slideshow. What seemed to be the entire unofficial Los Angeles Pearl Jam fan club made it out to the Gibson Amphitheatre at City Walk last night, and that's a good thing, because Eddie Vedder certainly plays to his fans. Timothy NorrisVedder (airborn ... More >>

Rock Picks: Pink, the Grates, Doug Paisley, Ooh La L.A. Festival

Also, Slavic Soul Party, Pet Shop Boys, the Humpers and others

Rock Picks: Acid Mothers Temple, Kate Maki, Marissa Nadler, Mirah

Also, Jesca Hoop, Jerkagram, Puscifer and others

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 >>

Snoop Dogg After Dark: Interview Lite

Filming Snoop's Dogg After Dark: Behind the Scenes at The Kress

We members of the press are gathered on the roof of The Kress in Hollywood, four floors of elaborate clubby terrain beneath our feet, and menacing gray clouds above. It's cold and Snoop Dogg is late by almost an hour. Down on the sidewalk, the doormen are screening and waving through a slow line ... More >>

Rock Picks: Tegan & Sara, Patti Smith, Stereolab

Also, Pinback, the Quarrymen, Kris Kristofferson and more

The 10 Best Hip-Hop Albums of the Half Year

Yes, I'm aware that this is a month late. I never said punctuality was my strong suit. (That would be rambling, stoned gibberish. ) Look for the best 10 non-rap albums sometime next week. 10 (tie). Nico the Beast-No Beast So Fierce Genre purists and anyone weaned on that mid-90s school of sav ... More >>

Rock Picks: Slick Rick, Tapes 'n Tapes, Kate Nash

And other May 8-15 shows

Weird Ripper: Baseck Redefines Dance Music ...

... with two turntables and two Game Boys

Panic at the Disco loses their exclamation point, help sell a Honda

Panic at the Disco at Studio 540 of the Honda Corporation's headquarters, Torrence, January 10. By Julie Seabaugh Around 250 VIPs, suits and press members -- and a few lucky teenagers -- gathered Thursday afternoon inside Studio 540 of the Honda Corporation's Torrence headquarters for a media eve ... More >>

No One Wants to Smoke a Blunt with Lupe Fiasco

Nerd alert

Rock Picks: John Fogerty, Band of Horses, Eek-a-Mouse, Gram Rabbit

For the week of November 23 - 29

Neko Case: Deep Red Belle

She's an auburn-haired Caucasian woman of Ukrainian descent. Is Case also the blackest woman in indie rock?

Nightranger: Role Model in the Brown Bottle

And glamour ghouls

Rock Picks

For the week of June 28 - July 5, 2007

Rock Picks: The Humpers, Secretary Bird, Cut Chemist & DJ Shadow

For the week of June 21–28

Rock Picks

For the week of March 22-29

Nightranger

Devil’s Haircut and B-Boys

Sales Go Soft. Shins Go Limp. Rock Critics Go Limper.

(Powdered) Sugar Walls

The Grammy parties and the pod people

Rock PIcks

For the week of December 7 - 14

Rock & Dance Club Listings

For February 3 - 9, 2006

Rock Picks

For February 3 - 10

I Come to Your Emo-tional Rescue

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