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Five More Iconic Key Club Shows

The Key Club's last day is today! Ever since West Coast Sound broke the story of its impending closure, local music fans have been mourning the place. Personally, we've been to the venue hundreds of times, and worked there as a DJ during Metal Skool's heyday for about two years. We believe the venue ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, December 28 Fishbone, Quinto Sol KEY CLUB Fishbone have gone through a lot of changes since emerging from South Central L.A. in 1979, but the group can always be counted on for a funky good time. Lead singer/saxist Angelo Moore, bassist Norwood Fisher and crew have evolved from a ska-reggae ... More >>

Music Picks: Fishbone, the Growlers, Redd Kross

Babies of the Canyon

Pilar Díaz: Let There Be Latin Rock

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. As a teenager, Pilar Díaz spent Friday nights at Tower Records in Hollywood with her dad. It was something of a coping mechanism; her mother and sister were killed in a car ac ... More >>

Punk Rock Museum Opens Today: Our Exclusive Preview

See all our pictures from the Punk Rock Museum Opening. L.A. scenester icon Taquila Mockingbird made a heartfelt promise three decades ago to keep "keep punk alive," and she's been doing it pretty much everyday of her life since. It fuels her very existence. But this weekend, the writer/singer/arti ... More >>

Velvet Revolver - John O'Brien Tribute - House of Blues - 1/12/12

Velvet Revolver, Maroon 5, Sheryl Crow, Stephen Stills, The Nightwatchman House of Blues Los Angeles 1/12/11 Better Than...Scott Weiland's Christmas album. Last night, Scott Weiland, Slash, Duff McKagan and company put their differences aside to play a one-off set to honor the memory of composer a ... More >>

Music Picks: Woody Allen & His New Orleans Jazz Band, Jane Monheit, Manhattan Murder Mystery

Also, Fishbone, Luciana Souza, Infected Mushroom and others

Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton, Shirley Caesar - "America's Best Church Choir" Finale - Staples Center - October 28, 2011

Wireimage​Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton, Shirley Caesar, and nine choirs "America's Best Church Choir" Finale Staples Center October 28, 2011 Last night's competition for "America's Best Church Choir" proved that you can take the girl out of the gospel choir, but you can't take the gospel choir ... More >>

Fishbone - Bootleg Theater - Oct. 20, 2011

Lina Lecaro Moore gives more. ​See also: The Never-Ending Story of Fishbone Gets Another Chapter with a New Documentary Fishbone Bootleg Theater October 20, 2011 Better than... bands they've influenced like the Chili Peppers and No Doubt. We had actually forgotten about one of our gnarlies ... More >>

Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone Review

Fish Tale: The Never-Ending Story of Fishbone Gets Another Chapter with a New Documentary

Steve Appleford​The oracle came to Angelo Moore in 1989. It was during a tour with his band Fishbone, as they waited to cross the U.S.-Canadian border in the misty, early morning hours. Moore suddenly found himself face-to-face with the great bluesman B.B. King, who had a profound message for ... More >>

L.A. Punk Rock History Class Is Now in Session

Wu-Tang Clan Headline Village Voice Media's SXSW Party

Nate "Igor" SmithNot to be confused with the Wu-Tang Clan.​Last night Wu-Tang Clan, Yelawolf, Wild Flag, Fishbone, Trae Tha Truth, Marz Lovejoy, Rocky Business, Trouble Andrew, Ume, Times New Viking and DJ Erykah Badu all provided music for the Village Voice Media/Frank 151 SXSW Showdown at th ... More >>

Wu-Tang Clan, Yelawolf and Many Others to Play SXSW Party, Courtesy of the Village Voice and Frank151

Wu-Tang: Forever bridging the gap between hip-hop and indie​ We've just received word from our sister publication the Village Voice in NYC that they have something pretty special planned for the upcoming SXSW music and media conference in Austin, Texas. The 2011 Village Voice SXSW party, cosp ... More >>

NIGHTRANGER: 2010

This weekend: Best Coast, Stars, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Fistful of Mercy, Mayer Hawthorne, Junip, Pennywise, Ghostface Killah

Best Coast​"I went from being a college dropout to being NME's top-four cool list," Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino tells the Weekly's own Gustavo Turner in last week's cover story. "It's just bizarre the way life kind of turns and changes sometimes." Yeah, we'd say so. The L.A. trio's modest ... More >>

Nightranger's Wild Ride

Over the Weekend: Fishbone, Sam Sparro, I&I Soundsystem and Infinity at Sunset Junction Street Fair

Lina Lecaro High at Sunset Junction​The photo above was taken from atop (and we mean the very top) of the ferris wheel at this year's Sunset Junction Street Fair. We have lots just like it because the giant wheel got stuck --yes stuck!-- as soon as we got on. "A tangled cable or something," i ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Bad Brains at Sunset Junction Street Fair

Timothy NorrisFor the love of Jah: Bad Brains at Sunset Junction Street Fair​ [For Timothy Norris' slideshow of the good, the fun and the grotesque at Day 1 of the Sunset Junction Street Fair this past weekend, click here.] After the hyper ska of brethren Fishbone, Bad Brains' headlining set ... More >>

Nightranger: Pounding the Pavement

This Weekend: Dâm-Funk, Jane's Addiction, Hootenanny, Mates of State, Baths, CocoRosie

Matthew ScottDam-Funk​Chalk it up to one of music's little mysteries -- how the old synths and creaky drum machines on Dâm-Funk's sprawling Toeachizown can sound so new. L.A.'s "Ambassador of Boogie Funk," born Damon Riddick, unleashed that double-CD, five-LP collection on the world last yea ... More >>

This Weekend: Sharon Jones & Dap Kings, Dead Man's Bones, Warped Tour, Black Francis, Danzig

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings​Can it get any more real that Sharon Jones? Well, it can't get any more heartwarming. The leading lady of the Dap-Kings is, after all, a rising star at 54, having shucked the uniforms of her previous careers (corrections officer at Rikers Island, and armor truck g ... More >>

Fishbone Documentary Screens This Week at L.A. Film Fest

Fishbone Documentary Screens This Week at L.A. Film Fest

LAFF: the Best of the Fest

30 films to put on your to-do list

The Pot Shop Boys

Returning with a new album, Cypress Hill discusses legalization, where you can get the best strains, and how great it feels to work for a stoner boss

Rock Picks: Broken Nobles, Anny Celsi, Seu Jorge, the Killers

Rock Picks: Broken Nobles, Anny Celsi, Seu Jorge, the Killers

Also, Destroy L.A., Sunset Strip Music Festival, the Drones and others

Promote This: The Adler Effect

On the eve of the Sunset Strip Music Festival, Lou Adler and his son Nic talk about the concert business

Sunset Strip Music Festival Street Fest

Sunset Strip Music Festival Set Times Announced

Eric VanBeekOzzy Osbourne last month at BlizzCon​The Sunset Strip Music Festival occurs this Saturday at Sunset and Doheny in West Hollywood. They're closing down Sunset, will plant a stage at each end, and will open a few clubs for bands all day and night. Below is the schedule: East Stage ... More >>

Thelonious Monster to Play Surprise Echo Show Tonight in Advance of Warped Dates, Feature Film

Thelonious Monster is reuniting for their first show in 5 years tonight at the Echo, a surprise gig featuring a pretty impressive line-up of LA punk veterans, including: Mike Martt (Tex & The Horseheads, Steve Earle), Zander Schloss (Circle Jerks, Two Free Stooges) and Dix Denny (The Weirdos), bassi ... More >>

L.A. Dee Dallapalooza

Birth of a Nightranger

Kiss and Makeup

In the Ghetto; Peanut Butter party; English food; Capture scratch

Fishbone and Slightly Stoopid, Wiltern - 12/01

Fishbone, Slightly Stoopid Wiltern, Dec 1 Strange and depressing things were afoot in Los Angeles on Saturday night. Up until arriving at the Wiltern with my buddy Cedar and seeing the marquee, I was under the impression that Fishbone was headlining the show in their own hometown. To my surprise ... More >>

The Patina of Youth

Foundry

Rock Picks

For the week of May 24-31

Outkast in Love

Breakup rumors be damned: With a new album and movie, André and Big Boi seem as in tune as ever

Hot and Bothered

If God's Good Word Goes Unspoken

Feeling Sublime, 10 years after

Live in LA

KCRW’s A Sounds Eclectic Evening

Universal Amphitheater, March 12

Daylight Drive

Can You See Me?

Down for the Good Life

A Unified Revolution Called Jurassic 5

Letters

Welcome to the Nuttwerx

Around the bend and back again with Fishbone

Slush

Do U Know Us?

Armand Van Helden, Mos Def: A masculine equation

Child of the Night