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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Was Ruined By Rush Fans

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony aired on HBO on Saturday. Hopefully you didn't watch it, because it was bad. But pity us: We actually attended the damn thing, at the Nokia Theatre last month. So, for the sake of catharsis, let's briefly run it down. It's the only way we can move o ... More >>

The Top 3 Ways Restaurants Can Raise Their Yelp Rating

This week, I was on a panel at the International Association of Culinary Professionals conference in San Francisco. The panel was about restaurant criticism in the age of Yelp, and one of my fellow panelists was Morgan Remmers, Yelp's Manager of Local Business Outreach. The issue of how restaurateur ... More >>

Music Picks: Coachella, Merle Haggard, Spiritualized

The Five Greatest Showmen in EDM

This week's cover story on Steve Aoki attributes much of his rise to the EDM shift from wallflower DJs to over-the-top showmen. World's Douchiest DJs: The Top Five Aoki is not the only DJ to elevate the dance floor from the collective trance of rave's past to the kind of fist-pumping festivals rep ... More >>

This Is What It Feels Like In My Stomach Right Now

There is an evil inside of me. It is brooding and malevolent and vicious. It is absolute darkness. It is rotting my body on a cellular level. And it is there because I thought a bad idea (getting a burrito at the mall right before it closed) was a good idea ("HEY, LET'S GET A BURRITO FROM THE MALL B ... More >>

Ten Things We Learned About New Kids on the Block From Their New Biography

Like any girl who came of age in the early 90s, we knew some basic facts on the New Kids on the Block. We knew Donnie was the leader; Joey and Jordan, the cute ones, and the lead singers; Jon, the shy, sensitive one; Danny, the one who looked like a monkey. We knew that our best friend in grade sc ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 7/16 - 7/20

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Summer drinking is an endurance sport, after all, requiring stamina to get to sundown without collapsing in a heap on the passenger seat." Summer Drinks, Part II: The Americano. "There is so much wrong with this casting dec ... More >>

Top 5 Ways to Promote Your Restaurant: Flavor Flav Yelp Abuse Samples

Flavor Flav is hip hop's most legendary hype man, and he shows no sign of complacency in his oldish age. Last Thursday, on a Southwest jaunt from Burbank to Las Vegas, Flav commandeered the airplane's intercom to encourage travellers to dine at Flavor Flav's House of Flavor, his soul food take-out r ... More >>

Chuck D of Public Enemy Gets Into Twitter Beef With LA Weekly

I had hoped my brush with fame would involve winning the lottery or meeting the president. But for a second there Chuck D made me Twitter-famous (which is to say, in the words of Saturday Night Live, not famous). It all started when I reported that a weekend event in L.A., widely publicized as a fr ... More >>

Public Enemy - Occupy Skid Row - 1/15/12

Public Enemy, Yo-Yo, Kurupt, King T, Kid Frost, Egyptian Lover Downtown, Gladys Ave. and 6th St. 1/15/11 See also: *Public Enemy and Matt & Kim - Sunset Strip Music Festival - 8/20/2011 *Our slideshow of the Skid Row Street Festival Public Enemy is known for fighting the powers that be. So even ... More >>

'Occupy Skid Row' Concert Featuring Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, Kurupt in Doubt, LAPD Says: It Doesn't Have Permit

See our review of the festivities here. Updated at the bottom with what went down. First posted at 4:33 p.m. Friday. A planned "Occupy Skid Row" free street concert Sunday featuring Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, Kurupt and other hip-hop artists is in doubt, police tell the Weekly. The Los Angeles Co ... More >>

Katt Williams at Nokia Theatre: Controversial Stand-up Tries to Re-Energize His Career

In 2008, stand-up comic Katt Williams was riding high on the success of MTV's Wildin' Out, a couple movie roles, an HBO special and four national tours. His brand of comedy -- weed, pimp culture, black-vs.-whitey jokes, more weed -- had all but infiltrated hip-hop. But then Williams hit a productive ... More >>

The Worst Day Of K-Fed's Life

It's hard to believe, but five years have passed since the release of Kevin Federline's debut Playing With Fire, which came out on Halloween, 2006. It was a scary night for some, but K-Fed was on top of the world. Married to Britney Spears, he was psyched to finally bring his brand of hip-hop to the ... More >>

The Ettes, Sade, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Benefit for Nick Curran

Also, Kendrick Lamar, the Punk Rock BBQ, Katy B and others

Flavor Flav on Addiction, Coining the Title of a Tone Loc Song, and How a Crackhead Started His Clock Trend

Jena Ardell"FLAVAAA FLAV!!"​Q: Why did Flavor Flav arrive late to his discussion at the Grammy Museum in downtown Los Angeles last night? A: Because he left his clock at home. Sounds almost too comical to be true, but that is exactly what happened. Jena ArdellFlavor Flav felt honored to be i ... More >>

911 Is a Joke, and So Is Flavor Flav

Flavor Flav's Fried Chicken Joint Closes

​Flavor Flav's no Colonel Sanders, it turns out. In January, the clock-wearing, Brigitte Nielsen-dating rapper opened Flav's Fried Chicken in (where else?) Clinton, Iowa. It was planned as the first outpost of an empire, but a mere three months after its opening, Flav's Fried Chicken is closin ... More >>

Can Reality TV Ever Really Rock?

Lina Lecaro Reality's realest rockin couple (from Cali): Millionaire Matchmaker's Rachel Federoff and Destin Pfaff at Svedka party.​This past weekend, LA played host to the "Reality Rocks Expo," a two-day celebration of "reality, unscripted, factual, and lifestyle" television at the LA Convent ... More >>

Top Ten Musician Restaurant Franchises (In Honor of Flavor Flav's New Fried Chicken Joint in Iowa--Yes, Iowa)

Don't Believe the Hype! 10 Musician's Restaurants Less Strange Than Flava Flav's Chicken Joint

Flavor Flav Launches Fried Chicken Chain in Iowa

​Former Public Enemy rapper Flavor Flav is tackling his newest challenge: the fast food industry. The reality TV star and romance guru today launched the first outpost of Flav's Fried Chicken in Clinton, Iowa (no idea; and no, he's not secretly an alum of the Iowa Writers' Workshop), and he al ... More >>

Red: Classiest. Comic. Book. Movie. Ever

Helen Mirren will cut you, and other awesome old-people things

Mahmoud Karkehabadi, Producer Who Made Flavor Flav Movie, Charged In $9 Million Ponzi Scheme

​A Laguna Niguel B-movie producer who made, among other things, a film starring Flavor Flav, was charged this week with masterminding a $9 million Ponzi scheme that promised 35 percent returns for investors in his flicks. Alliance Group Entertainment owner Mahmoud Karkehabadi, the 53-year-old ... More >>

Live Review: Empire of the Sun at the Music Box

Debi del GrandeShogun club: Empire of the Sun​After finally hitting U.S. soil in Chicago for Lollapalooza and New York this month, outer space-via-Australia electro-rockers Empire of the Sun landed at the Music Box on Wednesday for the first of four nights, playing their 2008 Astralwerks debut ... More >>

Across the Universe: Lady Gaga's Lolla Nip Slip, Kanye West's 'Moving Painting,' Iron Maiden Tumbles

Across the Universe: Lady Gaga's Lolla Nip Slip, Kanye West's 'Moving Painting,' Iron Maiden Tumbles

Craigslist TV Series On YouTube Has Gone Live

​That online Craigslist-based reality show we told you about recently went live on YouTube. The 14-episode first season follows the lives of five Angelenos who used the bulletin-board site to find fashion models, soul mates and more. The star so far seems to be Michael Mullen, a 28-year-old f ... More >>

Whatever Happened to N.W.A's Posse?

The Eazy-E True Hollywood (or True Compton) Stories behind the legendary L.A. hip-hop cover

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LA People 2009: The Re-Percussionist — Sexual Chocolate

The Crystal Antlers' drummer and wingman might be known to his mother by his birth name, but everyone else calls him Sexual Chocolate

Remembering Longtime LA Music Photographer Shawn Mortensen

M.I.A., as shot by Shawn Mortensen The other night as M.I.A. was winding down her Coachella performance of "Paper Planes," she dedicated the song to longtime L.A. photographer Shawn Mortensen, who died last week at the age of 42. We've received a few notes of remembrance from friends and colleagues ... More >>

Coachella Sunday: No Holding Back Public Enemy, The Cure, The Horrors, K'Naan

Anyone who's ever been to Coachella knows it leaves you with a special brand of Monday morning pain. This 3 day monster will test even the fittest, most fervent music fan. For most attendees this was a call-in-sick day, a day of rest and merciful silence. Or, if you did the weary drive home today li ... More >>

Paul Dateh: Hip-Hop Violinist Superhero by Night, Mild-Mannered Bookstore Clerk by Day

In life and in music, he knows how to improvise

Sensuous Woman, Mean Men, Dancing Swans

The Boredoms Pound Their Way Onto the Astral Plane

The all-seeing Eye

Bells On Parade

Public Enemy, Wu-Tang Clan, Rage against the Machine and more at Rock the Bells

Public Enemy's 20 Years in the Game

Bringing that beat back

Flavor Flav in the Roaster

“How do you embarrass a crackhead?”

The women of Army Wives and Fight Girls

The strong, not-so-silent types

Days of Lines and Poses

SxSW journal

Rock PIcks

For the week of December 7 - 14

Snake Bites

Back in Black

No Gravity

An Angel in the digital domain

Stud on the Tracks

The freewheeling Steve Malkmus, when hard, is about 8 inches

Howl

Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog

Fuck Different