Friday, February 22 Kurt Rosenwinkel KIRK DOUGLAS THEATRE Kurt Rosenwinkel's playing is richly complex and challenging, and while he is smarter than most of us, smart people also feel. Thus, to label this guitarist as "intellectual" or "cerebral" does him a disservice. He is more poet than scientis ... More >>
Child-like views delighted our critics this week, with Mike Kenney's Walking the Tightrope at the 24th Street Theatre taking Pick of the Week, and a nod to Albie Selznick's magic show Smoke and Mirrors at the Lankershim Arts Center in North Hollywood. There's also a recommendation for an adult comed ... More >>
Family trauma drama Machu Picchu, Texas (pictured above) grabs our Pick of the Week this week. Good reviews also for Noel Coward's Fallen Angels at the Pasadena Playhouse and David Henry Hwang's Chinglish at South Coast Rep. For all New Theater Reviews, and this weekend's comprehensive listing ... More >>
My Morning Jacket The Wiltern 9/12/12 The number of bands building a name and reputation off their live performances has begun dwindling at a startling rate. With Bruce Springsteen and U2 inching closer to performing in wheelchairs, My Morning Jacket seems to be one of the last remaining holdouts w ... More >>
At Apogee's Berkeley Street Studio in Santa Monica, Dhani Harrison, brushes his lanky black hair back from his cheeks and reinserts his orange in-ear monitors. The only child of George Harrison, he's also lead singer and ringleader for a group called thenewno2, who now gear up for the second half of ... More >>
When I moved to Los Angeles a year ago, I swore that I would never be caught dead on a celebrity-homes tour. I couldn't care less whether the Kardashians lived in a mansion with an infinity pool or a gingerbread house constructed by sugarplum fairies. The buses cruising the streets reminded me o ... More >>
Paul McCartney got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday. Well deserved! After all, he helped change the course of pop-music history with his ditties and whatnot; West Coast Sound recently declared his group, the Beatles [sic], the third great musical act of all time, behind Beethoven and W ... More >>
Paul McCartney got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday. Well deserved! After all, he helped change the course of pop-music history with his ditties and whatnot; West Coast Sound recently declared his group, the Beatles [sic], the third great musical act of all time, behind Beethoven and W ... More >>
Also, Emmylou Harris & Her Red Dirt Boys, Odd Future, Gillian Welch and others
Also, Emmylou Harris & Her Red Dirt Boys, Odd Future, Gillian Welch and others
Perhaps an honorable mention? While yesterday's wallow in negativity was a blast, it is time to restore the karmic balance as the Beatles would have wanted by focusing on the four best songs that John, Paul, George and Ringo produced upon being emancipated from the bonds of "Beatles," or at ... More >>
Flickr/Johnny Stiletto Beans, beans, the magical fruit, each January 6th, it is thee we salute. Yep, today is National Bean Day, and though there seems to be little reason behind the holiday's designation, that shouldn't stop us from celebrating with some of L.A.'s best beans, like the luscio ... More >>
Les Rallizes Denudes -- Rock 'n' Roll Hijackers Via Gawker via the NY Post: Four men knocked off a series of laundromats, gas stations, and convenience stores earlier this week, making off with cash and cigarettes in hopes of getting money to start a record label. (180-gram vinyl is expensiv ... More >>
Les Rallizes Denudes -- Rock 'n' Roll Hijackers Via Gawker via the NY Post: Four men knocked off a series of laundromats, gas stations, and convenience stores earlier this week, making off with cash and cigarettes in hopes of getting money to start a record label. (180-gram vinyl is expensiv ... More >>
When Bettye Met Katie Lee and HodaWe love Bettye LaVette, the Detroit soul survivor whose career has been rebooted by the wonderful folk at local Anti- records. This is no surprise, as everyone loves Bettye LaVette. We caught her intimate, cabaret-style show at Largo last month, where she s ... More >>
The idiotic, possibly racist Tea Partiers are not the first (or last) people to complain about big government and big taxation. Back in 1966 notoriously mystical hippie George Harrison was so pissed off at the British government taking 90% of the Beatles' money (no, really, they did, before the Beat ... More >>
Timothy NorrisDuring the first concert of Paul McCartney's sold-out, two-night stand at the Hollywood Bowl, it was sometimes hard to tell who was having the better time. Was it the fans, who were delirious to see their hero in this historic, relatively intimate amphitheater (albeit at a steep ... More >>
Bowie also waited for his manPitchfork reports that Peter Gabriel will be releasing an album of covers, in which he will tackle hits and more obscure cuts by David Bowie, Paul Simon, Elbow, Bon Iver, Talking Heads, The Arcade Fire, Regina Spektor, Radiohead, Lou Reed ("The Power of the Heart" ... More >>
Bowie also waited for his manPitchfork reports that Peter Gabriel will be releasing an album of covers, in which he will tackle hits and more obscure cuts by David Bowie, Paul Simon, Elbow, Bon Iver, Talking Heads, The Arcade Fire, Regina Spektor, Radiohead, Lou Reed ("The Power of the Heart" ... More >>
Also, Destroy L.A., Sunset Strip Music Festival, the Drones and others
A selection of new releases for beginning of the end of summer 2009. Los Angeles-related releases out this week: The Dub Club, which takes place every Wednesday night at the Echoplex, has brought to LA some of Jamaican music's most important and legendary figures, and has been recording and int ... More >>
The eye behind classic album art
The great Southern California based art director, designer and photographer Tom Wilkes, who died on June 28, left a lasting impact on the Los Angeles music scene. His covers, some of the most iconic of the LP era, presented the area's music with striking images presented in vivid color . He took ful ... More >>
Our only hope that Macca gets Ram tough
Why do Mexicans cover their cars with crap?
Little shop of adorers
Better Off Dead... and One Crazy Summer American Cinematheque at the Aero, June 23 Left to right: Armstrong, Franklin, Holland An Open Letter to John Cusack: Don’t Be A Dick Hey, Cusack – let’s just level with each other, OK? We know you are a smart guy. We know you are prodigiously tale ... More >>
1. Who made the decision to have an Asian Bjork clone perform a feather dance for one of the video's main plot threads? Okay fine, we all know the answer was Rza, but really, was Erykah Badu that busy taking trips to Israel with Jay Electronica that Bobby couldn't convince her to show up for a cou ... More >>
1. Who made the decision to have an Asian Bjork clone perform a feather dance for one of the video's main plot threads? Okay fine, we all know the answer was Rza, but really, was Erykah Badu that busy taking trips to Israel with Jay Electronica that Bobby couldn't convince her to show up for a cou ... More >>
What to do in L.A., April 4-10
Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams (Loud/SRC/Universal) By Ben Westhoff The long awaited fifth Wu-Tang Clan album, 8 Diagrams, just leaked, and it’s fucking solid. After just a few listens, it’s already in my 2007 top ten, and it will surely battle Graduation for supremacy on hip hop critics’ year-end l ... More >>
What to do in Los Angeles this week
The American Cinematheque puts the “rock” back into Mods & Rockers
For the week of April 5–12
Citay, Earthless, The Fucking Champs at Spaceland
The View at Spaceland
Viva K
Nature talks, an exile listens
When the music was fast, and the players anonymous
When the music was fast, and the players anonymous
When the music was fast, and the players anonymous
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, April 27-28
Being with Smokey Robinson
Being with Smokey Robinson
Being with Smokey Robinson
Once upon a Tyde
Oasis, three bridges shy
Oasis, three bridges shy
Modern devotional music, Virgin voices
Indian food for a post-Beck Silver Lake
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