Grace Jones

10 Types of People You See at Coachella Parties

See also: *More Coachella coverage *5 Fashion Combos to Expect at Coachella *10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying Festival schmestival. The party scene that's emerged and evolved around the Coachella Music Fest has gotten nearly as huge and musically plentiful as the main event. This year, our W ... More >>

Los Angeles Club Kids: Where Are They Now?

On the west coast, the club kids popped up around 1991, the local counterparts of the New York City Party Monster types, attending the types of underground raves your parents explicitly forbade. It wasn't all about drugs, but there were certainly plenty: ketamine, acid, cocaine, ecstasy, and more, s ... More >>

Top 10 LA Weekly Web Stories Of 2012

The economy sucked and some news just made you want to bury your head under a pillow. But if you're in the journalism game, 2012 was the gift that kept on giving, from the worst bands (of all time) to Tom Cruise's relationship woes to awkward dance moves. Yes, awkward dance moves. LA Weekly had so ... More >>

RIPPED: Expressions from the Underground

Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: The Complete List

*Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List What we talk about when we talk about sex and rock 'n roll is often dudes, the lusty front men and axe-grinders who, perhap ... More >>

Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: #20-16

*Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time *Top 20 Greatest Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre What we talk about when we talk about sex and rock 'n roll is often dudes, the lusty front men and axe-grinders who, perhaps, joined the band in the first place for the pu ... More >>

10 Movie Womanizers, From Shame to Shampoo

The movies are full of bed-hopping men -- think of Humphrey Bogart's serial flirtations in The Big Sleep (1946), and Richard Roundtree laying his way uptown and down in Shaft (1971). But in Steve McQueen's Shame, womanizing is not just an outgrowth of the plot -- it is the plot. And it's just the la ... More >>

Permanent Records: Powered by Demand for "Shit That You Can't Find Anywhere Else"

Sam Bloch​STORY BY SAM BLOCH Britt and Amanda Brown (above) of Eagle Rock's psychedelic record label Not Not Fun spun Dadawah and Indeep records they bought "for fifty cents" at Poo-Bah in Pasadena. "Nothing too crazy," said Amanda of her set Saturday during Permanent Records' opening. "It's ... More >>

Top 6 Best Rap Songs by Athletes

Top 6 Best Rap Songs by Athletes

Conjunction Junction Offers Free Alternative Right Next to Sunset Junction Fair (Including Must-See Band Light Asylum)

​What do you do if you're a restaurant right outside the craziness that is gonna be Sunset Junction Street Fair this weekend? How do you convince the music-starved crowd to pop in for some gavacho-priced Mexican food and drinks? Well, in the case of Sunset Blvd. cantina Malo (owned by the sam ... More >>

Joanna Newsom Gets Mad at Lady Gaga, Still Sounds Like Cat

Joanna Newsom Gets Mad at Lady Gaga, Sounds Like Cat (probably)

Brian Eno Returns to the Stage!

This is gonna be really interesting and hopefully not a one-off: Brian Eno is returning to the stage to play three improvised pieces at the Brighton Festival 2010 in the UK. Eno, who's one of the artistic directors of the festival and would be showing his art installations there, will perform as pa ... More >>

Day 2: The Gobi Tent Can't Contain Beth Ditto's Gossip

Gustavo TurnerNumber 1 in our hearts: Beth Ditto's Gossip​ "This is how I know I'm too big for my britches," joked Gossip's Beth Ditto between songs. "I can't possibly wake up before 2 [pm] to see the man who made me what I am." She was talking about John Waters, who was watching her amazing ... More >>

This Ain't Your Dad's Sid and Nancy: Film Maverick Abel Ferrara Brings his Chelsea Hotel Documentary to LA

​About a year ago, cult NYC film director Abel Ferrara (Driller Killer, Ms. 45, the OG Bad Lieutenant, The Addiction, etc.) wrapped his indiepunk documentary on the legendary Chelsea Hotel. The film premiered at Cannes last year and is now being gradually unrolled across the US. Ferrara is com ... More >>

RSVP ASAP!: Fantastic Hollywood Bowl Poster Art Opening @ the Arclight Tonight

If you attended any of the fantastic shows the Hollywood Bowl programmed this past summer, you probably noticed the very large crowds gathered at the gift shop afterwards practically getting in fisticuffs over the limited number of concert posters available. The reason? The Bowl commissioned some ou ... More >>

Olaf Breuning at Michael Benevento

FYF Fest 2009: Parks and Inspiration

Event's new mission: Save Our State Parks (and deliver a mind-bending roster of punk, electronics and noise)

Grace Jones at the Hollywood Bowl

She's Jaw-Dropping, Eye-Opening, and, Well, Just Different.

Grace Jones' Triumphant Hollywood Bowl Debut

In case you need reminding after all these years, Grace Jones isn't like us. If, halfway through her astounding show last night at the Hollywood Bowl, a flying saucer had descended from above and carried her away, few in the crowd would have been too surprised. Timothy NorrisGrace Jones took the s ... More >>

Michael Jackson: 1958-2009

In the Studio with Jason Bentley, Newly Christened Host of KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic

(Photos by Timothy Norris. View the "Beyond the Stage: Mercury Rev on KCRW with Jason Bentley and at El Rey Theatre" slideshow.)

L.A. Weekly's Top Ten Dance Collections of 2008, Both Mixed and Unmixed

Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Filth and Wisdom, The Haunting of Molly Hartley, Splinter

Also, Fear(s) of the Dark, The Other End of the Line and more

Midnight Juggernauts, Holy Ghost and Disco Legend Nicky Siano

Tonight in LA: Santogold on Hollywood Boulevard at 6 p.m.

Hey, if you're near a train station and feel like doing a little jerk-dancing after work, hop on down to the Central Courtyard at Hollywood & Highland and see a free show by Brooklyn's Santogold. Her breakout performance at this year's Coachella was as funky as it was fun, and we can't get enough of ... More >>

Ill-Thought Out Observations From This Year's Grammy's

Because Live Blogging is so gauche. Occasionally the Grammy Committee's old fogey sensibility yields huge dividends. See the inclusion of Morris Day and the motherfucking Time. As far as I know, only two people have paid much attention to Morris Day and the Time post "Jerk Out:" the illustrious ... More >>

Rock Picks: Stevie Wonder, Lucinda Williams, The Frames

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Grammy Shmammy

One Love

The evolution of a swimsuit

Tori Spelling's Got My Back . . .

and other random acts of celebrity kindness

Tori Spelling’s Got My Back...

and other random acts of celebrity kindness

Sexy Beasts

Larry Clark, John Waters and Bruce Hainley on their big, big . . . books

Dress-up

Ron Athey on Making a fashion statement

Ring of the Fellowship

Who Are You Calling Gaijin?

Out of the Woods

Loren Mazzacane Connors, ax hero

True Lies

The Weekly has never let facts stand in the way of a good hoax — particularly for April Fool’s