Grammy Museum

The Outspoken Chick

Remembering Napster

‘Scuse Me While I Kick the Jam

101 Essential Rock Records: The Golden Age of Vinyl From The Beatles to The Sex Pistols,

Who Isn't Wild About Harry?

Life of Whitney

Oh Ziggy You're So Fine

7 Things to Do Under $7 in L.A. This Week

Bibliophiles, engine-loathing cyclists and fans of absurd but beautiful Technicolor art can probably leave their wallets at home this week, at least if they're looking for something fun to do.

The Museum That Roared

We've Got the Beat

Texas Will Save Us

Music Picks: Fucked Up, Dolly Parton, Ty Segal, Fitz & the Tantrums,

Also, Soundgarden, Iceage, Earth, Wu Lyf 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

The Axmen Cometh

A TOAST TO ONE WHO IS GONE

An Evening with Everlast and Danny Boy

PUT ON A HAPPY FACE

PETER AND GORDON AND EVERYBODY ELSE

Tonight: The Naked and Famous, Dar Williams, My Chemical Romance, Chasing Kings, Black Apples, Dirt Dress

The Naked and Famous​Even the coolest of cool kids -- you know, the ones who can eloquently extol the virtues of MGMT's second album Congratulations -- have a soft spot the size of Brooklyn for hits like "Kids" and "Time to Pretend." That's the kind of chewy, sweet electro-pop that New Zealan ... More >>

Tonight: The Soft Pack, Kurt Vile, Nosaj Thing, Dean Wareham, Tim Kasher, KT Tunstall, Sonny & the Sunsets, Sabrosa Purr

The Soft Pack​During their year of touring dangerously, San Diego-bred, L.A.-based quartet the Soft Pack have succeeded in getting everyone to forget their old band name ... you know ... the one that people misunderstood ... and they tired of answering questions about ... what was that name, a ... More >>

Tonight: Delorean, Nitzer Ebb, Brian Wright, Brandon Flowers, A Perfect Circle, Useless Keys

Delorean​Delorean's chipper set of dance music was one of the highlights of September's FYF Fest in downtown L.A. -- the Barcelona-born quartet's four-on-the-floor beats proved an exhilarating finish to what, for some, was a frustrating festival experience. With its layered vocals, keening sy ... More >>

Tonight: Foals, Mumford & Sons, John Legend and the Roots, Griffin House, Jason Derulo, Evan Voytas, Radars to the Sky

Steve GullickFoals​Foals' arty fusion of indie-rock and dance music took two albums to coalesce, but it did on Total Life Forever, which came out in May on Sub Pop. The album earned the Oxford, U.K., quintet a nomination for Britain's Mercury Prize. What it's earning them on their current 22- ... More >>

Tonight: Remy Zero, Macy Gray, Eels, the 88, Alice in Chains, Fran Healy, the Blakes

Cinjun Tate of Remy Zero​Remy Zero winds up a bittersweet reunion tour tonight, but it might not be the last fans have heard of the Alabama-bred, L.A.-based quintet. The band known best for the single "Save Me" (the theme for TV's Smallville) reunited earlier this year to play shows in memory ... More >>

Tonight: Jimmy Eat World, Surfer Blood, UB40, Buck 65, Deakin, the Hounds Below

Jimmy Eat World​Jimmy Eat World shouldn't get dinged for the ostensibly presumptuous title of their new album and first in three years, Invented. In the minds of the many, the Arizona quartet did pioneer its brand of radio-friendly emo-rock -- taut and anthemic guitar music with an honesty th ... More >>

Music Picks: Ooh La La Fest, Pavement, Beach House

Also, Kris Kristofferson, the Black Keys, Bettye Lavette and others

Tonight: The Daylights, Tracy Bonham, Shonen Knife, the Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group, Mike Posner

Steven TaylorThe Daylights​L.A.-based trio the Daylights -- Texans Ran and Ricky Jackson and Danish drummer Svend Lerche -- have a nice little buzz going, at least in the FM radio world. The trio's self-titled debut album, out today, bears the fingerprints of plenty of A-listers -- Youth prod ... More >>

Tonight: Frank Turner, David Gray, Moses Campbell, Apocalyptica, Modern Time Machines

Frank Turner​In the best tradition of the punk-rock troubadour, Frank Turner doesn't come armed with much more than a guitar and his anger. At 28, the hard-touring Englishman, who spent his early years in the hardcore band Million Dead, sounds every bit the wizened veteran on his past two alb ... More >>

Tonight: Seven Saturdays, Herbie Hancock celebration, Ty Segall, Princeton, Busdriver

May we invite Jonathan D. Haskell inside your head? It'll only take a few minutes, really. There. Now relax. Haskell makes ambient music under the name Seven Saturdays, the kind of stuff that belongs in movies that haven't been made yet, or maybe even imagined. His orchestrated tomes are are par ... More >>

Tonight: The Submarines, Sea of Bees, Bobby Bare Jr., Melissa Etheridge, Pacific Hurt, Sabrosa Purr

The Submarines​From Declare a New State!, the break up/make up album that put them on the map four years ago, the Submarines have moved on to become one of indie-pop's most beloved couples. Blake Hazard and John Dragonetti followed that album up in 2008 with Honeysuckle Weeks, a collection of ... More >>

Swingin' With Ray

Tonight: Brandon Flowers, Darker My Love, Ted Nugent, the Prids, Cotton Jones, Adam Stephens

Lucy HamblinBrandon Flowers​While the Killers have decided to give their engines a rest after seven years of making hits and touring behind them, frontman Brandon Flowers is keeping his motor running. He's struck out on his own, making a solo album Flamingo from songs he wrote while the Kille ... More >>

Live in L.A.: Brian Jonestown Massacre, Stars, Peggy Sue, Gogol Bordello, Blue Rodeo, Seasons

Brian Jonestown Massacre, making friends in Australia​The Brian Jonestown Massacre got a little bit of that dance-music religion on its latest album, and why not? You can only drone for so long, right? BJM's latest album Who Killed Sgt. Pepper? (recorded last year in Iceland and Berlin, relea ... More >>

The Best of the Past

The resurection of a forgotten master spearheads LAFF's diverse retrospective offerings

THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW

Live in L.A.: Thao and Mirah With the Most of All, We Barbarians, Line and Circle

Photo by John VandersliceThao and Mirah​Bay Area-based indie-folk songstresses Thao Nguyen and Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn each has built estimable catalogs over the past several years, Nguyen under her tongue-twisting moniker Thao With the Get Down Stay Down and Mirah as, well, Mirah. They teamed u ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Road Trippin'

Music Picks: Free Kutmah Benefit, Amanda Jo Williams, Rosie Ledet

Also, Svarte Greiner, Miike Snow, School of Seven Bells and others

Live in L.A.: Nas & Damian Marley, Shout Out Louds, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Minus the Bear, Everest, Casxio

​"Distant Relatives," the meeting of the musicial minds of Nas and Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley, has already earned some well-deserved plaudits. Indeed, there's a lot to like on the album (released this week), with the New York City rapper's tightly wound narratives twined with Marley's thick Jama ... More >>

Live in L.A.: Kate Nash, Del the Funky Homosapien, Roger Clyne

Kate Nash​For somebody with a pet rabbit named Fluffy, Kate Nash sounds a little bit ticked off on her new album, "My Best Friend Is You." She's 22 now, and maybe she's learned a few things since "Made of Bricks" made her everybody's darling in 2007, but there's as much snarl as coo in the gir ... More >>

Is LA Live An Eyesore?

lalive.com​L.A. Live, the Staples Center-adjacent concrete campus that includes the Nokia Theater, the Grammy Museum, the ESPN Zone restaurant, movie theaters and, now, two luxury hotels, is an architectural disaster, at least according to one blog. LA Eastside argues that the development, wh ... More >>

MR. SHRED

Music Picks: Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, Donovan, Ana Tijoux, John Wicks

Also, Janelle Monae, Devendra Banhart, the Low Anthem and others

MOMMY & 'MATLI

Hot Diggity Dog!

THE NANCI GRIFFITH SHOW

Tonight at the Grammy Museum: Charlie Haden Talks Jazz

Legendary acoustic bass player Charlie Haden, whose work with Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon and pretty much every other jazz player of any import, will speak jazz and business with Grammy Museum director Robert Santelli at the museum's new digs in L.A. Live. The public conversation, part of the Duke ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Japanese Masquerade at Rococo Rendezvous, L.A. Weekly 30th Anniversary Party at Grammy Museum, Alexandra Gibson's Erotic Photography at La Luz De Jesus

Every weekend in December is a reason to celebrate. Like a ticking time bomb until New Year's Eve, our Fridays and Saturdays become increasingly packed with holiday parties, special events and general year end jackassery. This weekend was no exception and we found ourselves at a masquerade ball, an ... More >>