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The Five Best Pre-Dookie Pop-Punk Records

Pop punk is enjoying some nostalgic attention these days. Lists crop up here and there, delineating the gems of the genre. However, they all share one subtle flaw: A focus on the major label feeding frenzy that followed Green Day's seminal 1994 word Dookie. (It's on our survey of best punk albums in ... More >>

Why Did the Sound System Company Sonos Create a Hollywood Art Gallery?

Last week, Sonos Studio presented the Los Angeles premiere of the new Green Day documentary ¡Cuatro!, and the band's followers enthusiastically turned out to the screening. The documentary, which chronicled a new beginning of sorts for the band, was an appropriate fit for the launch of a new line o ... More >>

The Worst of SXSW

Security and Cops Gettin' Wild: Look, I get it. Every drunken dickhead in town "knows someone" or thinks he has pull at the door, but that doesn't mean the hammer goes down on everyone. I was stopped by two cops who didn't want me to walk 50 yards from where the Smashing Pumpkins would be playing an ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, January 4 Los Cincos, Silver Daggers, et al, at The Smell's Quinceañera THE SMELL When a truly DIY, all-ages space lasts for 15 years, you don't celebrate a birthday -- you celebrate a victory! So let's salute L.A.'s Smell, which has survived and even thrived to become a hometown instituti ... More >>

This Is the Mixtape I Made For the Guys Who Keep Breaking Into My Car

Three, maybe four times in the last month, my car has been broken into. I suppose at least a portion of that is my fault, both macro and micro. Macro: I mean, if I'd have maybe paid more attention in school, I'd probably make more money than I do today, which means I wouldn't have to live across t ... More >>

Bad Brains: Band in D.C.

Screw Everyone Who Got Into the Green Day Show at the Echoplex Last Night

Here's what our yesterday morning looked like: 9:45 AM -- We arrive at Village Bakery, consume coffee and "Fightin' Cake" (shut up, it's delicious) 9:46 AM -- The internet informs us that tickets for Green Day's semi-secret last minute show at the Echoplex in support of their upcoming triple albu ... More >>

RIP Spin Print Edition (Probably): Why We Loved the Magazine

After being purchased by Buzzmedia last week, Spin Magazine looks to be on its last legs -- the magazine part of it, anyway. Though Buzzmedia representatives haven't said it's going digital-only, they haven't committed to maintaining the print edition, either. It seems likely that we won't see much ... More >>

The Top Five Pop Punk Bands of All Time

Top 20 Greatest L.A. Punk Albums of All Time Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time In the past couple of decades, it's hard to think of a more-maligned genre than pop-punk. (That is, except nu-metal.) But it's a shame; and as someone who spent a lot of time listening to pop-punk in his preteens, I can app ... More >>

Open Fields! Alleys! The Five Most Overused Backdrops For Band Promo Photos

Ah, the band promo photo; the ultimate cliched publicist tool. But though band photos have survived into the digital age, they remain remarkably un-inventive. Sure, not every group can afford expensive props or exotic locations, but all it takes is the tiniest bit of imagination to do something uniq ... More >>

Green Day Never Sold Out, You Just Got Old and Complacent

One of the most mainstream punk bands since the new millennium, Green Day has faced criticism for selling out ever since releasing 2004's American Idiot -- some would say as far back as after the release of 1994's Dookie. Fuck that. They didn't sell out. In fact, American Idiot and 21st Century Br ... More >>

"She Gets a Free Abortion": The Five Dopiest Political Punk Songs

See also: *The Top Five L.A. Punk Albums of 2011 *Kelly Clarkson Endorses Ron Paul: The Five Most Baffling Political Pairings The Iowa caucuses are being held today, which means that Republican primary season is about to kick into high gear. Spoiler alert: The candidates all suck. But you knew tha ... More >>

Rooting for Weed

'Green Day' Marijuana Dispensary on L.A.'s Skid Row Shut Down

greenday.comGreen Day: not the "collective," but Billie Joe Armstrong.​Skid Row in L.A. is arguably the nation's largest homeless encampment. And it's a place where you can score just about anything, from crack to heroin. Recently a marijuana dispensary added high-grade bud to the produce av ... More >>

D Generation - The Troubadour - September 24, 2011

Lina LecaroSinger Jesse Malin finds his way to the bar ​D Generation at The Troubadour September 24, 2011 Better than... shows where the lead singer doesn't leave the stage, head to the bar, and throw back some tequila. Though they sweat and bleed New York, D Generation has an L.A. fan ba ... More >>

Why Do Musicians Hate America? The 5 Worst Songs With "American" in the Title

​Oh, United States Of America. We love you, we really do. Hell, we live here, so we kind of have to. We show our love through the composition of endless tributes to the land, the people and the country itself. Clarification: we do this by shamelessly co-opting the entire continental Western He ... More >>

Q & A with Eric Greenspan, Part 2: Culinary School or Not Culinary School, Etc.

Photo by Felicia Friesema.​In Part 1 of our interview with Eric Greenspan, we discovered that The Foundry on Melrose is somehow a tight ship and a wild ride at the same time. The chef waxed poetic (and, well, dropped a lot of f-bombs) as he discussed the challenges of owning a restaurant, the ... More >>

Hipster Babies Now Encouraged to Fall Asleep to Lulling, Instrumental Version of Song about Anal Sex

​Some very enterprising local musicians have been churning out a series of CDs targetting the booming "hipster with babies" market. The series is called Rockabye Baby! and it already includes soothing, instrumental versions of hits and rarities by Smashing Pumpkins, The Cure, Green Day, Tool ( ... More >>

LAPD Officers Stumble Upon 21 Guns (Yeah, Like The Green Day Song, You Cheese) In Search Of Much Lesser Stock

barjack via Flickr​At a West Valley raid on Wednesday, part of the LAPD's optimistically titled "Operation New Horizons," officers stumbled upon a cache of ridiculously illegal weaponry to make the little gangsters in them squeal with glee. Though they'd only been searching for two shotguns a ... More >>

Which Flamboyant LA Underground Characters Are Infiltrating the Mainstream? And Which One is the Next Cross(dressing)over Star?

Lina Lecaro Rebel's a hot tramp​In this week's Nightranger column (out tomorrow), we cover some of LA's most flamboyant polysexual characters and performers (nothing new), but ya know what is? Many of them are suddenly infiltrating the national pop mainstream in a big way. Ryan Heffington -a ... More >>

Eagle Rock Music Fest Flies High With Low End Theory DJs, Pay The Man, Ollin and Egyptian Lover

Lina Lecaro ​[For more exclusive images, see Colin Young-Wolff's slideshow "Eagle Rock Music Festival 2010"] We're surely not the only LA native who wistfully recalled Sunset Junction Street Fairs of yore while stomping along Colorado Blvd. at the Eagle Rock Music Fest Saturday evening. Like ... More >>

KNOW YOUR PUNK

Who Cares About Bieber, Gaga, or the VMA's? You Do! Winner Recaps Past and Present

Who Really Cares About Bieber, Gaga, or the VMA's? You Do! Winner Recaps Past and Present

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 >>

Over the Weekend: Chicago's Lollapalooza Music Festival

​This year's Lollapalooza brought the city of Chicago their biggest music festival to date. Over three days, 240,000 people browsed the stages along the lake at Grant Park to see 130 performers ranging from Lady Gaga to Blues Traveler. Check out these photos from the recent festival, brought ... More >>

The Grammy Awards, As Seen from the Staples Center Press Room

Last year we came down pretty hard on the numbskulls journalists in the press room at the Grammys, but would like to officially recant last year's unfair judgment. Specifically, for the record, this is what we said about what awaits the lucky Grammy winners backstage: ...their audience, a bunch of ... More >>

Beyond Belief: Atheists and the Burden of Proof

Franz Ferdinand at the Palladium: Let Some Professionals Show You How It's Done

Franz Ferdinand is my uncle's favorite band. They might be your uncle's favorite band. About five years ago, they were my sister's favorite band -- probably yours too. That was when Franz Ferdinand released "the song." You know -- "THE SONG." That moment of leyden jar lightning when circumstance and ... More >>

Silversun Pickups Make Jeopardy! Debut, Return To Morning Becomes Eclectic

File this under "You know you've made it when." On Wednesday, May 6, Silversun Pickups were the subject of a Jeopardy! clue referencing the origin of the band's name. Read it below, preferably aloud and with impeccable posture. Evidence of fame, item #1 Notice the show's writers didn't specify wh ... More >>

Green Day's New Documentary, Aries in the House, Society at the Bordello

The Worst Kept Secret in LA: Foxburo Hot Tubs are Green Day, and They Play the Roxy Tonight

The best kept secret, though, is that the Hot Tubs are way better than Green Day, and sound to us more like the product of Estrus Records than Warners. But if you want to gain entry, I'd suggest heading over there maybe yesterday, because the line is long and you're getting close to being S.O.L. a ... More >>

Rock & Roll Torchbearer

Brett Gurewitz

Punk Puppet Apocalypse

Starring members of Green Day, Rancid, X and more, Live Freaky! Die Freaky! is guaranteed to offend

The Party Revisited

Delta 5’s non-reunion of Soviet socialist punk

Screen and Be Seen

Getty Up or Bagg It

High ’05 in Clubland

Webs of intrigue, Crackberries, ironica — Nightranger surveys the year in nightlife

Snakebites

Sex and the Steak House

Satire, Punk and Politics

Or, black people don’t like George Bush

Nightranger

Gobbing On Empires

Punk’s Best Responses to the Bush Regime

Idiots in Love

Green Day’s thrash opera

Articulate Snarls

The return of protest rock

The Contemporaries

Nouvelle Cuisine

French pop non-stop

Taking Thee Piss

Punk rock in re Headcoats, Cometbus

The Suck '90s and So You Do

Recline and Sprawl

Punk then -- and now

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