Green Day

Stencil Artist Logan Hicks Returns to L.A. With a Three-Day Show at LACE

Music Picks: Lord Huron, Matthewdavid, Smell 15th Anniversary Party

Criminal Hygiene Were Banned From Playing The Redwood

Garage-pop trio Criminal Hygiene's self-titled debut is a blend of catchy song structures and skate-rat not-give-a-fuckery. Vocalist-songwriter James Watson's front teeth are false, the result of a skateboard to the face. See also: Purgatory Pizza: The Punk Rock Pie Shop It looks like the traditi ... More >>

The Zeros, The Muffs - The Troubadour - 7/20/12

The Zeros, The Muffs The Troubadour 7-20-12 See also: Our interview with Javier Escovedo Even though the Zeros were born at the dawn of the punk era in 1976 and the Muffs didn't start until the depths of the grunge scene 15 years later, they couldn't have been more perfectly billed last night at ... More >>

How to Stage Classic Sitcoms...With Sock Puppets

The dozen or so people gathered at Atwater Crossing on this Wednesday night are watching the first episode of Friends. You remember how it goes: After ditching her fiance, runaway bride Rachel starts a new life in Manhattan with the help of her friends -- uptight Monica, ditzy Phoebe, smarmy Chan ... More >>

Adam Yauch is Dead: RIP Beastie Boy MCA

See also: Our Adam Yauch slide show Hip-hop pioneer Adam Yauch, better known as MCA of the Beastie Boys, died this morning of cancer, at age 47. The information was reported by Def Jam founder Russell Simmons. The Beasties' legacy spans three decades, crossing genres and mediums. The group had a k ... More >>

Conan O'Brien's Workout Mixtape: Stuff White People Like

Last week, we received the following press release: "Curious on how Conan O'Brien maintains his lean physique? It takes hours and hours in the gym -- and to keep his energy up, Conan needs the right kind of music. We we cornered Coco and got him to reveal what's thumping in his headphones while he ... More >>

Music Picks: Guns N' Roses, Nneka, Billy Childs, Willie Nelson & Family

Also, Slow Club, Kneebody, The Pretty Reckless, Apparat and others

'Don't Stick Your Dick in My Mouth Before We've Kissed': Sheri Sanders' 10 Tips on Auditioning for Rock Musicals

Rebecca HaithcoatSheri Sanders​Inside the Lyric Theatre on La Brea, the compact Sheri Sanders is curled in a chair, squinting her eyes and smiling almost apologetically at the nervous girl in Uggs onstage who keeps forgetting her lyrics. "I hate to be a cunt," Sanders murmurs. "I hate to be a ... More >>

Music Picks: The Descendents, Stones Throw 15th Anniversary Show,, Princess Pangolin, Brian Setzer

Also, Guns N' Roses, Weingart, Stevie Wonder's House Full of Toys, and others

Leisha Hailey Issues Statement Regarding Her Controversial Airplane Kiss

​Leisha Hailey, who formerly starred in The L Word and is currently a member of Los Angeles indie pop duo Uh Huh Her, has issued a statement regarding being asked to leave a Southwest Airlines flight. Yesterday, the singer/actress wrote a series of Tweets about the incident. She said that sh ... More >>

Rancid - House of Blues Anaheim - 9/7/11

Keith PlocekTim Armstrong​Rancid, Agnostic Front House of Blues Anaheim Downtown Disney September 7, 2011 Better than: Knocking down brews with your bros at ESPN Zone. Sing the song of shirtless guy, he's sweating all over you... The House of Blues is smack-dab in Downtown Disney: no smoki ... More >>

You are the punk-rock lion Christ of Human Resources: 3 motivational business books based on deeply stupid metaphors

​Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. For years the most popular method of getting through the workday for America's busines ... More >>

"Hardcore Is a Complete, Legitimate California-born Music Form": An Interview with "American Hardcore" Author Steven Blush, Who Speaks Today at Book Soup with Keith Morris and Others

​ In his 2001 compendium, American Hardcore: A Tribal History, New York writer and former promoter Steven Blush all but dispensed with your dad's glamorized spit-scabs-and-safety-pin punk, instead focusing on hundreds of DIY, anarchic hardcore bands from the scene's peak between 1980 and 198 ... More >>

Rock & Roll, Entry Level

What does the perennial L.A. dream of stardom look like circa 2010?

Wavves: All Hail King Skinny Shitster

Does frontman Nathan Williams speak for the loser in us all?

Lusty for Life

Petra Haden Sells Out

A singer lets her love flow in a quirky series of Toyota Prius commercials

LEAKED: Rejected California Lottery Tickets from the Warner Bros. Records Collection

​Yesterday the California State Lottery and Warner Bros. Records announced a landmark partnership that will place images of the label's vast and ever expanding roster on lottery tickets. Here, we'll let the Cali Lottery explain: Warner Bros. Records and the California Lottery announced today ... More >>

25 Years of 'Double Nickels on the Dime': Celebrating Los Angeles, 1984

The 25th Anniversary of the Summer of LA Post-Punk is upon us. It was a quarter-century ago this month that San Pedro's best, the Minutemen, with a simple, defiant declaration -- "Take That, Huskers!" -- unleashed Double Nickels on the Dime, a double-album response to SST labelmate Husker Du's equal ... More >>

LA People 2009: Punkissance Man — Tim Armstrong

Samuel L. Jackson Interviewed: Discusses Hip Hop and Comics For the Premiere of Afro Samurai

21 years ago, Samuel L. Jackson snagged a bit part as Leeds in Spike Lee's School Daze. Since then, the prolific Tennessean has appeared in roughly 70 films -- some of them good (Kill Bill, Do the Right Thing, Hard 8,), some not so good (S.W.A.T, Amos and Andrew, Deep Blue Sea), and some that can ... More >>

Nightranger Attends the Gidget Gein Memorial

Lecaro mourns, porns, and gets adorned with L.A.'s original punks and scene makers.

Farewell to Goa, and Other Club Closures

Adios, amigos

Antifashionist Tendencies

Dressing down; Akbar weekends; you gotta Lavitt

Lovely Bastards

Morrissey, Art Brut and the proper way to nick from John Lennon

Rock Picks

For the week of Jan 12 – 18

Oops! Year-Ended Again!

E.L.O. Is for Lovers!

Run, DMC — Run!

The Knack get nasty; “Weird Al” conquers all

Ma Ma Ma Ma Monkey!

ART OF ENGAGEMENT

And other picks for Wednesday, February 1

Is This It?

Rap metal is still dead. The Strokes are still cool. And your point is . . . ?

Beyond Bubbly

The Style Council’s New Year’s Eve party mixes

Lost And Found

The future is history to an obsessive prodigy and heartbroken shut-in called Ariel Pink

Stoned

Mick likes Lynndie England? Keith’s got a good song? Two fans discuss A Bigger Bang, and whether “the kids” will get it

Fire and Rice

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