Gwen Stefani

The Five Most Iconic Key Club Shows in Its History

We broke some sad news last week: the Key Club will close its doors this Friday. Since opening in 1967 as Gazzarri's, it has been a staple of the Sunset Strip for decades, under various names and ownership. The venue has seen many popular styles of music come and go, but has, Zelig-like, been at the ... More >>

Here Are the Music Costumes You're Guaranteed To See on Halloween

Each Halloween you see scads of folks wearing the same costumes. Last year it was the damn black swan, and meanwhile Slash and the LMFAO guys seem to turn up annually. See also: *10 Best and Worst Music-Themed Costumes At KCRW's Masquerade and LACMA's Muse Ball *LMFAO 'Bikini Girl' Says She Was F ... More >>

The Bizarre World of Makeup Artists, Where Ovals are Perfection and Monsters are Beautiful

When the International Makeup Artist Trade Show rolls into town, it brings with it a million tiny pans of eye shadow -- and the utter conviction that the right shade of lipstick can change your life. At the Pasadena Convention Center, where the trade show took place earlier this summer, beauty i ... More >>

Rufus Wainwright - Orpheum Theater - 5/12/12

By Oliver Wang Rufus Wainwright Orpheum Theater 5/12/12 See also: Exclusive: Rufus Wainwright On His New Album, "I've Done That Whole Ponderous, Psuedo-Genius Thing" Better than: ...the ham elevator next door at UMAMIcatessen At the Orpheum last night, Rufus Wainwright opened his show by beginn ... More >>

Coachella: Seven Lesser-Known Acts You'd Be Silly to Miss

Brian Lichtenberg: Diva Duds

Prince Announces More Dates for Los Angeles Residency!

​At this past Saturday night's performance, Prince announced the next three dates for his 21 Nite Stand at the Forum. Again, about 85% of the tickets will be on sale for an incredible $25 (we heard that for last Thursday's show, you could walk up and get tickets for $10). As the press rel ... More >>

Prince at The Forum Friday, 4/22: Short On Encores, Big On Surprises

Lina Lecaro​At this point, fans planning to attend any of Prince's 21 shows at the Los Angeles Forum (5 in, he's got 16 to go) can count on a few things: flashy/foxy get-ups, celeb guests (dancing and/or singing), plenty of purple people in the crowd, exquisite hit medleys, and a crazy-ass, e ... More >>

Top 10 Most Recycled Women of Rock (Only Three Call Themselves Groupies!)

Jena Ardell​ Everyone has had a crush on rockstar before, but these woman actually pursued and conquered rockstars. In order to make our Top 10 Most Recycled Women of Rock list, these ladies had to have dated (or bedded) six or more famous musicians. There's one musician who appears on four o ... More >>

Shibuya Girls Pop: Cute Rebellion

A Japanese art collective brings earthquake-fueled inspiration to its show at Meltdown

Team Unicorn: Sexy and Geeky Girls, They Do Exist!

The tagline on the Team Unicorn Facebook page pretty much sums it up: 'Geek Girls: Like unicorns, we're not supposed to exist.' Rileah Vanderbilt, Clare Grant, Milynn Sarley and Michele Boyd are beautiful and talented women who are also proud to be nerds! Their first video, "G33K and G4M3R GIRLS", ... More >>

The Dirt Master: Neil Strauss Talks Rockers, Hookers, Drugs and Getting Hate Mail from his Ultimate Nemesis, Phil Collins

​You'll be seeing a lot in the blogosphere and beyond about Neil Strauss' revealing new book, Everyone Loves You When You're Dead, (out this week). The tome reveals shocking things about -and intimate moments with- the author's vast array of interview subjects over the years: Lady Gaga bawling ... More >>

Top 5 Spots for Korean Shaved Ice: Or, Your Patbingsu Fix

SupaflyKorean store window display for patbingsu​ The Korean shaved ice snack called patbingsu handily trumps even the most elaborate Fosselman's sundae when it comes to sheer, omg-inducing visual impact. For the uninitiated, patbingsu is like Pinkberry on psychotropic drugs: an often deli ... More >>

Top Ten LA Musician Mansions For Sale (Sorry Millionaires: Jack Black Just Snapped Flea's Los Feliz Pad)

Jack Black Buys Flea's House More Musicians Insane Mansions For Sale

Music Picks: Nicole Eva Emery, Hard NYE, Peter and the Wolf,

Also, Jesus Makes the Shotgun Sound, Octavius, Cosmologic and others

Nightranger: Heart-Ons

Heart-Ons: Kelis And Robyn Bring All The Boys To The Yard, Eh, Music Box.

The Summer tour co-headlined by Kelis and Robyn is called "All Hearts" but Friday night, when the tempestuous twosome thumped and pumped it up at the Music Box, it was more like, "all boys," the ratio of male to female appearing to be about 90% (gay) male and10% female. The place was a sweatpit of m ... More >>

Fishbone Documentary Screens This Week at L.A. Film Fest

Fishbone Documentary Screens This Week at L.A. Film Fest

Music Picks: Laura Veirs, Experience Hendrix, Boyz II Men, Earthworm Ensemble

Also, David Scott Stone, Slow Club, Little Boots and others

Bigger Than Both of Us

What Was Burning up Tune in Tokyo's NYE Dance Floor? Lady Gaga

For more photos from Tune in Tokyo, check out Timothy Norris' photo gallery "New Year's Eve 2009 Downtown Crawl." New Year's Eve, we made our way to Little Tokyo for Tune in Tokyo's party at Second Street Jazz. Though we were impressed by the mix of club regulars and local party-hoppers and complete ... More >>

Coachella Day 2: The Power of Pulchritude and Paper Planes

Timothy NorrisM.I.A.'s dancers: Working it harder than Maya As I wriggled out of the teeming crowd that clotted for M.I.A, I eavesdropped on the Spalding basketball-bronzed sorority sisters speaking behind me: "If I was like a dude, I would totally want to do M.I.A." Personally, M.I.A. doesn't real ... More >>

Top 5 Songsmith Remixes: Fudging a Microsoft Program to Create "Music"

Songsmith, by Microsoft: a time-sucking monster One has to wonder if Microsoft knew what type of time-sucking monster they had created upon releasing Songsmith. An extension of the MySong project, the program allows even the musically inept to formulate a song and gives skilled players what the com ... More >>

All Aboard John Mayer's Mayercraft Carrier 2: Jordin Sparks, Sara Bereilles, Gavin Rossdale, OAR, Guster (and the Mayer Himself)

Randall RobertsSpring-breaking with Mayer: A busload of women road-tripped to get on a ship with the man they love. John Mayer's going to get some action this week. Just, you know, in case you're wondering. He's come up with this plan, and it's called the Mayercraft Carrier 2, the sequel to last y ... More >>

Rock Picks: Tangerine Dream, Spindrift, Robyn Hitchcock

Also, Electric Six, Heartless Bastards, Scissors for Lefty and more

Fallen Idols of All Shapes and Sizes

Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#20-16)

20. Jens Lekman-Night Falls Over Kortedala [Secretly Canadian] On first listen, Jens Lekman reminds you of Morrissey. Like the ex-Smith's frontman, the 26-year old Swede's got a rich baritone warble, a sly wit and a penchant for moony-eyed romanticism. But that's where the similarities stop. Lekma ... More >>

Clubland Empire

Parc, Shereen Arazm’s latest Hollywood hot spot

What Would Erik Satie Do?

Coping with Linkin Park, gas prices and American Idol in a world where only Muddy Bears make sense

Naked Rebellion

Vixen Kabarett

Rappers Who'll Make You Dial for Dollars

And post-feminist pop from one-hit wonders

Change Artists

Let me tell you about the Bird and the Bee costumes

Girls, Girls, Girls

Big Damn Deal

Media darling Lily Allen’s hype exceeds her

Oops! Year-Ended Again!

The Whole Kitty and Kaboodle

One writer’s lifelong love affair with Hello Kitty

Private Prince

40 Now, 21 Forever

What does age-appropriate mean, anyway?

Punk Puppet Apocalypse

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

Music Picks

For Feb. 17 - 23

Foghat Does Quaaludes, Wille Does Reggae

Yet More Lists

Genesis Regenerated

Bust a Move

When the Music’s Over

Get Loose

Afro-beaten, Afro-burned

Get a Clue, Little Dreamer

Edited by Kateri Butler & Libby Molyneaux

Have You Ever Been Teen?

Rodney Bingenheimer remembers

The Baptism

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