Har Mar Superstar

S.S. Coachella Gossip: We Stalk Jarvis Cocker

No one's really interested in reading about the actual performances taking place on this musical ship of contradictions, the S.S. Coachella, amirite? (Well, if I'm wrong, here's our report from the first day.) Instead, you want a spoonful of gossipy anecdotal sugar, straight from the decks of this f ... More >>

Shuggie Otis - The Echoplex - 12/5/12

Shuggie Otis The Echoplex 12-5-12 I have a couple of words for those who staggered out of the Shuggie Otis show less than an hour into the proceedings, politely holding the door for the like-minded strangers streaming behind them: Screw you. What did you show up expecting to see? Did you want to he ... More >>

Andrew W.K. - Avalon Theater - 3/8/12

See also: Our slideshow of Andrew W.K. with Math The Band Andrew W.K. with Math The Band Avalon Theater 3/8/12 Better than:...The sold-out 10-year anniversary show of Har Mar Superstar's Can You Feel Me?, which undoubtedly plays in Har Mar Superstar's mind every single day. Andrew W.K. isn't the ... More >>

Strip Clubs And Indie Rock: A Match Made In Heaven?

Ben WesthoffJenny Lin​Strip clubs have long been important hip-hop testing grounds in the south. Artists try to bribe DJs to put their songs on, the logic being that lapdance tracks get seared into dudes' brains. Plus, in places like Atlanta, influential music industry folk tend to hang out th ... More >>

Music Picks: Ravi Shankar, Marilyn Scott, Duran Duran, Burkina Electric

Also, Emmylou Harris & Her Red Dirt Boys, Odd Future, Gillian Welch and others

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

Also, Soundgarden, Iceage, Earth, Wu Lyf and others

SXSW Recap: Gayngs Throw Signs with Har Mar Superstar

photo by Siran BabayanGayngs​ What: Gayngs Where: Lustre Pearl, Austin, TX When: March18 Amid constant crowd chatter, the second of retro dance-pop Gayngs' SXSW shows at Lustre Pearl was a another festival example of right band, wrong venue. There was a lot to see on up there. Twenty-five ar ... More >>

Music Picks: SWANS, Sebadoh, Arbouretum, Cass McCombs

Also Meshell Ndegeocello, Kaki King, Local Natives and others

Top 5 Things to Do This Weekend in L.A.

​ "L.A. proved too much for the man," sang Gladys Knight, "So he's leavin' the life he's come to know, He said he's goin' back to find [Ooh, said the Pips] what's left of his world, The world he left behind, Not so long ago." Well, "the man" was kind of a wuss, right? You don't have to take t ... More >>

Music Picks: Breakestra, Slang Chickens, the Muffs, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson

Also Meth Leppard, Tennis With Lord Huron, Kid Infinity and others

5 Reasons to Check Out Har Mar Superstar's Residency at the Satellite

Angel CeballosHar Mar Superstar​Har Mar Superstar may be the unlikeliest dancefloor hero ever to perform in his underwear, but the pasty, diminutive songwriter/producer, born Sean Tillman, has proven over four albums that you don't have to have coiffed hair and a chiseled physique to fashion h ... More >>

Tonight: Greg Dulli, the Thermals, Blonde Redhead, Legendary Pink Dots, Street Drum Corps, Har Mar Superstar, Oh No Oh My

Sam HoldenGreg Dulli​Greg Dulli's estimable swagger and charm have been playing awfully well on his first-ever solo tour. The former Afghan Whigs and current Twilight Singers frontman (and one of Los Angeles' favorite saloonkeepers) is winding down a five-country, 29-stop tour on which he's p ... More >>

Tonight: Nite Jewel, Dr. John, Wang Chung, Greg Laswell, Kisses, Seneca Hawk

Nite Jewel​Ramona Gonzalez may be growing up, but the music she is making as Nite Jewel isn't growing out. On her new EP, Am I Real?, made in collaboration with Cole Greif-Neill, follows up last year's debut album Good Evening with more spare, spacey explorations of electro-funk and disco-pop ... More >>

A WEEK RICH IN FULCHER

Music Picks: Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, VoicesVoices, Peter Gabriel, Jakob Dylan

Also, Ane Brun, the Melodians, Kate Miller-Heidke, Ian Whitcomb and others

It's a Beautiful World

Rock Picks: GZA, the Ettes, A.A. Bondy, Mose Allison

Also, the Kris Special, Jesse Sykes, Mamak Khadem and others

The Nightlife Before Christmas

Keeping Up With the Times

Har Mar Superstar Locker Poster! Free! MP3

Har Mar Superstar Locker Poster! Free! MP3

Rock Picks: Amadou & Mariam, Manimal Festival, Marianne Faithfull, Gil Scott-Heron

Also, Kylie Minogue, the Joe Perry Project, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks and others

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)

Videothing Releases FYF Fest Trailer

Videothing Releases Trailer for FYF Fest

West Coast Sound's Week That Was: Underworld, FYF Fest, New Vinyl Column, Deadfly Ensemble, MP3s

The festival formerly known as the F Yeah Fest is now called the FYF Fest, and announced its line up this week. Read about it here. Chris Martins debuted a new vinyl column, called 'Inches', and offered a boatload of MP3s. ​ The Deadfly Ensemble gigs in Chinatown, does theater and music s ... More >>

Lightning Bolt, Black Lips, Tim & Eric, No Age to Headline Festival Formerly Known as F Yeah Fest

Lightning Bolt at WFMU​ It's been a crazy past few months for F Yeah Fest principals Sean Carlson, Keith Morris and Phil Hoelting. The annual summer music festival, which changed its name from the Fuck Yeah Fest two years ago for obvious reasons, has been the sturdy little engine of the punk/ ... More >>

New Har Mar Superstar Track, Originally Intended for Britney Spears, Released: "Tallboy" (MP3)

​So if this isn't a gay club hit this fall, we don't know what from what. The new Har Mar Superstar track has arrived after a musical Har Mar Hiatus of ... has it been five years? It's from his forthcoming album, Dark Touches. In that time, a lot of blue-eyed soul singers have come and gone, b ... More >>

La Boum With a View

Plus, Part Time Punks Fest and more

Election '08: Joe On Jonesy's Jukebox Jury

On Friday October 10th I had the privilege of guesting on Jonesy's Jukebox Jury on Indie 103.1 FM, hosted by the legendary Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols. Jonesy is one of my favorites, not just because of his seminal place in rock history but also because of how wonderfully he's reinvented himself ... More >>

Franki Chan

Hipsters heart him

Antifashionist Tendencies

Dressing down; Akbar weekends; you gotta Lavitt

Los Angeles area well represented at South by Southwest 2008

Want proof that L.A.'s in the middle of an astoundingly fertile period of musical expansion? See the list below. We're going to have our hands full this year. Expect around the clock coverage from Austin.

Death Makes a Holiday

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Twinkle Toes

Skinny Bitches, Orange Men and Rockin' Wild Boys

Sick of the post-Emmys coverage yet? Even if you only a watched a smidge of the entertainment shows the past two days, you know more than enough. Where to get knockoffs of Emmy dresses: ABS and Faviana. (They look cheap to me). What was bleeped from the telecast ("god-damn" and "screw"). (Oy vey). ... More >>

Nightranger

Pussycats and a Cougar

Steve Aoki

Big kid

Nightranger

Devil’s Haircut and B-Boys

Rock Picks

For the week of March 1 - 8

Bedazzled

or, why do Midwesterners make such a freaky racket?

Tiara Girlz

Dead Man’s Party

Beauty Bar Superstar

Snakebites

Snakebites

The Music Man

Snake Bites

Phantoms of Planets

Love International

The Fuzz and the Fury

When It Blows Its Stacks

Neuralgia nostalgia at the Queen Mary