Hercules and Love Affair

Music Picks: NKOTBSB, Mixed Message, Earthless

Also, Catwalk, Holly Miranda, Darwin Dees, and others

DJ of the Week is Back! DJ De Kutt (a.k.a French Kiss) Talks L.A. Pride, Paris, Boobytraps, and Miss Kittin

​ After the madness of Coachella and Record Store Day, DJ of the week is back. This time, it's DJ De Kutt, a formidable DJ, producer, and promoter who originally hails from Nice (that's in France). At the age of 20 she headed to London, working as a manager for one of London's most notorious ... More >>

L.A. DJs Jason Bentley, Damian Lazarus Headed to Ibiza Next Month For Dance Music Summit

J to the B rockin' Stussy like it's '93.​While we like to think of ourselves as worldly ragers, the City of Angels often doesn't rate on the world map of professional partying. You know, Miami, Vegas, Berlin, Ibiza. But we're getting there (glad we have our priorities straight). Some of the g ... More >>

Conjunction Junction Offers Free Alternative Right Next to Sunset Junction Fair (Including Must-See Band Light Asylum)

​What do you do if you're a restaurant right outside the craziness that is gonna be Sunset Junction Street Fair this weekend? How do you convince the music-starved crowd to pop in for some gavacho-priced Mexican food and drinks? Well, in the case of Sunset Blvd. cantina Malo (owned by the sam ... More >>

Live Review: Hercules and the Love Affair at the Echoplex

​With most of their music being made on inanimate machines, synthpop acts face a challenge come tour time: how to marry technology to visible motion and visceral emotion. The Hercules and Love Affair of two years ago successfully hung flesh on digital bones by incorporating live drums, percu ... More >>

Manic at the Polysexual Disco

Music geeks and local promoters have created a gay-straight dance alliance

Nightranger: Bringing Sounds to the Sea

HUNG- Hang The DJs Herculean Memorial Weekend Happening

In our upcoming Nightranger column (out Thursday) we joined the mainstream masses in a major way (the American Idol finale at Nokia Theatre, a Sex and the City 2 party at Arclight and Jack Johnson on the Santa Monica Pier) but for Memorial Weekend it was all about a homier locale (as in "what up, ho ... More >>

Dance Club Pick: Nights to Remember

Old Bones, Still Rockin'

Avalon's secret is perpetual reinvention

This Weekend: NYC's House of House Brings the Pure Energy of Classic House Music to A Club Called Rhonda

​ Deep house, progressive house, Latin house, microhouse, booty house, tech-house -- the umbrella genre "house" music has mutated as it's traveled around the world, has entangled our lives with rhythm as its made its way from gay Chicago dance clubs to New York loft parties to British clubs ... More >>

Unexpected Dance Hits of the '00s: From Peaches to The Knife

There are dance club songs that scream "Hit!" Tunes like "Can't Get You Out of My Head" by Kylie Minogue or "One More Time" by Daft Punk encompass everything that is larger-than-life about the clubland, from massive, happy synths to sing-along hooks to beats that force you to keep on dancing. Then t ... More >>

Manimal at the Echo, Week Two: Loving Thunder, Rainbow Arabia, Jessica 6, We Are the World

Night number two of Manimal Vinyl's Echo residency began with its feet planted on the ground and worked its way up the body. Loving Thunder's loud metal-ish music loosened toes, Rainbow Arabia rapped knees using tropical percussion, Jessica 6 sent blood rushing to the pelvis, and then We Are The Wor ... More >>

Jessica 6 (Hercules and Love Affair) Bombard LA w/ 4.5 Shows ( Mp3s)

Jessica 6 (Hercules and Love Affair) Bombard LA w/ 4.5 Shows ( Mp3s)

Keeping Up With the Times

Mr. Black Takes Over LA

Shannon CottrellLenora Claire and Luke Nero at mr. BLACK​ When Luke Nero moved to Los Angeles, he brought the hippest gay club in New York City with him. But as the doors opened last night at Bardot for the first installment of the Tuesday night party mr. BLACK LA, one had to wonder if a club ... More >>

Detour Festival Goes on 'Hiatus'; Whisper Campaign Begins on Impending Amphitheatre Announcement

The LA Weekly's annual Detour Festival, which over the past three years has brought to downtown Los Angeles Basement Jaxx, Beck, Justice, Cut Copy, Gogol Bordello, the Mars Volta, Hercules and Love Affair, and dozens of other bands and DJs, is on hiatus. As in: there isn't going to be one this year. ... More >>

Royal Rumble: Prince, Queen Latifah, Fischerspooner and the Dukes of DFA

Black Disco: A New York Expat Brings the Sound of the Loft to the West Coast

Shits & Giggles Celebrates With Hercules and LCD Soundsystem

Maybe We're Amazed: Notes on the Fairly Odd Coachella 2009 Lineup

Our only hope — that Macca gets Ram tough

Beige Beef Breeds New Rusty's Supperclub, and Lucent Dossier Experience at the Edison

N.A.S.A. lands at Cinespace for Aoki's bash

Coachella 2009 Announced: Amy Winehouse, Paul McCartney, My Bloody Valentine ... Throbbing Gristle! Leonard Cohen!

Yeah, so all the silly speculation probably isn't done yet, as Goldenvoice always adds a few heavy-hitters after the initial announcement, but the initial line-up is up. Click through to see it in all it's glory. We'll start analyzing it soon, but for now: Throbbing Gristle! No Pavement? Let the ... More >>

Pazz & Jop 2008: LA Shut Out of Top Ten

The critics apparently aren't feeling LA music this year; it's been twelve years since LA snagged the number one spot on the estimable Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll (for Beck's Odelay). All the city got in the top 20 of the album category this year was a #13 nod for No Age's Nouns, and She ... More >>

Coachella Rumor Mill Works Overtime, but the Confirmations Continue to Trickle In

(Michel Gondry's video for the Chemical Brothers' "Let Forever Be.") Here's a list of "confirmed" (so far) acts to appear at Coachella 2009, according to the very reliable Monklish blog. His guarantee: "I've been told that these have been making arrangements to attend the festival as contractuall ... More >>

The 50 Best Albums of the Year (#30-21) (Sponsored By Medieval Times)

You better believe they serve Pepsi at Medieval Times. 30. Los Campesinos-Hold On Now, Youngster (Wichita/Arts and Crafts) Gareth Campesinos and Co. clearly grew up not just liking music but being obsessed by bands, and they've done the only honourable thing you can in that position: they've ... More >>

L.A. Weekly's Top Ten Dance Collections of 2008, Both Mixed and Unmixed

Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry ... More >>

Rock Picks: Antony & the Johnsons, Kings of Leon, Jay-Z

Also, Joan Osborne, Earl Zero, Petra Haden and more

The Next Big Thing at the Detour Festival: Buraka Som Sistema's Kuduro Beats and the Sound of Tomorrow

The Portuguese DJ collective's rhythms have yet to catch on here, but they will

Detour Dance Party: Cut Copy, Hercules and Love Affair, Silent Disco Caught on Video

Despite foreboding clouds and a few rounds of mist-like rain, dancing began in the early afternoon at this year’s Detour Festival and continued until the witching hour. For much of the day, the electronic grooves were confined to the courtyard of City Hall, where DJs like Paparazzi and Kid Lightn ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Dogtown Z-Boys, Detour Fest and Dodger Victory

This weekend was one of celebration in Los Angeles, packed with more events than we could scramble to cover. Friday night kicked off with a special VIP party at Crewest Gallery in Downtown L.A. where The Label Lab hosted the opening of the "The Z-Boy Show—Direct from the Source," featuring work fr ... More >>

Rock Picks: Detour Music Festival, Dandy Warhols, David Byrne, Die Rockers Die

Also, Henry Butler, Deerhoof, Eagle Rock Music Festival, Global Drum Project

Saturday Night Flavors: The Chase, Bootie LA, Nikita

Confessions of a Promo-CD Junkie: Who Will Stop the Music Industry Gravy Train?

With so much music available at the click of a mouse, do tastemakers really need hard copies anymore? Is it worth the waste?

Rock Picks: Brian Wilson, the Juan Maclean, Common

Also, Citay, Nightwish, Savina Yannatou

The 10 Best Non Hip-Hop Albums of the Half Year

Image Via Natalie Dee In case, you were wondering, I do have a pair of boombox pants and yes, they're quite comfortable. 10. King Khan & The Shrines-The Supreme Genius Of.... (tie) If my review of Khan's Pitchfork Fest set didn't convince you, this interview that ran today should seal the ... More >>

Rock Picks: Rooney, Lili Haydn, Dizzee Rascal

Also, Wolf Parade, Pierced Arrows, Summer Darling

Weiss' Muxtapes #5 and #6: The Best "Indie" Songs To Get An Asymmetrical Haircut To (2008 Edition)

I won't deny it. Things started spiraling rapidly downhill the moment I started compiling mixtapes of my favorite non-hip hop songs released this year. Vampire Weekend? Santogold? Hercules & The Love Affair? I kind of wanted to kick my own ass or at the very least give myself a wedgie. Of cour ... More >>

Wolf Parade’s At Mt. Zoomer: Great Record, Terrible Title

Regardless of what you think of their music, you've got to respect Wolf Parade. When Apologies to the Queen Mary dropped in late 2005 and every music journo prematurely slapped "next Arcade Fire" tags on them, they very easily could've played the comparison to the hilt, touring relentlessly, made ... More >>

Bob the Lefsetz vs. Antony & the Johnsons. ALSO, some words about Coachella.

Why we love Antony and why we hate Coachella.