Insane Clown Posse

Here's What Happens After 5 AM at the Gathering

[Editor's note: Daniel Hill and Drew Ailes covered the 2013 Gathering of the Juggalos in Cave-in-Rock, Illinois.] At the Gathering of the Juggalos, festivities run daily from noon until 5 a.m. That's when things get weird. After hours of drugs and partying and wicked clown love, Juggalos will begi ... More >>

This Make-A-Wish Teenager Went to the Gathering, Got a Lap Dance (NSFW)

[Editor's note: Daniel Hill and Drew Ailes covered the 2013 Gathering of the Juggalos in Cave-in-Rock, Illinois.] Seventeen-year old Cody Morin has been sponsored by the Make-A-Wish foundation, and attended the Gathering while staying at a nearby cabin. That's where we meet with the young man, who ... More >>

Death at the Gathering of the Juggalos: Men in Tent Unknowingly Slept Next to Corpse

More details about the fatal overdose that took place Friday afternoon at the Gathering of the Juggalos in Cave-In-Rock, Illinois, have emerged. The deceased was a 24-year-old man, according to the coroner and a source at the scene says his body was found in a tent alongside four others who were sle ... More >>

The Juggalos Are Going to Murder Us?

[Editor's note: Daniel Hill and Drew Ailes are covering the Gathering of the Juggalos in Cave-in-Rock, Illinois for our sister publication, The Riverfront Times. We hope to see them again!] By its organizers' own assessment, the Gathering of the Juggalos is an event filled with the most misunderst ... More >>

Death Reported at Gathering of the Juggalos; Drug Bridge Closed

[Editor's note: Daniel Hill and Drew Ailes are covering the Gathering of the Juggalos in Cave-in-Rock, Illinois.] The Gathering of the Juggalos' infamous "drug bridge" is closed today, following reports of a fatal overdose. Ambulances were on the scene at Cave-in-Rock, Illinois around 2 p.m. local ... More >>

Funk Volume: Valley-Based Rap Label Builds an Independent Empire

Little Known Facts About Coolio, Who Is 50 (!) Today

Today, veteran west coast rap superstar and '90s icon Coolio celebrates his 50th birthday. While it's been almost two decades since his last big hit, his name and image continue to endure, long after almost everyone else from the era has fallen away. Why? Was it because singles like "Gangsta's Par ... More >>

Seven Mosh Pit Techniques

The mosh pit lives! Here in Los Angeles, in particular, you can get down and dirty at venues across the city, both legal and not-so-much. Whether it's punk, hardcore, ska, metal or a show in another genre, there's a pit with your name on it almost every night of the week. But don't go unprepared. B ... More >>

Cheech and Chong Tell Us About Their New Animated Movie, the Duo's First Feature in 29 Years

How Did the FBI Determine the Juggalos Were a Gang?

For those among you who are "down" and perhaps for those who are not, you know that much brouhaha was made by the FBI's inclusion of Juggalos -- ie fans of Insane Clown Posse -- in their 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment. This, of course, put them in the same category as well-organized Mexican-he ... More >>

We Test the ICP iPhone App (It Has A Grindr-Like Juggalo Locator)

By David Thorpe While perusing Insane Clown Posse's Twitter timeline, like a person does, I came across something interesting: our favorite rap clowns announced a new update to their official smartphone app, which I didn't even know existed. For the advancement of pop journalism and human knowledge ... More >>

This Is What It Feels Like In My Stomach Right Now

There is an evil inside of me. It is brooding and malevolent and vicious. It is absolute darkness. It is rotting my body on a cellular level. And it is there because I thought a bad idea (getting a burrito at the mall right before it closed) was a good idea ("HEY, LET'S GET A BURRITO FROM THE MALL B ... More >>

Lamb of God - The Palladium - 10/31/12

Lamb of God with In Flames, Hatebreed and Sylosis Hollywood Palladium 10/31/12 Better than... a candy sack full of strychnine-soaked raisins wrapped in razor-blades. See also: *More photos from the show *Top 20 L.A. Metal Albums *Randy Blythe, Ahead of His Manslaughter Trial, Talks About Losing a ... More >>

The Five Best Shows in Los Angeles This Week: Grimes, Madonna

Monday, October 8 Superhumanoids THE ECHO L.A.'s Superhumanoids make pop songs out of star parts -- like the glow, the heat, the empty space and of course the wisps of fire that make NASA scientists curse every time a space probe gets singed by the stuff. This is heavenly stuff, with singer Sarah ... More >>

Music Picks: Eagle Rock Festival, New Order, Madonna

Kreayshawn's New Album Is Not, In Fact, the Worst-Selling Ever

The internet is broken again. It's telling us that first-week sales of Kreayshawn's debut Somethin' 'Bout Kreay -- released last week, it moved about 3,900 units -- are the weakest ever for a major label release. Thanks for the misinformation everyone, which has come fast and furious, often with th ... More >>

Inside Insane Clown Posse's Genius Media Operation

See also: *Insane Clown Posse Calls the FBI's Actions "A Public Lynching of Our Name" *Insane Clown Posse: Exclusive Interview When I started as LA Weekly music editor last summer, I was fairly committed to not covering Insane Clown Posse. After all, we'd put them on the cover earlier that year and ... More >>

Insane Clown Posse Calls the FBI's Actions "A Public Lynching of Our Name"

See also: *Insane Clown Posse Is Suing the FBI (!!!) *Our cover story on ICP from last year Oddly, Insane Clown Posse rapper Joey Utsler -- better known as Shaggy 2 Dope -- is humble. Today, on the group's bus in the parking lot of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, he speaks as if he can't believe hi ... More >>

L.A.'s Top Five Actors-Turned-Rappers, Including Warren Beatty

See also: *Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List *Here Are Pictures of Dr. Dre's New $13 Million House Only a decade ago everyone was complaining about how the rappers were taking all of the acting roles in Hollywood. But nowadays the pendulum has swung in the other direct ... More >>

Jack White -The Wiltern - 5/30/12

Jack White The Wiltern 5/30/12 See also: *Our slideshow of the performance *The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time: The Complete List Better than...all of the Dead Weather albums put together. The man who built his career on secrets came to the Wiltern last night. Secret marriages, secret sin ... More >>

LA Weekly Writers Win Big at L.A. Press Club's National Entertainment Journalism Awards

​Last night at the Biltmore Hotel, the Los Angeles Press Club handed out glass stars for the National Entertainment Journalism Awards, and LA Weekly walked away with quite a few. Steven Leigh Morris won Print Critic of the Year for his theater reviews. Gendy Alimurung nabbed second place in ... More >>

GWAR - House of Blues - 11/12/11

Lina Lecaro ​See also: Gwar guitarist Cory Smoot found dead on tour bus this morning following show in Minneapolis GWAR House of Blues, Sunset Nov. 12, 2011 A piece of sad news threatened to cast a pall over last night's GWAR concert. The band's guitarist Cory Smoot died on November 3 during ... More >>

The Five Dopiest Beach Boys Songs, Including One Where Brian Wilson Raps

Wait, where are our wetsuits? ​See also: A Tour Of Beach Boys' Haunts In Their Hometown Of Hawthorne, California - With Pictures! Last week saw the release of the Beach Boys' The Smile Sessions box set, and folks can't stop talking about how amazing it is. In fact, the recent splurge of criti ... More >>

L.A. Press Club's National Entertainment Journalism Awards Names 14 Finalists From LA Weekly, More Than All Other Publications

Photo from Gustavo Turner's interview with Insane Clown Posse, a finalist for L.A. Pres Club's National Entertainment Journalism Awards

Music Picks: India.Arie, Merle Haggard, Endangered Blood, Little Dragon

Also, Lupe Fiasco, Yelawolf, Miguel Migs, Chad VanGaalen and others

4 Steps to Enlightenment Brought to You by Andrew W.K.

Andrew W.K. believes in you​The crowd that filed into the Silent Movie Theater on Saturday night included a kid handing out free weed cookies, a woman with a T-Rex skeleton tattoo wrapped around one calf, and a middle-aged man complaining to a friend about the Hall and Oates show his wife was ... More >>

One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other: Our Off-the-Beaten Path Guide To Summer Festivals

​ One of the best parts about being at a festival are those moments you walk by a stage and have that "what the fuck" moment. It's when you hear something that just doesn't fit. It's the feeling some people probably had at Chaos In Tejas this summer when, coming from Unbroken's set, they stumble ... More >>

Music Picks: She Wants Revenge, Nilbog, Lady Gaga

Also, Men, Ice Cube, OMD, the Aussie BBQ and others

LA Weekly's Insane Clown Posse Cover Issue Now Up on Ebay

​Before you ask: no, we didn't do it We're not that "smart" nor have the time. But some enterprising soul has put the current issue of LA Weekly, featuring our controversial interview with Insane Clown Posse (how controversial? go through the comments), up on eBay. That's right, someone gra ... More >>

This is the One Insane Clown Posse Cover Story You Really Need To Read

Marvin ShaouniInsane Clown Posse: Exclusive interview for LA Weekly​ The LA Weekly traveled to Detroit to explore the reality and legend of controversial rap duo Insane Clown Posse. Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope gave us a revealing, no-holds-barred interview, leaving behind their wicked clown p ... More >>

Insane Clown Posse: Exclusive Interview

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Power Balance Admits Bracelets Don't Have Magical Powers; Lakers Still Superstitious

khloekardashian.celebuzz.comLamar Odom's better half says Power Balance "has taken him to a whole new level when he plays"​Laguna Niguel-based company Power Balance recently admitted to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission that their wildly popular performance bracelets don't act ... More >>

Holy Sh*t! Top 10 Uses of Profanity in Music in 2010

​Cuss words can be a lazy lyricist's exclamation points but, in the right hands, profanity affords a landscape of creativity and rhyme schemes that breathe new life into descriptions of coitus, anger, and self-reflection. There may not be enough amazing uses of "fuck," "ass," and "shit" in roc ... More >>

Gene Simmons vs. the Meme Makers - Spoiler Alert: the Meme Makers Win

Meme GeneratorA photographic love letter to Gene Simmons and every rocker who ever worried about panty lines.​Ah, Gene Simmons -- the biggest asshole in rock 'n' roll history? Arguably. We'll always remember him fondly for his uncomfortably misogynistic interview with public radio's Terry Gros ... More >>

Legendary Indie Label Drag City Finds Way To Work "Tila Tequila" and "Juggalo" Into Headline Promoting Bizarre Anti-Comedian Neil Hamburger

This poor man is now the bitch of Tila Tequila and ICP​File this one under: "the Internet and search engines have turned all cool, interesting pop culture into the bitch of the stupidest forms of pop culture." Once upon a time, Drag City was a label that stood for the awesomely weird, from cu ... More >>

ICP Blame Tila Tequila's Boobs for Her 'Gathering of the Juggalos' Attack

ICP Blame Tila Tequila's Boobs for Her 'Gathering of the Juggalos' Attack

Mommy, What's a Juggalo?

Mongonation.comJuggalette and Juggalo in their natural habitat​Our friends and colleagues at Denver Westword have published a super-handy timeline about one of music's most inexplicable phenomena: the persistence of Juggalo culture. You probably are at the very least vaguely aware that a Jugg ... More >>

Rapping Memes: Chatroulette of the future?

Rapping Memes: Chatroulette of the future?

Mimes, Metal Heads, or Juggalos? You be the judge!

Mimes, Metal Heads, or Juggalos? You be the judge!

The Book of Eli Kicks Ass for Jesus

Denzel Washington preaches the Hughes Brothers' warped postapocalyptic theology

Hollywood Undead: LA Times Goes Whole Hog on Rap Rock Coverage

While across the coast the New York Times was featuring LA's corridos scene, this weekend the LA Times devoted ample space to an on-the-road journey with rising LA rock rap band Insane Clown Posse Hollywood Undead. While making no value judgment on the piece itself -- it was a solid few-days-in-the- ... More >>

Sean Carlson Announces LA installment of F Yeah Fest, and it features a Scavenger Hunt (and, er, Insane Clown Posse)!

There is so much to be excited about the F Yeah Fest that I don't know where to begin. Let's start with Negative Approach, one of the great old school dirt punk bands. Or Toronto's Fucked Up, whose "Year of the Pig" EP from last year was an absolute epic marriage of hardcore punk and rock opera th ... More >>

This Is Not a Shrimp: Extreme Snacking, Japan Style

Green tea pie and lots of jelly

Smog Pop

The musical life of air pollution

Too Old To Rock, Too Young To Die

The shady life and uncertain future of a legendary roadie

Smut Factory

The corruption of the American television critic

Psychedelobabble

Strange Effects

The truthful way of Billie Holiday