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The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, December 7 Black Mambas THE REDWOOD The Black Mambas -- along with The Neumans and The Hurricanes -- are L.A. label Wild Records' newest signees. But instead of building into the label's Sun Records-style sound of '56, the Mambas stagger into 1976 with gutter-glam songs and dawn-of-punk vel ... More >>

The Shrine Used to Host the Oscars. Now it Hosts Steve Aoki Parties

The Shrine Auditorium, once home to the Academy Awards, hosted countless landmark concerts in its prime, but now is less in the spotlight than its rival up Figueroa -- LA Live. Still, the Shrine has found a second life as a hub for L.A,'s rave scene. See also: *Jack White at The Shrine, 8/10/12 *St ... More >>

Jack White - The Shrine - 8/10/12

Jack White The Shrine 8/10/12 See also: Our review of Jack White at the Wiltern in May Our review of Jack White at the Mayan in April After getting through the prying eyes and loving hands of the security guards at the Shrine last night, one noticed Jack White's rolling record store selling rare ... 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 >>

The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List

*Top 20 Worst Bands Ever: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All-Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List Considering that most all of today's popular music -- be it roc ... More >>

The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: 15-11

See also: *Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: 20-16 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time 15. Michael McDonald A yacht-rock refugee, McDonald took the blandest elements of his former bands Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers -- smooth jazz keys, pinched falsetto harmonies, bass lines kidnapped from d ... More >>

Jack White - Mayan Theater - April 30, 2012

Jack White Mayan Theater 4-30-12 Better than...sex. What do you call it when Axl Rose, Rod Stewart, Gary Oldman and Conan O'Brien converge in downtown Los Angeles on a Monday night? A Jack White show. From the minute he and his all-female backing band The Peacocks hit the stage at 10 last night ... More >>

Music Picks: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Esperanza Spalding, Jack White

Also, the Crystelles, Arturo Sandoval, Backbiter and others

Wanda Jackson/Best Coast - Club Nokia - Dec 31 2011

Daniel KohnWanda Jackson​See also: Wanda Jackson On How Jack White Convinced Her To Do Amy Winehouse's "You Know I'm No Good" Wanda Jackson/Best Coast Club Nokia 12/31/11 Legendary rockabilly singer Wanda Jackson has experienced a career renaissance in the past 12 months, as summed up by the ... More >>

Wanda Jackson on How Jack White Convinced Her to Do Amy Winehouse's "You Know I'm No Good"

See also: Our review of Wanda Jackson and Best Coast - Club Nokia - Dec 31 2011 Wanda Jackson has been performing for nearly 60 years. One of rock n' roll's original bad girls -- who once stole Elvis Presley's heart -- she recognizes a good year when it comes around. "It's been a good ride, I'll te ... More >>

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

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

Today in WTF: Jack White and Karen Elson Celebrate Their Divorce

Vogue​Former White Stripes singer Jack White and his wife, Karen Elson, are more mature than you. The two are getting a divorce. But there'll be no "there's a tear in my beer, 'cause I'm cryin' for you, dear," country classic to come out of the split, because they are throwing a party tonigh ... More >>

The Secret Day Jobs of Indie Musicians

Have guitar, will work

SXSW Day 1: Surprise! Its' Jack White (Again) also Daxx Riggs, Tahiti 80, Free Beer and More

Video by: moreinthemonitor On the first (official) day of SXSW, hipsters awoke to news that Jack White had sprung from a moving truck around noon and played a solo set to a shocked crowd of onlookers, which coincidentally also included celebrities like Aziz Ansari and Alison Mosshart from the Ki ... More >>

Wanda Jackson and Jack White at El Rey Last Night: Live Review

Timothy Norris​ [See also "9 Reasons Wanda Jackson Rules Rockabilly and Beyond" and more photos in Timothy Norris' slideshow "Wanda Jackson feat. Jack White @ El Rey".] What: Wanda Jackson (feat. Jack White) Where: El Rey When: 1/24/11 Wanda Jackson has had three major men in her life--Elvis ... More >>

9 Reasons Wanda Jackson Rules Rockabilly and Beyond

9 Reasons Wanda Jackson Rules Rockabilly and Beyond

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

​ [Originally published 1/21/2011] This weekend, like every other in LA, there are soooo many things to do we struggled to distill them down into five. But behold! We did! And many of the stuff we found is all ages---imagine that! So, no excuses--a foundational figure in rockabilly AND a semi ... More >>

Music Picks: Physical Forms, Kimya Dawson, Madame Recamier, Young Hunting

Also, Lizz Wright, Wanda Jackson, Iron and Wine, Wallpaper. and others

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Music Picks: Sweaters, Jonathan Richman, Hanni El Khatib, Henry Rollins

Also, Aloe Blacc, Maren Parusel, the Greenhornes and others

Jack White Is with Coco: White Stripes Frontman Releases Two Conan O'Brien Albums

I'm With White-o​The Hollywood Reporter reports that Jack White's Third Man Records label will be releasing two Conan O'Brien albums recorded last June. According to the report, The first is "And They Call Me Mad?" which includes O'Brien's improvised spoken word inspired by the legend of Fra ... More >>

Tonight: The Dead Weather, the Gaslight Anthem, Rihanna, Keane, Gram Rabbit, Chris Shiflett & the Dead Peasants

Floria SigismondiThe Dead Weather​What can we say about the Dead Weather that you don't already know? That they really really could have done better on the video for "Blue Blood Blues?" That Jack White covering "Creep" with Conan O'Brien was stranger than fiction? That Alison Mosshart has a ... More >>

Music Picks: Buzzcocks, Diana Ross, Isis, the xx

Also, Compton Metal Night, Health, Thao and Mirah

Video Interview: Slash Talks Solo Album Details, Guitar Center Contest, and His New Attitude Towards Frontmen

Erin Broadley"Which guitar do you want me next to: a Les Paul or a Les Paul?"​On any given day you can walk into Guitar Center in Hollywood and see Slash. One can't go more than ten feet inside the mega-retailer without coming across a promotional gear-head display or banner bearing the image ... More >>

Jack White: "I'm a Lot More To Do With Jay-Z Than I Do With the Black Keys"

Between The Buttons: Jack White

It Might Get Loud: Davis Guggenheim’s Guitar Heroes

In director’s new documentary tribute, Jimmy Page, the Edge and Jack White talk axes, licks and other euphemisms

Art Nightlife — on Wheels

Jimmy Page and Jack White talk Loud, love, The Edge and new projects

In his tribute to the art of guitar-playing, It Might Get Loud, documentarian Davis Guggenheim explores the personal histories, techniques and creative processes of three of the music world's most revered axe men: Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White. Whether or not this trifecta of talent represent ... More >>

The Dead Weather at the Roxy: Jack White and Alison Mossheart vs. The Cream of the Blues-Rock Canon

The Dead Weather, the new supergroup featuring Jack White of the White Stripes/Raconteurs, Alison Mossheart of the Kills, Dean Furtita of Queens of the Stoneage, and Jack Lawrence of the Raconteurs and Greenhornes, arrived at the Roxy last night to make the case whether a blues rock band in the 21st ... More >>

Coachella Day 3: The Kills Kill It, Throbbing Gristle Force Me Into The Fetal Position, and The Clipse Cancel

Slowly, my brain is slinking its way towards sensible shape. Three days of Coachella are not for the faint of heart -- if nothing else it requires a quarter-ounce of weed, an array of narcotic edibles from potcorn to cannabis cakes, several brightly colored pills of indiscriminate origin, copious ... More >>

Saturday Night in LA: Phosporescent, Von Bondies, Dan Auerbach, Lyrics Born,

Saturday night in LA and you're looking for music? Here are four good ideas: Phosphorescent, Viva Voce at the Regent Theatre Chris Martins writes: Phosphorescent's Matthew Houck may be a city slicker by day, but once the sun sinks under the prairie, the cowboy comes out. Houck was raised in Alab ... More >>

The 25 Best Non Hip-Hop Songs of 2008 (M-Z)

Mezzanine Owls-"Snow Globe" Because it never snows in Los Angeles, we're forced to romanticize it. The first draft of "White Christmas," originally chided a spoiled Angeleno,"longing to be up North on December 24," surrounded by sunshine, green grass and swaying palms. The closest you get to w ... More >>

Coachella Day One: The Raconteurs Stomp the Bejeesus Out of Vampire Weekend

Coachella, Day One It was hard to watch, honestly. There was blood all over the place. The security guys kept pulling Jack White off of Vampire Weekend lead singer Ezra Koenig, but White kept coming, veins popping, eyes way gone and spiraling, guitar sound set to “pummel,” prowling on the main ... More >>

Sticky, icky Goodness

White Stripes get back to their little room

Feel the Ark-ness

Odds/Sods, Bits/Bobs

or, This Week in Meaningless Trivia

Music Picks

For the week of June 1 - 7

Ma Ma Ma Ma Monkey!

Crumbelievable!

Separated at Birth

Jack White and Kate Beckinsale

Two Great Tastes that Taste Kinda Awesome Together . . .

Last Chance for a Full Cincinnati*!

Live in LA

Pop-Star Poetry

Match the overpaid artist with the published verse!

Sister Gurls

Tegan and Sara make the world a more kick-ass place

Serious Fireworks

Top of the Pops

Red and White All Over

The White Stripes, for real

Motor City Madness

A garage full of Detroit rock

Peppermint Twist

The White Stripes� blues in the red zone