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The Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, January 18 Femi Kuti EL REY THEATRE In 2009, the Nigerian government forcefully shut down the Shrine, the home base of Afrobeat originator Fela Kuti. By now, however, not only is the Shrine back, it's a government-endorsed museum -- a sign, Femi Kuti told one reporter, that the revolutionar ... More >>

Music Picks: FIDLAR, Muse and Lady Gaga

Music Picks: Lauryn Hill, Bad Brains, Shuggie Otis

The Best Concerts To See in L.A. This Week: Nov 12-15

Monday, November 12 In The Valley Below BOOTLEG BAR Looking like Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman walk-ons, and with an eye-contact connection to rival Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham in their good times, Echo Park hubby-and-wife Angela Gail and Jeffrey Jacob patchwork together love-in-ready bluesy ro ... More >>

Music Picks: Gary Clark Jr., Those Darlins, Wiz Khalifa

Alice Cooper's Original School's Out Pressing Came With a Pair of Panties

By Glenn BurnSilver See also: Who knew? Alice Cooper actually had a great time in high school In this week's issue, we speak with Alice Cooper about the 40th anniversary of his signature ode to teenage rebellion, "School's Out." "I've never had a song or heard of any song that's had as much impa ... More >>

Oh Ziggy You're So Fine

We Try to Get Metalocalypse's Brendon Small to Do the Skwisgaar Voice

Brendon Small, Los Angeles-based mastermind of the Adult Swim animated series Metalocalypse, has many projects underway: in addition to overseeing the series' fourth season and voicing most of the main characters, he's preparing for the upcoming Dethklok tour by recording a new Dethklok album and cr ... More >>

Music Picks: Skrillex, Diplo, Wu-Tang Clan, The Health Club

Also, Art Lande, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Gilad Hekselman, The Stitches, The Villains and others

Music Picks: The Descendents, Stones Throw 15th Anniversary Show,, Princess Pangolin, Brian Setzer

Also, Guns N' Roses, Weingart, Stevie Wonder's House Full of Toys, and others

Music Picks: Amanda Palmer & Jason Webley, Tinariwen, Mastodon

Also: Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers, Danzig and others

Spinal Tap Fans Start Movement to Make 11/11/11 "Nigel Tufnel Day" Worldwide

Eleven​ If you're even remotely familiar with the film This is Spinal Tap, then surely you're conversant about this little legendary piece of dialogue: Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and... Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most am ... More >>

Top 20 Most Ridiculous Grammy 2010 Nominations: Still Ridiculous after All These Months

Grammys: they're nuts!​ [Originally published December 2010] It's that time of the year, the time when the imploding music industry gathers to display their astonishing cluelessness by nominating a bunch of hacks, flashes-in-the-pan, and old people that have done their best work 40 years ago ... More >>

Top 20 Most Ridiculous Grammy 2010 Nominations

Grammys: they're nuts!​It's that time of the year, the time when the imploding music industry gathers to display their astonishing cluelessness by nominating a bunch of hacks, flashes-in-the-pan, and old people that have done their best work 40 years ago as "the best music of the year." Yup-- ... More >>

"I'm Not So Hateful As I Used to Be": The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde and Former Lover J.P. Jones Discuss New Band JP, Chrissie & the Fairground Boys

Chrissie Hynde and J.P. Jones​ After 30 years of leading the Pretenders, singer-guitarist Chrissie Hynde has run away and joined the circus. Or, to be more specific, she's joined JP, Chrissie & the Fairground Boys, a new band with the Welsh singer-guitarist J.P. Jones. In Great Britain, fairg ... More >>

Tomorrow: Jeff Beck Brings New Album to Nokia Theater

​Jeff Beck is playing the Nokia Theater tomorrow. We're going to go out on a limb and assume that it will feel a lot different than his shows at The El Rey a few months back. Beck's 14 US dates fall just days after his first studio release in 7 years, Emotion & Commotion. He probably doesn' ... More >>

Music Picks: Gary Numan, Ana Moura, Mark Sultan, XBXRX

Also, California E.A.R. Unit, Bonobo, Mr. Gnome, Grouper and others

Best of L.A.: Shopping

Guitar Legends: Slash Remembers Friend and Mentor Les Paul, A Total Fuckin' Maverick

Yesterday after learning of Les Paul's death at 94 years old, L.A. Weekly caught up with Slash, a guitar legend in his own right, for an exclusive chat about the loss of not only a brilliant musician and innovator, but also a friend and mentor.

Scott Baio, Nanci Griffith, Secret Policeman’s Ball and Other Signs of Aging

What to do in L.A., June 5-11

The Secret Is Out

Rock Picks: Mark Eitzel, Wanda Jackson, Dan Deacon, Heartless Bastards

Plus, Hecuba, James Pants, Angus & Julia Stone and others

So X-Cited

X Games, Gibson guitars and Crash Mansion's woes

For Those Who Stand Long . . . A Led Zeppelin Reunion?

Checking out the rumors at the Sunset Marquis' Gibson Through the Lens reception

No Dark Knight: Salute to Sir George Martin, and His Ears

Legendary producer receives Grammy Foundation Leadership Award

Rock Picks: Circle Jerks, Money Mark, No Age

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