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The Best Clubs in L.A., 2012

Our Best Of issue just hit stands! We found our fairy tale, and now we present it to you: 435 of the most fabulous things in all of Los Angeles. From the city's most amazing restaurants to its tawdriest dive bars, from its edgiest art exhibits to the top spots for live music, we've got it all covere ... More >>

Music Picks: As Blood Runs Black, Kelly Hogan, Regina Spektor

Also, Agalloch, Antibalas, Power of the Riff and others

Music Picks: Bettye LaVette, Johnny Thunders, Johnny Hallyday

Also, Kate McGarry, Enter Shikari, Hype Williams and others

Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: The Complete List

See also: *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Greatest Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List *Top 20 Hair Metal Albums of All Time: The Complete List Physical appearance actually has little to do with sexiness. Sure, we've all been known to stare at a shirtle ... More >>

Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: #10-6

See also: *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: #20-16 *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: #15-11 10. Jared Leto Underneath all that guyliner we still see you, Jordan Catalano. You've ditched the shaggy hair and flannels for a pink mohawk and studded leather but it's OK. Every time y ... More >>

Music Picks: Bob Dylan, Azalia Snail, Makabert Fynd, Seun Kuti

Also, No Age, Crystal Antlers, Imelda May and others

Music Picks: The Undertones, Prince, Eternal Summers, Check Yo Ponytail 2

Also, Earth, Wind & Fire, Tinie Tempah, Arctic Monkeys, Woodsman and others

Robert Pattinson Gets One Step Closer to Playing Jeff Buckley in Biopic

​Back in January, we published a post headlined "Should Robert Pattinson Play Jeff Buckley or Should He Play Kurt Cobain?". This is what we said back then: This generation's Robert Redford, Robert Pattinson, is periodically rumored to star in every movie pitched in Hollywood with a young hear ... More >>

Live at SXSW: Gary Lucas Scores Dracula, the Lusty Latin Version

Wendy Gilmartin​What: Gary Lucas Plays Spanish Dracula Where: Central Presbyterian Church, Austin, TX When: March 15 Escucha a ellos. Los hijos de la noche. What better place to watch a movie about a blood-sucking vampiro and his howling children of the night than on holy ground? With its re ... More >>

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

​ [Originally posted March 4, 2011] So much stuff happening this weekend, we had a hard time picking just five! The weather is warming (slightly), spring is in the air, and it's a good time to get out there and see some shows before spring break madness descends on the city and it's filled w ... More >>

Does Music Make Women Want to Have Sex? Scientists Weigh In

Today is Valentine's day. We mention that in the event that you have been living in a cave. On Mars. With your eyes closed and your fingers in your ears. In any event, being that it is Valentine's day, we thought we'd take this opportunity to discuss the role of music and musical taste in increasin ... More >>

Should Robert Pattinson Play Jeff Buckley or Should He Play Kurt Cobain?

​This generation's Robert Redford, Robert Pattinson, is periodically rumored to star in every movie pitched in Hollywood with a young heartthrob leading part. Batman Reloaded? Get me Pattinson! The Salvador Dali story (featuring gay stuff with Federico Garcia Lorca)? Get me Pattinson! (actuall ... More >>

Tonight: Blonde Redhead, Ed Vallance, Bryce Avary, Chasing Kings, Black Apples, Dirt Dress

Pier Nicola D'AmicoBlonde Redhead​Color us among the many who were thrown for a loop by Penny Sparkle, the latest album from long-running Blonde Redhead. With Misery Is a Butterfly (2004) and 23 (2007) having elevated the New York City trio beyond cult status, Kazu Makino and twin brothers Si ... More >>

Live Review: John Cale Performs "Paris 1919" at Royce Hall

John Cale​John Cale's album before Paris 1919 was called The Academy in Peril. Last night, at UCLA's Royce Hall, the academy was never in real peril. Sure, there were a couple of moments (see below), when the academy was under a vague risk of being slighted soiled, of being smeared a little w ... More >>

Nickelodeon Nymphet Baits Indie Crowd With Jeff Buckley Name Drop

Miranda Cosgrove is a Disney Nickelodeon nymphet (of the chaste-looking variety, i.e., a "not-a-Britney"). Many of our readers probably have no idea who she is, unless they're acquainted with children who watch her show iCarly, or are sad pervs who themselves watch her show iCarly. Anyhow. She put ... More >>

Live Review: Brad Mehldau at Largo - The Art of the Solo

Brad Mehldau is not an L.A. guy. Born in Jacksonville Florida, the pianist spent much of his childhood in Connecticut. He went to school in New York, started playing with Joshua Redman in New York, and now lives in Brooklyn, but his concert at the Largo on Tuesday night felt like a homecoming. Larg ... More >>

KCRW Releases New Audio of Jeff Buckley's 1994 Morning Becomes Eclectic Performance

KCRW Releases New Audio of Jeff Buckley's 1994 Morning Becomes Eclectic Performance

Tompkins Square to Issue Previously Unreleased 1967 Tim Buckley Live Set

​Respected New York folk label Tompkins Square will release CD and vinyl versions of previously unreleased Tim Buckley tracks this coming Tuesday. The set, called Tim Buckley - Live At The Folklore Center, NYC - March 6,1967, features the LA native, who died in 1975, stripped down with just ac ... More >>

Bobby Long and Marcus Foster: Power of the Fans

Bobby Long and Marcus Foster live Last May, when Sam Bradley played to sold out crowds at LA's Hotel Cafe, the British/Canadian singer-songwriter was treated to screams from fans who traveled from across the country, a lengthy meet-and-greet session and a sneak attack from the paparazzi. All this ... More >>

Coachella: On Leonard Cohen, "Hallelujah," and Sunset

Timothy NorrisHe's our man. It's always amazing to me when lyrics and other sounds beget tears, when a thought in someone's head transmitted from his neurons to his vocal chords (which propel sound waves through the open desert air) land on the thousands of eardrums awaiting the message, whatever ... More >>

Shirley Manson Interviews U2 in Front of Small Audience at Capitol Studios in Hollywood

Shirley Manson, sitting on a stool in a sound room at Capitol Studios, confessed something in front of the 200 or so people cross-legged on the floor and in rows of chairs behind them as she awaited for the four members of U2 to arrive. Four bar stools, each with a microphone placed on the seat, sat ... More >>

Rock Picks: Thurston Moore, James Blackshaw, Lisa Hannigan, Modest Mouse

Plus, Scott Walker Night, Dead Confederate, A.C. Newman

The 10 Songs/Albums That No One Should Ever Have Sex to Again

Because playing these albums in flagrante delicto is the only romantic gesture lamer than offering a woman a fish sandwich. 10. Cornball Stevie Wonder Songs (I.E. "You are the Sunshine of My Life." "I Just Called to Say I Love You") I'm not going to tell you that these songs don't serve a ... More >>

SXSW Day 2: Songs That No One In Their Right Mind Should Cover

There are a lot of sacred songs in the rock and roll canon, songs that are so connected with their composer that any attempt to replicate them, to put your spin on them, to reinterpret them, is at best doomed to fail, at worst will insult not only the song but your fans. Near the top of that list, r ... More >>

Live in L.A.

Beirut with Colleen and Alaska in Winter at Avalon, October 10

Beirut at Avalon, 10/10

Beirut Avalon, Oct 10, 2007 Words and photos by Rena Kosnett Zach Condon has the voice of a champion. Hearing Condon, the 21 year-old high school drop-out/New Mexico native behind the powerful Balkan-Klezmer arrangements of Beirut, sing at Avalon Wednesday night helped me establish a personal c ... More >>

The whole shootin' match

So, I need to tell you about the show of the festival. My mind is blown, dude! I'm sitting in this bar, reading my Archies comics, because I am desperate for anything to keep me awake through a set by Aqualung. (Aqualung are one of these tragically earnest Nic Harcourt bands. They are attempting ... More >>

Cold (Weather) Kids

Deaf & Dead

Love, Magic and the Quest for a New Suit

The 88 sound like teen spirit but smell like a rock band

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The Best of the Rest of the Fest

Our critics’ picks from the final weekend of AFI Fest 2005

Interpol, Boom Bip, Antony and the Johnsons, CocoRosie

It’s No Shame About Ray

Ray LaMontagne’s hard past fuels startling songs and an anxious cult following

Lit Up and Emotional

The Kids Aren’t Alright . . . They’re Amazing

Why what was old and lost and a bit odd is young and new — and exciting — again

Urban Warfare: Grappling With Asan Akbar's Descent

Think Pink

Love or Fusion

Use Your Allusion

Lift to Experience Texas two-step with the angel of the Lord

Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk

Rufus Wainwright poses as rock star, makes an imperfect-summer record

New Trad, Dad

Mark Lanegan uncovered