Jerry Garcia

Supperclub In Hollywood Defends Itself After Charges Of Overcrowding, Fire Hazards

Supperclub, the Hollywood venue hit last week with a City Attorney's case that alleges overcrowding, fire-code violations and "life safety hazards," defended itself in a statement sent out to the media over the weekend. Strangely, the club singled out the Weekly's coverage despite similar reports i ... More >>

In Defense of Jam Bands

[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] On a warm August night in 2011, roughly 18,000 Angelenos converged on the Hollywood Bowl, to partake in the swirl of cosm ... More >>

My Brother Got Married. The Theme of the Wedding Was Widespread Panic

This weekend my little brother got married. Now, in and of itself, nothing about this is newsworthy to anyone outside my family. People get married all the time. But in those weddings, was the bride's hair knotted into dreadlocks and did she walk down the aisle to Jerry Garcia's "Shining Star"? ... More >>

Upon The Closing of Angeli Caffe: A Love Story

Back in 2009, I was assigned by the LA Weekly to cover a wedding that was being held at Angeli Caffe. I can't remember how the story came to me but I've known Evan Kleiman for longer than either of us would like to see in print. Yet I don't see her very often. Over the years, she's become the friend ... More >>

RIP: Influential Guitar Maker Travis Bean Is Dead

Guitarmaker Travis Bean died earlier this week at his home in Burbank. His guitars were played by everyone from Jerry Garcia to Steve Albini to Slash, and were known for their sustain and durability. You just can't break one of them. Born in San Fernando, his eponymous Valley-based company was fo ... More >>

COME SMELL UNCLE JOHN'S BAND

Baked California

Top 10 Solo Projects by Guest Blogger Big Search, a.k.a. Matt Popieluch of Foreign Born and Fool's Gold (Also: an Exclusive New Big Search Song)

Matt Popieluch (Big Search, Foreign Born, Fool's Gold) writes on his favorite solo projects.​Guest blogger Matt Popieluch is not only the lead singer in Foreign Born and riddim guitarist for Fool's Gold, but an "artist gone rogue" in his own right. He's celebrating the release of the debut alb ... More >>

L.A. Weekly Critics' Choices

Highlights from the fall season

DRUMMING UP DEAD BEATS

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Quandary at Literati Café

Ben CalderwoodColor-mixing: Literati's Eggs Florentine​ You might not expect such an astutely poached egg atop your Benedict at a commonplace all-day café like Literati, but that's what you get. Tender, uniform capsules of golden yolk that flood your artisan roll the moment you prod the white ... More >>

Brendan Mullen the Writer: Highlights of his Work for the Weekly

In addition to opening punk club the Masque, LA DIY music giant Brendan Mullen, who died at age 60 yesterday after suffering a stroke on Saturday, was a longtime LA Weekly music writer whose prescient insight and in-the-trenches curiosity captured the experience of being a music head in LA in the 8 ... More >>

Just In: Michael Jackson's Huge FBI File For Sale, 10 Cents Per Page

Gay blogger and activist Michael Petrelis, who's based in San Francisco, received an interesting letter in the mail yesterday. According to the FBI, he can buy Michael Jackson's FBI file, which is a whopping 591 pages, for $49.10. "There is a duplication fee of ten cents per page," writes FBI secti ... More >>

Los Angeles Film Festival: Reviews, A to Z

Our critics weigh in on what — and what not — to see

Another L.A. Love Story — the Setting, Angeli Caffe

The waiting game

Dead Without Garcia: Is It Worth the Effort, or a Waste of Time?

Uneasy Wind In the Land of the Dead

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

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

The Weekend Report: Widespread Panic, The Orpheum, Friday, June 20

Widespread Panic, the Orpheum Theatre, June 20 By Jeff Weiss (photos by Timothy Norris) Sometimes, I think music critics hate jam bands for the jokes. After all, on that endless litany of items capable of inspiring comedic rancor, nothing is easier to mock than hippies, save for maybe George Bush ... More >>

Art Around Town

At the galleries

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Week Day 3: Why "1st of Month" is the Greatest Song Ever Written About Welfare

Sometimes, I feel sorry for the 13-year olds of today. I can't even begin to imagine how disgruntled my adolescence would've been had I been forced to listen to "A Bay Bay" and "Low" everywhere I went. We got "Regulate," and "Hip-Hop Hooray," they got the Soulja Boy dance. And of course, there wa ... More >>

Warning: Contains Grateful Dead Karaoke!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Rock Picks

For the week of May 3 – 10

Theater Reviews

Including Billy Connolly Live, The Return of Brother Theodore and this week's pick, Atonement

People Who Need People

What to do in LA this week

This Roadie's Life

Steve Coogan, comedy god, rocks on in Saxondale

A Rasta-Colored Dixie Flag

If ’60s turned out to be ’90s: Brightblack Morning Light

Timothy Liar

A biography

Letters

The Day-Glo Effect

Exhuming Ken Kesey and Further 40 years after the Acid Tests

Blazing Chips

Will Jam 4 Food

Improvising an alternative music scene

Queasy Sick Wonderful

What it means to love records

Father Plays Best

Gillian Grisman’s documentary of life with Dad and Jerry

Eternal Love: Return of the Sheik

Cagey Cretins

Tyranny, mutation and Blue Öyster Cult

A Pirate’s Life for Me

How Napster restored my faith in the Internet (and why the RIAA can’t take it away)

American Beauty

Dead Phish taste the best

Through the Broker Looking Glass

Declaration of Independence

Patti Smith speaks

God, the Devil and NBC

One show cancelled, one show begun

Tribal Gathering

Coachella festival: It's all in the mix

A Lagoon and Two Rivers

Man vs. water vs. crocodile vs. music

Head Trip

Jerry Garcia's favorite movie!

Mouse Trapped