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The Best L.A. Metal Concerts to See In March

Saturday, Mar 2 Meshuggah The Wiltern "I Am Colossus" is both the title track of Meshuggah's 2012 album Koloss, and the mission statement of the Swedish metal group -- after all, their off-kilter polyrhythmic riffs and drums have influenced dozens of bands. Their sound is anchored by the fantastical ... More >>

Amigo the Devil Sings About Serial Killers and Spousal Abuse, With a Sense of Humor

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] If you never met him, you might mistake Amigo the Devil for a monster. The 25-year-old murderfolk maudit's most popular song is called "Perfect Wife." Wi ... More >>

10 Best Judd Apatow-Inspired Artworks at Gallery 1988

See also: *5 Best Arrested Development Artworks at Gallery 1988 *10 Best Pee Wee Herman Artworks at Gallery 1988 *10 Best Lindsay Lohan Artworks *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Real-life freaks and geeks gathered at Gallery 1988 Tuesday night for the opening of the A Tribute to Judd Apatow ... More >>

Maná Gets Inducted Into the Hollywood Guitar Center's Rock Walk

Mexican rockers Maná made their mark in concrete as the foursome were inducted the Hollywood Guitar Center's Rock Walk yesterday. Like Bon Jovi, The Boss and Guns N' Roses all rolled into one (but from Guadalajara, Jalisco), Maná has garnered dozens of accolades -- including winning eleven Grammys ... More >>

Santa Monica Auctions Says Goodbye, as Bergamot Station's C Building Will Be Demolished for Expo Line

Johnny Cash's lyric "I hear the train a comin'" best captures the mood at the Santa Monica Auctions farewell event, held this past weekend, June 9 and 10. Due to the planned extension of the MTA's Expo Line, the entire C Building at Bergamot Station -- home to Track 16, The Robert Berman Gallery and ... More >>

Solar Eclipse, California-Style: 5 Best Photos, Videos of Sunday's 'Ring of Fire'

Where were you between the hours of 5:24 p.m. and 7:42 p.m. yesterday? If your answer is "catching up on back-episodes of Game of Thrones, you heathen" -- joke's on you, brother. You just missed a real-life fantasy apocalypse: a stunning solar ring over the mountaintops/bay views of Los Angeles, th ... More >>

Best of Coachella: Sunday, April 22

See also: Our complete Coachella coverage By the third day of Coachella's second weekend -- the sixth and final day of this year's festival -- folks had more or less learned to ignore the dust and the heat. Here are our intrepid writers' favorite things about the final hours of the 2012 event.

Ten Rap-Rock Songs That Are Actually Awesome

See also: Crazy Town's Shifty Shellshock Is Out of His Coma! Here's Everything You Need To Know About Him Rap-rock remains the coolest idea ever. You've just been scared off of it by the mountain of terrible rap-rock in existence. Here are ten songs that prove the Woodstock '99-tainted genre could ... More >>

The Dead Celebrity Cookbook: Frank DeCaro Goes from The Daily Show to Peter Falk's Pork Chops A Recipe

​Sure, there are plenty of cookbooks out there written by chefs or celebrity chefs or home cooks or people who somehow cook things for a living. But who needs kitchen experience to write a cookbook when you've been the movie critic on The Daily Show. Which is what Frank DeCaro, author of The D ... More >>

Driving Pacific Standard Time: How a Studio Becomes a Starbucks

A journey to discover what's become of L.A.'s art landmarks

Music Picks: Matt & Kim, Partch, Booker T, Motley Crue,

Also, Spain, Civil Wars, Bruno Mars and others

Top Ten Songs About Beer

​Wine and cheese; scotch and cigars; tequila and...more tequila: Good things come in pairs, and drinks are no exception. Our personal favorite? Beer and music. As card-carrying beer nerds, we couldn't be more excited that Monday kicked off American Craft Beer Week; and, as your trusted music ... More >>

Amanda Jo WIlliams, Simon Stokes, John Carpenter, and Feeding People at the Echo: Live Review

Daiana Feuer​WHAT: Amanda Jo WIlliams, Simon Stokes, John Carpenter, and Feeding People WHERE: The Echo WHEN: 4/4/11 Amanda Jo Williams' first Monday night residency show at the Echo set the bar high for this month's exploration of contemporary outlaw culture and family bands. John Carpenter ... More >>

Jim Dickinson Rides Again; Vernon Wray's Wasted

We Cast the "L.A. Music Scene 2011" Biopic!: Which Top 10 Relevant Actors and Actresses Should Play These 10 Relevant L.A. Musicians?

10 Actors to Play Musicians in L.A.'s Music Scene

Top 10 Rock Books of 2010

​With the year coming to a close, we're heading off the inevitable barrage of "best" lists coming your way with one that will actually be useful and problem solving (a holiday gift guide for the music lover in your life, that's not actually music... or a t-shirt). Buy 'em a book! iPad and Kin ... More >>

Michael Jackson Glove Goes For $330,000 At Beverly Hills Auction; Johnny Cash Middle-Finger Jumpsuit Reaps $50,000

Julien's AuctionsNow on display at the Ponte 16 resort in Hong Kong​It was a charged weekend at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills -- most of all, during the paddle war over one of Michael Jackson's most crowd-pleasing staples: the Swarovski-studded glove he wore throughout the "Bad" tour. Th ... More >>

Life Of Crime: Robbing For Records and Five Rock 'n' Roll Criminals

Les Rallizes Denudes -- Rock 'n' Roll Hijackers​ Via Gawker via the NY Post: Four men knocked off a series of laundromats, gas stations, and convenience stores earlier this week, making off with cash and cigarettes in hopes of getting money to start a record label. (180-gram vinyl is expensiv ... More >>

Stage Raw: Unknown Future, Theater on Seward Closes Its Doors

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Lieutenant of Inishmore and A Tale Told by an IdiotAN UNKNOWN FUTURE: Theater on Seward Closes its Doors John Fleck performs tonight (Thursday), 8 p.m. with his sardonic one-man comedy about Trader Joe's (and points beyond), Side E ... More >>

Stage Raw: Pasadena Playhouse Emerges from Bankruptcy

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE on KING LEARCAPTURED AURAL PHANTASY THEATER ​CAPT presents a special event tonight (Friday) night, Hooray for Hollywood Extravaganza, celebrating the legends of Our Fair City, In a style mixing radio and vaudeville. The Galler ... More >>

Who Takes a Dump on "Rapper" Joaquin Phoenix in Upcoming Mockumentary?

Our hero, before the rapping, the beard, and the coke-and-escorts diet​Our friends at the LA Times got some reports from people who have been shown I'm Still Here: The Lost Year of Joaquin Phoenix, the presumable phony documentary shot by Casey Affleck and Phoenix over the last couple of years ... More >>

Sona Patel To Drop Fantastic New Album!

​Is there anything Sona Patel can't do? The legendary LA medical marijuana pinup physician is about to release a new album through the boutique Silver Lake label Drama of the Gifted Childd (rumored to be secretly owned by a couple of minor Strokes, the rhythm section of Ozomatli, and nightlif ... More >>

EXCLUSIVE: Legendary Rock Photographer Jim Marshall Remembered by Baron Wolman, Neal Preston, Lisa Law and Other Colleagues

[Legendary rock photographer Jim Marshall passed away last week at 74. One of our own photographers and writers, Anna Webber, wrote this personal reminiscence about Marshall and his legacy. She contacted Marshall's fellow purveyors of iconic '60s images and got their exclusive permission to reproduc ... More >>

From Borge to Budginas

Theater Reviews: Nibbler, Polyester the Musical, The Ghost Building

Stage Raw: All Cake, No File

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83ALL CAKE, NO FILE ​Photo by Jonathan KalanDonna Jo Thorndale's Johnny Cash tribute with live cooking, All Cake, No File, continues this weekend as part of the WTF? Festival at the Actors' Gang/Ivy Substation in ... More >>

Keeping Up With the Times

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Let the Listing Begin: Ten Great Folk Records of the Past Decade

You're going to be seeing a lot of lists in the next few weeks. Lists of bests and worsts of year, lists of disappointments, lists of dance mixes and YouTube clips. We figured we'd begin our weeks of lists with one that captures not the year in music, but one aspect of the decade in music: new wei ... More >>

Rock Picks: Tegan & Sara, Patti Smith, Stereolab

Also, Pinback, the Quarrymen, Kris Kristofferson and more

Silver Lake's CMH Label Strikes Gold With Two Oddball Ideas

Neko Case: Deep Red Belle

She's an auburn-haired Caucasian woman of Ukrainian descent. Is Case also the blackest woman in indie rock?

Jon Spencer, Jail Weddings at the Echo, 11/10

Heavy Trash, Jail Weddings The Echo, Nov. 10 Photos and review by Rena Kosnett I’m just trying to understand why Jon Spencer is doing this. This egomaniacal vanity study called Heavy Trash, which I could take for ironic stagecraft if I wasn’t under the impression that his inflated id is all t ... More >>

Nick Lowe in the Age of Experience

While his peers are grasping at straws, Lowe’s work outpaces them all

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Starstruck

So I'm thinking about suing the city of Hollywood. I'm not kidding. The Hollywood Walk of Fame might be pretty to look at under the reflection of the boulevard's twinkling street lights (especially while inebriated), but whoever thought it'd be a good idea to make the glitter-specked sidewalk so sil ... More >>

Hipsters Must Die

10 signs of the (Yindie) apocalypse

Sesame Street Forever

A serious consideration of an estimable discography — because it’s time

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