Johnny Rotten

KCRW Masquerade Ball Featuring Z-Trip and Others - 10/27/12

KCRW Masquerade Ball The Legendary Park Plaza 10/27/12 Better Than: Left, Right & Center For a party thrown by a public radio station, things got impressively rowdy at KCRW's fourth annual Masquerade Ball on Saturday night. Thrown at art-deco castle The Legendary Park Plaza, the Ball was a multi ... More >>

Music Picks: Lamb of God, Miike Snow, and Hanni El Khatib

How the Wolf Survived

On the 20th anniversary of seminal album Kiko, a look back at Los Lobos' early days

John Lydon Used the Money From a Butter Commercial to Fund Public Image Ltd.

There's a cartoonish irony to punk patriarch John Lydon funding the reunion of his band Public Image Ltd. with money he made portraying a gentrified exaggeration of himself in TV commercials for Country Life butter. Quipped one YouTube uploader of the humorous U.K. spots, which aired in 2008: "All c ... More >>

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List

​What makes a terrible band? Is it being prepared to do the wrong thing, whatever the price? That and a pair of testicles. Only, some of the below groups possess testicles only in the symbolic sense. Because, even if you're composed of ladies, it takes balls to make music that is simultaneousl ... More >>

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #5-1

See also: *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #20-16 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #15-11 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #10-6 5. Animal Collective I really wanted to like Merriweather Post Pavilion, even going far out of my way to appreciate the record as it was surely intended: super-stoned, mi ... More >>

"She Gets a Free Abortion": The Five Dopiest Political Punk Songs

See also: *The Top Five L.A. Punk Albums of 2011 *Kelly Clarkson Endorses Ron Paul: The Five Most Baffling Political Pairings The Iowa caucuses are being held today, which means that Republican primary season is about to kick into high gear. Spoiler alert: The candidates all suck. But you knew tha ... More >>

Eva: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Alkaline Trio at the Troubadour 7/21/11

Ian Joulain​Review by Ian Joulain WHO: Alkaline Trio WHERE: Troubadour WHEN: 7/21/11 Better than... a kick in the teeth. At 10:06 P.M. the house lights went down,but the hooting and hollering had been fairly consistent for the last 10 minutes. As the smoke slowly rose to the ceiling the sta ... More >>

Tabloid Review

Mexican Viagra?: Hilarious Video of Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten Driving Around L.A. with L.A. Times Music Editor

Lydon & Roberts: Coming soon to a comedy club near you!​ Our friends and colleagues at the L.A. Times are slowly dipping their toes into this "new media" thing and they somehow convinced John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols and P.I.L.) to drive around L.A. with music editor Rand ... More >>

Music to Pick Up/Download

R.I.P. Ari Up of the Slits, Dead at 48

The Slit's Ari Up was 48 years old.​Terrible news. Reggae-punk icon Ari Up has died, according to John Lydon. The Slits singer, born Ariane Forster, was 48 years old. Lydon, who is married to Forster's mother Nora, announced the following on his website: John and Nora have asked us to let ev ... More >>

Wanna Smell like Sid Vicious?: The Incredibly Strange World of Sex Pistols Merchandising (Yes--They've Just Put Out a Perfume)

I wannna beeeeee perfume-ayaaaaaa!​Eau de Rotten? No, just "Sex Pistols -- The Fragrance," ready to be issued in the US by Paris-based perfume brand Etat Libre d'Orange. There's gonna be a "Never Mind the Bollocks" soap as well. No, really. We've been reading Billboard's fascinating article ... More >>

Nightranger: Bringing Sounds to the Sea

Day 1: Volcano, Disorganization Can't Stop the Music

We're tempted to tell you about Jim Morrison and the really interesting remixes of their old catalog featured on the soundtrack to the new documentary People Are Strange. This is because we spent a few hours listening to it trapped in traffic trying to get to the parking lot so we could get to spend ... More >>

Day 1: John Lydon, Antidotes, and PiLs

Even now and then, John Lydon likes to keep his admirers on edge. While fans thronged to Main Stage rival Jay-Z's camp (not like you could hope for a sight of Shawn Carter himself), and Jay greeted his crowd cordially by thanking them for the wait, Public Image Limited's small but devoted fanbase la ... More >>

Destination Coachella

L.A. bands take to the desert for three days of music overload

Anger is an Energy Drink: Public Image Ltd. at Club Nokia

It's not that Club Nokia is an awful venue. It has its uses--an intimate Usher show, for example, or a Level 42 reunion (coming soon, for reals), or any act who has ever been on a Michael Mann soundtrack (Phil Collins with a surprise appearance by Ian Hammer would be a golden moment at Club Nokia). ... More >>

Music Picks: Liz Pappademas, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Mad Professor, Bill Frisell

Also, Taylor Swift, Los Tres, Saint Motel, David Allan Coe and others

Johnny Rotten on Malcolm McLaren: "He was always entertaining"

"For me Malc was always entertaining, and I hope you remember that. Above all else he was an entertainer and I will miss him, and so should you." -- John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten (through his publicist), pays homage to his discoverer Malcolm McLaren, who died today. Roberto Parada​ Most peo ... More >>

BREAKING: PiL Opening 2010 US Tour in LA

Butterface: UK Dairy Spokesperson (and PiL Frontman) John Lydon​Public Image LTD (PiL), the post-punk art-rock project John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) created as a much smarter but less catchy followup to the gamechanging Sex Pistols, will now begin its upcoming US tour not at Coachella, as had ... More >>

Johnny Rotten Settles Suit Alleging He Punched a Woman in the Face

​Former Sex Pistols frontman Johnny Rotten and a woman who sued him over alleged abuses, including a punch in the nose, have agreed to settle. Lawyers for Roxane Davis filed papers in Los Angeles Superior Court on Jan. 28 stating that the case was resolved, although no terms were divulged. D ... More >>

The Cookie Monster: Lady Gaga Sugar Cookies

When I was a teenager, my sister and I would decorate gingerbread men to resemble Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten and hang them on the Christmas tree. Check out this image--and 2 dozen more--from ohnotheydidnt via The Huffington Post (and Bon Appetit), proving that whether it be The Sex Pistols or Lad ... More >>

In the Land Where Theater Is Hip

Two Polish productions coming to UCLA

Stage Raw: Comedies About the End of the World

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHE LATEST NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leonard Nimoy and Company of AngelsCOMEDIES ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD​Poland's Theatre ZAR rehearsing Gospels of Childhood at the Barbican in London, where they performed last month. That piece is the first third of the ... More >>

Five Psychedelic Furs Songs That Aren't "Pretty in Pink"

It's another day stuck in the midst of gridlock and you're flipping radio stations because you either don't have an iPod or forgot your iPod and you're sick of every CD strewn across the front seat of the car. You stumble upon a song and think, "Hey, I remember this. Hey, I like this." But then you ... More >>

HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITY AUCTIONS

Let the bidding begin

Sex Pistols at the Roxy, October 25

Sex Pistols at the Roxy, October 25 By Randall Roberts Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you and fuck you. Fuck you Johnny Rotten for wasting most of your No Future -- the first two PiL albums excepted -- making mediocre music and stealing album titles from Flipper. Fuck you Steve Jones for waxing your ches ... More >>

Rock Picks: Meshell Ndegeocello, the Sex Pistols, Weird Al Yankovic

For the week of Oct. 18 - 25

The Great Rap Swindle

Yeah, Kanye West keeps it real. First his Bush comments on the Katrina telethon, then his stance on the MTV/Britney debacle. (One word: “exploitation.”) He was also the first to admit the whole 50 Cent beef was a stunt to sell records. (And by the way, why did so many new records come out on ... More >>

Rock Picks: The Slits, Squiddo, Electrocute

For the week of August 2 - 9

Underground Flier

Tequila Mockingbird

Sex and the City

Class Honors

HONOR ROLL

Forever Then

Amalgamated Cure

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

Unaborted

Love and crap from the Sex Pistols

The Sound and the Fury

Lester Bangs and the relevance of rock criticism

Letters

San Francisco and/or Bust

Edited by Kateri Butler

Tex Mechs Meet

Zed for conduct

Broken Circles

God Save the King

August 16 marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley. Four and a half months later, on January 2, 1978, the Sex Pistols arrived in America for their brief abortive tour, and the seam of history unraveled. Coincidence?

Bedazzled

A Dossier of Desperate Measures

Godspeed offshoots light the fuse.

Music of the Heart and Other Organs

You can�t dance to everything

Come as You Are

�Hyped to Death�: DIY�s cutout classics

Bollocks