Joshua Tree

Chris Corner Got Way, Way More Crowd-Funding Money Than He Sought

For years, Berlin-based singer/multi-instrumentalist Chris Corner has been working alone. Originally from the U.K. and having first came to prominence in the 1990s as part of the electronic group Sneaker Pimps, he has self-produced his last four albums as IAMX. Sometimes, he even directed his own vi ... More >>

Meet The Crossdressing Thief With A Samurai Sword (Allegedly)

We're starting to believe that the Inland Empire is Southern California's own version of Florida, that land of consistently bizarre headlines. Police this week said that a shots fired in the desert community of Joshua Tree led them to a suspect named Maurice Lewis. He was " ... dressed in women's c ... More >>

Dale Vaughn and Elizabeth Menzel: He Runs a Men's Group. She Runs a Women's Group. And It's Bliss

*Check out our entire 2013 Couples Issue here Dale Vaughn, leader of men, and Elizabeth Menzel, leader of women, met playing beach volleyball. Vaughn is the founder of the NextGent men's self-accountability hiking group. Menzel is the founder of the Women's Wisdom Community support group. Right awa ... More >>

Local Natives on Their Dark New Sounds

For our music feature this week, we spoke with acclaimed L.A. indie rockers Local Natives about their much-anticipated new album Hummingbird, out next week. Ascending from relative obscurity in Orange County to opening for Arcade Fire on tour in 2011, Local Natives helped breathe new life into the S ... More >>

Local Natives' Big Vaulted Ceilings

On their new album, the rising indie-folk act show who they are and what they've become

Seven Psychopaths Review: This Is How You Make a Crime Movie

Kurt Vile, Santigold, Rusko

Also, Star & Dagger, Charli XCX, Church of Misery and others

The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List

*Top 20 Worst Bands Ever: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All-Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List Considering that most all of today's popular music -- be it roc ... More >>

The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: 20-16

See also: *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List Considering that most all of today's popular music, be it rock, pop, dance, or rap, sprang from genres pioneered by black musicians, to be all caucasian about your songs is to, literally, betr ... More >>

Still in Hollywood

9 Alternatives For Burning Man Lottery Losers

John Halcyon Styn​So you couldn't get a ticket. Join the club. Burning Man has been a rich man's game for a while now, and since BMORG, the group behind it, can't seem to figure out any way to prevent scalpers (like by, say, printing your name on your ticket), prices will surely be jacked up e ... More >>

Top 5 Local Farmer-Made Jams and Preserves

Felicia Friesema​Farmers markets and the vendors who populate them with table bending piles of bumper crops and hard-to-find seasonal produce rarely sell every last item before it's time to collapse the pop up tents and head home. Portlandian pickle jokes aside, what do farmers do with all th ... More >>

Jeffrey Wisniewski's Battle of the Buddha: Is Motion Capture the Next New Thing in Video Art?

Jeffrey WisniewskiWisniewski's battling Buddhas: Hollywood high tech with art world cred​ Sculptor Jeffrey Wisniewski, known for dismantling an American colonial home and feeding it into a woodchipper, piece by piece, somewhat in the spirit of celebrated house-cutting artist Gordon Matta-Clar ... More >>

10 Food Predictions for 2012

​2011 was quite a year in the Los Angeles dining scene. If you had told us a year ago that we'd be eagerly wolfing down plates of alligator schnitzel, polenta sushi, and corned beef tongue sandwiches from a Michael Voltaggio shop with the word "sack" in its title, we wouldn't have believed you ... More >>

Rodarte Sisters' New Book Rodarte, Catherine Opie, Alec Soth Unveiled at the Hammer Museum

Patrick Range McDonaldSisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte​ In a rare public appearance on Wednesday night, the sisters of Rodarte, who rank among the most famous and celebrated American fashion designers today, discussed their first endeavor into the book world. Held at the Hammer Muse ... More >>

M83's Anthony Gonzalez Makes Soundtracks, Without the Movie

Emmylou Harris at El Rey Theatre: Live Review

Falling JamesEmmylou Harris​There were rumors that a surprise special guest would open Emmylou Harris' show Thursday night at El Rey Theatre. Beforehand, fans tried to guess who the secret performer might be -- no easy task since Harris has collaborated with so many pop celebrities, including ... More >>

Music Picks: SWANS, Sebadoh, Arbouretum, Cass McCombs

Also Meshell Ndegeocello, Kaki King, Local Natives and others

Music Picks: Breakestra, Slang Chickens, the Muffs, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson

Also Meth Leppard, Tennis With Lord Huron, Kid Infinity and others

Interview: White Zombie's Sean Yseult Awakens Sleeping Corpses With New Book

​ We've often referred to ourselves as the "Where's Waldo" of L.A. music and nightlife, and now that our pal Sean Yseult has released her new book, I'm In The Band- Backstage Notes From The Chick In White Zombie, we really feel that way. Yseult, who was a founding member and bass player fo ... More >>

A Magical Skill

Chris Goss, the godfather of desert rock, on the return of Masters of Reality

Music Picks: Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, Bad Religion, Non

Also, The Wedding Present, Phil Alvin and others

INCHES002: Five More L.A. Vinyl Exclusives Revealed and Reviewed ( MP3s)

In the unpredictable wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many (with delicious irony) as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES seeks not only to review the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (one populate ... More >>

LA People 2009: Renaissance Man — Ruben Guevara

Rock Picks: Pelican, Herman Dune, Rasputina, Bill Frisell, Random Patterns

Also, the Rakes, Cold War Kids, Idan Raichel Project and others

The Edge in Malibu; Rape and the LAPD

Rock Picks: The Little Ones, Eagle and Talon, Elliott Murphy

Also, Ida Maria, Sara Lov, John Legend and others

Proposition 7: The Most Confusing

Why environmentalists are against the solar-power measure

Rock Picks: Sunset Junction Street Festival, El Vez, Café Tacuba

Also, Veruca Salt, Mike Einziger, Kings X and Junior Brown

Rock Picks: 88BoaDrum, Projekt Revolution, Juana Molina

Also, Flosstradamus, Bigelf, The Crystelles

MoJow & the Vibration Army

Superheroes

Here Is What Is: Daniel Lanois Addresses the Present

The producer responsible for some of the most important records of the past two decades documents a year in his life

The Never-ending Exploration

Justin Beal likes his art open-ended

Rock Picks: John Fogerty, Band of Horses, Eek-a-Mouse, Gram Rabbit

For the week of November 23 - 29

Rock Picks: Stevie Wonder, Lucinda Williams, The Frames

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For the week of April 28 - May 4

Some Like It Hot

Need a break from crowds and loud music? Check out Desert Hot Springs, the anti-Coachella

Epicenter of Cool

Dr. Kate Hutton

Feel His Heat

Brent Bolthouse

What a Fool Believes

Lock, Stock & Module

Los Angeles architects are leading the modern prefab pack — again

Time to Get Rad

How Brant Bjork got his groove back

Coachella 2005: The Year of the Cult

A highly opinionated user’s guide

Letters

Sex Among the Succulents

Fucking and nothingness in Bruno Dumont’s Twentynine Palms

Vampire Diaries: Getting Geeked on Buffy and Spike at the Sci-Fi Summit

Burning Gram

The Myth of Solid Ground

On The Science, Pseudoscience and Lunatic Logic of Earthquake Prediction

Je Voudrais Del Taco

Orlan goes to the desert