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The Best Concerts to See In L.A. This Week

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Monday, August 5 The Janks, The Herbert Bail Orchestra THE SATELLITE The Herbert Bail Orchestra's lead singer and guitarist Anthony Frattolillo credits his mentor, Juan, a janitor and apparent musical genius from Chile, for ... More >>

Music Picks: Hard Summer, Sunset Strip Music Festival and Bob Dylan

5 Celebratory Things to Do in L.A. This Week

See also: *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Independence Day is just around the corner, so what better time to get out the sparklers and show off your celebratory side? This week in L.A. features a festival of masks and a family-f ... More >>

The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, March 15 The Black Ryder THE ECHO The Black Ryder come from Australia but sound like they're from 13th Floor Elevators' own personal Texas, a land of endless desert where the guitars echo to eternity and where it's too hot to move fast. The Black Ryder concoct psychedelia that bleeds and bo ... More >>

Demetri Samaha Of Supper Club Accused Of Safety Violations In Wake Of Brazil Tragedy

The L.A. City Attorney's office today unleashed a criminal case against the owners of Hollywood's Supper Club for alleged overcrowding, fire-code violations and "life safety hazards." This is the wake of a tragic fire at the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria, Brazil last weekend that took 236 lives. Th ... More >>

Music Cruises Hit the High Seas, But Who Can Afford Them?

All aboard a tiny, star-packed boat

The Beat Goes On!

Paul Stanley On Rock and Rolling All Night and Partying Every Day

Talking to Paul Stanley of Kiss on the phone is one thing. Talking to him in person in full Starchild regalia -- as we did the other day in New York -- is something else entirely. For one thing, he's huuuuge. It's not just the eight-inch boots; his hair is giant, too. Perched on a stool with his arm ... 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 >>

Reviews of Wines From Famous Rock 'n' Roll Bands!

See also: Top 20 Hair Metal Albums of All Time Lately we've noticed a lot of bands have their own brands of wine, including Motörhead, Kiss, AC/DC, and Ratt. (Even Warrant has a wine. Warrant.) One of our friends at Wine Spectator magazine showed us the piece they wrote in April about this trend, ... More >>

Kiss Has a New Book That's Three Feet Tall and Costs Over $4000

Yesterday afternoon, before a crowd of media types and clean-cut Sunset Strip'd hard rockers at the Viper Room, Kiss debuted their new book, Kiss Monster. It is huge -- 3 feet x 2.5 feet, and nearly 50 pounds. The thing costs $4250. Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer fielde ... More >>

The Zeros Play the Troubadour Tonight!

See also: The Best Five Concerts in L.A. This Weekend The Zeros were punk when most people didn't know what punk was. The L.A.-by-way-of-Chula Vista band released their first single on legendary Bomp! Records in 1977, that magical year when punk exploded. The folks involved in their early days re ... More >>

Rock & Brews: Gene Simmons, Craft Beers Big Televisions

We're good with Russell, Bill and Richard but as far as Simmonses are concerned, Gene has got to go. With a tongue like an unfurling red carpet and a mouth as wide and bilious as a landfill, the bassist once known as Chaim Weitz has carved out a sizeable entertainment business empire. And now, the ... More >>

Lou Reed on How His Attempt at Career Suicide, Metal Machine Music, Became an Art Show

Lou Reed is a rock & roll legend. That is an indisputable fact. And he doesn't bless Southern California with his downtown swagger very often. So when he takes part in a staged conversation, it is only fair that he gets to pick the subjects. Unfortunately for many who paid 45 bucks to hear Reed's ... More >>

Archie Comics Getting Hip? They've Brought in Gay Marriage, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and KISS

What do gay marriage, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and the band KISS have in common? In the crazy world of comics, everything. Newer, edgier titles have been known to push the boundaries of expectation or mesh disparate imagery and pop culture references, but it's a particular nostalgic title that's r ... More >>

The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #20-16

See also: *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #15-11 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #10-6 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #5-1 *Chuck Klosterman's Favorite Hair Metal Albums One day I was sitting around thinking I want to write a song about ménage a trois...and the l ... More >>

Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Is Exile The Best Stones' Album? Nope, It's Some Girls

​[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.] Today marks the re-release of the Rolling Stones' 1978 album Some Girls, which has been remastered and expanded. T ... More >>

Dave Matthews Introduces Line of Wines: The Dreaming Tree

It's a different kind of crush for Dave Matthews. He may not want you to drink the water, but the musician has collaborated with award-winning winemaker Steve Reeder to create a line of vino they're calling Dreaming Tree Wines, after the Dave Matthews Band track "The Dreaming Tree" from the 1998 alb ... More >>

Paul Stanley, Lita Ford, Kip Winger -- Playboy Mansion -- 11/12/11

Eric Charbonneau, Le StudioPaul Stanley and friends​See also: Paul Stanley Analyzes KISS's Success: "I don't want to buy a t-shirt with a guy on it who looks like my neighbor." If you're like most folks, your rock star fantasies require nothing more than a pair of tight jeans, an air guitar, ... More >>

Crate-Digging with Dam-Funk...at Best Buy

Rebecca Haithcoat​Dam-Funk always comes prepared. As L.A.'s ambassador to the funk gods, he's always equipped with the booty-rotation essentials he's acquired from years of digging in the crates. (You can bet his show tonight at the El Rey Theatre will be no exception.) The man reigns so sup ... More >>

Paul Stanley Analyzes KISS's Success: "I don't want to buy a t-shirt with a guy on it who looks like my neighbor."

​By Linda Leseman Paul Stanley, rhythm guitarist of KISS, has been rocking the Starchild for nearly 40 years, over which time the group has accumulated 24 gold albums -- more than any other American band. But perhaps even more importantly, in that time he has managed to shave about an hour an ... More >>

Happy Johnny Ramone Weekend! The Top Five Musicians Buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery (At Least In Spirit)

The Hollywood Forever Cemetery has become synonymous with rock 'n' roll thanks to great live shows (recently, Patrick Wolf and Jens Lekman) and its popular Cinespia screenings. But its headstones are what makes it sacred ground for music fans. Even Morrissey says he wants to be buried there. Holl ... More >>

AC/DC Launches Wine Collection

Daily Mail​ For those about to drink, AC/DC would like you to try their Shiraz. The Australian band has joined forces with New South Wales-based winery Warburn Estate to produce four bottled varieties named after their biggest hits, the (UK) Daily Mail reports. AC/DC The Wine selections incl ... More >>

The Power Of The Riff: Skip The Smoke Break For These Five Bands

Nathaniel ShannonPentagram vocalist Bobby Liebling​Last year, The Power Of The Riff festival packed hundreds of metal kids, hardcore kids, and old geezers that remember the tape-trading days of the 1980s into the Echo and Echoplex, partly due to the ability to offer free admission thanks to a ... More >>

Anthony Wiener Take Heart! The Four Greatest Penis (and 1 Boob) Exposures In Rock

Does this remind you of anything?​What a weird week it's been for fans of penises and liberal politicians alike. Last Friday, NY Democratic Representative Anthony Wiener's Memorial Day weekend plans were ripped asunder when a weird dickpic was posted to his twitter account. Weiner claimed the ... More >>

Paul Landers Of Rammstein: "We Love to Surf. L.A. Puts Us in a Good Mood"

BrownL - R Riedel, Landers, Lorenz, Lindemann, Kruspe, Schneider​ Rammstein is finally back in America and they've brought all of their toys with them. Sorry Gene Simmons, even all of the flash you picked up from Trump can't put KISS's show ahead of what these guys have in store. You can sti ... More >>

Adam Curtis' It Felt Like a Kiss

Can Reality TV Ever Really Rock?

Lina Lecaro Reality's realest rockin couple (from Cali): Millionaire Matchmaker's Rachel Federoff and Destin Pfaff at Svedka party.​This past weekend, LA played host to the "Reality Rocks Expo," a two-day celebration of "reality, unscripted, factual, and lifestyle" television at the LA Convent ... More >>

The Books at The Music Box (Live Review)

Michael OrloskyThe Books' Nick Zammuto getting his KISS on. ​ Last night the experimental duo The Books took the stage at the Music Box Theater in front of a warm and delightfully geeky audience. One can tell the caliber of a crowd by the quality of their heckling. Instead of the usual "I lov ... More >>

Gene Simmons vs. the Meme Makers - Spoiler Alert: the Meme Makers Win

Meme GeneratorA photographic love letter to Gene Simmons and every rocker who ever worried about panty lines.​Ah, Gene Simmons -- the biggest asshole in rock 'n' roll history? Arguably. We'll always remember him fondly for his uncomfortably misogynistic interview with public radio's Terry Gros ... More >>

This weekend: Rx Bandits, Band of Horses, Vampire Weekend, Muse, Abbot Kinney Festival, Epicenter Festival, Willie Nelson, Rancid, Waved Out II, Helmet

Rx Bandits​Few would have thought that the Orange County ska-punk kids who a decade ago started playing as the Pharmaceutical Bandits would grow up to be a Coachella band. But the quartet now known Rx Bandits has, their party in the desert last spring certifying Matt Embree and crew as musica ... More >>

Superstar of David (Guest Bloggers: The "Jews on Vinyl" Project)

[Ed.'s Note: Roger Bennett and Josh Kun are the masterminds behind the amazing Jews on Vinyl project, where they have digged deep to retell the history of Jewish recorded music from the 1940s to the 1980s. Their projects include a blog, a book and a traveling museum exhibit which is coming to LA's S ... More >>

Dinner & A Movie: Learn to Cook While You Watch 'Like Water For Chocolate'

Combining food and film is something we're particularly good at in this town (just ask Wolfgang Puck). Tomorrow night, February 19th, art historian and chef Maite Gomez-Rejón combines a class on Mexican cuisine with clips from the film Like Water for Chocolate. Learn how to make chiles en Nogada, c ... More >>

The Last Days of Disco

A new book provides an inside look at the drug-fueled hedonism at Casablanca Records

Paul Stanley: Portrait of the Therapeutic Artist

Disco Bloodbath: LA's Freakiest, Creepiest, Trashiest Themed Halloween Dance Parties

​The clock is ticking, and even if you don't have a (clever) costume yet, it's time to brave your social fear and figure out what the Hell you're gonna do this Halloween weekend. As far as dance dens go, pretty much everything bubbling this weekend will have a creep factor (more than usual in ... More >>

Down on the Strip

An Evening With Ace Frehley

Tonight at Don't Knock the Rock: Mark Stewart & Pop Group Documentary 'On/Off'

​ The Don't Knock the Rock film series continues tonight at Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theater with the LA premiere of On/Off, a documentary on the legendary post-punk auteur Mark Stewart, whose work in the late 1970s and early 1980s redirected post punk in a whole other direction, carvin ... More >>

KISS goes M&M, Otherwise Known as Chocolate Meets Rock and Roll

M&M's MarsEat And Tell?​In October, the rock band KISS will release its first new LP since Psycho Circus, the band's 1998 reunion album. In conjunction (read: marketing brilliance), KISS will also release limited edition, namesake M&M's. Think of it as Mars candy-covered chocolate meets Hershe ... More >>

GOOD JOB, GRAMMY MUSEUM PRESS DEPT.!

Rhino to Release 'Digital 45s,' with A-sides, B-sides and Original (PDF) Sleeves

In ongoing effort to bring weird little songs from Rhino's catalog to the top of the digital avalanche, the legendary LA reissue label is launching a new series of so-called 'digital 45s.' This morning the label announced the program: Rhino will spotlight songs originally issued on 45 by offering t ... More >>

Solid Gold Secrets

The Misses in Priss Cover Kiss; A Club Called Rhonda

Rock Picks: Riot Girl Carnival, Miniature Tigers, Death Cab for Cutie, Deer Tick

Also, Vieux Farka Touré, John Fogerty, Stacey Q, Watts Ensemble and others

Freakshow Follies and Circus Stunts: Getting Hammered with Devils Playground's 'Sexy Sideshow Girls' @ Bordello

(All photos by Shannon Cottrell. Click images for entire Devils Playground slideshow.)Amy Amnesia gets hammeredNot many conversations begin with the question, "So when was the first time you ate broken glass?" Last Saturday night, however, that was exactly how I struck up a conversation with art cur ... More >>

L.A. Residencies Tonight: Xu Xu Fang at the Echo (MP3), The Movies at Spaceland, Local Natives at Silverlake Lounge

It's a great month for wintertime residencies around town, but we're particularly pumped about tonight's Xu Xu Fang/Manimal Vinyl showcase at the Echo. Manimal Vinyl's been on a roll of late. Their new two-CD collection, Perfect as Cats: A Tribute to the Cure, draws on some of LA's most intriguing ... More >>

Scream Queen Superstar: Jackie Beat Gets Gruesome at the Cavern Club

Any dude can throw on a dress, spew sassy one-liners, lip-sync the pop diva hit of the moment, and call themselves a queen. But real drag royalty, those who take performing to its most provocative and entertaining heights, are much fewer and further between. L.A.-based bitch goddess, Jackie Beat is ... More >>

Urban Warfare: Grappling With Asan Akbar's Descent

Rhythm & Chews

Edited by Kateri Butler