Katy Perry

The Best Concerts to See in Los Angeles This Weekend

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Friday, May 17 The International Swingers VIPER ROOM With New York's Met Gala "punk" event and exhibit dominating the media last week, it's sadly ironic that the innovators and music makers responsible for this in-your-face ... More >>

Doing the Best With the Least: 5 Great Aspects of Disappointing 2012 Movies

In a piece about good acting in bad movies he wrote last year, A.O. Scott suggested that "You might almost say that greatness shows itself precisely in the discrepancy between the performance and the material." It's in keeping with this notion that we've decided to highlight some of 2012's overachie ... More >>

Russell Brand

If You Don't Buy Katy Perry's Songs, You'll Get More Katy Perry Movies

By Dan Moore *Wherein We Hilariously Predict Katy Perry's 2012 *Reviewed: Katy Perry at the Staples Center, 11-22-11 *Katy Perry Ties Michael Jackson; Sign of the Apocalypse? Not So Much Katy Perry: Part of Me came out last weekend, and early returns are not great. Friday-to-Sunday it made $7.1 mi ... More >>

Slutwave, Tumblr Rap, Rape Gaze: Obscure Musical Genres Explained

Everything You Wanted to Know About Metal but Were Afraid to Ask Top Ten Metal Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Metal Top Ten Jazz Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Jazz Top Ten Rap Albums For People Who Don't Know Shit About Hip-Hop In our music feature this week, Jason Roche ... More >>

Katy Perry: Part of Me Review

Is Pop Music Defensible?

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time Every day America swallows lots of sickly sweet pop music, without hint of a stomach ache. But what about in the long run -- will it give us, to extend the metaphor, stomach cancer? Now pop ain't all bad, but it's certainly a hydra-headed monster of paradox; the more ... More >>

Zooey Deschanel and Ben Gibbard Call It Quits: The Year's Five Biggest Music Couples to Hit Splitsville

See also: Wherein We Hilariously Predict Katy Perry's 2012 It was a sad day in indieville yesterday as actress/singer Zooey Deschanel officially filed for divorce from Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard. Though the two had been rumored to be on the rocks for some time, fans held out hope that the du ... More >>

Wherein We Hilariously Predict Katy Perry's 2012

Two thousand eleven was a year of peaks and valleys for Katy Perry; she made a run at pop supremacy, performed at huge venues for tiny fans, and made gobs of money. Unfortunately, half of that could go to Russell Brand, who filed for divorce at the end of the year. (They're not believed to have a pr ... More >>

Victoria's Secret Diet Revealed. Perfect Body = No Solids for 3 Weeks. Hot?

This broke on the Telegraph in the UK a few weeks ago, but a recent incident in a small-town bar leads us to believe it didn't make enough of the rounds. It was getting near closing time at a local watering hole where we found ourselves surrounded by several townie types and a few former high schoo ... More >>

Why This Song Sucks: Katy Perry's "The One That Got Away"

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] See also: Our review of Katy Perry at Staples Center last night Song: Katy Perry's "The One That Got Away" History: "The One That Got Away" is the sixth sing ... More >>

Katy Perry - Staples Center - 11-22-11

Timothy Norris​Katy Perry Staples Center 11-22-11 See also: *Our Katy Perry Slideshow *Why This Song Sucks: Katy Perry's "The One That Got Away" Better Than...Playing a game of Candyland with 20,000 of your closest friends and Kobe Bryant. When you look behind you and up from the floor in ... More >>

Music Picks: Overdoz, The Cure, Lucinda Williams

Also, K. Flay, The Civil Wars, Bob Mould tribute

Katy Perry Ties Michael Jackson; Sign of the Apocalypse? Not So Much

​With her latest single "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)," Katy Perry has again hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100, her fifth single from Teenage Dream to do so. She is only the second artist in the chart's history to achieve this feat, the first being Michael Jackson, on Bad. We've known ... More >>

Katy Perry - Nokia Theatre - 8/6/2011

Timothy Norris​Katy Perry Nokia Theatre 8/6/2011 Better than . . . another Law and Order rerun. Katy Perry likes to think of herself as one of us, a regular girl with some spirit who worked hard or got lucky, and isn't so far removed from her days as an unknown singer-songwriter at the Hote ... More >>

Music Picks: Katy Perry, Phish, Deerhunter, Sia, Warped Tour

Also, Big Audio Dynamite, Jill Scott, Cypress Hill and others

How Katy Perry Tied MJ's Singles Record, and Why She's More Relatable Than Beyonce

Xposurephotos.com​Yesterday Katy Perry's boppy single "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" rose to the number one slot, making Teenage Dream the first album in the near 19-year history of Billboard's Mainstream Top 40 chart to produce five number ones. Big news. But today could bring Perry's career ... More >>

Bonnie McKee: Pop Tart

The singer-songwriter behind Katy's and Britney's sugarcoated hits

Miss USA 2011: L.A.'s Own Alyssa Campanella? Vegas Oddsmakers Say Miss California Redhead Will Win (PHOTOS)

Duh, boys!​Update: Alyssa Campanella wins Miss USA 2011, as predicted! Makin' L.A. -- and a roomful of buzzed Vegas oddsmakers -- very proud tonight. (Aside from her diss on the "Legalize It" movement. So un-Californian.) Watch her flash the devil horns, after the jump. Originally posted June ... More >>

Bad Dads: Five Of The Worst Fathers In Musical History

he's a genius too, you know Dads--they have sure done a lot for music, either by being musicians and dads at the same time, making some rockin' dad rock, or just fathering incredibly talented children. In honor of Father's Day, we thought we'd bring you a short series on dads. Today we bring you s ... More >>

The Surreal World of ASCAP's Pop Awards: Where Adam Lambert and Ke$ha Honor the Guys Who Made Them Famous (and Train is the Best Rock Band)

Lina LecaroKe$ha and Adam Lambert hold Luke and Martin's plaques.​Haters might say that Dr. Luke and Max Martin are responsible for the downfall of music. After all, manufactured pop has killed it for other genres, especially harder and more experimental ones. But at ASCAP's Pop Music Awards ... More >>

Nicki Minaj Wins an Award for Twirling Her Bubblegum

​OhmiGAH Barbs! Nicki Minaj just won! The Pink Barbie brought home an early award from the MTV O Music Awards. The inaugural awards, the remainder of which will be handed out in Las Vegas Thursday night, are billed as "online, open, ongoing." Categories include Fan Army FTW, Favorite F**k Ye ... More >>

Coachella 2011: Kanye West Closes the Fest with Bangs and a Whimper

​Kanye West is way up on top of a crane, its arm slowly spinning above the crowd. "Can we get much higher?", the opening refrain from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, blasts from the speakers. The moon is full. Tens of thousands of eyeballs are on Kanye. The spectacle begins. He's already sw ... More >>

Will Cotton Exhibition in West Hollywood: Where To Get Your Katy Perry Candyland Fix

If you've been one of the millions who have viewed Katy Perry's "California Gurls" video on YouTube with its Candyland-inspired set of life-size gummy bears and cupcake bikini tops, you've already seen the work of Will Cotton, the artistic director of the video. Cotton's first music video gig may ha ... More >>

LA's Coolest Producers (Daedelus, Schlomo, etc.) Do Prince, Lady Gaga, Mariah Carey, Soulja Boy and More (Free Download of Entire Album)

​ Los Angeles' Friends of Friends Music has spent 2010 figuring out how to reinvent the way music is released and as a thank you for a successful year, FoF is giving fans a free download of its Pop Massacre compilation. FoF gave its favorite producers simple instructions: "choose a song from a ... More >>

Suck My Video Vegetables

When is a cucumber ever just a cucumber? Maybe when Groucho Marx buys one at the Whole Foods in the sky. No, not even then. And definitely not in Magan & Rodriguez's latest music video. Cucumbers, carrots, bananas, popsicles, licorice. It's a forest of edible phallic symbols as barely-clad cutie ... More >>

Haiku News: Wavves' Williams Arrested in Germany, Joan Baez Falls From Treehouse, Peter Hook Talks Joy Division Tour, Michael Jackson's Lost Video

Haiku News: Wavves' Williams Arrested in Germany, Joan Baez Falls From Treehouse, Peter Hook Talks Joy Division Tour, Michael Jackson's Lost Video

NIGHTRANGER: Monster's Ball

The LA Weekly Interview with Best Coast: Bethany Cosentino on Why She Had to Leave Brooklyn, How She Is (and Isn't) Like Lady Gaga and Katy Perry, Being Only Slightly Less Cool than Kanye, and Joan Didion (Yes, Joan Didion)

Sean TeegardenLA Weekly cover girl: Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino​ Alright--we gave you the sneak peek a couple of days ago, and now here it is. The LA Weekly Interview: Best Coast (read the whole thing here). It is a profile of rising star Bethany Cosentino that we're sure is gonna challeng ... More >>

Top Ten Videos to Feed Your Inner Gay Dude on Ecstasy, by DJ/VJ Ray Rhodes' Club Tigerheat

Lina Lecaro Videos and vamps- Tigerheat eye candy​Wanna see the hottest hits and soon-to-be hits really pop on the dance floor? There really is no place like Tigerheat, the exuberant, mostly gay gathering held every Thursday at Avalon. It'd been a while since we popped in, so we forgot just ho ... More >>

Haiku News: Kanye's Meh Mini-Movie, Jónsi Cancels In-Store Tour, Local Natives' New Vid, Katie Perry Gets Branded

Haiku News: Kanye's Meh Mini-Movie, Jónsi Cancels In-Store Tour, Local Natives' New Vid, Katie Perry Gets Hitched

Anonymous Dumbass "Musicians" Block the 101 Freeway

Ditto​A group of anonymous, dumbass "musicians" blocked the 101 Freeway today, deliberately causing a traffic jam to promote their unbelievably stupid song. While other news outlets are happy to play along with the stunt and mention the band and supposed "single," we refuse to give those idio ... More >>

UPDATE: Was the "Katy Perry's Jiggling Boobies on Sesame Street" Scandal a Publicity Stunt for Youtube?

Sesame Street/Youtube Conspiracy?​[UPDATE: We're gonna play a little Oliver Stone here, so bear with us. - A couple of days ago a video "preview" of Katy Perry's jiggling boobies' appearance on Sesame Street was posted all over the web. - Gawker commenters were riled up into sanctimonious outr ... More >>

Tonight: The Daylights, Tracy Bonham, Shonen Knife, the Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group, Mike Posner

Steven TaylorThe Daylights​L.A.-based trio the Daylights -- Texans Ran and Ricky Jackson and Danish drummer Svend Lerche -- have a nice little buzz going, at least in the FM radio world. The trio's self-titled debut album, out today, bears the fingerprints of plenty of A-listers -- Youth prod ... More >>

Katy Perry Gives Us Legitimate Excuse to Write "Katy Perry Naked" on a Headline

Behold La Perry's heavenly body​ In the past we haven't been above tricking people into reading legitimate-yet-unsexxxy news items by shamelessly offering hot Katy Perry bikini pictures. This time, though, sexy Katy Perry has given us a legitimate excuse to rack up them pageviews by unveiling ... More >>

Randall Roberts' LA Weekly Feature Following Ozomatli into Burma Wins Prestigious AltWeekly Award

​An LA Weekly piece by our former Music Editor (and current LA Times Music Editor) Randall Roberts about LA band Ozomatli's tour of South East Asia has just been chosen as the best Arts feature of 2009 at the 2010 edition of the AltWeekly Awards. Another LA Weekly piece, about the fascinating ... More >>

Tonight: Marina & the Diamonds, Steel Train, Fol Chen, Jack Tempchin, the Delta Mirror

Marina Diamandis​"If you were a color, what color what you be?" That inane conversation-starter has serious meaning for Welsh songstress Marina Diamandis. Diamandis, the brains and beauty behind Marina & the Diamonds (the precious gems, in this case, referring to her fans), has a condition kn ... More >>

Katy Perry Parody "California Dorks": In-N-Out Burgers, Mountain Dew, and Star Wars Toys

​You may say Katy Perry's "California Gurls" video gives an unrealistic image of the Golden State. Most of us don't spend our days traipsing around a 3D version of the board game Candyland trading quips with a cupcake-suit wearing pimp and avoiding menacing gummy bears (most of us who know bet ... More >>

Nightranger: Everybody Talk About Pop Muzik

Twist and Shout

Katy Perry Unpeeled — and Other Signs of Life in the Dead of the Grammys PressRoom

Including the buzz over Rihanna and Chris Brown, and revelations from Natalie Cole on heroin addiction

Rock Picks: Mulatu Astatke, The Soft Pack, Katy Perry, Merle Haggard

Also, Cut Chemist, NOFX, Hal Blaine’s 80th bash and more

Gridlock at Paramount with Guns n' Bombs, Katy Perry, LMFAO

The High Society at Mountain Bar, Jane Wiedlin, Tim Ferris

Barack and Bondage, Crafting and Camel Toes: Nightranger's Annual L.A. Style Survey

From Katy Perry and Shepard Fairey to handmade frocks and stretchy skinnies

The Worst Lyrics of 2008: NCAA-Style Showdown

By Rob Harvilla And now it's time for the "I love you like a fat kid loves cake" memorial Worst Lyrics of 2008, March Madness-style tournament, this year a terrifying melange of appalling oral-sex requests, bargain-bin philosophies, grammatical atrocities, and cringe-inducing pillow talk. To elev ... More >>

Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were dem ... More >>

OUTFIT OF THE WEEK- VESTED INTEREST

Summer is...sniffle, sniffle... just about over, and it's time to move the skimpy sundresses and flip-flops to the back of the closet. On second thought, we have two more weekends (what else would a stylish gal wear to the Sunset Junction Street Fest and the Labor Day Weekend pools parties coming up ... More >>

Katy Perry, Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna and Ghetto Gloss at the Clubhouse