Keith Richards

Cochon 555, 2013 Edition: Exhaustion, Excess Victory for Fig's Ray Garcia

Cochon 555 is a feast for the senses. From the piggy small plates to oysters, to cheese cubes, to tartare, to ice cream, there are irresponsibly epic mountains of food. Some of it is really good. And from Anchor Steam bottles to wine tastings to single-barrel Four Roses Manhattans, there's enough ... More >>

Rolling Stones - Staples Center - May 3, 2013 (With Photos and Set List)

Rolling Stones Staples Center May 3, 2013 The Rolling Stones still put in the work, as was demonstrated by their stint here in Los Angeles over the last two weeks, which included a series of rehearsals in Burbank -- Falling James lurked outside -- and their secret show at the Echoplex. See also: ... More >>

The Best Concerts to See in Los Angeles This Weekend

For any show in town see our regularly-updated concert calendar. Friday, May 3 The Rolling Stones STAPLES CENTER It's easy to make fun of The Rolling Stones -- a karaoke-addled Mick Jagger even got in on the act last season on Saturday Night Live -- but the not-always-convenient truth is that Jagg ... More >>

We Lurked Outside the Rolling Stones' Rehearsals in Burbank

Last week, the center of the rock & roll universe was located in an industrial part of Burbank. In one room at CenterStaging studios, Paul McCartney was rehearsing with his band for their upcoming world tour. Next door, his old pals and supposed rivals the Rolling Stones were preparing for their fir ... More >>

Rolling Stones - The Echoplex - April 27, 2013

We get big bands in small venues around these parts not infrequently. Hell, Depeche Mode just played the Troubadour on Friday. But the Rolling Stones at the Echoplex? That's as good as it gets. The announcement that a small amount of tickets -- maybe 350 -- would be available yesterday at the El Rey ... More >>

Music Picks: Shuggie Otis, The Rolling Stones, Juvenile

The Top 5 Punk Rock Guitarists

Somewhere along the line, punk rock's amateurish enthusiasm became conflated with a dearth of talent. That's OK -- anything to keep the squares out -- but it's not entirely accurate. Indeed, it was hard paring this list down to just five. While you might complain that your favorite isn't on here, it ... More >>

Bill German

Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List

Yeah, yeah, we know. The top 20 greatest musicians of all time, in any genre. Where do we get off? Well, we'll tell you where we get off -- at Accuracy Station. Our team of writers listened to thousands and thousands of hours of music for this list, digging deep into the annals of history and explor ... More >>

Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: #10-6

See also: *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, In Any Genre: #20-16 *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, In Any Genre: #15-11 *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, In Any Genre: #5-1 10. Guido D'Arezzo Simply put, the writings of Guido D'Arezzo (above) laid the foundations for Western music. This medieval theorist ... More >>

Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: #20-16

See also: *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, In Any Genre: #15-11 *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, In Any Genre: #10-6 *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, In Any Genre: #5-1 Yeah, yeah, we know. The top 20 greatest musicians of all time, in any genre. Where do we get off? Well, we'll tell you where we get of ... 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 >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Dinosaur Jr., Six Major Guitar Players

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #120 for Saturday, June 25. Fanatics! Writing to you from the upper level of Terminal Five here in New York City. We are in night four of this amazing Dinosaur Jr. tour. The band has been raising the bar every night and the shows are getting more and more cranked ... More >>

Four Movies Opening This Weekend, as Pirates of the Caribbean Scares Away Competition

​ As Cannes winds down and the movie world waits with baited breath to find out just what exactly the ramifications of being declared "persona non grata" for calling yourself a Nazi really are, it's a slow week for theatrical openings, headlined by two out-of-competition Cannes premieres. 4. ... More >>

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Sunset Strip Follies

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 >>

Best Use of a Porcelain Bowl: Chateau Marmont's Double Latte

A. ScattergoodChateau Marmont's double latte​ Chateau Marmont is many things to many people, depending on whether you're Courtney Love or Keith Richards or one of the rest of us. Quite aside from any late night debauchery, it is a lovely place for an interview (actors, musicians, visiting che ... More >>

What Was Keith Richards' Favorite Nosh at Canter's Deli?

Image Courtesy of: STONES BILLBOARD COPYRIGHT 1972 SUNSET STRIP BILLBOARD BY JOHN VAN HAMERSVELD POST-FUTURE.COM​ Our writer Michael Simmons always digs up the interesting people and the interesting quotes. This week's print edition of the LA Weekly features a great, different take on the Ro ... More >>

Nightranger: In Bloom

Nightranger: The Rest Is Still Unwritten

Best Alt-Country Folk Records 2009: Willie Nelson is Still A Badass

ALT-COUNTRY/FOLK Meet the Folk-ers Noah W. Bailey slices the Americana pie and determines that, yes, Willie Nelson is still a badass. We spent 2009 sorting through piles of folk and Americana releases, revising this list in our heads till the bitter end and failing repeatedly to understand the hyp ... More >>

It Might Get Loud: Davis Guggenheim’s Guitar Heroes

In director’s new documentary tribute, Jimmy Page, the Edge and Jack White talk axes, licks and other euphemisms

In Diamond Dogs' Wake, Sex Dwarf and Bardot Fridays offer two new nights of Hollywood Sparkle

Though it only lasted for a couple of months, the rock n' roll revelry of Diamond Dogs at H' Wood is already the stuff of LA club-land legend, both for its fabulously mixed crowd (Bryan Ferry, Keith Richards' daughters, Marilyn Manson exes Dita Von Teese and Rose MacGowan, the Gossip's Beth Ditto, A ... More >>

Last Night: Stoned At Stories, Henry Clay People Go Under Cover for "The Wit & Wisdom of Keith Richards" book bash.

A crusty, drug-damaged caricature or the personification of cool itself? When it comes to Keith Richards, there are essentially two camps. For Rolling Stones fans, the man, his guitar-playing, his (however unintelligible) words, and his wholly droll essence, is tantamount to rock n' roll deity. An e ... More >>

Post-Coachella Recovery at Shadowscene, Linda Perry's Evening With Women

The Ding Bat Show (Starring Clown College Alumni)

Easy Come Easy Go: Marianne Faithfull and Hal Willner's Songs of Tragedy and Heartbreak

Icon's sandpaper vocals sing it like no one else

Venus Prototype's Fashion Show; Miss Kitty's Latest Adventures

Northwest Passage: Seattle's Fleet Foxes Make Languid, Woodsy Rock

Can a flutist be far behind?

Keeping It Real (Clean)

Hey! You! Get Off of My Lap!

What to do in L.A., April 4-10

Jumpin Jack Flashed

The "ugly beautiful" model trend goes in a groovy new direction with these new Louis Vuitton ads starring Keith Richards. Of course, our man Keef is already the butt of late night jokes for this ad, but we think it's rad. "Pretty" and "handsome" are so borrrring. The ad, shot by Annie Leib ... More >>

Keef DID NOT snort his Daddy ok?

Okay, I may be the biggest Rolling Stones fan I know (except for maybe Falling James) but I'd defend my hero on this one regardless. Snorting his pops? It's soooo Keith Richards to say something like that. I've studied him, I've met him, I know. But c'mon even if you're just a casual fan, you're f ... More >>

Orgy of Sequels Climaxing in 2007

Will the public get off? Or is it just studio masturbation?

Sweet, Horny, Hot and Wet

Best Freak Ever

Ma Ma Ma Ma Monkey!

Got Live Stones! (If Ya Want It)

Nightranger

Nightranger

Instant Rock for the People

With “Blue Orchid,”the White Stripes bring the rock the old-fashioned way: really fucking fast

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Nightlife by the numbers

E=MC⁵

Excelegant

About Brent

Pushing paper at The Office, a new British comedy

Fish Fry 2002

Advocacy Journalism

Edited by Kateri Butler

Thieves in the Night

Maybe

Not Fade Away

Oasis, three bridges shy