Keith Richards

The Definitive Guide to the Music of The Big Lebowski

L.A. Weekly is celebrating The Big Lebowski's 15th anniversary with a massive cover story tribute! Check out our other Lebowski-themed stories. Not doing so would be very un-Dude. The Dude's identity is strongly informed by music. As a former Metallica roadie and free love-era denizen still trying ... More >>

Jazz Bassist Darryl Jones on How to Listen Hyper-Vigilantly

Bassist Darryl Jones should be a household name. His fluid, funky low end has supported at least a dozen of the biggest concert draws of the last 30 years, starting with Miles Davis' band when he was just 21. When Sting left the Police for a solo career in the mid-'80s, Jones was the man he hired to ... More >>

No, Seriously, the Sunset Strip Has Gotten Cool

In 1975, Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant stood on a balcony at the Continental Hyatt House above the Sunset Strip and screamed "I am a golden god!" Allegedly. From similar balconies at the same hotel, Keith Richards and Keith Moon both hucked TVs to the street below in fits of excess and Jim Morris ... More >>

Music Picks: Rome, The xx, Aretha Franklin

Also, Cannibal Corpse, I See Hawks in L.A., Smokey Robinson and others

Jonny Edwards: Ax in the Box

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. When in character as his alter ego, Jonny Coffin, Jonny Edwards sports a black trench coat, gloves and a top hat. With his flowing dark hair, chiseled features and dramatic mak ... More >>

Music Picks: X, Lucinda Williams, Jackie DeShannon, Fujiya & Miyagi

Also, Dengue Fever, Jessie Baylin, Reigning Sound, Black Bananas and others

Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls Murder Book Shoots to Top of Amazon

​Murder Rap, the book written by former LAPD detective Greg Kading implicating Sean Combs and Suge Knight in the slayings of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, officially came out today. So far, only LA Weekly has interviewed Kading about his self-published book and the revelations he shares, which ... More >>

Mick Jagger's Superheavy New Supergroup, Plus Five Songs About and/or Referring to The Rolling Stones' Frontman ... Maybe

From Mickjagger.comJust Super.​There may not be a Rolling Stones tour happening anytime soon (wonder if Mick is still pissed about Keef's "tiny togder" remark?) but for fans of The Stones frontman, musical satisfaction has been trickling in. Last week, at a press conference here in L.A., Sir J ... More >>

Live Review: We Saw Your Parents Getting Lit at the Jethro Tull Concert

Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.​ We're pretty sure we were getting a second-hand high from your parents Saturday night during the Jethro Tull concert at the Greek Theatre. The audience was an eclectic mix of middle-aged fans, married couples, thirty-somethings and a few awesome dads who brought ... 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 >>

The Dirt Master: Neil Strauss Talks Rockers, Hookers, Drugs and Getting Hate Mail from his Ultimate Nemesis, Phil Collins

​You'll be seeing a lot in the blogosphere and beyond about Neil Strauss' revealing new book, Everyone Loves You When You're Dead, (out this week). The tome reveals shocking things about -and intimate moments with- the author's vast array of interview subjects over the years: Lady Gaga bawling ... More >>

Most Legendary Blues Recordings Ever Get the Super Deluxe Treatment

​Variety announces that the Robert Johnson recordings from 1936-1937, without a doubt the most legendary set of blues recordings ever, will be re-released in a super-deluxe "Centennial Edition." These are hallowed recordings that have changed the lives of Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Bob Dyl ... More >>

Hollywood Actor Rip Torn Rips Shit Up, Pleads Guilty To Drunken Bank Break-In

APRip Torn (up).​You gotta give it to longtime Hollywood actor Rip Torn. He's still wreaking havoc like a rock star on a bender, and he's 79. Charlie Sheen's own chaos probably deserves some therapy, but at his age we think Torn should get a lifetime achievement award for his latest antics. T ... More >>

A Magical Skill

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

"Mick Jagger" on Keith Richards' Life by Bill Wyman (But Not The Rolling Stones' Bill Wyman)

​ Slate's Bill Wyman once got in a legal tussle with the Rolling Stones' ex-bassist Bill Wyman because his name was also Bill Wyman. Happily, he was allowed to keep using the name he was born with--a certain David Jones wasn't so lucky--and now he's used that particular coincidence to write a ... More >>

"There is No Masterplan" - Atari Teenage Riot's Alec Empire Discusses First Tour in 10 Years

"There is No Masterplan" - Atari Teenage Riot's Alec Empire Talks First Tour in 10 Years

I was a Texas Jewboy

They ain't makin' Americans like Kinky Friedman anymore

Day 2: Hannibal Moncrief, Hot Chip & Flying Lotus & The Ascent of Nerd-Chic

​ Hannibal Moncrief saw the future last night. No, he didn't brew mushroom tea and watch Doc Brown tinker with the fabric of the space-time continuum. And no, he didn't spend three hours inside the glowing pink origami bird mumbling the phrase, "cool colors, man." The double-stacks of white ... More >>

Dâm-Funk: Keytar Hero

“I’m not doing the neo-soul thing. I’m a funkster. I’ve been doing this since I was a kid”

Bright Star's Tone Poem

Jane Campion films John Keats' great love affair

Remembering Longtime LA Music Photographer Shawn Mortensen

M.I.A., as shot by Shawn Mortensen The other night as M.I.A. was winding down her Coachella performance of "Paper Planes," she dedicated the song to longtime L.A. photographer Shawn Mortensen, who died last week at the age of 42. We've received a few notes of remembrance from friends and colleagues ... More >>

Coachella Day 3: The Kills Kill It, Throbbing Gristle Force Me Into The Fetal Position, and The Clipse Cancel

Slowly, my brain is slinking its way towards sensible shape. Three days of Coachella are not for the faint of heart -- if nothing else it requires a quarter-ounce of weed, an array of narcotic edibles from potcorn to cannabis cakes, several brightly colored pills of indiscriminate origin, copious ... More >>

Rock Picks: Ice Cube, Bob Dylan, Dog and Pony Show

Also, Chuck Berry, Southern Culture on the Skids, Paul Weller, and more

So X-Cited

X Games, Gibson guitars and Crash Mansion's woes

Movie Reviews: Bustin' Down the Door, Love Comes Lately

Also, A Man Named Pearl, CSNY: Deja Vu and more

The Voodoo Lounge: Love Songs; Shine a Light

Where Honore, Godard, Scorsese and the Stones all have a place at the table

Hello Mommy Africa: A Hipster's Guide to Afro-Indie Rock

Here's eight records. Now go start a riot

Discovering the Candidates Through Their Playlists

It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To

What Would Erik Satie Do?

Coping with Linkin Park, gas prices and American Idol in a world where only Muddy Bears make sense

The Blockbusters Cometh

It could be a Promised Movieland this summer, unless...

Aloha From Hell

Jerry Lee Lewis, still on fire

For Those About Türoque

The world’s second-greatest air guitarist breaks wind in a new memoir

Music Picks

For March 3 - 9

Sketchers, Hair Wars and Courting Venus

Voodoo Boogie

Eagles of Death Metal: anointed by the spirits of rock & roll

Strut That Art

Audio Visual

Revenge against the ’70s (and other hostile decades)

All Tomorrow’s Parties Today

Matt Groening talks outsider music and party planning with a fellow gearhead

Continuing Education

Cause Célèbre: Green Carpets and Ancient Elves

The Defiant Ones

Happy Land Jubilee

Living right with the Blind Boys of Alabama

Trux Royalty De-Posed

In Character

The mayor of Joshua Tree

Ballad of a Tin Man

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott’s daughter inherits the family business

No Exit

David Holmes’ urban nightmare

Pop the Cork

Jay-Z beyond reasonable doubt

The High Life

Traveling to Amsterdam for the Cannabis Cup

Portrait of the Critic As a Cool Guy

Dave Hickey's Air Guitar