Sure, you had the Bill Clinton blowjob scandal, OJ, Pakistan and India going nuclear, mad cow disease, the Rodney King decision, and Titanic. But what made the '90s truly awful was its music. That's not to say that there weren't bright spots -- early Beck, say, or Ok Computer and much of hip-hop's g ... More >>
The 20 Worst Albums Of The '90s: 20-11 Sure, you had the Bill Clinton blowjob scandal, OJ, Pakistan and India going nuclear, mad cow disease, the Rodney King decision, and Titanic. But what made the '90s truly awful was its music. That's not to say that there weren't bright spots -- early Beck, say ... More >>
As the Hollywood-based casting guru behind Jersey Shore and A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila, Doron Ofir knows how the lowbrow culture game is played. But even the man who gave the world Snooki might have been caught off-guard by the outrage over one of his latest projects: a competitive EDM reality ... More >>
When experimental electronic producer Amon Tobin takes the stage at the Greek Theatre tomorrow, his audience will barely be able to see him. He'll be ensconced inside a massive, 2.5-ton structure made up of white, interlocking cubes, stacked Tetris-like atop one another. A sci-fi kaleidoscope of 3 ... More >>
By Ian Traas See Also:EDC 2012: The Underground Has Left The Building Dave Grohl: His Grammys Speech About Electronic Music Was Bullshit [Slideshow] Lollapalooza 2012: The PeopleJustice at Lollapalooza, 8/5/12Ten things your Lollapalooza outfit says about youWith every year that passes, it feels li ... More >>
See also: *Our complete Coachella coverage *Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs For much of their 30 year existence, alternative Manchester Britpop rockers James have been severely underrated. Having toured across the globe and played some of the biggest festivals in the world, frontman Tim ... More >>
Revolver Golden Gods Club Nokia 4-11-12 Better than ... Any hard rock show you'd see on the Sunset Strip nowadays. Music awards shows generally suck. They are most often excuses for industry people to slap themselves on the back and perform crappy performances of songs you don't want to hear anywa ... More >>
Also, Mindless Self Indulgence, the Pierces, Heartless Bastards, Darasuum and others
See also: Cypress Hill Rallies Medical Marijuana Advocates for Smokeout at City Hall (With Photos) Cypress Hill Smokeout Festival with Rusko, Wiz Khalifa, Korn, Sublime with Rome, Thievery Corporation NOS Events Center, San Bernardino 3/3/12 Love was in the San Bernardino air Saturday. Well, that, ... More >>
Also, New Multitudes, Cool Moms, Alpha & Omega, Cloud Nothings and others
Also, Fishbone, Luciana Souza, Infected Mushroom and others
Daniel KohnSee also: Wait, Now Korn Invented Dubstep?! Korn Hollywood Palladium 12/6/11 Better Than...going to a Brian Welch book reading. To mark the release of their latest album, The Path of Totality, veteran hard rock outfit Korn took over The Palladium with an assortment of guests las ... More >>
See also: *Porter Robinson: The Libertarian Dubstep Guy *In Defense Of "Fratstep:" An Open Letter To James Blake It's been a controversial week on the dubstep front. First, there's a libertarian dubstep guy, and then we had to deal with a spin-off called "fratstep." Now Korn is saying they ... More >>
MTV turns 30 this week, and on Monday we spotlighted the five '90s shows the channel should bring back. The end of that decade, of course, saw the rise of Total Request Live, which kicked off in 1998, by which point MTV had long succumbed to the domination of reality shows. Part of TRL's appe ... More >>
Jena Ardell Everyone has had a crush on rockstar before, but these woman actually pursued and conquered rockstars. In order to make our Top 10 Most Recycled Women of Rock list, these ladies had to have dated (or bedded) six or more famous musicians. There's one musician who appears on four o ... More >>
Ross LincolnThe Patton Oswalt Of Rap What: Heavy Metal Kings (Vinnie Paz and Ill Bill) Where: Key Club When: April 6, 2011 "Aye what happened to hip hop yo?" So asked the lead MC of one of Heavy Metal Kings' opening acts, when their attempt to rally the crowd before the end of their set fl ... More >>
Also, Riot Grrl Christmas Carnival, Captain Ahab and others
Huntington Beach metal band Avenged Sevenfold's new album, Nightmare, shot this week to the top of the Billboard chart, pushing Eminem to the second slot. This is a really impressive achievement for the band, particularly as it comes so soon after the tragic death of drummer Jimmy "The Rev" ... More >>
Roadrunner RecordsJoey Jordison & Wednesday 13[See also Full Metal Jackie and Alex Distefano's pre-show interview with Murderdolls' Joey Jordison & Wednesday 13.] Joey Jordison might possibly be the busiest musician in heavy metal today. His decade-plus career as the uber sonic madman behind ... More >>
[Also see the review by Full Metal Jackie and Alex Distefano of Thursday's Murderdolls show at the Key Club.] Taking a few minutes before a headlining show at the Key Club in Hollywood, Joey Jordison and Wednesday 13 took time to give the LA Weekly insight into the much anticipated second Murderdol ... More >>
L.A. bands take to the desert for three days of music overload
Also, The Wedding Present, Phil Alvin and others
Also, The Wedding Present, Phil Alvin and others
Celebrating 15 years in the publicity business this month, the Mitch Schneider Organization is more than a PR company, it's a bonafide taste maker. It's garnered both the trust of the music world's biggest artists and promoters (Sex Pistols, X, Coachella, Ozzfest) and consistent consideration from u ... More >>
Celebrating 15 years in the publicity business this month, the Mitch Schneider Organization is more than a PR company, it's a bonafide taste maker. It's garnered both the trust of the music world's biggest artists and promoters (Sex Pistols, X, Coachella, Ozzfest) and consistent consideration from u ... More >>
View more photos in Timothy Norris' "Sunset Strip Music Festival" slideshow. God bless the Sunset Strip. Hipsters can pooh-pooh it all they want as they ride their purple-tired fixed-gear bikes through Silver Lake, but for a sheer what-the-fuh!? parade of humanity, nothing beats the Sunset Strip. ... More >>
View more photos in Timothy Norris' "Sunset Strip Music Festival" slideshow. God bless the Sunset Strip. Hipsters can pooh-pooh it all they want as they ride their purple-tired fixed-gear bikes through Silver Lake, but for a sheer what-the-fuh!? parade of humanity, nothing beats the Sunset Strip. ... More >>
View more photos in Timothy Norris' "Sunset Strip Music Festival" slideshow. God bless the Sunset Strip. Hipsters can pooh-pooh it all they want as they ride their purple-tired fixed-gear bikes through Silver Lake, but for a sheer what-the-fuh!? parade of humanity, nothing beats the Sunset Strip. ... More >>
Also, Destroy L.A., Sunset Strip Music Festival, the Drones and others
On the eve of the Sunset Strip Music Festival, Lou Adler and his son Nic talk about the concert business
On the eve of the Sunset Strip Music Festival, Lou Adler and his son Nic talk about the concert business
Eric VanBeekOzzy Osbourne last month at BlizzConThe Sunset Strip Music Festival occurs this Saturday at Sunset and Doheny in West Hollywood. They're closing down Sunset, will plant a stage at each end, and will open a few clubs for bands all day and night. Below is the schedule: East Stage ... More >>
The Adler posse knows a thing or two about the concert business. Lou Adler, the patriarch, is responsible for some of the great American cultural touchstones of the past 40 years, and a few of these moments are showcased on the wall of his home office in Malibu. There's the movie poster for The ... More >>
How an oblivious school board lets a tiny, scandal-ridden force endanger L.A. kids
With roots that reach back to the dawn of the Reagan Administration, Underworld is one of the longest surviving electronic dance bands in history, outlasted only by the likes of Kraftwerk (which, frankly, isn't really Kraftwerk without Florian Schneider, who left the act in January). You wo ... More >>
Buddyhead: For the Children Since 1997The rules of rock can be quite complicated: never wear the T-shirt of the band you're going to see at the show, never play air guitar during a concert, and never -- ever -- crap on the tour bus. But what happens if you're actually in the band, what can and can' ... More >>
Almost 25 years have elapsed since the Rick Rubin-helmed, Licensed to Ill found the Beasties staking their claim as the first major rap group to incorporate guitar-hero rawk ("Rock Box" aside). Such juxtaposition seems prosaic today, but it's almost impossible to grasp how revolutionary sampling L ... More >>
Maybe we ought to blame Kanye--even though this trend started well before him, and will likely persist long after he retires to pursue French anime interior spaceship design. Like it or not, 'Ye's massive success re-removed a lot of barriers into the major label rap game. No longer did you need st ... More >>
Adam GropmanFieldy: Every Dreadlock is numbered, like every grain of sand By Adam Gropman Last Thursday night, some of the gnarly, tattooed, hard-rock world often associated with the western Sunset Strip invaded the higher-brow literary/intellectual world of Strip oddity Book Soup. Korn bassist Fi ... More >>
Ryan Adams - Royce Hall, UCLA, Jan. 30 and Bridges Auditorium, Claremont, Jan. 22. Both shows on sale Saturday Avenged Sevenfold, Atreyu, Suicidal Tendencies - San Diego Sports Arena, Dec. 7 - All ages Andrew Bird, Handsome Family - Orpheum, Dec. 7 Black Ghosts, Mezzanine Owls, Tweak Bird, more ... More >>
Tony Wilson on the city of Manchester, the Sex Pistols, Joy Division, Factory Records, New Order, the Hacienda Club, Happy Mondays . . . had enough yet?
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