Kylie Minogue

Deadmau5, Kylie Minogue, and Timbaland - House of Blues - 2/10/13

Nero, Deadmau5, Kylie Minogue, and Timbaland House of Blues 2/10/13 A crew of electronic artists and pop stars performed last night as part of a Grammy afterparty that was also a benefit for Children's Hospital of Los Angeles Orthopedic Center. (Tickets started at $250.) But the cost didn't deter ... More >>

Why Holy Motors's Denis Lavant Should Be Nominated for the Best Actor Oscar

We'd Like to Help the Academy is our Oscar column highlighting the outliers that should be nominated (but probably won't be). In February of this year, the Academy gave their Best Actor award to a Frenchman whose film was both a celebration of cinema and a lamentation if its bygone days (Jean Dujar ... More >>

Dita Von Teese: How She Became the Most Famous Stripper in America

See also: *Top 10 Strip Clubs in Los Angeles *Marilyn Monroe's Seven Never-Before-Seen Mostly Nude Photos at Duncan Miller Gallery Dita Von Teese can't remember the first time she took her clothes off for someone. It was probably early on, before she became the queen of burlesque and undressing bec ... More >>

Why This Song Sucks: Rihanna's "We Found Love"

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Rihanna's "We Found Love," featuring Calvin Harris History: "We Found Love" is the first single from Rihanna's sixth album, Talk That Talk. It was bad ... More >>

Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Dannii Minogue Is The Superior Minogue

​[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilt Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] It was the wee hours of the morning about ten years ago when I first saw Dannii Minogue, on Top of the Pops. Chains ... More >>

Mildred von Hildegard of Mother of London: Fembot Couture

Live Review: Hatsune Miku @ Nokia Theatre for Anime Expo 2011

Shannon Cottrell​For more photos, see Shannon Cottrell's gallery, "Anime Expo at Night: Hatsune Miku in Concert, Tune in Tokyo at Club Nokia." Read more about Anime Expo 2011 in Style Council. The big draw for this year for Anime Expo 2011 was Japan's virtual pop star. Hatsune Miku is a chara ... More >>

Live Review: Kylie Minogue at the Hollywood Bowl

Timothy Norris​ View more photos in Timothy Norris' slideshow, "Kylie Minogue @ Hollywood Bowl." Who: Kylie Minogue Where: Hollywood Bowl When: 5/20/11 It's been just about ten years since Kylie Minogue released "Can't Get You Out of My Head," the monumental global hit that went on to becom ... More >>

Music Picks: Stiff Little Fingers, CunninLynguists, The Nubians, System of a Down

Houses, Aloe Blacc, Krautrock Nite, The Radio Dept. and others

Page Two: Kylie Minogue, the Goddess Next Door

Michel Gondry's Top Ten Music Videos Ever (In Honor Of His Book Signing Tonight)

​ Tonight Michel Gondry's coming to Family Books on Fairfax to sign copies of his new book/DVD My New New York Diary, a collaborative project with cartoonist Julie Doucet that merges autobiographical illustrations and cinematic storytelling. My New New York Diary is a hardcover volume from Pi ... More >>

Music Picks: Batusis, Interpol, Minus the Bear

Also, Taj Mahal, Shakira, Sufjan Stevens and others

Music Picks: Liz Phair, the Weepies, Tom Tom Club, Evan Voytas

Also, the Lee Boys, Klaxons, Macy Gray, Eels and others

Music Picks: Free Kutmah Benefit, Amanda Jo Williams, Rosie Ledet

Also, Svarte Greiner, Miike Snow, School of Seven Bells and others

Day 3: Gorillaz at Coachella, Why the Multi-Media Group Matters

Gorillaz, the multi-media music project helmed by former Blur front man Damon Albarn and Tank Girl co-creator Jamie Hewlett, is the most intriguing, and perhaps one of the most important, music groups to emerge from the '00s. Nowhere was that more obvious than Sunday night at Coachella, when Gorilla ... More >>

Unexpected Dance Hits of the '00s: From Peaches to The Knife

There are dance club songs that scream "Hit!" Tunes like "Can't Get You Out of My Head" by Kylie Minogue or "One More Time" by Daft Punk encompass everything that is larger-than-life about the clubland, from massive, happy synths to sing-along hooks to beats that force you to keep on dancing. Then t ... More >>

Rock Picks: J. Tillman, Peaches, Japandroid

Also, Franklin Bruno, the Vic Chesnutt Band, the Moore Brothers and others

Interview: Robbie Rivera Hates It When His Warm-Up DJs Play 'Crazy' Hard

The dance music underground might be rocking bleepy techno and dark-wave house from Europe, but the stuff that really moves the masses combines the synthetic strings of trance with the tough percussion of house. One look at the most popular DJs in the world, from Tiesto to Deadmau5 to Kaskade, point ... More >>

Rock Picks: Amadou & Mariam, Manimal Festival, Marianne Faithfull, Gil Scott-Heron

Also, Kylie Minogue, the Joe Perry Project, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks and others

Let's Go to the Eurodisco: Continental Dance Pop for a Wednesday Morning

Admitting that you genuinely dig European dance pop is like giving away a deep dark secret. These songs probably weren't cool upon release and, even with the reevaluation of a select few (mostly Italodisco) artists amidst the electro boom a few years back, the bulk of the available material still is ... More >>

New Har Mar Superstar Track, Originally Intended for Britney Spears, Released: "Tallboy" (MP3)

​So if this isn't a gay club hit this fall, we don't know what from what. The new Har Mar Superstar track has arrived after a musical Har Mar Hiatus of ... has it been five years? It's from his forthcoming album, Dark Touches. In that time, a lot of blue-eyed soul singers have come and gone, b ... More >>

HACKNEYED AND ACNED

Fallen Idols of All Shapes and Sizes

Calvin Harris: The Dance-Floor Don

In Harris’ version of history, Scotland is the birthplace of disco

Björn Again

Can I Get a Witness?

So Fresh, So Clean

A Perfect Pop Plan

The Prodigal Son

Nick Cave's sin and salvation