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Music Picks: Rhye, Papa and Motörhead

The Economics of Music Festivals: Who's Getting Rich, Who's Going Broke?

By Chris Parker It's as though the sad, lamentable death of recorded music was accompanied by a kick-ass wake. Sure, label executives have had to sell their fancy homes and put their kids in public schools, but the rest of us have been feasting on a musical smorgasbord. Nothing better exemplifies ... More >>

Tyrannosaur Review

Paddy Considine's directorial debut offers relentless miserablism

Q & A With Marco Pierre White: Escoffier, Television, Packaged Soup The French Foreign Legion

marcopierrewhite.orgMarco Pierre White in Afghanistan ​ It's probably safe to say that Marco Pierre White, the English chef who famously earned three Michelin stars at the age of 33 -- at the time the youngest chef ever to do so -- and just as famously gave them up six years later when he reti ... More >>

Los Angeles Film Festival 2011 Preview

Paz Lenchantin, Psychedelic Goddess

The Entrance Band's bassist discusses her inspirations and their Satellite residency

Page Two: EsotErykah

Proposition 19 Dreams of Legal Weed

Bruce Margolin has defended 25,000 pot cases and Timothy Leary. Now he's primed for ganja tourists and sensimilla spas

Music Picks: Laurie Anderson, Onibaba, Superchunk

Also, Hoodoo Gurus, Die Antwoord, Jonsi and others

Free MP3s: Local Natives Get Remixed by West Coast Sound Favorites Superhumanoids

Superhumanoids remix Local Natives. Also, they're touring together.​On a pair of new remixes, Echo Park bedroom popstars Superhumanoids give L.A.'s Local Natives the chillwave treatment. The Supes (as we affectionately call them -- we've made no attempts to hide our enthusiasm) take on two so ... More >>

Music Picks: Ooh La La Fest, Pavement, Beach House

Also, Kris Kristofferson, the Black Keys, Bettye Lavette and others

Tonight: Natalie Merchant, Odeum Guitar Duo, Wild Beasts, Lone Wolf

​Natalie Merchant at the Orpheum Theatre "Natalie Merchant manages to make what would seem to be a stuffy premise -- putting new melodies to the classic words of dead poets -- into the most sonically adventurous project of her career. Known more as a singer and lyricist, she proves to be uncan ... More >>

Music Picks: Ida & Michael Hurley, Rasputina, Hercules & the Love Affair

Also, Natalie Merchant, Earthless, Seu Jorge & Almaz and others

Norm the Lego Stormtrooper Tours Globe with Crystal Method

When Scott Kirkland of The Crystal Method left for tour last May, his young son gave him two Star Wars Lego figures to keep him company. One went missing. The other, a small Stormtrooper named Norm, went on to have the adventure of a lifetime. Scott KirklandNorm Trooper at Buckingham Palace​

Rock Picks: Daedelus, Beth Thornley, Yeasayer

Also, Ohioan, Hepcat, Vivian Girls and others

Exclusive: Salvador Santana's "Don't Do It", Plus Michna Remix [MP3s]

Sal Santana​L.A.-based keyboardist, vocalist and composer Salvador Santana released his solo debut, Keyboard City, this week and he's celebrating that fact tonight at historic Downtown punk venue Madame Wong's. Word is some pretty hefty guests will be in attendance, so if you can sneak or do ... More >>

Interview: 2020Soundsystem's Ralph Lawson "Ready To Rock Huge Gigs"

Ralph Lawson is a British mainstay in the DJ world, a spinner known for his refined house music that contains a touch of electronic progressivism. In the mid-1990s he held down the Back To Basics club night in Leeds that helped inspire his 2020Vision record label and put him on the international spi ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Couples Retreat, The Damned United, Good Hair

Also, Paris, The Horse Boy and more

Music Picks: Sky Saxon Tribute, Daddy Kev, Grace Jones, The Mekons

Also, Jarvis Cocker, Regina Spektor, Ida Maria, Themselves and others.

Samuel L. Jackson Interviewed: Discusses Hip Hop and Comics For the Premiere of Afro Samurai

21 years ago, Samuel L. Jackson snagged a bit part as Leeds in Spike Lee's School Daze. Since then, the prolific Tennessean has appeared in roughly 70 films -- some of them good (Kill Bill, Do the Right Thing, Hard 8,), some not so good (S.W.A.T, Amos and Andrew, Deep Blue Sea), and some that can ... More >>

Up With People Under the Stairs

Hip-hop duo celebrates a decade in L.A.

Tonight at the El Rey: People Under the Stairs Come Up for Some Air

"We'd been around the world ten times and done Glastonbury, Redding, and Leeds before people had even thought about leaving LA. And we've never been heralded by any local media."

Last Night: Kaiser Chiefs Score at Henry Fonda Theatre

Newspaper industry death watch vs. music industry death watch: Why did the NY Times fire music biz reporter Jeff Leeds?

Seriously, I don't understand. It's not like he was publishing fake stories about how P. Diddy offed Tupac.

Theater Reviews

Including this week's pick, Static and Highways Birthday Bash

Who Says We're Not in Kansas Anymore?

Scribes in Ojai, and Kander and Ebb’s final musical, Curtains. plus a preview of Theatre Unlimited's Static

Music Picks

For the week of June 22 - 29

Rock Picks

For the week of March 17 - 23

Rock & Dance Club Listings

For February 3 - 9, 2006

The Party Revisited

Delta 5’s non-reunion of Soviet socialist punk

Don't Postpone Maximum Joy!

A buncha beloved Brit post-punk finds its day in the (reissue) sun

The Full Wilkinson

With three new films about to hit theaters, the British character actor finds himself ever more at home in America

Where Mob Meets Mod

Noir fiction writer Jake Arnott on gangsters, mummies and his Guy Ritchie problem

Invasion of the Body Snatchers Part Deux

WEB UPDATE: War between New York Times and L.A. Times goes nuclear on Spring Street

That Giant Sucking Sound

WEB UPDATE: NY Times Goes After LA Times’ Dargis, Leeds

Soul Warp

Being Bridget Jones

Helen Fielding isn't -- really, truly