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Pitbull and Lil Jon Lead a Zumba Class! (Yikes)

Pitbull and Lil Jon Convention Center 2/15/2013 Better than...the fitness DJ in your spin class. Hip-hop and fitness might not seem immediately compatible, and Pitbull and Lil Jon aren't quite LL chiseled. But that didn't stop them from performing before 3000 freaking Zumba fitness buffs at the C ... More >>

Red Bull Music Academy DJ Crew Battle - Exchange L.A. - 12/5/12

Red Bull Music Academy Culture Clash Feat. Friends of Friends, Smog, Dim Mak, Jeffree's Exchange L.A. 12/5/12 It was beatmakers vs. beatmakers as a bunch of dudes in flat brimmed hats competed for bragging rights at last night's Red Bull Music Academy Culture Clash. The L.A. incarnation of the int ... More >>

Sunset Strip Music Festival - Marilyn Mason, Steve Aoki - August 18, 2012

See also: *Marilyn Manson Rambles, Makes Jokes About the Dark Knight Killer *Our review of X at the Roxy for Sunset Strip Music Festival, 8/17/12 While the Sunset Strip Music fest has primarily been seen as a head-banger hullabaloo attracting faithful longhairs and babes in studded belts -- and no ... More >>

Top 10 Sexiest Hip-Hop Video Vixens

LMFAO 'Bikini Girl' Says She Was Fired For Being 'Big Boned' Top Ten Sexiest Album Covers We've Ever Seen Top 60 Worst Lil Wayne Lines on Tha Carter IV Top Ten Rap Albums For People Who Don't Know Shit About Hip-Hop Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List Thoughts From A Rando ... More >>

Snoop Dogg, Bishop Don "Magic" Juan, and Debbie "The Glass Lady" on Pimp Cups, Religion, and Life Lessons

In this week's cover story, we trace the elusive and colorful history of hip hop's most interesting accessory, the pimp cup. These bedazzled chalices, made and prayed over by Chicago church-goer Debbie the Glass Lady, are carried by celebrities ranging from Lil Jon to Owen Wilson. Pimp-turned-preach ... More >>

Big Pimpin'

Pimp cups have real players and white kids alike dropping cash

Here's The Full List of How Much Each Sunset Junction Band Was Supposed to Be Paid

In August Sunset Junction was denied a permit by the Board of Public Works, due to unpaid fees. This left everyone scrambling to get money they were owed, including ticket buyers, vendors, and bands themselves. Sunset Junction Neighborhood Alliance proceeded to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protec ... More >>

11 Craziest Nude Scandals in L.A. in the Last Year (Photos NSFW)

Lots of crazies get in trouble in our fair city, and lots of those crazies are also nude. Just this week a naked man (above) climbed a radio tower in downtown L.A. and threatened to jump. Do they have this problem in, say, North Dakota? What is it about L.A. that brings out the unhinged unclothed? ... More >>

Yelawolf - El Rey Theatre - October 11, 2011

Timothy Norris​Yelawolf El Rey Theatre October 11, 2011 Almost a year ago, Yelawolf opened for Wiz Khalifa at the Music Box to little interest. His modest van was parked next to the headliner's tour bus in the lot. Last night at the El Rey Theatre, though, Yelawolf was in his element. Havi ... More >>

Music Picks: India.Arie, Merle Haggard, Endangered Blood, Little Dragon

Also, Lupe Fiasco, Yelawolf, Miguel Migs, Chad VanGaalen and others

Nappy Roots - El Cid - September 13, 2011

Rebecca HaithcoatNappy Roots​Nappy Roots El Cid September 13, 2011 Better than ... whatever you were doing at home. Hip-hop group the Nappy Roots have four albums, one of which is multi-platinum. Their producers include everyone from Raphael Saadiq to Kanye West to Lil Jon. And to this day, ... More >>

Identity Festival: Steve Aoki, Jessie and the Toy Boys, Chad Hugo and More - Hollywood Palladium - 9/4/11

Roselle ChenJessie And The Toy Boys​Steve Aoki, Booka Shade, Jessie and the Toy Boys, Chad Hugo Identity Festival Hollywood Palladium Sunday, September 4 See also: Identity Festival Preview: We Talk With Steve Aoki, Nervo, Figo, Jessie And The Toy Boys and Others Sunday's Identity Festival a ... More >>

From Hanson to Happy Hour: El Cid To Host New Stage At Sunset Junction 2011

Awkward family photos​Ever chock full o' surprises, organizers of L.A.'s annual Sunset Junction festival announced they've partnered with Silverlake landmark El Cid to host a new sixth stage at its 2011 festival. The news comes on the heels of the recently-announced Hotel Cafe stage at the f ... More >>

In a World Without AutoTune, This Is What Lil Jon REALLY Sounds Like

​We know what you're thinking: "in a world without AutoTune, what would Lil Jon would REALLY sound like?" And then you're also thinking: "Would Lil Jon be good at karaoke in such an alternate universe?" And furthermore you're also thinking: "I bet he'd be into Twisted Sister and shit." And: ... More >>

The Surreal World of ASCAP's Pop Awards: Where Adam Lambert and Ke$ha Honor the Guys Who Made Them Famous (and Train is the Best Rock Band)

Lina LecaroKe$ha and Adam Lambert hold Luke and Martin's plaques.​Haters might say that Dr. Luke and Max Martin are responsible for the downfall of music. After all, manufactured pop has killed it for other genres, especially harder and more experimental ones. But at ASCAP's Pop Music Awards ... More >>

Snoop Dogg Wants to Get You Blasted With His New Four Loko-Inspired Drink

Snoop Dogg Wants to Get You Blasted With New Four Loko Style Drink

Travis Barker On His New Hip-Hop Record, Blink 182, The Transplants and his dream collab: Willie Nelson!

Lina Lecaro This drummer definitely gets some. ​ LA hook-ups and hang-outs played a major role in the forthcoming release by Travis Barker, "Can A Drummer Get Some," his hip-hop heavy solo debut featuring a who's who of rap superstars: Lil Wayne, Kid Cudi, Snoop Dogg, Lupe Fiasco, Pharell, RZA ... More >>

Music Picks: SWANS, Sebadoh, Arbouretum, Cass McCombs

Also Meshell Ndegeocello, Kaki King, Local Natives and others

Diplo Attacked By Lil Jon, Eaten By Crocodiles [Reenactment]

Diplo Attacked By Little Jon, Eaten By Crocodiles [Reenactment]

Who Cares About Bieber, Gaga, or the VMA's? You Do! Winner Recaps Past and Present

Who Really Cares About Bieber, Gaga, or the VMA's? You Do! Winner Recaps Past and Present

Is Electric Daisy Carnival the Greatest Show on Earth?

By Scott Sterling Every year at this time, a sadly sizable contingent of L.A. media trot out the same tired warhorse in regard to the Electric Daisy Carnival. It's all shock and awe that 800 kazillion people faithfully flock to the annual dance music bacchanal. (Actual numbers are awaiting official ... More >>

Larry Tee Talks: 'L.A. Has a Better Club Scene Than New York'

Larry Tee has floated through contemporary club history like Forrest Gump on ecstasy, seemingly everywhere you'd want to be. Growing up in Atlanta, he hung out with R.E.M. and co-wrote fellow Atlantan Ru Paul's 1992 hit "Supermodel (You Better Work)." In 1990s New York he became a DJ on the club kid ... More >>

West Coast Sound: Burger, Fries and a Prince Remix CD

Music ed takes Weekly readers for a ride

Prince Apologizes to L.A. Fans, Will Issue a Limited Edition Remix CD Through In-N-Out Burger

Who knew Prince liked his burgers animal style? In the wake of Prince's much decried three-show evening at L.A. Live on Saturday, which was plagued with sound problems and saw many fans still waiting in line for the Club Nokia show while he was inside performing, the musician last night issued a fo ... More >>

Grammy Week: Magical Music Moments All Over Town

Weiss' 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2008

25. Prafit-"Nice Weather" The nice weather is long gone--the ostensibly immutable Los Angeles sun blotted by kidney colored clouds and cold rain. So Prafit's ode to the sizzle of July feels like an antique postcard documenting endless light, chicken breasts smothered in BBQ sauce, and basement ... More >>

New Year's Eve is Only Three Weeks Away. Idea #1: Dancing at the Palladium with Infected Mushroom, Flosstradamus and DJ Hyphy Crunk

Watch Steve Aoki at The Heist in Music Videos | View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com (Above: DJ Hyphy Crunk with Steve Aoki tearing shit up.) Yeah, it's time to start planning New Year's Eve. With the Hard crew opting out of the festivities this year, that's one less choice if you feel like ce ... More >>

From skateboarding to the Smell to Laotion pop star: the videos of Jonny Olsen

In this week's print version, we're profiling one Jonny Olsen, who moved from Los Angeles to Laos five years ago and has since become a pop star. They call him Mawlummawkhaenfalang, which means "white dude who can play a mean khaen." The khaen, as you will see in the videos below, is like a pan flut ... More >>

Electronica? This Is L.A., Not New York

New EPs by Flying Lotus, Blank Blue and Scotty Coats help redefine the genre in Southern California

So X-Cited

X Games, Gibson guitars and Crash Mansion's woes

Felli Fel: Feel the Power

106 FM star hooks up with Jermaine Dupri, rides wave of renewed interest in DJ culture

Beat Streets

Nightranger

Devil’s Haircut and B-Boys

How Shit Be

Freestyle riffs & ruminations on black music and pop culture at the dawn of 2007

Bubblegum Hip-hop and a Band With three Test Icicles

Sho' Nuff!

Big Primpin’ Bigmouth Strikes Again Sayonara, Suckas

Tsar, Reborn

L.A.’s glam-punk heroes twinkle, rock

The Psychic Hipster’s Pop 10 Yindies And Crunksters And Christians, O My!

California Love

The Game and Daz bring gangsta back where it belongs