Lily Allen

This Is the Mixtape I Made For the Guys Who Keep Breaking Into My Car

Three, maybe four times in the last month, my car has been broken into. I suppose at least a portion of that is my fault, both macro and micro. Macro: I mean, if I'd have maybe paid more attention in school, I'd probably make more money than I do today, which means I wouldn't have to live across t ... 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 >>

Five Pop Songs Ruined By Glee

Glee's GQ shoot​You've got to hand it to Lea Michelle, Matthew Morrison, and the rest of the cast of the TV show Glee -- they certainly have a special talent for taking a once awesome pop song and turning it into an insufferable case of over-singing and unnecessary theatricality. The third sea ... More >>

Ximena Sariñana at The Echoplex 7/16/11

Erica E. PhilliipsXimena Sariñana​WHO: Ximena Sariñana WHERE: The Echoplex WHEN: 7/16/11 Better than... the movies. Cut from a similar dainty-floral-patterned cloth as Zooey Deschanel and Jenny Lewis, child actress turned cheerful indie darling Ximena Sariñana has led an ... More >>

Top 10 Workout Songs To Play When You're Ready To F Someone Up

​ Going to the gym sucks, more so when your Tylenol PM hasn't worn off yet and the guy next to you reeks. But being really pissed off helps, especially when you have a soundtrack to back you up. Plug in your earphones, crank up the treadmill and imagine the tool's face who stood you up at the ... More >>

Pulp Reunite, Best Coast / Marnie Stern Feud Continues, Rent 2 Damn High Guy Autotuned, and More News From Across the Universe

Pulp Reunite, Best Coast / Marnie Stern Feud Continues, Rent 2 Damn High Guy Autotuned, and More News From Across the Universe

Rock & Roll, Entry Level

What does the perennial L.A. dream of stardom look like circa 2010?

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

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

The Specials: Back in Black and White

Lynval Golding on the return of ska's magnificent seven (minus one)

Music Picks: Laura Veirs, Experience Hendrix, Boyz II Men, Earthworm Ensemble

Also, David Scott Stone, Slow Club, Little Boots and others

Bigger Than Both of Us

A&R Star Makers: The Vanishing Gatekeepers

The once-powerful executives have become an endangered species

Notes on the Grammy Nominations: Excuse Us While We Puke

​What follows are a few random notes on LA-based nominees for the 2009 Grammys, which were announced yesterday in downtown LA. If you're looking for thoughts on the big-ass pop categories, go elsewhere; we're going to try and wade through the rock and lesser known categories without throwing u ... 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 >>

Dave Dresden Returns to Monday Social Tonight

Dave Dresden live @ Monday Social, 8/04/08 Savvy locals know that you want to catch superstar DJs, but don't feel like being trapped inside a megaclub with 2000 weekend warriors, you wait until the night when the rest of the city is catching up on sleep and head down to Monday Social. This week, ... More >>

The Very Best -- Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit -- Deliver a Party at the Echoplex

Sometimes it's best to just come out and say it fast and honestly: You missed a great party last night at the Echoplex. Well, not all of you. A few hundred souls showed up to see the Very Best, Rainbow Arabia and Bersa Discos bring the rhythm. The headliner, from London, consists of production duo R ... More >>

Seasoned Sexpots, Rock Sirens and Frugal Fashionistas

On Pleasant Gehman and Maggie Barry

Rock Picks: Pelican, Herman Dune, Rasputina, Bill Frisell, Random Patterns

Also, the Rakes, Cold War Kids, Idan Raichel Project and others

Beige Beef Breeds New Rusty's Supperclub, and Lucent Dossier Experience at the Edison

N.A.S.A. lands at Cinespace for Aoki's bash

Google's New Killer App? Why Are Music Bloggers' Posts Disappearing, and Who Is Deleting Them?

The Bird & the Bee: Ray Guns in Their Future

Duo’s new album has sparkly tunes about meteors, Japan, witches and the life span of a fly

In the Studio with Jason Bentley, Newly Christened Host of KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic

(Photos by Timothy Norris. View the "Beyond the Stage: Mercury Rev on KCRW with Jason Bentley and at El Rey Theatre" slideshow.)

Rock Picks: R.E.M., Von Bondies, Ladytron

And other May 22-29 shows

Rock Picks: The Dirtbombs, Robyn, Dizzee Rascal

And other May 15-22 shows

Rock Picks: Slick Rick, Tapes 'n Tapes, Kate Nash

And other May 8-15 shows

Kate Nash: Whipping Girl

She's just arrived. But the backlash is already in full force

So '07: The Way We Wore

How to know if you were a fashion victim in '07

Where To Eat Now

Grammy Nominations

If you are the kind of person that actually pays attention to this kind of thing, then here's a full list of this year's Grammy nominees . Yes, Amy Winehouse got a ton of nominations, if she can hold it together until the awards area announced. Kanye West got eight, and we can only hope he gets sh ... More >>

Amazon's MP3 Bargains

Amazon.com launched their new MP3 store today to go head to head with Apple's iTunes store. In a nice bit of irony the #1 selling song on Amazon was "1234" by Feist, which is popular because it's played in an Apple commercial. Amazon's songs are DRM-free and 256k which are the big selling points. ... More >>

Where To Eat Now

Short Subjects

Hot this summer: the swinging trapeze and frocks with pockets

99 Essential - List Only

Grade A-Won

K-town’s monument to the great Korean sushi innovation

Coachella And the Cure for the Common Festivalitis

Change Artists

Let me tell you about the Bird and the Bee costumes

Magical Mystery Tour

SxSW journal

Maude!

SXSW or no SXSW, my first sign of Texas pride was the Texas-shaped gravestone in the Texas State Cemetery I noticed outside the airport shuttle. Landed in Austin in drizzling weather; even in a crowded airplane making four stops it's easy to single out the passengers headed here – they're the ... More >>

Crank that Crunk

Got in last night. Don't even ask about the airplane flight. OK, ask. Horrible, horrible drunk musician-esque type guy sitting behind me, using f-words muchly, trying to impress the unimpressed female next to him. He was under the unfortunate impression that everything he thought, and then said, was ... More >>

My(Space) Secret is Out: Cold War Kids Play For Free

If you have a MySpace page, then lucky you. You can diddle away hours at work, perp for dates, check up on exs, plug your band, and now...you can attend their secret shows. Well, they've been going on for a year, whether you knew you were invited or not. Last February, MySpace launched "Secret Show ... More >>

Feb. 2, 2007

Moz the Cat by Kate Sullivan and Chest of Lies by Joshuah Bearman

Big Damn Deal

Media darling Lily Allen’s hype exceeds her

Rock Picks

For February 1–8

Lily Allen Supports Homeless Doggies

I am still waiting on confirmation that the dark haired muffin with pin-up girl bangs in a demure dress was Lily Allen. I swung by Ashley Paige's shop on Sunday to check out the pooches she has up for adoption, and swear I it was non other than the brit reggae songstress chatting up the dude from Ea ... More >>

The Year Blogs Got Lame, Business Got Hip and Nostalgia Was King

Summer Songs, Blues Hollers and Genre Actions