Linkin Park

No, Seriously: My Musical Taste Was Shaped By Grand Theft Auto

Grand Theft Auto changed my life. Not because the games got me robbing, stabbing, and running over prostitutes, but because, as a 20-year-old guy, it has directly shaped my musical taste. The latest game in the series, Grand Theft Auto V, drops today and takes place in a fictionalized version of L. ... More >>

Sunset Strip Music Festival - West Hollywood - Aug. 1-3, 2013

Sunset Strip Music Festival Sunset Strip, West Hollywood Aug. 1-3, 2013 The Sunset Music festival sought to reverse sagging attendance this year, and the line-up got a shake-up. There was less emphasis on head-banging, with instead such artists as rap-rock arena rockers Linkin Park, a mix of hip-ho ... More >>

Music Picks: Hard Summer, Sunset Strip Music Festival and Bob Dylan

Linkin Park, Awolnation, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, et al.

The 10 Sexiest Women in K-Pop

The women of K-pop are a formidable force: the biggest selling acts in the genre, after all, are female, and they appeal to guys and girls alike. From bubbly girls, to sex pots, to empowered ladies and divas, it's truly a mixed bag of incredibly sexy women. Here are our favorites. The 10 Sexiest M ... More >>

Gibson Amphitheatre To Shut Down

Gibson Amphitheatre, the mainstay mid-size concert venue at Universal City, will close its doors in September, according to its operator Live Nation Entertainment. As announced in December 2011, the 6,200-capacity amphitheatre is expected to be demolished to make way for The Wizarding World of Har ... More >>

The Korean Restaurant Guide: Los Angeles 40 Restaurants and Bilingual Text

If you love Korean food but aren't as conversant in the intricasies of either L.A.'s Koreatown neighborhood or, well, Korean, the folks at The Korean Food Foundation have engineered a terrific guidebook for you. Just published in a handy square cornflower blue paperback, the Korean Restaurant Guide: ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, December 7 Black Mambas THE REDWOOD The Black Mambas -- along with The Neumans and The Hurricanes -- are L.A. label Wild Records' newest signees. But instead of building into the label's Sun Records-style sound of '56, the Mambas stagger into 1976 with gutter-glam songs and dawn-of-punk vel ... More >>

Giant Robot Biennale 3: The Famed Asian Pop Culture Magazine Is Gone, But Its Art Still Lives, at Japanese American Museum

Inside Giant Robot Biennale 3 at Little Tokyo's Japanese American National Museum, there are rows of glass cases filled with toys. This is the Remix Project. Eighty-five artists from seven different countries, a mix of both newcomers and established custom toy artists, contributed to the effort. Bla ... More >>

Ten Rap-Rock Songs That Are Actually Awesome

See also: Crazy Town's Shifty Shellshock Is Out of His Coma! Here's Everything You Need To Know About Him Rap-rock remains the coolest idea ever. You've just been scared off of it by the mountain of terrible rap-rock in existence. Here are ten songs that prove the Woodstock '99-tainted genre could ... More >>

Do You Deeply Regret Your Rod Stewart Obsession? Comedy Show For Shame! Will Heal You

Back in November, Jazz Ponce, longtime booker of Hollywood Studio Bar & Grill's Monday-night comedy staple What's Up, Tiger Lily?, began branching out beyond mere stand-up for an interactive, bonding, Mystery Science Theater 3000-style endeavor called For Shame!. Thus far the likes of T.J. Miller, C ... More >>

Ron English's 'Seasons In Supurbia' at Corey Helford: Artist's Perverted Spoofing of Disney, G.I. Joe and Charlie Brown

The celebrated billboard satirist and painter Ron English lives on the East Coast, and so most of his outdoor work takes place there. But he regularly provides downloadable paste-ups on his blog, and is himself a regular journeyman, who makes outdoor contributions to the public art in every city he ... More >>

Evidence: A Conscious Rapper Who Doesn't Mind Being Called As Much

See also: Pictures Of Rappers' Cats (Including Evidence's Mr. Drummer) Evidence has a history as a tagger. An apt metaphor since, like graffiti, he's not loud and you can see him everywhere. But only if you're looking. The Los Angeles native came of age in the '90s with Dilated Peoples. Since the ... More >>

9/11 Changed Everything For The Music Industry

​By Chaz Kangas September 11th brought irrevocable change to our society, and the music industry was no exception. It was also a very strange time; both rap group The Coup and metal band Dream Theater released album covers with the World Trade Center in flames. Radio DJs across the country, m ... More >>

Meet Death Grips: The Beast Lurking In The Shadows Is Set To Change the Hip-Hop Game

​"I close my eyes and seize it I clench my fists and beat it I light my torch and burn it I am the beast I worship... I am the beast I worship" As the media is shining its hip-hop spotlight on Los Angeles, there is a monster growing in the state's forgotten capital.  Drummer Zach Hill (He ... More >>

Wanna Go to a Secret Linkin Park Show in L.A.?

Linkin Park got heart​Want to make someone else buy you a ticket to a secret Linkin Park show, and feel good about doing it? If you raise at least $500 for Japan Tsunami Relief, you'll be invited with a guest to a private Linkin Park concert in a "small, intimate venue" in the Los Angeles are ... More >>

Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan Covers Joy Division At MusiCares MAP Fund Show

Lina Lecaro Dave Gahan feels it at Nokia.​Happy Birthday Dave Gahan! The Depeche Mode singer turns 49 today, but he came frighteningly close to never seeing this milestone. Fifteen years ago, he in fact died from an overdose at the Sunset Marquis in West Hollywood and was brought back to life ... More >>

Top 10 Bands That Should Have Broken Up Instead of the White Stripes

10 Bands Who Should Break Up

Nerds Own Largo! The Nerdist Podcast Goes Live with Mythbuster Adam Savage

Erin Broadley(L-R) Nerdists Chris Hardwick, Adam Savage, Matt Mira and Jonah Ray at Largo​That venerable 21st century form of entertainment known as the podcast can be as wonderful (so much variety... and usually, free!) as it is frustrating. With hundreds upon hundreds of podcasts available o ... More >>

Rage Against the Machine DVD To be Released

Rage Against the Machine DVD To be Released

The Nightlife Before Christmas

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 >>

Linkin Park Art Work

Eminem and Jay-Z to Play at Wiltern Tonight for DJ Hero Launch (UPDATED)

Hot Monday night in LA: Eminem and Jay-Z are doing a surprise show at the Wiltern tonight to promote their new relationship with DJ Hero, the hugely anticipated (and contentious) new game from Activision's Hero franchise. Below is an exclusive look at DJ Hero: The two rap superstars recently si ... More >>

I Photograph Rock Stars: Greg Watermann's Gallery Opening at A&I Hollywood, May 7

BY PAUL ROGERS Paul RogersThe first time I worked with Greg Watermann - at Ozzy Osbourne's Beverly Hills mansion for Britain's Metal Hammer magazine in 2002 - he looked every bit the Hollywood rock star photographer. Black-clad like a Nine Inch Nail, blonde "assistant" in tow, he was briskly effic ... More >>

SXSSXSW Day 4/Days Late (Pt. 1): On Rap/Rock, The Legacy of the Beasties, and Asher Roth Vs. The Knux

Other than freshman Delta Sigma Theta rushes at Cal-State Chico, no substrata of the American population has worse taste in rock than rappers. Sure, your little brother likes Fall Out Boy, but eventually, he's going to grow up and discover The Clash, then weed, then hopefully Junior Murvin and Lee ... More >>

Comedy is Dead Returns to Hollywood Forever Cemetery with Headliner Patton Oswalt

Comedy is Dead, the excellent comedy and music revue which brightens up Hollywood Forever Cemetery's hallowed Masonic hall from time to time, was back in full force on Thursday night, and Duncan Trussell - one of the comics performing as well as one of the organizers of the show - had some question ... More >>

Rock Picks: 88BoaDrum, Projekt Revolution, Juana Molina

Also, Flosstradamus, Bigelf, The Crystelles

Almost Acoustic Christmas: Park 'n' Ride

KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas at Gibson Amphitheatre, December 8

KROQ Acoustic Christmas - Day One

Above: Avenged Sevenfold Above and below: Paramore cracks it open! Above and below: Serj Tankian Rise Against rocked it! Gave props to Naked Raygun Show. Below: Avenged Sevenfold Below: Bad Religion

Bands and Brands

Your favorite band is playing the Roxy tonight — but you’re not invited

Daliwood

And anarchy on Sunset

Just Another Night On The Strip

Costume contest at the Key Club Monday Night Havent been back to Metal Skool's Monday mash since I used to deejay the VIP room, and thankfully nothing's changed. KISS wanna-bes, half-naked nymphos, ironic 'staches, lil creepy guys trying to look up my dress... Okay it was their annual Halloween pa ... More >>

Snooze City

By Lina Lecaro She had a lot of people rooting for her. But Britney Spears' opening performance at the MTV VMAs tonight -though not the trainwreck some said it might be- was just... blah. Talk about going through the motions. Her moves were robotic, her outfit unflattering, her lip-syncing ha ... More >>

What Would Erik Satie Do?

Coping with Linkin Park, gas prices and American Idol in a world where only Muddy Bears make sense

Bullshit! (But Thanks)

KROQ INLAND INVASION with Guns N’ Roses, Alice in Chains, Muse, Papa Roach, Avenged Sevenfold and Atreyu at Hyundai Pavilion, September 23

Snap, Crackle, Punk

grammy diary

Tue., Feb. 7 LL Cool J at the House of Blues Wed., Feb. 8 The Grammys at the Staples Center Now, for my personal awards

Nightranger

Trip Out!

Uniting underground L.A. hip-hop, Chuck D. and some guy from Linkin Park, Z-Trip’s debut shocks, awes

Live at Coachella ’05

After this, we promise we won’t even mention Coachella for a year

Strange Memes and Nascent Trends

Not Fade Away

Metallic Mood Swing

Deftones find the cure

Maybe

Reach for the Sun

Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, April 27-28

Up in Smoke

Edited by Kateri Butler

Dark Flowers

Prime cuttings from the current metal crop

Kill 'Em All

Ozzfest: Murder or suicide?

Soulful Spirit