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Jerry Stahl Discusses His New Book About Heroin, the Drug That Nearly Destroyed Him

Jerry Stahl knows heroin — the good, the bad and the literary. That's why Stahl was the perfect choice to be editor of The Heroin Chronicles, an anthology of 13 chasing-the-dragon stories by junkies and ex-junkies. Released Jan. 1, the third entry in the Akashic Drug Chronicles Series (after T ... More >>

A Robot Ate a Pig Carcass (Among Other Weird Happenings) in Downtown L.A. Last Weekend

If you really want to see a festival that deals with the extremities of the future, any retirement home will do. The 2nd Extreme Future Festival, which took place over two days at the L.A. Center Studios this past weekend, focused on arts and technology produced by "radical voices of the new evolut ... More >>

Music Picks: R. Kelly, Leonard Cohen, Cat Power

RIPPED: Expressions from the Underground

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Original Songs Vs. Their Covers

KCRW Broadcast #169 for Saturday, June 16, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Joey Ramone's Legacy Is in Danger Fanatics! Take cover! If you check out our show for tonight, you will note we have a bit of a concept happening here. I have broken the two hours below, so you can quickly see wha ... More >>

Punk Videos and DIY Video Art at Alternative Projections

The Venture Bros. : Convention Do's and Don'ts for Fans

Shannon Cottrell​See more photos in Shannon Cottrell's gallery, "The Venture Bros. @ San Diego Comic-Con 2011." Adult Swim's cult hit The Venture Bros. was back at San Diego Comic-Con this year. Friday's panel featured show masterminds Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer along with James Urbaniak, ... More >>

Falling James' Gig of the Week: The Middle Class and Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds at the Echoplex, 6/24

Falling JamesThe Middle Class​So much of punk rock is centered around nostalgia these days, whether it's played by modern corporate pretenders aping their elders in watered-down, insipid ways or the surviving elders themselves, whose reunions are often too sluggish and self-congratulatory to e ... More >>

A Cure for the Monday Funk

Creep Show, Peep Show

Heavy Metal Parking Lot, photography at Hotel de Ville Eyewear and the Paul Smith anniversary party, plus saying goodbye to some of our fave haunts

SIMON SAYS

Music Picks: The Chapin Sisters, Pink Martini, Freestyle Fellowship, Mark Kozelek

Also Shonen Knife, the Vibrators, Karnivool and others

Music Picks: Circa Survive, Joanna Newsom, El-P, Roots Roadhouse

Also, Scorpions, Viza, the Park and others

Wear it on Your Sleeve: T-Shirts from the Underground

Wear it on Your Sleeve: T-Shirts from the Underground

Rock Picks: Al Kooper, Year Long Disaster, Steven Severin, the Phenomenal Handclap Band

Also, Kimya Dawson, the Cigarette Bums, Willi Williams and others

The Venture Bros. Action Figures and Bobble Heads Coming Soon

At long last, the geek gods have smiled upon fans of The Venture Bros. Today, Adult Swim announced that the cult hit TV series, which wraps underground music and pop culture references into an action-based storyline, is collaborating with L.A. toy company Biff Bang Pow! to create a line of bobble he ... More >>

Rock Picks: Gabriel Andruzzi, DANNY B. HARVEY, RIOT GRRL XMAS CARNIVAL

Also, Boogie Nazis, the Growlers, Good Old War and others

The Venture Bros.' Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick Talk Favorite Music

Shannon Cottrell​Sunday night at midnight, The Venture Bros. returns to Adult Swim for another season of mad scientist and supervillain misadventures. While we have heard bits and pieces about what to expect for the upcoming episodes at Comic Con, when LA Weekly caught up show architects Jacks ... 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

Beautiful Loser, Tortured Killer

How Two Veterans of the L.A. Punk Scene Wound Up on a Collision Course, Until Only One Was Left Standing

LYRIC GAL

Rock Picks: Riot Girl Carnival, Miniature Tigers, Death Cab for Cutie, Deer Tick

Also, Vieux Farka Touré, John Fogerty, Stacey Q, Watts Ensemble and others

Rock Picks: Sly & Robbie, Johanna Kunin, White Rabbits, Daniel Francis Doyle

Also, Blue Jungle, A Camp, Neko Case, Jay Reatard and others

It's Venture Time: Composer JG Thirlwell Talks Venture Bros. Score

Anne Katrine SenstadJ.G. Thirlwell On the surface, The Venture Bros. is a blatant, and extremely funny, parody of Hanna-Barbera's classic Johnny Quest with elements of Fantastic Four and James Bond thrown in for good measure. Watch a few episodes, though, and the popular Adult Swim series morphs int ... More >>

Rock Picks: Spindrift, Randy Newman, The Gutter Twins

Also, Zola Moon, David Banner, Naïm Amor, and more

Danny DeVito

Inside the Blood Factory

Rock Picks: Puffy AmiYumi, the Dickies, the B-52's, Fear, Van Halen

For the week of November 16 - 22

Rock Picks: Finland Station, M.I.A., Feist, Suzanne Vega

For the week of Nov. 9-15

Sonic Youth Rides its Masterpiece

Don't Daydream it's over

Dave Naz

The big uneasy

Rock Picks

For the week of March 1 - 8

Paolo Cilione & Claudio Camaione, Mix Fix

Writer’s Block

Edited by Kateri Butler

Droning Man

Cliff Martinez: The buzz

The Making of a Designer

Monah Li on creation, transformation,faith — and garmentos

It’s a Cinch

Upchuck the Funk

Speak Easy and Carry a Big Stick

Edited by Kateri Butler

Fetus Don't Fail Me Now

Edited by Kateri Butler

Heathen Hollywood

I Fiori Delle Mille Ed Ottanta Minuti

Edited by Kateri Butler

Unembarrassed

Kristian Hoffman, a dedicated evader of fashion

Bring the Noise

All Tomorrow's Parties feeds back to the future

Secret Agent

Cecil Taylor has evolved you

Loud and Proud

Remembering an American icon

Foetus Maximus

Jim Thirlwell, a demon for all seasons

Truckers, Tricks and Sarah

J.T. LeRoy talks

Pop the Cork

Jay-Z beyond reasonable doubt

Good Golly, Mr. Dalai

'Thees Ees Zee Reel Shit!'

Remembering Claude Bessy, a.k.a. Kickboy Face