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Jose Lucero, 22-Year-Old Stagehand for MTV Movie Awards, Dies in Scaffolding Fall at Universal CityWalk

Updated at the bottom: Cal/OSHA confirms that Lucero was taking down the MTV Movie Awards set, and says he may not have been wearing fall protection. Originally posted at 1:05 p.m. A young man who said on his Facebook that he was on the MTV Movie Awards set this week has died tragically in a 60-fo ... More >>

The Best of SXSW Music: Thursday 3/15/2012

If you're familiar with chaos theory, which in its basic form is the attempt to find patterns in the random acts of shit on Earth, then you may understand the difficulty that comes with describing a full day at SXSW. To break down the bright, scintillating chaos, Village Voice Media's roving music e ... More >>

Skee-Lo Wished He Was a Little Bit Taller. Then He Promptly Retired

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] The directions haven't changed. If you want to find Skee-Lo, take the 110 to the 105 and get off on Crenshaw. It's everything else that's been altered si ... More >>

Occupy L.A. Sees Casting Call For Young, Hot Protesters Who Want to Join the MTV Real World Movement

​MTV has made an industry this year of recycling its vintage content, from Beavis & Butthead to Liquid Television. Now the network appears to be updating or at least remixing its Real World franchise with a tip of the hat to the Occupy generation. Casting calls in Los Angeles and New York th ... More >>

Pauly Shore's Vegas Is My Oyster on Showtime: Former MTV VJ Gets a Curb Your Enthusiasm-Style Special

Pauly Shore, respectable businessman​Pauly Shore sits behind a desk in his office at The Comedy Store waiting to take a call. At 4 o'clock, he'll get on the phone with a buyer at Netflix and attempt to convince them to make his new Showtime special Vegas Is My Oyster, along with most of his ot ... More >>

Was Reese Witherspoon's Sexting Advice on MTV Intended for Anthony Weiner?

Hollywood LifeCome on, Weiner -- it's a no-brainer.​Everyone seems so sure that Reese Witherspoon's condescending sext lesson at the MTV Movie Awards in Los Angeles last night was directed at Blake Lively, the young "Gossip Girl" hottie whose bedroom-mirror body shots recently took the celebri ... More >>

Gabriel Ben Meir, Top MTV Production/Music Coordinator, Shot Dead on Sunday Morning in Quiet L.A. Neighborhood

NBC Los Angeles30-year-old Gabe Ben Meir​Update: Ben Meir was reportedly shot execution-style in the back of the head while walking from his car to his home just after midnight. Shocked responses from those who worked and lived near him, after the jump. A rising creative force at MTV Los Ange ... More >>

BREAKING: MTV Discovers L.A. Still Has a Hip-Hop Scene!

In the beginning ... ​As announced in a trailer released this morning, MTV will air a weeklong look at L.A.'s hip-hop scene in a segment "we're calling 'The New West: An In-depth Look at L.A. Hip Hop.'" Though we're much obliged to them for referencing N.W.A.'s LA Weekly cover, we think the ... More >>

Roccopella

Stage Raw: Roccopella

NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Watson (Sacred Fools) and Futura (Boston Court)COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW GO ROCCOPELLA ​ Embellished with funky MTV-inspired videos, writer/solo performer George Spielvogel's goofy good-natured comedy sports an array of ditzy characters who sha ... More >>

Across the Universe: New Flying Lotus Video, Weezer Best Coast, RHCP Lawsuit, R.I.P Eyedea

Across the Universe: New Flying Lotus Video, Weezer Best Coast, RHCP Lawsuit, R.I.P Eyedea

'Jackass 3D' Nets $50 Million In Opening Weekend, Splattering Runner-Up 'Red' In Brown Stuff And Setting Record For Highest-Grossing October Release

Paramount Pictures​America just couldn't wait to see Steve-O's balls in the third dimension. "Jackass 3D," third filmic spinoff of MTV's infamous gross-out series, opened this weekend to disgusting amounts of success. Moviegoers dropped an estimated $50 million on the film between Friday and ... More >>

Lady Gaga's Raw Meat Dress: Your VMA Meat ID Test

MTV/Christie BishopLady Gaga's VMA Meat Dress​If you tuned in to Sunday night's MTV Video Music Awards and thought that Lady Gaga looked like a piece of meat, you'd be right. The singer, praised as much for her extreme fashion sense as she is for her consistent presence on Billboard's Top 10 l ... More >>

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

Billy Corgan: The Uncut, Expanded LA Weekly Interview (Discussing Los Angeles Occultism, the Fall of Grunge, His Current Happiness, His Disappointments, and his Love for Christina Aguilera, Lady Gaga and ... Robert Mitchum?)

Kristin BurnsBilly Corgan: The Uncut, Expanded LA Weekly Interview!​Billy Corgan and the Smashing Pumpkins will be headlining the last night of the 2010 Sunset Strip Music Festival this Saturday, August 28. Corgan is the subject of this week's LA Weekly Interview in our print edition. He spok ... More >>

Straight Outta Hollywood: N.W.A. Biopic in the Works

Yes, *that* Jonathan Gold​The Hollywood Reporter (via MTV) has details of an announcement about an upcoming N.W.A. biopic currently in development at New Line. The film has the working title Straight Outta Compton and "will follow N.W.A (short for N---az With Attitude) from their early days i ... More >>

The Long and Winding Road to 'Wu-Massacre'

The latest Wu-Tang-related album is dropping (we are almost certain, though this is the Wu we're talking about, so insert proverbial grain of salt here) on March 20th, and the names on the cover--Ghostface, Method Man and Raekwon--are promoting Wu Massacre in their expectedly eccentric way. Method ... More >>

Is 'Prep Rock' the New 'Yacht Rock'?

It was but a few weeks ago that we music lovers were treated to a massive ad campaign for Vampire Weekend's Contra, featuring an allegedly mysterious picture of an uberpreppy girl in a yellow polo shirt (a Ralph Lauren Polo© shirt to be more precise) with an upturned collar. Now the indie tastemake ... More >>

WTF Is Vince Vaughn Doing in the 'We Are The World II' Video?

The new version of "We Are the World" recorded by Quincy Jones and a galaxy of stars will be unveiled tonight during that big Olympics brouhaha on NBC, but MTV News has already been offering up a torrent of videos, photos, and tasty news morsels. For example, look at this picture here: Photo by Ke ... More >>

Jersey Approves Medical Pot; Spiky Hair Still Legal

MTVDoes New Jersey really want to give these people legal pot?​We can hear the taunting from clear across the country already: "Hey California -- we got your medical marijuana right here!" That's right, they do. While the city of Los Angeles is grappling with its burgeoning pot-shop trade and ... More >>

Anti-Gingites: Three Boys Arrested In Anti-Redhead Bullying Case

Three middle school boys were arrested in connection with the "kick a ginger day" attacks on redheaded students at their campus in Calabasas, authorities said today. The suspects include two 12-year-olds and one 13-year-old. The older boy was arrested on suspicion of cyber-bullying -- ostensibly co ... More >>

Germany Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Historic Impromptu Hasselhoff Concert

Twenty years ago, Hollywood's David Hasselhoff stood on the Berlin Wall wearing a stylish jacket-o'-lights and a scarf depicting a keyboard, looked at Communism straight into its ruddy face, and sang to it thusly: "One morning in June some twenty years ago, I was born a rich man's son. I had everyt ... More >>

Bastille Day & Marie Antoinette-Inspired Gift Guide: Shop Til Your Head Drops

Happy Bastille Day! Are we back to shopping yet? If you're into stimulating the economy--and the Dauphine could have used that excuse had it been available to her at the time--here are some Antoinette-inspired items (from Etsy and other internet environs) for your consideration. The storming of the ... More >>

All in the Family With the EC Twins and the Boulet Brothers

Plus: Kidrockers playdate

TOM ARNOLD: Laughing With The Stars

Snoop Dogg After Dark: Interview Lite

Jane's Addiction to Release $75 Limited Edition Box Set, Reissue Classic Albums on $25 Vinyl

If nothing else, Jane's Addiction sure know how to stretch out the publicity surrounding their impending return. It seems like every few weeks for the past half year the band does something, releases something, announces something, denies something or collaborates on something. There are the secre ... More >>

WORN OUT- Britney's Comeback Looks

What's there to say about America's favorite trainwreck, except, well, the meds seem to be working. On The Record, the MTV doc that aired this past Sunday, and every night since, sought to be a sympathetic, somewhat real attempt at changing Britney Spears image and launching her new record, Circus, ... More >>

Music Makes the Popstars Come Together: Britney, Justin (on stage) and a slew of celebs (in the audience) join Madonna at Dodger Stadium

All photos by Timothy Norris. Click image for entire slideshow. Two hours inching along Sunset Blvd. to Dodger Stadium from our Silver Lake abode only blocks away, and another one waiting amid bright lights and rabid camera phone-clicking star-mongers who literally cheered like someone hit a home ... More >>

LAFF 2008: Gardening at Night

Scott Hamilton Kennedy is one of the whitest looking white guys you’ll meet, and yet he makes movies about South Central L.A. that come from a real place of knowing. Of course, OT: OUR TOWN was on one level just a movie about his girlfriend (now wife), but she also happened to be a drama teacher i ... More >>

A Hero for Our Time

Are rocker video games the new MTV — and will they help save the music universe?

Blackouts, Sellouts and Freakouts

Shootin' At The Walls of iTunes (bang bang)

I discovered a way around iTunes Music Store's 60s second samples— youtube. Yep, when you have the audial craving for a song— the whole song, you can just search it on youtube. While you may not find everything, it's amazing the videos you can unearth. It's like MTV circa Thriller. For e ... More >>

Cell-Noir Tales

Totally Ozz-some

Remember to Smile

''Led by God to Do Me''

Reverend Run, raising heck

The City in Motion

L.A.’s hyperactive graphics scene

Angel on the Bus

Drew Barrymore on popping her political cherry

The Beater meets the Swan

Laptop Love

Les Should Be No More

Moonves can’t “D’oh!” us like that again

Americans are Broad

Keen Eddie, The Amazing Race 4 and The Real World

The Cute Ones

Whistling Tunes

Neil Finn escapes from a crowded house

Flag Days

A new generation prepares for war

Dressed to Deal

Like, a Version

Boomin' Bros

Beastie Boys are ill and always will

What Makes Ben Stiller?