MTV Video Music Awards

Pomona Street Artist Alleges That Odd Future Stole His Design

By Ren MacDonald Ten years ago, Inland Empire native Ian Campbell founded Cat Cult, an artist collective whose members paste pictures of screen-printed cat heads on sidewalks, traffic signal boxes and buildings throughout L.A. County. As a teen in his Pomona garage Campbell, now 33, started making ... More >>

Dave Grohl On His Film Tribute to the Studio That Gave the World Nevermind

By Whitney Friedlander The lobby of Dave Grohl's Northridge-based 606 Studios has a Joan Jett book on the coffee table and a row of classic arcade games like Donkey Kong Jr. against one wall. On top of a photo booth sits an iconic "Moonman" MTV Video Music Award, festooned with a roll of toilet pap ... More >>

The Best Beat Tapes From L.A. Producers This Year

Instrumental albums -- also known as beat tapes -- give hip-hop producers a direct connection with fans, without any of those annoying lyrics on top of them. These can often be a nice change of pace. But make no mistake, they aren't albums to zone out to, or to put on while you do a crossword puzz ... More >>

The 1997 Edition Was the Best MTV Video Music Awards

Tonight is the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards. Now in its 29th year, it's had its share of memorable moments, none more so than during the 1997 broadcast. On the occasion of its 15th anniversary, here's the case for why it was the best VMA's ever televised.

American Idol Meets the Museum

The Hammer's Mohn Award is a grand experiment in art-world democracy

Young the Giant Blows Up

Last year was a busy one for Irvine's Young The Giant. They released their first album on a major label, toured all over the world and played at both the VMAs and MTV Unplugged. Meanwhile, the band's two singles, "My Body" and "Cough Syrup" both were in rotation on rock radio stations nationally. B ... More >>

Lady Gaga - KIIS Jingle Ball At Nokia Theatre - 12/3/11

Lina Lecaro ​KIIS Lady Gaga, David Guetta, Gym Class Heroes, Flo Rida, Nick Canon, Karmin and others KIIS Jingle Ball At Nokia Theatre 12-3-11 It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, but the annual blizzard of branded radio station holiday concerts somehow brings in the season like noth ... More >>

What Will Be The Most Popular Music-Related Halloween Costumes This Year? And How Can They Be Made Slutty?

​By Lina Lecaro and Andrea Domanick Nothing is a more fun cultural zeitgeist indicator than what folks wear for Halloween. And, of course, musical personalities are prime fodder. So here are our predictions for what will be the most common music costumes this year. Of course, despite the fa ... More >>

Best Vintage Butcher's Sign: Harvey's Guss Meat Co.

The best meat art in Los Angeles isn't Lady Gaga's (by now) thoroughly rotted VMA dress, it's the mural adorning Harvey's Guss Meat Co. A gaggle of farm animals placidly stares out from a truck as it trundles toward the slaughterhouse. Anthropomorphized animals cheerfully exhorting you to eat them a ... More >>

Best Posts of the Week

Kelly ClancyLionel Boyce​TGIF. Who's ready for a drink? We're here to offer you a bit of pregame entertainment, by way of our best West Coast Sound posts of the week. Let's start by bringing you up to date on our new columns. If you haven't yet, be sure to check out Odd Future member Lionel B ... More >>

Wavves of Pleasure: Indie Poster Boy Nathan Williams Makes Time For Recreation

Pooneh GhanaNathan Williams​See also: Wavves On How They Managed To Get Kicked Out Of Both The VMAs and Lil Wayne's Afterparty The decor of the Eagle Rock home Nathan Williams shares with his girlfriend, Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino, looks kind of like how his music sounds: fun, a little gr ... More >>

Wavves On How They Managed To Get Kicked Out Of Both The VMAs and Lil Wayne's Afterparty

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Kanye West - Call of Duty XP 2011 in Playa Vista - September 3, 2011

Lina Lecaro Kanye West​Kanye West Call of Duty XP 2011 event in Playa Vista September 3, 2011 Held Friday and Saturday at the Hercules Campus in Playa Vista (where the Spruce Goose was built), Call of Duty XP 2011 was a two day convention centered around the titular military-themed video game ... More >>

Skrillex, Odd Future, Gaslamp Killer, and Chromeo at HARD Summer Fest - Los Angeles State Historic Park - 8/7/11

Timothy Norris​By Roselle Chen Guys in rice picker hats and Jabbawockeez masks, and girls in booty shorts, sports bras and furry boots filtered into sunlit, grassy Los Angeles State Historic Park Saturday for HARD Summer Music Festival. 30,000 people were in attendance, so perhaps one should ... More >>

MTV VMA Best New Artist Nominees: A Field Guide to Kreayshawn, Big Sean, Foster the People, Tyler the Creator, and Wiz Khalifa

Kreayshawn​Article by Shea Serrano On Sunday, August 28th, MTV's Video Music Awards will wander into town. MTV, by the way, is a television station. They play music and whatnot, but more importantly, they allow a handsome troglodyte named CT to exist. Also, younger readers: A television s ... More >>

Paul Thek at the Hammer Museum and the History of Meat Art

Franc Fernandez: Raw Talent

Website Commemorates Kanye West's Top 10 Meltdown Moments

Clashmusic.comWhat next, Kanye?​ Just when you thought America's favorite hip-hop star had put all of his embarrassing moments behind him, you cringe when you hear radio hosts poking fun at his latest...embarrassing moment. This time it's Kanye chastising Matt Lauer while on the set of NBC's ... More >>

MUSIC PICKS: Ruben Guevara, Buika, Bill Frisell's Beautiful Dreamers

Also, Combichrist, Papercranes, Simone White and others

Meat in a Glass: The Carnivore Cocktail

Rivera The Donaji ​Lately, mixologists have taken to using protein as an ingredient, and we're not talking about the shrimp cocktail. Whether they're made with crickets, bacon-infused bourbon or pickled octopus, carnivore cocktails have been making the rounds in bars and restaurants across the ... More >>

Nightranger: Outta-Sight Night

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

What's Your Favorite Slash Moment? Sunset Strip Music Fest Bands Semi Precious Weapons, Delta Rose, Thick as Theives & Others Share Stories (and One Sex Fantasy) About the Rock N' Roll Icon

Lina LecaroMyles Kennedy, Fergie and Slash perform SSMF 2010​L.A. Weekly's Nightranger Lina Lecaro put it best in her Sunset Strip Music Festival live review: "Whether you're 20, 40 or 60 years old, grew up in Los Angeles or hopped right off the bus a la Axl Rose in 'Welcome to the Jungle,' if ... More >>

Sick of Lady Gaga Yet?: "The Remix" Record Release Party At The Abbey

Her Facebook and Twitter takeover.... Her words about the SB 1070 at her recent Phoenix gig.... Her just announced VMA nomination domination.... We've all got a lot of reasons to be sick of hearing about Lady Gaga at this point. Hell, we're even sick of hearing from her haters. But no matter what, ... More >>

Nightranger: We Wear It Well

The Gaga Code: Top Ten Signs Lady Gaga Is a Pawn of Occult Forces

Last Summer, the Vigilant Citizen blog--a website devoted to trolling gullible morons into getting riled up about supposed "occult" messages everywhere investigating the hidden symbols all around us--started analyzing the symbology of Lady Gaga and concluded that there is plentiful evidence that the ... More >>

10 Hip Hop Highlights of 2009, from Doom to Raekwon to Antipop and Beyond

Top of the Hip-Hop Or, how Dan LeRoy learned to stop worrying and love da bomb.   While year-end, catch-all wrap-ups are common to every musical genre, in no other style of music do they turn into the hand-wringing, "state of the game" examinations that hip-hop seems to provoke. (I've certainly wr ... More >>

This Is It Almost Wasn't

The strange, surprising story behind this ghoulish Michael Jackson movie

Moving Up

Michael Jackson Trailer Released for This Is It

Amid all the hooha over Kanye West's dick move last night at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York, the news that the trailer for the Michael Jackson documentary This Is It was released got lost. Well, here it is: Michael Jackson's This Is It in HD

LA Weekly Announces 'LA 101' at the Gibson, featuring Silversun Pickups, the Dandy Warhols and Matt & Kim

This just in: LA Weekly is debuting a new annual music event called LA 101, which will take place this year on the concourse at the Gibson Amphitheatre on Tuesday, November 3. The party, which celebrates the annual Best of LA issue, will not only highlight the best in music, but also shine a light ... More >>

MTV Video Music Awards: Keeping Up With the Vamps

VIP = Very Irate People

Serj Tankian, The Wiltern, 08/02/08

Serj Tankian The Wiltern, August 2, 2008 By Siran Babayan System of a Down are kaput, for now, and three of its members have splintered off: guitarist Daron Malakian and drummer John Dolmayan formed Scars on Broadway, and singer Serj Tankian released his debut solo album, Elect the Dead, last yea ... More >>

And Justice for All

Parisian duo wins the West

Santa Monica or Saigon?

A tale of two brothers

Review This Book or Else

The latest gripes from the "gun-toting lesbians"

Beautiful People: I’m Your Biggest-Paid Fan

Super Furry Sound

A year in music

Jesus in Furs

Marilyn Manson wants to touch you