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Inc.: Employing the Grateful Dead's Business Model

Out today, No World is the first full-length album from the L.A. duo Inc., and not unlike John Henry racing the steam-powered hammer. Brothers Daniel and Andrew Aged, are incredibly proficient at their instruments -- they've worked as session musicians for Beyoncé, Cee-Lo, and Elton John -- and so ... More >>

Laura Escude Is Oz Behind the Curtain

The music programmer makes blockbuster tours pop

Swedish House Mafia's Steve Angello Is Looking Forward to Being Finished With Swedish House Mafia

There was a moment a few years back when Steve Angello was leaving a hotel in his native Sweden and found a few reporters waiting outside. They asked him what his plans were for the day. He told them nothing much. The response made the front page of the next day's newspaper. "That was the moment," ... More >>

James Murphy on Never Being Recognized, Directing the Directors of LCD's New Concert Doc and Why He Can't Live in L.A.

See also: Lost His Edge | James Murphy and a New Concert Documentary Reflect on the End of LCD Soundsystem In our music feature this week, we spoke with former frontman James Murphy about Shut Up and Play the Hits, a new film documenting LCD Soundsystem's sold-out April 2011 farewell concert at Mad ... More >>

Lost His Edge | James Murphy and a New Concert Documentary Reflect on the End of LCD Soundsystem

Greg Ginn On Black Flag Nostalgia and His Band The Royal We

See also: Coachella Preview 2012: Everything You Need to Know About the Performers Greg Ginn is primarily known as the driving force and only constant member of Black Flag, which is unfortunate as he's done a lot since the Flag broke up 25 years ago. He's so tired of talking about it that he rarely ... More >>

A-Trak: The Hipster's Hipster

A-Trak will have you know that he isn't just a DJ -- he's a turntablist. Raised in Montreal and now based in New York, he was just 15 when he won the DMC World Championship, the prestigious DJ battle competition. Now 30 and half of the dance production duo Duck Sauce, he's scored a pair of ubiqui ... More >>

Sinead O'Connor's Most Memorable Moments

Sinead O'Connor is still making headlines, 20 years into her career. Having battled everything from the Catholic Church to drug addiction, the Irish icon remains beloved and despised. Though nothing compares to her pop stardom of the early '90s (har har), we're nonetheless psyched for her shows at t ... More >>

Can an Intelligent Person Like Phish?

Comedian Harris Wittels is witty and thoughtful; his writing for NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation hinges on his subtle sensibilities. He's also a huge fan of Phish, a band with which those characteristics are not usually associated. Having attended some 70 Phish shows over the years, he counts hims ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival 2012: LCD Soundsystem's Last Show in Shut Up and Play the Hits

A mash-up of cinema and journalism, document and performance; a concert film sandwiched between a mission statement and a staged punctuation to a career: the LCD Soundsystem documentary Shut up and Play the Hits offers more basic narrative satisfaction than many of the fiction films shown here usin ... More >>

Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band - Staples Center - 12/28/11

Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band Staples Center 12/28/11 Known for his blend of heartland rock and old school R&B, Bob Seger has a fairly-staggering catalog of classic rock staples. Touring behind the release of yet another Greatest Hits package -- this time a 26-song, double disc set -- and with ... More >>

Tim Robbins Interview: How Crawling Through Shit Made Him A Musician

​Interview by Dan Hyman Tim Robbins has crawled through feces before, while making his escape toward freedom in Shawshank Redemption. But that was fiction. The past few years, however, were not. "I had a rough period," says the 52-year-old actor, noting the collapse of a movie he was puttin ... More >>

Eddie Izzard at the Hollywood Bowl

What makes Eddie run?

RIP Gil Scott Heron

​ Musician and writer Gil Scott Heron is often credited with being a founding figure in hip-hop. The Chicago native was part poet, part musician, part political activist with a huge catalogue of recordings ranging from spoken-word to jazz to hip-hop and everything in between. One of his most ... More >>

Paul Landers Of Rammstein: "We Love to Surf. L.A. Puts Us in a Good Mood"

BrownL - R Riedel, Landers, Lorenz, Lindemann, Kruspe, Schneider​ Rammstein is finally back in America and they've brought all of their toys with them. Sorry Gene Simmons, even all of the flash you picked up from Trump can't put KISS's show ahead of what these guys have in store. You can sti ... More >>

Music Picks: Stiff Little Fingers, CunninLynguists, The Nubians, System of a Down

Houses, Aloe Blacc, Krautrock Nite, The Radio Dept. and others

UPDATE: How to Get Tickets for Prince's Los Angeles Residency!

​ [UPDATE: 4/11/11 -- Here are more details on how to get tickets for Prince's LA residency:] Will the internet crash tomorrow morning? We just received a press release announcing the first three dates up for grabs of Prince's "21 Nite Stand" in L.A.: In an effort to make the show affordab ... More >>

Swans: Forever Changes

Prodigal son Michael Gira returns to L.A. with more Swans music

Justin Bieber: Never Say Never

Nacional Records on Fire: The Ten Best Spanish-Language/Latin Albums 2009

By Christopher Lopez It's been a year of surprises in "Latin music," (whatever that catch-all genre term for Spanish-language music means in 2009). Reggaetón continues fading, albeit slowly, and the industry's mainstays aren't garnering the attention they used to. Case in point: Don Omar's summer ... More >>

Rock Picks: Jon Brion, Andrew Bird, Tortoise, Vice Squad

Also, Beyonce, the Datsuns, the Veils, the Germs and others

LA People 2009: Re-Mix Master — Lucian Piane, a.k.a. RevoLucian

He turns celebrity rants into rhythms

Screw Metallica: Southern Lord Showcase Kills at SXSW

Randall RobertsPelican rips it at the Southern Lord Records showcase I'm sure Metallica was great. They were good when I saw them at the LA Forum a few months back, where the dudes in the pit were in their typical testostero-frenzied state. And the indulgent 45-minute soundcheck that preceded their ... More >>

Neil Hamburger: The LA Weekly Interview

Interview by Jonah Flicker Comedian Neil Hamburger released the musically excellent and thoroughly funny Neil Hamburger Sings Country Winners (Drag City) this past April. Over the course of ten songs, Hamburger spins melancholy tales that make Johnny Cash sound like John Tesh and offers wry observa ... More >>

Lou Reed is a complete maniac and he will probably kick your ass in hand-to-hand combat...

Tai Chi Lou Reed & other Lou Reed combat madness. 'Nuf said.

Kathy Griffin's Kodak Moment

A Q&A with the former D-lister

Rock Docs Are Go! Rockumentary Recommendations

As CDs wither, the low-budget rockumentary is born again

Microsoft Wants to Kill Your iPod, Summer Goes Pop!

Punch Drunk Schmaltz

Cinderella Man ties on the kid gloves

The Day of the Jackals

Mythmaking at the Republican Convention and getting punk’d on Kudlow and Cramer

Moments of Noise

The people behind the most protests on the convention floor

Rebel, Rebel, Your Face Is a Mess

Why protests fail . . . and fail

Grand Old Illusions

Exposing the secrets of an empire

GOP Action Heroes

Arnold, Rudy, John McCain and the Bush twins

War Party

John Kerry gets his marching orders in New York

Big Tents That Are Hard To Get Into

At the convention, GOP talks inclusion and walks intolerance

World vs. GOP

War for truth marches on in the streets of New York

The Perfect Storm

Remember me to Herald Square

Said's Last Stand

And Rummy the Wrastler

Rush Hour

About Brent

Pushing paper at The Office, a new British comedy

Heroes Dream

Bruce Springsteen in the city of ruins

Freeways to Perdition

Not I, the Jury

Beat Baggage

Martin Luther Bush

And the new, improved, compassionate, fraudulent Republican Party

Where Eagles Dare

Don Henley’s life in the diamond lane

Shadows and Fights

Images from the ring

Honky-Tonk Redemption

Rick Shea keeps it country