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Best L.A. Novel Ever: If He Hollers Let Him Go vs. The Tattooed Soldier (Rebels & Outcasts Regional Final)

L.A. Weekly is determining the best L.A. novel ever by holding a tournament featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups, until there's only one novel standing. For further reading: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Brackets *Best L.A. Novel Ever: More Matchups If you can get off the ... More >>

The 20 Greatest EDM DJs: The Complete List

Electronic dance music's recent resurgence has made the genre more popular than ever before, but it's still often not taken seriously as an art form. World's Douchiest DJs: The Top Five The 20 Worst Hipster Bands Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre And yeah, many goofily-dressed ravers are ... More >>

Michael Jackson's Clothes Will Hang Next to Lady Gaga's Meat Dress and Lobster Hat

The King of Pop's personal items have found a new home thanks to the Queen-of-Pop-in-Waiting (at least until Madonna sends a cease-and-desist), Lady Gaga. Last Sunday, Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills raised more than $5 million (with some of the proceeds benefiting charity) during its auction of ... More >>

Madonna Impersonator Nadya Ginsburg Chats With Us (as Madonna)

Actress, writer for E!'s Fashion Police and Madonna impersonator Nadya Ginsburg (she does a hilarious, spot-on Cher, too) will be doing her one-woman show, Madonnalogues, at the Cavern Club tonight and Oct. 23. Ginsberg, in perfect character as Madonna, sat down to talk with us about the pop diva's ... More >>

Avicii Performs in Santa Monica Tonight: Here's Our Interview

Tim Bergling, known to the DJ world as Avicii, just celebrated his birthday last week. At barely 23, the Swedish DJ/remixer/producer ranks No. 6 on the latest installment of DJ Magazine's Top 100 DJ list -- which pretty much means he's living large and has his pick of any neon furry booted rave grou ... More >>

Mark Dery's I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts : Is It a Book in the Form of the Internet?

If you're familiar with the writing of cultural theorist and freelance critic Mark Dery, you already know he writes in loop-de-loops and mazes, often embedding the meanings of his sentences in elaborate spirals of prose. His new essay collection, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts, follows that pattern, ... More >>

2012 Grammys: The Best, the Worst and the Weirdest

Rebecca HaithcoatDrake's after-party​See also: *Why The Grammys Stink *Deadmau5, Rihanna - House of Blues - 2/13/12 *Dan Wilson: From "Closing Time" to Adele's "Someone Like You" Adele won everything. Kanye didn't show. Nicki Minaj out-Gaga'ed Gaga by showing up with a Pope imitator as her e ... More >>

The White-Glove Treatment

Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Dannii Minogue Is The Superior Minogue

​[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilt Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] It was the wee hours of the morning about ten years ago when I first saw Dannii Minogue, on Top of the Pops. Chains ... More >>

Lady Gaga's Born This Way Could Set Record for Highest Opening Sales in a Decade

​Via Billboard.com: Lady Gaga's Born This Way will debut with first-week sales of at least a million units, far outpacing earlier projections, thanks to explosive sales at Amazon, which priced the album at 99 cents for two days this week. The 99-cent price tag was not, by the way, due to a ... More >>

Five Reasons to Love (or Loathe) Lady Gaga's Born This Way

​Despite being sick of her face, we still admire Lady Gaga's go-big-or-go-home approach to music, imagery, shoes and yes, beauty marks. Even her most zealous haters gotta give it up to the omni-present, ever-polarizing pop freak when it comes to marketing herself as an outsider icon. For many ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Henry on Why Music Makes Us Lusty

Timothy Norris​[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every week and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday eveni ... More >>

Lina in L.A.: Other Than Coachella ...

Is Lady Gaga's Overhyped "Born This Way" Single Too Similar to Madonna's "Express Yourself"? The Fans Weigh In

So, Lady Gaga's publicity machine created a weeks-long pre-release frenzy for her latest single "Born This Way," which came out today and was already being called "a new gay anthem" even before anyone had heard it. Here it is: Now, there's a small problem: the moment the track was aired, even ma ... More >>

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Remembering the White Stripes: Top 10 Most Adorable Meg White Photos

Her Serene Majesty, Meg White​ The White Stripes are no more (read their announcement here). Sure, there where the red, black, and white outfits and props, the bare-bones blues riffing and pounding, the preciousness of Lil' Jackie White and all that. And then there was Meg. The Serene Majes ... More >>

Venus D-Lite on RuPaul's Drag Race, Madonna Impersonations and L.A. Nightclubs

In every competitive reality show, there is always the one person who is eliminated so early in the season that you never really get to know him or her. In season three of RuPaul's Drag Race, that person is Venus D-Lite. All images courtesy of Venus D-Lite​ Venus D-Lite is the drag persona of ... More >>

How to Headline Coachella the Right Way: Top 5 Coachella Headliners and Acts

Coachella by Night ​ It's getting close to the announcement we're all waiting for: the headliner for Coachella, the festival that kicks off the first of many multi-day music and arts festivals that will take place over the summer, in sweltering heat. What started as a small music festival ele ... More >>

Road Strories: The Musicians

Nightranger: Stars, Cars & Guitars

Nightranger: Evil Wo-Men

Cruisin' for a Boozin'

10 L.A. bars worth diving into

Nightranger Looks Back at '09 Fashion and Music

Manimal at the Echo, Week Two: Loving Thunder, Rainbow Arabia, Jessica 6, We Are the World

Night number two of Manimal Vinyl's Echo residency began with its feet planted on the ground and worked its way up the body. Loving Thunder's loud metal-ish music loosened toes, Rainbow Arabia rapped knees using tropical percussion, Jessica 6 sent blood rushing to the pelvis, and then We Are The Wor ... More >>

Manimal Vinyl to Toast David Bowie on New Tribute Compilation

Coming in the fall from Manimal Vinyl First, the label honored Madonna. Next on the agenda was last year's Perfect as Cats, a tribute to the Cure. Now Manimal Vinyl, the magnificently out-there LA label that's home to, among others, Hecuba, Rainbow Arabia, Caroline Weeks, and Xu Xu Fang, will conti ... 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 >>

Movie Reviews: Filth and Wisdom, The Haunting of Molly Hartley, Splinter

Also, Fear(s) of the Dark, The Other End of the Line and more

Scream Queen Superstar: Jackie Beat Gets Gruesome at the Cavern Club

Any dude can throw on a dress, spew sassy one-liners, lip-sync the pop diva hit of the moment, and call themselves a queen. But real drag royalty, those who take performing to its most provocative and entertaining heights, are much fewer and further between. L.A.-based bitch goddess, Jackie Beat is ... More >>

The Crystal Method, J-Boogie, King Most and Jeremy Sole

Best Hollywood Trash Collectors: World of Wonder Storefront Gallery

Pop Songs (and Popsicles) With a Bullet

Ice-cream trucks always want a better soundtrack, and karaoke singers always want a bigger audience.

The World According to Hutz

Sufism, Chernobyl, Little Richard madness and other adventures in cultural fusion with Gogol Bordello’s mastermind

BBB (Big, Bold and Beautiful)

The clouds have parted and the birds are chirping what sounds like Japanese power pop. SXSW being an industry event I attend my first industry panel, "Idiots Unite!" (The idiots, of course, being anyone involved in this crazy business of show.) David Katznelson, president of Birdman Recording Group, ... More >>

An Ugly Truth

The year — in style? Help stop global leg warmers

The Right to Die... Onstage!

Between rock and a sidesplitting place with “World’s Funnyman” Neil Hamburger

Diana Ross: O.G. Diva Sings the Blues

A long-lost ’71 jazz album smashes imitators, from Madonna to Beyoncé

There's NoHo like NoHo!

Into the Groove

Last weekend was all about Coachella (see this week's paper), but there is much that I didnt have room for and you, the lucky SC reader get extra scoop...and pics! But first, let me digress a bit and tell ya about this insane party I went to the night before heading out to the desert. You've probabl ... More >>

Fry Me to the Moon

Wiggin' Out

White Man’s Burden

Eminem’s Encore falls into the gap between his obvious talent and his elevated stature

Who Are the Black Sheep Now?

NEA war ghosts at Highways' quinceañera

Paolo Cilione & Claudio Camaione, Mix Fix

The Nine Lives of Rave

Style and Substance

Balls of the Belle

A Night in Orbit

Gay music? It's a body/soul thing

Darkness Audible

An interview with Me'Shell Ndegéocello

Sound + Vision

Music and the movies

Hymn & Her

Modern devotional music, Virgin voices