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Madonna (Entertainer)

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2012

    Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: #15-11

    See also: *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, In Any Genre: #20-16 *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, In Any Genre: #10-6 *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, In Any Genre: #5-1 15. Madonna When asked by Dick Clark on American Bandstand in 1983 what her dreams were, a young Madonna replied, "To rule the world." ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    LinA In LA Party Picks: Be Grateful While You Grind

    Life is a Runway; see Sat. ​It's almost Thanksgiving, y'all! Here are a few things to be thankful for while clubbing this week in Los Angeles: 1) the diversity and sheer magnitude of party offerings here, 2) the great DJs bred and based in the city and the great DJs always stopping through on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2011

    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 >>

  • Music

    June 16, 2011

    Kreayshawn: Overnight Sensation

    ​[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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2011

    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 >>

  • Music

    April 14, 2011

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

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    The Dirt Master: Neil Strauss Talks Rockers, Hookers, Drugs and Getting Hate Mail from his Ultimate Nemesis, Phil Collins

    ​You'll be seeing a lot in the blogosphere and beyond about Neil Strauss' revealing new book, Everyone Loves You When You're Dead, (out this week). The tome reveals shocking things about -and intimate moments with- the author's vast array of interview subjects over the years: Lady Gaga bawling ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 10, 2011

    JUST READ IT

    ​You'll be seeing a lot in the blogosphere and beyond about Neil Strauss' revealing new book, Everyone Loves You When You're Dead, (out this week). The tome reveals shocking things about -and intimate moments with- the author's vast array of interview subjects over the years: Lady Gaga bawling ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    December 2, 2010

    Road Strories: The Musicians

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    A Clu to Royal/T's Tron Menu

    Royal/TLightcycle Salad (left) and Identity Disk Cake (right) from Royal/T's Tron-inspired menu.​ Royal/T changes identities more often than Madonna, but where she's turned into a Kabbalah cultist with impressive and terrifying monkey strength, the hyphenate Japanese maid café/gallery/store ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Live Mash-Up Mayhem: Bootie LA and Beyond

    Mash-ups continue to be an often misunderstood, even maligned music form by some, and admittedly the genre can be frustrating sometimes. The currently-hot Robyn meets AC/DC mix, which DJ Paul V spun Sat. at Bootie LA at the Echoplex is a good example: "You Shook Me All Night Long, " always gets th ... More >>

  • Music

    August 19, 2010

    Nightranger: Stars, Cars & Guitars

    Mash-ups continue to be an often misunderstood, even maligned music form by some, and admittedly the genre can be frustrating sometimes. The currently-hot Robyn meets AC/DC mix, which DJ Paul V spun Sat. at Bootie LA at the Echoplex is a good example: "You Shook Me All Night Long, " always gets th ... More >>

  • Music

    July 15, 2010

    Nightranger: Evil Wo-Men

    Mash-ups continue to be an often misunderstood, even maligned music form by some, and admittedly the genre can be frustrating sometimes. The currently-hot Robyn meets AC/DC mix, which DJ Paul V spun Sat. at Bootie LA at the Echoplex is a good example: "You Shook Me All Night Long, " always gets th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    Over the Weekend: Neon Indian ( Peanut Butter Wolf) at the Natural History Museum

    Andrea Whiting​If you ever need even more proof that Los Angeles is more than its glittery and/or augmented parts, take your (San Franciscan?) friends to First Fridays: the first weekend of every month, sans summers, a couple hundred of L.A.'s smartest and most stylish hipsters take over the h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    Lunch in a Jar: Jennifer Aniston Goes On Baby Food Diet

    GerberHere comes the airplane, and it's coming to take your dignity​It turns out that you don't have to starve yourself or go on a juice fast in order to become movie star thin. You just need to run your lunch through a food mill, remove all texture and enjoyability, and treat yourself like a ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    April 29, 2010

    Cruisin' for a Boozin'

    10 L.A. bars worth diving into

  • Music

    January 7, 2010

    Nightranger Looks Back at '09 Fashion and Music

    10 L.A. bars worth diving into

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2009

    Tearist's Yasmine Kittles and "Tim & Eric"'s Eric Star in SFW Hipster Crotch Porn

    What's not to like about Tearist's Yasmine Kittles? She's badass, looks like the lovechild of "Rehab"-era Amy Winehouse and Polly Jean Harvey (in a good way), digs good music (Throbbing Gristle, Can, The Red Crayola, The Ronettes), does her crazy "Patti Smith meets Peaches" act at The Smell, has abs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2009

    Visual Artists Salute the Beastie Boys (and Biz Markie) at Gallery 1988 in Hollywood

    When they burst onto the charts after serving as the opening act on Madonna's 1985 "Virgin" tour, the Beastie Boys were armed with a fully formed style, an unapologetic, in-yer-face mish mash of B-Boy sportiness and Jewish golf-iness, mixing gold chains, plaid slacks, and cop shades, sporting Kan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2008

    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

    October 30, 2008

    Rock Picks: Orphics, Roky Erickson, Madonna

    Also, Linda Ronstadt, Rise Against and more

  • Film+TV

    October 30, 2008

    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

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2008

    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 >>

  • Music

    October 9, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Music

    May 22, 2008

    Nightranger: A Club Called Rhonda and a Moonlight Rollerway Jubilee

    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 >>

  • Columns

    September 13, 2007

    Pop Songs (and Popsicles) With a Bullet

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

  • Music

    August 23, 2007

    The World According to Hutz

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

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2007

    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 >>

  • LA Life

    December 28, 2006

    An Ugly Truth

    The year — in style? Help stop global leg warmers

  • Music

    July 6, 2006

    Diana Ross: O.G. Diva Sings the Blues

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

  • LA Life

    May 18, 2006

    There's NoHo like NoHo!

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

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2006

    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 >>

  • Music

    May 4, 2006

    Fry Me to the Moon

    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 >>

  • Music

    March 30, 2006

    Wiggin' Out

    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 >>

  • Music

    December 9, 2004

    White Man’s Burden

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

  • News

    May 20, 2004

    Who Are the Black Sheep Now?

    NEA war ghosts at Highways' quinceañera

  • Columns

    March 25, 2004

    Paolo Cilione & Claudio Camaione, Mix Fix

    NEA war ghosts at Highways' quinceañera

  • News

    May 29, 2003

    Letters

    NEA war ghosts at Highways' quinceañera

  • News

    May 30, 2002

    Mapping Andy

    NEA war ghosts at Highways' quinceañera

  • News

    November 8, 2001

    The Nine Lives of Rave

    NEA war ghosts at Highways' quinceañera

  • Music

    October 12, 2000

    Style and Substance

    NEA war ghosts at Highways' quinceañera

  • Music

    September 21, 2000

    Balls of the Belle

    NEA war ghosts at Highways' quinceañera

  • Music

    July 1, 1999

    Sound + Vision

    Music and the movies

  • Music

    February 11, 1999

    Hymn & Her

    Modern devotional music, Virgin voices

  • Eat+Drink

    February 19, 1998

    Creme Brulee

    And the sweetness of selling out

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