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Space Shuttle Endeavour: Why Isn't the California Science Center Conducting an EIR Before Cutting Down 265 Trees?

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires that any project which "may have a significant effect on the environment" be prefaced by an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) -- an often lengthy document investigating the project's possible effects on both the natural environment on the urba ... More >>

Coachella: Seven Lesser-Known Acts You'd Be Silly to Miss

Why Did Goldenvoice Purchase a Bunch of Land Near Coachella?

See also: Coachella 2012 Lineup Goldenvoice announced Sunday that it has purchased 280 acres of land in Indio, ensuring that the Coachella and Stagecoach music festivals will be enjoyed by generations of girls in spirit hoods and dudes in speedos and fanny packs The purchase includes El Dorado P ... More >>

[Updated] Jamie Oliver DOES NOT Find Joy Division and New Order Master Tapes in Basement of New Manchester Eatery

Update: 2/15/12 3:00 p.m. We should have known this was as bogus as the prospect of a goat on a leash getting down (in the video) to a band bolstered by the drumming talents of a man known to cheerily carve and cook domesticated beasts. NME was wrong and so were we. The treasures used to reside ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: A British Invasion

KCRW Broadcast #149 for Saturday, January 21, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Are You Collector Scum? Fanatics! Sitting on the tour bus here in raining Wolverhampton UK. I am well into the Long March Tour and things are going well. I am sorry to put you Fanatics through a pre-taped show ... More >>

Music Picks: Overdoz, The Cure, Lucinda Williams

Also, K. Flay, The Civil Wars, Bob Mould tribute

Mary J. Blige, Larry Carlton, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

Also, Peanut Butter Wolf, Lucy Woodward, Chromeo and others

Music Picks: Esperanza Spalding, Elbow, Toro Y Moi, Blink-182

Also, Glen Campbell, the Smashing Pumpkins, Lanie Lane and others

Westchester Metro Station Taken Away From Under Neighborhood's Nose

la.curbed.comFuture "Crenshaw Corridor" with Westchester stop still included. ​Westchester wants to know what happened to its Metro station. The proposed stop at Manchester Avenue and Aviation Boulevard on the Crenshaw/LAX line (which is marketed to take riders to the airport, even though the ... More >>

Top 10 Music Managers Who Fucked Over Their Clients

The family Knowles in happier times​In light of the surprising news over the reasons Beyonce fired her longtime manager (and longtime father for that matter) Mathew Knowles, we remembered a time when scummy managers were not only the norm, but expected. Here are the Top 10 Managers in Music Hi ... More >>

Punk Singer Steve Ignorant (Finally) Brings Crass to America: Interview

photo by Damon Allen DavisonSteve Ignorant and band​ Crass, the commune-living, hippie anarchist punks whose DIY way of recording and promoting had as much an impact on the genre as their brand of boot-in-your face hardcore, disbanded more than 25 years ago, having never toured the U.S. beyond ... More >>

Free MP3s: Local Natives Get Remixed by West Coast Sound Favorites Superhumanoids

Superhumanoids remix Local Natives. Also, they're touring together.​On a pair of new remixes, Echo Park bedroom popstars Superhumanoids give L.A.'s Local Natives the chillwave treatment. The Supes (as we affectionately call them -- we've made no attempts to hide our enthusiasm) take on two so ... More >>

Morrissey: "Los Angeles is a Police State"

This charming man feels trapped in LA​Last week Morrissey gave an interview to British newspaper The Guardian, where he mused on several topics and was a bit of a dick to the interviewer, poet and Morrisseyfan Simon Armitage. Morrissey caused an international stir with his musings on Chinese ... More >>

DJ Kutmah: the Deported

Artist opens up about his harrowing expulsion from the place he calls home

Listen: Deported DJ Kutmah Returns to Music with 'Throwing Stones' Podcast Ft. Fugees, Flying Lotus

Kutmah's "Throwing Stones"​Last week, L.A. Weekly contributor Jeff Weiss sat down with Dublab/Low End Theory DJ and artist Kutmah to talk about his controversial deportation. It was the first interview Kutmah, born Justin McNulty, had granted since being pulled out of his Mt. Washington home ... More >>

Waterloo & City Gastropub Opens Tonight in Culver City

Although it's not officially opening until tomorrow, the new Culver City gastropub Waterloo & City will start serving tonight. So if you're over on that side of town this evening and need a pint and a plate of Manchester quail with chopped liver on toast, or whole roast chicken with wild mushroom po ... More >>

BREAKING: Will Airport Delays Make British Bands Miss Coachella?

​The NME reports that volcanic ash has delayed many flights from Heathrow Airport near London, which could make UK bands miss their Coachella slots. [UPDATE 12:00pm: Now it seems Gary Numan joins the Cribs, Bad Lieutenant and the other bands who might have to cancel their Coachella appearanc ... More >>

5 Questions with The Stranglers' Hugh Cornwell [ Free Album Download!]

5 Questions with The Stranglers' Hugh Cornwell [ Free Album Download!]

Los Angeles' Red-Light Ticket Ripoff

Cameras capture motorists and huge fines follow. Streets may not be safer

The Producer’s Brain: Sir Cameron Mackintosh and His Midas Touch

Interview: Former Chameleons Frontman Mark Burgess on His Spontaneous US Comeback, YouTube and Pirate Bay

​ Mark Burgess, former frontman of cult-favorite The Chameleons, was simply taking a vacation. He had traveled to the US to meet a friend in Maine, ended up in Boston through a twist of events and was asked to play with some musicians who were also fans of his old band. Word spread and people ... More >>

Rock Picks: Future of the Left, Deerhoof, Ronnie Mack's Barndance, The Urinals

Also, Torche, Alejandro Escovedo, Quintron & Miss Pussycat, and others

Sparks Light Up Royce Hall with Performance of Classic Album and New Material

View more photos in the Sparks slideshow. All photos by Timothy Norris Sparks at UCLA Royce Hall, Sat., Feb. 14 To borrow the title from Sparks' 2000 album, it took balls for Ron and Russell Mael to stage their 21-night residency in London last summer, performing the entirety of each of their 21 a ... More >>

Britpop Piano Man: Adam Unknown Pays Homage to Five Decades of U.K. Music

At Royal Clayton's, a British pub on the bottom level of the Toy Factory Lofts, Adam Unknown leans into a microphone as he tickles piano keys. At times, it seems as though the clang of silverware against glass wants to compete with the performer's subtle croon, but the background noise never qui ... More >>

Crosstown Traffic: Angelenos as a Cultural Microcosm of 21st Century America

Web Editor's note: the L.A. Weekly is proud to raise a pint of Guinness and welcome Wil Wheaton onboard as our new weekly columnist. Check back every Tuesday for his latest. Get Wheaton's RSS feed here. Way back in early 1990, I was at the Forum in Inglewood for a Kings hockey game. The Kings we ... More >>

James, Spaceland, 6/6

James, Spaceland, June 6, 2008 By Siran Babayan Well, dye my eyes and call me a reborn James fan. Apparently the Manchester folky pop band has had a more profound impact on some of the people here at Spaceland than they did on me back when I casually listened to them in college. Hours before James ... More >>

PBS's Cranford: It Takes an Eccentric Village

Gossip and gross-out humor blend with Masterpiece's high acting

SWAT Officer Simmons' Final Farewell

A police officer guards SWAT Officer Randal Simmons' white hearse in front of the Crenshaw Christian Faith Dome on Vermont Ave. Dozens of colorful wreaths surrounded the entrance to the church. The funeral began at 11 a.m. Thousands of officers including members of the Jackon, New Jersey Pol ... More >>

Big Bill's Dicey Moves

Clinton is back at the table, playing us for chumps

Laurent Garnier: Beat Connector

Laurent Garnier at Avaland @ Avalon, November 17

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division portrait, Control, proves the exception to the rock-biopic drool

Murder and Me

Fear and loathing on the moors

The Season to Be Rockin'

Tralala, Jim Noir, Annuals at Spaceland

Band on the Run

Unsigned local group finds fame, fortune, Duran Duran in the U.K.

Part Time Punks, full-time fun!

Sex and Drugs and Sex and Rock & Roll

Michael Winterbottom’s monomaniacally intoxicating 9 Songs

Welcome to Inglewood — Leave Your Aspirations Behind

For Erin Aubry Kaplan, coming home has been a labor of tough love

Building Confidence?

Riot-scarred Vermont Avenue finally gets a big development, but some say it’s the wrong kind

Trendscendence

Primary Notes

Maria Bustillos

Undead Do Dance

Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later and Guy Maddin’s Dracula

Crust Never Sleeps

Cease to Exist

The opening of Genesis P-Orridge

Letters

Everyone But the Gloved One

The usual suspects of black leadership, and then some, give it their all in Inglewood

2002 Smiths/Morrissey Convention: Still Sixteen, Clumsy and Shy

Webs

Steven Johnson has seen the future, and it’s SimCity

Big John’s Mouth

Less irascibility, more courtesy would be welcome when the public speaks at City Hall