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Is Managing My Husband's Band A Bad Idea?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Miguel - Hollywood Palladium - 8/1/13

Miguel Hollywood Palladium 8-1-13 Better than: Wine and candlelight Miguel wants to love you. He wants to kiss you. He wants to hold you and make you feel like a woman. He wants to adorn you with his affection. He is also apparently, judging by his lyrical content and dance moves, DTF. Hormones ... More >>

Boyz II Men Tell the Stories Behind Their Biggest Hits

You awkwardly danced to "End of the Road" at your middle school dances. You sang along to "I'll Make Love to You" on the radio, even if you didn't fully understand the subject matter. "Motownphilly" will always be back again. After taking a break for several years, the Boyz behind these early '90s ... More >>

Gibson Amphitheatre To Shut Down

Gibson Amphitheatre, the mainstay mid-size concert venue at Universal City, will close its doors in September, according to its operator Live Nation Entertainment. As announced in December 2011, the 6,200-capacity amphitheatre is expected to be demolished to make way for The Wizarding World of Har ... More >>

Top Five Metal Christmas Songs (Now With More Manowar!) \m/

So you're looking for a way to celebrate Christmas without having to sacrifice your metalhead cred in the process? If the guys from Immortal caught you tapping your foot to Mannheim Steamroller, you'd lose all corpse paint privileges with no questions asked. So to help you save (painted) face, we've ... More >>

The Miracle That Is 
A Charlie Brown Christmas

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] If you look outside while reading this, the odds are that it's sunny and mild. You might see green and red lights and tinseled pine trees glowing through ... More >>

How to Keep Kids From Swatting the Butterflies at the Natural History Museum

I've never been the kind of girl who was into butterflies. Somewhere between Mariah Carey's insipid song, those ugly-ass hair clips and the proliferation of tramp stamps, I got the message that butterflies represent a certain precious, feminine flightiness that I'm loath to be associated with. But ... More >>

Wild Belle 
Find Inspiration in Nowhere, Michigan

Elliot Bergman remembers his sister Natalie running around their family's kitchen in cowboy boots, belting out Mariah Carey tunes. She was 4. Nowadays they're known as the brother-sister duo Wild Belle, and their just-released first single, "Keep You," is a deliriously catchy confluence of organic e ... More >>

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #15-11

​See also: Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #20-16 15. Pretty Ricky Emerging with their mid-aughts hit "Grind With Me," Pretty Ricky somehow managed to lower the bar when it came to heartthrob groups with baby-oil-smeared chests. It's excellent that they've got great abs, and they certainly ha ... More >>

Kevin Eastman's Studio: See What's Up for Auction

Shannon CottrellKevin Eastman at Meltdown Comics.​Read more in "Kevin Eastman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Co-Creator, Takes Over Meltdown Comics for 35 Days." See more photos in "Kevin Eastman @ Meltdown Comics." When Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman took over a portion ... More >>

Kim Kardashian Reportedly Paid $600K to Party in Vegas on NYE

You know you've done something right, in life, when you find yourself sorting through half-million dollar offers just to show up and do a little V.I.P. shimmy at some cush Vegas hotspot on New Year's Eve, while the rest of the world panics over which miserable laser pit is worth a week's wages. The ... More >>

Funky Homosapiens: The Best Rapper Names Of All Time

Busta Rhymes​See Also: The Worst Rapper Names Of All Time, Besides Shorty Shitstain Last week we ran down the world's corniest MC names, and on Haterade Monday this week we complained about the worst albums by the best L.A. rappers, as well as the most ridiculous Beach Boys songs (including o ... More >>

9/11 Changed Everything For The Music Industry

​By Chaz Kangas September 11th brought irrevocable change to our society, and the music industry was no exception. It was also a very strange time; both rap group The Coup and metal band Dream Theater released album covers with the World Trade Center in flames. Radio DJs across the country, m ... More >>

Top Ten Rap Remixes Of '90s R&B Songs

Take that​This Friday, the Stokely Williams-fronted Mint Condition will be taking the stage at Club Nokia. The group came to prominence in the '90s with the huge hit ballad "What Kind Of Man Would I Be?" But beyond Mint Condition's slick soul moments, the band also embraced the mid-'90s trend ... More >>

Tedeschi Trucks Band at the El Rey Theatre, 7/18/11

Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks of the Tedeschi Trucks Band.​Tedeschi Trucks Band July 18, 2011 El Rey Imagine a woman swallowed Mariah Carey and a chainsaw, and then belted out all the rough, raw power notes that got shredded up inside. Susan Tedeschi is something like that; a raspy, thunder ... More >>

Dance Club Pick: Designer Drugs Within Reach

LA's Coolest Producers (Daedelus, Schlomo, etc.) Do Prince, Lady Gaga, Mariah Carey, Soulja Boy and More (Free Download of Entire Album)

​ Los Angeles' Friends of Friends Music has spent 2010 figuring out how to reinvent the way music is released and as a thank you for a successful year, FoF is giving fans a free download of its Pop Massacre compilation. FoF gave its favorite producers simple instructions: "choose a song from a ... More >>

Top 5 Metal Christmas Songs (Now With More Manowar!) \m/

TK Top 5 Metal Christmas Songs Ever (Now With More Manowar!)

Listen: James Poyser, Karriem Riggins and Madlib Collaborate on 'Funky Butt'

Madlib's "High Jazz" on LP​Current L.A. Weekly cover star Madlib is working his way through an incredibly prolific 2010 neatly bulleted by his album-a-month series, The Madlib Medicine Show. His label, Stones Throw, has just announced the seventh installment in that record chain, High Jazz, w ... More >>

For Chow Hounds Seeking Flea Market Finds

Flickr/ricardodiaz11The Dosa Indian food truck will be at the new L.A. Flea Market next month. ​ Next month, some of L.A.'s finest gourmet food trucks will offer their mobile meals at a venue normally associated with the Dodger Dog. The L.A. Flea Market, celebrating its grand opening at Dodger ... More >>

THE LAND OF GIANTS: PMK-HBH AND BNC

A new Hollywood PR merger and best-ever box office

Fool's Gold & Mariah Carey - Love at First Screech (MP3)

​A handful of remixes of the Fool's Gold single "Surprise Hotel" have surfaced over the past couple of months, but so far none have managed to meet that track's funky soulfulness eye-to-eye. Well, leave it to Wallpaper, the Teddy Riley-loving beatsmith behind the viral megahit "Combination Piz ... More >>

BOMBS AWAY!

Michael Jackson's Memorial Participants Announced: Kobe, Mariah, Stevie, Berry G., Brooke, John Mayer (?!), Jennifer Hudson, Magic, Rev. Al, Usher, More.

Okay, this is an odd list. Is this not an odd list? Most specifically, John Mayer. Right? That's a left-field pick. Is he not the Leonard Zelig of our time? And Shaheen Jafargholi? Hmm. The rest is fascinating and spot-on. The participants for Michael Jackson's memorial tomorrow have been announced, ... More >>

Pushed to the Brink

By the mid-point of Sundance 2008, the standout film of the dramatic competition was Lance Hammer's Ballast, which mined unexpected poetry from the story of a poverty-line black family making ends meet in the Mississippi Delta. This year, it's a film that casts an equally penetrating gaze on the tri ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival 2009: Pushed to the Brink

By the mid-point of Sundance 2008, the standout film of the dramatic competition was Lance Hammer's Ballast, which mined unexpected poetry from the story of a poverty-line black family making ends meet in the Mississippi Delta. This year, it's a film that casts an equally penetrating gaze on the tr ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Hunger, One Day You'll Understand, A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy

Also, Frost/Nixon, The Black Balloon and more

Touched By A Tranny

We've been calling plus-size punny (lad)y Jackie Beat our "favorite drag queen" for years (and that's saying something... we know a lot of crossdressers!) and once again, the droll diva proves she's got bigger balls than all the rest with this brilliant parody of Mariah Carey (Cannon)'s "Touch My ... More >>

Here Comes the Sin

The start of a spicy new year

Fall Harvest

While the media was examining a fake beef, a bounty of music dropped

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Fall Harvest While the media was examining a fake beef, a bounty of music dropped

Movie Reviews: Kurt Cobain: About a Son, Michael Clayton

Also Beyond Hatred, Blade Runner: The Final Cut and more

The World According to Björk, Aoki, Tweedy and a Gaggle of Teenage Guitar Girls

Rolling With Big Boy

The voice of Power 106 What’s a few hundred pounds between friends?

My New Radio Crushes

Indie 103.1FM is officially on my shitlist. I've had enough of retarded Toyota of Huntington Beach ads and Suicide Girls talking about making out with their girlfriends. And most disturbingly, I discovered that morning host Joe Escalante/Dr. LegalDouche is, apparently, an amateur toreador. Ole! ... More >>

Rock Picks

For the week of Jan 12 – 18

Rippin' & Dippin'

Move over, mashups! Now there’s somethin’ meatier: DJ Girl Talk’s Night Ripper

Diana Ross: O.G. Diva Sings the Blues

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

Smokin!

Leaked single from long-awaited Guns N’ Roses’ album rocks hard

grammy diary

Tue., Feb. 7 LL Cool J at the House of Blues Wed., Feb. 8 The Grammys at the Staples Center Now, for my personal awards

Blogs & iPods & Jay-Z & (non-ironic) Metal

The Hipster’s musical year-end predictions and post-game analysis

Live in LA

I Gotta Be Mimi!

On The Emancipation of Mimi, Mariah Carey flaunts seven octaves, three races, a bundle of nerves, and one king-hell identity crisis

The Contemporaries

Time of the Session

When the music was fast, and the players anonymous

The Cute Ones

Hang Him on the Wall

Edited by Kateri Butler

Ballerina Bon Voyage

Soul Catchers

What ever happened to R&B?

Going to Hell for Fun and Profit

A primer