Marilyn Manson

Alice Cooper on Today's Bands: "They Usually Just Look Like Six Guys From the Mall"

Recently we spoke with Alice Cooper. That same day British newspaper The Guardian posted an archived article from 40 years ago highlighting efforts of high-ranking government officials to ban his shock-rock stage shows from entering the United Kingdom. Needless to say, it just helped build his legen ... More >>

The Best Concerts to See In L.A. This Week

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Monday, June 3 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers THE FONDA THEATRE Going strong since the '70s, Tom Petty still isn't slowing down as he marches onward with his much anticipated summer tour with old pals the Heartbreakers. Havin ... More >>

The Creepiest, Goriest, Most Terrifying Heavy Metal Album Covers

Halloween is the time where it's acceptable to wallow in the creepy, the crawly, the dark, and the macabre. Sounds like the themes of heavy metal, year-round! Here then, are those most spine-tingliest metal album covers, for your All Hallow's Eve viewing pleasure. Step inside... Helloween Better Th ... More >>

Sunset Strip Music Festival - Marilyn Mason, Steve Aoki - August 18, 2012

See also: *Marilyn Manson Rambles, Makes Jokes About the Dark Knight Killer *Our review of X at the Roxy for Sunset Strip Music Festival, 8/17/12 While the Sunset Strip Music fest has primarily been seen as a head-banger hullabaloo attracting faithful longhairs and babes in studded belts -- and no ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

See also: Marilyn Manson Rambles, Makes Jokes About the Dark Knight Killer Friday, August 17 Charli XCX TROUBADOUR This young London lass arrives in L.A. fresh from opening a string of Midwestern arena shows for Coldplay, which has to rank among the least appropriate bookings ever: On You're the O ... More >>

Marilyn Manson Rambles, Makes Jokes About the Dark Knight Killer

See also: *Marilyn Manson's Born Villain Tracks: We Heard Them First *Marilyn Manson Threatens to Kill Buddyhead, LA Weekly, Critics Marilyn Manson headlines this weekend's Sunset Strip Music Festival, which caps a crazy summer for him that included promoting his latest release Born Villain and an ... More >>

Music Picks: Charli XCX, Polica, Esperanza Spalding and More

Marilyn Manson, Slash, Evanescence - Club Nokia - 4/11/12

Revolver Golden Gods Club Nokia 4-11-12 Better than ... Any hard rock show you'd see on the Sunset Strip nowadays. Music awards shows generally suck. They are most often excuses for industry people to slap themselves on the back and perform crappy performances of songs you don't want to hear anywa ... More >>

Tyler Shields: Warhol or Wannabe?

Ominous glitz of a controversial celebrity photographer

LinA In LA Party Picks: Death By Dance

Something Fish-y this way comes ...​The Halloween hangover is just about gone and it's time to be a boogie man (or woman) again with a new array of themed soirees; some you can even dress up for if you didn't get to (or want to) last weekend. Funky, freaky, gloomy and groove-y, this week's DJ- ... More >>

Big Freedia's Top Five Celebrity Asses

​Big Freedia is an ass connoisseur. A leading figure on the New Orleans bounce scene, he has helped take vigorous rump shaking to a wider audience through live shows and videos to songs like "Y'All Get Back Now." That track's video even prompted MTV to nominate Freedia for a Too Much Ass For T ... More >>

Marilyn Manson's Born Villain Tracks: We Heard Them First

Lina Lecaro Marilyn Manson and Twiggy Ramirez at Studio Servitu​Have you seen Marilyn Manson's short film "Born Villain"? The new work (which some are calling a music video) advances his upcoming album of the same name. It also reaffirms his "shock rocker" status, though perhaps the most shock ... More >>

Marilyn Manson and Shia LeBeouf are Friends: Duo Sign Their Book Campaign at Space 15 Twenty

Paul T. BradleyWhere's Manson? ​ Some days you wake up and decide to put on your best slutty nurse uniform and hitchhike across the country. Perhaps you just got that timeless itch to pull an old Halloween costume out of the attic where it has been picking up dust, throw it on, and head for H ... More >>

You'll Laugh Till You Cut Yourself!

Marilyn Manson Working on New Biography with Former LA Weekly Web Editor Erin Broadley (Also, EXCLUSIVE Adorable Picture of Marilyn Manson with a Kitten!)

MMLOLManson!​ It seems like only yesterday (ok, it was last week) that Erin Broadley, peerless LA Weekly web editor and hardest working woman in web bizniz, told us she was leaving our scenic Culver City offices for greener pastures. Well, today Erin's greener pastures have been revealed: sh ... More >>

Haiku News: Manson Goes Indie, Guns 'n' Roses Talk 'Chinese Democracy' Followup, New Sleigh Bells Video, & New Dirty Bastard?

Haiku News: Manson Goes Indie, Guns 'n' Roses Talk 'Chinese Democracy' Followup, New Sleigh Bells Video, & New Dirty Bastard?

Alternative Press Celebrates 25th Anniversary with VIP Art Exhibit Featuring Marilyn Manson, Adam Jones, Shepard Fairey, Shirley Manson, Tim Armstrong, Travie McCoy and More

"Baby's on Fire," by Marilyn Manson​These days if a print publication is still around after 25 years, well, that's quite an accomplishment. Cleveland-based music and culture magazine, Alternative Press, started out as an underground fanzine in 1985 and has since become an internationally distr ... More >>

Nightranger on (Slutty) Summer Reads

Our social calendar has been packed with book signings and their after-bashes recently, some wilder than any club night. Two books in particular are rockin' our reading radar, and not just because both have the word "slut" in their titles. It was the same eve as the Cobrasnake hullabaloo, so we miss ... More >>

Frenemies of the State: Face-to-Face with Marilyn Manson at Magic Castle, Shock Rocker Retracts Death Threats to Journalists (Kind of)

Josh "CuriousJosh" Reiss​"What are you doing tonight? Marilyn Manson would like to have champagne with you..." -- text received 11:22 AM, May 2, 2010 For a nightlife reporter, being woken up before noon on a Sunday is harsh enough, let alone having that text message be the first thing you lay ... More >>

MR. SHRED

Did Marilyn Manson Almost Beat a Woman To Death in his New "Snuff" Video?

Our friend Brian​A few months ago, Marilyn Manson got upset about a story we published and used his MySpace to rant and threaten our reporters (and journalists in general) with the wrath of his minions. Here's an excerpt: But if one more "journalist" makes a cavalier statement about me and my ... More >>

Gitmo Torture Music: Songs That Will Break You

Music by Pearl Jam, NIN, R.E.M. used at Gitmo, musicians protest.

The Last Supper: Mansonites Converge at El Coyote

Marilyn Manson Ups His Rhetoric, Further Incites Fans to Inflict Violence Against Journalists

Last night Marilyn Manson stepped up his call-to-arms with a series of MySpace bulletin incitements that, alleges the Buddyhead website, urge his fans to "kill all journalists that have the cowardice to be anonymous." The Buddyhead post identifies the following updates: Marilyn Manson- kill all ... More >>

Marilyn Manson Threatens to Kill Buddyhead, LA Weekly, Critics

​ Saturday night at 3 a.m., Marilyn Manson posted the following threat on his MySpace page. And let's be clear about this: it is a threat. It was written in response, we believe (and so do others), to a chain of events prompted by Erin Broadley's polarizing feature story of last week, "Buddyh ... More >>

Buddyhead Redux

L.A.'s most loved and feared music Web site is back, leading the never-ending quest for music that doesn't suck

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

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

Nightranger Attends the Gidget Gein Memorial

Lecaro mourns, porns, and gets adorned with L.A.'s original punks and scene makers.

Rock Picks: Built to Spill, Meat Puppets, Julia Fordham

Plus other Feb. 21-28 shows

Rock Picks: Los Lobos, No Age, Los Abandoned, Slayer

For the week of August 23-30

Cross Rock

A historical celebration of pop crucifixions, from Morrison to Manson to Madonna

Don’t Deport Him Yet

Jazz, metal & Cuban insurgency

Satan Loves You

Cuddly moments in new-millennium metal

Glamour Queen

The Goddess Bunny

Gates of Eatin'

Revenge against the ’70s (and other hostile decades)

Slushed in 2003

A Dope Show

Edited by Kateri Butler

San Francisco and/or Bust

Edited by Kateri Butler

Smut Factory

The corruption of the American television critic

Look What the Bat Dragged In

Edited by Kateri Butler

Kill 'Em All

Ozzfest: Murder or suicide?

Mommy Was a Tweaker

Blackwash

Motley Crue come, uh, clean

Letters

Marilyn:
A Re-Examination

Howl

Nashville Pussy does the dog

Music 1998:

The good, the bad and the combusticated

Jesus in Furs

Marilyn Manson wants to touch you

How To Snort an Airplane

The raunch and roll of rock autobiography