Marilyn Manson

Los Angeles Club Kids: Where Are They Now?

On the west coast, the club kids popped up around 1991, the local counterparts of the New York City Party Monster types, attending the types of underground raves your parents explicitly forbade. It wasn't all about drugs, but there were certainly plenty: ketamine, acid, cocaine, ecstasy, and more, s ... More >>

Happy Birthday W. Axl Rose! You're Amazing, and Chinese Democracy Gets a Bad Rap

Axl Rose's birthday was yesterday, but one thing has not changed since last year: Chinese Democracy remains the most expensive album ever produced. Fifteen years and $13 million went into making the 14-track album; about a million bucks and a year, for each song. No record has been as anticipated ... More >>

Top 10 Badass L.A. Parties of 2011

Also see 10 Ways to Get Past a Bouncer and Top 10 L.A. Club Nights of 2011. At the risk of referencing LMFAO again, LA knows its party rockin' and we do it bigger and better than any other city in the world. New York may beat us at chic soirees, Miami might be sultrier and Vegas gaudier, but Los A ... More >>

GWAR - House of Blues - 11/12/11

Lina Lecaro ​See also: Gwar guitarist Cory Smoot found dead on tour bus this morning following show in Minneapolis GWAR House of Blues, Sunset Nov. 12, 2011 A piece of sad news threatened to cast a pall over last night's GWAR concert. The band's guitarist Cory Smoot died on November 3 during ... More >>

Amber Tamblyn's Drums Inside Your Chest Series at Largo Looks For Poetry That's 'Punk' and 'Dangerous'

Matt WignallBeau Sia performing at a previous installment of The Drums Inside Your Chest​ Poetry shouldn't cause flashbacks to snooze-inducing high school English class, a point well-noted by Amber Tamblyn, the poet and actress behind the poetry series The Drums Inside Your Chest and co-founde ... More >>

LA Fashion Week Heats Up: Concept FW's Creative Installations and Rockin' Runway Looks

Lina Lecaro Mo Wear Women.​ Will the real LA Fashion Week please stand up? Between Fashion's Night Out last month, and the random designer events that have taken place since, many Angelenos might have no idea that indeed, it is officially runway time here in Los Angeles. This coming weekend w ... More >>

Happy Johnny Ramone Weekend! The Top Five Musicians Buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery (At Least In Spirit)

The Hollywood Forever Cemetery has become synonymous with rock 'n' roll thanks to great live shows (recently, Patrick Wolf and Jens Lekman) and its popular Cinespia screenings. But its headstones are what makes it sacred ground for music fans. Even Morrissey says he wants to be buried there. Holl ... More >>

Gallery Girls, Dr. Sketchy and L.A.'s Sexy Underground Drawing Clubs

Rasputina - Key Club - 7/29/11

Rasputina at Key Club​WHO: Rasputina
 WHERE: Key Club WHEN: 7/29/11 Better Than... Your kid sister's recital. Russian religious icon Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin has long been a great source of intrigue, fear and inspiration, and one of those inspirations is New York-based act Rasputina. B ... More >>

Catherine Becker, O.C. Divorcee, Cuts Off Husband's Penis, Drops It in Garbage Disposal

Garden Grove PDCatherine Becker is after your manhood.​Updated after the jump: Catherine Becker is the new Lorena Bobbitt -- and her chilling lack of remorse (so far) upgrades her to Bobbitt 2.0. She'll be in court at 1:30 p.m. today. Originally posted July 12 at 10:35 a.m. Wow. Where to begi ... More >>

Nicki Minaj Shakes Her Jelly for a Celly, The Kills Te-Kill-Ya

Lina Lecaro Darling Nicki sung for Samsung. ​Nicki Minaj for cell phones, The Kills for tequila ... it was another winning week on the Hollywood party circuit. If you read Nightranger posts regularly you know we rarely miss an opportunity to cover LA's money bags-backed promotional bashes. An ... More >>

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 >>

Six Most Idiotic Attempts to Blame Musicians for Violent Events (or, the Tucson Tragedy Was Caused by a Crazy Person, Not by Drowning Pool's "Bodies Hit the Floor")

6 Horrible Acts of Violence Blamed on Music

A Magical Skill

Chris Goss, the godfather of desert rock, on the return of Masters of Reality

Your Twitpic of the Day: Martha Stewart and Tony Bennett

If you happened to be in New York City last night. If you happen to be a fan of both Martha Stewart and Tony Bennett, and if you are not, well, there's probably some Marilyn Manson concert you could have gone to instead. Or maybe Sandra Lee can schedule some performance art with Justin Bieber. I don ... More >>

A Punk Rock Interview with Shepard Fairey, Featured Artist for Alternative Press Magazine's 25th Anniversary Exhibit

Shepard Fairey, the DJ​Although his most recognizable (and controversial) work is 2008's Barack Obama "HOPE" poster, influential street artist Shepard Fairey's biggest motivation comes from connecting with music, not making splashy headlines. Old school album art, flyers and T-shirts from band ... More >>

Salem Signs to IAMSOUND, Reveals Tracklist, Date for 'King Night' LP

Marlatt, Holland and Donoghue (Jimmy Limit)​Salem may hail from Michigan originally, but the creepiness of the trio's music knows no borders. Like a thick, toxic fog, their particular brand of darkwave music (see Cold Cave, the XX) hangs low to the ground -- sludgy, skulking stuff that's far ... More >>

I Scream Social: Roky Erickson's Psychy-Surreal Kiddie Show

Zombies, vampires, howls of insanity, cranked up amps and the Fuck Yeah Fest guys-- not your average romp at Chuck E. Cheese. But when the Texas psych-soul crooner Roky Erickson brought his bizarre and amazing "after school" Ice Cream Social party to the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock on Thursda ... More >>

Over the Weekend: L.A.'s New Entrepreneurs at Twiistup 6, Epic Tales with Werner Herzog, Jennifer the Leopard at REDCAT

Is it just us or did July feel like the longest month ever? (Check our "July '09 Month in Photos" slideshow for a recap.) From Comic-Con to unforgettable concerts to Marilyn Manson's death threats to hospital stays, July was one for the books. Fatigue aside, we restocked our instant espresso stash a ... More >>

Modern Burlesque, Treasure or Trash?

Plus Goings-On at the Velvet Hammer and Pull My Daisy

I Photograph Rock Stars: Greg Watermann's Gallery Opening at A&I Hollywood, May 7

BY PAUL ROGERS Paul RogersThe first time I worked with Greg Watermann - at Ozzy Osbourne's Beverly Hills mansion for Britain's Metal Hammer magazine in 2002 - he looked every bit the Hollywood rock star photographer. Black-clad like a Nine Inch Nail, blonde "assistant" in tow, he was briskly effic ... More >>

A Game of Charade

Hoop of L.A.

What to do in L.A., October 3-9

Playing Tribute to Bono, Judy ... and Johnny Wadd

What to do in L.A., August 8-14

Cherry Bomb: Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna's Ultimate How-To for Budding Rock Chicks

Mrs. Chris Vrenna has composed a tome for women who fancy their boys scrawny, not brawny

Jay Diola

Hair apparent

Adele Mildred

Pretty as a picture

A Whole Lotta Whoop-De-Do

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Site/Sound

Remapping the land- and soundscapes of L.A. (and beyond)

Absinthe & Old Lace

A local clothing line heralds the rebirth of vintage

Six Appeal

Child Care

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things exploits; Duck Season extols

Beyond Bubbly

The Style Council’s New Year’s Eve party mixes

For Those About to Rock

Seven nights at the Whisky, where dreams still die hard

Metal and Wood

Music materials 2004

Genesis Regenerated

Nether Bound

Danzig

9/11 and Iraq War as Shtick

The misdeeds of Convoluted Rice and Uncurious George are no joke

Re-Tooled

Viva la Revoluçion

Sound and sedition at the LAMC

Sandblasted Standards

Letters

Knock 'Em Dead, Kid

Luxury SUV Comes to Complete Stop

Scary Movies

Joe Berlinger’s worked-over Blair Witch 2; Marc Singer’s lovely Dark Days

The Labors of Lawless

Raping nuns with W.A.S.P.

Only in West Hollywood

This Is the Rock

Smashing Pumpkins: Headbangin' in the houses of the holy

Dark Stars

I'm 48

Growing old with Alice Cooper