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See also: With the Help of Mark Ronson, Rufus Wainwright Learns to Dance Rufus Wainwright's new album Out of the Game is widely being hailed as the Canadian singer's pop masterpiece, and boasts a distinct '70s-influenced yacht rock vibe that could have come straight out of Laurel Canyon. Although ... More >>
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Also, Charlene Soraia, Chuck Loeb, the Head Cat, Feed Me and others
Also, Emmylou Harris & Her Red Dirt Boys, Odd Future, Gillian Welch and others
Timothy NorrisCole Alexander of The Black Lips Who: The Black Lips Where: The Music Box When: 6/24/11 The energy in the Music Box crackled before the Black Lips even arrived on stage last night. The opening acts had done a good job of getting the crowd all riled up. T-shirts were already soa ... More >>
Lina Lecaro From left: Nick Rhodes, Roger Taylor, Simon Lebon and DD's newest member? Few bands have placed as much emphasis on the visual package as Duran Duran. Their good looks, sense of style and glossy, often provocative videos made them innovators during MTV's heyday, a time when the be ... More >>
Getty Images for American Express Read Lina Lecaro's review, "The Night a Duran Duran Show Got the David Lynch Treatment in LA." Wednesday night, American Express' Unstaged series brought together Duran Duran and David Lynch for an unusual live experience. As the band played on The Mayan sta ... More >>
Getty Images for American Express Read Lina Lecaro's review, "The Night a Duran Duran Show Got the David Lynch Treatment in LA." Wednesday night, American Express' Unstaged series brought together Duran Duran and David Lynch for an unusual live experience. As the band played on The Mayan sta ... More >>
JonsiFans who witnessed Jónsi in the 93-degree heat at the Outdoor Theatre at Coachella in April fairly swooned over the Sigur Rós frontman's gorgeously orchestrated pop-prog anthems. Those people ain't seen nothin' yet. The falsetto-wielding singer-guitarist is touring behind his solo alb ... More >>
Jason O'DellShadow Shadow ShadeWhen Shadow Shadow Shade burst onto the L.A. scene about two years ago -- then known as Afternoons -- you'd have thought there wasn't an arena big enough to hold them. An early song, "Say Yes," hit the radio, and Shepard Fairey designed a poster for it. The sev ... More >>
Bob Dylan, one pair of aviator goggles away from full Cyberpunk uniformThe "Dylan camp," the mysterious circle of consiglieri that makes sometimes baffling decisions about the hallowed backcatalog of Malibu resident Bob Dylan, has occasionally authorized remixes of Dylan's songs. A few years ... More >>
Also, the Lee Boys, Klaxons, Macy Gray, Eels and others
My Morning Jacket, Avi Buffalo at the Greek "Of late, My Morning Jacket singer Jim James has been devoting the majority of his time to projects sporting his inexplicable Yim Yames moniker, so it's a bit of a relief to find him once again at the helm of the exceptional band that first put the ... More >>
Also Lady Gaga, Frazey Ford, Whispertown 2000, Ludacris and others
After dancing my ass off at the El Rey on Sunday night, here's what I've successfully established: Miike Snow is not: mythical, Mark Ronson, a lonely Swedish dude, a blinged-out jackelope. Miike Snow is: where the party at, secretly into Phantom of the Opera, responsible for some unexpecte ... More >>
After dancing my ass off at the El Rey on Sunday night, here's what I've successfully established: Miike Snow is not: mythical, Mark Ronson, a lonely Swedish dude, a blinged-out jackelope. Miike Snow is: where the party at, secretly into Phantom of the Opera, responsible for some unexpecte ... More >>
Beauty really is in the eye of beholder, especially when a magazine is doing the beholding. Julia Roberts and Beth Ditto may be like night and day in the looks department, but both graced "Beautiful Issue" covers recently. Predictably, the toothy superstar was on People magazine (she's got a ... More >>
Also, Bajofondo, Massive Attack, Minus the Bear and others
The LikeAll signs point to yes -- fans seem to be really in love like with the new incarnation of the Like. Original members Z Berg and Tennessee Thomas, now hooked up with bassist Laena Geronimo and keyboardist Annie Monroe, are kicking off a four-Monday stand tonight at the Echo leading up ... More >>
We all know those people (not necessarily over-40s, but most of them are) who go on and on about how "nobody writes songs like in the '60s," "the lost art and craftmanship of classic rock and soul," and so on. Besides displaying astonishing ignorance and lack of curiosity, those throwbacks really f ... More >>
Also, Jay-Z, Metric, Triorganico, Air and others
Also, Jay-Z, Metric, Triorganico, Air and others
Erin Broadley"Which guitar do you want me next to: a Les Paul or a Les Paul?"On any given day you can walk into Guitar Center in Hollywood and see Slash. One can't go more than ten feet inside the mega-retailer without coming across a promotional gear-head display or banner bearing the image ... More >>
Also, Do Make Say Think, the Living Sisters, Wale and others
Also, the Kris Special, Jesse Sykes, Mamak Khadem and others
Also, the Curious Mystery, Graham Parker, Miss Derringer, Marduk and others
On Pleasant Gehman and Maggie Barry
An interview with Wale by Brandon Perkins Rest assured dedicated Web 2.0'ers, DC rapper Wale has not forsaken Twitter. One of the most committed Tweeters this side of Japanese school children, Wale had sworn off the message posting website after a particular Tweet got him in trouble with the DJ S ... More >>
You better believe they serve Pepsi at Medieval Times. 30. Los Campesinos-Hold On Now, Youngster (Wichita/Arts and Crafts) Gareth Campesinos and Co. clearly grew up not just liking music but being obsessed by bands, and they've done the only honourable thing you can in that position: they've ... More >>
Give Wale credit for knowing how to fall back. The D.C. rapper/Mark Ronson bid for street cred has laid low since The Mixtape About Nothing led the blogosphere to declare him "real and spectacular." Now with every Internet dork hunkering down to craft their year-end lists, flagon of Merlot and c ... More >>
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Richard Swift. Photograph from the album Richard Swift As Onasis. This is the extended interview from Rena Kosnett's article on prolific musician Richard Swift. L.A. Weekly: Was there a strategic purpose, or a goal, in releasing Ground Trouble Jaw for free? Richard Swift: I think it was void of ... More >>
The prolific singer, whose music defies categorization, creates sounds in his own, Swiftian style
By Pamela Chelin It was a packed house at Avalon last night in Hollywood with a line extending down the street. DJ AM, who survived a plane crash (along with Travis Barker) in South Carolina recently, threw a party to raise funds for the families of the victims who were tragically killed in the cra ... More >>
There's only one CD that matters in my car right now, and that's Diplo's raucous and sharp recent Santogold mixtape, called Top Ranking. It moves all over the place, from early '60s girl groups -- a stunning reworking of the Dixie Cups "Iko Iko" -- to 60s rocksteady (Desmond Dekker's "Shanty Town" ... More >>
There's only one CD that matters in my car right now, and that's Diplo's raucous and sharp recent Santogold mixtape, called Top Ranking. It moves all over the place, from early '60s girl groups -- a stunning reworking of the Dixie Cups "Iko Iko" -- to 60s rocksteady (Desmond Dekker's "Shanty Town" ... More >>
Car wash, yeah; pole-dancing queen; photo Zone at Drkrm
Prince of the desert; VIP couch; and other tales from Coachella
Props to those who actually managed to write coherant blog posts from Coachella on a daily/nightly basis. After spending about 1 1/2 hours in traffic leaving the fest Saturday night (which we hear is actually on the short side compared with others and would have been longer if not for some extremely ... More >>
Pre-awards parties; star spotting; survival of the hippest
The buzz surrounding the 23-year old Washington DC rapper Wale has grown pretty loud in the last month or two. Everyone from Entertainment Weekly to Rolling Stone and XXL have profiled the guy. Hell, Urb even put him on the cover of their150th issue (Though I'll admit that when I saw Wale surround ... More >>
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