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The Dazzling Story of the Orpheum Theatre

The Orpheum Theatre has six floors of dressing rooms, a film projector, a world-class sound system and one of the only surviving Wurlitzer theater organs in the country. It's also one of the last independent venues in the city. Ninety years in, it continues to thrive after more than 85 years thanks ... More >>

Classic Rock Is a Cancer on Our Society

There's a disease spreading through our generation of 20- and 30-year-olds. We inherited this malady from our parents, and it's rendering us culturally stagnant. It's sapping our identity. Perhaps most tragically, we are welcoming this plague into our homes, cars, and phones -- even into our kar ... More >>

Alex Isley Has Her Own Thing

Alex Isley is the daughter of Ernie Isley, longtime member of soul legends The Isley Brothers. In the '70s and '80s, the group had hits like "Footsteps in the Dark," "For the Love of You," and "Between the Sheets." For Isley growing up in Los Angeles in the '90s, however, those revered voices were ... More >>

Fan Landers: Help, I'm Intimidated by an Indie Legend

Are you a musician? Is your band having issues? Our advice columnist Fan Landers (a.k.a. Jessica Hopper) is ready to give you Real Talk about any problems your musical outfit might be having—whether professional, practical, or sartorial. Send your problems to her; confidentiality is assured, u ... More >>

Michael Gross' New Album Considers: What If Dreams Don't Come True?

As musicians go, Michael Gross is a bit of a late bloomer. He didn't play music or harbor rock and roll aspirations as a kid growing up in Salt Lake City. He sang in his school choir for a year, but recalls that it "wasn't really for him." Mostly the self-proclaimed jock played sports, eventually ea ... More >>

If Enya's Music Doesn't Soothe You, You're Probably Not Human

[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] On South Park, Enya is portrayed as a horrible joy-sucking presence in pop-culture. Her music actually forces Stan to com ... More >>

Jimmy Cliff, Liars, Jesse Sykes

Also, New Edition, Kátia Moraes & Sambaguru, Milo Greene and others

The Best L.A. Albums 
So Far This Year

We are impeccable thieves, transplanting artists both from burgs bearing but a single Waffle House and metropolises where they measure the cold in Celsius. Biggie credited the centripetal pull of L.A. to the weather, the women and the weed. The ability to work was implied. The city has been a music ... More >>

iPhone Robberies in Venice Prompt LAPD Warning: Keep Your White Earbuds on The DL

If you're walking around Venice at night listening to tunes on your iPhone, your ears plugged with white "buds," you're an idiot, of course. And cops this week are warning you not to do it because a) it looks retarded, b) it keeps you from hearing potential criminals sneak up behind you and c) it a ... More >>

"Eat It Don't Tweet It:" When Food Bites Back

We foodists have a sense of humor, right? We'd better, because we deserve to be made fun of for lighting up everyone's minifeed with excited tweets about the "fucking brown buttered hedgehog mushrooms" and "Yakima applewood smoked sea salt" we're about to eat. Our latest find, "Eat It Don't Tweet I ... More >>

iPod-Powered Vibrators: We Masturbate To Jack White's Music

​Music-powered vibrators. What a concept! The original, from a company called OhMiBod, has a cigar-shaped design that you plug into an iPod; the vibrating stimulus matches the beat of the song playing. But now there's a pair of fancier new wireless versions, and, guess what? We test drove ... More >>

Why the Grammys Stink

See also: *2012 Grammys: The Best, the Worst and the Weirdest *Deadmau5, Rihanna - House of Blues - 2/13/12 *Dan Wilson: From "Closing Time" to Adele's "Someone Like You" So, our Grammy credentials were fairly limited last night. In fact, we were trapped in a room for eight hours, with journalists ... More >>

Velvet Revolver - John O'Brien Tribute - House of Blues - 1/12/12

Velvet Revolver, Maroon 5, Sheryl Crow, Stephen Stills, The Nightwatchman House of Blues Los Angeles 1/12/11 Better Than...Scott Weiland's Christmas album. Last night, Scott Weiland, Slash, Duff McKagan and company put their differences aside to play a one-off set to honor the memory of composer a ... 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 >>

Top 10 L.A. Club Nights of 2011

Lina Lecaro​It was another great year for nightlife in Los Angeles. Despite the economy, party vibes inside the clubs were as creative and crazy as ever. From hip-hop haps to gay grinders, electro-a-go-go's to arty parties, the energy was contagious. Sure, many of Hollywood's swankier spots st ... More >>

Drake, Maroon 5 and Busta Rhymes - Google Music Launch Party - 11/16/11

Lina Lecaro ​See also: *Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Drake Is An Incredible Lyricist *Funky Homosapiens: The Best Rapper Names Of All Time "Today the climate changes!" proclaimed Busta Rhymes to a horde of Hollywood hipsteratti and actor/model types inside the gaudy, graffiti-swathed walls of stre ... More >>

Best Posts of the Week

This week Weekly staffers Chris Vogel and Simone Wilson broke revelations from the new book Murder Rap, in which former LAPD detective Greg Kading cites testimony implicating Suge Knight in the death of Biggie Smalls and Diddy in the murder of Tupac. On our sister blog The Informer, Wilson also brou ... More >>

Why This Song Sucks: Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger," featuring Christina Aguilera

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger," featuring Christina Aguilera History: God (likely) intended for Maroon 5 to be an important-but-middling critic's darling, ... More >>

Maroon 5 at Hollywood Bowl 7/25/11

Addison BurbankSweatpants, not just for lazy dads anymore​Maroon 5 Hollywood Bowl 7/25/11 Better than ... Sitting at home on a beautiful Monday night "C'mon, everyone stand up and sing. This is L.A., don't be too cool, I'm from here and I invented too cool," Maroon 5 lead singer Adam Levine ... More >>

MTV VMA Best New Artist Nominees: A Field Guide to Kreayshawn, Big Sean, Foster the People, Tyler the Creator, and Wiz Khalifa

Kreayshawn​Article by Shea Serrano On Sunday, August 28th, MTV's Video Music Awards will wander into town. MTV, by the way, is a television station. They play music and whatnot, but more importantly, they allow a handsome troglodyte named CT to exist. Also, younger readers: A television s ... More >>

Music Picks: Fucked Up, Dolly Parton, Ty Segal, Fitz & the Tantrums,

Also, Soundgarden, Iceage, Earth, Wu Lyf and others

Mick Jagger's Superheavy New Supergroup, Plus Five Songs About and/or Referring to The Rolling Stones' Frontman ... Maybe

From Mickjagger.comJust Super.​There may not be a Rolling Stones tour happening anytime soon (wonder if Mick is still pissed about Keef's "tiny togder" remark?) but for fans of The Stones frontman, musical satisfaction has been trickling in. Last week, at a press conference here in L.A., Sir J ... More >>

Last Night: Bruno Mars, Janelle Monáe and Mayer Hawthorne at the Gibson Ampitheatre

Sarah BennettBruno Mars​ Bruno Mars, Janelle Monáe, and Mayer Hawthorne June 12, 2011 Gibson AmpitheatreFresh off their smashing performance at this year's Grammys, Bruno Mars and Janelle Monáe linked up once again to tour. With the addition of Mayer Hawthorne, you've got three of the truest pu ... More >>

Top 20 Most Ridiculous Grammy 2010 Nominations: Still Ridiculous after All These Months

Grammys: they're nuts!​ [Originally published December 2010] It's that time of the year, the time when the imploding music industry gathers to display their astonishing cluelessness by nominating a bunch of hacks, flashes-in-the-pan, and old people that have done their best work 40 years ago ... More >>

Top 20 Most Ridiculous Grammy 2010 Nominations

Grammys: they're nuts!​It's that time of the year, the time when the imploding music industry gathers to display their astonishing cluelessness by nominating a bunch of hacks, flashes-in-the-pan, and old people that have done their best work 40 years ago as "the best music of the year." Yup-- ... More >>

This weekend: Klaxons, Chapterhouse, the Besnard Lakes, Maroon 5, Caribou, Jack Johnson, Liz Phair, Tom Tom Club, the Weepies

The Besnard Lakes​The Culture Collide festival, which kicked off Thursday night at five venues in Silver Lake, Echo Park and downtown, is making for some wonderful daze in the neighborhood. The brainchild of Filter music mag, the inaugural event has imported bands from more than a dozen natio ... More >>

Live Review: Hey Champ and Imagine Dragons at the Viper Room

Leslie KalohiHey Champ​ If you're looking for an opening band, 30 Seconds to Mars, look no further. Imagine Dragons are your guys. Last night the five of them took the Viper Room by storm with their arena-worthy anthems. Dressed up in a button down black shirt and close cropped coif, lead sin ... More >>

Free the Robots, Dr. John. Alex Cuba and Merle Haggard

Also, Bestial Mouths, The Dreaming, Echo Lush and Elevaters

Music Picks: Jail Weddings, Summer Darling, Roky Erickson, Jonathan Richman

Also, Bajofondo, Massive Attack, Minus the Bear and others

Today in Small Time Crooks: Maroon 5 Producer Who's Gonna Make You Star Possibly Not Really Him

Maroon 5​Eric Valentine is a record producer-about-town with credits ranging from Nickel Creek to the All-American Rejects to Good Charlotte to, well, Maroon 5. He also can get your tracks on a bunch of high-profile soundtracks (Transformers!). Dude knows industry people and, if you're an aspi ... More >>

Moving Up

Eminem and Jay-Z to Play at Wiltern Tonight for DJ Hero Launch (UPDATED)

Hot Monday night in LA: Eminem and Jay-Z are doing a surprise show at the Wiltern tonight to promote their new relationship with DJ Hero, the hugely anticipated (and contentious) new game from Activision's Hero franchise. Below is an exclusive look at DJ Hero: The two rap superstars recently si ... More >>

SXSSXSW Day 4/Days Late (Pt. 1): On Rap/Rock, The Legacy of the Beasties, and Asher Roth Vs. The Knux

Other than freshman Delta Sigma Theta rushes at Cal-State Chico, no substrata of the American population has worse taste in rock than rappers. Sure, your little brother likes Fall Out Boy, but eventually, he's going to grow up and discover The Clash, then weed, then hopefully Junior Murvin and Lee ... More >>

2008's Top Ten Pop Songs

By Annie Zaleski Pop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The ... More >>

Grammy Kisses

Pre-awards parties; star spotting; survival of the hippest

Rock Picks: The Slits, Squiddo, Electrocute

For the week of August 2 - 9

Roller Coaster of Wub

Disneyland goes all Chili Peppers and shit

Nightranger

Devil’s Haircut and B-Boys

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For the week of December 14 – 21

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What is Not Sexy

Victoria's Secret launched its first "What is Sexy" list. (why? your guess is as good as mine) But it leaves me seriously wondering if Victoria has any real secrets at all. I won't argue with their choice to make St. Tropez the sexiest international city, I've never been there, but I hear the chicks ... More >>

Hardcore Middle Class

Kanye West is no savior, but his refusal to be anything but himself just might set hip-hop straight

Kanye 4 Prezzy

September Girls

The Like’s debut LP delivers hazy, wistful intoxication

Nightranger

The Single Guy

He rented his spare room to make ends meet . . . meeting the models just happened

Snake Bites

Killing Them, but Not Softly

Snakebites

Genesis Regenerated