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Five '70s Metal Bands Who Are Better Than Black Sabbath

Ok, we get it. You like Sabbath. Everyone does. But there's a whole big world out there of '70s metal bands that goes beyond Sabbath -- even beyond Sir Lord Baltimore, if you can believe that. The '70s offered so much in the way of doom-and-gloom heaviness that it's criminal so many stop with Ozzy, ... More >>

The Best L.A. Metal Concerts To See In February

Sat, Feb 2 Testament House of Blues Hollywood Many metal fans think that the Bay Area's Testament belong next to metal's "Big Four" (Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax). Indeed, classic albums like The Legacy and newer output like 2012's Dark Roots of Earth provide strong evidence for this arg ... More >>

Top 20 L.A. Metal Albums: 20 - 11

When it comes to discussion of the top metal scenes, Los Angeles never gets its due. Maybe it's because we're not known for being pioneers of a single subgenre (Bay Area thrash and Florida death metal for example), but there's still no doubt that the city has been vital in the evolution of metal. ... More >>

What Happened to the Reseda Country Club?

The San Fernando Valley doesn't come to mind when you think "iconic clubs," but in the 1980s the West Valley was the place to see acts like Tom Petty, Merle Haggard, Metallica and U2. See also: What Makes the Hollywood Bowl So Perfect? The Reseda Country Club, located on Sherman Way near Reseda B ... More >>

Music Picks: Dublab Anniversary, Ladyhawke, Flying Lotus

Top 20 Albums Not In The Canon: 20-11

*Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time A few months back Rolling Stone put out their updated 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. (Here's a quickly-scannable version; Sgt. P ... More >>

Music Picks: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Esperanza Spalding, Jack White

Also, the Crystelles, Arturo Sandoval, Backbiter and others

The Museum That Roared

Martin Olson's Encyclopaedia of Hell: Phineas and Ferb/Penn & Teller Writer On His New Book, a Satire of Satan

​Ever had questions about Hell, Satan or various and sundry demons? Then TV writer Martin Olson's Encyclopaedia of Hell: An Invasion Manual for Demons Concerning the Planet Earth and the Human Race Which Infests It will prove most edifying, as it sheds some much-needed comedic light on the da ... More >>

Overheard At Big 4

Metallica takes the stage​Early afternoon alcohol consumption in direct sunlight, followed by a Ziploc bag full of assorted pills, can lead to a totally awesome "Wooo!" inducing time--in your head. It can also lead to a painful trip to the Porta-Potties and some creative commentary. Walking ... More >>

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Guitar Hero is Dead, Long Live the Top 10 Songs to Play on Guitar Hero!

Top 10 Songs to Play on Guitar Hero

Tonight: Slayer, Megadeth, Film School, Los Enanitos Verdes, Wiz Khalifa, Born Ruffians, Frank Fairfield

Slayer​If the current "Clash of Titans" tour featuring Slayer, Medageth and Anthrax has reinforced one notion, it's that anger never goes out of style. The tour, with Slayer and Megadeth co-headlining, has been raging, drawing metal fans young and old to the music of bands that, along with Me ... More >>

Live Mash-Up Mayhem: Bootie LA and Beyond

Mash-ups continue to be an often misunderstood, even maligned music form by some, and admittedly the genre can be frustrating sometimes. The currently-hot Robyn meets AC/DC mix, which DJ Paul V spun Sat. at Bootie LA at the Echoplex is a good example: "You Shook Me All Night Long, " always gets th ... More >>

Cambodian Pop Freaks Dengue Fever Sign to Concord, Pick Up 'Jeopardy' and 'True Blood' Nods

Dengue Fever appear (in name) on "Jeopardy!"​The last L.A. indie band to get featured on Jeopardy! wound up going to the Grammys. That was Silversun Pickups last May, of course, and now it seems the Cambodian-Angeleno weird-pop ensemble, Dengue Fever, has earned that rare gameshow designatio ... More >>

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Thrashers Death Angel Bring Old School Shredding to the Scion Metal Show

Thrashers Death Angel Bring Old School Shredding to the Scion Metal Show

10 Great Heavy Metal Albums of 2009 (Or, Well, Make That 14)

Over the Top Eyes open and ears bleeding, Phil Freeman loads up on the year's best metal. This year was such a good one for heavy music, we wound up having to cheat when putting this list together. We just couldn't settle on ten albums that kicked my ass the hardest in 2009; there were dozens of ca ... More >>

Notes on the Grammy Nominations: Excuse Us While We Puke

​What follows are a few random notes on LA-based nominees for the 2009 Grammys, which were announced yesterday in downtown LA. If you're looking for thoughts on the big-ass pop categories, go elsewhere; we're going to try and wade through the rock and lesser known categories without throwing u ... More >>

Digital Hollywood on the Music Industry: Still Doomed?

The Internet has the capacity to ruin some and propel others to stardom. The file-sharing site Napster turned the band Metallica into joke fodder, launched Radiohead into the US Top 20 for the first time and uprooted an entire Industry along the way. Nowhere was this more apparent than at Digital Ho ... More >>

Top 5 Songsmith Remixes: Fudging a Microsoft Program to Create "Music"

Songsmith, by Microsoft: a time-sucking monster One has to wonder if Microsoft knew what type of time-sucking monster they had created upon releasing Songsmith. An extension of the MySong project, the program allows even the musically inept to formulate a song and gives skilled players what the com ... More >>

Green Day's New Documentary, Aries in the House, Society at the Bordello

SXSW Overview: Where We Were, What We Saw, What We Missed

View the SXSW archives for complete coverage . Randall RobertsStrange Boys drummer Matt Hammer at the Beauty Bar It's all a blur, but a few snapshots remain. Many who follow the fest, of course, were there and damn sure weren't anywhere near the Internets. We were. We were blogging. Over the past ... More >>

Silversun Pickups Record Daytrotter Session at SXSW: A Glimpse from Inside the Studio

Randall RobertsBrian Aubert, in black, seated, and band/crew await their date with Daytrotter. For bands at South by Southwest, there's a lot of waiting involved. Yes, there's hustling, and unloading and reloading the van, and dealing with sound dudes on short notice when everybody's feeling a litt ... More >>

West Coast Sound: An L.A. Music Pro's Guide to South by Southwest

Ten to watch: The next Ford jingle?

LA at SXSW Tip #1: Is Fol Chen the City's Best New Band?

At least 171 Los Angeles-area acts will represent at the South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas, next week, and they range from metal (Ancestors, Metallica, Black Math Horseman), acoustic (Jim Bianco, Tom Brosseau, Tori Amos) and punk (Japanese Motors, the Mae Shi, DEVO) to hip-hop ( ... More >>

Spinal Tap: Unwigged and Unplugged at its House of Blues Press Conference

Shannon Cottrell Spinal Tarp, er, Tap, are the Cher of semi-fictional rock bands. Or in the semi-fictional words of bassist Derek Smalls himself: "If you let the worm grow long enough, it's going to turn. That's what's happened to us." Spinal Tap formed the '60s, dwindled in the '80s, reunited in 19 ... More >>

Behind the Scenes at the Grammys: In the Press Room, A Quiet Night Jolted Alive by Chris Brown/Rihanna Allegations

When you tell an outsider that you're "covering the Grammys," it sounds pretty swank. Before I did it for the first time, I imagined glamor, some rubbing shoulders, and, above all, a lot of music. But the reality is different. Those of us not covering the red carpet are planted in a hotel-confere ... More >>

The Evil That Men Play: Heavy Metal in Baghdad and Mideast Metal

Mideast Metalheads: "Look around. We are living in a heavy-metal world."

ROCK OUT WITH THE BLOCKS OUT: Kid Stuff with Cool Cred

This week we profiled the ebullient pre-school TV sensation Yo Gabba Gabba, but the show (created by two So Cal rocker dads) isn't the only alternative for parents sick of dumbed-down cartoons and uninspired kiddie ditties. More and more artists from the rock world are exploring the children's mark ... More >>

LA Weekly talks to Presets' Julian Hamilton re: their Detour gig

photos by Timothy Norris L.A. Weekly caught up with the Presets' Julian Hamilton (pictured left with co-founder Kim Moyes) prior to their set at Detour on Saturday night. He was very buzzed about the prospects for a kind of deeper, darker dance dementia during his group’s time onstage; the Austr ... More >>

Bonnaroo Crowd Says F*ck You Mister West and Your Awesome Awesomeness

For the dirt on Kayne's five in the morning show and why that didn't go down too well with the kids, let's check in with Sean Maloney at the Nashville Scene. Early word in the press tent was that Kanye West disappointed the 'Roo crew with an untimely, five-o-clock-in-the-fucking-morning set. Rumor ... More >>

Ask a Mexican! Las Puertas

Never realized Jim Morrison was the equal of Morrissey and Charles Bronson among other Mexican guero icons.

Summer Lovin', Happened So Fast

Lose Your Illusions

Slayer, now more than ever

Allez les Bleus

The World Cup on the Champs Élysées

They Come in Colors...

We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

Trouble Man

The deeply disturbed life and times of a musical prodigy

For Whom the Cell Phone Tolls

Time to Get Rad

How Brant Bjork got his groove back

2004 in Film

Boys/Men of the World

Letters

Bass of Operations

Edited by Kateri Butler

The Kids Are All Right

Headbanging for credit at the Musicians Institute

The Decline of Western Civilization Part III: The Tribute Years

Letters

Slush