Mick Jagger

The Rolling Stones - Staples Center - 5/20/13

The Rolling Stones Staples Center 5-20-13 If last night's concert at Staples Center really was the Rolling Stones' final show in Los Angeles after nearly 50 years of faithful pilgrimages to the Southland, it revealed that the British warhorses are still capable of major gasp-inducing surprises. Whe ... More >>

Rolling Stones - Staples Center - May 3, 2013 (With Photos and Set List)

Rolling Stones Staples Center May 3, 2013 The Rolling Stones still put in the work, as was demonstrated by their stint here in Los Angeles over the last two weeks, which included a series of rehearsals in Burbank -- Falling James lurked outside -- and their secret show at the Echoplex. See also: ... More >>

The Best Concerts to See in Los Angeles This Weekend

For any show in town see our regularly-updated concert calendar. Friday, May 3 The Rolling Stones STAPLES CENTER It's easy to make fun of The Rolling Stones -- a karaoke-addled Mick Jagger even got in on the act last season on Saturday Night Live -- but the not-always-convenient truth is that Jagg ... More >>

We Lurked Outside the Rolling Stones' Rehearsals in Burbank

Last week, the center of the rock & roll universe was located in an industrial part of Burbank. In one room at CenterStaging studios, Paul McCartney was rehearsing with his band for their upcoming world tour. Next door, his old pals and supposed rivals the Rolling Stones were preparing for their fir ... More >>

Rolling Stones - The Echoplex - April 27, 2013

We get big bands in small venues around these parts not infrequently. Hell, Depeche Mode just played the Troubadour on Friday. But the Rolling Stones at the Echoplex? That's as good as it gets. The announcement that a small amount of tickets -- maybe 350 -- would be available yesterday at the El Rey ... More >>

Music Picks: Shuggie Otis, The Rolling Stones, Juvenile

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 >>

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 >>

Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: The Complete List

See also: *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Greatest Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List *Top 20 Hair Metal Albums of All Time: The Complete List Physical appearance actually has little to do with sexiness. Sure, we've all been known to stare at a shirtle ... More >>

Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: #15-11

See also: *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: #20-16 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List 15. Pharrell Though lots of women have brains, beauty and talent, few man do. Yet, as one of the most prolific and successful producers of the past decade, Pharrell Williams is also a cl ... More >>

Ice Cube Talks Art, Boyz n the Hood, and Why He Makes Comedies

Jennie Warren​Ice Cube may cut hair in the movies, but if you schedule a photo shoot with him, his people will request it be BYOB -- Bring Your Own Barber. You'll need to bring a makeup artist, too. After all, he's not the same man he was when Boyz n the Hood came out, 20 years ago last month ... More >>

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 >>

Everyone Wants a Piece of Raphael Saadiq's (Neo) Soul: Go Get Yours Tonight

​You know you saw it this past soggy Sunday: Every time it storms in L.A., Twitter's flooded with references to singer and producer Raphael Saadiq's song with Tony! Toni! TonĂ©!, "It Never Rains in Southern California." Not bad for a track that was released more than 20 years ago. But Saadiq's ... More >>

Page Two: Raphael Saadiq, Like a Rolling Stone

Everyone wants a piece of his neo-soul

NIGHTRANGER: NIGHT NYMPHS

Zooey Deschanel to Play Original '60s Groupie Pamela "I'm With the Band" Des Barres in HBO Series, Most Likely Involving Sex with Mick Jagger and Jim Morrison Lookalikes (NSFW)

Post-'60s puritanism hits OG groupie Pamela Des Barres: Those nipple-covering flowers are not in the original NSFW photo (see below)​Pamela Des Barres has been on a one-woman literary mission to change the connotations of the word "groupie" for nearly 25 years, and now, thanks to two film proj ... More >>

THEY HAD YOUR FIUN

Phil Collins Tells Rolling Stone He's Contemplated Suicide -- Well So Have We, Every Time We've Ever Listened To 'In The Air Tonight'

Last.fmThe last thing we saw before we slit our wrists​This week's issue of Rolling Stone featured an EXCLUSIVE interview with Sting -- er, Phil Collins. (Remember when RS wrote about shit that was relevant, instead of resorting to a loop of Mick Jagger career retrospectives and top-5,000 list ... More >>

Here Comes the Sun

LACMA tributes Donald Cammell

Big Wangs, Little Wangs: Bieber, Glambert, Ke$ha and more at Wango Tango

No matter how indier than thou you think you are music-wise, uber pop hits can make it into your consciousness, whether you like it or not. Unless you make an adamant point of blocking them, these ubiquitous confections need not be heard on mainstream radio like KIIS FM, either. They will seep in vi ... More >>

Exile on Sunset Boulevard

Rolling in L.A. with the Stones

Stuck in a Moment: U2 at the Rose Bowl

Safe sex with Bono and the boys

Top 5 Topless Groupies: Women Who Bared It All For Music (NSFW)

​Rock-n-roll and breasts often go (tee-hee) hand in hand. In fact, Motley Crue drummer and groupie magnet, Tommy Lee, has this rule about coming into his dressing room: "You're not allowed in unless you remove an article of clothing. And I'm not talking about your socks. It's pretty f***ing c ... More >>

SATAN SELLS

Last Night: Stoned At Stories, Henry Clay People Go Under Cover for "The Wit & Wisdom of Keith Richards" book bash.

A crusty, drug-damaged caricature or the personification of cool itself? When it comes to Keith Richards, there are essentially two camps. For Rolling Stones fans, the man, his guitar-playing, his (however unintelligible) words, and his wholly droll essence, is tantamount to rock n' roll deity. An e ... More >>

That Girl Gets Raunchy!

Cobbler to the Stars: Pasquale Fabrizio

Heeling ailing soles

Part 1: Thoughts on Music Now. (The festival that is. You'll have to wait for my multi-volume treatise on the state of music today.)

The rise of classically informed indie music, one awesome photograph of MC 62 Foot Jesus, and my thoughts on "conflict of interest" in music criticism today. ALSO, a member of Grizzly Bear getting crunk in a Cincinnati, OH parking lot. It's kind of like US Weekly for obscure people.

The Voodoo Lounge: Love Songs; Shine a Light

Where Honore, Godard, Scorsese and the Stones all have a place at the table

Rolling Stones, Scorsese and Black Girls

"Black girls just want to get fucked all night I just don't have that much jam" I just want to put that out there because it's a funny, mean, maybe even important line. It's the very antithesis of the Beach Boys' categorization of females in "California Girls," and it's proof that at least into th ... More >>

Liars, El Rey, 2/22

Liars El Rey, Feb 22, 2008 By Jonah Flicker Liars are a constantly shifting band, taking a new tack on dark post-punk, experiments in early industrial music, and tribal minimalism with each new record they release. Their debut effort, They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top (Mute, ... More >>

Introducing Teenage Kicks A Moment of Rock Crit Glory

Welcome to Teenage Kicks...

Boogie Nights

And Kung fu fighting

Drake Bell, Mick Jagger & Me

Aloha From Hell

Jerry Lee Lewis, still on fire

L.A. Simonized

Kerry Simon, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Chef, comes west

Mods & Rockers 2006

Mods and Rockers 2006

Tiara Girlz

The Band Played On

Nightranger

Got Live Stones! (If Ya Want It)

Instant Rock for the People

With “Blue Orchid,”the White Stripes bring the rock the old-fashioned way: really fucking fast

Rebel Yelp

Thieves in the Night

San Francisco and/or Bust

Edited by Kateri Butler

The Raw and the Cooked

Edited by Kateri Butler

Beautiful People: I’m Your Biggest-Paid Fan

“I Am a Bullet!”

Cult legend Donald Cammell

Go Date Yourself