Morrissey (Singer)

Morrissey - Staples Center - 3/1/13

Morrissey Staples Center 3/1/13 Better than... bacon-wrapped hot dogs. There was the requisite Morrissey drama, for that's who he is, who we want him to be: the postponement last year of the Staples Center gig with Iggy Pop & The Stooges because of his mother's health; the postponement of earlier ... More >>

The Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, March 1 Morrissey and Patti Smith STAPLES CENTER The Staples Center has been making headlines by going all-vegetarian for Morrissey's March 1 visit, a request that even Paul McCartney has been denied in the past. A meat-free Staples deserves mention, but it still doesn't impress more than t ... More >>

Think Morrissey Is a Douche? Go Join the NRA

The Staples Center will be meatless for Morrissey's show tomorrow, says Morrissey. Um, well, not exactly, says the Staples Center. Um, yeah, counters Morrissey. His declaration that the place will be meat-free "was not reviewed by anyone in the building," adds Cara Vanderhook, flack for the Stapl ... More >>

[Updated] Morrissey Gets Staples Center To Go (Almost) Vegetarian for Upcoming Concert

Update (5:50 p.m., Headline changed): According to a statement from the arena, it looks like Moz and his public relations goons went a little too hard on the whole meatless Staples thing. While the venue will be serving vegan Sloppy Joes, a grilled vegetable sandwich, cheese pizza, vegan sushi, ch ... More >>

Zee Avi - The Echoplex - 9/21/12

Zee Avi The Echoplex 9/21/12 I thought I knew what to expect when I signed up to review Zee Avi, the miniature Malaysian pop-folk figure: some cute singing, mushy high-school moments, and maybe an awkward coquettish joke or two about her strange accent. But instead I was treated to a one-woman vari ... More >>

Top 5 Reasons Not to Eat Meat on Mondays

5. You work at the USDA (or maybe don't anymore): And thus got an internal memo last week, which helpfully pointed out that "one simple way to reduce your environmental impact while dining at our cafeterias is to participate in the 'Meatless Monday' initiative." (Meatless Mondays is a 2003 non-profi ... More >>

We Love Morrissey but C'Mon: Dude Totally Ripped off Bryan Ferry

Twenty years ago I discovered Morrissey; he gave expression to the deep isolation and longing for connection that I felt as a suburban misfit. As I grew older it became less about the Pope of Mope, however, and more about the well-dressed man singing operatic odes to skinheads and small-time crimina ... More >>

Morrissey & Kristeen Young - The Shrine Auditorium - 11-26-11

Timothy Norris​See also: Our Morrissey slideshow Morrissey & Kristeen Young The Shrine Auditorium 11-26-11 Better than ... walking down Hoover in a blue-&-gold Bruins shirt after the big game. For a person who once famously declared that he was celibate, Steven Patrick Morrissey is clearly ... More >>

LinA In LA Party Picks: Our Post-Thanksgiving Workout Plan

Forget about cornbread. We've got the recipe for the kind of stuffing that won't leave you comatose after consumed, unless you want to be. Stuff your weekend with the following ingredients: '70s disco, '80s new wave, brand-new electro house, zombies, fashion fiends, hipsters, gays, straights, pan-se ... More >>

Music Picks: Iggy & the Stooges, Morrissey, Esa-Pekka Salonen

Also, Henry Rollins, Liz Pappademas, Greg Bissonette Quintet

The Cure - Pantages Theater - 11-22-11

Randall Michelson​By Siran Babayan The Cure Pantages Theater 11-22-11 Better Than....Crying home alone Tonight, Morrissey performs a last-minute gig at the Music Box where the marquee reads: "There Is No Such Thing In Life As Normal...We Love You Morrissey." If you walk past fans who've been ... More >>

Fool's Gold - FYF Fest - September 3, 2011

Ben WesthoffFool's Gold​By Anna Westhoff See also: FYF Review: The Descendents, Kid Dynamite, and Ty Segall FYF review: Smith Westerns and the comedy stage FYF Slideshow! Fuck Yeah! It's the FYF SAT Quiz! FYF Preview: The Descendents Attempt To Clone Themselves FYF Preview: Drinking Tequila ... More >>

The Decemberists and Wye Oak - The Greek - 08/12/2011

Timothy Norris​What: The Decemberists With Wye Oak Where: The Greek When: 08/12/2011 If there's one god awful concert tradition that needs to die of a combination of ebola AND bird flu, it's the ridiculous ritual in which the band prematurely ends an excellent set, dishonestly says 'goodnigh ... More >>

LinA In LA Club/Party Picks: MURK, Moz, Bang Beat It!

Clubbang.netClub Bang! photo from "Remembering The Ruby" slideshow​From Hollywood to Echo Park, retro sounds, electro grooves, reggae vibes and even a little psychedelia pepper the dance club datebook this week. Here are our picks for a roarin' and raging good time. Fri., Aug. 5 Miami's MUR ... More >>

Mott Collection: Loud Flash: British Punk on Paper

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Fosselman's (Day 3)

What's there left to say about Fosselman's? The quaint Alhambra ice cream shop has been written up everywhere and routinely makes local and international "best of" list. Deservedly so. Foseelman's is a 92-year-old throwback to a decade -- make that a century -- when every suburban strip mall from ... More >>

Punk Singer Steve Ignorant (Finally) Brings Crass to America: Interview

photo by Damon Allen DavisonSteve Ignorant and band​ Crass, the commune-living, hippie anarchist punks whose DIY way of recording and promoting had as much an impact on the genre as their brand of boot-in-your face hardcore, disbanded more than 25 years ago, having never toured the U.S. beyond ... More >>

Page Two: Gypsy Revivalism Is Not All Washed Up

Cows In Space: Scientists Working to Make Meat in Laboratories

Santa Monica farmers market​ Meat is more trendy than cupcakes these days, with all standard apologies to Morrissey. Consider the seemingly permanent bacon trend, the rising popularity of butchery, happy whole pig farm-to-table excursions, and local butchers who generate so much interest that ... More >>

Moz Crafts: Morrissey's Lyrics In Needlepoint

​ Nothing says cozy quite like Morrissey's lyrics in needlepoint. The perfect blend of pain, craft and depression! Kimberly Scola, the crafty girl who goes by the name Chez Sucre Chez, says, "I spent my high-school years listening to a whole lot of the Smiths and scratching the words to those ... More >>

Morrissey As a No Limit Gangsta Rapper?: The Awesome World of Fake No Limit CD Covers (Featuring Frank Zappa, Hall & Oates, They Might Be Giants and More Artists Who Could Use More Bling)

somethingawful.comMorrissey, the Masta P years​ The wonderful Beautiful Decay blog dug up some amazing Photoshops from the pre-Twitter days of 2007 where some enterprising 'Shoopers redesigned some classic album covers applying the decadent aesthetics of early 2000s No Limit records. Ever fe ... More >>

PETER AND GORDON AND EVERYBODY ELSE

Johnny Marr to Conservative British Prime Minister David Cameron: "I forbid you to like The Smiths"

"You are forbidden!": Marr to hip-wannabe David Cameron​ Conservative politicians and non-conservative pop musicians are always having altercations about the former's use of the latter's music and hipness for nefarious political purposes. The latest spat concerns UK Prime Minister David Came ... More >>

Shoplifters Unite and Pick Up "Mozipedia": 'The Encyclopedia of Morrissey and The Smiths' Comes to the US

​ British journalist Simon Goddard's Mozipedia: The Encyclopedia Of Morrissey And The Smiths was recently released in the US. And seeing as how we were once his neighbors (maybe still are, occasionally, even if he disses us in interviews), West Coast Sound combed through the book's more-than 5 ... More >>

Tonight: Lady Gaga, B.B. King & Buddy Guy, Alejandro Escovedo & the Sensitive Boys, Frazey Ford, Empire of the Sun, RUSH

​"If it's true that 'Alejandro' represents Lady Gaga's super-obvious bid at her own 'La Isla Bonita'--and there's no doubting that it does--then consider this: Where Madonna took four years to go from her first big hit to her Latin-crossover jam, Gaga's only taken two; that's a remarkably spee ... More >>

Moz Mania Hits the Music Box for The Smiths/Morrissey Convention

Click here to see more photos. Sunday night, fans of all ages congregated at Hollywood's Music Box Theater for The Smiths/Morrissey convention. The event, which has been held annually since 1997, isn't what would be considered typical for music gatherings. There's no expectation that Morrissey wil ... More >>

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Billy Corgan Faces His Inner Demon Backstage at Alterna-Mall

While we were all getting trampled at Coachella, Record Store Day (i.e., "Day for Retailers to Celebrate The Price-Pointing of Vinyl Records to 25 Bucks") was celebrated by Amoeba and the rest of physical media peddlers. Our friend Billy Corgan was at hand as part of his protracted release strategy ... More >>

Last Night: Morrissey (and McLovin) at the Gibson Amphitheatre

Morrissey at the Gibson Amphitheater, December 10 It's no surprise SoCal is the last stop on Morrissey's current tour. He may be homeless and rootless at the moment, but L.A. has always been the big bosom of his fan base. And with the media curiosity over his local popularity fading years ago, only ... More >>

Rock Picks: Willie Nelson, Maude Maggart, Two Tears

Also, Cold Cave, Ceci Bastida, Califone, and others

LA Flashback: June, 1991, When Mozmania Swept the Southland

Request Video Morrissey Soundcheck Pacific Amphitheatre, June 1, 1991 (music starts near the 4:30 mark) Request Video Morrissey Soundcheck Pacific Amphitheatre, June 1, 1991 It was June of 1991 when Mozmania swept through the Los Angeles area. Kill Uncle had recently been released and while tha ... More >>

LA Weekly Coachella Awards 2009: The Best and Worst of the Festival

View more Coachella pics here: Day One, Day Two, Day Three, Half-Dressed People & Scenes from the Desert Timothy NorrisCoachella 2009, at the awards ceremony Weirdest Between-song Banter: Paul McCartney, bless his heart, played an epic set, staked a claim on a body of work that only fools would i ... More >>

Note on Tonight's My Bloody Valentine Show at Coachella

Bring these. It's important to acknowledge that despite the scope of the Empire Polo Field, Goldenvoice has seen fit to clear a big chunk of tonight's schedule to make way for the massive sound expected for My Bloody Valentine's set. Whereas on most nights the five stages can operate simultaneously ... More >>

Sparks Light Up Royce Hall with Performance of Classic Album and New Material

View more photos in the Sparks slideshow. All photos by Timothy Norris Sparks at UCLA Royce Hall, Sat., Feb. 14 To borrow the title from Sparks' 2000 album, it took balls for Ron and Russell Mael to stage their 21-night residency in London last summer, performing the entirety of each of their 21 a ... More >>

Coachella 2009 Announced: Amy Winehouse, Paul McCartney, My Bloody Valentine ... Throbbing Gristle! Leonard Cohen!

Yeah, so all the silly speculation probably isn't done yet, as Goldenvoice always adds a few heavy-hitters after the initial announcement, but the initial line-up is up. Click through to see it in all it's glory. We'll start analyzing it soon, but for now: Throbbing Gristle! No Pavement? Let the ... More >>

Moz Krew: From L.A. to the South Bay, the Annual Smiths Convention

A game of "Name That Tune" turns bad: "How can you not get 'Ask'?"

Girl In A Coma, Knitting Factory, 2/21

Girl In A Coma Knitting Factory, Feb. 21 By Scott Schultz Girl in a Coma’s Thursday night set at the Knitting Factory demonstrated the growth the band has made over the last year of touring. The San Antonio threesome has been on the road nonstop in support of their Joan Jett-released debut disc, ... More >>

Lovely Bastards

Morrissey, Art Brut and the proper way to nick from John Lennon

Live in L.A. Morrissey at the Hollywood Bowl, June 8

All the elements of a going-down-in-history Morrissey concert were there: sold-out behemoth venue, two full hours, tight band, a whopping ten stage-divers, and the pre-show hubbub that always looks like an arts 'n' crafts fair of homemade Moz-inspired get-ups. It's one thing to slap on some pomade ... More >>

Rock Picks

For the week of June 7 - 14

Under the Influence

And Moz-itive thinking

Rock Picks

For February 1–8

Moz the Cat

In which Steven Patrick Morrissey speaks of ghosts, glam rock, Obama... and why squirrels like him

Fresh Mozzarella

Moz moves to Rome, turns born-again extra-virgin. Abbondanza!

Who is Your Musical Hero?

The Other Polarizer

No Ashes Left

William Jones, Charming Man

2002 Smiths/Morrissey Convention: Still Sixteen, Clumsy and Shy

Too Beautiful