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Motley Crue

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2012

    Marilyn Manson, Slash, Evanescence - Club Nokia - 4/11/12

    Revolver Golden Gods Club Nokia 4-11-12 Better than ... Any hard rock show you'd see on the Sunset Strip nowadays. Music awards shows generally suck. They are most often excuses for industry people to slap themselves on the back and perform crappy performances of songs you don't want to hear anywa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    Top 10 Strip Clubs in Los Angeles

    So you're curious to go to a strip club, but unless your buddy is a regular and brings you along, how are you going to pick which one? Yelp? Give me a break. Thankfully for you, our L.A. Weekly experts have compiled the top ten strip clubs in L.A. But don't get too excited -- save it for the girls.

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    Steel Panther: Hair Metal Cover Band Goes Legit

    See also: Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: The Complete List Story by Clay Marshall Steel Panther guitarist Russ Parrish sports leopard-print Spandex and a tiger-striped ax when the group plays in concert. If all goes well, he'll climb atop the drum riser and stomp on the kick-drum pedal, ac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: The Complete List

    ​See also: *Chuck Klosterman's Favorite Hair Metal Albums One day I was sitting around thinking I want to write a song about ménage a trois...and the line 'love in stereo' came into my head. Inspiration can happen anywhere at any time. -Jani Lane, Hit Parader magazine History has not been ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2011

    The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #5-1

    ​See also: *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #20-16 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums of All Time: #15-11 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #10-6 *Chuck Klosterman's Favorite Hair Metal Albums ​5. Motley Crue Shout At the Devil (1983) Motley Crue's second record stands a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2011

    Chuck Klosterman's Favorite Hair Metal Albums

    See also: Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: The Complete List It's hair metal week on West Coast Sound! And it's hard to imagine a greater enthusiast for the genre than Chuck Klosterman. His 2001 music memoir Fargo Rock City does an exemplary job of examining what was great about the cock rock ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2011

    Go-Go Dancer Appreciation Day in West Hollywood

    Siran Babayan​It was raining men in West Hollywood Saturday night as the city organized its first Go-Go Dancer Appreciation Day. Leave it to WeHo to declare a Go-Go Dancer Appreciation Day and Motley Crue Day in the same year. And only in WeHo will you find a scantily clad dancer outside a yog ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2011

    Best Posts of the Week

    Photo by Falling James​Last week ended with the death of hair metal hero Jani Lane and the Go-Go's being honored with a star on the Walk of Fame. The number one L.A. female rock band of all time (according to Lina Lecaro) returned to the Greek Theatre to play their annual show on Wednesday, an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    Tales of the Whisky Bathroom: Nikki Sixx's Favorite Sunset Strip Memories

    ​Born on the Sunset Strip in 1981, Mötley Crüe and their debauched rock, flamboyant style and tempestuous off-stage antics have been with us for three decades now. Their near-death experiences, TV-show stints and famous women made them poster children for hair metal's hedonistic heyday, but ... More >>

  • Music

    June 9, 2011

    Music Picks: Matt & Kim, Partch, Booker T, Motley Crue,

    Also, Spain, Civil Wars, Bruno Mars and others

  • Music

    February 10, 2011

    Sunset Strip Follies

    Also, Spain, Civil Wars, Bruno Mars and others

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    Top 10 Songs That Namecheck Los Angeles Strip Clubs

    What happens at the strip club...​ February is the month we worship upon the altar of amour -- and what better way to let Cupid's arrow fly than investing your hardly-earned dollar bills into the g-string of a bare-bottom UCLA co-ed? If you need some risque recommendations once you or your si ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2011

    This is How Motley Crue's Vince Neil Likes to Party in Vegas Waiting for His DUI Verdict: Eyewitness Account

    Vince Neil: his DUI mugshot from June, 2010 (left) and a candid shot for a fan at a secret, decadent Eyes Wide Shut style party this past December​ According to Billboard, Motley Crue singer Vince Neil "avoided the media and quietly pleaded guilty Wednesday [today] to driving drunk last summe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2011

    Kat Von D, 'Inked' Hollywood Heartbreaker, Gets All Wifey With Biker Jesse James

    Let the tabloid frenzy begin​Updated after the jump: He even Tweets for her in Spanish! Forget those Motley Crüe "Starry Eyes" Kat Von D got tatted down the side of her face in a lovey stupor, leading her straight into the arms of bass player Nikki Sixx. The pin-up centerpiece of "L.A. Ink" ... More >>

  • Music

    December 30, 2010

    Music Picks: Nicole Eva Emery, Hard NYE, Peter and the Wolf,

    Also, Jesus Makes the Shotgun Sound, Octavius, Cosmologic and others

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2010

    5 Rad L.A. Bars That Are Open on Xmas Eve

    ​Christmas is finally (almost) here and you are so excited about all the shopping and pregnant virgins and flying reindeer and the new (NSFW) Julian Assange hip hop viral video that you cannot stand it and have to go out drinking. Or, you are not interested in any of it and have to go out dri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2010

    Top 10 Rock Books of 2010

    ​With the year coming to a close, we're heading off the inevitable barrage of "best" lists coming your way with one that will actually be useful and problem solving (a holiday gift guide for the music lover in your life, that's not actually music... or a t-shirt). Buy 'em a book! iPad and Kin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2010

    Pay to Play On the Sunset Strip: Commenters Explore Desolation Boulevard

    the sweet on the street in front of sunset's old filthy mcnasty's​ Last issue's To Pay Or Not To Pay To Play The Sunset Strip article (by Diamond Bodine-Fischer) provoked a pile-on in the comments section, much of it reinforcing the frustrations of musicians like Loana dP Valencia and Josh Ne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2010

    Live Review: Freddie Gibbs at Crazy Girls

    Deidre CrawfordFreddie Gibbs Has A Lot To Smile About​ A strip club crowd's a tough crowd. When the inked, mohawked "Malice" is prancing and preening like she's the lead in Mötley Crüe's "Girls, Girls, Girls" video; and the acrobatic "Jojo" is languidly folding herself into origami around t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2010

    Sunset Strip Festival: West Hollywood Declares August 26, 'SLASH DAY'

    Alex DistefanoLast night, the focus was on Slash (focus not pictured)​On the eve of the third annual Sunset Strip Music Festival, Thursday night, the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip and the city of West Hollywood honored none other than hard rock guitar icon Slash, who rose to fame with Gu ... More >>

  • Music

    August 19, 2010

    Nightranger: Stars, Cars & Guitars

    Alex DistefanoLast night, the focus was on Slash (focus not pictured)​On the eve of the third annual Sunset Strip Music Festival, Thursday night, the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip and the city of West Hollywood honored none other than hard rock guitar icon Slash, who rose to fame with Gu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2010

    Stars, Cars and Guitars: Gibson GuitarTown Debuts on the Sunset Strip

    Lina Lecaro Cherie Currie and son Jake Hays with The Runaways guitar by artist Sonia Lopez-Chavez. ​A drive down the Sunset Strip always promises a few things: flashy billboards, rockin' (usually studded) get-ups, beckoning marquees and maddeningly slow-moving cars. Now there's something fun ... More >>

  • Music

    June 17, 2010

    Nightranger: Once Bitten, Twice Buy

    Lina Lecaro Cherie Currie and son Jake Hays with The Runaways guitar by artist Sonia Lopez-Chavez. ​A drive down the Sunset Strip always promises a few things: flashy billboards, rockin' (usually studded) get-ups, beckoning marquees and maddeningly slow-moving cars. Now there's something fun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    Nightranger on (Slutty) Summer Reads

    Our social calendar has been packed with book signings and their after-bashes recently, some wilder than any club night. Two books in particular are rockin' our reading radar, and not just because both have the word "slut" in their titles. It was the same eve as the Cobrasnake hullabaloo, so we miss ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2009

    Six-String Heroes: Iconic Photographer Neil Zlozower Talks New Book, Mr. Musichead Launch Party, and Making Friends with Rock Stars

    Neil ZlozowerEddie Van Halen​"Talking rock n' roll with Zloz is like discussing tan lines with Hugh Hefner or escort services with Charlie Sheen," boasts the Van Halen fans in the David Lee Roth Army (yeah, that's right, army). Not like we'd want to pick a fight with Diamond Dave's soldiers an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2009

    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 >>

  • Music

    January 15, 2009

    Slapping Skins and Sins at Cinespace; Guitar Center's Drum-Off; Dragstrip 66

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2008

    From Buckets to Blade Runner: Misfit Drummers Street Drum Corps Bang Out New Album, Open for Motley Crue

    (L-R) Adam Alt, Bobby Alt and Frank Zummo of Street Drum Corps. “Fly me to your house, give me a few hundred bucks and I'll play some buckets for you,” laughs Bobby Alt over the phone. We're discussing whether Street Drum Corps has suffered any fan backlash since he stepped up as lead vocalist ... More >>

  • LA Life

    October 2, 2008

    Best Metal Die-Hards: Steel Panther at the Key Club

    (L-R) Adam Alt, Bobby Alt and Frank Zummo of Street Drum Corps. “Fly me to your house, give me a few hundred bucks and I'll play some buckets for you,” laughs Bobby Alt over the phone. We're discussing whether Street Drum Corps has suffered any fan backlash since he stepped up as lead vocalist ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2008

    How Phil Elverum keeps mystery alive Pt 2: the uncoolest song

    Our topic: Smokin. Our debaters: Motley Crue vs. Mt. Eerie.

  • Music

    December 6, 2007

    Bookworm in a Tequila Bottle: 2007's Most Intriguing Music Books

    Oh, those bed-wetting, penis-injecting, 43-person gangbang days of yore

  • Film+TV

    June 7, 2007

    Master Mizoguchi

    Life, love and loss in the films of a cinematic giant

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2007

    "Air Guitar Nation" Rocks L.A.

    "Air Guitar Nation," a brand-new documentary about the real art of air guitar, winner of the audience award at SXSW this year, is premiering at the NuArt Cinema in Santa Monica this Friday. Later that night, air guitar virtuoso and "Air Guitar Nation" poster boy Bjorn Turoque (pictured above) will ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    December 29, 2005

    Metal Memoir

    "Air Guitar Nation," a brand-new documentary about the real art of air guitar, winner of the audience award at SXSW this year, is premiering at the NuArt Cinema in Santa Monica this Friday. Later that night, air guitar virtuoso and "Air Guitar Nation" poster boy Bjorn Turoque (pictured above) will ... More >>

  • Music

    December 22, 2005

    Blogs & iPods & Jay-Z & (non-ironic) Metal

    The Hipsters musical year-end predictions and post-game analysis

  • Music

    October 13, 2005

    Dont Go Away Mad, Just Go Away

    The Hipsters musical year-end predictions and post-game analysis

  • Film+TV

    September 15, 2005

    Reality Without Apologies

    The Hipsters musical year-end predictions and post-game analysis

  • Stage

    July 7, 2005

    Shopping the ’Bank

    Bring your own parking meter

  • Music

    April 14, 2005

    Live in L.A.

    Bring your own parking meter

  • Music

    March 31, 2005

    Tender-Fried Juicy Love Bits

    Bring your own parking meter

  • Columns

    December 9, 2004

    Umlautta Love

    Bring your own parking meter

  • Music

    July 8, 2004

    Wrong Is Right

    Pillow of Wrongness

  • News

    June 28, 2001

    Is the Corpse Smelly Yet?

    Independent music in 2001

  • Music

    June 7, 2001

    Blackwash

    Motley Crue come, uh, clean

  • News

    March 1, 2001

    The Kids Are All Right

    Headbanging for credit at the Musicians Institute

  • Music

    June 22, 2000

    L.A. Weekly Music Awards 2000

    Headbanging for credit at the Musicians Institute

  • News

    October 28, 1999

    Burning Man

    Getting in Touch with One's Inner Churl

  • Music

    March 19, 1998

    Music Reviews

    Getting in Touch with One's Inner Churl

  • Music

    March 5, 1998

    Music Reviews:

    Union, Fu Manchu, Sixteen Horsepower

  • Music

    February 19, 1998

    Looking for Blood

    The Donnas: Lean, mean teens

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