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Did SoCal Man Admit To Murder On Reddit?

Did a sometime Southern California man confess to murder on the website Reddit? A user on the site who identified himself as Naratto used one of Reddit's memes, the so-called confession bear, to say: My sister had an abusive meth addict boyfriend. I killed him with his own drugs while he was uncons ... More >>

Myspace Was Better Than Facebook (For Music)

With Facebook's stock and growth rates skydiving, it's time to say something that should have been said a long time ago: Myspace was better. Maybe not when it came to its coding or those garish "personalized" pages, but definitely when it came to music. Back in the day -- say, about 2004 or so -- ... More >>

Social Media Explained With Donuts

Some Homer Simpson of the Matrix has decided to break down the particulars of various major social media outlets using the round, yellow cartoon patriarch's favorite food: donuts. For those who Facebook with trepidation, tweet (we prefer saying "twit") irregularly, and generally lose their minds wh ... More >>

Art Sex Crime Tagging Crew Targeted in L.A. County Sweep: 8 Alleged Graffiti Vandals Arrested

MySpaceArt Sex Crime has a MySpace page.​Cops fanned out across the L.A. area in pursuit of members of Art Sex Crime, an 8-year-old tagging crew they say is responsible for more than 1,600 acts of vandalism: 11 people were arrested yesterday in eight different SoCal cities -- mostly in the sou ... More >>

MySpace, I Still Love You ($35 Million Sale Be Damned)

My Bracket ​ MySpace, the once undeniable alpha dog has long been dethroned and most people see no hope of resurrection, especially after its recent sale for $35 million. It seems everyone has long forgotten the honeymoon days of MySpace, and that's unfortunate. Before MySpace started const ... More >>

Meet Tha Boogie: "We Sent Raphael Saadiq Our Music, and He Sent Us His Phone Number"

Tha Boogie​It began with a MySpace message. Three Rancho Cucamonga teenagers who called themselves "Tha Boogie" were starting their music careers, and took to the social networking site to post some of their newest recordings for anyone to hear. But there was one man in particular they wante ... More >>

Facebook Friend Kidnaps, Rapes 14-Year-Old North Hollywood Girl, LAPD Says

west.m​Police were searching for a young man they say met a girl on Facebook and MySpace, kidnapped her, and raper her over the weekend. KTLA News reports that the man drove to he 14-year-old victim's North Hollywood home Sunday and kidnapped her before raping her. The girl was rescued by a ... More >>

Sky Angelo Ruddock, 22-Year-Old Pomona Man, Killed When Tour Bus Slams Into Chevy

MySpaceSky Angelo Ruddock, aka "Sykopaff"​A fatal crash on the tail end of rush hour yesterday morning took the life of a young Pomona man riding in the passenger seat of a Chevrolet Celebrity. The L.A. County coroner identified the 22-year-old victim as Sky Angelo Ruddock today. The person w ... More >>

Top 10 Reasons MySpace Should Be Put Out of Its Misery

10 Reasons Myspace Should Be Put Out of Its Misery

Beverly Hills-Based MySpace Kicks Half Of Workforce To The Curb

What will become of Tila Tequila?​Ah, it seems like only yesterday that the kids on North Maple Drive in Beverly Hills were the envy of the tech world. Riding high in their leased Audis and rockin' those first iPhones, they were the closest thing L.A. had to Silicon Valley royalty. And now ma ... More >>

MySpace To Relaunch As Pre-Teen Perv's Heaven: Wait, It Already Is

Tila Tequila: Now too old for MySpace.​News Corp., the owners of MySpace, announced plans to relaunch the waning site with a focus on younger users, a company representative told LA Weekly. At the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen recently News Corp. chief digital officer Jon Miller ... More >>

Hear Songs from Henry Clay People's New LP, Forthcoming on TBD Records

Timothy Norris​During our South By Southwest coverage, West Coast Sound very casually broke the news that hard-working Glendale band the Henry Clay People had become label-mates to Radiohead. The specifics, that they'd signed to TBD Records, were buried in a parenthetical leading to a brief Q ... More >>

Your Next Facebook Friend Could Be An Undercover Agent

​The Electronic Frontier Foundation revealed this week that the FBI and other federal agencies work undercover on Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites to shadow suspects and gather evidence in crime investigations. According to the Associated Press, Freedom of Information Act r ... More >>

MySpace Woes Continue As New Chief Steps Down

​The woes at MySpace continue as its CEO, Owen Van Natta, stepped down this week after nine months running the Beverly Hills-based social network. Two of his second-in-command executives, Mike Jones and Jason Hirschhorn, will step up to share Van Natta's duties, MySpace announced. "In talking ... More >>

From Anti-Technology to Twittering Fool: Slash Talks Social Media Pros and Cons

Erin BroadleySlash accepts his golden floppy for "Best MySpace Music Page"​Partygoers look for several things when deciding whether to attend a Hollywood soiree: convenient parking, networking opportunities, beautiful women, an open bar, and perhaps the most important as of late, does the part ... More >>

LA Ink's Corey Miller: "I'm a Grateful, Old-School Kind of Carny"

Powerflex 5 via MySpace​St. Louis is hosting a tattoo convention and Nick Lucchesi at our sister paper The Riverfront Times scored an interview with LA Ink's Corey Miller, reality star (he's the one on the show without the boobs), surf rocker, punk rock lifestyle decorator, and self-described ... More >>

Flaming Lips to Play Free Secret Show at Nike Theater

This just in: Flaming Lips are doing a MySpace show at the Nike Theater in Hollywood on Thursday, October 15: To celebrate the release of their new studio album Embryonic, The Flaming Lips, one of the world's most influential rock bands, will be playing a MySpace Music Secret Show in Hollywood, CA ... More >>

This Site's Dead Anyway: Twitter DDoS Overlooks MySpace, Does an Attack Signal a Site's Relevancy?

Yesterday, if you were searching for a short-form, self-indulgent way to describe what you had for breakfast, you were shit out of luck. Basically, the Internet's most popular social networking sites broke. Web sites that were down yesterday included: Facebook, Livejournal, YouTube, Google, and the ... More >>

We’re Jerkin’ (Starring the New Boyz, J-Hawk and Pink Dollaz)

Gangsta rap is over. Clownin’ and Krumpin’ too

Judge Tosses MySpace Mom's Misdemeanor Convictions

Federal Judge George Wu has tentatively reversed three misdemeanor convictions against MySpace Mom Lori Drew, the Missouri woman who was accused of setting up a phony MySpace profile to bully Megan Meier -- a 13-year-old girl who eventually committed suicide. Last November jurors acquitted Drew of t ... More >>

MySpace Deletes 30% of Workforce

Beverly Hills-based social-networking Web site MySpace is cutting its workforce by 30 percent. According to a CNET report flagged by LAist, the Fox Interactive Media.-owned site has been hit by slow growth, a sluggish economy and tough competition from rival Facebook. CNET says that while some early ... More >>

Society at Bordello, Space Is the Place at World on Wheels

New Book to Arrive on Black Flag Tattoos, and the People Who Get Them (MP3)

Rednecks and punks alike understand the unspoken power of FOUR BARS. The Daily Swarm has a great post on a new photography book coming out called Barred for Life, featuring people who have Black Flag's iconic four-bar logo tattooed on their body.

Stealing MySpace: An Interview with Julia Angwin at SxSW

One of our favorite parts of SXSW thus far is that we got to meet and interact with the people that shaped our careers, hearts and minds (I'm talking to you Bill Wasik and Lawrence Lessig). Continuing in the same vein, we were thrilled at the chance to talk shop with tech ambassador and longtime Wal ... More >>

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

Ten to watch: The next Ford jingle?

Bounce Rock Skate at Blue Velvet; Fuck Yess LA at the Glasshouse

Automatico's Anniversary, Miss Kitty's Seven, and Foxhole

Royal Rumble: Prince, Queen Latifah, Fischerspooner and the Dukes of DFA

Thurston and Kim Rather Rip Through MOCA

Plus, Lovers & Strangers at Hear Gallery, Mustache Mondays at La Cita and Dance at Arena

Coachella 2009 Speculation Begins: Confirmations Start Trickling, Rumors Swirl. The Smiths? Pavement? Dexy's Midnight Runners?

No, dummy, we made the Dexy's rumor up. But a few names are starting to trickle out re: Coachella 2009, which runs from April 17 to April 19. The Consequence of Sound blog has a pretty extensive rundown of confirmations it has gathered from culling MySpace pages and band tour dates, and a decent ... More >>

The Cure to Play Secret MySpace Show Tonight at the Troubadour

Yep, it's true. Robert Smith and company have been doing these little shows all over the place, and tonight they're playing a show at the Troubadour, sponsored by MySpace Music. The site's been debuting albums non-stop for the past few months, have delivered first listens of the new Guns n Roses, Ka ... More >>

MySpace, MyRules: Why Jurors Gave Lori Drew a Pass

Despite the architectural gravitas of its setting -- downtown's WPA Federal Courthouse -- and the presence at the prosecution table of the formidable U.S. Attorney Tom O'Brien, the Lori Drew MySpace trial never felt like it should have been a federal case. After listening to testimony from and about ... More >>

Selling Out With the Foo Fighters and Smashing Pumpkins for Corporate Cash

LA's New Robotics: L.A. Riots, Guns N Bombs, Caxsio and Others Are Revolutionizing the City's Dance Clubs

Screw the hazy, lazy indie-rock tunes of Silver Lake; the biggest L.A. revolution is happening in the clubs

Gettin' the MySpace Money: Coolfer Blog Explains the Many Ways That T.I. Is Getting Paid

DFA'S 'DISCO' AT THE ROOSEVELT NOT CANCELED

Ah, the internet… shit spreads faster than herpes on a roadrunner these days, don’t it? Purveyors of fine electro-punk dance weirdness know that this weekend’s double-whammy gigs from DFA Records/LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy and Pat Mahoney are can’t misses, but for those of us who decid ... More >>

Another guide to more LA Bands at SXSW

In our ongoing attempt to prop some worthy musicians headed to Austin this week, yet another list of LA bands/songwriters to chase down at SXSW in Austin this week. This is a tipsheet for those of you with $$$ in your eyes. Looking for a band to break, license, co-opt, manipulate, convince to sell o ... More >>

Another guide to LA Bands at SXSW

Here's a list of LA bands/songwriters to chase down at SXSW in Austin next week. This is a tipsheet for those of you with $$$ in your eyes. Looking for a band to break, license, co-opt, manipulate, convince to sell out? Here are some tips. Abe Vigoda Gender: Four men Their MySpace descriptive: "Tr ... More >>

Another Pro-Obama Song - A Good One!

If nothing else Obama's candidacy is at least inspiring people to make music. Alas, for the most part the songs haven't been very good. Will.i.am's mess of a song can't be saved by snippets of Scarlett Johansson, and the Daedalus track posted yesterday... Well, that's not going to sway any delegat ... More >>

Ghostface Killah has 115,000 MySpace Friends But No Sales

Watch as Ghostface comes face to face with the new math reality of the downward death spiral that we call the recorded music industry. You got to love his honesty here. Ghostface's new album has gotten great notices, many saying it's better than the Wu-Tang Clan album. But the soundscan numbers? ... More >>

The 10 Best Local Albums Of 2007

10. Sea Wolf-Leaves in the River At times, Leaves In the River reads a little predictably quirky, but Alex Church's pop heart salvages this from being the effort of another accordian-toting, maritime metaphor-using copycat. The sound might not be the most original (I can't wait for Colin Meloy' ... More >>

Bedroom Confidential: New Crop of Boutique Record Labels in Town

Corporate counterparts may want to study this model

Jeffree Star

The fairest one of all

My(Space) Secret is Out: Cold War Kids Play For Free

If you have a MySpace page, then lucky you. You can diddle away hours at work, perp for dates, check up on exs, plug your band, and now...you can attend their secret shows. Well, they've been going on for a year, whether you knew you were invited or not. Last February, MySpace launched "Secret Show ... More >>

On the List?

You know how MySpace has that section called "cool new people," and how, at least from the photos, these people always seem anything but cool? Club Promoter Danny B is out to create an internet networking site where all the members really are cool…. and attractive….and successful&hell ... More >>

Bringin’ Sassy Back

Best Yo-Ho-Ho’s

Power Lunch

Bandwidth on the Run

Tom Anderson & Chris DeWolfe

Myspace Taste of the Week

I'd like to think that I'm way more popular in real life than I am on Myspace. I've only got like 50 friends, but that's probably because I only say yes to requests from peeps who truly are friends. Call me a weirdo. Anyway, the pals I do have, happen to have thousands of friends and way too much ... More >>