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My Band Wants to Book a Tour: How Do We Do It?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Amigo the Devil Sings About Serial Killers and Spousal Abuse, With a Sense of Humor

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] If you never met him, you might mistake Amigo the Devil for a monster. The 25-year-old murderfolk maudit's most popular song is called "Perfect Wife." Wi ... More >>

Kimbra: After Selling Out the Troubadour In 45 Seconds, She's Back to Play the Fonda

New Zealand-born singer Kimbra's voice might sound familiar -- she was featured on Australian singer-songwriter Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know," now the third-best selling Australian single of all time. But she's also making tracks of her own, with her American debut, Vows, debuting at #14 ... More >>

Chris Schwartz, 'Pro Street Luger' From Agoura Hills, Killed When Skateboard Hits Parked Car

A young Agoura Hills daredevil who listed himself online as a "professional street luger" and "inline speed skater" died just after midnight this morning in a tragic skateboarding accident. City News Service reports that Christopher Schwartz, 29, was not wearing a helmet when he took his Dirtsurfer ... More >>

Alain Salas, Fremont High School Girls' Softball Coach, Charged in Yet Another LAUSD Sex Scandal

Update: City News Service says he pleaded not guilty today in court. The L.A. County District Attorney made the case against girls' softball coach and Fremont High School teachers' aide Alain Salas official today. The 40-year-old was charged with "three counts of lewd act upon a child and one coun ... More >>

Important News If You Still Remember Your MySpace Password

Ahh, the good ol' days​If you're still mackin' on MySpace, we have some bad news: Not only will the site issue massive layoffs this week, it also will probably be sold for the price of a few bacon-wrapped hot dogs. As Gawker reported yesterday, the social media site that News Corp. paid $580 ... More >>

Odd Future Coming to a Candlelit Jazz Club Near You

The Pianist​Sure, you were surprised to hear Tyler, the Creator's "Yonkers" smack dab in the middle of Power 106 DJ Felli Fel's four-hour nighttime mixshow, instead of tucked away in Sunday's midnight "Wake Up Show," but what if you heard him in a jazz club? Matt Tavares, whose neglected MySp ... More >>

LAPD Union Warns Cops That Bad Guys Watch What They Post On Facebook

Don't be an online cowboy: Think before you post.​We know you think of cops as robots behind mirrored aviators but if you've ever read Joseph Wambaugh you know they're real people with all the needs, emotions and, yes, urges the rest of us have. (Although LAPD Chief Charlie Beck really is a ro ... More >>

Which Flamboyant LA Underground Characters Are Infiltrating the Mainstream? And Which One is the Next Cross(dressing)over Star?

Lina Lecaro Rebel's a hot tramp​In this week's Nightranger column (out tomorrow), we cover some of LA's most flamboyant polysexual characters and performers (nothing new), but ya know what is? Many of them are suddenly infiltrating the national pop mainstream in a big way. Ryan Heffington -a ... More >>

Missing 13-Year-Old Karina Valencia Found Safe After MySpace Scare

LAPDKarina Valencia.​A missing 13-year-old girl was found safe Wednesday night about an hour after a news conference on her case was held by the Los Angeles Police Department. Karina Valencia was spotted riding in a car in Sylmar by officers on patrol who decided to take a closer look when the ... More >>

Watch: Is Rapper HOPE Compton's Next Big Hype? Check Out the Video for 'Bliss' Ft. Y-O

Compton rapper HOPE, a U-N-I affiliate trying to make 401K in one day​His MySpace page could use some pimping, but Compton rapper H.O.P.E., a.k.a. 24-year-old Marquis Wright, has got the skills to pay the bills. Whoops -- bad choice of outdated idiom. In the just-out music video for the new H ... More >>

Bondage Club Homicide: Body Found After Fetish Venue Near LAX Went Up Flames

dadevoti via Flickr​ Updated. A man recently fired by a bondage club near LAX was arrested on suspicion of murder Tuesday after authorities found the body of a victim following a blaze at the Lennox venue. David Edward Albert, 53, was arrested on suspicion of arson and murder, sheriff's Depu ... More >>

Man Gets 17 Years For Using MySpace To Lure, Pimp 17-Year-Old

​A man who met a 17-year-old on MySpace and promised to make her a star by bringing her to Southern California was sentenced Thursday to 17-and-a-half years behind bars for pimping her and another underage girl, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles. Authorities say that Washi ... More >>

Frenemies of the State: Face-to-Face with Marilyn Manson at Magic Castle, Shock Rocker Retracts Death Threats to Journalists (Kind of)

Josh "CuriousJosh" Reiss​"What are you doing tonight? Marilyn Manson would like to have champagne with you..." -- text received 11:22 AM, May 2, 2010 For a nightlife reporter, being woken up before noon on a Sunday is harsh enough, let alone having that text message be the first thing you lay ... More >>

MADLIBERATION

New Vampire Weekend Album Streaming at KCRW.com

New Vampire Weekend album streaming at KCRW.com

2009: The Year in Obsessions

L.A. Weekly’s music editor lists the 10 records he couldn’t get out of his head

Manimal Signs Sister Crayon, Holds Echo Residency, Releases Warpaint Video

Local independent label Manimal Vinyl has just announced its signing of Sacramento-based quartet Sister Crayon. The band makes gorgeous, ghostly tunes that blur the line between lo-fi electronics (drum machines, synths) and rich analog atmospherics (organ tones, human voice). The group's debut singl ... More >>

The Gangs Of New Media: Criminals Get Social Too

Assemblyman Alberto Torrico.​Gang members have been spotted on MySpace and YouTube and have now spread to Facebook and Twitter. It's a natural migration: The "sets" rely on technology to communicate like everyone else. But now lawmakers are seeking ways to keep tabs on gangsters online. State ... More >>

Man Arrested For Allegedly Hiring Teen Boys To Spit On Him

FoxHerbert.​A Thousand Oaks man was arrested after allegedly paying boys from a local high school to spit on him, slap him and yell profanities at him, the Ventura County Sheriff's Department reports.Authorities say some teens even alleged that the suspect, identified as 39-year-old Charles Willia ... More >>

Did Marilyn Manson Almost Beat a Woman To Death in his New "Snuff" Video?

Our friend Brian​A few months ago, Marilyn Manson got upset about a story we published and used his MySpace to rant and threaten our reporters (and journalists in general) with the wrath of his minions. Here's an excerpt: But if one more "journalist" makes a cavalier statement about me and my ... More >>

INCHES011: New Wax from Fool's Gold, Now-Again (Rare Psych!), Samiyam, and Inca Ore ( MP3s, chart)

In the unpredictable wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many (with delicious irony) as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES seeks not only to review the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (artists and ... More >>

Awesome or Awful? The Battle of Milkquarious

Awesome or Awful: The Battle of Milkquarious

Interview: Former Chameleons Frontman Mark Burgess on His Spontaneous US Comeback, YouTube and Pirate Bay

​ Mark Burgess, former frontman of cult-favorite The Chameleons, was simply taking a vacation. He had traveled to the US to meet a friend in Maine, ended up in Boston through a twist of events and was asked to play with some musicians who were also fans of his old band. Word spread and people ... More >>

Marilyn Manson Ups His Rhetoric, Further Incites Fans to Inflict Violence Against Journalists

Last night Marilyn Manson stepped up his call-to-arms with a series of MySpace bulletin incitements that, alleges the Buddyhead website, urge his fans to "kill all journalists that have the cowardice to be anonymous." The Buddyhead post identifies the following updates: Marilyn Manson- kill all ... More >>

Life Is Too Short to NOT Be a Disappointment to Your Parents

MySpace Mom Case Concludes -- 'Tentatively'

Ted SoquiSarah and Lori Drew (right) "Shame on the U.S. Attorney for filing these charges! Shame on Tom O'Brien and the U.S.Attorney's office!" So spoke attorney Dean Steward on the steps of the Federal Courthouse Thursday following Judge George Wu's reversal of three misdemeanor convictions faced ... More >>

Dam-Funk's Birthday at Funkmosphere Featuring Guest DJs from San Francisco's Sweater Funk

Funkmosphere Promo Video Thanks to a post on the MySpace blog for San Francisco club Sweater Funk, we learned that tonight, LA-based DJ and Stones Throw recording artist Dam-Funk will be celebrating his birthday at Funkmosphere. Held every Monday night at Westside bar Carbon, Funkmosphere has bec ... More >>

Advertising Now: Why Buy the Milk When You're Following the Cow on Twitter?

When death of your industry becomes default small talk in the conference lobby and every media related conversation devolves into something along the lines of "how do we save the Los Angeles Times?" you know things are not boding well. Perhaps this is why media buyers (the typically underpaid twenty ... More >>

Shift Happens: Hollywood and Silicon Valley Bring It OnHollywood

With no relief from the recession coming anytime soon, plus Monday's news that L.A.'s own Tsavo Media founder Mike Jones will now take over as COO of MySpace, it's high time Los Angeles and Silicon Valley broke out the peace pipe. The opportunity presented itself at this week's AlwaysOn OnHollywood ... More >>

The Last Dance: Is the Superstar-DJ Era Over?

Avalon co-owner Steve Adelman: “I don’t think it’s over, I think it’s evolving”

Sara Lov's Cover Series: Olivia Newton John and Silversun Pickups

The other night at the Silverlake Lounge we met, very briefly, the singer/songwriter Sara Lov, whose debut album for Nettwerk Records, Seasoned Eyes Were Beaming, came out Tuesday. She told us about a great project she's working on through her MySpace and YouTube pages. Each week for the past thre ... More >>

Weird Things We Found at SxSW

It speaks volumes for the nature of a media industry event when, along with the requisite Diet Sodas and veggie plate, there are mini Colgate wisp toothbrushes given out at the concessions table. While we'll leave you to consider the implications of why you would need a mini toothbrush at a tech con ... More >>

Oh! Ba! Ma! Inaugural Parties With Bul!m!atron, Franki Chan, Frankie Bones, Classixx, Crystal Method, Twisted Individual

LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED!

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

The Week in LA Music: Scott Weiland, GnR, Vivian Girls at Part Time Punks, Jason Bentley

Cassie Ramone of the Vivian Girls (photo by Timothy Norris) These things happened in LA music this week: Erin Broadley sat down with Scott Weiland at his Lavish Studios for an interview, and the former Pilot, former Revolver, was, well, in a sentimental mood. KCRW announced that DJ Jason Bentle ... More >>

Elzhi's Europass: The Best Rap Album of the Year Thus Far

One of the more frustrating things about hip-hop heads*, specifically those old enough to remember the first two Golden Ages, is the general groupthink that no hip-hop album made today can possibly be as great as anything made during 88-96. This is just how it goes. Nostalgia is a motherfucker and ... More >>

SXSW Day 2-Formed a Band, Everyone Formed A Band

Hey, Aren't You Juliette Lewis? Walking down 6th street yesterday, you had to wonder if everyone in the world somehow heard that Art Brut song, "Formed a Band" and decided that if Eddie Argos could do it, how hard could it really be? I've seen telephone directories thinner than the official SXSW ... More >>

Rock Picks: New York Dolls, Lizz Wright, Brother Ali

And other March 6-13 shows

The Raveonettes: Lust in the Wind

On their new album, the duo go deep

Sam Slovick's Skid Row Documentary

Between December 2005 and March 2006, Sam Slovick did a stunning series of cover stories for the LA Weekly that took readers deep inside the everyday tragedies and triumphs found on Los Angeles's Skid Row. These articles have played an integral role in the public and private debates over what do abo ... More >>

Kasim Patton

We get mail at Lurker! Today we're posting a batch of pictures sent in by Kasim Patton Kasim sent in a nice variety pack of stuff: Some shots of the LA River, the Meeting of Styles '07, some gallery shots and more. Check out his MySpace page linked above. More pix after the jump. All pic ... More >>

The Best True Crime Stories of 2007

They are the modern versions of monster stories. True Crime writers seek out such tales every day, finding them in two sentence-long police blotter blurbs, law enforcement sources lamenting the one that got away, or victims looking for justice. They pile on hours of research and interviews, buil ... More >>

White Stripes Cancel Dates, Including the Forum

The White Stripes have canceled their North American tour, including the band's show on the 19th at the Forum. "Health issues" and Meg White's "acute anxiety" are the keywords. The White Stripes' Myspace page shows dates even stretching through November in Europe have also been canceled. More n ... More >>

Sexy Beast

GODDOLLARS goes for the jugular

Open Ears, Insert Deerhoof

Bay Area indie veterans destroy/reinvent themselves again, to charming effect

L.A. Music '06: Welcome to Indie Land

The Magic Kingdom has Tomorrowland; we’ve got Spaceland. Plus, more magical local bands, man.

Project Yard Sale

The Well-Connected Molester

David Newman liked his pals at MySpace.com as much as children of celebrities. Then he helped bring down a prosecutor

Local Bands, Man

Viva K