MySpace Inc.

The Crucial Mistake Most Bands Are Making With Facebook

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 >>

Here's a Review of the New Justin Timberlake Album, Using Only K-Pop GIFs

On Monday, Justin Timberlake, the guy from the Facebook movie but also the guy from Saturday Night Live but also the guy from New Myspace but also the guy from music, released the stream for his new album, The 20/20 Experience. It is, as I'm certain you've already read, his first album in 50 years. ... More >>

Areceli Luisjuan, Former Miramonte Aide: Did She Write 'Love Letters' to 11-Year-Old, or Has Media Witch Hunt Gone Too Far?

Every L.A. media outlet from KNX news radio to HuffPost has picked up the Los Angeles Times' latest Miramonte Elementary reveal this morning, in which one mother claims that a former teacher's aide at the beleaguered campus wrote numerous "love letters" to her 11-year-old son. There are certainly s ... More >>

The Long Tail Of Lil B: Why The Based God Is A Genius

Some people say quantity is not quality ... but what if someone came along and rewrote all the rules? It's no secret that rap's resident weirdo, Berkeley's Lil B The Based God is a new media powerhouse.  Until recently, he existed almost more online than in the real life. That's because the ... More >>

Top Ten Things You Need To Know About Snoop Dogg's New Album "Doggumentary"

​Just a few days after being mourner-of-honor at the funeral of former associate Nate Dogg, Snoop Dogg hogged the hip-hop limelight once again by releasing all the tracks of his much-awaited album Doggumentary two days before the official release via moribund social network oddity MySpace. 10 ... More >>

Lisa Nguyen, Long Beach Graphic Designer, Murdered By Suicidal Father At 27 Years Old

MySpaceLong Beach's Lisa Nguyen was home on a two-week vacation when her father snapped​Updated after the jump: One of Lisa's professors remembers how fellow students used to call her "WikiLisa." Originally posted on Jan. 10. The youngest victim of a bizarre Harbor City murder-suicide on Sun ... More >>

Top Ten Ways to Make Your Band an Epic Fail in 2011

Our Epic Fail Band could be your life! Here's how.​ We're gonna start 2011 by being servicey. We have seen too many talented bands (and the PR people they pay) squander opportunities and/or generally make our lives in the music press difficult. We thought we'd give you our (100% unsolicited) ... More >>

Music Picks: Tift Merritt, Clinic, Microscopic Septet

Also, J. Cole, the Crazy Squeeze, Wild Flag and others

LAPD Fears MySpace Rendezvous Behind Case Of Missing 13-Year-Old Sylmar Girl

LAPDKarina Valencia.​Updated with upcoming news conference about possible connection to a gang-related shooting. Originally posted at 10:08 a.m. Police this week were searching for a missing 13-year-old girl who they fear might have met a male on MySpace and possibly fled with him. The girl's ... More >>

Feds Bust MySpace Gang With Ties To Mexican Mafia

​Federal agents cracked down members of a Latino Riverside gang that allegedly uses MySpace to communicate about gang business and rap videos to promote itself as it also trafficks methamphetamine and attacks random African-Americans. Six members of Riverside's Eastside Riva (ESR) gang were a ... More >>

Nightranger Looks Back at '09 Fashion and Music

Nacional Records on Fire: The Ten Best Spanish-Language/Latin Albums 2009

By Christopher Lopez It's been a year of surprises in "Latin music," (whatever that catch-all genre term for Spanish-language music means in 2009). Reggaetón continues fading, albeit slowly, and the industry's mainstays aren't garnering the attention they used to. Case in point: Don Omar's summer ... More >>

Disco Winter

Halloween Costumes Go Viral

Los Angeles is a social media capital (Beverly Hills is home to MySpace headquarters) and epicenter of Hollywood's tweet-crazed narcissists. So we thought we'd take a look at the hottest, social-media-inspired costumes for the quasi-holiday that's tailor-made for L.A.Twitter's dreaded Fail Whale.​ ... More >>

Riding the Dreamwave with Binary Entertainment

The Binary Family​ It was only eight years ago that Josh Legg and Kyle Petersen moved to Los Angeles to attend USC. They met on a sailing trip and, after a few years of friendship and many discussions over the current state of the record industry, they decided to launch a management company/re ... More >>

Haiku Review: Dead Man's Bones

West Coast Sound reviews Dead Man's Bones debut album though the lens of the 17th century Japanese poetic form, the Haiku.

INCHES007: New Wax from EELS, Widow Babies, Night Horse, Eternal Tapestry ( MP3s, video)

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 >>

Bank Moves to Downtown L.A.

Just when it seemed that downtown's urban renaissance was sliding back into the recessionary dark ages, Blog Downtown notes that City National Bank is moving both its headquarters and City National Bank subsidiary from Beverly Hills to Sixth and Flower streets. Bloggers Eric Richardson and Rich Alos ... More >>

Techcrunch Crunchup: L.A. Does it in Realtime

SoCal native and the "Golden God of Tech" Michael Arrington was born and raised in Huntington Beach so it came as no surprise that the L.A. contingent was out in full-force at this year's Techcrunch Crunchup Real Time Conference and summer party at the August Capital offices in Palo Alto. There for ... More >>

DIY Promotion Team Minimal LA Hits Internet Radio

Ladytron "Runaway" Looking for a good, weekly dose of obscure tunes, then tune into Radiocore.org tonight from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. for Minimal LA. Hosted by Eden Saiga, founder of the DIY promotion group of the same name, and friends, the show focuses on minimal wave, noise, post-punk and whatever el ... More >>

The Happy Hollows: Old Song a New Favorite, New Song a New Favorite, Too

This is an old video from Happy Hollows, from 2006, but it's kinda my new favorite song. In it, singer Sara Negahdari keeps running: from a Mullah, through the jungle, from the Hessians, from the Russians (rhyming Hessians and Russians is particularly inspired). We stumbled across this video, whic ... More >>

I Wanna Be Elated: Meghan McCain's Ramones Connection

Meghan McCain, the daughter of Senator John McCain, has been emoting about her post-election blues lately on her blog and at the Daily Beast, from which CNN.com has been quoting at length this week. One of Meghan's pet peeves, we learn is other people -- not just those who "openly voted for Barack O ... More >>

Last Night: Digital Drinks @ Digital L.A. - When Swank and Tech Collide

Alexia TsotsisApparently the best way to get to Coco de Ville, the location of this month's Digital Drinks @ Digital LA, is to "just look for the paparazzi out front and you'll find it." When you spend most of your time at networking events it's very easy to forget that "the paparazzi" exists. I hav ... More >>

Weiss' 50 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2008 (#50-26)

Over the next two weeks, myself and a very talented cadre of contributors will be emulating the book above. Unlike said tome, it won't cost money and you'll get free MP3s--which, presumably, serve a tangible purpose. Now go cry into your near-beer, Phillip Ardagh, you lovable rogue. 50. Redman ft ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Plushies & Furries, The Cure's Secret Show, Ugly Christmas Sweater Party, Idealist Propaganda and Unique L.A.

For those of you who barricaded yourselves indoors with Netflix because of this weekend's "storm watch," let me just say -- damn, you missed out on some amazing events. Here at the L.A. Weekly, we tossed our umbrellas in the back seat, took our chances with the drizzle and hit up everything from Ric ... More >>

The Cure Tear Up the Troubadour at Surprise MySpace Show

(Frank Micelotta/Getty Images for MySpace)If you're anything like the freakazoid Cure fans who one way or another managed to secure a wristband for last night's surprise Cure show at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, you should probably stop reading this right now. If you weren't at the show and opt ... More >>

LA Weekly Music Podcast, Volume One: Fight on, Your Time Ain't Long

You know how some weekends you have the best intentions in the world and then they all fall to shit? Well, mine didn't exactly fall to shit -- it's just that the live music that I was hoping to see either didn't pan out, conflicted with scenes/events that I wanted to attend (like LA Weekly's anniv ... More >>

Bulletin: MySpace Mom Beats Worst Charges

Just before 11 a.m. this morning Federal District Judge George Wu spoke the words that ended the weeklong MySpace Trial: "All right, let's bring the jury in." Lori Drew (R) and her daughter Sarah Drew who was Megan Meier's best friend leaving the U.S. Federal Courthouse. Photo by Ted Soqui. Click ... More >>

Glamour Shots

Shameless self-promotion alert: Yours truly will be deejaying tonight at the 5th Annual All Girl Hang the DJs event at the Echo. Peep the flyer below. An illustrious roster of mix mamas indeed, three of whom will also be manning the decks at the LA Film Fest's Target Red Room, the place to party i ... More >>

MySpace Suicide Mom in Court

Although July approaches, it’s still not too late for a first-time criminal defendant to make her spring debut in federal court. Media Village of the Damned: Press waiting for Lori Drew

City Gritty

Unfulfilling Sex; sex and the porn star; art Hopping; N.E.R.D. night

Fury Over Jamiel's Law

Should a movement to protect kids be named after an alleged gangbanger?

Record Reviews: Badd Santa, Beanie Sigel, Regime Noir

Holiday music that doesn't suck, unhinged thug talk and a MySpace page

Hollywood Schmoozer Meets Internet Geek

Agents 2.0: The new generation of dealmakers at UTA Online

Shoot to Thrill

The ever-evolving photo booth

Hipster Olympics

Sure, this is Brooklyn, but couldn't it easily be Silverlake? Echo Park? Ah, hipsters making the world a smaller place, one MySpace profile picture at a time...

X-ers and Exes

Nightranger paints the town

They Must Be High

Spacing out with Ben, Chris, Tom and Tom

Joe Joe's World

The other day I got an email - a company called Joe Joe Productions is throwing a glittering bash at the Playboy Mansion on June 23. Boys get in so long as they're rich,  girls get in so long as they're hot. The Kandyland bash, which they're calling 'The MOST Outrageous Party of ... More >>

In the Kodak, in the Pink

And in the dollhouse

Kind Hearts and Coronets

“This boy’s not quite right . . .”

Brit Boppers

And blog hoggers

Sweet Emotions

Inspired by Joe Donnelly's awesome new blog, I just had to let y'all know what I'm feeling today: -I'm sad my girl Sicily got booted off of The Search For the Next Pussycat Doll last night. Actually, I'm happy 'cause hopefully that means she'll go back to her band of (real) badass babes-- The Holog ... More >>

Pleasant princess Castle

Best Space Lost in Time

Emmery’s Mysterious End

Did the 14-year-old’s killer meet her at a party?

Not for Shrinking Violets

Local designer gets off on MySpace

Supra Dupra

The Five Stages of South by Southwest

High ’05 in Clubland

Webs of intrigue, Crackberries, ironica — Nightranger surveys the year in nightlife