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Nikki Darling

  • 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 5, 2011

    The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #20-16

    See also: *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #15-11 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #10-6 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #5-1 *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 l ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    August 25, 2011

    Night Gallery, Museum of Public Fiction and Other Eastside Experiments

    See also: *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #15-11 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #10-6 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #5-1 *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 l ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 9, 2010

    THEY WRITE ABOUT THE SONGS

    See also: *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #15-11 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #10-6 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #5-1 *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 l ... More >>

  • Music

    December 31, 2009

    The 10 Best L.A. Albums of the ’00s

    From Beck and Dilla to Fiona, Jenny and Quasimoto, a mishmash decade of Southern California sounds

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    Last Night: Emily Lacy's LACMA Performance

    Emily Lacy's experimental sound performance, Temples of the Minds, Saturday night at LACMA was a great example of how music can transform a space. That the piece was set in the museum's Japanese sculpture garden made it easy to arrive at an open and meditative state: It's an indoor spiraled room wit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    Misfits at the Key Club: Danzig Who?

    The Misfits show Saturday night, the first in a two-night sold out gig at the soon to be closed Key Club, left no room for wallowing in original lead singer Glenn Danzig's absence. Current singer and bassist Jerry Only grabbed the crowd by their sweaty nuts and tossed them about the pit like so many ... More >>

  • LA Life

    October 1, 2009

    Best of L.A.: Recreation and Self-Improvement

    The Misfits show Saturday night, the first in a two-night sold out gig at the soon to be closed Key Club, left no room for wallowing in original lead singer Glenn Danzig's absence. Current singer and bassist Jerry Only grabbed the crowd by their sweaty nuts and tossed them about the pit like so many ... More >>

  • LA Life

    October 1, 2009

    Best of L.A.: Shopping

    The Misfits show Saturday night, the first in a two-night sold out gig at the soon to be closed Key Club, left no room for wallowing in original lead singer Glenn Danzig's absence. Current singer and bassist Jerry Only grabbed the crowd by their sweaty nuts and tossed them about the pit like so many ... More >>

  • Music

    October 1, 2009

    Best of L.A.: Nightlife

    The Misfits show Saturday night, the first in a two-night sold out gig at the soon to be closed Key Club, left no room for wallowing in original lead singer Glenn Danzig's absence. Current singer and bassist Jerry Only grabbed the crowd by their sweaty nuts and tossed them about the pit like so many ... More >>

  • Music

    September 3, 2009

    FYF Fest 2009: Parks and Inspiration

    Event's new mission: Save Our State Parks (and deliver a mind-bending roster of punk, electronics and noise)

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2009

    This Week in LA Weekly: Jerkin', Sunn 0))), Amanda Blank, LA Ladies Choir, More

    This week's hard copy of the LA Weekly is packed with useful music information, news, profiles, and music picks (if we do say so ourselves). Haven't gotten around to grabbing one yet? Here's what you'll see: Star ForemanLA Ladies Choir​ Jeff Weiss has written an in-the-trenches feature on th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2009

    Last Night: The All Ladies Choir and AsDSSka at Family Bookstore

    Sunday night at Family Bookstore on Fairfax found an assorted bunch of artsy types milling around waiting for the The All Ladies Choir and David Scott Stone and Aska to perform. The event was for a screening of Aska's new music video, which was shot by Spike Jonze and Crystal Moselle (which West Coa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2009

    Revisiting LA Music History: Guns N Roses' 'Appetite for Destruction' Studio

    Nikki DarlingThe studio formerly known as Rumbo, where "Rocket Queen" was recorded It was a time when the Valley lingered somewhere between Frank Zappa's ramblings and a real life version of Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights. A mix of agriculture, dust, white wagon wheels, diners, car dealershi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2009

    Over the Weekend: Oprah/KFC Backlash, Lebowski Fest, Video Game Girls Burlesque, Anthony Kiedis Gets Iggy Pop's Sweat in His Eye

    Mother's Day may already be a Hallmark holiday but that didn't stop Oprah, KFC and El Pollo Loco from turning it into a full-blown, corporate flame (grilled chicken) war over the weekend. Is nothing sacred? As Gendy Alimurung reported on Saturday, "The latest installment in our continuing coverage o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2009

    National Record Store Day in LA and at Coachella: Celebrating Brick, Mortar, Mom, Pop

    Patrick O'DellFatbeats' DJ Rhettmatic Celebrating record stores as part of the second annual National Record Store Day, which is tomorrow, should be a no-brainer for Southern Californians. After all, the region is the undisputed center of the vinyl industry, with RTI, Rainbo and Erika all pressing ... More >>

  • Music

    April 16, 2009

    Ten Coachella Picks: Ariel Pink, Genghis Tron, Vivian Girls, Mastodon

    Plus, A Place to Bury Strangers, Mexican Institute of Sound, Gui Boratto, MSTRKFT and more

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2009

    Hecuba at Wildness: Perfect Sequined Body Suit, Music from Forthcoming Release

    Nikki DarlingHecuba at Wildness! At Tuesday night's one a.m. performance by Hecuba at Wildness, the tranny bar/art kid/cum performance night hosted at Koreatown's Silverplatter, the place was bursting. Cumbia, techno, 80s new wave blasted from the sound system, sweaty art kids pressed and bounced a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2009

    LA Weekly's Interview with Will Oldham: On Acting, Hollywood, the Nature of the Press, and Facebook

    Yesterday Will Oldham, aka Bonnie Prince Billy, did an instore performance at Amoeba Records on Sunset, and West Coast Sound's Nikki Darling was there to report on the scene: Will Oldham gets French pedicures and shows them off while wearing flip-flops and Hawaiian board shorts. That's the first ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2009

    Last Night: White Magic at Ooga Booga

    Nikki DarlingWhite Magic is performing down below ... really Last night White Magic set up shop at Chinatown "hipster boutique" Ooga Booga, which is an unfair way to describe a store that encourages freedom of thought, artistic community and integrity and DIY spirit -- but for lack of a better phra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2009

    The Homosexuals and Silver Apples at the Echoplex: Old White Men Sometimes Do It Right

    Nikki DarlingSimeon, of the Silver Apples By Nikki Darling I like to date within my age bracket and retain a certain level of intellectual integrity, although older men never seem overly concerned about impressing younger women with their world weary intelligence. Rather, the schmary few who have ... More >>

  • Music

    February 5, 2009

    Will the Stink of Success Ruin the Smell?

    Downtown L.A.'s DIY haven tries to keep it real as the club's best-known ambassadors - No Age, Mika Miko and Abe Vigoda - hit the mainstream

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