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Barely Scratching a Boy Band's Surface in One Direction: This Is Us

Whats Makes Los Angeles Metal? Part II

Psychedelic-sludge merchants Intronaut have been touring in support of their newest album, Habitual Levitations. With the tour culminating in a homecoming show this Saturday, July 6th at the Roxy, we asked Intronaut guitarist and vocalist Sacha Dunable, "What makes Los Angeles metal?" According to t ... More >>

Films That Should Be Nominated for Oscars But Won't Be: Our Complete List

See also: *Previous "We'd Like to Help the Academy" columns Perceived reality has a habit of becoming actual reality when it comes to the Academy Awards. It was with that in mind that we decided to funnel whatever influence we may have into "We'd Like to Help the Academy," an online column launched ... More >>

A Movie About Reddit, and More: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Thursday, Jan. 10 The Egyptian Theatre holds its 8th Annual Focus on Female Directors at 7:30 p.m., showcasing short films from a wide range of talents, including Academy Award nominee Julie Delpy and the new-to-directing trio of Brie Larson, Sarah Ramos and Jessie Ennis. One of the most intriguing ... More >>

A Look Back at Norway's Nuart Festival, a Gathering of Street Artists From L.A. and Around the World

In Stavanger, Norway, every September for the past 12 years, Nuart, one of the largest street art festivals in the world, transpires. Closeted in the beautiful Fijords, Stavanger is a quaint, oil-rich community with a high standard of living, sometimes making the list as most expensive in all of Eur ... More >>

Why Oslo, August 31st Should Be Nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar

Perceived reality has a habit of becoming actual reality when it comes to the Academy Awards. Once enough people started talking about how much Oscar momentum Silver Linings Playbook gained after winning the Audience Award at the Toronto Film Festival two months ago, for instance, their prognosticat ... More >>

AFI Fest 2012: Who Will Win the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film?

10 Comedy Events We're Looking Forward to This Fall

The leaves are turning, the pumpkin lattes are over-caffeinating and the comedy calendar is packing in shows and releases like snot-nosed children onto the back of a hayride wagon. Here are a few of the upcoming highlights.

Beach House - El Rey - 7/3/12

Better than... that one aunt's apple pie. On the eve of our nation's birthday a very different sort of celebration occurred at the El Rey than the one that went on yesterday. Before watching tight bodies parading up and down the beach (or pale, swelling guts if you're visiting relatives in the Midw ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Sex, Death and Robots

IKEA Serves Up Midsummer Smorgasbord Friday

In Sweden, Norway and Finland, "Midsommar" -- celebrated the weekend closest to June 24 -- is an especially important holiday that's steeped in tradition and rivals Christmas in popularity. It marks the start of the summer season and celebrates joy and romance with maypole dancing, girls wearing bri ... More >>

Norwegian Cakes and Cookies: Sverre Saetre's Norwegian Pastry Book A Recipe for Wreath Cake Tart

Scandinavian cuisine is newly hip, thanks to René Redzepi and Noma in Denmark. Now Norway is getting into the act with something that just might steal Redzepi's show: glorious, buttery pastries and rich, creamy desserts. The contender is Norway's star pastry chef Sverre Saetre, whose book on moder ... More >>

What's Cooking in Norway? Bad Hip-Hop [Video]

If you're looking for a Justin Bieber clone who can rap with all the finesse and complexity of a fourth-grader, LidoLido is your boy and "Chop It Up" is your song. The Norwegian teen "hip-hop" "star" (we use both of those words loosely) has channeled his love of "the entire American lifestyle" inclu ... More >>

Chris Jonassen's Devour: Portraits of Old Frying Pans

Christopher JonassenFrom the Devour series​We like portraits of old faces with crow's feet peppering the corners of eyes and deep wrinkles burrowing through cheeks like ancient gorges. Such faces reflect the passage of time, exposure to elements, the environments they've weathered and passed ... More >>

Norwegian Video Blogger Tommy Churning-Mad Over Butter Crisis Mockery

A. Scattergoodbread and butter at The Tasting Kitchen​There's a lot going on in the world as the year steams towards a close. In North Korea, Kim-Jong-Il is dead. In Pakistan, military leaders and government officials are wrestling for power. U.S. troops have finally left Iraq. There's als ... More >>

Top Ten Los Angeles Metal Albums of 2011

Harassor​There was a lot that was great on the metal scene in 2011, from The Big Four's show in April to Prosthetic Records picking up U.S. distribution for Norway's Indie Recordings. (Dear Prosthetic, please get Shining over here for a tour next year). Sure, the closing of The Blvd. Cafe in B ... More >>

Culture Collide Festival Preview: Let's Get International

See also: *Culture Collide Festival review: Liam Finn, Rainbow Arabia, Guineafowl, The Awkwards perform on October 6, 2011 *Culture Collide Festival review: The Death Letters and Cameras perform on October 8, 2011 *Culture Collide Festival review: Chad VanGaalen & Gang Gang Dance perform on October ... More >>

Robyn, Royksopp

Norwegian Metal Giant Indie Recordings Partners With L.A.'s Prosthetic Records

Photo Courtesy of Prosthetic RecordsSkeletonwitch of Prosthetic Records welcomes their new Indie Recordings Brethren.​Yesterday, Norway's Indie Recordings, home to some of today's best metal acts, announced they would be opening a U.S.-based office in Los Angeles. Check out their fancy new web ... More >>

Who Killed Amy Winehouse?

Timothy Norris​[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday ... More >>

Anders Behring Breivik, Alleged Oslo Terrorist, Might Have Sister in Los Angeles

Breivik.​Update, 8:15 a.m.: The sister's name is Elizabeth Breivik, and she lives in Century City with her family. KNX news radio is reporting that neighbors spotted the feds entering Elizabeth's home last night -- possibly for questioning -- and that the family left soon after. However, there ... More >>

Cannes 2011: Karina Longworth's 21 Films Ranked From Worst to Best

​ Thanks to the idiosyncrasies of Air France's pricing schedule, I am departing Cannes on Thursday morning, before the premieres of some of the festival's most anticipated titles -- including the Ryan Gosling-starring Drive; This Must Be the Place, featuring Sean Penn in rock star drag; and ne ... More >>

Zoetica Ebb and Plastik Wrap Join Forces for the Cyber Victorian Collaboration GHST RDR

Allan Amato​"I think over the past few years, I've just decided that coverage is possibly sexier than revealing skin because I feel like that's been taken as far as it can go in fashion," says Zoetica Ebb."Now, it's about revealing the shape, rather than the contents, if you will." Ebb, the L ... More >>

Danky's Döners, Turkish Food Truck Launches Today

Guzzle & NoshDanky's Döners.​ Gyros, falafel and döner kebabs are the universal street food of Europe. Danky's Döners (@dankysdoners) wants to know: Why not Los Angeles? Rolling out today for the very first time, the Turkish-themed food truck (which is actually run by a Persian guy who grew ... More >>

Six Most Idiotic Attempts to Blame Musicians for Violent Events (or, the Tucson Tragedy Was Caused by a Crazy Person, Not by Drowning Pool's "Bodies Hit the Floor")

6 Horrible Acts of Violence Blamed on Music

Free Maluca Mix Tape Give Away Before the Mad Decent Block Party

Free Maluca Mix Tape Give Away Before the Mad Decent Block Party

Peek Inside the Doomsday Seed Vault Tonight

Mari Tefre/Svalbard Globale Seed VaultSeed vault entrance​ The National Geographic channel is offering a rare glimpse inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV) tonight at 9 p.m. as part of the final installment of its How The Earth Changed History three-part miniseries. Nicknamed the doom ... More >>

Here's Your LA Weekly Lakers Riot Survival Guide

anarchosyn via Flickr​So you're headed downtown, even though Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and police Chief Charlie Beck told you not to come to the Staples Center area unless you have tickets to tonight's game? You're brave. As longtime observers of the Los Angeles Police Department, ... More >>

L.A. Council's Travel, Lavish Accomodations Questioned

​A recent report by NBC4's Colleen Williams (pictured) questions the Los Angeles City Council's sometimes-lavish travel arrangements, especially in light of City Hall's $585 million deficit and impending layoffs. The station found that the mayor and council spent $70,000 on travel in 2008 and ... More >>

Ash Cloud Over Europe Disrupts Travelers and Fish Industry

The airplanes over Europe may be lifting along with the volcanic ash cloud -- although perhaps not for long -- but the jammed airways have meant that not only travelers have been held up, but many products as well. Exports of Norwegian salmon and Icelandic fresh fish have been curtailed or halted, c ... More >>

Until the Light Takes Us Will Bring You into the Darkness Tonight

Here's a movie that'll kill your Christmas spirit, though if you're a black metal fan, you ​wouldn't have any to begin with. After screening as part of last year's AFI Fest, the theatrical release of N.Y. filmmakers/musicians Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell's Norwegian black metal documentary Unt ... More >>

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Images of Satan

Norwegian Black Metal: Apparently, Mother Nature makes vicious Vikings out of little boys

Tonight in Hollywood: World Premiere of Black Metal Documentary Until the Light Takes Us

In the past few years, a Norwegian heavy metal movement has gradually moved into the realm of legend; real life events, including, suicides, murders and church burnings, both horrified and mesmerized the public when they were occurring in the early 1990s, and since then the participants have becom ... More >>

“Cold Desolate Places”: Phil Elverum (aka The Microphones aka Mt. Eerie) Interviewed: Part 1 of 4

Phil Elverum: "It's so weird here right now. It's snowing but the sky is blue and it's not really that cold. I don't know where the flakes are coming from. I'm sitting here by the firepit and there's sun shining on me and snow falling on me."

Datarock's Binary Numbers

Norway band creates disco anthems for the geekoid masses

Enchanted Evenings – and Not

Esa-Pekka Salonen's music, Bill Viola's visuals and Peter Sellars' staging of Tristan und Isolde is no perfect marriage

Trondheim Rock City!

Scandinavia�s biggest rock fest, featuring Aryan cuties, a Nazi bowling alley and the prime minister�s glam grandson

Lose Your Illusions

Slayer, now more than ever

Live in LA

Call me Nostradamus

10 signs of the apocalypse

Top 5 List-Obsessed Books of 2003

Canning the Angst

Santa is a Wildman!

Jeffrey Vallance in The Land of Hoarfrost

Bugged

Cracking DVD Code

MPAA�s dragooning of Norwegian teen raises hackers� hackles

Sunshine Superman

Louis Philippe's music for libertines

Haggis, Guinness and a Couple of Plays

Excerpts from the Edinburgh Festival

Vinny and the Very Bad Day

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