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Tammy Faye Starlite Channels Nico From the Velvet Underground, and Tells Us About Sex With Jim Morrison

You may have thought that Nico -- the eyelinered, somewhat racist Velvet Underground singer, Warhol superstar and film actress -- died in 1988...but you'd be wrong. She's been reincarnated by Tammy Faye Starlite, a New York singer/comedian/performance artist who's also known for sending up two othe ... More >>

She'll Be Your Mirror

You may have thought that Nico -- the eyelinered, somewhat racist Velvet Underground singer, Warhol superstar and film actress -- died in 1988...but you'd be wrong. She's been reincarnated by Tammy Faye Starlite, a New York singer/comedian/performance artist who's also known for sending up two othe ... More >>

CBGB Gingerbread House

UnknownCBGB gingerbread house​24, 24 hours to go, we wanna be sedated -- with cookies and sugar. Perhaps we will be if we tear into the most punk rock gingerbread house ever. Didn't think punk and baked goods could go together? Think again. We spotted this gingerbread replica of legendary NYC ... More >>

Rock & Drool!

UnknownCBGB gingerbread house​24, 24 hours to go, we wanna be sedated -- with cookies and sugar. Perhaps we will be if we tear into the most punk rock gingerbread house ever. Didn't think punk and baked goods could go together? Think again. We spotted this gingerbread replica of legendary NYC ... More >>

Top 10 Rock Books of 2010

​With the year coming to a close, we're heading off the inevitable barrage of "best" lists coming your way with one that will actually be useful and problem solving (a holiday gift guide for the music lover in your life, that's not actually music... or a t-shirt). Buy 'em a book! iPad and Kin ... More >>

Video: Teaser for Hecuba's Film 'Brass Knuckles'

More Manimalian--Manimalien?--news today: L.A. band Hecuba has been laying a little low since the release a memorable EP and a very sophisticated full-length since 2008. If you've never met them, allow John Payne to introduce you to producer/singer Jon Beasley and singer/daner Isabelle Albuquerque ... More >>

SHE WAS A PUNK BEFORE YOU WERE A PUNK

More Manimalian--Manimalien?--news today: L.A. band Hecuba has been laying a little low since the release a memorable EP and a very sophisticated full-length since 2008. If you've never met them, allow John Payne to introduce you to producer/singer Jon Beasley and singer/daner Isabelle Albuquerque ... More >>

Nightranger: Everybody Talk About Pop Muzik

More Manimalian--Manimalien?--news today: L.A. band Hecuba has been laying a little low since the release a memorable EP and a very sophisticated full-length since 2008. If you've never met them, allow John Payne to introduce you to producer/singer Jon Beasley and singer/daner Isabelle Albuquerque ... More >>

Patti Smith Talks Harry Smith at the Hammer Museum

Harry Smith, inventor of the mixtape​The Hammer museum's Smith On Smith event last Thursday night paid tribute to the eccentric artist and music collector Harry Smith through exploits that Patti Smith recounted from her new book, Just Kids. Patti befriended Harry at the Chelsea Hotel during it ... More >>

THERE'S NO BOHO LIKE TORTURED-ARTIST BOHO

Harry Smith, inventor of the mixtape​The Hammer museum's Smith On Smith event last Thursday night paid tribute to the eccentric artist and music collector Harry Smith through exploits that Patti Smith recounted from her new book, Just Kids. Patti befriended Harry at the Chelsea Hotel during it ... More >>

Black Leather

Harry Smith, inventor of the mixtape​The Hammer museum's Smith On Smith event last Thursday night paid tribute to the eccentric artist and music collector Harry Smith through exploits that Patti Smith recounted from her new book, Just Kids. Patti befriended Harry at the Chelsea Hotel during it ... More >>

Black Leather

Harry Smith, inventor of the mixtape​The Hammer museum's Smith On Smith event last Thursday night paid tribute to the eccentric artist and music collector Harry Smith through exploits that Patti Smith recounted from her new book, Just Kids. Patti befriended Harry at the Chelsea Hotel during it ... More >>

Tonight at the Silent Movie Theater: LA Premiere of 'All Tomorrow's Parties' Documentary

Tonight Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theater will host the Los Angeles premiere of what looks to be a pretty amazing movie on the All Tomorrow's Parties festival -- at least judging by the trailer below. Those featured in the film, in case your eyes can't register all that stuff so quickly, in ... More >>

Pink Floyd/"Wizard of Oz" Visual Mashup Tonight @ Actors' Gang Fest

We Be JaminWe're off to see the Floyd​Tonight, as part of the Actors' Gang WTF?! Festival, you can finally stop wondering about the Old-School Internet meme regarding Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon being a secret soundtrack to The Wizard of Oz. As our own Siran Babayan explains in her ... More >>

Tearist's Yasmine Kittles and "Tim & Eric"'s Eric Star in SFW Hipster Crotch Porn

What's not to like about Tearist's Yasmine Kittles? She's badass, looks like the lovechild of "Rehab"-era Amy Winehouse and Polly Jean Harvey (in a good way), digs good music (Throbbing Gristle, Can, The Red Crayola, The Ronettes), does her crazy "Patti Smith meets Peaches" act at The Smell, has abs ... More >>

Duran Duran Goes Record Shopping at Amoeba [Video]

Duran Duran recently landed at Amoeba Records in SF to go record shopping, and it's a pretty informative little tidbit. Why are we posting this in LA? Dunno. Maybe because John Taylor lives in LA? He gives a shout-out to the LA Amoeba store? Because we can? Simon LeBon buys Neu and Patti Smith, ... More >>

Last Free Concert on the Pier This Thursday: A Patti Smith Appropriate Take Out Menu

Jenn GarbeeRib Eye Tacos To Go​Rock legend Patti Smith is performing the season closer again this year at Santa Monica's free Concerts on the Pier on Thursday night. Although you can't BYOB like at the Hollywood Bowl, you can pack a killer picnic. Here are a few take-out suggestions appropriat ... More >>

Rock Picks: Os Mutantes, Hall and Oates, Bat for Lashes, Davila 666, Maia Sharp

Also, the Mars Volta, Nine Inch Nails, Gun Outfit, the Pretenders and others

TRUST ME ON THIS ONE

Also, the Mars Volta, Nine Inch Nails, Gun Outfit, the Pretenders and others

MY DEALER TOOK A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY HABIT

Also, the Mars Volta, Nine Inch Nails, Gun Outfit, the Pretenders and others

Bob Mould Gets Intimate at the Hotel Cafe Tonight

First, there was Hüsker Dü, one of the most important post-punk bands of the '80s, and partially responsible for R.E.M., Nirvana, and the Pixies (pictured above performing tracks from Zen Arcade). Then there was Sugar, the Bob Mould-fronted trio which, in the early '90s, saved distorted guitars ... More >>

Good Golly Miss Dolly

First, there was Hüsker Dü, one of the most important post-punk bands of the '80s, and partially responsible for R.E.M., Nirvana, and the Pixies (pictured above performing tracks from Zen Arcade). Then there was Sugar, the Bob Mould-fronted trio which, in the early '90s, saved distorted guitars ... More >>

Great Night for Music in LA: Tom Verlaine Performs with Silent Films, and Guns 'n Bombs Debuts Club at the Echo

New York guitarist Tom Verlaine possesses one of the strongest and most identifiable tones in rock, with a no-bullshit, clean, Coltrane-esque appreciation of sound and space. He builds solos like an architect designs buildings, line by line, measure by measure. The founding member of New York art ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Max Payne, Sex Drive, What Just Happened?

Also, Morning Light, Secrecy and more

Rock Picks: Tegan & Sara, Patti Smith, Stereolab

Also, Pinback, the Quarrymen, Kris Kristofferson and more

She was a punk before you were a punk

Also, Pinback, the Quarrymen, Kris Kristofferson and more

Long Beach Calling!

What to do in L.A., August 29-September 4

Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem and Wild Light, Hollywood Bowl, 9/20

Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem and Wild Light Hollywood Bowl, September 20. By Randall Roberts There was a moment about three-quarters of the way through Arcade Fire’s victorious show at the Hollywood Bowl last night – I think it was during “Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)” -- when lead singer Wi ... More >>

Rock Picks: Detroit Cobras, Gore Gore Girls, MF Doom, Squeeze

For the week of August 9 – 16

Nightranger

Pussycats and a Cougar

P.S. I Don't Love You, Patti. Smith, not Smyth

Goodbye to you

What's a Six-Letter Word for Hubbub?

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Where the Crowds Are

What to do in L.A. this week

Online Avant-Garde

What to do in L.A. this week

Hole, Sweet Hole

The last weekend of CBGB

The Night Belonged to (Music) Lovers

The last weekend of CBGB

Odds/Sods, Bits/Bobs

or, This Week in Meaningless Trivia

Rocking Horses

or, This Week in Meaningless Trivia

Wild Horses

Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye return to celebrate the now-30-year-old debut that changed everything

Rock Monsters

Sleater-Kinney�s The Woods takes Northwest indie back to its stoner roots

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Gimme Sheltered

Post-revolutionary Patti

Poet Against the War

Post-revolutionary Patti

Miracle in the Desert

Post-revolutionary Patti

Speak Easy and Carry a Big Stick

Edited by Kateri Butler

Last Stop, Mahagonny

Harry Smith�s magical mystery tour de force

Cagey Cretins

Tyranny, mutation and Blue Öyster Cult

The Six-Strings Mystique

Better living through metal