Paul Oakenfold

Ask a Teen Raver: I'm 35, Like EDM and College Chicks. Help!

Kerah Rose is a 19-year-old college student from Riverside and EDM aficionado. Ask a Teen Raver appears on Tuesdays in West Coast Sound. Send your questions to teenraver@laweekly.com. Dear Teen Raver: Hi, as a parent of a Raver what can you tell me that will help me sleep at night? I've heard stori ... More >>

Coachella 2012: Top Five Acts at the Sahara Tent

See also: *Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg and Tupac's Hologram *Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs *Our Complete Coachella Coverage By Alejandra Loera The weekend is over and Coachella came and went in a blink of an eye. It was pure amazingness, and there were so many talented artists to see. For elect ... More >>

Shifty Shellshock Is Out of His Coma! Here's Everything You Need To Know About Him

We were saddened by word that Crazy Town frontman Shifty Shellshock fell into a coma last week. According to TMZ, the 37-year-old Los Angeles native (real name Seth Binzer) is now conscious, though he remains in an intensive care unit at a local hospital. We love the guy, and figured this was as goo ... More >>

Top 10 Badass L.A. Parties of 2011

Also see 10 Ways to Get Past a Bouncer and Top 10 L.A. Club Nights of 2011. At the risk of referencing LMFAO again, LA knows its party rockin' and we do it bigger and better than any other city in the world. New York may beat us at chic soirees, Miami might be sultrier and Vegas gaudier, but Los A ... More >>

World's Douchiest DJs: The Top Five

Pauly D didn't make our list. He's a douche, but he's not much of a DJ.​Finding a douchey DJ is about as easy as finding an Ed Hardy t-shirt in Vegas on a Saturday night. Still, we strive for accuracy at LA Weekly, and we've gone through the list of top global spinners with a fine-tooth comb ... More >>

Paul Oakenfold - Avalon - 10/22/11

Paul Oakenfold​Paul OakenfoldAvalon 10/22/11Better than: Living a 1983 episode of Solid Gold. It was almost 10:00 p.m. and the Hollywood hills were alive with the sound of cop sirens. Drunk-ass boulevard buskers fell over their own amps and glum blondes in glowing pink leg-warmers stalked ... More >>

Music Picks: Joan Osborne, Tears for Fears, the Cute Lepers, J. Cole, Low

Also Bon Iver, Cerebellion, Surfer Blood and others

LinA In LA Club/Party Picks: Booze and Boobs On A Boat To Mexico!

Lina Lecaro Crookers crank it out at Control, Friday​There is never a better excuse for excess and revelry than a birthday or anniversary. This week, two such occasions are mark-the-calendar-worthy, at the Avalon Hollywood and at the new Los Globos. An overnight excursion, a popular Italian DJ ... More >>

Burning Man 2011 Sold Out, Literally and Figuratively; Tickets Go for $5,000 on eBay

PHOTO BY JOSH "CURIOUSJOSH" REISS​We didn't even know this was possible: Burning Man, great Black Rock Desert gathering of all people freaky and junk funky, sold out of tickets today for the first time since tickets started selling in 1995. Burning Man spokeswoman Andie Grace says the festiv ... More >>

Kandyland at the Playboy Mansion: Sugar Daddies, Paul Oakenfold and Girls Flashing their Oompa Loompas

Lina Lecaro A rainbow of femme flavors. ​Half naked ladies (make that completely in the case of babes in body-paint), a gluttonous amount of booze and food (which only about a fifth of the females would actually eat), Dayglo Chocolate Factory décor, and throbbing sounds by Paul Oakenfold-- Ka ... More >>

Mad Crushin' For Diplo At Departure

Lina Lecaro Diplo tears it up at Vanguard.​ Remember when everyone was comparing DJs to rockstars? Sometimes the comparison was warranted, but most of the time it was not. Paul Oakenfold is no Mick Jagger and Tiesto is no Bono, right? Rockstar eminence is about swagger and attitude, and even t ... More >>

Raves: Love Festival Planned For Las Vegas in May; L.A. Event Up in the Air

Caesar SebastianRavers at Love Festival in L.A.​Added: Commenters are telling us that this event is planned in addition to the party in L.A., and has happened in past years in Vegas. So calling this a "move" would not be accurate. However, if the event in August is canceled, it might be. We ch ... More >>

This weekend: Jonsi, LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip, the National, Die Antwoord, Paul Oakenfold, Hoodoo Gurus

Jonsi​Fans who witnessed Jónsi in the 93-degree heat at the Outdoor Theatre at Coachella in April fairly swooned over the Sigur Rós frontman's gorgeously orchestrated pop-prog anthems. Those people ain't seen nothin' yet. The falsetto-wielding singer-guitarist is touring behind his solo alb ... More >>

Dance Club Pick: OAKYLIFT + DUBQUAKE

Music Picks: Laurie Anderson, Onibaba, Superchunk

Also, Hoodoo Gurus, Die Antwoord, Jonsi and others

The DJs List: Spinners You Should See This Weekend -- Paul Oakenfold, Hernan Cattaneo

Hernan Cattaneo.​After y'all blew your minds over the holiday, there's not as much happening in L.A. for June's inaugural weekend, but what the DJs are BIG. So get out: Friday: Control goes after-hours with a party to benefit the Amazon Foundation. The man who helped define the contemporary s ... More >>

Brittany Murphy Dies at 32, TMZ Reports

TMZ reports that actress Brittany Murphy died this morning after suffering from a "full cardiac arrest." She was apparently taken to Cedars-Sinai, but could not be revived. Murphy was 32. Murphy's breakthrough role was as Tai Frasier, the makeover project/friend of lead character Cher in Clueless. ... More >>

DJ Hero: From AM to Z-Trip

L.A. DJ takes on music ed Randall Roberts in Vegas

Z-Trip Demos DJ Hero in Las Vegas, Honors DJ AM at Friday Night Residency Debut

Thursday, October 15, 6:50 p.m. Landed in Vegas, am on way to Palms Hotel from airport. In a half hour, the DJ Hero battle will begin: West Coast Sound vs. Z-Trip. Focus. I've had ten years to learn Technics technique. Countless hours in front of the decks, matching beats, absorbing breaks, tweakin ... More >>

Larry Tee Talks: 'L.A. Has a Better Club Scene Than New York'

Larry Tee has floated through contemporary club history like Forrest Gump on ecstasy, seemingly everywhere you'd want to be. Growing up in Atlanta, he hung out with R.E.M. and co-wrote fellow Atlantan Ru Paul's 1992 hit "Supermodel (You Better Work)." In 1990s New York he became a DJ on the club kid ... More >>

Rock Picks: Electric Daisy Carnival, Explosion in the Sky, Rodriguez

Also, DAT Politics, Mika Miko, Etta James and others

This Weekend's Electric Daisy Carnival: An Interview with Promoter Pasquale Rotella

By Dennis Romero For the 13th year Los Angeles promoter Pasquale Rotella and his company Insomniac are putting on one of the nation's largest dance music festivals, Electric Daisy Carnival. We say festival because rave just doesn't do it justice, even though he started off in the glowstick undergro ... More >>

Party Like It's 2009: AM and Travis, Armin Van Buuren, Cast of The Hills

Plus, Trannyshack, Infected Mushroom, Katy Perry, Skeet Skeet

Your Halloween Guide to the Best Parties

DJ Paul Oakenfold Rides the Waves

Sea-breezin' on the Queen Mary

Downtown in Stereo: New Year’s Street Parties Compete

Year-end bashes fulfill L.A.’s huge dance-music appetite

Bands and Brands

Your favorite band is playing the Roxy tonight — but you’re not invited

DJ Quivver at Nacional

Peer pleasure

Breaking the Trance

The unexpected Burning Man soundtrack

Saturday in the Park

Electric Daisy ­Carnival

Primp'n Hos

Uncovering the goods in Hollywood Boulevard’s legendary stripper-ware shops

Rock Picks

For February 1–8

Giant Village's Summer in the City

Nightranger

Soul Shadows

Daddy G

Ring-a-Ding 2004

Edited by Kateri Butler

Shanghai Nights

Mian Mian on Chinese raves, cheap taxis and why nobody wants to fuck the queen

Ding-Dong Electro-Song

Edited by Kateri Butler

Geezer Pleaser

Your Time Is Now

Kid AAAA

The Nine Lives of Rave

Black to the Future

Juan Atkins on the vision thing

Electronica News: A Guide to the Guides

Welcome to the Machine

The musician and the development deal

Slush

Edited by Kateri Butler

Giant Steps

Anatomy of a dance superclub

Beat Freaks

Dance clubs L.A.: a forbidden world beckons

A Night in Orbit

Gay music? It's a body/soul thing