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Coachella 2013: What to Eat While Waiting to See Tegan and Sara

If you, like the rest of Silver Lake, is heading to Coachella this weekend or next, then you no doubt already have most of your itinerary planned out: How you'll get there, where you'll stay, and -- with the set times just released -- what bands you'll see. To this, you might want to add what you pl ... More >>

The Top Ten Awesomely Absurd and Absurdly Awesome Clutch Lyrics

Throughout two decades and ten albums, D.C. rock outfit Clutch has evolved into one of the mightiest blues-rock bands around. One of the tangibles that make Clutch stand out is the lyrical output and delivery of vocalist Neil Fallon, whose lyrical output reflects his obsessions with conspiracy theor ... More >>

Five More Iconic Key Club Shows

The Key Club's last day is today! Ever since West Coast Sound broke the story of its impending closure, local music fans have been mourning the place. Personally, we've been to the venue hundreds of times, and worked there as a DJ during Metal Skool's heyday for about two years. We believe the venue ... More >>

The Ten Best EDM Singles of 2012

The term "electronic dance music" means so many things to so many people, and this year things only got more complicated. Dubstep continued its dance floor takeover, mainstream pop-oriented EDM ruled the radio, and the beat scene pushed on. Although divergent in style and ethos, here are the ten dan ... More >>

Pink's "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)": Why This Song Sucks

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Pink's "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)" History: "Blow Me" is the first single from Pink's latest album, The Truth About Love. Or, I guess it is. I'm not 100 per ... More >>

Madonna - Staples Center - 10/11/12

Madonna Staples Center 10/11/12 Better than: Pop music's current Madonna-wannabe starlets. Madonna's MDNA tour is a mostly-dark assault to the senses, and many have focused on its controversial themes, words and antics. At Staples Center last night, we were looking at the bigger picture: No one in ... More >>

Critics Need to Lay Off Nicki Minaj

[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] Nicki Minaj is a polarizing figure; one could say folks love her or hate her, but many in the hip-hop world love to hate ... More >>

Food Word Clouds: Pink's Hot Dogs

Today's adventure in food word clouds comes courtesy of Pink's, the hot dog stand (legendary, iconic, fabulous, pick your overused yet applicable adjective) on La Brea. This is not the ordinary menu but the "super specials" menu, from which you can order hot dogs created for actual legends and icons ... More >>

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #20-16

See also: *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #15-11 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #10-6 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #5-1 What makes a terrible band? Is it being prepared to do the wrong thing, whatever the price? That and a pair of testicles. Only, some of the below groups possess testicles ... More >>

Cosplay Karaoke at Meltdown Comics' Nerdmelt With Dr. Strange, Lana Kane of Archer, Nicki Hunter as Lara Croft and More

For the debut evening of Cosplay Karaoke last month, the promo literature asked, "What would Harley Quinn sing if she had a chance? What would Peter Parker belt out? You have a chance to find out as NerdMelt hosts COSPLAY KARAOKE!" and warned "YOU MUST BE IN COSTUME IN ORDER TO SING!" The rules we ... More >>

Indie Rock Food Blogs: The Steve Albini Interview

mariobatalivoiceSkirt Steak with Jasmine Rice and Apple-Wine Chutney, Albini-style.​ Back in March, when we wrote about the Monsters of Folk crème brûlée blog, we said that famous recording engineer, musician, wicked amateur poker player, and gourmand Steve Albini should have a food blog ... More >>

Nicki Minaj Shakes Her Jelly for a Celly, The Kills Te-Kill-Ya

Lina Lecaro Darling Nicki sung for Samsung. ​Nicki Minaj for cell phones, The Kills for tequila ... it was another winning week on the Hollywood party circuit. If you read Nightranger posts regularly you know we rarely miss an opportunity to cover LA's money bags-backed promotional bashes. An ... More >>

What to Eat in the Desert: The Coachella 2011 Food List

​ Coachella 2011 starts tomorrow, so if you, along with a disproportionate number of other people in this town, are currently packing your car with permissible gear (no weapons, no drugs, no flags, no outside food, no stuffed animals) and all your Kanye and Arcade Fire and Interpol t-shirts, y ... More >>

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Top Ten Videos to Feed Your Inner Gay Dude on Ecstasy, by DJ/VJ Ray Rhodes' Club Tigerheat

Lina Lecaro Videos and vamps- Tigerheat eye candy​Wanna see the hottest hits and soon-to-be hits really pop on the dance floor? There really is no place like Tigerheat, the exuberant, mostly gay gathering held every Thursday at Avalon. It'd been a while since we popped in, so we forgot just ho ... More >>

Sneak Peek Behind the Scenes of Buff Monster's New Solo Show, "Beyond the Pink"

Not too long ago, Buff Monster was in Bristol, U.K., where his painting "Happy Pink Explosion" is now part of the City Museum and Art Gallery's permanent collection, working on a mural for the "Art from the New World" exhibition. Afterward, he traveled through London, Berlin and Paris, finding inspi ... More >>

KID ROCK

Music Picks: Femi Kuti, Love Revisited, Fol Chen, Riot Grrl Carnival

Also, Dam-Funk, the Outline, CocoRosie and others

Nightranger: Everybody Talk About Pop Muzik

99 Things to Eat in L.A. Before You Die

Fugu to foie gras, pizza to panuchos

Rage Against the Machine DVD To be Released

Rage Against the Machine DVD To be Released

The Grammy Awards, As Seen from the Staples Center Press Room

Last year we came down pretty hard on the numbskulls journalists in the press room at the Grammys, but would like to officially recant last year's unfair judgment. Specifically, for the record, this is what we said about what awaits the lucky Grammy winners backstage: ...their audience, a bunch of ... More >>

Grammy Winners Meet Jersey Shore

Grammy Winners Meet Jersey Shore: Hypothetical Jerzification

Bravo, Gustavo!

A new era dawns with outsized expectation

Rock Picks: Pink, the Grates, Doug Paisley, Ooh La L.A. Festival

Also, Slavic Soul Party, Pet Shop Boys, the Humpers and others

Five Psychedelic Furs Songs That Aren't "Pretty in Pink"

It's another day stuck in the midst of gridlock and you're flipping radio stations because you either don't have an iPod or forgot your iPod and you're sick of every CD strewn across the front seat of the car. You stumble upon a song and think, "Hey, I remember this. Hey, I like this." But then you ... More >>

John Hughes Remembered at Little Cave Tonight

​ It wasn't just the quirky teens and funny, sincere one-liners that made us love John Hughes' teen movies, it was the music. Whether we were introduced to The Smiths through Pretty in Pink or The March Violets through Some Kind of Wonderful, the soundtracks for Hughes' movies were, in many w ... More >>

Chavolot: Heavy Mariachi Parking-Lot Party

And fun at El Chavo, Rock 'n' Roll Au Go Go and HLNR boutique

Coachella Teaser MP3: Fucked Up Remixed By No Age

Exactly. In our ongoing effort to educate Coachella-goers on the underbill, and sway others that there's more to this year's roster than Girl Talk, Franz Ferdinand and Paul McCartney, we're offering mp3s.

WORN OUT: Bound Babes at the VMAs and Beyond

Fetishistic frocks may have abounded at MTV’s VMAs (Christina Aguilera, Rihanna, Pink), but whip cracking wearables aren’t just for the stage. We've been seeing the look everywhere lately. We’re not even talking about all the gothic clubs, where black everything, corsetry, leather and vinyl ... More >>

Dog Days of Summer: Seeking Sausage Satori

Along the hot-dog trail, stops at Jeff's Gourmet, Brats Brothers, the Infield and Yaki's

Sexy Secrets

She Contains Multitudes

Linda Perry

IN THIS SHORT LIFE: BRITTA SJÖGREN IN PERSON

The Freak Parade

Nashville superweirdoes Big & Rich wrangle the Rose Bowl halftime, somehow. Nation reacts with relief, pride

Nightranger

¡Ask a Mexican! Does L.A.

Bubblegum Hip-hop and a Band With three Test Icicles

An Immodest Proposal

Nightranger

Hot Dogs, Hamburgers and Barbecue

Fashionation

Gloria Ohland on the dog days of fashion

Masquerades: WeHo Family Values

Sound and Beyond

The music of art, the art of music

The Preteen Files: Man Go Wango Tango

Rami Kashoú

Synthetics

“Big Plastic,” Sean Duffy, Terri Friedman and more

Cash, Class and Cool

New books from David Brancaccio, Gerald Horne and Lewis MacAdams

The Decline of Western Civilization Part III: The Tribute Years