Poison (Band)

5 Stories All Angels Fans Should Know

If you're an Angels fan looking for more ways to prove your diehard loyalty, there's a book out there that might hold a helpful suggestion or two. Baseball writer Joe Haakenson recently released 100 Things Angels Fans Should Know and Do before They Die and we took some excerpts from the book to guid ... More >>

The Time Axl Rose and Steven Adler Nearly Killed Each Other

Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal, by Jon Wiederhorn and Katherine Turman comes out today. It's an amazing account of the four-decades-old genre -- more than 700 pages long, with hundreds of interviews, many of them with essential players. It gets into everything from the mu ... More >>

Lil Wayne Isn't the Only Musician Who Hates New York

See also: Top 60 Worst Lil Wayne Lines on Tha Carter IV "I don't like New York," Lil Wayne said earlier this month, following a show he did in the city. His comments came out of his frustration for being arrested and jailed there, he explained. Still, New York State Senator Malcolm Smith promptly h ... More >>

The Most Important Album of the Last 25 Years Isn't Nevermind, It's Guns N' Roses' Appetite For Destruction

Pearl Jam Are the Most Boring Band in 20 Years Top 20 Hair Metal Albums of All Time: The Complete List Guns N' Roses' seminal album Appetite For Destruction came out 25 years ago this past Saturday. I was 9 years old when a foreign exchange student taped me a copy of it. I had heard "Welcome to the ... More >>

Jimmy Cliff, Liars, Jesse Sykes

Also, New Edition, Kátia Moraes & Sambaguru, Milo Greene and others

Rock of Ages Review: Why Hair Metal Is 'Bone Stupid, Creatively Bankrupt, Morally Debased Pop Trash'

Rock of Ages, a new star-clogged pop-musical diversion, is a cinematic event. It's not every day, after all, that you get to see two great American traditions--guitar/bass/drums rock music and Tin Pan Alley musical theater--so thoroughly, mutually degraded. This mess originated as a stage productio ... More >>

Def Leppard's One-Armed Drummer Rick Allen Makes Art Out of Music

"I threw my drum kit down the steps outside. All the drums landed in a heap on the driveway and I said, 'I don't want to do this.' I was almost fifteen and that was it. I was giving up my career," says Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen, rolling his eyes at the bratty fifteen-year-old-version of himself ... More >>

Steel Panther: Hair Metal Cover Band Goes Legit

See also: Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: The Complete List Story by Clay Marshall Steel Panther guitarist Russ Parrish sports leopard-print Spandex and a tiger-striped ax when the group plays in concert. If all goes well, he'll climb atop the drum riser and stomp on the kick-drum pedal, ac ... More >>

10 Bars Most Likely to Get You Laid in L.A.

If there's one thing Valentine's Day hammers home, it's the suckiness (or lack thereof) of being solo. We're talking S-E-X, people, and for you poor souls who had an unsatisfying week sans even a prospect for V***** or D*** (we're talking body parts, not venereal disease), it's time to put it all b ... More >>

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 >>

The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #10-6

​See also: *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #20-16 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums of All Time: #15-11 ​10. Warrant Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich (1989) RIP Jani Lane. Warrant's lead singer, who was found dead in Woodland Hills this summer, didn't have the strongest voice, ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Damned If We Do

KCRW BROADCAST #134 for Saturday, October 1, 2011 Fanatics! And so we begin the month of October. My personal favorite month of the year. This month, we are lucky enough to have five Saturday nights. Taking advantage of this, we will be playing the first five Damned albums in their entirety, one a ... More >>

Silverlake Wine: Best Weekly Wine Tastings

Kathy A. McDonaldNo attitude, pretension-free wine tastings blow up weekly at Silverlake Wine ​Is Silverlake Wine a religion? Consider what makes it so: Devoted followers, a weekly schedule and a straight-up welcoming-to-all philosophy of no pretension at this neighborhood wine shop that speci ... More >>

Rancid - House of Blues Anaheim - 9/7/11

Keith PlocekTim Armstrong​Rancid, Agnostic Front House of Blues Anaheim Downtown Disney September 7, 2011 Better than: Knocking down brews with your bros at ESPN Zone. Sing the song of shirtless guy, he's sweating all over you... The House of Blues is smack-dab in Downtown Disney: no smoki ... More >>

L.A. Punk Rock History Class Is Now in Session

R.I.P. Cat Club: Sunset Stripped

Lina LecaroNightranger at Cat Club last year. ​Looks like nine lives are not in the cards for the Cat Club. The venerable Sunset Strip rock pit, owned by Slim Jim Phantom of the Stray Cats and known for its raucous and often stellar jam sessions, has been sold and word is the new hang, an Iris ... More >>

Music Picks: Matt & Kim, Partch, Booker T, Motley Crue,

Also, Spain, Civil Wars, Bruno Mars and others

Fanatics! Henry Rollins to Play the Entire X-Ray Spex Album on KCRW This Saturday Night in Tribute to Poly Styrene!

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #112 for Saturday, April 30. Fanatics! This week our Fanatic Freak Flag is at half mast as we say goodbye to Poly Styrene, great vocalist of X-Ray Spex, who passed away last Monday from breast cancer. The band was one of the first on London's break out Punk Rock s ... More >>

Porn Machete Murder

Mopes and mayhem in the Valley

Stage Raw: Theatrification and Broadway 100

COMPREHENSVIE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Tim Crouch's The Author, and the Belarus Free Theatre L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESTHEATRIFICATION AND BROADWAY 100 ​Broadway and the Vaudeville circuit began in Los Angeles 100 years ago, in the downtown Historical Theater Di ... More >>

Stage Raw: Camino Real

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON THE BREAK OF NOON, AND CRACK WHORE GALORE -- LIVE!NEW PARTNERS ​CalArts teams up with the Theater @ Boston Court to present CAMINO REAL  (reviewed here on Tuesday) at the Pasadena theater. Photo by Ed Krieger. Another new pa ... More >>

Sunset Strip Follies

Music Picks: Dum Dum Girls, Tricky, Leon Russell, OFF!

Also, Peaches, Killing Joke, Albert Lee and others

Pay to Play On the Sunset Strip: Commenters Explore Desolation Boulevard

the sweet on the street in front of sunset's old filthy mcnasty's​ Last issue's To Pay Or Not To Pay To Play The Sunset Strip article (by Diamond Bodine-Fischer) provoked a pile-on in the comments section, much of it reinforcing the frustrations of musicians like Loana dP Valencia and Josh Ne ... More >>

To Pay or Not to Pay to Play the Sunset Strip

The controversial "presales" system pits clubs against musicians in L.A.'s fabled rock mecca

Live Review: Sleigh Bells at El Rey Theatre

Melissa EsterbyAlexis Krauss making sure everyone is singing along.​ Last night the El Rey Theater pulsed with excitement. Between its glowing red walls the sold out crowd thrummed with speculation as the shards of crimson light that fell from the chandeliers illuminated their impatient faces. ... More >>

Do Not Adjust Your iPod

Sleigh Bells, the band everyone's talking about, is meant to sound messed up. Roll with it

Nightranger: Stars, Cars & Guitars

Sunset Strip Music Festival Releases Set Times

Kristin BurnsObey my dog!: Billy Corgan wants you to buy tickets to the Sunset Strip Music Fest honoring Slash​ The Sunset Strip Music Festival, the Westside celebration of the riff (plus Kid Cudi, Common, and Fergie), have released set times for their August 28th street fair. This year's even ... More >>

Stars, Cars and Guitars: Gibson GuitarTown Debuts on the Sunset Strip

Lina Lecaro Cherie Currie and son Jake Hays with The Runaways guitar by artist Sonia Lopez-Chavez. ​A drive down the Sunset Strip always promises a few things: flashy billboards, rockin' (usually studded) get-ups, beckoning marquees and maddeningly slow-moving cars. Now there's something fun ... More >>

HAIR APPARENT

Emperor of the Air

Live Review: Hanoi Rocks' Michael Monroe @ the Viper Room

Word came in that Michael Monroe, longtime frontman for pioneering sleazo-glam-metal outfit Hanoi Rocks would be playing the Viper Room last Friday, in a rare LA show before heading out to SXSW. As the mastermind of Hanoi Rocks, Monroe (born Matti Fagerholm in Finland almost 50 years ago) is the mi ... More >>

Villains w/Lykke Li at Echoplex Tonight AND Villains' EXCLUSIVE 5 Decade Remix Wishlist Free Remix MP3's

Villains w/Lykke Li at Echoplex Tonight! Villains' EXCLUSIVE 5 Decade Remix Wishlist Free Remix MP3's

Slayer’s Bloody Template

More tales of serial murder and psychosis, state oppression, snuff films and endless war over oil

Countdown to Lambertgeddon! (Day 12): "Gene Simmons is a dick!"

Candis"Hot & Wet," Fan Art by Candis​The official Adam Lambert website is previewing our hero's upcoming Q&A with Rolling Stone magazine! We're so excited! We just can't hide it! We're about to lose control and we think we like it! Among the revelations: * Adam is upset that Gene Simmons qu ... More >>

Beth Ditto: Big in Europe

She's the greatest female Arkansan punk singer ever to host a British talk show. And it doesn't stop there

Down on the Strip

BREAKING: Bret Michaels' Hairpiece Breaks Silence, Gives Extended, Tell-All Interview

photo courtesy of The Pantaloonan udated image of Buzz Goldman, Bret Michaels' longtime hairpiece​Website The Pantaloon has just published what it says is an exclusive interview with Poison lead singer and Rock of Love star Bret Michaels' hairpiece. The wig, whose name is Buzz Goldman, has a l ... More >>

OUTFEST: VOTE "YES"

It's a politically charged year for L. A.'s Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

DIY Promotion Team Minimal LA Hits Internet Radio

Ladytron "Runaway" Looking for a good, weekly dose of obscure tunes, then tune into Radiocore.org tonight from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. for Minimal LA. Hosted by Eden Saiga, founder of the DIY promotion group of the same name, and friends, the show focuses on minimal wave, noise, post-punk and whatever el ... More >>

Lux Interior of the Cramps Passes Away at the Glendale Memorial Hospital

For some of us, he was the embodiment of cool. The way he crawled, the way he climbed the speaker cabinets like a panther, the way that Poison Ivy, his wife and collaborator in the Cramps, looked at him with equal parts love and indifference. Lux Interior, born Erick Lee Purkhiser in 1948, was an ... More >>

Upcoming Shows

Ryan Adams - Royce Hall, Jan. 30 & 31 Dave Alvin - McCabe's Jan. 18 & 19 Autechre - Echo, April 4 Bad Religion - House of Blues, April 4 & 5 Big Sandy, Deke Dickerson - Safari Sam's, Dec. 28 Black Heart Procession - Spaceland, Jan. 11 Black Mountain - Troubadour, Feb. 5 Built to Spill, Meat P ... More >>

Moz the Cat

In which Steven Patrick Morrissey speaks of ghosts, glam rock, Obama... and why squirrels like him

Playing Favorites

Queer and/or peculiar films that have mattered