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Music Picks: As Blood Runs Black, Kelly Hogan, Regina Spektor

Also, Agalloch, Antibalas, Power of the Riff and others

Music Picks: Aesop Rock, Azealia Banks, Toots & the Maytals

Also, Mariachi El Bronx, Phil Ranelin, Spaceghostpurrp and others

Body Art Expo: At the World's Biggest Tattoo Convention, Roving Artists Charge by the Limb

See also: 10 Awesome Tattoo Artists in L.A. Welcome to my life, tattoo I'm a man now, thanks to you I expect I'll regret you But the skin graft man won't get you You'll be there when I die -"Tattoo" by The Who People with tattoos are sentimental. Most of them, anyway. No one gets a ... More >>

Pulp - The Fox Theater - 4/19/12

Pulp The Fox Theatre 4/19/12 See also: The Pulp Revival Continues With Eve Wood's Documentary The Beat Is Law Better than...watching cell phone videos from Pulp's New York and San Francisco shows. Jarvis Cocker, the charismatic frontman of British pop band Pulp, talks a lot in between songs. A ... More >>

Gabriel Perez Facio, Pomona Cyclist, Killed in Hit-and-Run; Dragged Half-Block by SUV

Updated at the bottom: Suspected hit-and-run driver turns himself in -- likely due to "large amount of media coverage" surrounding Facio's death. Originally posted December 29 at 2:15 p.m. In one of the most horrific hit-and-runs of the year, Pomona resident Gabriel Perez Facio was killed by an SU ... More >>

Pomona Police Brutality, Racism? Family of Andres Avila, Beaten and Shot Dead by Cops, Calls for Federal Investigation (VIDEO)

KFI radioAndres Avila was beaten and Tasered by Pomona cops just months before they shot him dead.​Looks as if the murder and manslaughter charges against Fullerton police officers for the fatal beating of homeless man Kelly Thomas may have inspired the family of another officer-involved-shoot ... More >>

Music Picks: Shunda K, SebastiAn, Fleet Foxes, Miles Evans Band

Also, Ray LaMontagne, Kissing Cousins, the Kills and others

Sky Angelo Ruddock, 22-Year-Old Pomona Man, Killed When Tour Bus Slams Into Chevy

MySpaceSky Angelo Ruddock, aka "Sykopaff"​A fatal crash on the tail end of rush hour yesterday morning took the life of a young Pomona man riding in the passenger seat of a Chevrolet Celebrity. The L.A. County coroner identified the 22-year-old victim as Sky Angelo Ruddock today. The person w ... More >>

Cockfight in San Gabriel Valley Busted in the Act: Dead Roosters Found, Three Men Arrested For Watching Bout

LASDCockfighting accessories.​A major cockfight was broken up over the weekend in the San Gabriel Valley community of Valinda (near West Covina). Authorities said they found several dead roosters. What impressed us about this particular avian bout was that it was allegedly happening in the mo ... More >>

L.A. Theater's Moment of Truth

In the national spotlight this summer, will we show we've grown up, or just embarrass ourselves?

Rock Picks: DJ Spinna, Bodega Girls, Andre Nickatina, Elevated Suspects

Also, Hilary Hahn, People Under the Stairs, KROQ Almost Acoustic Xmas and others

This weekend: OK Go, Weezer, Bonobo, Pretty Lights, Lucero, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe

Day 19OK Go​Almost anything goes in the Theater of OK Go. The art-pop quartet's headlining tour, which concludes Saturday in Los Angeles, has included (according to various online reports): Enough confetti to drown an arena full of Flaming Lips fans; the guys decked out in primary colors; a 3 ... More >>

Tonight: Delorean, Nitzer Ebb, Brian Wright, Brandon Flowers, A Perfect Circle, Useless Keys

Delorean​Delorean's chipper set of dance music was one of the highlights of September's FYF Fest in downtown L.A. -- the Barcelona-born quartet's four-on-the-floor beats proved an exhilarating finish to what, for some, was a frustrating festival experience. With its layered vocals, keening sy ... More >>

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Tonight: Built to Spill, Corinne Bailey Rae, Fun., Fear, Foxy Shazam, Kate Nash

Built to Spill​Seven albums in and 18 years on, Built to Spill has become a band for lifers -- there's something about Doug Martsch's leaden, catchy guitar hooks that never gets old, no matter how tightly you pack your earplugs. The pride of Boise, Idaho, is winding down what will probably be ... More >>

Tonight: Superchunk, Broken Social Scene, Manu Chao, Deer Tick, Interpol, Ra Ra Riot

Jason ArthursSuperchunk​The most treacherous territory Superchunk had to negotiate to make Majesty Shredding, the band's first album in nine years, had nothing to do with music. It was -- and you aspiring rockers can relate -- those pesky day jobs. Frontman Mac McCaughan and bassist Laura Ba ... More >>

Tonight: Foals, Mumford & Sons, John Legend and the Roots, Griffin House, Jason Derulo, Evan Voytas, Radars to the Sky

Steve GullickFoals​Foals' arty fusion of indie-rock and dance music took two albums to coalesce, but it did on Total Life Forever, which came out in May on Sub Pop. The album earned the Oxford, U.K., quintet a nomination for Britain's Mercury Prize. What it's earning them on their current 22- ... More >>

This weekend: Plastic Ono Band, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, School of Seven Bells, the Avett Brothers, Fountains of Wayne

Yoko Ono​John Lennon would have turned 70 next week, and among the events celebrating the legendary Beatle are two shows this weekend featuring a reconstituted Plastic Ono Band, the loose collective of musicians Lennon assembled 40 years ago. His widow Yoko Ono and son Sean Lennon (the musica ... More >>

Tonight: Perfume Genius, the Black Keys, Guster, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sara Bareilles, Bettye LaVette, Funeral Party

Perfume Genius​Mike Hadreas, the 28-year-old Seattle-based pianist who makes music as Perfume Genius, creates hyper-emotional ballads so fragile a stiff breeze might knock them over. He's found plenty of strength in the them, though -- Hadreas turned to the keyboard to quell the inner turmoil ... More >>

This weekend: Rx Bandits, Band of Horses, Vampire Weekend, Muse, Abbot Kinney Festival, Epicenter Festival, Willie Nelson, Rancid, Waved Out II, Helmet

Rx Bandits​Few would have thought that the Orange County ska-punk kids who a decade ago started playing as the Pharmaceutical Bandits would grow up to be a Coachella band. But the quartet now known Rx Bandits has, their party in the desert last spring certifying Matt Embree and crew as musica ... More >>

To Stage War Plays, or Not to Stage War Plays

Pomona Cops Dodge a Bullet

Accepting severe pay cuts, a police department survives to patrol another day

Onion Truck Causes Traffic Nightmare

Flickr/psyberartistbag of white onions​ No this isn't a fake headline from The Onion, although it would be pretty funny, albeit briefly and only for a couple of punchlines, if a truck spilling of copies of the satirical newspaper caused the kind of traffic chaos that the overturned truck of ac ... More >>

This weekend: The Swell Season, MGMT, One Day as a Lion, Die Antwoord, Shelby Lynne

Piper FergusonThe Swell Season​Boy, girl. Boy, girl. Boy, girl. It's a bill made for date night on Sunday at the Hollywood Bowl as some of music's favorite collaborative couples team up to provide a soundtrack for your wine and cheese. Of course, the Swell Season -- Glen Hansard of Irish r ... More >>

A Betrayal in Proud Pomona

Century-old police department fears the end of its own thin, blue line

Spider Bite Didn't Kill Teen, But Festering Pimple Might Have

​The hyperbole surrounding the news that a Los Angeles County teenager was killed by a spider bite wasn't supported by the facts, according to the county coroner's office. The 13-year-old, it turns out, was felled by a less-sexy but no-less scary monster: a possible pimple that ended up gett ... More >>

Minus the Bear Show Tonight at Glass House Postponed

Due to a family emergency, Minus the Bear has postponed tonight's show at the Glass House in Pomona. Tickets will be honored for the make-up date.

Heath Inspector Charged In Donut-Shop Groping

ABC7​A Los Angeles County health inspector was charged with sexual battery Tuesday after he allegedly groped the owner of a Pomona donut shop during an inspection of the eatery, the District Attorney's office announced. Magdy Naiem Tawadros, 50, was charged in the March 24 incident at Pixie ... More >>

L.A. County Teen Impaled By Javelin

​We cannot stress this enough: Please don't try this at home. Teenagers playing in a Pomona park over the weekend came across a javelin, and you can guess what happened next. According to CBS2 News, as a 15-year-old boy rounded a corner of a building at Westmont Park Community Center, another ... More >>

Live in L.A. This Weekend: Drive-By Truckers, Peter Gabriel, Les Savy Fav, First Fridays

Drive-By Truckers​You may not have noticed if you don't live in a neighborhood where "y'all" is the prevalent pronoun -- and no, that's not pejorative -- but the Drive-By Truckers have a new album out. "The Big To-Do" is just that, out-sized riffs, growling vocals and sweat-stained rhythms sup ... More >>

Live in LA: Greg Laswell, Ruby Friedman Orchestra, more

Joseph Llanes​People love Greg Laswell, and it's not just the music supervisors who've funneled his ballads of heartache into shows such as "Grey's Anatomy," "90210" and "The Hills." The 36-year-old singer-songwriter's deft ability to turn melancholy inside out served him well on his 2006 brea ... More >>

SOMETHING RANDY NEWMAN CAN SING ABOUT

Little Boots Dragonette and Class Actress @ the El Rey (3/10), Also Tonight in Pomona

Little Boots, with openers Class Actress and Dragonette, will be appearing tonight at the Glass House in Pomona. Last Wednesday, the diminutive dance diva from Lancashire, UK headlined the same bill at the El Rey, where she attracted a fairly typical West Hollywood crowd of young professionals and ... More >>

Ceramic Exhibit

Rock Picks: Broken Nobles, Anny Celsi, Seu Jorge, the Killers

Rock Picks: Broken Nobles, Anny Celsi, Seu Jorge, the Killers

Also, Destroy L.A., Sunset Strip Music Festival, the Drones and others

Peanut Butter Wolf's Got Shows (In Different Area Codes): Nine Gigs, Nine SoCal Codes, All 90s Music

Following on the heels of his two previous marathon DJ gigs (eight gigs in a row last year, seven the year before), Peanut Butter Wolf has announced a nine-night tour of the nine area codes stretching from Los Angeles, Orange County to the Inland Empire. Each night the resident Stones Throw DJ will ... More >>

60 Freeway Killer Pleads Guilty to Two More Murders

The "60 Freeway Killer" pleaded guilty today to killing two women, more than twenty years ago. Ivan Hill, 48, was already serving a death sentence for the strangulation murders of six women who were found dead along the Pomona (60) Freeway when DNA linked him to the two additional murders. 60 Fre ... More >>

Claremont Folk Festival

By Ryan Colditz Get the folk out of the city on Saturday and mosey on over to Clarmont (just a few miles past the Glass House in Pomona) for the 28th Annual Claremont Folk Music Festival, held at Sycamore Elementary School. Sounds boring, right? WRONG. A full day of art and music performances ... More >>

Inland Empire = Emerald Isle

Crosstown Rivals

When USC and UCLA put on their academic game faces, nothing less than the future of the city is at stake

You Say You Want a Resolution

Pulling the Plug

The long, sad road to King-Drew

Move, Quit or Die

Pomona cops looking for a little payback after killing of CHP officer

Fair Play

Pomona police have their own games

The Guns of Autumn

Getting the county out of the arms trade

Pomona Grandma Faces Backlash

Son, others decry her desertion on gay rights

Fast Track

I got railroaded and now I’m hooked