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Danny Brown - Pomona Glass House - 5/19/13

Danny Brown Pomona Glass House 5-19-13 Danny Brown is a magnetic but troublesome figure in hip-hop. In the past month he's fallen under heavy scrutiny for receiving a blow job while performing in Minneapolis; his opener that night, Kitty, launched into a passionate defense, suggesting that the oral ... More >>

Holiday DUI Checkpoint Cheat Sheet: Massive Drunk Driving Crackdown Starts Friday

'Tis the season to be jolly, yes, but try not to do your fa-la-la-la-laing in a jail cell. Not fun. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department this week previewed the anti-DUI can of whoopass it's unveiling for the holidays, starting this weekend. It's massive:

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, August 13 Grandaddy THE FONDA In the year 2000, a group of schlubs from the California meth- and cow-town of Modesto released the perfect record to ring in the new millennium. It was called The Sophtware Slump, and its sun-dappled, spacey, sad-faced robot-pop seemed to capture so much about ... More >>

Heat Warning Today, Flex Alert Tomorrow For Sweltering SoCal

Another day, another blazer. The California Independent System Operator (Cal-ISO) took the unusual step of declaring a Flex Alert for statewide energy users tomorrow, even though today was expected to be the hotter day. Maybe we'll nearly be out of juice by then. According to the grid controller:

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, July 23 The xx FONDA THEATRE These U.K. goth-soul ghouls haven't played in the United States since 2010, when The xx wrapped up support of their self-titled semi-hit debut and subsequently went into studio-hibernation mode. This summer, they're back on the road ahead of the Sept. 11 release ... More >>

Smoking Marijuana a Month Ago Could Get You a DUI Today Under Proposed Law

Updated at the bottom: A group of current and former law enforcement officers has urged the lawmaker to withdraw this bill. First posted at 7:03 a.m. The problem with lawmakers is that they feel the need to make laws, even when they're unneeded or unfair. The pro-marijuana group NORML is up in arm ... More >>

Powerviolence Community Bands Together for Ailing Infant

​The subgenre of hardcore called powerviolence is known for heavy riffs, blast beats and a wacky, off-beat sense of kitschy humor. It's also a very tight-knit community. While not immune from the drama and politics that plague every scene, powerviolence denizens tend of have each others' backs ... More >>

Mom Brings Bags of Marijuana Into Juvenile Probation Camp on Visit to Son, Cops Say

Bringing the love only a mother could provide, authorities claim that Rhonda J. Gonzales had several packages of marijuana with her when she visited her son this weekend at an L.A. County juvenile probation camp, authorities say. How kind. Unfortunately for the chap, she wasn't able to share her me ... More >>

LACMA Is Having Boulder Problems

The New York Times finally made a correct assumption about Los Angeles today, in the scathing "340-Ton Sculpture Versus Immovable Bureaucracy." Writer Adam NaGourney blames the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's delay in moving the centerpiece of a new installation from Riverside to its West L.A. c ... More >>

Music Picks: Amanda Palmer & Jason Webley, Tinariwen, Mastodon

Also: Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers, Danzig and others

Music Picks: Linda Perhacs, Joni's Jazz, L.A. Phil, the Go-Go's

Also, J*DaVey, the Decemberists, Dragon Head, Wye Oak and others

Casey Anthony Mask Made For Hollywood Video Shoot up For Sale on eBay: Scare The Kids For Halloween

eBayCasey Anthony mask.​Among all the creepy Casey Anthony stuff on eBay (t-shirts and trial tickets) you'll find something truly scary: A Casey Anthony Halloween mask. The seller ("prophunter," appropriately) is based right here in L.A. The listing says "let's never forget poor Caylee." Yea ... More >>

Gilbert 'Magú,' Luján, Chicano Art Icon: An Appreciation

Gil Ortiz​ Gilbert "Magú" Luján used to laugh when described as a Chicano art icon, but he is more than deserving of the title. His irreverent, playful work across a broad spectrum of media that included cardboard, metal, ceramic tile and organic material, among others, fused a distinct visu ... More >>

Victor Aguero, Pomona 24-Year-Old, Allegedly Stabbed to Death by Little Brother

Google MapsMurder in the suburbs.​Pomona Police believe a stabbing death last night in L.A. County's southeastern outskirts was the fatal result of a family knife fight, City News Service reports. Victor Aguero, a 24-year-old Pomona man who had apparently been living with his 17-year-old brot ... More >>

With Godspeed on Our Side

How did an experimental political punk octet become the hottest ticket of the winter?

30 Seconds to Mars at The Fox Theater Pomona: Live Review

Amidst all the moshing, the sweating, the screaming, as rash a sold-out rock show it might have seemed, there were a few rules to abide by Friday night at the Fox Theater in Pomona. Conducted by Jared Leto, the chiseled actor-turned-frontman for the epic L.A. alt-rock outfit 30 Seconds to Mars, ever ... More >>

Top 10 Strangest Rock Star Action Figures (In Honor of the "Hard Rock Barbie" Lawsuit)

Tiny Rockers! 10 Best Rock Star Action Figures (Not Including HorrorPops' Lawsuit Lovin Bassist)

This weekend: Sufjan Stevens, Interpol, the Temper Trap, Shakira, Monster Massive, Bobby Brown

Denny RenshawSufjan Stevens​If you take in Sufjan Stevens' shows in Los Angeles this weekend expecting some warm-and-fuzzy orchestral pop from a banjo-toting folkie, you've got another thing coming. In fact, dancing shoes may be in order. Stevens' newest album The Age of Adz is full of insist ... 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 >>

Tonight: Filter, the Hold Steady, Juliette Commagere, Radars to the Sky, Black Mountain, the Beth Hart Band

Corey NickolsFilter​It's been 15 years since Filter scored its big hit with "Hey Man, Nice Shot," and a year and half since Richard Patrick passed that signpost of career middle age by releasing a greatest-hits compilation. He must've thought there was still some rockin' to do -- or he heard ... More >>

Zach De La Rocha's One Day as a Lion (with Members of Mars Volta, the Locust) to Play Mystery L.A. Shows

One Day as a Lion​Remember the bus bench ads that appeared two years ago to build hype for an unknown project that only wound up releasing a single EP and turned out to be the long-awaited return of former Rage Against the Machine frontman Zach De La Rocha? Yes? No? Sorta? Well, that was One ... More >>

Tonight: Andy Clockwise, Spirit Animal, Elisa Randazzo, Streetlight Manifesto

Andy Clockwise​Andy Clockwise is a former comedian from Australia who put the punchlines aside and stationed himself on these shores a couple years ago, seemingly intent on making Los Angeles his personal playground. The man born Andy Kelly has certainly become something of a local phenomenon ... More >>

This Weekend: Sharon Jones & Dap Kings, Dead Man's Bones, Warped Tour, Black Francis, Danzig

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings​Can it get any more real that Sharon Jones? Well, it can't get any more heartwarming. The leading lady of the Dap-Kings is, after all, a rising star at 54, having shucked the uniforms of her previous careers (corrections officer at Rikers Island, and armor truck g ... More >>

Live in L.A.: Make Music Pasadena (with Matt & Kim, Natalia Lafourcade, Warpaint), Opening Night at the Bowl, Freestyle Fellowship, Jamie Lidell, Erykah Badu, Billy Joe Shaver

Warpaint​Pasadena is used to its parades, but on Saturday its denizens will be traipsing around Old Town to get an earful of music rather than an eyeful of rose pedals. What's impressive about the annual Make Music Pasadena is how many constituencies the festival is serving over one day. With ... More >>

Bill Targets Spouses Who Hire Hit Men

​A bill that denies financial benefits to spouses who solicit the murder of their partners is scheduled to be heard in a state legislative committee on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press. The bill was inspired by John Pomroy, a Pomona police detective whose wife had tried to hire gang ... More >>

Live in L.A.: Karen Elson, Themselves (with Talkdemonic and Baths), the Good Life

Danny SwansonKaren Elson​If you can get past Karen Elson's flaming red hair, if you can get past her unblemished skin, if you can get past her supermodel comportment, if you can get past the fact she's Mrs. Jack White ... well, you should. The 31-year-old singer plays Southern gothic chanteuse ... More >>

Live in L.A.: LCD Soundsystem, 50 Cent, Peanut Butter Wolf, Isis, The xx, Local Natives

James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem​Hope you don't feel slighted, Los Angeles. Two weekends ago on That Other Coast, LCD Soundsystem brought the house -- or, rather, Terminal 5 -- down with an eye-popping, ear-decimating, 2 1/2-hour show that wound up with "New York I Love You" and a cover of Alic ... More >>

Live in L.A. This Weekend: Flying Lotus, Carole King & James Taylor, Bajofondo, Patti LuPone, Sonny Rollins, Metalfest, Wavefest and enough indie rock to start a blog

Flying Lotus​Avant-garde beatmaker Flying Lotus is the toast of the town right now, the release of his new album "Cosmogramma" having hit the shores of electronic music like a tsunami and folks still buzzing over his eye-popping set at Coachella. For the man born Steve Ellison, this weekend's ... More >>

Street Gang With Ties To Mexican Mafia Raided

​Federal and state authorities raided an Ontario street gang that allegedly has ties to the Mexican Mafia. Twenty-seven members of the Black Angels were arrested in the action Wednesday morning after a Los Angeles federal grand jury indicted 50 of the gang's members on suspicion of racketeerin ... More >>

J.ROCC, THE THRONES, BAND OF SKULLS, THE SLITS AND BRETT DENNEN

Also Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Espers, a Nicollete Larson Tribute, and others.

Weak Economy Kills Love Ride 26

Glendale Harley-Davidson/Buell​While you can't say that Bernie Madoff killed Love Ride 26, but the cancellation of the annual motorcycle ride benefiting the Muscular Dystrophy Association is part and parcel of a collapsing economy whose victims include once-secure charities. The L.A. Daily News re ... More >>

Last Night: Wolfmother's Cosmic Egg Gets Laid Inside Lazarium

With blatant Black Sabbath riffage and Rush-like song structures, Wolfmother were, and still are, full-on retro-metal revivalists. So why does their music somehow feel fresh? We were asking ourselves this question last night as we soaked in their new record, Cosmic Egg, in its entirety during a lis ... More >>

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

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

Stage Raw: L.A.'s own "Golden Gate" to be drug store?

The latest NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded in this week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; also, see this week's THEATER FEATURE on Kevin King's The Idea ManL.A.'S OWN "GOLDEN GATE"Left photo by  William Gabel, 1965; Right photo, 1998, by RoadsidePeek.comUpdate May 13, 2 p.m. from Anita Gutti ... More >>

Obama Visit Street Closures

Forget Congressional gridlock -- President Obama's Southland visit will bring the real thing to the streets of neighborhoods in which he's appearing. Today's alerts include:Century City-Westside: The following closures are tentatively in effect from 8-10 a.m. Motor Avenue between Monte Mar & Pic ... More >>

Mike Antonovich's Ironic Cross

Supervisor Mike Antonovich has rolled up his gray-flannelled trousers to wade deep into the culture wars. Specifically, according to the L.A. Daily News, he wants the crucifix put back in the County Seal, now that the steel cross has been restored to the roof of the San Gabriel Mission, following it ... More >>

The Town's the Thing: Theater Snobbery, From New York to L.A.

The Paradoxes of Sandeep Mukherjee

"The mass of the mountain ... entwined with the space of its valley"

Edie Sings! Sheryl Crows!

What to do in L.A., March 7-13

Metamorphoses

The Collector of Experiences

Mark Allen and his Machine Project

Class Honors

HONOR ROLL

Nitro Power

Body Invaders

Sonic booms and Comets on Fire

The Capital of Car Design

L.A. is, once again, where the action is

All Along the Watts Towers

Kids, Interrupted

Growing up the hard way

Hang On

Let’s not do away with the summer ritual of drag racing

The Passion and Power of "Sugar" Shane Mosley

Standing on the Corner

Day laborers get organized