Prince (Musician)

Music Picks: FIDLAR, Muse and Lady Gaga

Miguel Finds His Place

A rare R&B bird, he falls in somewhere between the hipsters and the mainstream

KDAY, the Gangsta Rap Oldies Station, Breaks New Ground by Playing Music From the Bad Old Days

Deschutes Brewery's L.A. Base Camp Week: Chainbreaker White IPA, The Abyss "Beer-lesque"

Meet Woody. He's a giant towable beer barrel-keg that doubles as an operable bar and comes complete with disco ball, sound system and his own Twitter account. Though the party-on-wheels might be a cutesy promo gimmick for Bend, Oregon's Deschutes Brewery (or the grown-up version of the Oscar Mayer W ... More >>

George Duke Is 
A Lot Older Than You. 
And A Lot More Hip

Nanette Gonzales​[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Q: What's cooler than being cool? A: George Duke. All apologies to Andre 3000, Antarctica and Wilt the Stilt circa 1971. But jazz ... More >>

Music Picks: Barry Adamson, Joanna Malfatti Trio, Clare Fischer Big Band

Also, Eleni Mandell, Steve Reich, Call Us Forgotten and others

Music Picks: M83, Club Cheval, Chuck Inglish, Meshell Ndegeocello

Also, Elvis Birthday Bash, Barbara Morrison, Phonte and 9th Wonder, and others

Meet The Guy Who DJs for Obama

​The Secret Service was busy digging through the background of Adam Bravin, aka DJ Adam 12, when the two of us spoke yesterday. The reason? The spinner behind popular old school hip-hop party AFEX -- which debuts at Los Globos on Thursday night -- will perform at an Obama fundraiser at House o ... More >>

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

The Lonely War

The California accountant who tried to overthrow a foreign despot

Music Picks: SWANS, Sebadoh, Arbouretum, Cass McCombs

Also Meshell Ndegeocello, Kaki King, Local Natives and others

Death, Money and Megaraves

Why Los Angeles politicians embrace a growing Ecstasy phenom that kills

Music Picks: Ornette Coleman, Gary Numan, Natacha Atlas

Also, Marnie Stern, Kristian Hoffman, Elton John & Leon Russell

Stage Raw: City Garage Bids Adieu to Fourth Street

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS Cover Story on LATE's The War Cycle2011 MARK TAPER FORUM SEASON ANNOUNCED ​John Lithgow Photo by Nigel Perry John Lithgow will ring in the New Year spinning yarns in Stories By Heart, previously produced at the Lincoln Center and at the National ... More >>

Stage Raw: How Do Actors Do It?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on My Penis, In and Out of TroubleHOW DO ACTORS DO IT? As told by Alan Mandell, who was among a dozen or so actors auditioning for the movie This Must Be the Place, starring Sean Penn. The role was for a man 94-years old. Mandell, being ... More >>

Stage Raw: James Gammon Memorial

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Opus, at the Fountain Theatre MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR JAMES GAMMON: Sunday, August 22, 2 p.m. at the MET Theatre, 1089 N. Oxford Avenue in Hollywood. RSVP here Check back Monday night for reviews of: BOY'S LIFE, Howard Korder's 1988 ba ... More >>

Music Picks: Circa Survive, Joanna Newsom, El-P, Roots Roadhouse

Also, Scorpions, Viza, the Park and others

Music Picks: Neil Innes, Korean Music Festival 8, Avi Buffalo, Lupe Fiasco, Coheed and Cambria

Also, No Age, Sheila E & the Escovedo Family, Greg Laswell and others

Rock Picks: Quantic and his Combo Bárbaro, Elvis Costello, Rock & Roll Summer Circus

Also, Flaming Lips, Clipse, Silk Flowers, the Muffs and others

Michael Jackson: 1958-2009

GO LA: Lebowski, Tom Arnold and Other Big Events

What to do in L.A., May 8-14

LA People 2009: The Re-Percussionist — Sexual Chocolate

The Crystal Antlers' drummer and wingman might be known to his mother by his birth name, but everyone else calls him Sexual Chocolate

Stage Raw: Before Kirk Douglas Forgets

PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH AT THE EL REY; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES. BEFORE I FORGETKirk Douglas in Before I Forget. Photo by Craig Schwartz The gift in Kirk Douglas' one-man show, Before I Forget,  that opened over the weekend in the theater name ... More >>

Live in L.A.: Nine Inch Nails, the Forum, September 6

By Siran Babayan Somebody owes Mr. Self Destruct a great big apology. You know him, Trent Reznor, he who hates everyone. Radio hasn’t given Nine Inch Nails the airplay it used to. And at the risk of setting off torch-wielding fans, NIN’s last two albums, 2007’s Year Zero and this year’s The ... More >>

Troubadour Theater Company Spins Shakespeare Like a Copper Penny

Political clowning, from Bono to Barack

Morello Jam, Smokin' Date, No A-ttitude

Bookworm in a Tequila Bottle: 2007's Most Intriguing Music Books

Oh, those bed-wetting, penis-injecting, 43-person gangbang days of yore

The Black Rock Diaries

Reports from Burning Man

Nothing's Shocking

Timbaland’s solo LP has high highs (cowbell disco!) — and low lows (She Wants Revenge!)

The Bird and the Bee

Local bands, man

Kansas Shitty Woman

A very odd evening of jazz with Mr. James Brown

Celebrated

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE at House of Blues, August 11

Venue Directory

Rock Out. Get Sprung. Reconsider K-Fed.Say Goodbye to Love Monkey.

September Girls

The Like’s debut LP delivers hazy, wistful intoxication

Sister Gurls

Tegan and Sara make the world a more kick-ass place

Fur-ious Four

at Zen, January 23

Woman vs. Machine

As persona overtakes person, Love, Angel, Music, Baby shows Gwen Stefani still drives her own ambition

The Contemporaries

Black Out the Windows

Smoke-filled Churches

Vintage Valiance

Who put the funk in the hip-hop boom?

Prince of Darkness

Filmmaker John Carpenter

Balls of the Belle

bLAnd LAnd

Sitegeist’s semiannual scene column (with special guest editor Rita Elkbrute)

If You See Kay

Paul ‘n’ Princess: Very stimulating!

Time After Time

Dance clubs L.A.: In one era and out another

Unforgettable

The Venice High School Prom

Resurfacing

How to avoid looking like yourself