R. Kelly

B.A.P - Club Nokia - 5-7-13

B.A.P Club Nokia 5-7-13 Better Than: Middle-school dances There's a lot to live up to when your group name is an acronym for "Best Absolute Perfect." The six-member K-pop boy band B.A.P. performed last night at Club Nokia; featured was their elaborate fictional backstory about how they hail fro ... More >>

Bizarre Ride: Jeff's Humorous Predictions and Most Anticipated Albums for 2013

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Half of January has elapsed and we've survived. There was no collapse due to fiscal cliff, Central American apocalypse or dubstep deluge. A new year unfu ... More >>

The Best Concerts To See in L.A. This Weekend: Nov 2-4

Friday, November 2 Grace Potter & the Nocturnals THE WILTERN If anyone should be a star, it's Grace Potter. Commercial enough to sing duets with Kenny Chesney, she's also freaky enough to trip out occasionally with folks like Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne and Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, who produced part ... More >>

Music Picks: R. Kelly, Leonard Cohen, Cat Power

Aziz Ansari

Top 10 Sexiest Hip-Hop Video Vixens

LMFAO 'Bikini Girl' Says She Was Fired For Being 'Big Boned' Top Ten Sexiest Album Covers We've Ever Seen Top 60 Worst Lil Wayne Lines on Tha Carter IV Top Ten Rap Albums For People Who Don't Know Shit About Hip-Hop Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List Thoughts From A Rando ... More >>

Here Are the Best Parts of R. Kelly's New Book Soulacoaster

Whether you believe he's the world's greatest living music artist or a twisted sexual deviant who eluded justice, there's much to be gleaned about R. Kelly in his new autobiography Soulacoaster: The Diary of Me. In the thick (377 pages!) tome, Kelly is incredibly candid about his tumultuous childhoo ... More >>

[Updated] Sex And The Kitchen in Development at Bravo

Update: (11:49 a.m.) It's been announced the Kat Odell, editor of Eater LA, will star in the show, and it's rumored that Brenda Urban from PR firm Wagstaff Worldwide and chef Waylynn Lucas of Fonuts will join the cast as well. More details to come as we discover them. Remember yesterday when we cel ... More >>

The Toledo Show - Harvelle's - 1/22/12

The Toledo Show Harvelle's 1/22/12 Walking into Harvelle's on a Sunday night is disorienting. The long rectangle of a lounge is lined with a row of red leather banquettes full of couples, ladies with shiny red lips and fur-collared jackets. A cocktail waitress drifts by in a black dress and possibl ... More >>

Loco Dice is The Antidote to Cheesy, David Guetta House: He DJs Tomorrow at The Music Box

Loco Dice.​We're glad trance is finally over (isn't it?), but something just as cheesy has stood up to take its place. While we won't name any names (Afrojack, Swedish House Mafia, David Guetta), they call this new sound "house." Now, if you've been alive since Clinton was president you know ... More >>

Mayer Hawthorne Is Back: Just Don't Call Him Retro

Todd Cooper​Despite the doo-wop sound of his ditties, his silky old-soul croon, and the fact that he hails from the state that birthed Motown, Mayer Hawthorne swears he's not retro. The voice of Hawthorne may be golden, but it's untrained. In fact, the man born Andrew Cohen in Ann Arbor ... More >>

Love Letter Tour: R. Kelly Live at the Nokia Theatre Saturday Night

Colin Young-WolffR. Kelly at Nokia Theatre​ [For more photos, see Colin Young-Wolff's slideshow "R. Kelly at Nokia Theatre".] Who: R. Kelly (with openers Marsha Ambrosius and Keyshia Cole) When: Saturday, June 11, 2011 Where: Nokia Theatre at LA Live Here's what we wrote for the Page Two pre ... More >>

Our Exclusive "Interview" with R. Kelly

Randee St. NicholasMr. Kelly ponders our hard-hitting questions​"Interview" by Rebecca Haithcoat and Gustavo Turner. R. Kelly is a god-level genius and he's coming to town this week. He puts on some of the most amazing performances we've seen, with a kind of old-school showbiz know-how rarely ... More >>

Page Two: R. Kelly, an Exclusive "Interview"

Top Ten Things You Need To Know About Snoop Dogg's New Album "Doggumentary"

​Just a few days after being mourner-of-honor at the funeral of former associate Nate Dogg, Snoop Dogg hogged the hip-hop limelight once again by releasing all the tracks of his much-awaited album Doggumentary two days before the official release via moribund social network oddity MySpace. 10 ... More >>

Happy Hour: There's Nothing Royal About the Prince O' Whales

dommichu/FlickrThe $6 burger, fries, and Coors lunch special.​ The Place: Prince O' Whales. 335 Culver Boulevard, Playa Del Rey; (310) 823-9826. The Hours: Fridays from 3 to 6 p.m. The Deals: $1 off all drinks

Top 20 Most Ridiculous Grammy 2010 Nominations: Still Ridiculous after All These Months

Grammys: they're nuts!​ [Originally published December 2010] It's that time of the year, the time when the imploding music industry gathers to display their astonishing cluelessness by nominating a bunch of hacks, flashes-in-the-pan, and old people that have done their best work 40 years ago ... More >>

R. Kelly Interviewed by Will Oldham/Bonnie Prince Billy (No, Really): The Highlights

​The current issue of Interview magazine--the celebrities-talking-to-other-celebrities journal invented by Andy Warhol--features an interview with Aziz Anzari-impersonator (and strangest person in the whole music industry) R. Kelly. The interviewer?: indie man of many hats Will Oldham (aka Bon ... More >>

Slow Soul: The Rise of Neoclassical Soul

Can R. Kelly’s latest be called “throwback” when all of R&B seems to be playing Back to the Future?

Top 10 Cover Songs of 2010

Top 10 Cover Songs of 2010

Top 20 Most Ridiculous Grammy 2010 Nominations

Grammys: they're nuts!​It's that time of the year, the time when the imploding music industry gathers to display their astonishing cluelessness by nominating a bunch of hacks, flashes-in-the-pan, and old people that have done their best work 40 years ago as "the best music of the year." Yup-- ... More >>

Robotic R. Kelly? Google Scribe Writes (sorta) Sexy Songs For You

Robotic R. Kelly? Google Scribe Writes (sorta) Sexy Songs For You

Listen: Rising L.A. Artist Baths Remixed by the One AM Radio, Los Feliz Ladies Choir Guests

Anticon signing Baths, with an ewok​One of our favorite up-and-coming local electronic artists has met up with one of our favorite established ones. Los Feliz's the One AM Radio, a.k.a. the Dangerbird-signed Hrishikesh Hirway, has remixed the excellent "Halls" by recent Anticon signing Baths, ... More >>

WTF: R Kelly Croons Over Baths' 'Maximalist' [MP3]

R Kelly and Baths rejoice in Laurel Canyon​It's no secret that ABX and STV SLV, together the Hood Internet, are the premier masters of the mashup. That somewhat questionable "art" seldom delivers any serious surprises, but when it does, the Chicago duo is almost invariably behind them. The H ... More >>

Gangsta Wagner: A Ring Cycle You Can Shake Your Ass To

Wagner is rolling over in his grave right now. Tomorrow night (Saturday, June 19), daKAH Hip Hop Orchestra will be performing a gangsta rap version of the 19th century German composer's "The Ring Cycle" at California Plaza. Composer-conductor Geoff Gallegos is hoping "some old, conservative white ... More >>

FREE Weezer Song to Celebrate the World Cup

​Consequence of Sound reports that Weezer has joined R. Kelly in providing a theme song for the soccer World Cup. Unlike Kells, Rivers Cuomo and his crew have not been officially assigned the task by FIFA: they're doing it on spec and they're giving it away FOR FREE. Go to the iTunes Store a ... More >>

Celebrate the FIFA World Cup with R. Kelly's Slightly Bizarre Official Theme Song

​R. Kelly is many things to many people: amazing stage performer, sexual deviant, Trapped in the Closet nutjob, Trapped in the Closet visionary genius, yodeler, RnB's MVP, etc. (Also, brilliant inspiration for Aziz Anzari's comedy routines.) The larger-than-life persona and periodic shenaniga ... More >>

Metal Monday! What If Amon Amarth, Isis, Mastodon Were to Score Wagner's Ring Cycle?

Metal Monday! Viking Metal Gods Amon Amarth to Score Wagner's Ring Cycle in L.A. (Hopefully)

The Top Secret Science Papers of YACHT's Claire Evans

The Top Secret Science Papers of Yacht's Claire Evans

Empire Burlesque

R. Kelly To Yodel (Yes, Like Jimmie Rodgers, Jewel, and the Swiss) Tonight @ the Nokia

Tonight R. Kelly will be bringing his always amazing variety show to the Nokia. If you've never seen Kells live with a packed audience of his fans, you really should. The man is a powerhouse, old-school performer and his faithful, very responsive fanbase is almost as entertaining as what's going on ... More >>

Rock Picks: Amy Millan, Dirty Projectors, Chip Taylor, LA 101

Also, Pixies, Justice, the Happy Hollows and others

5 Albums in 9 Years = VP at EMI

New EMI VP to bank on the awesome power of Rush to revitalize the music industry in the 21st century Once upon a time the people who ran record labels were quite simply music freaks. They were producers like Ahmet Ertegun at Atlantic, tastemakers like Tony Wilson at Factory, or musicians like Ian M ... More >>

R. Kelly Trial: Set It To Music, and It's Trapped in the Closet, Pt. 23

In its ongoing coverage of the R. Kelly trial currently under way in Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times has been diligently reporting the details of the proceedings. A funny thing struck us while reading the coverage (via The Daily Swarm). We think maybe the writer of this piece, Eric Herman, deliberate ... More >>

Boyz II Men: A Philadelphia Story

The only thing these guys didn't do was cater

Rock Picks: RZA, Etta James, Zola Moon, Tori Amos, The Monolators

For the week of December 14 - 20

Record Reviews: Badd Santa, Beanie Sigel, Regime Noir

Holiday music that doesn't suck, unhinged thug talk and a MySpace page

Rock Picks: Deborah Harry, Björk, Richard Hawley, Shonen Knife, Bang Sugar Bang

For the week of December 7 - 13

Rappers Who'll Make You Dial for Dollars

And post-feminist pop from one-hit wonders

Music Picks

For the week of May 4 - 11

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

The Psychic Hipster’s Pop 10 Yindies And Crunksters And Christians, O My!

Strange Memes and Nascent Trends

Husband and Husband

As real as any doggie or kitty wedding

The Dualists

R. Kelly’s R&B thuggery, Al Green’s sacred sensuality

Midnight Movies at the Planetarium

Peace operatives Super Furry Animals’ non-proliferation treatise

Bring the Sunshine

Funk Fatale

Destiny’s Child float like butterflies, sting like bees

Soul Catchers

What ever happened to R&B?