R.E.M.

Gibson Amphitheatre To Shut Down

Gibson Amphitheatre, the mainstay mid-size concert venue at Universal City, will close its doors in September, according to its operator Live Nation Entertainment. As announced in December 2011, the 6,200-capacity amphitheatre is expected to be demolished to make way for The Wizarding World of Har ... More >>

Art & Music -- Together at Last!

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Original Songs Vs. Their Covers

KCRW Broadcast #169 for Saturday, June 16, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Joey Ramone's Legacy Is in Danger Fanatics! Take cover! If you check out our show for tonight, you will note we have a bit of a concept happening here. I have broken the two hours below, so you can quickly see wha ... More >>

The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List

*Top 20 Worst Bands Ever: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All-Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List Considering that most all of today's popular music -- be it roc ... More >>

The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time: 10-6

See also: *The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: 20-16 *The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: 15-11 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time 10. Eric Clapton Eric Clapton makes Jack White look like Son House. Dude tries so hard it's embarrassing. Kind of weird, considering his pithy quip to a Lond ... More >>

Who Is Superior, R.E.M. or Soul Asylum?

[Editor's note: Deathmatch pairs two artists who have something in common, and determines who is better. It's a concept we sort-of ripped off from MTV, except that instead of claymation it's the printed word!] See also: *The Talking Heads Were Way More Innovative Than The Ramones *Stravinsky vs. ... More >>

Paul Stanley, Lita Ford, Kip Winger -- Playboy Mansion -- 11/12/11

Eric Charbonneau, Le StudioPaul Stanley and friends​See also: Paul Stanley Analyzes KISS's Success: "I don't want to buy a t-shirt with a guy on it who looks like my neighbor." If you're like most folks, your rock star fantasies require nothing more than a pair of tight jeans, an air guitar, ... More >>

The National, Neko Case & Sharon Van Etten - Hollywood Bowl - September 11, 2011

Timothy Norris​The National, Neko Case and Sharon Van Etten Hollywood Bowl September 11, 2011 See also: The National's Matt Berninger On Shutting Down Honolulu's Airport and Finally Ending Their Tour Better Than: Listening to these bands perform on "Morning Becomes Eclectic." It was only t ... More >>

The Decemberists and Wye Oak - The Greek - 08/12/2011

Timothy Norris​What: The Decemberists With Wye Oak Where: The Greek When: 08/12/2011 If there's one god awful concert tradition that needs to die of a combination of ebola AND bird flu, it's the ridiculous ritual in which the band prematurely ends an excellent set, dishonestly says 'goodnigh ... More >>

Five Things You Didn't Know About the B-52s

​ When most people think about early punk bands, they do not think of the B-52s. But before the band made such floor-fillers as Love Shack" and "Roam," and before Kate Pierson joined REM to sing about "Shiny Happy People," the B-52s were playing at CBGBs and churning out garagey tunes such as ... More >>

Top 10 Songs For the Apocalypse (Bird Death? Crabicide? Snooki's Book? Signs of the Endtimes!)

TK 10 Songs For the Apocalypse

20 Musicians We Will Miss: 2010, the Year in R.I.P.

20 Musicians We Will Miss R.I.P.

R.E.M and Eddie Vedder Team Up for New Song (Listen)

​This would have made people run to Tower Records circa 1993 (we miss Tower Records...), but thanks to the Internet (because we live in the future) you can stream the brand-new R.E.M.-Eddie Vedder collaboration right in the comfort of your own gadget. Listen:

Watch: Actress Rain Phoenix Returns to Music with Papercranes' New Video, 'Synapses'

Rain Phoenix makes pretty pop as Papercranes on L.A.'s Manimal Vinyl.​In a brand new video directed by Antoine Wagner (Phoenix's "Lisztomania"), we get a first glimpse at the new record from Rain Phoenix's Papercranes project, via the song "Synapses." The older sister of Joaquin takes a much ... More >>

Tonight: Guided by Voices, Tired Pony, First Aid Kit, Twin Shadow, Radars to the Sky, Evan Voytas, Wet & Reckless

Guided by Voices​You could almost feel the pop geeks pinching themselves when Dayton, Ohio's favorite former fourth-grade schoolteacher Robert Pollard announced earlier this year that Guided by Voices would reunite to play the Matador at 21 festivities, and then do a reunion tour too. The tou ... More >>

Who Cares About Bieber, Gaga, or the VMA's? You Do! Winner Recaps Past and Present

Who Really Cares About Bieber, Gaga, or the VMA's? You Do! Winner Recaps Past and Present

Story Behind the Song: Exclusive Chat with Echo Park's Wait. Think. Fast. About 'Jornaleras' Free Download

Story Behind the Song: Exclusive Chat with Echo Park's Wait. Think. Fast. About 'Jornaleros' Free Download

VINYL FETISH

New No Age Video for 'Losing Feeling': Mouse Conjures Band with Magic Potion

The new No Age video premiered on Pitchfork.tv this morning. You can watch it here because they're not making it embeddable. If you don't feel like working the click muscle, the video involves a mouse, an apartment, a bottle of potion, a pile of clothes, and a conjuring of No Age (with mouse tails). ... More >>

Gitmo Torture Music: Songs That Will Break You

Music by Pearl Jam, NIN, R.E.M. used at Gitmo, musicians protest.

This Weekend in Los Angeles Music: So Many Dynamos, Sleepy Brown, Amadou & Miriam, Cage

This weekend in LA: music. FRIDAY Three Mile Pilot was one of the oddest avant-punk bands of the 1990s, a San Diego outift whose members went on to gig with Pinback and the Black Heart Procession. They've reunited, and are performing at the Echoplex with Optigonally Yours, which features Rob Cr ... More >>

Screw Metallica: Southern Lord Showcase Kills at SXSW

Randall RobertsPelican rips it at the Southern Lord Records showcase I'm sure Metallica was great. They were good when I saw them at the LA Forum a few months back, where the dudes in the pit were in their typical testostero-frenzied state. And the indulgent 45-minute soundcheck that preceded their ... More >>

SXSW '09, Day 1: On Max Tundra, Mojoe, and Mediocrity

I have this theory: like most things, greatness at music generally* requires an alloy of natural talent, providence, and an Outliers-like tenacity requiring 10 years hard labor in dingy crackerbox clubs, or snagging a Best New Music on Pitchfork--whichever comes first. The corollary being that for ... More >>

Bob Mould Gets Intimate at the Hotel Cafe Tonight

First, there was Hüsker Dü, one of the most important post-punk bands of the '80s, and partially responsible for R.E.M., Nirvana, and the Pixies (pictured above performing tracks from Zen Arcade). Then there was Sugar, the Bob Mould-fronted trio which, in the early '90s, saved distorted guitars ... More >>

Houston Press' Top 10 Reissues of 2008

By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionall ... More >>

Part Time Punks Festival: A Certain Ratio, Pylon, Love is All, Daytime Television Tear a Hole in History

A Certain Ratio's Jeremy Kerr: still dark and menacing Old men acting weird. That’s one way to look at it, and if I were one of the four pre-teen boys in the band Daytime Television, whose versions of the Buzzcocks’ “Everybody’s Happy Nowadays,” "Part Time Punks" and “Teenage Kicks” ... More >>

Rock Picks: Sunset Junction Street Festival, El Vez, Café Tacuba

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Beyond Bubbly

The Style Council�s New Year�s Eve party mixes

Bubblegum Hip-hop and a Band With three Test Icicles

Live in LA

Into the Deep

The Contemporaries

Audio Visual

The Well Isn�t Dry

A luv-fest with REM

Turn On, Meet God, Get Straight

An African root bark may offer clues to addiction � if only it were legal to study

Don't Let Your Meat Loaf

Edited by Kateri Butler

Beautiful Things and a Little Pain

Remy Zero, realized

While You Were Sleeping

Mapping the dreamscape of dream research

Midnight Sun

Pearl Jam�s book of changes

Stop To Eat the Daisies

Waxing Nostalgic

Give Me Shake!

Synth-pop in Nagoya

The Low L.A. Dee Da Life

A kaleidoscopic history of the L.A. scene based on our readers� votes for the Top 20 clubs (listed in vaguely chronological order), from 1978 to 1998

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