Red Hot Chili Peppers

A Sperm Mug, a Giant Tube Sculpture and More at Night Gallery

See also: *Night Gallery Opens a New Space Downtown *This Art Event Included Pornographic Balloons, Half-Naked Bartenders and a Bouncy Castle *10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying As far as alternative art spaces go, Night Gallery pretty much could sit right next to the word in a dictionary. Th ... More >>

Hot Tub with Kurt & Kristen Makes Its L.A. Debut, After Becoming a Hit Stand-up Show in Brooklyn

A standing crowd of 200 welcomed L.A.'s newest alternative-comedy offering, lauded New York City transplant Hot Tub with Kurt & Kristen, to The Virgil cocktail bar Monday night. Nattily-dressed titular duo Kurt Braunohler (IFC's Bunk, Chelsea Lately) and Kristen Schaal (30 Rock, Flight of the Conc ... More >>

Our Ten Most Anticipated Indie Albums For 2013

With the anticipated return of big-name indie bands like Phoenix, Arcade Fire and Vampire Weekend this year, 2013 is shaping up to be big. But aside from the usual suspects, there are also some newcomers and reunited acts expected to make noise this year. Here are some albums we speculate may end up ... More >>

Happy Repeal Day: Drink Up at the Longest Continuously Running Bar in L.A.

Farewell to the 18th Amendment. Seventy-nine years ago today, on Dec. 5, booze in the United States flowed freely again. Celebrate the repeal of Prohibition at the longest continuously running bar in Los Angeles. "We never technically closed during Prohibition," General Manager and Beverage Director ... More >>

The Man Behind Amon Tobin's Jaw-Dropping Live Show

When experimental electronic producer Amon Tobin takes the stage at the Greek Theatre tomorrow, his audience will barely be able to see him. He'll be ensconced inside a massive, 2.5-ton structure made up of white, interlocking cubes, stacked Tetris-like atop one another. A sci-fi kaleidoscope of 3 ... More >>

Four Reasons Lollapalooza Needs EDM

By Ian Traas See Also:EDC 2012: The Underground Has Left The Building Dave Grohl: His Grammys Speech About Electronic Music Was Bullshit [Slideshow] Lollapalooza 2012: The PeopleJustice at Lollapalooza, 8/5/12Ten things your Lollapalooza outfit says about youWith every year that passes, it feels li ... More >>

Lollapalooza Suspended, Resumed After Dangerous Weather Conditions

BY ERIK THOMPSON The 2012 installment of Lollapalooza has thus far brought the requisite extremes, in terms of performances and potent weather. A two-hour delay cut through the middle of Saturday's entertainment at Chicago's Grant Park, and a good many people were wishing they had just the record h ... More >>

Pilar Díaz: Let There Be Latin Rock

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. As a teenager, Pilar Díaz spent Friday nights at Tower Records in Hollywood with her dad. It was something of a coping mechanism; her mother and sister were killed in a car ac ... More >>

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #15-11

​See also: Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #20-16 15. Pretty Ricky Emerging with their mid-aughts hit "Grind With Me," Pretty Ricky somehow managed to lower the bar when it came to heartthrob groups with baby-oil-smeared chests. It's excellent that they've got great abs, and they certainly ha ... More >>

Susan Mogul Spoofs Jason Schwartzman and Anthony Kiedis in her own Pacific Standard Time Campaign

Courtesy of the artistSusan Mogul's Mogul Celebrates Mogul poster hanging alongside the official PST ads in Echo Park​ Anthony Kiedis and Ed Ruscha both like words. The Red Hot Chili Peppers' front man and now-iconic L.A. artist drive around L.A. discussing this shared affinity in a promo vid ... More >>

Pacific Standard Time: Frequently Asked Questions From Irritable Skeptics

This thing Pacific Standard Time, which starts on Saturday, can be quite overwhelming, no doubt causing many people not in the know to tune out, question the whole thing or stomp off in anger. Therefore, to help stave off confusion, annoyance and bloodlust, we have created a list of PST-related fr ... More >>

Five Reasons L.A. Rising is the Perfect Festival for Los Angeles

That's the spirit​You're dripping sweat, searching for shade, drinking just one more and praying you don't end up in the hospital for dehydration. Ahhh, summer festivals. The L.A. area's not lacking in the kind of fun you can only have when a massive crowd is unleashed into a contained-yet-o ... More >>

"When you're in that state of mind, you'll put your pee-pee in anything": GnR's Steven Adler Talks about His New Autobiography, Overcoming Addiction, Slash's Text Message Obsession, and His Unconditional Love for his "Ginger" Buddy Axl Rose (and Stryper!)

"Axl is a ginger, so he doesn't tan very well": Steven Adler, unmuzzled​No man's danced with "Mr. Brownstone" and dodged death as many times as original Guns n' Roses drummer Steven Adler, one of the architects of the greatest '80s hard rock album. After surviving "twenty-eight ODs, three bot ... More >>

Over the Weekend: LCD Soundsystem at the Palladium

Live Review: LCD Soundsystem at the Palladium

Residents Artist in Residence

Gary Panter Can't Stay Away from L.A.

Chicks, Dicks and Kicks

After 17 years, Dragstrip 66 ends its reign over L.A.’s club queendom

Interview: 2020Soundsystem's Ralph Lawson "Ready To Rock Huge Gigs"

Ralph Lawson is a British mainstay in the DJ world, a spinner known for his refined house music that contains a touch of electronic progressivism. In the mid-1990s he held down the Back To Basics club night in Leeds that helped inspire his 2020Vision record label and put him on the international spi ... More >>

Brendan Mullen, RIP

Club owner, booker, DJ, author was 60

Sisters With Voices: The L.A. Ladies Choir

“I walked in and all these wonderful women were singing, and I just went, ‘Whew, I’m at home.’”

Over the Weekend: Oprah/KFC Backlash, Lebowski Fest, Video Game Girls Burlesque, Anthony Kiedis Gets Iggy Pop's Sweat in His Eye

Mother's Day may already be a Hallmark holiday but that didn't stop Oprah, KFC and El Pollo Loco from turning it into a full-blown, corporate flame (grilled chicken) war over the weekend. Is nothing sacred? As Gendy Alimurung reported on Saturday, "The latest installment in our continuing coverage o ... More >>

Live in L.A.: Anthony Kiedis Gets Iggy Pop's Sweat in His Eye, Receives Stevie Ray Vaughn Award

View more photos in the "MusiCares: Anthony Kiedis, Iggy Pop, Ronnie Wood, Steve Jones @ Club Nokia" slideshow. Colin Young-WolffAnthony Kiedis at the fifth annual MusiCares MAP Fund Benefit"I'm not crying, that's just Iggy Pop's sweat in my eye," joked Anthony Kiedis at the MusiCares fifth annual ... More >>

Google's New Killer App? Why Are Music Bloggers' Posts Disappearing, and Who Is Deleting Them?

Burning Question at VH1 Classic Rock Autism Celeb Bowl-Off: Big Lebowski or Kingpin?

Steel Panther destroying the red carpet. All photos by Shannon Cottrell. I usually resist working red carpets but on November 13th I braved the corridor of flashing bulbs, pancake makeup and pouty lips for a great cause -- the VH1 Classic Rock Autism Celebrity Bowl-Off, hosted by actress Holly Rob ... More >>

Bonnie "Prince" Billy Invites You to Lie Down in the Light

In the flaccid world of indie rock, Will Oldham stands fully erect

Will the Next President Try to Out-green California?

A solar White House

Bruce Weber Gets Lost Again With Chet Baker

A trumpet legend's funny valentine

The whole shootin' match

So, I need to tell you about the show of the festival. My mind is blown, dude! I'm sitting in this bar, reading my Archies comics, because I am desperate for anything to keep me awake through a set by Aqualung. (Aqualung are one of these tragically earnest Nic Harcourt bands. They are attempting ... More >>

Grammy Shmammy

The Gospel According to Cee-Lo

The poet of Gnarls Barkley reveals the broken-but-beating heart of an unlikely hit

Weird Scenes Inside the Silver Mine

From old-school heads to prepubescent punks, Silver Lake is where L.A.’s indie rock heart still beats

If God's Good Word Goes Unspoken

Feeling Sublime, 10 years after

Smog Pop

The musical life of air pollution

Workingman’s Metal

Shake It Like a Camera-Phone Picture

Johnny Ramone's Deathwatch Postponed

Strut That Art

All Tomorrow’s Parties Today

Matt Groening talks outsider music and party planning with a fellow gearhead

The Big Bang

Primal Screen (Print)

Secrets of the Sun

The Mars Volta in space and time

Still Rockin’ in the Almost Free World

Legends: Man vs. Cat

Puzzlers

The Jigsaw Seen’s psych-pop succeeds slowly

Signs of 'Arrival'

HollyWebland

Dot-coms struggle to create new entertainment form

Welcome to the Nuttwerx

Around the bend and back again with Fishbone

Do U Know Us?

Armand Van Helden, Mos Def: A masculine equation

Chillin' With Uncle Sam

Feds to teens: Just say no, dude

Wavemakers

At work and play in musical L.A.

Demolisten Derby