Riff Raff (Rapper)

The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Weekend

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Friday, September 13 Monophonics THE MINT Monophonics are like a whole section of the record store come to life -- especially that wall above the register where they keep the serious stuff. The Bay Area band do acrobatic son ... More >>

Music Picks: Mad Decent Block Party, Weeknd, Cold War Kids

Major Lazer's Walshy Fire Breaks Down Twerking

Mad Decent's block party hits our town today at L.A. Center Studios. The event features Riff Raff, Matt & Kim, Sasha Go Hard and headliners Major Lazer. You know what a Major Lazer party is like, right? Women rush the stage, express themselves. There is a lot of bass, and also confetti, vuvuzelas, ... More >>

What Artistic Movements Do These Rappers Exemplify?

By Noah Hubbell Stylistically, rap has exploded, and the pieces have fall everywhere from the mind-bogglingly complex to the unbelievably simple, from the brazenly dissident to the unapologetically mainstream. Rappers' influences seem to come from everywhere, but the differences between, say, Aes ... More >>

Jubilee - Arts District - June 7 and 8, 2013

Jubilee Music and Arts Festival Arts District 6/7/13 & 6/8/13 This year the Jubilee festival departed Silver Lake and set up camp under the 6th Street bridge in the arts district. The new digs gave welcome respite from the previous bottleneck at Sunset Junction and offered beautiful views of Downt ... More >>

Jubilee Festival Full Lineup Announced

The Jubilee Music and Arts Festival -- formerly known as Silver Lake Jubilee -- is back this year on June 7 and 8, to be held in the downtown arts district. There will be beer, there will be spirits, there will be comedy, and there will be poetry, whatever that is. Oh, and music, the lineup for wh ... More >>

V-Nasty's Alleged Ex Fires Back With Song Referencing OJ Simpson

Last fall we spoke to Brooklyn rapper Magneto Dayo, who has collaborated with V-Nasty, the controversial MC who used to be aligned with Kreayshawn in her White Girl Mob crew. See also: V-Nasty, Having Split With Kreayshawn, Talks About Her "$750,000" Deal Dayo said that he and V-Nasty had been in ... More >>

Lil B Is the Most Important Rapper of the Decade So Far

Lil B, the heavily tattooed Berkeley, California rapper with a gleaming grill and oversized earrings, entered the hip-hop game in 2006 as part of Bay Area rap group The Pack. Over the last three years he's garnered a tremendous Internet following, popularizing the words "swag" and "based," the lat ... More >>

Los Angeles Musicians Dominate Pazz and Jop

Pazz and Jop is here! The Village Voice's annual, venerated, logistically-nightmarish critics' poll has arrived, and there are shit tons of L.A. musicians who placed highly. Frank Ocean won the album poll, which was no big surprise; be sure to peep Eric Sunderman's quite-touching piece about him. ... More >>

Action Bronson: I Can't See Myself Wearing a Skirt or a Wig

One of hip-hop's do-no-wrong stories of 2012, Albanian Queens-native Action Bronson put out Blue Chips for free and followed it up with Rare Chandeliers last year. He signed to Vice Records and made countless critics' year-end lists flowing unpretentiously on typical rap fare (girls, chronic, hooker ... More >>

Which White Entertainers Have a "Hood Pass" to Say the N-Word?

The late aughts saw a debate in the hip-hop community about the use of the n-word, sparked in part by Nas' plan to name his 2008 album Nigger (he ended up calling it Untitled), as well as Russell Simmons' call for industry self-censorship of the word. In 2007 the city of Detroit even hosted a "symbo ... More >>

Why This Songs Sucks: The Worst Rap Tracks of 2012

Welcome to another installment of the worst rap songs of the year, brought to you by Why This Song Sucks. See also: Why This Song Sucks: The Worst Rap Tracks of 2011 They are all here this year: The all-the-way aged king, the suddenly mortal demigod, the former darling, the current darling, the m ... More >>

LA Weekly Web Awards 2012: The Winners!

So the center of the tech universe is still in Northern California. Big deal. Facebook's in freefall; the iPhone 5 is a snooze. Yes, innovation continues to matter, but these days, it's less about the platform and more about the content. On that front, L.A. is king. The top YouTube stars live here. ... More >>

James Franco Vanessa Hudgens Ashley Benson vs. Asia Argento Charlotte Gainsbourg François Cluzet : Threesomes at the Toronto Film Festival

This is a blog post about two movies that were screened for the press within the first 24 hours of the Toronto Film Festival, both of which feature three-way sex scenes. In Spring Breakers, characters played by James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Benson "do it" in a swimming pool; in Do Not Dis ... More >>

Mad Decent Block Party - Center Studios - August 25, 2012

Mad Decent Block Party Block Party Center Studios August 25, 2012 See also: *Popping That Ass: The Ladies Who Won Diplo's Contest *Is Riff Raff Serious? One thing's for certain: This maddeningly inscrutable white rapper is more entertaining than you are On Saturday the fifth annual Mad Decent Blo ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, August 24 Friends of Friends THE ECHOPLEX L.A. lad Shlohmo brings sample-based, song-oriented R&B turntablism to his recent Bad Vibes full-length, sautéeing lo-fi, hip-hop, dubstep and beautifully odd sound design. As for Salva, he's been known to jack bassy, jungly warehouse and ethereal ... More >>

Music Picks: Diana Krall, Concrete Blonde, Herbie Hancock

Also Echo Rising, Shlohmo, Divine Fits and others

Adam Weiss Is Decidedly Caucasian. He Also Throws Some of the Grimiest Parties in L.A.

Somewhere right now, Adam Weiss probably is spazzing out and shouting the word "swag" over sleazy rap songs with hooks that have to do with eating pussy. The 31-year-old party promoter, who lives in Echo Park, is perhaps best known for his outfits: tie-dyed T-shirts, DayGlo windbreaker jackets, a r ... More >>

Riff Raff FTW: His Best Tweets From a Turbulent Time

See also: Is Riff Raff Serious? One thing's for certain: This maddeningly inscrutable white rapper is more entertaining than you are Riff Riff, the L.A.-and-outerspace-based rapper and avid BET, MTV, NBA and World Star Hip Hop enthusiast (he's tattooed each brand's logo on his body in a dogged purs ... More >>

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

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