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May 3, 2012
Glasses Malone Has A New, Highly-Objectionable Song With the Chorus: "Treat It Like Rihanna"
See also: Pop Bottles: Glasses Malone's Debut Album Finally Drops A few months ago, Watts rapper Glasses Malone stopped by LA Weekly to chat about his oft-stalled debut album on Cash Money Records. When asked about the delay, his theory was, "I'm not willing to make a fool of myself to get attentio ... More >>
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April 6, 2012
The-Dream Really, Really Wants to Be Monogamous
If you were thinking of slipping backstage during The-Dream's show this Saturday night at the El Rey, you might get lucky. He's not a one-night-stand kinda man. Born Terius Nash, The-Dream really does love the ladies. The 34-year-old has been married twice, to singers Nivea and Christina Milian. H ... More >>
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February 13, 2012
Why the Grammys Stink
See also: *2012 Grammys: The Best, the Worst and the Weirdest *Deadmau5, Rihanna - House of Blues - 2/13/12 *Dan Wilson: From "Closing Time" to Adele's "Someone Like You" So, our Grammy credentials were fairly limited last night. In fact, we were trapped in a room for eight hours, with journalists ... More >>
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February 13, 2012
Deadmau5, Rihanna - House of Blues - 2/13/12
Deadmau5, Rihanna House of Blues 1-13-12 See also: *Why The Grammys Stink *2012 Grammys: The Best, the Worst and the Weirdest Better than... The Grammy telecast's attempts to showcase EDM. Skrillex may have won three Grammys, but it was Deadmau5 who ultimately impacted the celebration, its red c ... More >>
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December 2, 2011
Coffee and Coconut Water: Yum?
In interesting drink fusion news, a pair of Venice Beach roommates just launched Coco Cafe -- a coconut water-based coffee beverage. Elan Eifer and Brian McCaslin, who became roommates when they met on Craigslist, took Eifer's habit of mixing coconut water with his morning coffee to a new level and ... More >>
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October 26, 2011
Why This Song Sucks: Rihanna's "We Found Love"
[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Rihanna's "We Found Love," featuring Calvin Harris History: "We Found Love" is the first single from Rihanna's sixth album, Talk That Talk. It was bad ... More >>
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June 29, 2011
Live Review: Rihanna, J. Cole at Staples Center
Timothy Norris Rihanna WHO: Rihanna, J. Cole WHERE: Staples Center WHEN: 6/28/11 Keytars. A giant bubblegum pink cannon and plastic guns. Dancers in Kriss Krossified fireman uniforms, and Rihanna in denim panties. The only discernable themes for Rihanna's "Loud Tour" are little clothing and ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2011
Nicki Minaj Wins an Award for Twirling Her Bubblegum
OhmiGAH Barbs! Nicki Minaj just won! The Pink Barbie brought home an early award from the MTV O Music Awards. The inaugural awards, the remainder of which will be handed out in Las Vegas Thursday night, are billed as "online, open, ongoing." Categories include Fan Army FTW, Favorite F**k Ye ... More >>
Blogs
April 19, 2011
Coachella Party Report 2: After Dark Desert Debauchery at Oasis Beach Club and Neon Carnival
Lina Lecaro Sexy/shady at Oasis. Fun in the sun is one thing, but Coachella parties at night are an entirely different animal. For one, the people you will encounter are way more blitzed out of their minds (a combo of too much sun at the fest or parties all day, drinks, drugs(?) and general ... More >>
Blogs
April 7, 2011
It's About to Get Crazy Cold in L.A. -- With Snow Again Creeping on the Hollywood Sign
The TelegraphHere we go again.Just one week after the sexiest early-spring heat wave ever to hit L.A. (a record 92 degrees in March!), we're now looking at a two-day storm to rival that February 2011 killer. National Weather Service specialist Stuart Seto tells us to expect showers and thund ... More >>
Blogs
March 31, 2011
Heat Wave in Los Angeles: 5 Ways to Revel in the Two-Day Hot Flash
Halle-freaking-lujahUpdate: L.A. temps are expected to brush record highs today: Downtown, the number to beat is 90 degrees. Eat it up, after the jump! Welcome back, Los Angeles. We missed you. After as painful a winter as ever there was -- enough for Governor Jerry Brown to declare the Cal ... More >>
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March 28, 2011
Are Rihanna's Booty Shorts Photoshopped on Her "Rolling Stone" Cover?
Rihanna's Rolling Stone cover, which hits newsstands this Friday, got the internet gossiping today. No, not about the sidebar, which dubs her the "Queen of Pain," and promises dish on "sexting, bad boys, and her attraction to the dark side" (really, Rolling Stone?). Instead, the question w ... More >>
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March 23, 2011
Chris Brown's 'GMA' Rampage Gets Taiwanese Animation Treatment: It's Not Pretty
YouTubeChris Brown, hunted down?Chris Brown's rampage backstage at Good Morning America this week got the Taiwanese animation treatment, Tiger Woods-style. This one sent to us by Next Media Animation seems to display a little cultural insensitivity (but hey, they're Taiwanese), as Brown is s ... More >>
Blogs
March 22, 2011
Chris Brown Goes on Rampage Backstage at 'Good Morning America' Over Rihanna Questions
Chris Brown is breezy. Really.Chris Brown flipped out backstage at Good Morning America after he had been asked about Rihanna. You know, the 2009 Grammy Awards-weekend assault in Hancock Park that appeared to leave her pummeled. According to ABC's own account, the 22-year-old pop singer (R&B ... More >>
Music
March 3, 2011
Paz Lenchantin, Psychedelic Goddess
The Entrance Band's bassist discusses her inspirations and their Satellite residency
Blogs
January 26, 2011
Underground Rappers' "White Rage" Song Honors Gabrielle Giffords and Targets Tea Party Hate in Arizona
Sole raps takes on "White Rage" surrounded by Tea Party picketers.Former Anticon Records rapper and founder Sole has released a brand new song that takes aim at the Tea Party, Arizona immigration laws and political race-baiting in "post-Obama" America. The track, called "White Rage," is rappe ... More >>
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January 11, 2011
Top 8 Twitter Tools: Threatening Thugs, Homophobic Hip Hoppers and Musical Idiots Who Are Worse Than Courtney Love
8 Threatening Thugs, Homophobic Hip Hoppers and Twitter Idiots Worse Than Courtney Love
Blogs
December 3, 2010
Best Music of the Year Lists: Do Pitchfork, Billboard, NME, Vibe Have A Certain Gender Bias?
"Hey bro, we hear you like bros, so we put some bros in your End of the Year Best Music Lists so you can bro while you bro!"Well, 'tis the time of year for lists and charts! Several mags and blogs attempted to answer the question you've been dying to ask: Who had the best album/"new music"? ... More >>
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July 22, 2010
Watch the Crowd Go Mental As Eminem Joins Rihanna at the Staples Center Last Night
Eminem and Rihanna's duet "Love the Way You Lie" is pretty big right now, and by pretty big, we mean Number One Pop song in the nation, crushing Katy Perry's teenage dreams. Last night Rihanna played at the Staples Center and the Detroit rapper joined her for a surprise appearance. Wanna se ... More >>
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July 21, 2010
Tonight: The Dead Weather, the Gaslight Anthem, Rihanna, Keane, Gram Rabbit, Chris Shiflett & the Dead Peasants
Floria SigismondiThe Dead WeatherWhat can we say about the Dead Weather that you don't already know? That they really really could have done better on the video for "Blue Blood Blues?" That Jack White covering "Creep" with Conan O'Brien was stranger than fiction? That Alison Mosshart has a ... More >>
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March 1, 2010
Record Shopping with The Slits!
The Slits, the legendary UK punk band who created in 1979 the groundbreaking dub-fusion masterpiece Cut (which you should own, or run and get if you don't), were recently in town promoting a comeback release. The band, still led by irrepressible frontwoman Ari Up and original bassist Tessa Pollitt ( ... More >>
Music
January 7, 2010
Nightranger Looks Back at '09 Fashion and Music
The Slits, the legendary UK punk band who created in 1979 the groundbreaking dub-fusion masterpiece Cut (which you should own, or run and get if you don't), were recently in town promoting a comeback release. The band, still led by irrepressible frontwoman Ari Up and original bassist Tessa Pollitt ( ... More >>
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December 29, 2009
DJ Earworm Mashes The Hits of 2009 To Create A Sucky Masterpiece
You'll either love this track or want to kill yourself. San Francisco-based DJ Earworm just posted his annual mashup of the year's biggest hits, which means you can get all the '09 pop music you need in one five minute burst. Featuring Drake, GaGa, Black Eyed Peas, Rihanna, Beyonce, and many one-hit ... More >>
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December 21, 2009
Top Entertainment Stories of 2009 Named; Jackson, L.A. Dominate List
The death of Michael Jackson topped a list of top-ten entertainment stories for 2009, and headlines emanating from Los Angeles dominated the list. The survey of news editors was conducted by Associated Press. Its top stories: 1) The death of Michael Jackson; 2) the rise of singer Susan Boyle ... More >>
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November 7, 2009
Twitter Nation Unusually Fixated on Rihanna's Forehead
www.rihannanow.com/Advertise Your Business Here (too soon?)Ah, the Twitterati... What an interesting collection of people with varied interests. How varied, you ask? Well, today everyone's talking about one of the hottest Twitter trending topics for this week, which saw both Rihanna and Chris ... More >>
Blogs
September 8, 2009
Did LAPD Officers Sell Rihanna Abuse Photos?
The Enterprise Report claims that the Los Angeles Police Department is close to nabbing the officer or officers suspected of providing a police photo of the battered singer Rihanna to the gossip website TMZ.com.TMZAccording to the online blogsite, two officers have been "assigned to home" - in ... More >>
Blogs
April 6, 2009
Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup
Chris Brown Deal in the Works? R&B singer Chris Brown's attorney, Mark Geragos, may be close to making a plea deal with the District Attorney's office regarding the charges Brown faces in the alleged beating of singer-girlfriend Rihanna. Brown's arraignment has been scheduled for 3 p.m. Monday. ... More >>
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April 6, 2009
Chris Brown: Not Guilty, Not Guilty
R&B singer Chris Brown, 19, had his arraignment downtown today and, despite earlier talk of his lawyer, Mark Geragos, massaging a plea deal with the D.A.'s office, Brown ended up pleaded not guilty to two felony charges: assault and making a criminal threat. Brown allegedly beat his girlfriend, ... More >>
Columns
March 12, 2009
Snoop Dogg After Dark: Interview Lite
R&B singer Chris Brown, 19, had his arraignment downtown today and, despite earlier talk of his lawyer, Mark Geragos, massaging a plea deal with the D.A.'s office, Brown ended up pleaded not guilty to two felony charges: assault and making a criminal threat. Brown allegedly beat his girlfriend, ... More >>
Blogs
March 10, 2009
Chris Brown Remains Nickelodeon's Kids Choice Nominee
Chris Brown, the R&B crooner, is facing jail time if convicted of two felonies arising from the alleged February beating, in Hancock Park, of his pop-star girlfriend, Rihanna. Still, Brown, who has already lost an endorsement deal with Wrigley gum because of his troubles, got some good news tod ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2009
Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup
Candlelight for 200 Several hundred same-sex marriage supporters backing the overturn of Proposition 8 held a rainy vigil in downtown L.A. on the eve of state supreme court hearings on the measure's constitutionality. L.A. TimesD.A. to Decide on Chris Brown The District Attorney's office might decid ... More >>
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March 5, 2009
Chris Brown Charged -- Arraignment Later Today
The District Attorney filed a felony complaint against R&B star Chris Brown this morning, charging him with "willfully and unlawfully commit[ting] an assault on ROBYN F. by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury." Brown is also charged with making a criminal threat against Robyn F ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2009
Filming Snoop's Dogg After Dark: Behind the Scenes at The Kress
We members of the press are gathered on the roof of The Kress in Hollywood, four floors of elaborate clubby terrain beneath our feet, and menacing gray clouds above. It's cold and Snoop Dogg is late by almost an hour. Down on the sidewalk, the doormen are screening and waving through a slow line ... More >>
Blogs
February 20, 2009
Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup
Sheriff Lowered Bar to Raise Ranks The L.A. County Sheriff's Department loosened hiring practices in order to meet recruiting goals, charges a report by the Office of Independent Review. L.A. TimesWorkers Protest Postal Ax About four dozen union postal workers rallied outside the Industry Processing ... More >>
Blogs
February 20, 2009
Cops Probe Rihanna Photo Leak to TMZ
It was an image that immediately shocked the reader of TMZ.com and other Web sites: The beautiful, chiseled features of pop singer Rihanna had been replaced by a bruised and swollen mask, the result of a beating allegedly administered by Rihanna's boyfriend, R&B crooner Chris Brown. Even m ... More >>
Music
February 12, 2009
Grammy Week: Magical Music Moments All Over Town
It was an image that immediately shocked the reader of TMZ.com and other Web sites: The beautiful, chiseled features of pop singer Rihanna had been replaced by a bruised and swollen mask, the result of a beating allegedly administered by Rihanna's boyfriend, R&B crooner Chris Brown. Even m ... More >>
Music
February 12, 2009
Katy Perry Unpeeled — and Other Signs of Life in the Dead of the Grammys PressRoom
Including the buzz over Rihanna and Chris Brown, and revelations from Natalie Cole on heroin addiction
Blogs
February 9, 2009
Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup
Charter School Teachers Talk Union The L.A. Times reports that nearly 80 percent of teachers from a respected Los Angeles charter school have signed cards requesting union membership. Teachers at the Accelerated School say in the story that the school's administrative decisions have become "opaque a ... More >>
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February 9, 2009
Chris Brown & Rihanna: A Bruising Story
L.A. Observed carries a roundup of dish from TMZ and RadarOnline on the beating R&B singer Chris Brown allegedly gave chanteuse girlfriend Rihanna in Hancock Park this past Saturday evening. The word is that Rihanna was treated and released at Cedars Sinai.Backseat driver: Chris Brown in attorne ... More >>
Blogs
December 24, 2008
2008's Top Ten Pop Songs
By Annie Zaleski Pop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The ... More >>
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December 17, 2008
Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers
You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were dem ... More >>
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December 1, 2008
The Tao of Jim Jones' "Pop Champagne" Ft. Special Guest Ignorance from Juelz Santana & Ron Browz
Thanks to O-Dub for putting me onto this gleeful bit of idiocy. If one cannot convince Rihanna to leave her Caribbean Chris Brown love nest to writhe in your video, one must do the next best thing: get her low-budget, Kool-Aid haired, tatted up, Trinidad & Tobagian equivalent. If ... More >>
Blogs
November 24, 2008
American Music Awards Fashion Mini-Notes
Just a couple of things that came to mind while alternately watching the 2008 American Music Awards and doing laundry last night. 1. Queen Latifah in Skinny JeansHere is proof that big women CAN wear skinny jeans and look hot, hot, hot. What makes it work are (1) the long sleek hair with a bit of ... More >>
Blogs
September 12, 2008
WORN OUT: Bound Babes at the VMAs and Beyond
Fetishistic frocks may have abounded at MTV’s VMAs (Christina Aguilera, Rihanna, Pink), but whip cracking wearables aren’t just for the stage. We've been seeing the look everywhere lately. We’re not even talking about all the gothic clubs, where black everything, corsetry, leather and vinyl ... More >>
Music
April 17, 2008
Rock Picks: Lucinda Williams, Fuck Buttons, The Sword
Also, Kanye West, The Black Heart Procession and more
Music
February 14, 2008
Grammy Kisses
Pre-awards parties; star spotting; survival of the hippest
Blogs
February 11, 2008
Ill-Thought Out Observations From This Year's Grammy's
Because Live Blogging is so gauche. Occasionally the Grammy Committee's old fogey sensibility yields huge dividends. See the inclusion of Morris Day and the motherfucking Time. As far as I know, only two people have paid much attention to Morris Day and the Time post "Jerk Out:" the illustrious ... More >>
Music
August 30, 2007
Summer Lovin', Happened So Fast
Because Live Blogging is so gauche. Occasionally the Grammy Committee's old fogey sensibility yields huge dividends. See the inclusion of Morris Day and the motherfucking Time. As far as I know, only two people have paid much attention to Morris Day and the Time post "Jerk Out:" the illustrious ... More >>
Music
January 11, 2007
How Shit Be
Freestyle riffs & ruminations on black music and pop culture at the dawn of 2007
Music
September 1, 2005
Foghat Does Quaaludes, Wille Does Reggae
Freestyle riffs & ruminations on black music and pop culture at the dawn of 2007
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