Rod Stewart

Alana Stewart Chats About Her New Memoir and Her Marriages to Rod Stewart and George Hamilton

Alana Stewart has been an international model, actress and talk-show host. She added filmmaker (Farrah's Story) and bestselling author (My Journey With Farrah) to her résumé when she set out to document best friend Farrah Fawcett's battle with cancer, which Fawcett eventually lost.Stewart's life s ... More >>

Jack White - Mayan Theater - April 30, 2012

Jack White Mayan Theater 4-30-12 Better than...sex. What do you call it when Axl Rose, Rod Stewart, Gary Oldman and Conan O'Brien converge in downtown Los Angeles on a Monday night? A Jack White show. From the minute he and his all-female backing band The Peacocks hit the stage at 10 last night ... More >>

Do You Deeply Regret Your Rod Stewart Obsession? Comedy Show For Shame! Will Heal You

Back in November, Jazz Ponce, longtime booker of Hollywood Studio Bar & Grill's Monday-night comedy staple What's Up, Tiger Lily?, began branching out beyond mere stand-up for an interactive, bonding, Mystery Science Theater 3000-style endeavor called For Shame!. Thus far the likes of T.J. Miller, C ... More >>

Rock 'n' Roll Tailor Glen Palmer On The Time Gregg Allman Passed Out In His Store

Jennie Warren​By Justin Bolois See also: Glen Palmer Makes Clothes for Rock Gods: Living on Tom Petty's Malibu Estate, He's Tailored Duds for Everyone From Bob Dylan to Fleetwood Mac In this week's music feature, we profile rock n' roll tailor Glen Palmer and his helter-skelter journey desig ... More >>

Etta James Is Dead

See also: R&B Legend Etta James Has Dementia, Reveals Sordid Riverside County Money Lawsuit Etta James passed away today at the age of 73 at Riverside Community Hospital in Riverside. James, born Jamesetta Hawkins, suffered a number of health problems at the time of her death, including leukemia an ... More >>

Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Is Exile The Best Stones' Album? Nope, It's Some Girls

​[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] Today marks the re-release of the Rolling Stones' 1978 album Some Girls, which has been remastered and expanded. T ... More >>

Cat Cora's Favorite Tunes

Iron Chef Cat Cora joins the ranks of Kerry Simon, Rick Bayless and Adam Richman to reveal some of her favorite tunes for KCRW's Guest DJ Project. The Mississippi-born Cora segues from country to classic soul but says all her song picks represent major milestones in her life, most notably her wedd ... More >>

Chef Q & A, Part 2: Paul Hibler & David Sanfield of Pitfire Pizza, the Velvet Underground and Reclaimed Wood

A. FrougPitfire Artisan Pizza owners David Sanfield and Paul Hibler at their Culver City location​ "Radiohead!" "U2!" "Peter Frampton!" Owners Paul Hibler and David Sanfield are arguing about how to explain the difference between their Pitfire Artisan Pizza company and California Pizza Kitchen ... More >>

The Surreal World of ASCAP's Pop Awards: Where Adam Lambert and Ke$ha Honor the Guys Who Made Them Famous (and Train is the Best Rock Band)

Lina LecaroKe$ha and Adam Lambert hold Luke and Martin's plaques.​Haters might say that Dr. Luke and Max Martin are responsible for the downfall of music. After all, manufactured pop has killed it for other genres, especially harder and more experimental ones. But at ASCAP's Pop Music Awards ... More >>

Top 10 Most Recycled Women of Rock (Only Three Call Themselves Groupies!)

Jena Ardell​ Everyone has had a crush on rockstar before, but these woman actually pursued and conquered rockstars. In order to make our Top 10 Most Recycled Women of Rock list, these ladies had to have dated (or bedded) six or more famous musicians. There's one musician who appears on four o ... More >>

Banned from Chateau Marmont for Tweeting

TV host and former "Apprentice" contestant Jenn Hoffman says she was banned from the Chateau Marmont for tweeting about one of its celebrity guests. According to Hoffman, two weeks ago she was eating dinner at the celeb-friendly hotspot when model Rachel Hunter (you may know her as the ex-Mrs. Rod ... More >>

Music Picks: Coachella, Girls in Trouble, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Paul Simon

Also, Mary Anne Hobbs, Yoni Wolf, Emmylou Harris and others

William Shatner Reveals Song Lineup for His Upcoming "Metal Album"

​Back in February, we broke the news that William Shatner was working on a star-studded new album with some of LA's most prominent metal session musicians (Read "William Shatner Is Recording Star-Studded Metal Album in L.A.: We Got the Details"). Well, now WilliamShatner.com (of course there' ... More >>

Rock & Drool!

Today in Artists Sticking It to the Record Industry: Liz Phair Self-Releases Weird New Album, Tom Jones Delivers Christian Hymns Record Instead of "Sex Bomb, Part 2"

Stuff MagazineNot a Photoshop: The actual Liz Phair​Remember Liz Phair? And Tom Jones? Sure you do--they're both adult artists with a sizable fanbase who still buy records and have the income to pay for concert tickets. They might not be making Bieber or Bublé moolah, but the right record ind ... More >>

The Royal Family Album: Queen Gets Definitive Photo Bio

​Here's a Christmas gift for Queen fans that you can't stuff into a stocking. Though there's a never a shortage of Queen books out there, Phil Sutcliffe's hefty, just-released Queen: The Ultimate Illustrated History of The Crown Kings of Rock (Voyageur Press) features more than 500 eye-poppin ... More >>

Slit-eyed Ladies, Edible Willies, and Evan Dando Up Your Nose: Deep Inside the World of Crap Lyrics

Rod the Mod (#7) once fell in love with "a slit-eyed lady" (not pictured)​For every "Blowin' In the Wind"and "The Times They Are A-Changin'" there's a "We Didn't Start the Fire" and "Muskrat Love." There's never a shortage of lists out there of good and bad pop lyrics. And who among us hasn't ... More >>

Tunes That Get La Roux's Elly Jackson on the Dance Floor

Deirdre O'Callaghan​ After grooving to La Roux's single "Bulletproof" more than a few times, we couldn't help but wonder what makes the synthpop duo's vocalist Elly Jackson hit the dance floor. She got back to LA Weekly with a sizable list of jams, which we've listed below. Check out La Roux ... More >>

Rhino to Release 'Digital 45s,' with A-sides, B-sides and Original (PDF) Sleeves

In ongoing effort to bring weird little songs from Rhino's catalog to the top of the digital avalanche, the legendary LA reissue label is launching a new series of so-called 'digital 45s.' This morning the label announced the program: Rhino will spotlight songs originally issued on 45 by offering t ... More >>

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

Also, Veruca Salt, Mike Einziger, Kings X and Junior Brown

The 29th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards: The Rock Opera

Backers' Audition Edition

No Age: Rather Ripped

The buzz surrounding L.A. noise-pop band is deafening

Nick Lowe in the Age of Experience

While his peers are grasping at straws, Lowe’s work outpaces them all

The Big Picture

Patrick Ecclesine shoots like a boy

Rock Picks: The Police, Sage Francis, Radio Birdman and more

For the week of June 14 - 21

Rock Picks

For the week of March 15 - 22

Wanna New Drug

Fashion Flashing

The Phil Zone

Used Country

Waiting for the Black Keys

Medeski Martin & Wood to Steam the Fonda

Aloha From Hell

Jerry Lee Lewis, still on fire

Inside Out

Sweatin' Safari

Sex, God and Little Armenians

Generational divides, from Hollywood to NYC

Stratocaster Collage

Glenn Branca’s Hallucination City for 100 electric guitars

The Man in the Green Shirt

The Angeleno Aesthetic

Joie Davidow on the rise of the L.A. Look

The Sonofabitch Stays in the Picture

Robert Evans' attack of the heart

You Can’t Do That — It’ll Make the Record Skip!

Waylon Jennings, 1937–2002

The Misfits

Almost Infamous

There and back with Punkin Pie

Hello, Polly!

Like, a Version

The Steamy Muse

Rhapsodies of light and heat and hope

Sin Season

It’s Low Tide for Crime on the Beach

Filthy Lucre

And stirring conscience

Soul Stirrer

The gospel according to Bobby Womack

Sunshine Superman

Louis Philippe's music for libertines

Def Hef