With the year coming to a close, we're heading off the inevitable barrage of "best" lists coming your way with one that will actually be useful and problem solving (a holiday gift guide for the music lover in your life, that's not actually music... or a t-shirt). Buy 'em a book! iPad and Kin ... More >>
[Lina Lecaro writers our amazing Nightranger column every week. Check out her explorations of LA nightlife here.] With The Runaways bringing rock n' roll to movie theaters this week (see a report from the premiere here), we've been thinking about our favorite band n' beat packed films lately. Docum ... More >>
[Ed's Note: this is a preview of this week's Nightranger column.] [Last week, Lina attended the premiere party for the Runaways movie.] "It was a fun party, but like most premiere bashes, too segregated to enjoy if you weren't privy to the quarantined A-list area. We left pretty soon after arriving ... More >>
The year -and decade- are done, and the city's biggest, most buzzed about New Year's Eve bashes (Hard, Giant, Gridlock) are either out of your budget or out of your comfort zone. The house party of a good friend -with lots of other good friends- might be optimal this Thursday night, but we think we' ... More >>
Rodney Bingenheimer's English DiscoNext Tuesday, November 3rd, from noon to close, Jones Hollywood will be celebrating its 15 year anniversary with an all-day-all-night party. Featuring $5 Herradura, Finlandia, and Jack Daniel's cocktails as well as selected beers for two bucks and fifteen ... More >>
This week's hard copy of the LA Weekly is packed with useful music information, news, profiles, and music picks (if we do say so ourselves). Haven't gotten around to grabbing one yet? Here's what you'll see: Star ForemanLA Ladies Choir Jeff Weiss has written an in-the-trenches feature on th ... More >>
Documented in both the Rodney Bingenheimer bio-pic Mayor of the Sunset Strip and former Runaways bassist Vicky Tischler-Blue’s rock doc about the seminal LA punkettes called Edgeplay (not to mention countless print interviews over the years) the feud between the man who helped create them, Kim Fow ... More >>
Go out and visit your local independent record store today, if there is still one within 100 miles or so. You know your business model is in trouble when you get a "day" devoted to it. Why, I remember celebrating "Floppy Disc Day" and "Blacksmith Appreciation Day" as if they were yesterday. Ther ... More >>
California rolls at Katsuya; Vice disappoints; birthdays, bashes and indie X-mas bling
I passed on South By Southwest this year, but that doesn't mean I'm not there in spirit... and apparently some minds. I've already received 5 text messages from fellow music heads asking if can get them into this or that party and one asking for a promoter friend's cell #. SOS: band missed flight! ... More >>
So I'm thinking about suing the city of Hollywood. I'm not kidding. The Hollywood Walk of Fame might be pretty to look at under the reflection of the boulevard's twinkling street lights (especially while inebriated), but whoever thought it'd be a good idea to make the glitter-specked sidewalk so sil ... More >>
Even though he's a millionaire rock star, it totally sucks to be Sir Paul McCartney. I know, I saw him last night at the EMI Grammy party on the Paramount lot, and rather than enjoying the usual trappings of rock stardom - hot girls sitting on your lap, mountains of cocaine, vegan gourmet canapes - ... More >>
Big Primpin’ Bigmouth Strikes Again Sayonara, Suckas
Rodney Bingenheimer on life as the erstwhile Mayor of the Sunset Strip
Mayor of the Sunset Strip producer Chris Carter retraces the long and winding road to LAFF
Edited by Kateri Butler
Edited by Kateri Butler
Edited by Kateri Butler
Things we wish we'd said
A romp through L.A.'s rock, blues and country clubs
Dance clubs L.A.: In one era and out another
Rodney Bingenheimer remembers
