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Shea Serrano

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    May 22, 2013

    I Tried To Teach My Sons About Music While Fishing But Instead They Just Did Karate Moves On The Beach

    [Editor's Note: Shea Serrano sometimes writes about Why This Song Sucks, and sometimes about his hilarious and poignant life and times. Better put your shoes on because your socks are about to be blown off.] 7:18 a.m.: I'm taking the boys fishing this morning. There's a serviceable little fishing p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2013

    Let's Break Down the Awfulness of Kendrick Lamar's New Video

    [Editor's Note: Shea Serrano sometimes writes about Why This Song Sucks, and sometimes about his hilarious and poignant life and times. Better put your shoes on because your socks are about to be blown off.] Last year, Kendrick Lamar released good kid, m.A.A.d. city, his gorgeous proper debut album ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2013

    Miguel's "How Many Drinks": Why This Song Sucks

    [Editor's Note: Shea Serrano sometimes writes about Why This Song Sucks, and sometimes about his hilarious and poignant life and times. Better put your shoes on because your socks are about to be blown off.] Song: Miguel's "How Many Drinks" History: This song came out and now they play on the radi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2013

    Flooding Kept Me From Going to the Juicy J Concert and OMG Kill Me

    [Editor's Note: Shea Serrano sometimes writes about Why This Song Sucks, and sometimes about his hilarious and poignant life and times. Better put your shoes on because your socks are about to be blown off.] Saturday was to have been maybe the greatest day that's ever been because Juicy J was in to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2013

    Juicy J Is Going to Make Me Forget My Problems

    [Editor's Note: Shea Serrano sometimes writes about Why This Song Sucks, and sometimes about his hilarious and poignant life and times. Better put your shoes on because your socks are about to be blown off.] Today, likely while you are reading this, my students will be taking the state-mandated tes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2012

    Announcing the Winners of the First Voice Media Group Music Writing Awards

    Each week in our print editions and every day on our blogs, the 13 Voice Media Group papers feature some of the best music writing in the country. That's why we're excited to announce the winners of our first VMG music writing awards. The honor goes to the authors of one blog post and one print pi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2012

    Power 106 Cali Christmas Concert - Gibson Amphitheatre - 12/14/12

    Meek Mill, Rick Ross, Big Sean, 2 Chainz, Kendrick Lamar Power 106 Cali Christmas Gibson Amphitheatre 12/14/12 Ah, the holiday season in L.A. -- a crisp chill is in the air, every twinkly light installment and bit of tinsel available has been vomited onto that particular property on Los Feliz Blvd. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2012

    We Write About More Than Bad Hipster Bands. No Seriously

    The internet's stomach continues to churn over our Top 20 Worst Hipster Bands post, which -- as I noted in our "correction" -- inspired widespread anger and funny death threats involving oral sex from sharks. Someone even whined that it made him want to quit writing about music. Boo hoo! Folks too ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2012

    The Ten Best Hip-Hop Dances of All Time, With Illustrations

    "YOU ARE A FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKING MORON AND I AM GOING TO DO PHYSICAL HARM TO YOU WHEN I SEE YOU THIS WEEKEND." That's an email I received last week. The whole thing. That's all it said. Bolded and everything. It came from a guy I've met three times. I guess don't necessarily hate him, but I don't li ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    David Guetta - Chinese Theater Hollywood - 12-03-11

    Chris Walker​See also: Lady Gaga, David Guetta and others perform at the KIIS Jingle Ball on Saturday night David Guetta Chinese Theater, Hollywood 12-03-11 Better than...driving all the way to Vegas "I'm David Guetta, bitch." Each time the French DJ dropped this line, the crowd went nuts ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2011

    "Niggas in Paris": Jay-Z and Kanye Will Perform It 13 Times When They're Here. Seriously.

    Update: At Staples Center they ended up performing "Niggas In Paris" seven times on December 11, nine times on December 12, and ten times on December 13. See also: *"Niggas in Paris": How Many Times Have Jay-Z and Kanye Performed It In Each City? *Riding Dirty With Rothkos: Jay-Z And Kayne West's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    Best Posts Of The Week

    ​We've got nothing but love for Heavy D, who died this week at his Beverly Hills home. Dan Hyman wrote a touching memorial for a man who was a pioneer of the hip-hop/R&B hybrid. This week will be remembered for sunnier news as well, however: We finally enacted Nigel Tufnel day. And it's toda ... More >>

  • Music

    November 10, 2011

    V-Nasty as She Wants to Be

    Kreayshawn's Controversial Associate Tells Her Side

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    Best Posts Of The Week

    ​How well do you know your L.A. hip-hop dances? For the debut of her column on the subject, Jessica A. Koslow ran down the controversial origin story of the Dougie this week. Turns out a rapper named Lil Wil was doing it first, and had some choice words for our Inglewood heroes Cali Swag Distr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    Best Posts of the Week

    This week Weekly staffers Chris Vogel and Simone Wilson broke revelations from the new book Murder Rap, in which former LAPD detective Greg Kading cites testimony implicating Suge Knight in the death of Biggie Smalls and Diddy in the murder of Tupac. On our sister blog The Informer, Wilson also brou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2011

    Best Posts of the Week

    Kelly ClancyLionel Boyce​TGIF. Who's ready for a drink? We're here to offer you a bit of pregame entertainment, by way of our best West Coast Sound posts of the week. Let's start by bringing you up to date on our new columns. If you haven't yet, be sure to check out Odd Future member Lionel B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2011

    Best Posts of the Week

    Christopher VictorioKreayshawn​After Silver Lake saw its Sunset Junction hopes and dreams come crashing down last Wednesday, West Coast Sound examined the fallout this week. First question: Where's my damn refund? Well, it turns out that if you bought discounted tickets at the Silver Lake Farm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2011

    Free V-Nasty; Why I'm Fascinated By Kreayshawn's Controversial Crewmate

    V-Nasty​(See also: Kreayshawn's Worst Day Ever) On Saturday night Kreayshawn performed in L.A. for the first time since "Gucci Gucci" went viral in May. I was curious to see the show, but not expecting to be completely captivated by V-Nasty, Kreay's controversial cohort in their White Girl Mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2008

    Q-Tip's-"Move"

    I can't tell how much I like Q-Tip's, The Renaissance. It's good sure, but it's impossible to listen to without noting the elephant in the room: the fact that Q-Tip has been a.w.o.l. for most of the decade and y'know, that whole "centerpiece of one of the greatest groups of all-time" thing. So wi ... More >>

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