Siran Babayan

An Arrested Development Variety Show

See also: *5 Awesome Album Covers Inspired By Arrested Development *5 Best Arrested Development Artworks at Gallery 1988 *Why Emily Maya Mills Could Be the Next Carol Burnett On Saturday, Silver Lake's Lyric Hyperion Theater staged an Arrested Development-inspired variety hour called Bluth Fest for ... More >>

Carry On My Wayard Son

Adam Sandler's Jack and Jill Sweeps The Razzies

If the Academy Awards are a back-slapping bore, the Razzies are a bitch-slapping fun fest. Traditionally held on the eve of the Oscars, the annual awards show for the first time took place Sunday night on April Fool's Day at Magicopolis in Santa Monica, the perfect opportunity to lay into the movie ... More >>

Go-Go Dancer Appreciation Day in West Hollywood

Siran Babayan​It was raining men in West Hollywood Saturday night as the city organized its first Go-Go Dancer Appreciation Day. Leave it to WeHo to declare a Go-Go Dancer Appreciation Day and Motley Crue Day in the same year. And only in WeHo will you find a scantily clad dancer outside a yog ... More >>

Family Guy Art: 10 Amazing Paintings of Peter, Lois, Stewie, Brian and Quagmire. Giggity.

With the tenth season of Family Guy slated to premiere this Sunday, we found ourselves looking back at the paintings from 2008's Family Guy C.R.A.P. (A Collection of Rare Art Pieces) show at La Luz de Jesus Gallery. Have no fear, diehards: Ernie the Giant Chicken was there. Not to mention a badas ... More >>

Charlie Sheen Inspires 'Winning' Art Show at Hyaena Gallery

He may have been recently booed on stage in Detroit, but Burbank still loves Charlie Sheen. Though the crazy train that is Sheen's 22-city live tour has yet to schedule L.A. as a stop, the warlock/tiger/Adonis/violent torpedo of truth himself stopped by Hyaena for Winning: The Charlie Sheen Exhibit ... More >>

SXSW Recap: Japan Nite Raises Money for Earthquake Relief

photos by Siran Babayan​ Konichiwa Austin! In addition to showcasing six of the best Japanese artists playing everything from soul to punk to metal, SXSW's annual Japan Nite at Elysium had a bigger cause this year. All proceeds from ticket sales benefitted the Red Cross, making up the nearly ... More >>

SXSW Recap: Gayngs Throw Signs with Har Mar Superstar

photo by Siran BabayanGayngs​ What: Gayngs Where: Lustre Pearl, Austin, TX When: March18 Amid constant crowd chatter, the second of retro dance-pop Gayngs' SXSW shows at Lustre Pearl was a another festival example of right band, wrong venue. There was a lot to see on up there. Twenty-five ar ... More >>

SXSW Recap: Where Were You When Death from Above 1979 Started a Riot?

photo by Siran BabayanBraids​ Had we known we'd be stuck in the middle of a riot trying to catch Death from Above 1979, we would've stayed put for art-pop group Braids on the festival's final night. Another one of the SXSW's buzzed-about and hardest working bands, the four Canadian 20- and 21 ... More >>

Live at SXSW: Bad Brains Bring Their Own Ganja to Austin

Siran BabayanH.R.​Who: Bad Brains When: Thursday, 3/17/2011 Where: Emo's, Austin TX (SXSW) Ducked underneath kamikaze bodies with your chest firmly pressed against the stage is the only way to truly experience a punk gig. Bad Brains' BYOG (Bring Your Own Ganja) show at Emo's had club security ... More >>

SHIRLEY'S TEMPLE

Movie Review: El Superstar

Movie Review: El Superstar: The Unlikely Rise of Juan Frances

THEY SAY GOOBER AND GOMER WERE JUST COUSINS

Pink Floyd/"Wizard of Oz" Visual Mashup Tonight @ Actors' Gang Fest

We Be JaminWe're off to see the Floyd​Tonight, as part of the Actors' Gang WTF?! Festival, you can finally stop wondering about the Old-School Internet meme regarding Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon being a secret soundtrack to The Wizard of Oz. As our own Siran Babayan explains in her ... More >>

Weekend Queen: Glee, A New Book, and 'Fat Bottomed Girls'

We applaud anytime Queen makes a much deserved appearance in a mainstream TV show. Last week's episode of Glee had a nice little number: Which led us to the following conversation with Siran Babayan about an upcoming Queen book:

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Coachella Day 3: The Kills Kill It, Throbbing Gristle Force Me Into The Fetal Position, and The Clipse Cancel

Slowly, my brain is slinking its way towards sensible shape. Three days of Coachella are not for the faint of heart -- if nothing else it requires a quarter-ounce of weed, an array of narcotic edibles from potcorn to cannabis cakes, several brightly colored pills of indiscriminate origin, copious ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Dragonball: Evolution, Hannah Montana: The Movie

Also, The Escapist, Forbidden Lies and more

KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas, Night 2: Vampire Weekend, Snow Patrol, Scott Weiland, Franz Ferdinand, Death Cab For Cutie, Paramore, The Killers, The Cure

By Siran Babayan (All photos by Timothy Norris. Click images for entire KROQ slideshow.) In my worst nightmare, the Cure would be upstaged by Kanye West. Yes, the two would share a bill; West making a surprise appearance and leaving the crowd in a frenzy, the Cure headlining the show and making ... More >>

Mob Mentality with Jane's Addiction at El Cid, Nov. 20

By Siran Babayan Standing in the shower, thinking, what better way for my friends and I to spend the day than on our feet for over 12 hours surrounded by piss, puke, smoke, booze and the biggest douchenozzles in douchebaggery, with only a glimmer of hope of seeing a fully reformed Jane's Addiction. ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Absinthe Among the Dead, Family Guy C.R.A.P., Bruce McCulloch Comedy, The Roots Live

It's funny -- every weekend in Los Angeles we promise ourselves we're going to relax, do chores, catch up on some sleep, but it never happens. Monday arrives and we're more exhausted than when the weekend began. I guess if your Friday night kicks off with The Roots live at the Palladium and an absin ... More >>

James, Spaceland, 6/6

James, Spaceland, June 6, 2008 By Siran Babayan Well, dye my eyes and call me a reborn James fan. Apparently the Manchester folky pop band has had a more profound impact on some of the people here at Spaceland than they did on me back when I casually listened to them in college. Hours before James ... More >>

Live in L.A. Morrissey at the Hollywood Bowl, June 8

All the elements of a going-down-in-history Morrissey concert were there: sold-out behemoth venue, two full hours, tight band, a whopping ten stage-divers, and the pre-show hubbub that always looks like an arts 'n' crafts fair of homemade Moz-inspired get-ups. It's one thing to slap on some pomade ... More >>

Southern (Cali) Comfort

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 >>

Rock Picks

For February 1–8

Katt Williams

Arpa International Film Festival

Celebreality

The Nellie Olesons

Bullshit! (But Thanks)

KROQ INLAND INVASION with Guns N’ Roses, Alice in Chains, Muse, Papa Roach, Avenged Sevenfold and Atreyu at Hyundai Pavilion, September 23

No Ashes Left

Club Fight

Resurrection and ascension at the Wake Up Show hip-hop battle

I Am So Sure

Slushed in 2002

Edited by Kateri Butler

Gift Bag of the Dolls

Edited by Kateri Butler

Ancient Grease

Edited by Kateri Butler

Don't Let Your Meat Loaf

Edited by Kateri Butler

Hot! Pink! Plywood!

Edited by Kateri Butler

Urine Trouble Now

Edited by Kateri Butler

Fuck Fisch, Let's Spoon

Don't l Look Like Myself?

Get-Well Tune

Style and Substance

Balls of the Belle

Like, a Version

Stuff Happens

Be Hair Now

Mope Springs Eternal

Dark Stars

Micro-East Collective in the race for space