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Skid Row (Band)

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2012

    Skid Row Puts on a Memorial Day Parade Extravaganza -- With the Help of Mr. Brainwash

    At first glance, L.A.'s Skid Row doesn't seem like it would have a flourishing performance arts scene. But Skid Row's Los Angeles Poverty Department -- abbreviated as, yes, LAPD -- was founded by director John Malpede in 1985 to develop the arts and culture of the city's well-known home to the home ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2012

    Top Ten Worst Replacement Singers in Rock and Metal

    ​At the beginning of the year, Boston metalcore giants Killswitch Engage announced that they had parted ways with vocalist Howard Jones, and two weeks ago they announced they were bringing their first vocalist, Jesse Leach, back into the fold. At the very least, it seems a way to ensure they w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2012

    LAPD's Abandoned Rampart Station, Center of B.I.G. Scandal, Is Now Blight Capital of the Eastside

    A new kind of scandal has overtaken the LAPD's old, boarded-up Rampart Station in Historic Filipinotown. It's a lot less hip-hop than the last one, but infuriating all the same: "This old station has now been abandoned for at least the past 3 years, and has been a magnet for graffiti, vagrants, and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    Regent Theatre in Downtown L.A. to Become Performance Venue

    Downtown's Regent Theatre -- a Skid Row echo of the movie palaces on Broadway just a couple of blocks west -- has been a first-run cinema, a warehouse, and during the porn heyday of the '70s and '80s, even an adult theatre. Most recently, it's been the site of one-off concerts brought by various pro ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 2, 2012

    I Wish They All Could Be California Bands

    Downtown's Regent Theatre -- a Skid Row echo of the movie palaces on Broadway just a couple of blocks west -- has been a first-run cinema, a warehouse, and during the porn heyday of the '70s and '80s, even an adult theatre. Most recently, it's been the site of one-off concerts brought by various pro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2012

    Chuck D of Public Enemy Gets Into Twitter Beef With LA Weekly

    I had hoped my brush with fame would involve winning the lottery or meeting the president. But for a second there Chuck D made me Twitter-famous (which is to say, in the words of Saturday Night Live, not famous). It all started when I reported that a weekend event in L.A., widely publicized as a fr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2012

    Public Enemy - Occupy Skid Row - 1/15/12

    Public Enemy, Yo-Yo, Kurupt, King T, Kid Frost, Egyptian Lover Downtown, Gladys Ave. and 6th St. 1/15/11 See also: *Public Enemy and Matt & Kim - Sunset Strip Music Festival - 8/20/2011 *Our slideshow of the Skid Row Street Festival Public Enemy is known for fighting the powers that be. So even ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2012

    'Occupy Skid Row' Concert Featuring Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, Kurupt in Doubt, LAPD Says: It Doesn't Have Permit

    See our review of the festivities here. Updated at the bottom with what went down. First posted at 4:33 p.m. Friday. A planned "Occupy Skid Row" free street concert Sunday featuring Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, Kurupt and other hip-hop artists is in doubt, police tell the Weekly. The Los Angeles Co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: The Complete List

    ​See also: *Chuck Klosterman's Favorite Hair Metal Albums One day I was sitting around thinking I want to write a song about ménage a trois...and the line 'love in stereo' came into my head. Inspiration can happen anywhere at any time. -Jani Lane, Hit Parader magazine History has not been ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2011

    The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #5-1

    ​See also: *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #20-16 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums of All Time: #15-11 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #10-6 *Chuck Klosterman's Favorite Hair Metal Albums ​5. Motley Crue Shout At the Devil (1983) Motley Crue's second record stands a ... More >>

  • News

    October 27, 2011

    Rooting for Weed

    ​See also: *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #20-16 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums of All Time: #15-11 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #10-6 *Chuck Klosterman's Favorite Hair Metal Albums ​5. Motley Crue Shout At the Devil (1983) Motley Crue's second record stands a ... More >>

  • News

    July 21, 2011

    Hollywood Faces a Heroin Summer

    A promising Kenyan-American dies amidst a risky Hollywood club scene

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    "Trouble On My Mind" Video Premiere: Pusha T Featuring Tyler, The Creator

    Andrea DomanickPusha T and Tyler the Creator before mass destruction​We knew when we visited the set that director Jason Goldwatch's video for Pusha T and Tyler, the Creator's "Trouble On My Mind" was gonna be one of the dopest visuals we'd seen in awhile. As Pusha T told us on set: I said ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    Patrick Range McDonald Named Best Print Journalist of the Year by L.A. Press Club; LA Weekly Takes Home 5 More Awards

    Patrick Range McDonald: awesome, officially.​In case you're wondering why the L.A. blogroll looks kind of groggy this morning: A couple hundred Los Angeles journalists took last night off, putting on their Sunday best for the Press Club Awards, a schmancy round of self-congratulations and free ... More >>

  • Stage

    June 23, 2011

    Radar L.A. Festival

    Patrick Range McDonald: awesome, officially.​In case you're wondering why the L.A. blogroll looks kind of groggy this morning: A couple hundred Los Angeles journalists took last night off, putting on their Sunday best for the Press Club Awards, a schmancy round of self-congratulations and free ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2011

    Exclusive: Pusha T and Tyler the Creator's "Trouble On My Mind" Video Shoot

    Andrea DomanickThe father becomes the son...​Reported by Andrea Domanick and Rebecca Haithcoat. This is for the critics who doubted the chemistry Two different worlds, same symmetry. -"Trouble on My Mind," Pusha T Leaning on a sticky table in a hotel room stained the color of urine, direct ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    Drummers Really Do Get Laid the Most: Phil Varone's Had Sex with 3000 Women

    We'd rather know many she's had​Phil Varone, the drummer for Saigon Kick, Skid Row and Prunella Scales, is unleashing his sexy on the world with his XXX movie Phil Varone's Secret Sex Stash (sorry, we just gagged, too). In the highly NSFW teaser, alongside which appropriately features a phot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    Paris Hilton's Massive Birthday Cake Ends Up on L.A.'s Skid Row, Feeds Homeless, Thanks to Rapper Paz

    Alex CDParis Hilton's cake ended up on Skid Row.​An aspiring L.A. rapper says he made away with what appears to be a huge and unmolested wedding-like cake presented at Paris Hilton's birthday celebration and gave it to homeless people on Skid Row. The celebutante marked her 30th birthday on T ... More >>

  • Columns

    December 23, 2010

    Getting Out for Christmas

    Alex CDParis Hilton's cake ended up on Skid Row.​An aspiring L.A. rapper says he made away with what appears to be a huge and unmolested wedding-like cake presented at Paris Hilton's birthday celebration and gave it to homeless people on Skid Row. The celebutante marked her 30th birthday on T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2010

    Calling All Star Trakkies: Kiss-n-Grind Spins The Neptunes Tonight

    Neptunes Grind-ING!​Started by Vikter Duplaix and Garth Trinidad sometime around late 2006, when it was promoted last-minute and solely by word-of-mouth, Kiss-n-Grind must be in summer school, cause lately they're so thematically well-structured. Tonight's studies Chad Hugo and Pharrell Willi ... More >>

  • Columns

    June 24, 2010

    Up and Out

    Neptunes Grind-ING!​Started by Vikter Duplaix and Garth Trinidad sometime around late 2006, when it was promoted last-minute and solely by word-of-mouth, Kiss-n-Grind must be in summer school, cause lately they're so thematically well-structured. Tonight's studies Chad Hugo and Pharrell Willi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2010

    Today in WTF: Free "Exile on Main Street" Remaster, Brought to You by...Target?

    ​Back in 1972, the Rolling Stones brand stood for heroin, bisexuality, hanging out with the homeless in L.A.'s Skid Row (read all about it in Michael Simmons' article in the print edition of LA Weekly this week), banned films called "Cocksucker Blues," and sundry unsavory matters. Fast forwar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    What Was Keith Richards' Favorite Nosh at Canter's Deli?

    Image Courtesy of: STONES BILLBOARD COPYRIGHT 1972 SUNSET STRIP BILLBOARD BY JOHN VAN HAMERSVELD POST-FUTURE.COM​ Our writer Michael Simmons always digs up the interesting people and the interesting quotes. This week's print edition of the LA Weekly features a great, different take on the Ro ... More >>

  • Music

    May 13, 2010

    Exile on Sunset Boulevard

    Rolling in L.A. with the Stones

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2010

    Day Tripping on the Tom Waits Bus Tour of Los Angeles

    ​"Most of the stops on this tour are in piss-stained alleys," chuckled David Smay, as a motley--if well-dressed--crew of 47 settled themselves on his bus, which this past Saturday was parked outside King Eddy's--the only dive bar left "on the nickel" in downtown's increasingly gentrified Skid ... More >>

  • Music

    March 6, 2010

    Liars in the Sisterworld

    An L.A. band returns home after years of wandering

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2010

    What Would Herzog Do? Party at the Downtown Indie!

    What Would Herzog Do? Party at the Downtown Indie!

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    Gang-Turf Tour Of L.A. To Offer Safe View Of "Top Crime Scene Locations"

    Alfred Lomas.​Los Angeles has its star maps, Starline Tours of actors' homes, even "The Real Black Dahlia" bus tour. Now our fine city has L.A. Gang Tours, a journey that promises "a true first-hand encounter of the history and origin of high profile gang areas and the top crime scene location ... More >>

  • Music

    October 22, 2009

    Beth Ditto: Big in Europe

    She's the greatest female Arkansan punk singer ever to host a British talk show. And it doesn't stop there

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    5 Great LA Dive Bars: From the Lost & Found to the Wild Goose

    A truly great dive bar is like a successful horror movie: it's a little gross, maybe a bit scary, but always a fun adventure, and filled with an eclectic cast of characters. Some dives are time machines, frozen in forgotten eras, while others make for the perfect spot to lose an hour or three or ten ... More >>

  • LA Life

    October 1, 2009

    Best of L.A.: Shopping

    A truly great dive bar is like a successful horror movie: it's a little gross, maybe a bit scary, but always a fun adventure, and filled with an eclectic cast of characters. Some dives are time machines, frozen in forgotten eras, while others make for the perfect spot to lose an hour or three or ten ... More >>

  • News

    July 30, 2009

    Losing Lily Burk

    Outrage After a Popular Teen Gets Carjacked and Slain

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2009

    Nuclear Blast Records Issues Statement Regarding A&R Imposter/Liar "Kevin Darden"

      West Coast Sound just received this press release from prominent LA-based label Nuclear Blast Records' Hawthorne offices, and we figured it'd be a good idea to pass it along: For Immediate Release: LABEL STAFF IMPOSTER KEVIN DARDEN IS PROBABLY "A HOMOCIDAL MANIAC" A label staff imposte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2009

    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 >>

  • Film+TV

    May 14, 2009

    Movie Reviews: Big Man Japan, Management, Not Forgetten

    Also, Brothers at War, The New Twenty, The Skeptic, The Brothers Bloom and Next Day Air

  • Calendar

    March 19, 2009

    It's Phil Varone's World, We Just Pay a Cover and Two-Drink Minimum in It

    Also, Brothers at War, The New Twenty, The Skeptic, The Brothers Bloom and Next Day Air

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2008

    Stage Raw: Arts Freeze

    ARTS FREEZE FOR THE HOLIDAYS In a cost-cutting measure, the Los Angeles Unified School District has frozen district funds until the state legislature returns to Sacramento in January to sort out the State budget gridlock. Arts for L.A. has been quick to point out that the freeze includes existin ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    November 13, 2008

    Jonathan Gold's 99 Essential LA Restaurants

    Local culinary classics, plus some new stars on the scene

  • Stage

    April 17, 2008

    Theater Reviews: Beaverquest!: The Musical, My Fair Lady

    Also, Chico’s Angels: Chicas Are Forever, The Time of Your Life, and more

  • News

    April 12, 2007

    Politics Meets Street

    Why are politicians and civic leaders bellying up to the eyebrow-raising 740 Club?

  • News

    December 22, 2005

    Inside the Box With the Super Dope Cops

    Hustlers, gangsters, addicts and narcos are all trying to get their chippy on where it’s always Mardi Gras on crack

  • News

    April 28, 2005

    Down on Main Street

    A guide to living among the crack addicts, mentally ill, homeless and young-pros-on-the-go in a changing downtown

  • Music

    January 29, 2004

    Welcome to the Jungle

    Edited by Kateri Butler

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