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The Five Best Shows in Los Angeles This Week: Garbage, Nick Lowe, Culture Collide

Tuesday, October 2 Garbage WILTERN When they formed in 1994, future chart fixtures Garbage had the makings of a sterile vanity project. Created by veteran studio rats (including Butch Vig, producer of Nirvana's Nevermind), with a grafted-on unknown vocalist, their formula appeared better suited to ... More >>

Coachella: The Five Best Guitar Moments From the First Weekend

By Adam Lovinus See also: *Our complete Coachella coverage *Coachella Preview 2012: Everything You Need to Know About the Performers *Coachella: Five Signs You're An Aging Hipster This year's Coachella lineup mostly favored artists not necessarily known for guitar prowess, but it did feature some ... More >>

Portlandia Spoofs Echo Park Singer IAMEVE's Kickstarter Campaign

See also: Portlandia Was Partly Inspired by Los Angeles Since Kickstarter launched less than four years ago, the "crowdfunding" site has become as ubiquitous as the hipster mustache. Who doesn't know a musician, aspiring filmmaker or underwater basket weaver who has concocted a clever video beseech ... More >>

Portlandia: The Tour - Echoplex - 1/17/12

Sean J. O'Connell ​See also: Portlandia Was Partly Inspired by Los Angeles Portlandia: The Tour The Echoplex 1-17-12 Portlandia, the Pacific Northwest-skewering IFC comedy show now in its second season, has run less than ten episodes. But SNL'er Fred Armisen and Sleater-Kinney rocker Carrie ... More >>

Portlandia Was Partly Inspired by Los Angeles

Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein's Portlandia has put Portland on the pop culture map. To quote from the show itself, it's a place where young people can go and retire, all the hot chicks wear glasses, and you can put a bird on anything and call it art. The Saturday Night Live cast member and the ... More >>

Music Picks: Amanda Palmer & Jason Webley, Tinariwen, Mastodon

Also: Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers, Danzig and others

The Problem With Lana Del Rey (Is You)

See also: Is Lana Del Rey The Kreayshawn Of Moody, Electro-Tinged "Indie"? Why have singer-songwriter Lizzy Grant and her press people taken to depicting her as a "Lolita in the hood" and a "gangsta Nancy Sinatra"? Perhaps she doesn't feel she is very interesting. At least, not interesting enough ... More >>

Music Picks: The Psychedelic Furs, Orgone, Raekwon, Beach Fossils, The Raveonettes

Also, Thao & Mirah, Sun Araw, Cass McCombs, Trinket and others

Elaborate "Rick-Roll" Prank Proves Oregon's Legislature is Wackier than California's

​Oregon has been enormously jealous and upset ever since we Californians decided to turn our entire State into an elaborate performance art project by electing an Austrian body-builder to our highest office. So Oregon has recently stepped up the competition with a series of political/entertai ... More >>

Wu-Tang Clan, Yelawolf and Many Others to Play SXSW Party, Courtesy of the Village Voice and Frank151

Wu-Tang: Forever bridging the gap between hip-hop and indie​ We've just received word from our sister publication the Village Voice in NYC that they have something pretty special planned for the upcoming SXSW music and media conference in Austin, Texas. The 2011 Village Voice SXSW party, cosp ... More >>

Music Picks: Tift Merritt, Clinic, Microscopic Septet

Also, J. Cole, the Crazy Squeeze, Wild Flag and others

First Videos Of Wild Flag Appear; "Punk Rock Supergroup" Plays Spaceland Friday

​ Via Pitchfork--Wild Flag is band pretty much everyone (including possibly L.A. WEEKLY) decided to call a "supergroup," and that's because Wild Flag has Carrie Brownstein, Mary Timony, Rebecca Cole, and Janet Weiss. (And that is Sleater-Kinney, Helium, the Minders, Quasi and more.) But until ... More >>

Tonight: Corin Tucker Band, Off!, James, Ed Harcourt, Frightened Rabbit, Bettie Serveert, Gogol Bordello, Matt Costa

John ClarkCorin Tucker Band​Corin Tucker calls her debut album "more of a middle-aged mom record." Oh, that many middle-aged moms could rock like this. The founding member of seminal riot grrls Sleater-Kinney and mother of two last week launched her first tour as the Corin Tucker Band, the tr ... More >>

Exclusive Toys and Prints: What You'll Find Inside Comic-Con's Exhibit Hall

Wednesday night, we tried to work our way through the exhibit hall at the San Diego Convention Center. But Preview Night for Comic-Con isn't terribly different from most other nights at the mega-convention. It's crowded, loud and every few seconds you're bound to see something else that grabs your ... More >>

Curmudgeon Porn: Magnetic Fields Documentary Coming Soon to the Big Screen!

The Shagadelic Stephin Merritt​The multitalented Carrie Brownstein (formerly of Sleater Kinney, now a perceptive, always intriguing writer) keeps a blog called Monitor Mix for NPR. She recently pointed her readers to our Henry Rollins-Glenn Danzig slash-fiction-comic post and we thought we wou ... More >>

Kill Rock Stars gives away 21 free MP3's!

Kill Rock Stars gives away 21 free MP3's ALFSTRAVAGANZA!

Music Picks: Sasha & Kazell, She & Him, Efterklang, Xiu Xiu

Also, Holly Miranda, Les Blanks, Mumiy Troll and others

Bug Music's Commercial Zone

Helping to fill the pockets of indie bands now that CD sales have dried up

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

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

Word on the Street

SXSW Round-Up: The Kills Put On The Best Show Of SXSW By A Band Not Named My Morning Jacket…And Why Jenny Lewis Isn't the Hottest Woman In Indie Rock

Unlike Sasha Frere-Jones, my main gripe with indie rock don't stem from it's lack of blackness. More than anything, I have trouble dealing with the idea that Jenny Lewis is indiedom's official pin-up girl. No joke, I think she won first in the 2006 Stereogum poll and came in second in 2007. The w ... More >>

Movie Reviews: College Road Trip, CJ7

Also Girls Rock!, My Name is Albert Ayler and more

Sub Pop One Hummer

By Randall Roberts He’s out there somewhere. I know it. He apparently comes every year. At least that’s what they tell me up in Seattle, where Bruce Pavitt, co-founder of Sub Pop Records, is some sort of minor legend. You know, Bruce Pavitt, the dude with the vision to uncover a few of the gr ... More >>

Hot Enough for You

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Blonde Ambition

The Long Blondes are here to satisfy your Elastica craving (assuming you still have one)

Forget About Your Cares, it Is Time to Relax at the Junction (Sunset Junction)

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Dress Us Up in Your Love

Music Picks

For the week of April 21-27

Lady Madonna, Festival at Your Feet

"I've never performed at a festival," says Madonna, "and I'm especially excited about playing at Coachella before I start my own tour." Well la-dee-da. What Madonna wants. Madonna gets. But Madonna at Coachella? I don't even know what to think. I love Madonna, but... but... Coachella? I like to w ... More >>

The Party Revisited

Delta 5’s non-reunion of Soviet socialist punk

An Immodest Proposal

Arthurfest

Live in LA

Rock Monsters

Sleater-Kinney’s The Woods takes Northwest indie back to its stoner roots

Live in LA

Instant Rock for the People

With “Blue Orchid,”the White Stripes bring the rock the old-fashioned way: really fucking fast

On Their Own Authority

Sahara Hotnights: Butter, not margarine

Combat Rock

Sleater-Kinney on the frontlines

Street Action

Lost and Found

The human souls of Full Frontal and Group

Undead Band Talking

Hot! Pink! Plywood!

Edited by Kateri Butler

Come as You Are

“Hyped to Death”: DIY’s cutout classics

Super Furry Sound

A year in music

This Note’s for You

Neil Young, beyond the fringe and back again

Ladymen at the Crossroads

Sleater-Kinney is more than your Joey Ramone

Sporty Spice's Brass Ring