South by Southwest Festival

Yeah She Raps, But Don't Call iLLCamille a "Female Emcee"

On a Friday night, West Pico bar The Mint was host to a small, hardcore crowd of hip hop purists donning hi-top fades and African medallions. On stage, a woman dressed in a vintage Nike windbreaker, silver leggings, and gold bamboo earrings grabbed the mic and introduced herself to the crowd. "I lik ... More >>

From Child Soldiers to the History of the Razzie Awards: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, April 12 Starting at 7 p.m. at the Downtown Independent is Movies and Music: Pavilion and Sam Prekop. Coming from the South by Southwest film festival's Emerging Visions category is Pavilion, a part-documentary, part-autobiographical film from Tim ... More >>

What's Wrong With Los Angeles' Latin Music Scene?

Los Angeles is known worldwide as a creative hub, and it has one of the biggest Latino populations anywhere. But on the eve of three of the Western hemisphere's biggest and most important music festivals -- South By Southwest, Vive Latino, and Coachella -- one has to wonder: Where is the L.A. Latino ... More >>

12 L.A. Comedy Acts to Watch in 2013

See also: *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Los Angeles *How Best Fish Taco in Ensenada Became a (Twice a Month) Comedy Club Audiences may be more fractured than ever before, but they're also more loyal to performers who cut though the din to foster personal connections under the guise of humor. He ... More >>

20 Movies You Need to See at AFI Fest 2012

Boiler Room: Live Streaming Phenomenon Touches Down in L.A.

Fans of the streaming music site Boiler Room have seen performances from folks like James Murphy, Thom Yorke, A-Trak, Animal Collective and Sun Araw. Founded in 2010 by promoter Blaise Belville, the site first started in London, but this month Boiler Room arrived in Los Angeles.

Ximena Sariñana: Five Things She Loves About Echo Park Boys

See also: Ximena Sariñana: An Indie-Pop Star In Mexico, Anonymous In L.A. Ximena Sariñana knocked the wind out of us at the SXSW PlayNetwork showcase last week. We weren't quite as delirious as a pair of Mexican twink uber-fanboys who'd traveled hundreds of miles, but we were certainly smitten. ... More >>

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David Robert Mitchell's Myth of the American Sleepover: A Truffaut-Inspired Teen Sex Comedy?

​ Best Coast's retro garage-band sound on the radio and pre-1980's-style balances in our bank accounts are the latest evidence that we're living in the era of the throwback. It's only natural that David Robert Mitchell's Myth of the American Sleepover -- a last-day-of-summer-vacation movie th ... More >>

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Man Man's Honus Honus: "I'm Like a Charles Manson Hippie"

Honus Honus​From the sequined gowns that look ripped from a 70-year-old socialite to the white shorts he's worn at every performance since 2006, Honus Honus does not take himself too seriously. Urban Nomad sits down with the frontman of Man Man, a Viking-vaudeville, maniac Gypsy Jazz indie ro ... More >>

Latino Bloggers Rush Hollywood by the 100s for 'Hispanicize' Social-Media Conference

The Renaissance in Hollywood is calling all Latinos​Even more Latinos than usual will take to the streets of Los Angeles next week -- and not due to a breach in border security. (Ah, but we kid! We're the No. 1 Latino lovers around. Just ask the Weekly's dependably racist comment mob.) Nope. ... More >>

SXSW: The Strokes Sellout with Twin Shadow and St. Paddy's Day Air Guitar Contest

photo by Wendy GilmartinSmile! It's a Strokes sellout​ Didn't think it was possible to sellout a free show? Here's how to do it: Invite The Strokes to play after five long years on hiatus, make the weather a perfectly warm for a spring afternoon and, oh yeah, schedule it on the one day of the ... More >>

SXSW Day 1: Surprise! Its' Jack White (Again) also Daxx Riggs, Tahiti 80, Free Beer and More

Video by: moreinthemonitor On the first (official) day of SXSW, hipsters awoke to news that Jack White had sprung from a moving truck around noon and played a solo set to a shocked crowd of onlookers, which coincidentally also included celebrities like Aziz Ansari and Alison Mosshart from the Ki ... More >>

Top 5 Hottest Girls from the Hottest Indie Bands in L.A. in 2010

​ [For the Top 5 Hottest Guys from the Hottest Indie Bands in L.A. in 2010, click here.] You may not have noticed, but there is a new and interesting trend wherein women actually play music! In bands! With instruments and everything! Pretty crazy right? I know. I have no idea where they got t ... More >>

Best Coast Announces Details of Debut Album,'Crazy for You'

Best Coast Announces Details of Debut Album,'Crazy for You'

April Fool's Gold! New Video and Remix from L.A.'s Multiculti Troupe

April Fool's Gold! New Video and Remix from L.A.'s Multiculti Troupe

Classy 'Timeless' poster art show opens at Mochilla headquarters Thursday

Classy 'Timeless' poster art show opens at Mochilla headquarters Thursday

Rumor Mill: Does Upcoming New Best Coast Video Feature Famous Spokesclown?

​We hear that Best Coast is about to drop a new video where Bethany Cosentino's boyfriend is played by a famous spokesclown for a fast-food chain. Apparently, they engage in typical dating behavior (riding a bicycle for two, walks on the beach, etc). Cosentino spoke to WCS's Drew Tewskesbury ... More >>

Last Word on SXSW: Jeff Miller's Top 3 Picks (LA band, Coming Soon, Wild Card)

[Ed's note: SXSW coverage all over has been as chaotic and overwhelming as the event itself. If you don't have time to read all the pieces and wanna know what our writers thought the pick of the litter was, here's our reporters' highly personal (the way we like it) must-hear digest. First up, Thrill ... More >>

45365: The Mysteries of a Zip Code

Bill and Turner Ross’ award-winning doc about their hometown impresses with craft and patience

SXSW Stories: Psychedelic Guitarsmith Imaad Wasif Remembers Alex Chilton

SXSW Stories: Psychedelic guitarsmith Imaad Wasif talks about playi

L.A. SXSW Showcase Showdown: I Am Sound

L.A. SXSW Showcase Showdown: I Am Sound

Henry Rollins Meets Vampires

Henry Rollins, "Suck"​Beatcrave points us to the intriguing trailer for rock'n'roll vampire movie Suck, which will be previewing at SXSW this coming week. According to Beatcrave: the new vampire flick [...] stars rock legends Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, Henry Rollins (and Moby). The name of the ... More >>

$40 TO A BETTER YOU!

LA People 2009: Banshee Foodies — Amanda Brown and Diva Dompe

SxSW Scene: Fannius Has Fun at Rusty Spurs

On Saturday afternoon, Fannius, the female rapper from West Hollywood who drops a power pop beat, stands outside Rusty Spurs Saloon on E. 7th Street in downtown Austin, watches people walk around on the street, and says she wants to have "fun." Patrick Range McDonaldFanniusIn the past three days, sh ... More >>

SxSW Live: A Bizarro Night of Metallica and Devo

View live photos in the "Metallica Thrashes Stubb's" slideshow.On Friday night in Austin, something very weird, maybe even life altering, happened: Metallica and Devo played inspired concerts in the same Texas town, only a 15-minute walk apart, and almost perfectly back to back. Devo's Booji Boy It ... More >>

Kid Congo Powers Covers Cramps and Gun Club at SXSW, Thrills Imo's

The first official night of South By Southwest music, you'd think, would be kind of a pace-setter, a warm-up night. But no, even if you arrive late and think you're going to do some stretching and calisthenics, grab an easy dinner, before really cooking it on Thursday, something calls you from bey ... More >>

Nightranger Does Fashion Week

Stephen Sprouse, Lady Gaga and Box 8

Comedy is Dead Returns to Hollywood Forever Cemetery with Headliner Patton Oswalt

Comedy is Dead, the excellent comedy and music revue which brightens up Hollywood Forever Cemetery's hallowed Masonic hall from time to time, was back in full force on Thursday night, and Duncan Trussell - one of the comics performing as well as one of the organizers of the show - had some question ... More >>

Change V2 at SXSW Interactive: Lessig IRL vs. The Political Machine

Alexia TsotsisCaptain ObviousHaving learned from our mistakes yesterday, we decided to eat something bland for breakfast this morning (what kind of a person has a taco for breakfast anyways?) and hit the convention center early in order to make one of the morning panels - specifically one I was real ... More >>

L.A. Tech Community Does it Better: Put Up or Shut Up at SXSW Interactive

Erin BroadleySloane Berrent and Andrew Warner for L.A. TechThe audience at Sloane Berrent's and Andrew Warner's L.A. tech scene panel were a group of people I could name off the top of my head entirely in @s -- @andrewwarner, @sloane, @seanpercival, @lauriepercival, @shiralazar, @jackiepeters, @wmma ... More >>

Hot Friday Night in LA: Francois Kervorkian, Tindersticks, DJ/Rupture

Considering next week is relatively slow due to SXSW in Austin, it might be a good idea to go nuts this weekend (unless you're headed down there, in which case consider this weekend to be exercise). Amazing night in LA for music tonight. Francois K. with John Tejada and Robtronik at King King D ... More >>

West Coast Sound: An L.A. Music Pro's Guide to South by Southwest

Ten to watch: The next Ford jingle?

LA at SXSW Tip #1: Is Fol Chen the City's Best New Band?

At least 171 Los Angeles-area acts will represent at the South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas, next week, and they range from metal (Ancestors, Metallica, Black Math Horseman), acoustic (Jim Bianco, Tom Brosseau, Tori Amos) and punk (Japanese Motors, the Mae Shi, DEVO) to hip-hop ( ... More >>

Lou Reed's Berlin: Julian Schnabel Captures the Music, Moment and Mood of His Man

Director makes cinematic trance of Reed's days-long 2006 concert at Brooklyn's St. Ann’s Warehouse

Michael Reich's Videothing.com Captures the Essence of L.A.'s Underground

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Flesh Tone: Dark Meat Need Everything Louder Than Everything Else

Newsflash: LA Times ruins P. Diddy's weekend

What you can do to help poor Diddy regain his reputation.

SXSW Postmortem...but first a word from our sponsors

Now you name your band Fuck Buttons and you figure: that'll keep the wolves of commerce at bay, right? Well, welcome to the brave new world of indie rock.

The Black Lips vs. the Beatles: With Love From Them to You

Which quartet never had to answer questions about pissing onstage?

They Might Be Giants

"Air Guitar Nation" Rocks L.A.

"Air Guitar Nation," a brand-new documentary about the real art of air guitar, winner of the audience award at SXSW this year, is premiering at the NuArt Cinema in Santa Monica this Friday. Later that night, air guitar virtuoso and "Air Guitar Nation" poster boy Bjorn Turoque (pictured above) will ... More >>

Paint It Black

Geesh, a lot of songs have the word "Black" in them don't they? Okay, this is my last time using one as a headline. Promise. The above is the best, anyway. Forgot to mention that the "goodie bag" for the Imitation of Christ show was Smashbox makeup: a magenta lipstick called "Enchanting," black cre ... More >>

BBB (Big, Bold and Beautiful)

The clouds have parted and the birds are chirping what sounds like Japanese power pop. SXSW being an industry event I attend my first industry panel, "Idiots Unite!" (The idiots, of course, being anyone involved in this crazy business of show.) David Katznelson, president of Birdman Recording Group, ... More >>

Bloodcat Love

“. . . a good deal of toe tapping and a decent shimmy”

Lisa D'Amato Likes Balls, Jason Bentley "Not Sure" About Elephants

I wasn't at Banksy's Barely Legal opening party last night, but I did bump in to OBEY artist Shepard Fairey later on at La Cita downtown, and he told me all about it. He said that it was 'amazing' (not an unexpected response from Fairey, who believes Banksy to be one of the most important ... More >>

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