We asked for your help finding the best and brightest online in Los Angeles, and you delivered. After combing through thousands of nominations for the L.A. Weekly Web Awards 2012, we're happy to announce our finalists. But we can't do all of this ourselves. We've got a panel of judges to help us pi ... More >>
Angel CeballosHar Mar SuperstarHar Mar Superstar may be the unlikeliest dancefloor hero ever to perform in his underwear, but the pasty, diminutive songwriter/producer, born Sean Tillman, has proven over four albums that you don't have to have coiffed hair and a chiseled physique to fashion h ... More >>
The world finally catches up to the elder statesmen of sludge
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Also, Thom Bresh, Pictureplane, James Intveld and others
A short while ago, Spaceland Productions announced that local indie demigods The Melvins will be playing a Friday residency during January 2011 at the Silver Lake club formerly known as "Spaceland," and currently becoming "The Satellite." There's been a lot of speculation as what Buzzo & Co. ... More >>
UPDATE: Spaceland Productions Senior Talent Buyer Liz Garo confirms new Spaceland Productions venue to open within a "few months" ... plus more on page two. It lasted seventeen years, but less than an hour ago Spaceland Productions announced they'd be moving out of the iconic 1717 Silver ... More >>
The influential mecca of the "Silver Lake scene" turns 15
SXSW Stories: Psychedelic guitarsmith Imaad Wasif talks about playi
Lightning Bolt at WFMU It's been a crazy past few months for F Yeah Fest principals Sean Carlson, Keith Morris and Phil Hoelting. The annual summer music festival, which changed its name from the Fuck Yeah Fest two years ago for obvious reasons, has been the sturdy little engine of the punk/ ... More >>
The first time West Coast Sound heard of Silver Lake band Local Natives was at Nettwerk Records' home office in Hollywood last November. The label's kingpin, Terry McBride, had convened a panel of Hollywood music biz types, including longtime PR man Mitch Schneider, Spaceland Productions' Mitchell ... More >>
Between not buying illegal fireworks in Chinatown and enjoying the fact that we could sleep in Friday, our Fourth of July Weekend was pretty packed, with Pool party/BBQ after Pool party/BBQ to attend. In between nursing our sunburn and our hangover, we got to hit up some of the most happening event ... More >>
Tonight at the Echo and Echoplex in Echo Park, a bunch of bands are teaming up to perform a benefit called "Kick Out the Clots," for Spaceland Productions' booker Jennifer Tefft, who is working to deal with medical bills she accrued trying to get a handle on a blood clotting problem. If you've eve ... More >>
Natural History music; art vandals; bashes worth crashing
Residential dwellings: Start playing on Monday nights.
Whiskey and Wry
From old-school heads to prepubescent punks, Silver Lake is where L.A.s indie rock heart still beats
Arthur Nights, the festival you never expected
From October 13-19
Jay Babcock
Can I still get on the list?
