Steven Tyler

The Time Axl Rose and Steven Adler Nearly Killed Each Other

Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal, by Jon Wiederhorn and Katherine Turman comes out today. It's an amazing account of the four-decades-old genre -- more than 700 pages long, with hundreds of interviews, many of them with essential players. It gets into everything from the mu ... More >>

Deathmatch: Aerosmith vs. New York Dolls

[Editor's note: Deathmatch pairs two things that have something in common, and determines who is better. It's a concept we sort-of ripped off from MTV, except that instead of claymation it's the printed word!] In the 1970s, two bands took the bluesy swagger of the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds t ... More >>

Warm-Up Comics Have the Toughest Job in Comedy

Getting sitcom audiences laughing -- by hook or by crook

Elimination Night by Anonymous: Our Book of the Week

According to the people who track these things, there are roughly 170,000 new books published each year in the United States -- an alarming percentage of which arrive, unbidden, at the L.A. Weekly office. Each week, we'll offer a snapshot of a newish book that's caught our attention. Just as there ... More >>

Aerosmith's "I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing": Why This Song Sucks

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] See also: *Our review of Aerosmith at Hollywood Bowl, 8/6/12 *Aerosmith's Steven Tyler: "When I Took 'Idol,' There Was a Lot of Jealousy" Song: Aerosmith's "I D ... More >>

Aerosmith - Hollywood Bowl - 8/6/12

Aerosmith plays to a sold out crowd at the Hollywood Bowl last night -- joined by Johnny Depp on stage.

Aerosmith's Steven Tyler: "When I Took Idol, There Was a Lot of Jealousy"

Aerosmith On Their New Album and How Impossible Steven Tyler Is After American Idol While in town filming the last two seasons of American Idol, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler kept a storm of paparazzi busy. But that's not all he was doing during his time in L.A. Following his daily reality show obligati ... More >>

Music Picks: Rusko, HARD Summer, SMOD

Also, Beachwood Sparks, Jesca Hoop, Ravi Coltrane and others

Aerosmith, Cheap Trick

The Beatles: The Lost Concert

Aerosmith On Their New Album and How Impossible Steven Tyler Is After American Idol

It's been years since "The Bad Boys from Boston" have put out a studio album, with their most recent being 2004's Honkin' on Bobo. Yesterday, Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton, and Joey Kramer (minus Brad Whitford who is currently on tour with The Hendrix Experience) greeted an eager crowd at Th ... More >>

Paul Stanley, Lita Ford, Kip Winger -- Playboy Mansion -- 11/12/11

Eric Charbonneau, Le StudioPaul Stanley and friends​See also: Paul Stanley Analyzes KISS's Success: "I don't want to buy a t-shirt with a guy on it who looks like my neighbor." If you're like most folks, your rock star fantasies require nothing more than a pair of tight jeans, an air guitar, ... More >>

Q & A With Ruth Reichl: Gilt Taste, L.A. Food, The Role of The Restaurant Critic, Her Movie The Corrective of Food TV

As you probably know, Ruth Reichl was recently in town for a launch party at Mozza for Gilt Taste, the shopping-as-literature site of which she's the editorial advisor. We caught up with her over coffee at José Andrés' Tres: frilly patisserie, coffee urns, decor like Monty Python meets Versailles ... More >>

Mick Jagger's Superheavy New Supergroup, Plus Five Songs About and/or Referring to The Rolling Stones' Frontman ... Maybe

From Mickjagger.comJust Super.​There may not be a Rolling Stones tour happening anytime soon (wonder if Mick is still pissed about Keef's "tiny togder" remark?) but for fans of The Stones frontman, musical satisfaction has been trickling in. Last week, at a press conference here in L.A., Sir J ... More >>

Hollywood's Hair-Feather Fad Pits Hipsters Against Fly Fishermen, Dries Up Rooster Population

Outta my way, Gramps.​Bob Marriott's Fly-Fishing Store in Fullerton is sold out of rooster feathers. You know -- those long, stripey suckers peeking from the underhairs of everyone from Steven Tyler to your babysitter. "We're out of stock," says Annie Stamper, a Marriott's employee who, for t ... More >>

Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan Covers Joy Division At MusiCares MAP Fund Show

Lina Lecaro Dave Gahan feels it at Nokia.​Happy Birthday Dave Gahan! The Depeche Mode singer turns 49 today, but he came frighteningly close to never seeing this milestone. Fifteen years ago, he in fact died from an overdose at the Sunset Marquis in West Hollywood and was brought back to life ... More >>

Top 10 Most Recycled Women of Rock (Only Three Call Themselves Groupies!)

Jena Ardell​ Everyone has had a crush on rockstar before, but these woman actually pursued and conquered rockstars. In order to make our Top 10 Most Recycled Women of Rock list, these ladies had to have dated (or bedded) six or more famous musicians. There's one musician who appears on four o ... More >>

Can Reality TV Ever Really Rock?

Lina Lecaro Reality's realest rockin couple (from Cali): Millionaire Matchmaker's Rachel Federoff and Destin Pfaff at Svedka party.​This past weekend, LA played host to the "Reality Rocks Expo," a two-day celebration of "reality, unscripted, factual, and lifestyle" television at the LA Convent ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Scorpions (and Cinderella) at Nokia Theatre

Babysitters for miles around were kept busy Saturday night as metal vets Scorpions' farewell tour enticed 7,000 mostly 30- and 40-somethings into downtown's sleek Nokia Theatre. Over a quarter-century since they first ambushed America at San Bernardino's vast US Festival, the Teutonic quintet showed ... More >>

Nightranger: Mo BET-ta Booze?

Music Picks: Baaba Maal, Snuffaluffagus & Rats, Carlene Carter and Friends, Country Throwdown

Also, Freestyle Fellowship, Bebe Buell, Billy Joe Shaver and others

Slit-eyed Ladies, Edible Willies, and Evan Dando Up Your Nose: Deep Inside the World of Crap Lyrics

Rod the Mod (#7) once fell in love with "a slit-eyed lady" (not pictured)​For every "Blowin' In the Wind"and "The Times They Are A-Changin'" there's a "We Didn't Start the Fire" and "Muskrat Love." There's never a shortage of lists out there of good and bad pop lyrics. And who among us hasn't ... More >>

Stuck in a Moment: U2 at the Rose Bowl

Safe sex with Bono and the boys

U2 at the Rose Bowl: Concert Porn for the Masses

It was cool. It was a big Happening with flashing lights, lots of color, inspiration, 100,000 people screaming along in unison, moved by the pure ... spectacle of it. If we were in North Korea, these songs would have been about the Supreme Leader and we would have all been flashing colored placards ... More >>

Best of L.A.: Burgers

Rock Picks: Amadou & Mariam, Manimal Festival, Marianne Faithfull, Gil Scott-Heron

Also, Kylie Minogue, the Joe Perry Project, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks and others

Top 5 Topless Groupies: Women Who Bared It All For Music (NSFW)

​Rock-n-roll and breasts often go (tee-hee) hand in hand. In fact, Motley Crue drummer and groupie magnet, Tommy Lee, has this rule about coming into his dressing room: "You're not allowed in unless you remove an article of clothing. And I'm not talking about your socks. It's pretty f***ing c ... More >>

Rock Picks: Slick Rick, Tapes 'n Tapes, Kate Nash

And other May 8-15 shows

Behind the Velvet Fence

Prince of the desert; VIP couch; and other tales from Coachella

Rock Picks: The Slits, Squiddo, Electrocute

For the week of August 2 - 9

Rock Picks: Lee ''Scratch'' Perry, The Swell Season, Maximo Park and More

For the week of July 26 – August 2

I'm in the Band

The rock & roll fantasy of live-band karaoke

Rock & Pop Listings

For Feb 17 - 23

grammy diary

Tue., Feb. 7 LL Cool J at the House of Blues Wed., Feb. 8 The Grammys at the Staples Center Now, for my personal awards

Going to the Grammys...

Considering I may be tone deaf, can't sing to save a life, it's pretty safe to say performing at the Grammy's is a dream out of reach. That is until I was chosen to be a stage performer for the Gorillaz's duet with MADONNA at this year's Grammy Awards!!  I was a little older than their projec ... More >>

Babyshambles, Dueling Indie Babes, and 50 Cent Does Bat Mitzvah (No Shit)

Bliss Factory

The Preteen Files: Man Go Wango Tango

Got Robots?

Creation Myth

Drugs and musicians, together forever

The Music Man

Andy Prieboy scores

Bring the Sauce

To live, love and leave before dying in L.A.: how the Beastie Boys beat the very odd odds

40 Bucks and a Dream

The lives of a Hollywood motel

How To Snort an Airplane

The raunch and roll of rock autobiography