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The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Week

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Monday, August 26 Courtney Love TROUBADOUR Musician, actress, writer, artist, designer -- love her or hate her, she is Courtney Love. Nothing can stop the 49-year-old icon from partying, guitar shredding and unconventional c ... More >>

Top 10 L.A. Hip-Hop Producers in History

For better or worse, L.A. hip-hop is strongly identified with gangsta rap, and that genre is mostly identified with its rappers and their outsized personas. But the classic Los Angeles albums wouldn't be what they are without the incredible sonic textures that define them, the funk, electro, rock, a ... More >>

Stones Throw Records Documentary Premiere Party - Exchange LA - 6/20/13

Stones Throw Records Documentary Premiere Party Exchange LA 6/20/2013 Better than: the NBA finals. Founded in 1996 by DJ/producer Peanut Butter Wolf (Chris Manak) three years after the death of his best friend Charizma, Stones Throw Records has become one of the most successful and respected inde ... More >>

L.A. Film Festival 2013: Documentaries About the City, From Rappers to the LACMA Rock

L.A. County Hospital, casting directors and Richard Nixon also feature in a fest brimming with nonfiction SoCal films

Music Picks: Eagle Rock Festival, New Order, Madonna

Stones Throw 15th Anniversary Party - Exchange LA - December 22, 2011

Timothy NorrisMayor Hawthorne and Peanut Butter Wolf​Stones Throw Records 15th Anniversary Party The Exchange LA 12-22-11 See also: Stones Throw Records Turns 15: Label remains a genre unto itself Stones Throw Records has long been an anomaly in the music industry, boasting a genre defying ... More >>

Music Picks: Andrea Bocelli, Carina Round, A Hero A Fake

Also, Norma Jean, Jonathan Richman, Jay-Z and Kanye West and others

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Peanut Butter Wolf, Gaslamp Killer, Jason Bentley -- 11/11/11/ Party -- Eagle Rock Center for the Arts

Lainna FaderGaslamp Killer​Peanut Butter Wolf, Gaslamp Killer, Jason Bentley, Hyasynth and others 11/11/11/ Party Eagle Rock Center for the Arts Since 2006, Stones Throw label head Peanut Butter Wolf has specialized in numerically-aligned calendar day parties. Last night's party, which went f ... More >>

Best Posts of the Week

This week Weekly staffers Chris Vogel and Simone Wilson broke revelations from the new book Murder Rap, in which former LAPD detective Greg Kading cites testimony implicating Suge Knight in the death of Biggie Smalls and Diddy in the murder of Tupac. On our sister blog The Informer, Wilson also brou ... More >>

How To Get Signed: Stones Throw Artist Vex Ruffin's Tips For Getting Your Demo Tape Heard

A correction was issued for this post. Please see the bottom of the piece. Most aspiring music artists who hope to get noticed nowadays have similar, tired routines. They post their songs for free, spam the usual social networks, and then sit back and wait for Jimmy Iovine to call. Yet L.A.-base ... More >>

Music Picks: Stiff Little Fingers, CunninLynguists, The Nubians, System of a Down

Houses, Aloe Blacc, Krautrock Nite, The Radio Dept. and others

Stones Throw 15 Year Anniversary Party with Peanut Butter Wolf, Rick, and Mayer Hawthorne

Lainna FaderPeanut Butter Wolf DJing Stones Throw 15 Year Anniversary Party​Stones Throw Records are celebrating their 15 year anniversary with a series of direct-to-vinyl shows, recorded live in front of an audience. Last night was the first show in the series with jazz group Rick (with Sam G ... More >>

Top 10 Most Exciting L.A. Indie Labels of 2010

Top 10 Most Exciting L.A. Indie Labels of 2010

Between the Mundane and the Arcane

Small-time, big-heart local labels reissue classics that never got their chance

[UPDATED: Venue Changed] Peanut Butter Wolf: "My 10 First 45s," in Honor of Stones Throw's 10-10-10 Bash, Plus His Exclusive Bruce Haack Remix

Peanut Butter Wolf talks about his earliest vinyl purchases ahead of the Stones Throw 10-10-10 blowout.​UPDATE: Due to permit restrictions, Stones Throw's 10-10-10 event is no longer taking place at The Sex. The location has been changed to downtown's Club 740. New flyer after the jump. That ... More >>

Vinyl of the Week: Two Slabs of Stone-Cold '80s Funk from Tony Cook, ft. Dâm-Funk [MP3]

In the strange wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES reviews the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community, believing that good music deserves much more than a handfu ... More >>

Music Picks: Dr. John, Herbie Hancock, Sunset Strip Music Festival

Also, Funkfest, Chromeo, Slayer and others

DJ Kutmah: the Deported

Artist opens up about his harrowing expulsion from the place he calls home

Madlib Goes Psych-Rock on New 'Brain Wreck' LP

Bunnies makin' babies.​It was only a matter of time. It's been said that Madlib owns over two tons of vinyl, and you can be damn sure that collection is free of the standard thrift shop filler. No Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass. No Barbra Streisand embracing Kris Kristofferson. No holida ... More >>

Adult Swim Debuts New Madvillain Track, Goes Coffee-Tasting With Madlib

Madvillain's 'Papermill'​There've been questionable leaks and legitimate teasers, but fans drooling for a new Madvillain LP have had precious little to cling to. Beside faith, of course, that in L.A. producer Madlib's apparent quest to set the record for album releases in a year (he's on targ ... More >>

MP3: Tortoise Goes Gangsta with 'Drums,' Feat. Guilty Simpson (Plus, Koushik Remix)

Guilty Simpson meets Bumps on "Drums"​Over the band's storied 20-year career, Chicago post-rock giants Tortoise have covered a great deal of stylistic ground. Jazz, electronic, Kraut, dub, and the avant-garde have been fair game, but only on the occasional remix have the efforts of those gif ... More >>

Flying Lotus Rising

Could spiritual electronica be the next great California sound?

Stones Throw in Toronto: Video of the Posse Up North [MP3]

Pitchfork.tv is currently running a pretty interesting short documentary about Stones Throw Records' recent sojourn to Toronto for a showcase, and if you're a fan of any of their artists, it's a good chance to watch them all record shopping. The best part is watching MF Doom browsing the racks wit ... More >>

Watch: Sao Paulo's Cibelle Pays Tribute To J Dilla's "Lightworks" [MP3]

The late, great Jay Dee​As West Coast Sound scribe Drew Tewksbury just reported, Wednesday marked the fourth anniversary of the tragic passing of legendary hip-hop producer J Dilla, a.k.a. James Yancey. After years of excellent behind-the-scenes production work, Dilla rose to fame as a member ... More >>

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Stones Throw and Parra/Rockwell to Launch Secret Pop-Up Shop in L.A.

​Few details are known yet, so let's start with the facts. In late August, Stones Throw Records announced its new partnership with Dutch artist Parra, who's work has previously been seen on STR goods, like James Pants' 2008 debut, Welcome. But Parra's got his own thing going on -- namely, a T- ... More >>

Unlocked Grooves: Breakestra, Mayer Hawthorne, Myron and E.

L.A., Bay Area artists redefine the sound of soul

A Decade of Dublab

Celebrating Los Angeles’ most inspiring, intuitive and tasteful music collective

INCHES002: Five More L.A. Vinyl Exclusives Revealed and Reviewed ( MP3s)

In the unpredictable wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many (with delicious irony) as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES seeks not only to review the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (one populate ... More >>

Palate Food Wine: Bring-Your-Own-Vinyl

Photo credit: WinkChris Ramos at the turntable​With its own wine shop and an eighteen-dollar corkage fee, Glendale's Palate Food Wine provides little incentive to BYOB, but has still found a way to create a house party atmosphere. The Sunday afternoon event BYOV (Bring Your Own Vinyl) invite ... More >>

No Age to Cover Entire Husker Du Album with "Special Guest" at All Tomorrow's Parties

But which one? Which album, that is, and which special guest? Based on this excellent interview that No Age did with Bob Mould, and vice versa, for the LA Record, we've got a pretty good idea. The entire conversation feels like a Mutual Admiration Society meeting, and as a result the talk is ope ... More >>

Last Night: Lip-Synch Big Stink @ Mountain Bar

By Sophia Kercher A man in a pink suit with a hair-metal wig and matching 'stache struts on stage, badly mouthing the words to an '80s jam. But before he swaggers off -- bam! -- pink-suit-dude rips off his pants and out pops a five-foot-long elephant dick. Ladies and gents, this was just the beginn ... More >>

LA's New Robotics: L.A. Riots, Guns N Bombs, Caxsio and Others Are Revolutionizing the City's Dance Clubs

Screw the hazy, lazy indie-rock tunes of Silver Lake; the biggest L.A. revolution is happening in the clubs

Best L.A. Record Label: Stones Throw Records

Record Reviews: Koushik's Out My Window, Black Ghosts' self-titled debut

Also, Final Solution's Brotherman soundtrack, Look Daggers' Suffer in Style

Arabian Prince: A Jheri Blossoms

Electro pioneer who quit N.W.A weeks before Compton now makes beats for Grand Theft Auto

In the Beginning: Hip-Hop at the Movies

Rapper's delight

Koushik-Out My Window

From Sugar Hill to the Wild Pitch/4th & Broadway/Rap-A-Lot years to Fondle 'Em and Rawkus, hip-hop was founded on a bedrock of great labels that you could generally trust whatever they released to be quality, save for the the 4th and Broadway-signed Stereo MC's (though we can all admit to liki ... More >>

Kiss and Makeup

In the Ghetto; Peanut Butter party; English food; Capture scratch

Record Reviews: Badd Santa, Beanie Sigel, Regime Noir

Holiday music that doesn't suck, unhinged thug talk and a MySpace page

Soleful Saturday

Rebel Central

The fantastical real-life story of L.A.’s Stones Throw Records, a hip-hop legend in the making

L.A. Music '06: Welcome to Indie Land

The Magic Kingdom has Tomorrowland; we’ve got Spaceland. Plus, more magical local bands, man.

Mom & Pop Hip-Hop Shop!

33third records brings the licorice pizza (and live in-stores) back to Pico

Who Am I This Time?

Check Your Bazooka at the Door