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July 18, 2008
John Lurie Signs at Book Soup Tonight
Best known for his work as the front man for NYC downtown jazz renegades the Lounge Lizards, and as a soundtrack composer (especially for Stranger Than Paradise), Lurie's cut a very skinny but influential swatch across American culture.
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November 27, 2008
Neil Hanburger? I hate that guy!
Best known for his work as the front man for NYC downtown jazz renegades the Lounge Lizards, and as a soundtrack composer (especially for Stranger Than Paradise), Lurie's cut a very skinny but influential swatch across American culture.
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October 2, 2008
Best Metal Die-Hards: Steel Panther at the Key Club
Best known for his work as the front man for NYC downtown jazz renegades the Lounge Lizards, and as a soundtrack composer (especially for Stranger Than Paradise), Lurie's cut a very skinny but influential swatch across American culture.
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August 14, 2008
Crudo Bar & Ristorante: Getting Raw on the Strip
The Italian mood is swell, but why so little crudo?
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July 3, 2008
Sunset Strip Music Festival
The Italian mood is swell, but why so little crudo?
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June 7, 2007
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For the week of June 7 - 14
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October 6, 2005
Strip Standard
For the week of June 7 - 14
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June 30, 2005
Nightranger
For the week of June 7 - 14
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June 27, 2002
Cocked and Loaded
Blowing away the music machine
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July 1, 1999
Wavemakers
At work and play in musical L.A.
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July 1, 1999
Pleasure Pits on Parade
A romp through L.A.'s rock, blues and country clubs
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June 10, 1999
Forever Fabulous
Happy hours with Royce and Marilyn
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November 21, 2008
The Week in LA Music: Scott Weiland, GnR, Vivian Girls at Part Time Punks, Jason Bentley
Cassie Ramone of the Vivian Girls (photo by Timothy Norris) These things happened in LA music this week: Erin Broadley sat down with Scott Weiland at his Lavish Studios for an interview, and the former Pilot, former Revolver, was, well, in a sentimental mood. KCRW announced that DJ Jason Bentle ... More >>
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June 24, 2009
Rhino Announces Landmark LA Reissue: Where The Action Is: Los Angeles Nuggets, 1965-1968
By far, the Official Most Anticipated L.A. Reissue of the Year has officially become the just-announced Los Angeles Nuggets Box that Rhino Records has announced. It's a four CD-box of garage and weird rock classics of the 1960s, a wild ride through an LA long since vanished.
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September 8, 2009
Festivals Then and Now: Lou Adler and Nic Adler Talk Monterey Pop and the Sunset Strip
The Adler posse knows a thing or two about the concert business. Lou Adler, the patriarch, is responsible for some of the great American cultural touchstones of the past 40 years, and a few of these moments are showcased on the wall of his home office in Malibu. There's the movie poster for The ... More >>
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September 10, 2009
Promote This: The Adler Effect
On the eve of the Sunset Strip Music Festival, Lou Adler and his son Nic talk about the concert business
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September 14, 2009
Over the Weekend: Back to School Burlesque, Sunset Strip Music Festival, L.A. Derby Dolls
Despite a "Back to School" themed burlesque show, the Sunset Strip Music Festival and a Derby Dolls bout, the most jaw-dropping event of the weekend wasn't an event at all, but rather a successful bank robbery held by a senior citizen wearing an oxygen tank. Are times really that tough or was the 70 ... More >>
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September 14, 2009
Sunset Strip Music Festival: The Freaks Come Out During the Day, Too
View more photos in Timothy Norris' "Sunset Strip Music Festival" slideshow. God bless the Sunset Strip. Hipsters can pooh-pooh it all they want as they ride their purple-tired fixed-gear bikes through Silver Lake, but for a sheer what-the-fuh!? parade of humanity, nothing beats the Sunset Strip. ... More >>
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October 8, 2009
Today in Photographs: October 8, 1960
Ginger Rogers and Cesar Romero place Nixon-Lodge stickers on cars in a Sunset Strip parking lot.LA Times/UCLA
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October 31, 2009
Sunday at the Egyptian: LA Nuggets Hosts a Film Screening of 1960s Rock Footage
The deep, rich, dynamic box set Where the Action Is! LA Nuggets 1965-1968, which compiles 101 urgent rock songs from Los Angeles, has been out for a little less than two months, which for most releases is the lifespan of the so-called "marketing campaign." But Action! is a little different. It's a s ... More >>
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March 25, 2010
THERE’S A SKIPPER BORN EVERY MINUTE
The deep, rich, dynamic box set Where the Action Is! LA Nuggets 1965-1968, which compiles 101 urgent rock songs from Los Angeles, has been out for a little less than two months, which for most releases is the lifespan of the so-called "marketing campaign." But Action! is a little different. It's a s ... More >>
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April 2, 2010
Complete 1966 Otis Redding Show Live on the Sunset Strip To Be Released
Here's a scoop for you: We hear from very reliable sources that Stax Records (the current version of the classic Southern Soul label recently revived by Concord Records) will be releasing a completely restored version of Otis Redding's legendary 1966 appearances on LA's very own Sunset Strip ... More >>
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June 15, 2010
Get Sloshed on Sunset: Mass Happy Hour Wednesdays on The Strip
Lychee old fashioned at TalésaiEver find yourself wondering why there are never enough drunk people wandering along the Sunset Strip at six o'clock on a Wednesday? Well this summer, that's all changing. Every Wednesday, for the entire summer, there will be mass happy hours along The Strip, ... More >>
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August 11, 2010
Slash Premieres New Video for "Back to Cali"
Slash has just released a new video for one of the cuts from his self-titled solo album released last April. "Back to Cali" features Myles Kennedy, the Alter Bridge vocalist who's been Slash's main touring vocalist for his solo material. The video is a collage of live footage from different ... More >>
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August 19, 2010
Nightranger: Stars, Cars & Guitars
Slash has just released a new video for one of the cuts from his self-titled solo album released last April. "Back to Cali" features Myles Kennedy, the Alter Bridge vocalist who's been Slash's main touring vocalist for his solo material. The video is a collage of live footage from different ... More >>
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August 19, 2010
Sunset Strip Music Festival Releases Set Times
Kristin BurnsObey my dog!: Billy Corgan wants you to buy tickets to the Sunset Strip Music Fest honoring Slash The Sunset Strip Music Festival, the Westside celebration of the riff (plus Kid Cudi, Common, and Fergie), have released set times for their August 28th street fair. This year's even ... More >>
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August 26, 2010
Sunset Strip Music Festival
Kristin BurnsObey my dog!: Billy Corgan wants you to buy tickets to the Sunset Strip Music Fest honoring Slash The Sunset Strip Music Festival, the Westside celebration of the riff (plus Kid Cudi, Common, and Fergie), have released set times for their August 28th street fair. This year's even ... More >>
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August 26, 2010
Guitar Icon Slash Talks 2010 Sunset Strip Music Festival Honor, Hollywood Survival Tips, and Stealing His First Top Hat
Erin BroadleySlash at Guitar Center on Sunset Blvd.It started as just another night on the Sunset Strip in the early '80s. A 17-year-old Slash borrowed his mom's car to party at the Rainbow with Steven Adler. Fake IDs in hand, they got to the bar only to find out that it was "ladies' night." ... More >>
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August 26, 2010
Filter Frontman Richard Patrick Talks Headlining Gig at Sunset Strip Music Festival and New Album 'The Trouble with Angels,' Rejects Mellowing with Age
Filter's Richard PatrickFile this under one of those "only in L.A." moments: You're at a concert with your arms crossed cooly, head nodding up and down, perhaps even stomping your foot once the chorus to your favorite song kicks in. Then suddenly, the Terminator T-1000 (yeah, the liquid silve ... More >>
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August 27, 2010
Sunset Strip Music Festival: Warner Drive Headlines Viper Room Tonight, Talks Hollywood Business Savvy, Meeting One's Idols & Why The Band Will Never Pay-to-Play
[L-R] Warner Drive's Candice, Jonny U, Albert, Jonny Law and ElvisFor those of us raised in Los Angeles (not counting Silver Lake transplants who are too cool, or lazy, to drive west of Vine) partying and playing music on the Sunset Strip is a right of passage. Love it or loathe it, we all h ... More >>
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August 27, 2010
This weekend: Sunset Strip Music Festival, Boris, Cyndi Lauper, the Antlers, Morris Day, Cap'N Jazz, Something Corporate, Chemical Brothers
Christina M. FeliceVanaprastaBy now, we're sure you have your strategy mapped out for Saturday's street festival portion of the Sunset Strip Music Festival. You're hitting the Sunset Strip early for Semi Precious Weapons; you're darting between outdoor stages for the likes of Travie McCoy, ... More >>
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August 30, 2010
Over the Weekend: Flashing Back with Slash, Smashing Pumpkins, Headbangers and Felines at the Sunset Strip Music Festival
Lina Lecaro Fergie gets skankalicious performing with Slash at SSMF [See also Timothy Norris' slideshow "Sunset Strip Music Festival 2010"] Whether you're 20, 40 or 60 years old, grew up in Los Angeles or hopped right off the bus ala Axl Rose in "Welcome to the Jungle," if you're a music fan ... More >>
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September 1, 2010
What's Your Favorite Slash Moment? Sunset Strip Music Fest Bands Semi Precious Weapons, Delta Rose, Thick as Theives & Others Share Stories (and One Sex Fantasy) About the Rock N' Roll Icon
Lina LecaroMyles Kennedy, Fergie and Slash perform SSMF 2010L.A. Weekly's Nightranger Lina Lecaro put it best in her Sunset Strip Music Festival live review: "Whether you're 20, 40 or 60 years old, grew up in Los Angeles or hopped right off the bus a la Axl Rose in 'Welcome to the Jungle,' if ... More >>
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September 2, 2010
Nightranger: Studs and Poses
Lina LecaroMyles Kennedy, Fergie and Slash perform SSMF 2010L.A. Weekly's Nightranger Lina Lecaro put it best in her Sunset Strip Music Festival live review: "Whether you're 20, 40 or 60 years old, grew up in Los Angeles or hopped right off the bus a la Axl Rose in 'Welcome to the Jungle,' if ... More >>
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November 4, 2010
To Pay or Not to Pay to Play the Sunset Strip
The controversial "presales" system pits clubs against musicians in L.A.'s fabled rock mecca
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November 8, 2010
Pay to Play On the Sunset Strip: Commenters Explore Desolation Boulevard
the sweet on the street in front of sunset's old filthy mcnasty's Last issue's To Pay Or Not To Pay To Play The Sunset Strip article (by Diamond Bodine-Fischer) provoked a pile-on in the comments section, much of it reinforcing the frustrations of musicians like Loana dP Valencia and Josh Ne ... More >>
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January 17, 2011
TSOL Riot: Following Sunset Strip Punk Rock Violence Earlier This Month, Deputies Sweep Area Ahead of Dirty Rotten Imbeciles Show
YouTubeDirty Rotton Imbeciles.Remember that punk rock mini-riot outside the Key Club in West Hollywood more than a week ago? The sheriff's department has struck back. WeHo News reports that deputies swarmed the area for a punk rock show Saturday and arrested 14 people and handed out 41 citat ... More >>
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March 24, 2011
Rock Out With Your Doc Out
YouTubeDirty Rotton Imbeciles.Remember that punk rock mini-riot outside the Key Club in West Hollywood more than a week ago? The sheriff's department has struck back. WeHo News reports that deputies swarmed the area for a punk rock show Saturday and arrested 14 people and handed out 41 citat ... More >>
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May 11, 2011
VIDEO: Three WeHo Chicks in Sombreros Dine-and-Dash on Cinco de Mayo, Run Over Isla Cantina Waitress With Their Car
The asses come out on Cinco de MayoThree young ladies who made this Cinco de Mayo a girl's night out to remember on the Sunset Strip are now facing pretty serious charges: assault with a deadly weapon. What a buzzkill, right? Last night, CBS2 picked up on a WeHo Daily story about a dine-and ... More >>
LA Life
June 9, 2011
Best Business Twitterer: The Roxy
The asses come out on Cinco de MayoThree young ladies who made this Cinco de Mayo a girl's night out to remember on the Sunset Strip are now facing pretty serious charges: assault with a deadly weapon. What a buzzkill, right? Last night, CBS2 picked up on a WeHo Daily story about a dine-and ... More >>
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July 14, 2011
R.I.P. Cat Club: Sunset Stripped
Lina LecaroNightranger at Cat Club last year. Looks like nine lives are not in the cards for the Cat Club. The venerable Sunset Strip rock pit, owned by Slim Jim Phantom of the Stray Cats and known for its raucous and often stellar jam sessions, has been sold and word is the new hang, an Iris ... More >>
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July 22, 2011
Kassava Coming to Sunset Strip
Kassava, the Caribbean restaurant tucked behind the Beverly Center, is opening a new location in the heart of the Sunset Strip. No word on whether Kassava on Sunset is a replacement or an addition to the original location. More details when we get them. Kassava on Sunset: 8410 W. Sunset Blvd., W ... More >>
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August 10, 2011
Burger Lounge Comes to Sunset Strip
A burger from Burger Lounge (left); exterior of the chain's Sunset Strip location.Checked in with Dean Loring, president and CEO of Burger Lounge, who tells us the first Los Angeles location of the San Diego-based chain should open some time in October. Situated on the Sunset Strip (not far ... More >>
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August 18, 2011
Tales of the Whisky Bathroom: Nikki Sixx's Favorite Sunset Strip Memories
Born on the Sunset Strip in 1981, Mötley Crüe and their debauched rock, flamboyant style and tempestuous off-stage antics have been with us for three decades now. Their near-death experiences, TV-show stints and famous women made them poster children for hair metal's hedonistic heyday, but ... More >>
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August 19, 2011
Best Posts of the Week
Photo by Falling JamesLast week ended with the death of hair metal hero Jani Lane and the Go-Go's being honored with a star on the Walk of Fame. The number one L.A. female rock band of all time (according to Lina Lecaro) returned to the Greek Theatre to play their annual show on Wednesday, an ... More >>
Eat+Drink
November 10, 2011
Night + Market: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011
Photo by Falling JamesLast week ended with the death of hair metal hero Jani Lane and the Go-Go's being honored with a star on the Walk of Fame. The number one L.A. female rock band of all time (according to Lina Lecaro) returned to the Greek Theatre to play their annual show on Wednesday, an ... More >>
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November 14, 2011
Stargazing in L.A. County? Dark Skies Ordinance to Outlaw 'Light Pollution' in Rural Areas
sightseeingworld.comHollywood Boulevard's about to get some country-bumpkin competition.Just because we live in the biggest, brightest county on the West Coast -- famous for its neon signage, supergraphic billboards and helicopter searchlights -- doesn't mean we can't fight for our right to s ... More >>
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December 5, 2011
The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #20-16
See also: *Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time *Warrant Singer Jani Lane Found Dead One day I was sitting around thinking I want to write a song about ménage a trois...and the line 'love in stereo' came into my head. Inspiration can happen anywhere at any time. -Jani Lane, Hit Para ... More >>
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December 9, 2011
Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: The Complete List
See also: *Chuck Klosterman's Favorite Hair Metal Albums One day I was sitting around thinking I want to write a song about ménage a trois...and the line 'love in stereo' came into my head. Inspiration can happen anywhere at any time. -Jani Lane, Hit Parader magazine History has not been ... More >>
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