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Sunset Strip Music Festival - West Hollywood - Aug. 1-3, 2013

Sunset Strip Music Festival Sunset Strip, West Hollywood Aug. 1-3, 2013 The Sunset Music festival sought to reverse sagging attendance this year, and the line-up got a shake-up. There was less emphasis on head-banging, with instead such artists as rap-rock arena rockers Linkin Park, a mix of hip-ho ... More >>

Is the Sunset Strip Music Festival Struggling?

Now in its sixth year, the Sunset Strip Music Festival attracts sweaty denizens to Sunset Boulevard every summer, many dressed in leather pants and other hair metal-era duds. The entertainments include food trucks, booze, and a long list of bands, who play on outdoor stages and at the indoor venues ... More >>

Linkin Park, Awolnation, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, et al.

Sunset Strip Farmers Market: A Seasonal Night Market

The Sunset Strip farmers market makes a fair attempt to maximize the small public lot at 8755 Sunset Boulevard that it's allotted every Thursday from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. There's a dog-sitting service at the entrance and a beer garden with live music towards the back, as well as a purveyor of fat-candl ... More >>

Joan Jett Is the Sunset Strip Music Festival 2013 Honoree

She don't give a damn 'bout her bad reputation, which is why Joan Jett is the official honoree at the Sunset Strip Music Festival this year, West Coast Sound can exclusively announce. The fest takes place August 1-3 and Linkin Park, the headliner, is the only other announced performer so far. Past ... More >>

The Best L.A. Metal Concerts To See In April

Tuesday, Apr 2 Ensiferum, Tyr House of Blues Sunset Strip The annual Paganfest tour has become one of our favorite regular metal tours. Finland's Ensiferum is grounded heavily in orchestral folk metal, but maintains a galloping pace that keeps headbangers moving in the pit. Denmark's Tyr has more in ... More >>

The Five Most Iconic Key Club Shows in Its History

We broke some sad news last week: the Key Club will close its doors this Friday. Since opening in 1967 as Gazzarri's, it has been a staple of the Sunset Strip for decades, under various names and ownership. The venue has seen many popular styles of music come and go, but has, Zelig-like, been at the ... More >>

Key Club to Close This Month

The Key Club, a Sunset Strip favorite for decades, is scheduled to close later this month. Though the club's ownership could not be reached for comment, its last show is slated for March 14, and sources behind various events held there confirmed its impending demise.

No, Seriously, the Sunset Strip Has Gotten Cool

In 1975, Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant stood on a balcony at the Continental Hyatt House above the Sunset Strip and screamed "I am a golden god!" Allegedly. From similar balconies at the same hotel, Keith Richards and Keith Moon both hucked TVs to the street below in fits of excess and Jim Morris ... More >>

10 Vintage Rock and Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip

L.A. billboards advertise all sorts of things -- upcoming films, non-profit organizations or strip clubs. But in an earlier time, more billboards were all about music. Robert Landau's new book Rock 'n' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip displays the rise of that music genre and its influence throu ... More >>

Marilyn Manson Rambles, Makes Jokes About the Dark Knight Killer

See also: *Marilyn Manson's Born Villain Tracks: We Heard Them First *Marilyn Manson Threatens to Kill Buddyhead, LA Weekly, Critics Marilyn Manson headlines this weekend's Sunset Strip Music Festival, which caps a crazy summer for him that included promoting his latest release Born Villain and an ... More >>

Gil Turner's, Liquor Store to The Stars on Sunset Strip, Robbed: Suspects Nabbed Fast

If you rob the high-profile liquor store patronized by the rich and famous on the Sunset Strip, you better have a good exit plan. Gil Turner's place is known for hosting shoppers such as Mary-Kate Olsen, Jessica Alba and Avril Lavigne. It also was the site of a robbery over the weekend, West Hollyw ... More >>

Cityzen: Paralyzed From the Neck Down, Singer Toby Forrest Still Belts It Out

When Toby Forrest -- the vocalist for Los Angeles progressive funk rock band Cityzen -- was 22, his dream was to move from Arizona to Colorado to ski, make jewelry and play music. After college graduation, Forrest and his buddies went to the Grand Canyon, where he jumped off a cliff and did a swan ... More >>

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 >>

The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #20-16

See also: *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #15-11 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #10-6 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #5-1 *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 l ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Best Business Twitterer: The Roxy

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 Mayo​Three 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 >>

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 >>

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

Nightranger: Studs and Poses

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 2010​L.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 >>

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 >>

This weekend: Sunset Strip Music Festival, Boris, Cyndi Lauper, the Antlers, Morris Day, Cap'N Jazz, Something Corporate, Chemical Brothers

Christina M. FeliceVanaprasta​By 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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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 >>

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 Patrick​File 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 >>

Nightranger: Stars, Cars & Guitars

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 >>

Get Sloshed on Sunset: Mass Happy Hour Wednesdays on The Strip

Lychee old fashioned at Talésai​Ever 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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

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 >>

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.

Neil Hanburger? I hate that guy!

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 >>

Best Metal Die-Hards: Steel Panther at the Key Club

Crudo Bar & Ristorante: Getting Raw on the Strip

The Italian mood is swell, but why so little crudo?

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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Strip Standard

Cocked and Loaded

Blowing away the music machine

Pleasure Pits on Parade

A romp through L.A.'s rock, blues and country clubs

Forever Fabulous

Happy hours with Royce and Marilyn