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March 14, 2013
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October 15, 2012
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July 19, 2012
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June 29, 2012
Neil Young and Jonathan Demme Discuss Their New Film, Neil Young Journeys
By Aaron Hillis Not to knock films as fantastic as his Rachel Getting Married, The Silence of the Lambs, and Something Wild, but there's something wilder--or at least, more directly stimulating and pure--about Jonathan Demme's live-performance docs. The 68-year-old auteur immortalized a Talking H ... More >>
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May 18, 2012
Pilar Díaz: Let There Be Latin Rock
One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. As a teenager, Pilar Díaz spent Friday nights at Tower Records in Hollywood with her dad. It was something of a coping mechanism; her mother and sister were killed in a car ac ... More >>
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April 15, 2012
The Best Of Coachella: Saturday, April 14
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March 21, 2012
L.A. Traffic Makes Us More Creative and Other Revelations From Jonah Lehrer's New Book Imagine
With his third book, Imagine, neuroscience researcher Jonah Lehrer (Proust Was a Neuroscientist, How We Decide) answers the question "Where does creativity come from?" with some questions of his own: Why do long jogs inspire jolts of insight? How did anybody dream up Scotch tape before Scotch tape e ... More >>
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February 2, 2012
Screen Gems
With his third book, Imagine, neuroscience researcher Jonah Lehrer (Proust Was a Neuroscientist, How We Decide) answers the question "Where does creativity come from?" with some questions of his own: Why do long jogs inspire jolts of insight? How did anybody dream up Scotch tape before Scotch tape e ... More >>
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January 19, 2012
Music Picks: Skrillex, Diplo, Wu-Tang Clan, The Health Club
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January 6, 2012
The Talking Heads Were Way More Innovative Than The Ramones
The Talking HeadsWelcome to our new column, Deathmatch. Here, we'll compare two artists who have something in common -- musical or sartorial style, era, fan base -- and then determine, conclusively, who is better. The statement "The Talking Heads are a better band than The Ramones" will draw ... More >>
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December 23, 2011
CBGB Gingerbread House
UnknownCBGB gingerbread house24, 24 hours to go, we wanna be sedated -- with cookies and sugar. Perhaps we will be if we tear into the most punk rock gingerbread house ever. Didn't think punk and baked goods could go together? Think again. We spotted this gingerbread replica of legendary NYC ... More >>
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September 29, 2011
Jens Lekman - Hollywood Forever Masonic Lodge - September 28, 2011
Jens Lekman Hollywood Forever Masonic Lodge September 28, 2011 Better than ... seeing Jens Lekman at the Mondrian, where he played on his last trip to L.A. Last night Jens Lekman played Hollywood Forever's Mason Lodge, the kick-off show for Gothernburg's top musical export's month-long U.S./Europe ... More >>
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August 17, 2011
Re:Play LA Tonight: J*DaVeY Don't Need No Stinking Genres
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July 26, 2011
Nine Things You Didn't Know About Weird Al
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July 1, 2011
The 5 Most Hilarious Republican Attempts To Co-opt Rock Songs
The problem with being a Conservative, besides the fact that you spend all your time trying to ruin things for everyone else, is that, let's face it, you're really square. You probably have a million sexual hang-ups, you're always 50 years too late to claim credit for any social movements tha ... More >>
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June 30, 2011
Two Sides of Brian Eno
The problem with being a Conservative, besides the fact that you spend all your time trying to ruin things for everyone else, is that, let's face it, you're really square. You probably have a million sexual hang-ups, you're always 50 years too late to claim credit for any social movements tha ... More >>
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June 30, 2011
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June 30, 2011
Top 5 Accidentally Patriotic Things to Do in L.A. July 4 Weekend
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May 2, 2011
Silver Foxes and Silver Vixens: Top Ten Musicians "Of a Certain Age" That You'd Still Do
Pray you are this cool at 58Sheila E.'s being just as hot as she was in Krush Groove at her recent appearances during Prince's 21 Nite Stand at the Forum sent us spinning fantasies involving other musicians who are just as hot (or hotter) with a little age on 'em. This is our list, though- wh ... More >>
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March 31, 2011
Terry Allen at L.A. Louver
Texan artist offers a Western take on the patron saint of artistic madness, Antonin Artaud
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January 25, 2011
Das Racist: Are They Laughing with Us or at Us? (Exclusive Interview)
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September 16, 2010
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July 15, 2010
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June 7, 2010
Over the Weekend: LCD Soundsystem at the Palladium
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April 18, 2010
Day 2: The Gobi Tent Can't Contain Beth Ditto's Gossip
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March 24, 2010
U2 Producer Steve Lillywhite Debases Himself To Be the Next Simon Cowell
Esteemed producer Steve Lillywhite makes an 'Idol' plea and embarrasses music nerds
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January 28, 2010
Guest Blog: Five Great Kenny Loggins Movie Moments by '(500) Days Co-Writer Scott Neustadter
Editor's note: Screenwriter Scott Neustadter struck gold in 2009 with his script for (500) Days of Summer, which he co-wrote with Michael H. Weber. The film, shot in downtown Los Angeles, stars Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt; viewers watch the rise and fall of the pair's relationship throu ... More >>
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January 27, 2010
Guest Blogger: '(500) Days' Co-Writer Scott Neustadter's Five Favorite Movie Montages
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January 26, 2010
Guest Blogger: (500) Days Co-Writer Scott Neustadter on Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense
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January 13, 2010
Vampire Weekend at the Fonda: More Songs About Language and Taxis
In the schoolyard world of rock & roll, it's easy to see why Vampire Weekend gets picked on. Looking so meek, so intellectual, so teacher's pet, the band -- from suburban New York, no less -- looks the very antithesis of rebellion. They're more like an after-school study group than the most buzzed- ... More >>
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December 30, 2009
Attn. Musicians: Craigslist Offers Hope for Your 2010 Rock Dreams
Musicians, wannabe musicians, unemployable "lead singers," drummers, "producers," flautists, cello players: 2010 IS YOUR YEAR TO SHINE. Dude, you can do it. You just need to find the right situation. West Coast Sound is here to help. We've scoured Craigslist over the past few weeks looking for g ... More >>
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November 13, 2009
"Wait! Who's That Singing????": Top Ten List of Major Stars Covering Other People's Music
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November 1, 2009
Phish at Coachella, Day 2: For Halloween, The Band Covers Exile on Main Street (with Sharon Jones)
By Jeff Miller Read Jeff Miller's overview of the first evening of Phish's three-night stint at the Coachella grounds here. Halloween's a holiday that Phish built their reputation for unpredictability on - since 1994, when a show by the band's fallen on October 31st, they've celebrated by donning ... More >>
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October 28, 2009
INCHES reviews Lambo, Marshmallow Ghosts (mbrs of BMSR, Appleseed Cast), Bipolar Bear, and Pink Noise (MP3s)
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 (artists and labels, indie or other), believing that good m ... More >>
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October 21, 2009
INCHES012: New Vinyl from Talking Heads, Edward Sharpe, Sole & Skyrider, No Age ( MP3s, chart)
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 (artists and ... More >>
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October 4, 2009
Dudamel in Los Angeles and El Sistema a Huge Success
We sat perhaps 100 to 150 feet away from Gustavo Dudamel at the Hollywood Bowl last night, watching as he whipped his wiry, pale-skinned little body around the stage like dancer whose DNA somehow got mixed up with Lieutenant Commander Data from Star Trek.I wanted to snack on my brie-and-figs picni ... More >>
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July 24, 2009
Phish to Take Over Coachella Site for Halloween Festival. Like, Whoa.
Whoa. This could be huge! Billboard is reporting that Phish has announced a three-day festival called "Festival 8" at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio. Writes Billboard's Michael Ayers: After several weeks of speculation and a shape-shifting "Save the Date" map decorating its homepage, Phish h ... More >>
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July 14, 2009
Rhino to Release 'Digital 45s,' with A-sides, B-sides and Original (PDF) Sleeves
In ongoing effort to bring weird little songs from Rhino's catalog to the top of the digital avalanche, the legendary LA reissue label is launching a new series of so-called 'digital 45s.' This morning the label announced the program: Rhino will spotlight songs originally issued on 45 by offering t ... More >>
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July 2, 2009
Dirty Projectors: Balls Deep in the R&B
A scheduled “interview” with Dave Longstreth turns into a game of text-message cat-and-mouse
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March 20, 2009
SXSW '09, Day 2: On Applying for Secret Canadian Citizenship, The Tidal Wave of Tastemaking, and Dirty Projecting
Last year was my first year in Austin, so I can't really speak to nebulous notions of the SXSW "good ol' days." Anecdotal evidence suggests that the place has expanded exponentially each year since the rise of the Internet, and the demolition of the quasi-mythological monoculture. In layman's term ... More >>
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March 12, 2009
Last Night: Cut Copy's Ingratiating Simplicity
Timothy NorrisFans at Cut Copy: Overjoyed, to say the least. Like The Editors and the Shitty Beatles, Cut Copy practically begged for derision the moment they named themselves. Let's be honest, these guys aren't exactly re-inventing the synthesizer, openly cribbing from New Order, Duran Duran, and ... More >>
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February 26, 2009
Maynard James Keenan's Puscifer to Make Its LA Debut in April
Sounds pretty awesome to us: Vintner and Musician Maynard James Keenan, best known for his work with Tool and A Perfect Circle (and Caduceus Cellars), will bring his long running Puscifer project, a cabaret/circus/Vaudeville/music act, to LA for the first time on April 4. The act/band/whatever pla ... More >>
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October 27, 2008
Warner Brothers to Release 50th Anniversary Book, 320-Song (copy-protected, of course) USB Flash Drive
The main thing that the major labels have going for them, and why even the most battle-scarred of them has more "value" than budding minor labels, is due to their combined back catalog. During the fat times of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, the labels weren't just selling records but buying other labels ... More >>
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October 9, 2008
Earth Sucks
The main thing that the major labels have going for them, and why even the most battle-scarred of them has more "value" than budding minor labels, is due to their combined back catalog. During the fat times of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, the labels weren't just selling records but buying other labels ... More >>
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October 9, 2008
Theater Reviews: Hamlet, Razorback, The Most Mediocre Story Never Told
Also, Earth Sucks, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Politico!
Calendar
August 21, 2008
Heads and Heart
Also, Earth Sucks, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Politico!
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December 28, 2007
Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#20-16)
20. Jens Lekman-Night Falls Over Kortedala [Secretly Canadian] On first listen, Jens Lekman reminds you of Morrissey. Like the ex-Smith's frontman, the 26-year old Swede's got a rich baritone warble, a sly wit and a penchant for moony-eyed romanticism. But that's where the similarities stop. Lekma ... More >>
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November 28, 2007
Tell 'Em Why You Mad: The Guide to Hipster Haberdashery
If home is where you hang your hat then Silver Lake is rapidly turning into the world's largest hat rack. Over the past 12 months, it has become de rigueur in hipster courting rituals for male hipsters (homo habilus hipstericus) to trot out increasingly ridiculous pieces of vintage head-ware in an ... More >>
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How To Be a Rock Promoter
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