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  • Blogs

    May 16, 2013

    The Bling Ring Book Chronicles the Calabasas Teens Who Stole From Celebrities

    "It seemed like something somebody would make up," author Nancy Jo Sales says on the phone from her New York home. "If you had pitched this as a movie, nobody would've bought it. It would've been too unbelievable." But the story of a bunch of young suburbanites who burglarized a string of celebrity ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2013

    Legendary DJ Alan Freed Received a Strange Form of Payola

    Henry Stone is one of those legends in the music biz; he ran ventures including the mega-successful, disco-heavy TK Records (responsible for KC & The Sunshine Band and many more), and helped pioneer the way popular music is distributed and promoted. Hint: In all the sleazy ways you can imagine. In ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 2, 2013

    The Ten Best Country Albums of 2012

    By Alan Scherstuhl This list of the year's best country albums is assembled with two important premises in mind: First: If the people who record and listen to these records consider them country, than they're damn well country. Purists who argue that country should still sound like '68, '76, '84 o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2012

    Is Music Site Uncool Cool Enough to Get Funding?

    Music writers David Greenwald and Daniel Siegal want to create a site for in-depth music reporting and criticism, and they want to pay writers a fair wage to do that work. Sort of like the L.A. Weekly's music section, but they want to do it minus the kind of pageview-driving clickbait -- listicles a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2012

    Here Are What People on Twitter Think Are the Best Songs Ever

    I wish I were smarter. Were I a Stephen Hawking or a Marie Curie (or even Master Splinter) I'd be able to explain how Twitter is the unedited consciousness of young America, how it is simultaneously vitriolic and beautiful, how maybe no form of social media has before, or ever will, function as perf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2012

    Foster the People - Gibson Amphitheatre - June 30, 2012

    Foster The People Gibson Amphitheatre June 20, 2012 Our Foster the People profile Live Review: Foster The People at El Rey Theatre Better than... yet another "Pumped Up Kicks" remix. Last night, Foster the People leader Mark Foster made it known that it was good to be home. "It's crazy how muc ... More >>

  • Music

    October 27, 2011

    Music Picks: Amanda Palmer & Jason Webley, Tinariwen, Mastodon

    Also: Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers, Danzig and others

  • Music

    September 16, 2010

    Music Picks: Grizzly Bear, Muse, Dark Dark Dark, the Charlatans UK

    Also, Tonya Watts, Modeselektor, Heart and others

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2010

    Stage Raw: Unknown Future, Theater on Seward Closes Its Doors

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Lieutenant of Inishmore and A Tale Told by an IdiotAN UNKNOWN FUTURE: Theater on Seward Closes its Doors John Fleck performs tonight (Thursday), 8 p.m. with his sardonic one-man comedy about Trader Joe's (and points beyond), Side E ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2010

    Stage Raw: Pasadena Playhouse Emerges from Bankruptcy

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE on KING LEARCAPTURED AURAL PHANTASY THEATER ​CAPT presents a special event tonight (Friday) night, Hooray for Hollywood Extravaganza, celebrating the legends of Our Fair City, In a style mixing radio and vaudeville. The Galler ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    Stage Raw: Wuthering "Heights"

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGEWUTHERING "HEIGHTS"​Lin-Manuel Miranda stars in his own Broadway hit, In The Heights, now at the Pantages. Photo by Joan Marcus "Wuthering" actually means windy not withering. Though the former is preval ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    Stage Raw: The Other Festivals

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCurrent STAGE FEATURE on Anton Chekhov's 150th Birthday BashTHE OTHER FESTIVALS Running concurrently with the Hollywood Fringe (June 17-27) is Arts Olympus (June 17-20) on board the Queen Mary in Long Beach. AO includes a contemporary Russian exhib ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    Stage Raw: Lease Subsidy Program Gets Another Lease

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT FEATURE ON BORN TO BE ALIVE and THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACELEASE SUBSIDY PROGRAM GETS ANOTHER LEASE A recommendation by L.A.'s Chief Administrative Officer Miguel Santana to restructure (eliminate) the city's Lease Subsidy Program for non- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    Gaga, Taylor and Wayne, Oh My! The Napkin Holder Plays Space 15 Twenty

    The T-shirt reborn.​On Saturday evening, Hollywood's Space 15 Twenty celebrates the opening of its Planet White T-Shirt exhibition, conceived by L.A. arts organizer Triple-Major and benefiting Designers Against AIDS. The installation, which runs through April 18, promises to re-imagine and tr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Music

    December 3, 2009

    Rock Picks: Willie Nelson, Maude Maggart, Two Tears

    Also, Cold Cave, Ceci Bastida, Califone, and others

  • Music

    February 14, 2008

    Grammy Kisses

    Pre-awards parties; star spotting; survival of the hippest

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