Teena Marie

I Decide What Music My Family Listens To During Dinner, Dammit

Each night, my family has dinner together. It's me, Wife, Boy A, Boy B, Boy C, and we sit at a thrift store dinner table on thrift store chairs and eat a king's dinner. (After having been a stay-at-home mother for nearly six years, Wife is a remarkable cook). Part of the reason this happens is bec ... More >>

Phlo Finister: A Portugese, Black, And Irish Former Model Who Sings R&B

Phlo Finister's hair is black and stick-straight. She's wearing Tims and a tight, cropped Tommy Hilfiger tank. Her boxers are puffed out of the approximately size 38 jeans that pool around her ankles. With her gold wire-rimmed sunglasses, she's Aaliyah, circa 1994. This is not what we expected. Th ... More >>

Crate-Digging with Dam-Funk...at Best Buy

Rebecca Haithcoat​Dam-Funk always comes prepared. As L.A.'s ambassador to the funk gods, he's always equipped with the booty-rotation essentials he's acquired from years of digging in the crates. (You can bet his show tonight at the El Rey Theatre will be no exception.) The man reigns so sup ... More >>

Dirty Girl Review

Pictures Of Rappers' Cats, and a Snoop Dogg Feline Bombshell!

​Last week we brought you pictures of jazz players with presidents. It was pretty awesome, particularly Duke Ellington and Richard Nixon. But now, something even better: Pictures of rappers' cats! Fact is, while canines are a common subject (and metaphor) in hip-hop songs, felines don't appea ... More >>

Music Picks: Nicole Atkins & the Black Sea, Teebs, Los Amigos Invisibles, Rare Grooves

Also Parkway Drive, Martha Wainwright, Anna Tijoux, the Deadbeats and others

20 Musicians We Will Miss: 2010, the Year in R.I.P.

20 Musicians We Will Miss R.I.P.

Teena Marie, LA Legend of '70s and '80s Soul and Funk, Dead at 54

The Ivory Queen Of Soul​Born in Santa Monica and raised as the white girl with soul, Teena Marie celebrated the 30th anniversary of her recording career last year with a string of lively performances, including one at the L.A. County Fair. The Ivory Queen was Rick James' protege, starred on Th ... More >>

Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, "Alive and Resting at Home"

Aretha Franklin​ The Detroit Free Press reports that, although "Twitter and Facebook were abuzz Monday night with rumors and confusion about whether Aretha Franklin, 68, had died, [...] a Free Press source says Aretha Franklin is alive and resting at home." Here are some tweets from the CRAZY ... More >>

Rock Picks: Don Caballero, Yo! Majesty, Joan Baez, Juana Molina

Also, Extreme Animals, Andrew Bird, Peach Fuzz, and others

Rock Picks: The Slits, Squiddo, Electrocute

For the week of August 2 - 9

Rock Picks: The Humpers, Secretary Bird, Cut Chemist & DJ Shadow

For the week of June 21–28

Rock Picks

For the week of Feb. 8 - 15

The Way We Wore

Our unofficial guide to vintage rock T-shirts

Outlaw Grub and Vision Boards

I Gotta Be Mimi!

On The Emancipation of Mimi, Mariah Carey flaunts seven octaves, three races, a bundle of nerves, and one king-hell identity crisis

Is It Brilliant?

The Contemporaries

Time of the Session

When the music was fast, and the players anonymous

The Cute Ones

As the World Turns

Timbaland, Magoo and Ma$e: These are the daze of our lives