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Cinefamily's Annual Grab Bag, the Everything Is Festival

Laughing for a Good Cause

5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week, Including Making Fun of Crappy Gifts

5. Chop Schtick 2012 Oh, holy night! All Jewish comics on Christmas Eve -- and egg rolls, too! Wendy Hammers hosts, with Eric Schwartz, Monica Piper, more special guests and a sing-along. Genghis Cohen, Mon. Dec. 24, 7 & 9 p.m.

Tenacious D Will Make You Crap Your Pants

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: The Complete List Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: The Complete List For all the seriousness of today's rock, a good joke is often i ... More >>

It's a Black, Gass Gas

Sasquatch! 2012 Wrap-Up: Trivia For The Casual Observer

By Chris Kornelis Sasquatch! went down this past weekend in George, Washington. Test your knowledge of the 2012 edition of the festival in this multiple-choice trivia test. For clues, check out our sister paper Seattle Weekly's coverage of the happenings on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. 1. At w ... More >>

Marilyn Manson, Slash, Evanescence - Club Nokia - 4/11/12

Revolver Golden Gods Club Nokia 4-11-12 Better than ... Any hard rock show you'd see on the Sunset Strip nowadays. Music awards shows generally suck. They are most often excuses for industry people to slap themselves on the back and perform crappy performances of songs you don't want to hear anywa ... More >>

Cosplay Karaoke at Meltdown Comics' Nerdmelt With Dr. Strange, Lana Kane of Archer, Nicki Hunter as Lara Croft and More

For the debut evening of Cosplay Karaoke last month, the promo literature asked, "What would Harley Quinn sing if she had a chance? What would Peter Parker belt out? You have a chance to find out as NerdMelt hosts COSPLAY KARAOKE!" and warned "YOU MUST BE IN COSTUME IN ORDER TO SING!" The rules we ... More >>

Dave Grohl Rant in London: "You Come to My Show and Fucking Dance, You Asshole!"

Dave Grohl in Tenacious D's The Pick of Destiny.​If you were planning on getting rowdy in the pit when the Foo Fighters roll into the Forum this fall for two nights of back-to-back rock-your-face-off n' roll, you better think twice. Dave Grohl might become enraged, publicly humiliate you while ... More >>

Charlie Sheen Detroit Live Show with LA Rapper Simon Rex/Dirt Nasty Turns into Total Disaster

Charlie Sheen's "musical director" Simon Rex and Charlie Sheen stare dumbfounded at a Detroit crowd that wants its money back (actually, this is from Scary Movie 3)​ We're receiving several reports from multiple sources that the debut of Charlie Sheen's incomprehensible victory tour of live sh ... More >>

Top 5 Edible Rider Requests By Los Angeles Bands

robert_rex_jackson/flickrJane's Addiction. Ginger gives you wings. ​ Anyone who has wasted an afternoon at work bouncing around The Smoking Gun's collection of hospitality riders -- an artist's list of demands, like towels, booze, food, guest tickets -- understands that musicians can be fair ... More >>

Sunset Strip Follies

CHICKS WHO INK (HBO DEALS)

Top Ten LA Musician Mansions For Sale (Sorry Millionaires: Jack Black Just Snapped Flea's Los Feliz Pad)

Jack Black Buys Flea's House More Musicians Insane Mansions For Sale

Nightranger's Wild Ride

Margaret Cho Sings! New Foul-Video from Album "Cho Dependant"

Margaret Cho's sassy humor often veers on the nasty, even the scandalous, but what's really shocking about her new CD, Cho Dependent, out next week, isn't the explicitness of tunes like "Your Dick," "My Puss," and "Gimme Your Seed," or even the super-stellar list of musicians who join her on each tr ... More >>

Day 3: Infected Mushroom Brings Head-Banging Trance To Coachella

Dennis RomeroInfected Mushroom performs at Coachella.​Confession: Trance (spikey-haired douches bouncing to 135 beats-per-minute music) is not our thing. Burning Man (sweaty, 40-year-old shaved-head guys perving on 18-year-old, pigtailed girls with lollipops) -- also not our thing. Put the two ... More >>

MANILOW MELODY MADNESS

Rock Picks: Ozomatli, Harper Simon, Spain

Also, Tenacious D, Lady Gaga, Local Natives and others

DON'T JEW LOVE THE HOLIDAYS?

Jason Reitman's Concert Highlights: David Crosby's Live Gig at Rob Lowe's House (And More)

Editor's note: This week director Jason Reitman is guest blogging at West Coast Sound. Reitman, whose new film, Up in the Air, was nominated for six Golden Globes earlier in the week (including Best Director and Best Screenplay nominations for Reitman ... congrats!), is also a pretty big music head, ... More >>

Grohlapalooza!: New Vultures Single, Foo Comp, Nirvana Live

"New Fang," the advance single from supergroup Them Crooked Vultures drops today, whetting the appetite of millions of old-school rawwwwk fans who are still recovering from the shock of learning that their fantasy-baseball team-up of Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), John Paul Jones (Led Zeppeli ... More >>

Awesome or Awful? The Battle of Milkquarious

Awesome or Awful: The Battle of Milkquarious

Over the Weekend: Oktoberfest Scandal, Dodger Victory, Motorhead and Chromeo Rock Downtown L.A.

No matter where you went over the weekend -- a restaurant, bar, or even a friend's house -- there were more baseball-crazed Angelenos glued to the television than normal as the Dodgers finished off the St. Louis Cardinals in the postseason throwdown. Looks like Villaraigosa is going to be sending a ... More >>

Last Night: The Marijuana Policy Project Party at the Playboy Mansion--The Dandy Warhols, Playmates, and Pinball

Laurie ScavoI don't need to explain the Playboy Mansion. You've probably seen Girls Next Door, the E! Entertainment show that managed to successfully de-mystify the estate like the channel did Saved by the Bell, Puff Daddy, and Fabio. But despite the camera's depiction of Heff as goofy and groping g ... More >>

Tenacious A-C Suck!

GO LA: Fat Beats, Fat Tuesday and a Fat Comedian

And a fat lot more to do in L.A., February 20-26

LAFF 2008: I Can't Drive 66

Meat Loaf

Do you love me?

The Write Stuff

Andy Dick, Sarah Silverman and Write Aid

Warning: Contains Grateful Dead Karaoke!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Pete Townshend Comes Alive!

with Rachel Fuller, Tenacious D, Ben Harper, Alexi Murdoch, Joe Purdy at Hotel Café

Hungry for Stink

Shooting the shit with Tenacious D

Rock Picks

From October 13-19

Hungry Like the Woof

Morning Becomes Sifl & Olly

Black Comedy

Jack Black

Music Picks

For the week of March 10 - 16

Motorin!

Laugh Your Week Off!

Willie Nelson & Friends

Snake Bites

Waves of Sympathy

They Don’t Make 'Em Like That Anymore

Boy Wonder

Liam Lynch has more in his utility belt than silly songs and sock puppets

How Clean Was My Valley

Edited by Kateri Butler

Alien Nation

Frozen Entrée

Hope Sandoval wants to make you cry

Get-Well Tune

Hello, Polly!