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The Beatles

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2013

    The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Week

    Monday, April 8 Thao & the Get Down Stay Down THE TROUBADOUR Usually, when songwriters are as wickedly intelligent as Thao Nguyen, they tend to write morbidly gloomy and/or overly serious anthems of great meaning and purpose. That's not to say the Virginia native doesn't have her grand and heavy mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2012

    Penny Marshall, E.T. and More: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

    Our weekly list of special event movies to check out this week: Friday, Sept. 28 How do you examine the nature of time on film? VICE and Grolsch Film Works asked three filmmakers -- Russia's Alexy Fedorchenko, the U.S.' Harmony Korine and Poland's Jan Kwiecinski -- to do just that in three 30-minut ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 27, 2012

    Beatles Stories

    Our weekly list of special event movies to check out this week: Friday, Sept. 28 How do you examine the nature of time on film? VICE and Grolsch Film Works asked three filmmakers -- Russia's Alexy Fedorchenko, the U.S.' Harmony Korine and Poland's Jan Kwiecinski -- to do just that in three 30-minut ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2012

    Exclusive: Unearthed Photos of the Beatles in the Mid-'60s

    In 1964, U.K. photographer Harry Benson was headed to Africa on assignment for the Daily Express when he got a call from his editor, saying the plans had changed. He was now going to Paris to photograph the Beatles. Benson was less than thrilled. "I thought of myself as a serious journalist," he say ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 14, 2012

    Strawberry Fields for Daddy

    In 1964, U.K. photographer Harry Benson was headed to Africa on assignment for the Daily Express when he got a call from his editor, saying the plans had changed. He was now going to Paris to photograph the Beatles. Benson was less than thrilled. "I thought of myself as a serious journalist," he say ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 10, 2012

    The Beatles: The Lost Concert

    In 1964, U.K. photographer Harry Benson was headed to Africa on assignment for the Daily Express when he got a call from his editor, saying the plans had changed. He was now going to Paris to photograph the Beatles. Benson was less than thrilled. "I thought of myself as a serious journalist," he say ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2012

    1041 Studios Fire Damages Hollywood Venue Where Beatles, Elvis, Beach Boys Recorded

    A studio complex where the Beatles, Elvis and the Beach Boys recorded went up in flames tonight, according to the L.A. Fire Department and reports. The blaze at 1041 N. Orange Avenue in Hollywood (a.k.a. 1041 Production Studios) was reported about 7 p.m. and was put out in 18 minutes, according to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2012

    Top 3 Beatles Who Got a Star on the Walk of Fame Before Paul McCartney

    Paul McCartney got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday. Well deserved! After all, he helped change the course of pop-music history with his ditties and whatnot; West Coast Sound recently declared his group, the Beatles [sic], the third great musical act of all time, behind Beethoven and W ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 19, 2012

    My Money's on the Walrus

    Paul McCartney got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday. Well deserved! After all, he helped change the course of pop-music history with his ditties and whatnot; West Coast Sound recently declared his group, the Beatles [sic], the third great musical act of all time, behind Beethoven and W ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 22, 2011

    George Harrison: Living in the Material World

    Paul McCartney got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday. Well deserved! After all, he helped change the course of pop-music history with his ditties and whatnot; West Coast Sound recently declared his group, the Beatles [sic], the third great musical act of all time, behind Beethoven and W ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 11, 2011

    Come Together: A Beatles Cabaret

    Paul McCartney got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame yesterday. Well deserved! After all, he helped change the course of pop-music history with his ditties and whatnot; West Coast Sound recently declared his group, the Beatles [sic], the third great musical act of all time, behind Beethoven and W ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    The Top (Fab) Four Songs on Beatles' Solo Albums

    Perhaps an honorable mention?​ While yesterday's wallow in negativity was a blast, it is time to restore the karmic balance as the Beatles would have wanted by focusing on the four best songs that John, Paul, George and Ringo produced upon being emancipated from the bonds of "Beatles," or at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    The 100% For Sure Top Five Worst Beatles Songs Ever (With Love)

    timothy norris Our Broward-Palm Beach New Times colleague Ryan Burk recently stirred up quite a healthy debate in the reader feedback section of his blog post, "Top Five Worst Beatles Songs" with comments ranging from Snarfblatt's supportive, "This is a spot-on review," to Chris Clouston's "You sh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    The Ultimate 420 Jam? The Beatles (Yup, the Actual Beatles) Covering Dylan's "Rainy Day Women #12 &35" (aka "Everybody Must Get Stoned")

    Macca likes the reefa​ We couldn't let 4/20 go by without playing you a little bit of what may be The Ultimate 420 Jam. It's The Beatles, with vocals by John Lennon, covering Bob Dylan's "Rainy Day Women #12 &35" (i.e., "Everybody Must Get Stoned"). Ok--it's not a full song (it's just a few ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 10, 2011

    WE LOVE THEM/YEAH, YEAH, YEAH

    Macca likes the reefa​ We couldn't let 4/20 go by without playing you a little bit of what may be The Ultimate 420 Jam. It's The Beatles, with vocals by John Lennon, covering Bob Dylan's "Rainy Day Women #12 &35" (i.e., "Everybody Must Get Stoned"). Ok--it's not a full song (it's just a few ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 27, 2011

    John Lennon, Songwriter

    Macca likes the reefa​ We couldn't let 4/20 go by without playing you a little bit of what may be The Ultimate 420 Jam. It's The Beatles, with vocals by John Lennon, covering Bob Dylan's "Rainy Day Women #12 &35" (i.e., "Everybody Must Get Stoned"). Ok--it's not a full song (it's just a few ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2010

    Richard "Scar" Lopez, Founding Member of Pioneering East LA Chicano Rock Combo Cannibal and the Headhunters, Dead at 65

    Richard "Scar" Lopez, founding member of pioneering East LA Chicano rock group Cannibal and the Headhunters died last July 30 of lung cancer, the LA Times reports. Most obituaries about Lopez's life and career (and the band's monster hit "Land of 1,000 Dances") are drawing from a great 2005 artic ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 22, 2010

    DANCE LIKE A MONKEY!

    Richard "Scar" Lopez, founding member of pioneering East LA Chicano rock group Cannibal and the Headhunters died last July 30 of lung cancer, the LA Times reports. Most obituaries about Lopez's life and career (and the band's monster hit "Land of 1,000 Dances") are drawing from a great 2005 artic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2010

    This Weekend: El Guincho, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Harlem, Dawes, Peter Case

    El Guincho​Yes, that's the voice of Julieta Venegas on the re-imagined "Mientes," one of the five tracks on El Guincho's new EP Piratas de Sudamérica. El Guincho, the nom de tune of Barcelona experimentalist Pablo Díaz-Reixa, fueled some underground buzz with his 2007 album Alegranza. A pri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2010

    Happy April 15!: Soul Cover of The Beatles' 'Taxman'

    The idiotic, possibly racist Tea Partiers are not the first (or last) people to complain about big government and big taxation. Back in 1966 notoriously mystical hippie George Harrison was so pissed off at the British government taking 90% of the Beatles' money (no, really, they did, before the Beat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    Crate Diggin': Tennesse Ernie Ford Does The Beatles

    ​Today's crate-diggers' delight comes courtesy of Dan White, who's blogging American Idol's Beatles-themed week for the Queersighted blog. Here's what he posted about his find at Los Feliz's amazing metalhead-run-and-operated mecca for used and new vinyl Vacation Records: I got this record I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2010

    Live Review: Paul McCartney at the Hollywood Bowl

    Timothy Norris​During the first concert of Paul McCartney's sold-out, two-night stand at the Hollywood Bowl, it was sometimes hard to tell who was having the better time. Was it the fans, who were delirious to see their hero in this historic, relatively intimate amphitheater (albeit at a steep ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2009

    EXCLUSIVE MP3!: "Chicano Power," Scorching Vintage RnB by East LA's Thee Midniters

    "They became our Beatles: all the stuff that was going on in Beatlemania, we translated into Midnitermania. In this microcosm which is East Los Angeles, this is something that belongs to us. It gave young kids who would eventually become musicians like myself inspiration to pursue a career in music, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    Falling James on the Beatles Remasters: "Get the Originals Out There First. Desecrate Later"

    By Falling James I was surprised to see that the 7-11 up the street had a carton of the new Beatles CDs on sale, sitting on the counter right beside the register. Usually, 7-11 doesn't traffic in such fine musical merchandise, apart from the occasional Miley Cyrus plastic bauble, and definitely not ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 23, 2009

    PLEASE DON'T FEED THE DEAD COVER BAND

    By Falling James I was surprised to see that the 7-11 up the street had a carton of the new Beatles CDs on sale, sitting on the counter right beside the register. Usually, 7-11 doesn't traffic in such fine musical merchandise, apart from the occasional Miley Cyrus plastic bauble, and definitely not ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 18, 2009

    The Lunatic Is In My Head! It Really Is!

    By Falling James I was surprised to see that the 7-11 up the street had a carton of the new Beatles CDs on sale, sitting on the counter right beside the register. Usually, 7-11 doesn't traffic in such fine musical merchandise, apart from the occasional Miley Cyrus plastic bauble, and definitely not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2009

    Music Gaming at E3 Expo: First Look at Beatles Rock Band, Last.fm's Xbox Partnership

    Alexia TsotsisThose of us who remember the '80s (um, not me) might recall Sony introducing the first CD player in 1982. We've all come a long way since then, and nowhere was this more evident than at E3 Expo this week. West Coast Sound's "three is a trend" alarm went off when we realized that the pl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2009

    Tonight at Book Soup: Elijah Wald Defends His Book, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock & Roll

    The taboo, defined as "a prohibition imposed by social custom or as a protective measure," is an uncommon phenom in the 21st century, but with this reading of excerpts from How the Beatles Destroyed Rock & Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music, author Elijah Wald will defy one of ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 21, 2009

    ALL YOU NEED IS WALD

    The taboo, defined as "a prohibition imposed by social custom or as a protective measure," is an uncommon phenom in the 21st century, but with this reading of excerpts from How the Beatles Destroyed Rock & Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music, author Elijah Wald will defy one of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2009

    Sweet Relief for Sour Tax Time

    Here are some budget-minded suggestions for knocking back a few after filing your taxes tonight. Just when you thought the trend of tacking "-tini" onto every customized cocktail name was over, it shows up again on tax day. But Taste on Melrose's $1 (yes, that's one dollar) "taxtinis" served all d ... More >>

  • Music

    February 5, 2009

    Maybe We're Amazed: Notes on the Fairly Odd Coachella 2009 Lineup

    Our only hope — that Macca gets Ram tough

  • Columns

    July 24, 2008

    No Dark Knight: Salute to Sir George Martin, and His Ears

    Legendary producer receives Grammy Foundation Leadership Award

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2008

    Damien Hirst, Tom Waits, the Beatles, and the birth of the ubiquitous contemporary persona. PLUS, some cool shit I saw while I was in London and some thoughts on the Amerindie aesthetic vs. the Anglophile aesthetic.

    This post RIYL: Damien Hirst, Amerindie record labels, Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors, Islington's Union Chapel, pretentious statements about life.

  • Music

    February 14, 2008

    The Black Lips vs. the Beatles: With Love From Them to You

    Which quartet never had to answer questions about pissing onstage?

  • Film+TV

    September 13, 2007

    Across the Universe: Help!

    Julie Taymor’s ’60s-set musical is a bust

  • Music

    July 12, 2007

    Robots, Mods, Rockers

    And one shining Prince

  • Columns

    July 5, 2007

    Beatle . . . Mania

    McCartney plays Amoeba

  • Music

    February 15, 2007

    A (Really) Hard Day's Night

    Gosling discusses the sexual Internet, life in L.A. and Disappearing Record Label disease

  • Music

    December 21, 2006

    And So This Is Christmas

    Gosling discusses the sexual Internet, life in L.A. and Disappearing Record Label disease

  • Music

    August 10, 2006

    Help!

    Gosling discusses the sexual Internet, life in L.A. and Disappearing Record Label disease

  • News

    August 10, 2006

    Beatles for Sale

    After two decades, L.A.’s beloved Breakfast With the Beatles to be replaced with infomercial

  • Music

    July 6, 2006

    Cirque Du Vegas Does Beatles

    Be drunk. Be very drunk

  • News

    December 29, 2005

    Naa Na Na Na Naa

    How the West Coast Eastside sound changed rock & roll

  • Music

    May 19, 2005

    Superfan Strikes Again!

    Pianist Christopher O’Riley finds a line from Prokofiev to Elliott Smith in the curve of his own hands

  • Columns

    January 29, 2004

    The Shit Less Taken

    Pianist Christopher O’Riley finds a line from Prokofiev to Elliott Smith in the curve of his own hands

  • Music

    November 27, 2003

    Get Back

    Yoko Ono in an exclusive interview on the new Let It Be . . . Naked

  • News

    February 21, 2002

    Portraits of Obsession

    Photographs by Max S. Gerber

  • Columns

    January 31, 2002

    Business Gals: But How’s Her Risotto?

    Photographs by Max S. Gerber

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