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The Best Concerts to See in Los Angeles This Week

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Monday, June 17 Alice Smith TROUBADOUR Grammy-nominated songstress Alice Smith acquired massive buzz with her 2006 BBE release, For Lovers, Dreamers & Me. Smith soon inked a deal with Epic Records, where she became a victim ... More >>

The Best Concerts to See in Los Angeles This Week

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Monday, May 20 Holy Ghost! TROUBADOUR It's been two years since the release of Holy Ghost!'s eponymous debut. Often hailed as LCD Soundsystem's heirs, the NYC-based duo's sound falls somewhere between Phoenix's precocious li ... More >>

The "Spider-Man" Theme Song As Sung By the Ramones, Michael Bublé and Pauly Shore

If your spider-sense has been tingling lately it's because, today, The Amazing Spider-Man brings everyone's favorite arachnoid dude back to theaters. But while not everyone's looking forward to this Tobey Maguire-less incarnation, it does present an excellent opportunity to revisit the Spider-Man t ... More >>

Wayne Coyne, LMFAO, And Social Media Babes: The Costumes That Rocked Halloween Parties This Weekend

Lina Lecaro It's Halloween, bitch! ​ See also: *What Will Be The Most Popular Music-Related Halloween Costumes This Year? And How Can They Be Made Slutty? *Moby, Milagres, Mariachi El Bronx - KCRW Masquerade Ball - The Legendary Park Plaza - 10-29-11 When you need a last minute Halloween cos ... More >>

Music Picks: Ravi Shankar, Marilyn Scott, Duran Duran, Burkina Electric

Also, Emmylou Harris & Her Red Dirt Boys, Odd Future, Gillian Welch and others

Hollywood Boulevard's Costumed Characters: How I Became One For a Night...as a Stripper Bunny

Hollywood Boulevard stripper bunny​Those people who stand outside of Mann's Chinese Theater in costumes, taking photos with tourists for tips -- do they have a union? Is there some kind of street performers license they need? Are there a bunch of unspoken rules about territory? What it I bec ... More >>

Anticon MC Serengeti: The Quirkiest, Deepest Rapper

Music Picks: Fucked Up, Dolly Parton, Ty Segal, Fitz & the Tantrums,

Also, Soundgarden, Iceage, Earth, Wu Lyf and others

Live Review: Top Five Reasons Odd Future is L.A.'s Best Live Act

Andrea Domanick#swaggin'​ If Wu Tang, Iggy Pop and the Flaming Lips threw a birthday party, it might approximate Odd Future's swag-as-hell show Saturday night at House of Blues Sunset. Swinging stateside amidst their first European tour, the horrorcore collective took the stage in full force ... More >>

Top 5 Worst Publicity Stunts of 2010: Nudie Pics, Secret Shows, Kitty Videos and Viral Everything Else

Top 5 Worst Publicity Stunts Including Nudie Pics and Kitty Vids

EMEK: An Interview with the Iconic '90s LA Music Poster Artist, Signing Tomorrow at Mr. Musichead

EMEKEmek's typically detailed artwork for Erykah Badu​ Not all of us are as audacious or as talented to only be known by one name, but there is an LA-born poster maker who gets away with being both. You may recognize EMEK's work from the LA Weekly's political art pages in 2004, but more likel ... More >>

Remember the "Coldplay Ripped Off Joe Satriani" Controversy? Tonight the South American Band that May Have Actually Originated that Melody Plays House of Blues

Remember the 2008 Brian Eno-produced Coldplay hit song "Viva La Vida"? The one with the looping string-and-drums melody and the "when I ruled the world" refrain? And then remember how someone (on YouTube, of course) figured out that the melody was suspiciously similar to guitar shredder Joe Satrian ... More >>

Best Coast Releases New Video for Hipster Runoff's Carles to Make Fun Of

Boo-yah!​We've said it before: every time Best Coast does something we get a certain tingle just waiting to see what her/their nemesis, the mysterious Carles from the Hipster Runoff buzzblog, will say about it. Best Coast seems like a band genetically engineered for Carles to mock, and his un ... More >>

Music Picks: Sasha & Kazell, She & Him, Efterklang, Xiu Xiu

Also, Holly Miranda, Les Blanks, Mumiy Troll and others

INCHES reviews Baron Zen, Bohren & Der Club Of Gore, Soft Circle High Places, I Heart Lung [MP3]

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 >>

INCHES reviews vinyl from Koushik, Avi Buffalo, Nerve City, Psychic Powers (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 >>

Watch: Or The Whale's Americana Striptease, 'Rusty Gold' (NSFW) [ MP3]

Searching for Moby Dick, Or, The Whale​Admirers of the male figure (beardy Americana variety) take note: indie alt-country band Or, The Whale has just released a video for "Rusty Gold," and it features a fella fitting that description wearing nothing more than the generous scruff on his chin. ... More >>

The Muppets Got It Right: Ten Great Freddie Mercury and Queen Moments

Every once in a while something happens that brings a band back to the surface, makes us reevaluate them and prompts us to scratch our heads and wonder, "Why now?" Take Queen. Their influence is all over Adam Lambert's new album, from the production and layered vocals to Lambert's slicked-back leath ... More >>

So You Think You Can Survive So You Think You Can Dance Live?

So You Think You Can Survive So You Think You Can Dance Live?

INCHES006: New Wax from HEALTH, Mayer Hawthorne, and White Shit ( MP3s, chart, video)

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 >>

Food On Film: "Know Your Mushrooms," Dude

Canadian director Ron Mann's film, "Know Your Mushrooms," one of a number of food-focused documentaries to come out this summer, finish ... More >>

Black Moth Super Rainbow's Kaleidoscopic Surgery

Meet the Musicians: Tobacco, Graveface, the Seven Fields of Aphelion, Power Pill Fist, Iffernaut and (of course) Father Hummingbird.

Rattling the Underground With Nosaj Thing and Low End Theory

No Age to Cover Entire Husker Du Album with "Special Guest" at All Tomorrow's Parties

But which one? Which album, that is, and which special guest? Based on this excellent interview that No Age did with Bob Mould, and vice versa, for the LA Record, we've got a pretty good idea. The entire conversation feels like a Mutual Admiration Society meeting, and as a result the talk is ope ... More >>

Phish: An LA Fan's Defense in the Wake of the Hampton, Virginia Reunion Shows

By Jeff Miller Growing up in LA's rock scene means spending your formative years building hipster credibility; writing about music in LA, as I've been doing for the last decade or so, often means working to maintain it. So there's a certain implicit shame when I admit a couple things about myself ... More >>

Live in L.A.: Pop Levi and the Parson Red Heads at the Echo, August 15

Pop Levi and the Parson Red Heads at the Echo, August 15 Photos by Timothy Norris I'm kinda obsessed with this Pop Levi guy right now, and finally saw him Friday night at the Echo during week three of his residency. I tried to catch him on week one, and showed up at 10 o'clock thinking, 'cool, go ... More >>

The Boredoms Pound Their Way Onto the Astral Plane

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South Bay smart-asses Dios (Malos) change their name and their game

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Joiners in Believing

Prog rock is back, and it’s coming for your hipster children

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