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Top Ten Sexiest Album Covers We've Ever Seen

See also: Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: The Complete List Sex and rock 'n' roll go together like insanity and reality TV. Many musicians' best work has been inspired by their desire to get laid. So, when they're looking to visually represent their work, naturally the physical act of lo ... More >>

Music Picks: Guns N' Roses, Nneka, Billy Childs, Willie Nelson & Family

Also, Slow Club, Kneebody, The Pretty Reckless, Apparat and others

Abby Travis - The Dragonfly - 2/27/12

Abby Travis, Tony Clifton, Alain Johannes The Dragonfly 2-27-12 Better Than . . . going to the circus. Abby Travis sure knows how to throw a party. She's seemingly ubiquitous as an in-demand bassist, backing everyone from Masters of Reality, KMFDM and Vanessa Paradis to Beck, Eagles of Death Meta ... More >>

Music Picks: Lila Downs, Merle Haggard, I See Hawks in L.A., Die Antwoord

Also, Das Racist, Gonjasufi, Roky Erickson and others

Music Picks: Sinead O'Connor, Ryan Adams, Busdriver, Matthew Dear

Also, Wye Oak, Jeff Lorber Band, Hiromi and others

Guns N' Roses - The Forum - December 21, 2011

Timothy Norris"Do you know where you are?"​See also: *Our slideshow of the concert *True Story: Axl Once Threatened To Skip A Concert, So Barry Fey Got His Gun *Tommy Stinson Interview: Guns N' Roses' Bassist Compares Axl Rose And Paul Westerberg *Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: The Comp ... More >>

Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: The Complete List

​See also: *Chuck Klosterman's Favorite Hair Metal Albums One day I was sitting around thinking I want to write a song about ménage a trois...and the line 'love in stereo' came into my head. Inspiration can happen anywhere at any time. -Jani Lane, Hit Parader magazine History has not been ... More >>

The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #15-11

​See also: The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #20-16 ​15. Spinal Tap This Is Spinal Tap soundtrack (1984) Rob Reiner's brilliant mock-rockumentary sends up longstanding hard-rock obsessions like Druids and getting super-heavy. (Aspiring local hair-metal god Paul Shortino of Roug ... More >>

Future Islands - Echoplex - 11/17/11

Ian Cohen​See also: Future Islands: Too Noisy For New Wave, Too Pussy For Punk Future Islands Echoplex 11-17-11 Better than: Nursing your woes while crying in your beer. Having someone spill theirs on you while dancing in place takes way less effort I'd been told that Baltimore synth-pop be ... More >>

Nigel Tufnel Day 11/11/11: We Make It Official

​Early this year, we told you about the movement to make November 11, 2011 officially Nigel Tufnel Day. Tufnel, of course, is one of the protagonists of This is Spinal Tap, beloved for his amp that goes to 11, making it, of course, "one louder." And while we have fully supported this cause ... More >>

1991: Nirvana Documentary Captures the Band Moments Before They Broke

​Early this year, we told you about the movement to make November 11, 2011 officially Nigel Tufnel Day. Tufnel, of course, is one of the protagonists of This is Spinal Tap, beloved for his amp that goes to 11, making it, of course, "one louder." And while we have fully supported this cause ... More >>

Spinal Tap Fans Start Movement to Make 11/11/11 "Nigel Tufnel Day" Worldwide

Eleven​ If you're even remotely familiar with the film This is Spinal Tap, then surely you're conversant about this little legendary piece of dialogue: Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and... Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most am ... More >>

Nightranger: Inaugural L.A. Nightie Awards

Eleven​ If you're even remotely familiar with the film This is Spinal Tap, then surely you're conversant about this little legendary piece of dialogue: Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and... Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most am ... More >>

Top 5 Songs That Will Sabotage Your Office Holiday Party

5 Songs That Will Sabotage Your Office Holiday Party

Interview: White Zombie's Sean Yseult Awakens Sleeping Corpses With New Book

​ We've often referred to ourselves as the "Where's Waldo" of L.A. music and nightlife, and now that our pal Sean Yseult has released her new book, I'm In The Band- Backstage Notes From The Chick In White Zombie, we really feel that way. Yseult, who was a founding member and bass player fo ... More >>

Last Night: Muse at Staples Center

Timothy NorrisMuse, rising victorious after avenging Emerson Lake and Palmer's murder by the forces of Punk​ [For many more exclusive photos of the show, see Timothy Norris' slideshow "Muse @ Staples Center"] Walking into Staples Center right before the Brit trio Muse hit the stage, there was ... More >>

Tomorrow: Jeff Beck Brings New Album to Nokia Theater

​Jeff Beck is playing the Nokia Theater tomorrow. We're going to go out on a limb and assume that it will feel a lot different than his shows at The El Rey a few months back. Beck's 14 US dates fall just days after his first studio release in 7 years, Emotion & Commotion. He probably doesn' ... More >>

I Love Rock & Roll (Movies): The Nightranger's Guide to LA Band-dom On Film

[Lina Lecaro writers our amazing Nightranger column every week. Check out her explorations of LA nightlife here.] With The Runaways bringing rock n' roll to movie theaters this week (see a report from the premiere here), we've been thinking about our favorite band n' beat packed films lately. Docum ... More >>

Last Night: The Crystal Method Performs Surprise Live Set

View more photos in Colin Young-Wolff's "The Crystal Method Secret Show @ Echoplex" slideshow. Colin Young-Wolff​If electronic dance music ever gets its own This Is Spinal Tap-like parody, The Crystal Method would have to be the film's hard-partying, amplifier-past-10 inspiration. Not that t ... More >>

Stage Raw: Getting Intimate With Michael Kearns

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83MICHAEL KEARNS GETS INTIMATE​L.A. Weekly's 2007 "Queen of the Angels" Michael Kearns performs his solo performance piece, Intimacies, at the drkrm Gallery and Performance Space in Eagle Rock, 2121 San Fernando ... More >>

Cry Me a Reverb

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83MICHAEL KEARNS GETS INTIMATE​L.A. Weekly's 2007 "Queen of the Angels" Michael Kearns performs his solo performance piece, Intimacies, at the drkrm Gallery and Performance Space in Eagle Rock, 2121 San Fernando ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Land of the Lost, My Life in Ruins, Pressure Cooker

Also, Corked!, Downloading Nancy and more

THOSE FAKE ROCK GUYS ARE REAL NOW, BUT NOT "REAL NOW"

Also, Corked!, Downloading Nancy and more

Tap That!

Also, Corked!, Downloading Nancy and more

Pacific Dining Car

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For the Record

The life and premature death of Mary’s Danish

English Frank, 1945–1998

The life and premature death of Mary’s Danish