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Top 10 L.A. Hip-Hop Producers in History

For better or worse, L.A. hip-hop is strongly identified with gangsta rap, and that genre is mostly identified with its rappers and their outsized personas. But the classic Los Angeles albums wouldn't be what they are without the incredible sonic textures that define them, the funk, electro, rock, a ... More >>

Music Picks: Hard Summer, Sunset Strip Music Festival and Bob Dylan

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including an Unlikely Oscar Winner

Henry Ong's new play Sweet Karma, based on the life of a Khmer Rouge survivor and his tragic death on the streets of L.A., is being performed at Burbank's Grove Theatre Center, and is this week's pick. For all new theater reviews, plus this weekend's stage listings, see below.This week's theater fea ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including an Ionesco Vaudeville Musical

This week in L.A. theater, Ionescopade, the vaudeville musical based on Eugene Ionesco's plays, was our pick of the week, while Alcestis at the Boston Court also got a "Go." All new theater reviews are below. As Steven Leigh Morris is on vacation this week, our stage feature is a piece on L.A.'s bo ... More >>

Lina's Party Pick of the Week: China Club Projam Monday

UPDATE: We have just been notified by the club that due to construction difficulties and delays, the grand re-opening of China Club has been pushed back to July 18. TRU NIGHTCLUB 1600 Argyle St., Hlywd., 8 p.m., Mon., June 24, and every Mon. thereafter Yes, you can go home again -- at least, you ... More >>

Music Picks: Rhye, Papa and Motörhead

Music Picks: The Descendents, Stones Throw 15th Anniversary Show,, Princess Pangolin, Brian Setzer

Also, Guns N' Roses, Weingart, Stevie Wonder's House Full of Toys, and others

The Top Five Portishead Cover Songs

Portishead​Back in the mid-'90s, the British trio Portishead emerged as bastions of the trip-hop movement. Trip-hop was a term invoked more often by the media than the bands themselves -- because, you know, we love to label things! -- but Portishead's music fit the template with beats born out ... More >>

Jane's Addiction at Tim Burton's LACMA Bash, plus Some of Burton's Best Movie Music

Lina Lecaro LACMA CEO Michael Govan, Tim Burton and Slash​ There is seemingly no rest for the wicked mind of Tim Burton. With current/recent projects ranging from the film version of Dark Shadows to a reworking of his stop-motion short Frankenweenie to Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty (sadly, ... More >>

Top 10 Most Recycled Women of Rock (Only Three Call Themselves Groupies!)

Jena Ardell​ Everyone has had a crush on rockstar before, but these woman actually pursued and conquered rockstars. In order to make our Top 10 Most Recycled Women of Rock list, these ladies had to have dated (or bedded) six or more famous musicians. There's one musician who appears on four o ... More >>

John Barry, Legendary Film Music Composer, Dead at 77

David BaileyJohn Barry (with then-wife Jane Birkin)​ Oscar-winning composer for James Bond films, John Barry died today. He was 77. As the man behind the sound of the swinging Sixties 007 era and beyond, he presented the big band extravaganzas for the Bond films. He won Oscars for his work on ... More >>

Tonight: Betty LaVette, Jews on Vinyl Revue, Eastern Conference Champions, Wallpaper, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Jets Overhead

Elizabeth FladunBetty LaVette​One of the best Betty LaVette stories came out of the veteran soul singer's performance a couple years ago at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C. In a nod to one of the year's honorees, the Who, LaVette delivered a show-stopping rendition of "Love Reign ... More >>

Today in Artists Sticking It to the Record Industry: Liz Phair Self-Releases Weird New Album, Tom Jones Delivers Christian Hymns Record Instead of "Sex Bomb, Part 2"

Stuff MagazineNot a Photoshop: The actual Liz Phair​Remember Liz Phair? And Tom Jones? Sure you do--they're both adult artists with a sizable fanbase who still buy records and have the income to pay for concert tickets. They might not be making Bieber or Bublé moolah, but the right record ind ... More >>

Theater Reviews: All My Sons, Opus, King Lear: The Madmen

Also, Praying Small, The Fantasticks, Amadeus and more

Stage Raw: King Lear

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGENEW REVIEW GO KING LEAR: THE MADMEN ​ Photo by Ed Krieger The old loon hasn't looked so good in some time. Bart DeLorenzo's staging for Antaeus Company's Classicsfest 2010 comes with two casts  -- ... More >>

Stage Raw: Fringe Citations From the Department of Gossip and Hearay

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGESTATE OF L.A. THEATER PANEL Tomorrow (Sunday) at  p.m. at Fringe Central, I join Harvey Perr (Stage and Cinema), Don Shirley (LA Stage Blog), Geoff Hoff (LA Theatre Review), Colin Mitchell (LA Bitter L ... More >>

Superstar of David (Guest Bloggers: The "Jews on Vinyl" Project)

[Ed.'s Note: Roger Bennett and Josh Kun are the masterminds behind the amazing Jews on Vinyl project, where they have digged deep to retell the history of Jewish recorded music from the 1940s to the 1980s. Their projects include a blog, a book and a traveling museum exhibit which is coming to LA's S ... More >>

Cruisin' for a Boozin'

10 L.A. bars worth diving into

Music Picks: Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, Bad Religion, Non

Also, The Wedding Present, Phil Alvin and others

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Crescent City as breeding ground for Nicolas Cage's maniac cop

Right Said Fred Cancels Halloween, Will Not Dance on King Tut's Tomb

By Daiana Feuer King Tut might rise from his fake tomb at the Egyptian Theatre, but Right Said Fred will not be dancing on his head. Richard and Fred Fairbrass were scheduled to perform "I'm Too Sexy" live during the King Tut's Tomb Halloween spectacular on Saturday night in Hollywood. An email ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Our Town, The Crucible, Big

Also, The Fantasticks, Courting Vampires, A Number and more

Rock Picks: Black Mountain, PJ Harvey and John Parish, Alice Russell, Starfucker

Also, T-Model Ford, the Sadies, Van Dyke Parks and others

Rock Picks: BLK JKS, Lambchop, Efterklang, Yelle

Also, Michael Gira, The Pretenders, Foreign Born, and others

Rock Picks: Tangerine Dream, Spindrift, Robyn Hitchcock

Also, Electric Six, Heartless Bastards, Scissors for Lefty and more

Sarah Palin's Office Decor & Her Bearskin Rug

This photo ran with a recent New York Times article on Palin and her "outsider charm." The image begs some questions about her interior decorating style. Are grizzly bears endangered? No. At least, not anymore. The National Wildlife Federation declared the grizzly population in the areas surround ... More >>

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

Legendary producer receives Grammy Foundation Leadership Award

Rock Picks: B.B. King, Matmos, Coldplay

Also, Supergrass, Ratatat, the Duke Spirit

Becoming Jane: Romp and Circumstance

Ms. Austen has a fling

His Smile Looked Really Out of Place

Grammy notes from the Style Council

Theater Reviews

Reviews of Die! Mommy! Die! Fully Loaded, Dirty White Tuxedo Pants and a Brown Plastic Bag and more

Music Picks

For the week of July 20 - 27

Weekend Theater Reviews

Reviews of Fully Loaded, Greensward and I Do! I Do!

5 Blogs for Musical Archaeologists

Gip and Gipperer

The Revelators

Martin Scorsese’s blue Christmas

Que Viva Mexico

Mexican cinema, past and present

Burning Love

Molotov

Pop Tomes

The Lime Barty Story

The best of Sitegeist

Letters

Boho

Ann Powers finds the meaning of her previous life

Behind Blue Eyes

The return of British soul

Venice Biennale,Vegas Style

The Casino Report, part II

The Lime Barty Story

Frigid Eyre, Cool Duke

The bizarre alchemy of musicals

Doge Food

A pound of flesh at the Venice Room

Cracks in the Screen

And a little light shone in

Fish Out of Water

Seafood on the San Pedro waterfront