Tony Wilson

Dance Club Pick: Where Did I Put My Undead Tony Wilson Costume?

Brendan Mullen the Writer: Highlights of his Work for the Weekly

In addition to opening punk club the Masque, LA DIY music giant Brendan Mullen, who died at age 60 yesterday after suffering a stroke on Saturday, was a longtime LA Weekly music writer whose prescient insight and in-the-trenches curiosity captured the experience of being a music head in LA in the 8 ... More >>

Silver Factory Hosts Post-Punk 24 Hour Party This Weekend

Not going to Comic-Con this weekend and looking for some music to satiate your need to run wild through the night? 24 Hour Party is a weekend-long series of all-night shows hosted by the apparent Factory Records fans at Downtown's Silver Factory Studios. Not only does is the three-day bash (which ... More >>

Goth is Dead, Long Live Goth: Post-Thanksgiving Darkness At Ruin Hollywood

By Liz Ohanesian It's barely 11 p.m. on the day after Thanksgiving, but the modest, early evening crowd inside Koreatown goth party Ruin Hollywood is already congregating on the dance floor. Underneath the chandeliers inside the Monte Cristo, about two dozen people pirouette and snake their way acr ... More >>

5 Albums in 9 Years = VP at EMI

New EMI VP to bank on the awesome power of Rush to revitalize the music industry in the 21st century Once upon a time the people who ran record labels were quite simply music freaks. They were producers like Ahmet Ertegun at Atlantic, tastemakers like Tony Wilson at Factory, or musicians like Ian M ... More >>

Joy Division to the World

Ian Curtis’ afterlife seems like it’s been one big after-party

Hella Coachella

When it comes to the annual desert festival, Nightranger’s no minor-leaguer.

Sex and Drugs and Sex and Rock & Roll

Michael Winterbottom’s monomaniacally intoxicating 9 Songs

I’m Steve Coogan

. . . and Alan Partridge and Paul Calf and Tony Ferrino and Tony Wilson and 'Steve Coogan' and, oh yes, Phileas Fogg in the soon-to-open remake of Around the World in 80 Days

We Are the Fall

. . . and Alan Partridge and Paul Calf and Tony Ferrino and Tony Wilson and 'Steve Coogan' and, oh yes, Phileas Fogg in the soon-to-open remake of Around the World in 80 Days

Once More, With Feeling

Can the Los Angeles Theater Center ever bring back the neighborhood?

Boomslangers

Can the Los Angeles Theater Center ever bring back the neighborhood?

The Year in Film

Can the Los Angeles Theater Center ever bring back the neighborhood?

Letters

Can the Los Angeles Theater Center ever bring back the neighborhood?

From Requiem to Rave...

...and back again, in Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People

The Ghosts of 'Madchester'

...and back again, in Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People

A Mythic Thing

Tony Wilson on the city of Manchester, the Sex Pistols, Joy Division, Factory Records, New Order, the Hacienda Club, Happy Mondays . . . had enough yet?