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The Best Concerts to See in Los Angeles This Weekend

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Friday, May 17 The International Swingers VIPER ROOM With New York's Met Gala "punk" event and exhibit dominating the media last week, it's sadly ironic that the innovators and music makers responsible for this in-your-face ... More >>

Jay-Z's Great Gatsby Soundtrack Is a Failure

When the first trailer for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby was released a year ago, it was set to the music of Jay-Z and Kanye West's "No Church in the Wild," from the sometimes duo's incredibly self-important Watch the Throne album. On the surface it made sense. Jay-Z -- who retired as a rapper i ... More >>

Quit Hating on Kings of Leon, Even If You Disliked "Sex On Fire"

[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] I have several friends who should ostensibly like everything about Kings of Leon, but they strongly dislike the Nashville ... More >>

The 20 Greatest EDM DJs: 20-11

Electronic dance music's recent resurgence has made the genre more popular than ever before, but it's still often not taken seriously as an art form. And yeah, many goofily-dressed ravers are so high they'll literally dance to anything. But below we've highlighted 20 top-notch spinners who put real ... More >>

Top 20 L.A. Metal Albums: 10 - 1

See also: Top 20 L.A. Metal Albums: 20 - 11 Top 20 Greatest L.A. Punk Albums The Ten Most Unreadable Metal Band Logos 10. Slayer Seasons in the Abyss (1990) Seasons in the Abyss is nothing fancy, just pure, sore-neck, eardrum-stripping metal. Full of brutal drum barrages, massive caliber guitar as ... More >>

My Morning Jacket - The Wiltern - 9/12/12

My Morning Jacket The Wiltern 9/12/12 The number of bands building a name and reputation off their live performances has begun dwindling at a startling rate. With Bruce Springsteen and U2 inching closer to performing in wheelchairs, My Morning Jacket seems to be one of the last remaining holdouts w ... More >>

The Top Five Pop Punk Bands of All Time

Top 20 Greatest L.A. Punk Albums of All Time Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time In the past couple of decades, it's hard to think of a more-maligned genre than pop-punk. (That is, except nu-metal.) But it's a shame; and as someone who spent a lot of time listening to pop-punk in his preteens, I can app ... More >>

How Best Fish Taco in Ensenada Became One of the Hottest Comedy Clubs in L.A.

It's just after 10 p.m. and already five comedians have done their thing when comic Eddie Pepitone strides up to start his set. Short, bald and decidedly unhinged, Pepitone gives the air of a blue-collar Buddha: a wizened, workaday sage who happens to be slightly crazy-eyed. Getting right to the po ... More >>

Coldplay - Hollywood Bowl - 5/1/12

Coldplay Hollywood Bowl 5/1/12 Chilly Tuesday nights in May isn't exactly what the Hollywood Bowl is all about. But despite the less-than-ideal conditions, Coldplay warmed up the sold out crowd last night with songs off their latest album, Mylo Xyloto, and an assortment of hits. Since the band's ... More >>

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #10-6

See also: *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #20-16 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #15-11 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #5-1 10. Pussycat Dolls The Pussycat Dolls may seem like an easy target, but they're actually a quite difficult one, considering they're less band than brand. There's their rea ... More >>

50 Most Ridiculous Vanity Plates in L.A.

Forget 140 characters: try eight! In a city full of networking self-promoters and wannabe celebs, it's no surprise that ridiculous vanity license plates abound. That little space on the back of your car represents a precursor to the away message and the Facebook status, albeit a near-permanent one. ... More >>

Van Halen's 1980 Tour Rider: Why They Demanded The Brown M&Ms Be Picked Out

​See also: Barry Fey on that time that he held a gun to Axl Rose's head Barry Fey is a Denver-based concert promoter who has booked just about every giant rock band you can think of, and often for the first time in America. His new memoir Backstage Past speaks on his efforts bringing groups l ... More >>

Buzzkills on Bikes: Rose Bowl to Deploy Green-Shirted 'Tailgating Ambassadors' in Parking Lot

pubclub.comNo smiling.​A little piece of Jimmy Buffet dies every time the word "tailgating" is paired with the word "guidelines" in a city document; so, by our calculations, tonight's agenda report for the Rose Bowl Operating Company meeting has left 15 little pieces of Jimmy Buffet in need of ... More >>

U2's Edge Sees His Malibu Hilltop Mansions Rejected: He 'Can't be Serious About Being an Environmentalist'

The 'bu-hoo-tee.​U2 guitarist The Edge finally found what he's looking for: Five mansions along a ridge he owns in the Santa Monica Mountains above Malibu's Surfrider Beach. But even though there are no sacred Joshua trees along the ridge, the California Coastal Commission rejected the develo ... More >>

Music Picks: Alison Krauss, Flying Lotus, My Morning Jacket

Also, Jaga Jazzist, Kid Cudi, Baths and others

William Shatner Reveals Song Lineup for His Upcoming "Metal Album"

​Back in February, we broke the news that William Shatner was working on a star-studded new album with some of LA's most prominent metal session musicians (Read "William Shatner Is Recording Star-Studded Metal Album in L.A.: We Got the Details"). Well, now WilliamShatner.com (of course there' ... More >>

Countdown to Record Store Day: An Interview with RSD Co-Founder Michael Kurtz

​We've been looking forward to Record Store Day (or RSD) for awhile now. For one, it provides a welcome diversion for those of us not going to Coachella. Also, we are looking forward to all of the limited-edition vinyl releases, in-stores, and sales that come along with RSD. We keep hearing a ... More >>

Top 5 Things to Do This Weekend in L.A.

Ween!​ "L.A. proved too much for the man," sang Gladys Knight, "So he's leavin' the life he's come to know, He said he's goin' back to find [Ooh, said the Pips] what's left of his world, The world he left behind, Not so long ago." Well, "the man" was kind of a wuss, right? You don't have to t ... 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 >>

Over the Weekend: The Final L.A. Show of ISIS

Over the Weekend: The Final L.A. Show of ISIS

Movie Reviews: The City of Your Final Destination, Oceans, Five Easy Pieces

Also, Paper Man, Handmade Nation, Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3D and more

Ten Creepy Cool '80s Songs to Get You Through Halloween

​Now that you're probably engaged in the almost-last minute Halloween costume cram session, you might be in the need for some tunes to get you through the hours of skirt-hemming and wig-styling. At the same time, though, we figured you might be a little tired of hearing Ministry's "Every Day i ... More >>

The Venture Bros.' Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick Talk Favorite Music

Shannon Cottrell​Sunday night at midnight, The Venture Bros. returns to Adult Swim for another season of mad scientist and supervillain misadventures. While we have heard bits and pieces about what to expect for the upcoming episodes at Comic Con, when LA Weekly caught up show architects Jacks ... More >>

A Tale of Two Movies

When things go miraculously right — or horribly wrong

Jimmy Page and Jack White talk Loud, love, The Edge and new projects

In his tribute to the art of guitar-playing, It Might Get Loud, documentarian Davis Guggenheim explores the personal histories, techniques and creative processes of three of the music world's most revered axe men: Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White. Whether or not this trifecta of talent represent ... More >>

Live in L.A.: Doves at The Wiltern, May 16, 2009

BY PAUL ROGERS View more photos in the "Doves @ The Wiltern" slideshow. Timothy NorrisDoves shouldn't exist. "Album" bands like this, who've sustained a theater-level following for a decade without U.S. radio hits (and on May 16 comfortably filled the 2200-capacity Wiltern), supposedly died out w ... More >>

The Cure Tear Up the Troubadour at Surprise MySpace Show

(Frank Micelotta/Getty Images for MySpace)If you're anything like the freakazoid Cure fans who one way or another managed to secure a wristband for last night's surprise Cure show at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, you should probably stop reading this right now. If you weren't at the show and opt ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Sarah Palin Dictionary

Stage Raw: It Helps to Be Bi

Stage Raw: Cooperation and Dissent

Record Reviews: Coldplay, Modey Lemon

Another guide to more LA Bands at SXSW

In our ongoing attempt to prop some worthy musicians headed to Austin this week, yet another list of LA bands/songwriters to chase down at SXSW in Austin this week. This is a tipsheet for those of you with $$$ in your eyes. Looking for a band to break, license, co-opt, manipulate, convince to sell o ... More >>

Record Reviews: Burial, Wu-Tang Clan and Kenna

Burial, Wu-Tang Clan and Kenna

Meet Your Favorite New Band(s)

The National, The Broken West The El Rey Theatre, June 26

Come On Feel the Rage

Rage Against the Machine and Lemonheads at Coachella

Rock Picks

For the week of April 5–12

In the Pink

Shins take a trip to the dark side of the moon

The Season to Be Rockin'

Tralala, Jim Noir, Annuals at Spaceland

Microsoft Wants to Kill Your iPod, Summer Goes Pop!

Harry, Dykes and Gays

Beyond Bubbly

The Style Council’s New Year’s Eve party mixes

Coachella 2005: The Year of the Cult

A highly opinionated user’s guide

Killing Them, but Not Softly

Waves of Sympathy

Coachella 2004

Let Bygones Be Buy Gone

Pink Flag Burning

Fever Pitch

New clogged transmissions

Crust Never Sleeps

The Big Nowhere

Out on the Nellis Range with the Center for Land Use Interpretation