U2

Green Eggs and Roses?

The 1997 Edition Was the Best MTV Video Music Awards

Tonight is the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards. Now in its 29th year, it's had its share of memorable moments, none more so than during the 1997 broadcast. On the occasion of its 15th anniversary, here's the case for why it was the best VMA's ever televised.

RIP Spin Print Edition (Probably): Why We Loved the Magazine

After being purchased by Buzzmedia last week, Spin Magazine looks to be on its last legs -- the magazine part of it, anyway. Though Buzzmedia representatives haven't said it's going digital-only, they haven't committed to maintaining the print edition, either. It seems likely that we won't see much ... More >>

Killing Bono

Tom Morello Speaks On #Occupy: "Check the historical record -- you don't win unless you've got an excellent soundtrack."

Ed Carrasco​See also: Occupy L.A.: Street Musicians Reign at City Hall Music has historically played a strong role in social movements, including those led by Los Angeles artists N.W.A. and Rage Against the Machine. The latter's guitarist -- and longtime activist -- Tom Morello did a little r ... More >>

Chef Q & A, Part 2: Paul Hibler & David Sanfield of Pitfire Pizza, the Velvet Underground and Reclaimed Wood

A. FrougPitfire Artisan Pizza owners David Sanfield and Paul Hibler at their Culver City location​ "Radiohead!" "U2!" "Peter Frampton!" Owners Paul Hibler and David Sanfield are arguing about how to explain the difference between their Pitfire Artisan Pizza company and California Pizza Kitchen ... More >>

St. Patrick's Day Street Fair

I Will Follow

With Godspeed on Our Side

How did an experimental political punk octet become the hottest ticket of the winter?

Mick Rock

The Sausage Stand at the Echo

A music innovator and sound impressionist gets inspired by the life customizers of Echo Park

Tonight: The Daylights, Tracy Bonham, Shonen Knife, the Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group, Mike Posner

Steven TaylorThe Daylights​L.A.-based trio the Daylights -- Texans Ran and Ricky Jackson and Danish drummer Svend Lerche -- have a nice little buzz going, at least in the FM radio world. The trio's self-titled debut album, out today, bears the fingerprints of plenty of A-listers -- Youth prod ... More >>

Test Kitchen: Never-Ending Experiment

Invented anew every night

Across the Universe: Lil Wayne Plays Uno, Weezer to Play 'Blue Album,' 'Pinkerton,' Faith Evans Arrested

Across the Universe: Lil Wayne Plays Uno, Weezer to Play 'Blue Album,' 'Pinkerton,' Faith Evans Arrested

Music Picks: Femi Kuti, Love Revisited, Fol Chen, Riot Grrl Carnival

Also, Dam-Funk, the Outline, CocoRosie and others

Live Review: School of Seven Bells at the Echo

Timothy NorrisSchool of Seven Bells​"Look! The people from the Internet! They're here! They're real" The dude saying these words at the School of Seven Bells show at the Echo on Wednesday night was being facetious, but there was a kernel of truth in there. The place was packed with a very mix ... More >>

Bassist Wanted: Interpol's Carlos D. Retires, Band Seeks Replacement

Bassist Wanted: Interpol's Carlos D. Retires, Band Seeks Replacement

Anger is an Energy Drink: Public Image Ltd. at Club Nokia

It's not that Club Nokia is an awful venue. It has its uses--an intimate Usher show, for example, or a Level 42 reunion (coming soon, for reals), or any act who has ever been on a Michael Mann soundtrack (Phil Collins with a surprise appearance by Ian Hammer would be a golden moment at Club Nokia). ... More >>

L.A. 'Street Artist' Mr. Brainwash Takes Manhattan (With a Velvet Rope, Of Course)

By Barbara Celis David Bowie, U2, Madonna, and the Rolling Stones. What could they possibly be doing together in the Meatpacking district of New York yesterday? Just hanging out at a party with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Damien Hirst and Barack Obama. Kind of. Slash, by Mr. Brainwash​ They we ... More >>

'Beatles are Bigger than David Crosby,' Says the Vatican

​L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper of record, has apparently released a list of their Top Ten Rock Albums. We're saying apparently because most links to this story lead back to articles in the British press reporting this. The Osservatore's website--a bizarre Umberto-Eco-worthy labyr ... More >>

Ever Wondered How "World Music" Got Its Awkward Name?

We are the World (Music)​Music, as Madonna wisely pointed out, makes the people come together (it also apparently makes the bourgeoisie and the rebel. Oh, Madonna...). But the endless, relentless, unmanageable offer of music that the invention of recording unleashed in the very late 19th centu ... More >>

Best of L.A.: Nightlife

Movie Reviews: Bandslam, Flame & Citron, The Time Traveler's Wife

Also, The Goods, It Might Get Loud and more

Shirley Manson to MC Pablove Benefit Featuring Silversun Pickups, Eulogies at Echoplex Tomorrow Night

Shirley Manson will MC tomorrow night's Pablove benefit This just in: Tomorrow night's benefit for the Pablove Foundation, a charity founded by Dangerbird Records co-founder Jeff Castelaz and his wife Jo Ann Thrailkill, whose son Pablo is currently fighting a rare form of cancer, will have a guest ... More >>

"I'D RATHER HAVE A BOTTLE IN FRONT OF ME THAN A FRONTAL LOBOTOMY." --TOM WAITS

Ticketmaster and Servants: Bands Get Cut of Service Fee

Irving Azoff reveals industry secret at Senate Judiciary hearings

Maybe We're Amazed: Notes on the Fairly Odd Coachella 2009 Lineup

Our only hope — that Macca gets Ram tough

Skate Date! Downtown L.A. On Ice (Eat Your Heart Out Rockefeller Center)

To a recent NYC transplant, the prospect of ice-skating in Los Angeles begs skepticism -- there's something unorthodox about being able to skate in shorts and a T-shirt. My last skating experience took place at Rockefeller Center, where my date and I waited for two hours in order to skate for a tota ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Fucking Hollywood, Educating Rita

Also, Spider Bites, Hands-On Therapy, and more

Stage Raw: Who Needs Plays?

Here Is What Is: Daniel Lanois Addresses the Present

The producer responsible for some of the most important records of the past two decades documents a year in his life

Discovering the Candidates Through Their Playlists

It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To

Almost Acoustic Christmas: Park 'n' Ride

KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas at Gibson Amphitheatre, December 8

Taking the Downtown Detour

Scenes from L.A. Weekly's second annual music festival

LA Weekly Detour Festival: A Race for the Prize

LA Weekly Detour Festival Downtown Los Angeles, October 6. By Randall Roberts You can tell a good music festival by the number of sprinters, joggers, and speed walkers racing from stage to stage during set lulls -- you know, the excited fans torn between two bands, not wanting to leave one but not ... More >>

A Diamond Is Forever

Illuminating the Manuscripts

The Arcade Fire’s modest grandeur

Can You Feel It?

Having some “me time” with Explosions in the Sky

Grammy Shmammy

The Year Blogs Got Lame, Business Got Hip and Nostalgia Was King

Viva la Raza and All That

T. Rex, Baby.

A love song to the immortal Marc Bolan, and critical guide to the new T. Rex reissues

Sex and the City

Melancholy Baby

Daniel Lanois on Brian Eno, Mexican jukeboxes, and his gorgeous new Belladonna

Artsters, Juggy D and the Last Bricktops

''Do Not Hesitate''

Articulate Snarls

The return of protest rock

Love International

Blacklisted by Metallica

Tactical Embarrassment

The subversive cyber actions of ®™ark