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How to Make Your YouTube Video Blow Up

Kevin "Kereal" Walker and Tommy "Tgunnz" Piccirilli have been rapping together for the better part of a decade. The duo -- known as KT Borderline -- have their fair share of stories about day jobs and failed label meetings. But it looks like they're about to turn a corner. Their song "Fresh In T ... More >>

Deathmatch: Aerosmith vs. New York Dolls

[Editor's note: Deathmatch pairs two things that have something in common, and determines who is better. It's a concept we sort-of ripped off from MTV, except that instead of claymation it's the printed word!] In the 1970s, two bands took the bluesy swagger of the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds t ... More >>

Remembering Napster

Wanda Jackson/Best Coast - Club Nokia - Dec 31 2011

Daniel KohnWanda Jackson​See also: Wanda Jackson On How Jack White Convinced Her To Do Amy Winehouse's "You Know I'm No Good" Wanda Jackson/Best Coast Club Nokia 12/31/11 Legendary rockabilly singer Wanda Jackson has experienced a career renaissance in the past 12 months, as summed up by the ... More >>

Culture Clash Enterprise: Will Anyone Buy a T-Shirt That Shows Images of Gay Sex?

​"To put these images on a t-shirt seems taboo, but tomorrow it's going to be completely normal," says 26 year old native Minnesotan Melissa DeBlieck, one half of business venture Culture Clash Enterprise, which she started with her boyfriend. Recently the company launched the very racy "S Co ... More >>

Famous Food: The Dolce Group Puts Restaurant in the Capable Hands of Heidi Montag, et al.

Ketchup before. What will be the after?​What are reality stars qualified to do? Hmm. Let's think. Have meltdowns on camera, for sure. Gang up on the weak link, certainly. And they're definitely extremely good at identifying who is, and who is not, here to make friends. What about opening a re ... More >>

911 Is a Joke, and So Is Flavor Flav

Can Reality TV Ever Really Rock?

Lina Lecaro Reality's realest rockin couple (from Cali): Millionaire Matchmaker's Rachel Federoff and Destin Pfaff at Svedka party.​This past weekend, LA played host to the "Reality Rocks Expo," a two-day celebration of "reality, unscripted, factual, and lifestyle" television at the LA Convent ... More >>

Top 10 Hottest Music Videos Featuring Supermodels (In Honor of Evan Voytas Somehow Getting Kate Moss for His Latest)

Top 10 Music Videos Featuring Models (Featuring Evan Voytas' Kate Moss Cameo)

Nightranger: Lash and Learn

Lemmy's Guide to L.A.'s Gentlemen's Clubs

NIGHTRANGER: NIGHT NYMPHS

Zooey Deschanel to Play Original '60s Groupie Pamela "I'm With the Band" Des Barres in HBO Series, Most Likely Involving Sex with Mick Jagger and Jim Morrison Lookalikes (NSFW)

Post-'60s puritanism hits OG groupie Pamela Des Barres: Those nipple-covering flowers are not in the original NSFW photo (see below)​Pamela Des Barres has been on a one-woman literary mission to change the connotations of the word "groupie" for nearly 25 years, and now, thanks to two film proj ... More >>

Ledisi at El Rey Theatre: Live Review

Rebecca HaithcoatLivin' her life like it's golden​ Singing "Higher than This," the song that's landed her in heavy VH1 Soul rotation, Ledisi experienced some technical difficulties. Her microphone squealed but--bathed in golden light--she just smiled. The lady is a class act. She's also a li ... More >>

MUSIC PICKS: Ruben Guevara, Buika, Bill Frisell's Beautiful Dreamers

Also, Combichrist, Papercranes, Simone White and others

COME ON AND TAKE A TRAIN RIDE

Lindsay Lohan Released Early From Rehab: Reality Show Rumors Abound

​The door had barely shut behind actress Lindsay Lohan as she was released from rehab at UCLA Tuesday and rumors were already flying about the possibility that she would appear on ABC's Dancing With The Stars or VH1's Celebrity Rehab. Lohan got out early after serving 23 days of her 90-day ma ... More >>

Can LA's CROM Become This Year's Anvil?

The always fascinating folks at WMFU turned us on to the trailer for the new documentary about LA's underground metal characters CROM. Crom: All Hail Those who Fail , according to the filmmakers, follows the Los Angeles based powerviolence bands early 90's days as a trio, then into the trio becomi ... More >>

Are You Between 24 and 34? Prepare to Be Rebranded as "Generation Mix"! (and to Be Treated Like a Moron)

Bill JensenGeneration Mix in da house!​So, if you're between 24 and 34, the people who are trying to sell you stuff you don't need in order to get the money you don't have have just decided to start calling you a member of Generation Mix. What defines Generation Mix? Well, VH1 apparently got ... More >>

BOB SAGET'S FINEST HOUR SINCE THE ARISTOCRATS

Booty Central: Soul Train: The Hippest Trip in America

New film documents America's funkiest TV dance show

Mega-Telethon Broadcasting From L.A., Elsewhere

CNNAnderson Cooper.​A Friday telethon to raise money for the victims of last week's earthquake in Haiti will be broadcast from Los Angeles, New York, London and Haiti, organizers announced Thursday. It will be everywhere: ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, BET, The CW, HBO, MTV, VH1, CMT, PBS, TNT, Show ... More >>

Chicks, Dicks and Kicks

After 17 years, Dragstrip 66 ends its reign over L.A.’s club queendom

All in the Family With the EC Twins and the Boulet Brothers

Plus: Kidrockers playdate

A Conversation with Posdnuos of De La Soul: On Nike Run Mixes, The Current State of Hip-Hop and Oodles of O's

De La Soul, back in the day Only a handful of rap groups can be bandied about as G.O.A.T: Wu-Tang, Outkast, EPMD, Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, Run-DMC, UGK, The Geto Boys, and De La Soul. If you need an introduction to the De La -- Posdnuos, Dave/Trugoy the Dove, and Maseo -- you obviously hav ... More >>

The Dude Abides: Lebowski Fest Bowls Over Los Angeles May 7 and 8

Dan MordacPinheadsLast November at the VH1 Classic Rock Autism Celeb Bowl-Off at Lucky Strike Lanes in Hollywood, I had only one question for the rockers and celebs I snagged time with on the red carpet: When it comes to bowling movies, which is better and why: The Big Lebowski or Kingpin? Kingpin ... More >>

John Mayer's Mayercraft Carrier 2 Cruise Sets Sail Tomorrow: Five Days of Karaoke, Trivia, Live Shows and Hangin' with the Mayer

VH1John Mayer boards his Mayercraft Carrier last year on the maiden voyage At first we thought this was a joke. John Mayer hosts a cruise that disembarks in San Pedro and takes a journey to Cabo St. Lucas; it sounded like one of his yuck-worthy pranks. Then we started getting more emails, and links ... More >>

Pretty in Pinksy

Burning Question at VH1 Classic Rock Autism Celeb Bowl-Off: Big Lebowski or Kingpin?

Steel Panther destroying the red carpet. All photos by Shannon Cottrell. I usually resist working red carpets but on November 13th I braved the corridor of flashing bulbs, pancake makeup and pouty lips for a great cause -- the VH1 Classic Rock Autism Celebrity Bowl-Off, hosted by actress Holly Rob ... More >>

Has the L.A. Hip-Hop Plague Finally Passed?

Four on the floor

World of Wonder Gallery, Where Camp Meets Vamp

Wonder walls

Monsters of Reality

Just Another Night On The Strip

Costume contest at the Key Club Monday Night Havent been back to Metal Skool's Monday mash since I used to deejay the VIP room, and thankfully nothing's changed. KISS wanna-bes, half-naked nymphos, ironic 'staches, lil creepy guys trying to look up my dress... Okay it was their annual Halloween pa ... More >>

Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job and Saul of the Mole Men

Adult Swim dives into live action

Rock Docs Are Go! Rockumentary Recommendations

As CDs wither, the low-budget rockumentary is born again

The Mousse That Roared

A new hair-metal history captures the stench of much drunker days

Desperation Nation

So NoTORIous Tori Spelling skewers herself for a laugh, while the guys in King of Cars dunk themselves for a sale

Hollywood Lived Here

The semi-glorious and sometimes gory history of Hollywood apartment living. (Part of LA Weekly's special apartment-living package.)

Umlautta Love

African Idol

They Don’t Make 'Em Like That Anymore

The Kids Aren’t Alright . . . They’re Amazing

Why what was old and lost and a bit odd is young and new — and exciting — again

All Gates Open

They'll Always Have Paris

Edited by Kateri Butler

Will Jam 4 Food

Improvising an alternative music scene

The Year of The Sopranos

Adding up '99

Justice

Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, Dorothy Dandridge and lawman Bill Tilghman

Real Cartoon World

The I'm All Like Whatever Generation of MTV's Downtown, plus Random Play and Lenny Bruce

Nostalgia for the Future

The Go-Go's: Breaking up is hard to do.

From VH1 to DIY

Whatever's Susan Skoog