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As Live Talks Los Angeles Turns Three Years Old, Its Founder Explains What Makes a Great Conversation

Ronald Reagan may have been the Great Communicator, but Ted Habte-Gabr is obsessed with conversation. Habte-Gabr produces Live Talk Los Angeles, a series of events that pair interesting names -- often of the literary world -- for sit-down interviews in front of hundreds of people. His first event ... More >>

Chessboxing Comes To Downtown Los Angeles

This is the town that put Korean barbecue beef on a taco and mixed the striptease with masked wrestling. We pioneered putting avocado in Japanese "sushi!" Why not put chess and boxing together too? The L.A. Chessboxing club has got a bout for you:

Jenny Slate

Incredible Fourth of July Time-Lapse Videos Show Flurry of Fireworks Across Los Angeles

Another perk of the L.A. sprawl: Every Fourth of July, a flurry of fireworks can be seen glinting across the Los Angeles skyline like bioluminescent plankton on a wave. Last year's best time-lapse video of this spectacle -- truly a raver's wet dream -- was shot from a hill in Highland Park. This ye ... More >>

Fred Karger, Gay Republican for President, Sees 'Sexy Frisbee' Campaign Vid Pulled From YouTube

Vimeo not only beats YouTube in film-school cred and picture quality -- it also wins for tolerance! Fred Karger, our favorite gay Republican for president (OK, our only gay Republican for president, and only gay person for president, in general), says his smokin' new Venice Beach campaign video, wh ... More >>

Venice Rapper 'Killer Reese One' Says Facebook Posts, Tweets, Lyrics Used Against Him in Court

Killer Reese One, the lyrical half of Venice hip-hop duo King Fantastic, released a presser last month saying he was "taken into custody" by L.A. sheriff's deputies on February 3 -- but he won't say why. When he was apparently released on February 10, the rapper Tweeted: "my official statement on t ... More >>

What Does a 'Sugary/Salty' Dance Look Like? Dances Made to Order Shows You

It's like a reality game show crossed with an MFA program -- to put it crassly. Dances Made to Order, a pay-to-watch, curated, online, dance film festival, is the brainchild of Los Angeles choreographer Kingsley Irons and filmmaker Bryan Koch. The site, going national this year, features movies cre ... More >>

Revok Mural in L.A. Arts District Accidentally Plastered Over by 'Peace in Congo' Campaign

Oops. No rude intentions here, just kind of air-headed ones: It appears an L.A. peace activist group named Falling Whistles just plastered their gritty street-art campaign all over the wrong wall. Well, the right wall according to the building manager, who saw no harm in donating it...

5 Ways to Make a Damn Good Cup of Coffee

R.E.~/Flickr​ "Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love" was French diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand's perfect cup of coffee. And ours too. Fortunately, that black, hot, pure, sweet cup of coffee requires only the right tool, great beans, water, and the willingn ... More >>

VIDEO: Art Walk Devolves Into Brawl in Downtown L.A.

Hey, Downtown Art Walk Task Force! Put this in your pipe and smoke it: 08.11.11 - DTLA Fight from Joel Kuwahara on Vimeo. The above is a bar brawl outside Down & Out on 5th and Spring, situated along the Art Walk route, just as it let out last Thursday. Looks like kicking food trucks off the Walk' ... More >>

Here Comes the Sun (and the First Course): The Solar Kitchen

First Day in Milan from LapinKultaSolarKitchenRestaurant on Vimeo. What does a solar kitchen have in common with the pop-up restaurant, the foraging party, and the neighborhood butcher shop? They're all artistic statements, necessities and practicalities born of economic and environmental circumsta ... More >>

Video Exclusive: Hollywood Club Goers Reveal Their Sex Desires at the Dragonfly's Miss Kitty's Parlour

Club goers talk about their sex lives​Ladies, as you head out Friday night hoping to meet someone, know this: Nine out of 10 guys you see will have had one-night stands with someone they met at a bar or club -- and more than a quarter of them have bagged someone new in just the last month. On ... More >>

#Snowpocalypse Replaced By #SnowLoko As Official Hashtag Of New York Blizzard; Sweet Time-Lapse Video; Rare 'Thundersnow' Sighting

KOMOnews.comWhadya know -- a Snow Loko!​Hey there, New York. How's the weather? Hehe. Anywho, while we were collectively kicking it by the pool out here in Los Angeles -- half scoping Twitter for real-time updates on your misery and half gazing up at the heavens in partly-cloudy satisfaction, ... More >>

Top 10 Cover Songs of 2010

Top 10 Cover Songs of 2010

Yo Gabba Gabba's 'Party In My City' Entertains Breeding Hipsters and their Kids ("Kidsters"?)

Lina LecaroThe biggest show -and wildest crowd- Nokia Theatre may have ever seen. ​ Kiddie faux-hawks, fashionably mismatched tutu ensembles and tattoos (fake on tykes, real on moms and dads) swarmed upon L.A. Live in downtown this past weekend, when the trendster tyke sensation Yo Gabba Gabb ... More >>

Haiku News: Manson Goes Indie, Guns 'n' Roses Talk 'Chinese Democracy' Followup, New Sleigh Bells Video, & New Dirty Bastard?

Haiku News: Manson Goes Indie, Guns 'n' Roses Talk 'Chinese Democracy' Followup, New Sleigh Bells Video, & New Dirty Bastard?

Dance Documentary 'The Electro Wars' Nearly Neglects Los Angeles Scene for a NY-Centric View

​ If the frustrating new documentary The Electro Wars gets any kind of notable media attention (it gives major shout-outs to the significance of music blogs, so we're guessing it will), we guarantee "the war" will end with more than a few artist and DJ casualties and no Jedi mind trick will pr ... More >>

Learning to Love the Vuvuzela

​If you're one of the millions of people around the globe (yes, US finally included) who have been watching the soccer World Cup taking place right now in South Africa, then we don't have to explain to you what a "vuvuzela" is. This simple plastic trumpet, ubiquitous in South African soccer s ... More >>

Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino Talks Surfer Blood, Upcoming Album, Seinfeld and Cats

Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino Talks Surfer Blood Encounters, Upcoming Album, Seinfeld and Cats

The DJs List: Spinners You Should See This Weekend

[Ed.'s Note: The LA Weekly's Dennis Romero, Los Angeles' MVP dance writer, picks the best dance options for the upcoming weekend each Thursday on The DJ List.] Robbie Rivera DJs at Avalon Saturday.​Tonight: New York art-dance duo Fischerspooner, the band that paved the way for the likes of La ... More >>

Israeli Graffiti Crew Glitch Mob = Stop-Motion Art Win!

Here's the Israeli graffiti crew Broken Fingaz doing a stop-motion animation artpiece to a tune by the Glitch Mob's Boreta and edIT. Simply fantastic: Broken Fingaz -Graffiti Stop Motion from Broken Fingaz on Vimeo. [Thanks to Sophie Kipner for the tip.]

Interview: LA Video Directors Radical Friend on Yeasayer's 'O.N.E.' and Shape-Shifting Aliens

​The band-playing-in-a-club remains a classic music video form. More than half the videos that aired on MTV's first day, August 18, 1981, were performance videos. So when local futuristic director duo Radical Friend and pop apocalypse band Yeasayer decided to make a performance video, they pla ... More >>

L.A. SXSW Showcase Showdown: I Am Sound

L.A. SXSW Showcase Showdown: I Am Sound

Live at Velaslavasay Panorama: The Long Lost, Featuring Singing Saws and a Glass Harp

This short piece, one in the Vision Version series produced by the Dublab collective, is one of the ongoing music project's most beautiful yet. Filmed at the Velaslavasay Panorama in West Adams, it features LA husband-and-wife team of Laura and Alfred "Deadus" Darlington, who record as the Long Lost ... More >>

Prototype Paperless Magazine of the Near Future: What Apple's Tablet Device Could Look Like?

Is this what the new Apple tablet device, rumored to be unveiled next week on January 27, will be like? This is a concept video of how one company--Bonnier R&D--imagines magazines of the very near future. Skip to 3:00 to see how it works (and to skip the erudite British dude describing the concept). ... More >>

Why EMI's YouTube Policy Is Short-Sighted

On Monday, rock band OK Go issued a statement through its fan forums regarding the release of its latest album as well as the music video for "This Too Shall Pass." Specifically, it's the video that has fans riled. You see, OK Go is affiliated with EMI and, like all bands who are part of that major ... More >>

Digitize Your Graffiti: The Choreography of Tagging

​Street graffiti eventually gets cleaned up and sandblasted away. Sure, you can take pictures of the piece when it's done, but there's nothing like watching a piece as it is being written. Now there is software that captures the essence of the tag in motion. Artist/programmer Evan Roth designe ... More >>

Jack In The Box, Ronald McDonald, the Burger King and Other Beloved Icons in Hookers and Blow Scandal!

Los Angeles filmmaker Nicholaus Goossen just posted the new video for Rad Omen's "Rad Anthem," a catchy slice of repetitive Daft Punkery. The concept? Several much-loved fast-food spokescharacters go out for a night on the town that turns out to be very much like the Prodigy's video for "Smack My B ... More >>

FMLY Bike Ride Rolls Through the West Side with Horse the Band, Slang Chickens, Koalacaust in Tow

FMLY Ride from Tony and Gabe on Vimeo. The monthly FMLY bike ride went down on the west side on Saturday night, and the FMLY posse made an awesome video of the proceedings. The event, which kicked off in Santa Monica, featured pit-stop gigs at various locations along the way: bands Koalacaust, Hors ... More >>

Village Voice's Rob Harvilla On the Ten Best Indie Records of 2009

By Rob Harvilla Yeah, pal, that's "college rock," scare quotes very much included. Look, it's a meaningless term. As are "indie," "alternative," "hipster," etc., etc. Let's not overthink this: Here we have ten splendid records with an amorphous rock 'n' roll designation, albeit in a perhaps slightl ... More >>

Random Patterns Scores Claymation Short About Animal Infidelity/Bunny Art

Random Patterns scores claymation short about animal infidelity/ bunny art [ mp3s]

Free Mixtape: Ethiopia, Brazil, Colombia, and Los Angeles Mix from Mochilla features Astatke, Verocai, 'Suite for Ma Dukes,' Quantic, Azymuth Live

Ethiopia, Brazil, Colombia, and Los Angeles Mix on Mochilla's FREE 'Hear the World' MP3

Beck and Co. Cover Skip Spence's "Weighted Down," featuring Leslie Feist and Some Wilcos

We've been slacking on Beck's consistently fascinating series of covers over at Beck.com, and have missed the fact that he and his band of crazies has been covering the entirety of Alexander "Skip" Spence's mope-rock classic, Oar. Our favorite track on the album is probably "Weighted Down," though w ... More >>

Is Eric Wareheim the Next Spike Jonze? A Look at the Adult Swim Star's Music Videos

Eric Wareheim's foray into music video directing is marked by sequins, awkward dance moves and a few downright scary make-out sessions. One half of the team that brought you Adult Swim favorites Tom Goes to the Mayor and Tim and Eric, Awesome Show! Great Job, his style is over-the-top, perhaps even ... More >>

Listening To The Sound...of Woodworms

​ What do worms sound like? Zimoun knows. He is a 32-year-old sound installation artist from Switzerland. He makes things that make noise. These tend to be mechanical things that make sounds that are strangely organic, like rain or waterfalls. (Go here for examples.) You get the feeling that Z ... More >>

tUnE-yArdS Shoots Two New Videos for Dublab at Echo Park's Time Travel Mart!

West Coast Sound's Daiana Feuer has apparently been moonlighting as too-hip location scout! She writes: These tUnE-yArdS videos were released today by Dublab for their Vision Version series. They take bands and shoot them in unique L.A. spots. tUnE-yArdS was shot at the Echo Park Time Travel Mart. ... More >>

Tearist's Yasmine Kittles and "Tim & Eric"'s Eric Star in SFW Hipster Crotch Porn

What's not to like about Tearist's Yasmine Kittles? She's badass, looks like the lovechild of "Rehab"-era Amy Winehouse and Polly Jean Harvey (in a good way), digs good music (Throbbing Gristle, Can, The Red Crayola, The Ronettes), does her crazy "Patti Smith meets Peaches" act at The Smell, has abs ... More >>

"Mommy, What's a Fuck Button?": An Orgy of Ungoogleable F-Bomb Bands

Fuck Buttons and Ungoogleable Band Names

Tonight: Ninjatune Night @ the Echo with Blockhead and Yppah

Ninjatune Night at the Echo with Blockhead and Yppah

FREE J. Rocc MP3, Courtesy of Dublab/Stones Throw's "DJs in a Thriftstore" Project

From the ever-tasteful folks at Dublab, we received the following memo about their new vinyl/cd/dvd project: Dublab Stones Throw = Packaging Porn!​ Secondhand Sureshots is a filmed experiment in creative sound recycling. Dublab Dublab directors Bryan "Morpho" Younce & Mark "frosty" McNeill ... More >>

New Hecuba Video for "The Magic" Gets Kanye's Seal of Approval

Hecuba "The Magic" [Official Video] HD from Hecuba on Vimeo. The new Hecuba video for their song "The Magic" has just been released, and it's an oddly alluring little bit of videowork to a curious quiet-storm Autotune jam. Kanye West likes it; he embedded it on his blog the other day. Watch for you ... More >>

Haiku Review: Dead Man's Bones

West Coast Sound reviews Dead Man's Bones debut album though the lens of the 17th century Japanese poetic form, the Haiku.

Aquarium Drunkard Releases Beautiful Avi Buffalo Session MP3s, Video

Untitled from christopher m mena on Vimeo. The unsigned LA-area band buzzing loudest these days just might be Avi Buffalo. (Okay, or Local Natives). Still in high school, the band, who played last week's FYF Fest, has been chased by many of America's most respected indies, and is reportedly on the ... More >>

Dramatic Time Lapse Shots of the Station Fire

Time Lapse Test: Station Fire from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo. Here's some dramatic, apocalyptic footage of the evolution of the Station Fire, shot by Eric Spiegelman on Saturday. As of Sunday morning the fire is only 5 percent contained. Time Lapse Test: The Station Fire from Eric Spiegelman on Vi ... More >>

Live at the Smell Documentary Release at Downtown Independent

Live at the Smell Documentary Release at Downtown Independent

Trailer for East of Sunset, A Silver Lake Indie Rock Doc, Released

LAist has posted the trailer to the forthcoming LA music doc East of Sunset. The film, created by Ryan Maples & Jason Tovar of Thrilhouse Productions, doesn't have a release date yet, but the trailer looks intriguing. East of Sunset from Thrillhouse Productions on Vimeo.

Head to Sea with Those Who Know Their Fish: Edible L.A.'s Fishing Excursion this Sunday

If one were to assemble a Noah's Ark of the current L.A. high-end restaurant scene, here's in part what it might look like.

Dead Man's Bones -- Ryan Gosling, Zach Shields and the Silver Lake Conservatory Choir -- Sign to Anti-, Release Video

DEAD MAN'S BONES - "NAME IN STONE" from biz3 publicity on Vimeo. Dead Man's Bones is the long rumored project of Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields. The duo, who work with the children's choir at the Silver Lake Conservatory, have signed to LA-based Anti-. The first full-length, produced by Ima Robot's ... More >>

Dublab's Vision Version Series: Typically Inspired Offerings

Cluster "Live at Farmlab" (dublab VisionVersion) from dublab on Vimeo. The estimable dublab posse has carved an ornate little corner in Los Angeles in which to create, and has, over the course of its nearly decade-long existence, created beautiful sounds and images in their LA home. Their gathe ... More >>