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These Christmas Songs Are Not Actually About Christmas

Many so-called Christmas songs don't celebrate Christmas so much as the act of shopping. Other holiday tunes confuse that warm Christmas spirit feeling with that warm feeling in your pants. So, which of these songs are genuinely talking about the holidays, and which are just talking about raking in ... More >>

Carry On My Wayard Son

The Best Concerts To See in L.A. This Week: Oct 29-Nov 2

Monday, October 29 The Monolators, et al. THE ECHO In a week already oozing with Halloween events, this particular Monday oozes very competitively with four decades of alt-classics via five much-loved local bands. Most intriguing is the warhorse indie-pop band Monolators' Bee Gees set. Will they do ... More >>

Five Must-See L.A. Bands at SXSW

Initially a place where music executives could check out a bunch of emerging bands in the span of a few days, SXSW has become the spring break of the music biz. Bands from all over the globe descend on Austin hoping to convince the masses they're the next big thing. While megastars like Bruce Spring ... More >>

The Weezer Cruise: Rivers Cuomo Shows Us His Underwear

By Wendy Fonarow My best friend and I recently found ourselves boarding the Weezer Cruise. The red eye from L.A. took us to Miami, where we departed for a five-days-at-sea music carnival, featuring Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh, the Antlers, Ozma, and, yes, Weezer. Our shipmates included quirky 30-somethi ... More >>

If You Don't Like Country Music You're a Blue State Elitist

See also: Toby Keith's "Red Solo Cup": Why This Song Sucks Asking people what kind of music they like can be a loaded question. People want to seem open-minded, yet cool, which for some reason tends to inspire this insipid response: "I like pretty much everything. Except country." (The hipster var ... More >>

Music Picks: The Descendents, Stones Throw 15th Anniversary Show,, Princess Pangolin, Brian Setzer

Also, Guns N' Roses, Weingart, Stevie Wonder's House Full of Toys, and others

Mikey Welsh Is Dead: How Weezer's Green Album Changed My Life

Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever. Editor's Note: Former Weezer bassist Mikey Welsh was found dead in a Chicago hotel room on October 8, 2011. The cause of death is unknown, ... More >>

Music Picks: Los Lobos, Lord Huron, Calculator, Exmortus

Also, Yes, Styx, the Naked and Famous and others

Britney, Beyoncé, & Foster the People's Guide to Your Post-Apocalyptic Future

A group of angry apocakids from the video for Foster the People's "Helena Beat" (Sony Music)​As the debt ceiling languishes unraised, whole regions of the US lie under floodwaters while others dry into baked earth, and the wedding cake topper industry finds itself facing major overhauls, peopl ... More >>

LA Session Drummer to the Stars Will Be Your Personal Manbitch If You Buy $75K Version of His Album

​Everybody has a price. Josh Freese, studio drummer to the stars (Weezer, Devo, Nine Inch Nails, Guns N Roses) is up to his old tricks with the upcoming announcement of his plans for his latest solo album, Since 1972. He listed his album for sale in packages ranging from $7 for a straightf ... More >>

Top 10 Bands That Should Have Broken Up Instead of the White Stripes

10 Bands Who Should Break Up

NIGHTRANGER: THE GIFT OF GABBA

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 >>

Rick Moranis Joins Weezer and Best Coast On Stage?

Rick Moranis Joins Weezer and Best Coast On Stage?

Live Review: Weezer's Memorable Take On "The Blue Album" Plus Giddiest Hits at Gibson Amphitheatre

Lina LecaroWeezer bring back a vintage design on the drum kit.​Obviously, Weezer really took the "Memories" theme of their current tour to heart. The band's two nights at the Gibson Amphitheatre this weekend not only featured giddy "greatest hits" sets followed by full track-by-track rendition ... More >>

This weekend: OK Go, Weezer, Bonobo, Pretty Lights, Lucero, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe

Day 19OK Go​Almost anything goes in the Theater of OK Go. The art-pop quartet's headlining tour, which concludes Saturday in Los Angeles, has included (according to various online reports): Enough confetti to drown an arena full of Flaming Lips fans; the guys decked out in primary colors; a 3 ... More >>

Music Picks: The Hangmen, Brother Ali, Tommy Rock-A-Shacka, Weezer

Also, Hellride, Bonobo, New Kingdom and others

This weekend: Best Coast, Stars, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Fistful of Mercy, Mayer Hawthorne, Junip, Pennywise, Ghostface Killah

Best Coast​"I went from being a college dropout to being NME's top-four cool list," Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino tells the Weekly's own Gustavo Turner in last week's cover story. "It's just bizarre the way life kind of turns and changes sometimes." Yeah, we'd say so. The L.A. trio's modest ... More >>

EXCLUSIVE: FYF's Sean Carlson On L.A. Scavenger Hunt's Fabulous Prizes, Fabulous Charity Donations

fyf's sean carlson and keith morris​ FYF Fest promoter Sean Carlson's L.A. Scavenger Hunt turns a bizarre list of items--like life-size cut-outs of Freddie Mercury--into charity goodness for downtown's Union Rescue Mission and the L.A. Food Bank almost every year. So if you're the guy wonderi ... More >>

Grouplove Relocates to Los Angeles, Releases Free MP3

A Little Grouplove Feels So Good [MP3]

The L.A. Weekly Interview: Best Coast

A few songs about her crazy, lazy, hazy L.A. world turned Bethany Cosentino into a global icon of cool. Yeah, she's as surprised as you are

The LA Weekly Interview with Best Coast: Bethany Cosentino on Why She Had to Leave Brooklyn, How She Is (and Isn't) Like Lady Gaga and Katy Perry, Being Only Slightly Less Cool than Kanye, and Joan Didion (Yes, Joan Didion)

Sean TeegardenLA Weekly cover girl: Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino​ Alright--we gave you the sneak peek a couple of days ago, and now here it is. The LA Weekly Interview: Best Coast (read the whole thing here). It is a profile of rising star Bethany Cosentino that we're sure is gonna challeng ... More >>

Exclusive: Wanna Know the Name of the Upcoming Best Coast/Weezer Song Collaboration? (Sneak Peak of This Week's LA Weekly Interview with Bethany Cosentino)

Sean TeagardenBest Coast's Bethany Cosentino meets her own teen idol, Weezer's Rivers Cuomo​Well, we've been keeping the details of our next big LA Weekly interview under wraps for a while, but we can now tell you that this Thursday, when you pick up your customary copy of LA's best alt-weekly ... More >>

Across the Universe: New Flying Lotus Video, Weezer Best Coast, RHCP Lawsuit, R.I.P Eyedea

Across the Universe: New Flying Lotus Video, Weezer Best Coast, RHCP Lawsuit, R.I.P Eyedea

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

Nightranger: Step Into Liquid

Weezer's New Album Cover: Massive Win, Massive Fail, or Just Massive?

Happy Hurley: Weezer's cover boy​ This is the cover of Weezer's new album, Hurley, apparently named after a Lost character. (We don't know--we missed Lost. Looked kind of pointless.) What do you think? Does this make you pick up the CD? Or click on the iTunes thingie? Does it confuse you? Wou ... More >>

This Weekend: HARD Summer, Silversun Pickups, Weezer, New L.A. Folk Festival, Power of the Riff festival

Soulwax​The two most pressing questions about Saturday's HARD Summer in downtown Los Angeles have nothing to do with quality. With Soulwax, Crystal Castles and Major Lazer topping a bill that includes the likes of Flying Lotus and Diplo, promoter Gary Richards has assembled the kind of dance ... More >>

FREE Weezer Song to Celebrate the World Cup

​Consequence of Sound reports that Weezer has joined R. Kelly in providing a theme song for the soccer World Cup. Unlike Kells, Rivers Cuomo and his crew have not been officially assigned the task by FIFA: they're doing it on spec and they're giving it away FOR FREE. Go to the iTunes Store a ... More >>

Today in Awkward Dates: When Weezer Bassist Met Orientalist Hooker

Jillian Lauren is this week's LA Weekly cover girl. She worked (worked?) in the Sultan of Brunei's harem when she was younger. Now she's married to Weezer bassist Scott Shriner and lives in Eagle Rock. From our own Gendy Alimurung's interview with the former harem girl/current rock wife: Six years ... More >>

Rock Picks: Sunset Rubdown, Alela Diane, Pelican, Rose Melberg

Also, Yacht, the Woolly Bandits, Linda Ronstadt and others

Weezer Reconstructed: Download First Album in Glorious 8-Bit Sound

​If you're a Weezer fan, or an 8-Bit fan, here's something that will give you a chuckle and/or a conniption: the classic self-titled first Weezer album, as heard harnessed through 8-Bit technology. From the Pterodactyl Squad net label: The songs on this compilation have mostly been created ... More >>

Songs for Our City: Weezer Endorses a "Surf Wax America"

Weezer's "Blue Album" is the soundtrack for the beach, beers, and BBQ.

We Smell a Cover-Up: DJ Paul V's Thursday-Night Party at Stinkers, Plus More Thematic Atmospheres

SXSW Day 4 (Pt. 2): On Rap/Rock, The Legacy of the Beasties, and Asher Roth Vs. The Knux

Almost 25 years have elapsed since the Rick Rubin-helmed, Licensed to Ill found the Beasties staking their claim as the first major rap group to incorporate guitar-hero rawk ("Rock Box" aside). Such juxtaposition seems prosaic today, but it's almost impossible to grasp how revolutionary sampling L ... More >>

La Boum With a View

Plus, Part Time Punks Fest and more

Last Night: Weezer Live at the Forum

Words and Photographs by Timothy Norris Weezer on stage at the Forum. Click photo for entire slideshow. Weezer pulled into Los Angeles last night at the Forum with its big arena rock show that had the all the boys and girls screaming.  The band hit the stage in white jump suits that quickly dis ... More >>

On Weezer, the Numa Numa dance, and Internet Fame

Weezer reminds us of all the internet fads we tried so hard to forget. ALSO, my exit, screen left.

Record cover design finally catches up with "the new ugly"?

Race to the bottom: Lil Wayne vs. Weezer. Worstest record cover wins.

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I, Songwriter

Rivers Cuomo and the search for the perfect hook

Coachella 2005: The Year of the Cult

A highly opinionated user’s guide

Sister Gurls

Tegan and Sara make the world a more kick-ass place

Diamond Lane Rock

A Real Swell Time

L.A. Weekly Music Awards 2002

Teen Spirit

Rockboy Ben Kweller phones home