Williamsburg (Brooklyn)

Shane Carruth Created Upstream Color. Now You Figure It Out

Echo Park: Greatest Neighborhood in Los Angeles, Which has 87 of Them

By Hillel Aron Echo Park is, depending on your point of view: the poor man's Silver Lake, the rich man's Highland Park, the Williamsburg of the West Coast, a 40,455-personl working-class burg full of diversity and a wee bit of gang violence. Or, it's that strange little neighborhood you drive throu ... More >>

Q & A With Eddie Huang Watch Episode 2 and 3 of Fresh Off The Boat L.A. Installment

Eddie Huang can be a tough guy to wrap your head around. The New York-based chef who went to law school, passed the bar, then dropped out of law to cook and eventually opened Baohaus is now a bona fide food celebrity and, to many observers, full of contradictions. Huang's new show with VICE, Fresh ... More >>

The Comedy Review: Film Satirizes Hipsters in Ways They’ll Likely Enjoy

In Defense of Grizzly Bear

Grizzly Bear Greek Theatre 10-10-12 See also: Our review of Animal Collective and Flying Lotus at Hollywood Bowl, 9/23/12 Grizzly Bear, the musical emblems of Williamsburg, played a solid, nearly two hour set at the Greek Theater last night. The quartet, boosted by a Phantom of the Opera-esque key ... More >>

Project 12: Los Angeles Beer Among Winners in Budweiser's ZIP Code Beer Series

Back in June, Anheuser-Busch announced "Project 12", described thusly: "Twelve Anheuser-Busch brewmasters at Budweiser's 12 geographically dispersed breweries worked together to create their own "tribute" beers to fit the Budweiser brand's reputation for quality and consistency." The idea was that o ... More >>

The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: The Complete List

The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: 10-1 Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time Who are these hipsters we see each day in the streets, on our Tumblr feeds, and on the local news? And why are so many in bands? It's not the mere existen ... More >>

Genital Portrait Studio: The Five Silliest Burning Man Camp Names

See also: Why I'll Never Go To Burning Man Burning Man 2012 kicks off on Monday, and unlike our intrepid colleague Nicholas, we are headed to the Playa and looking forward to it. In fact Jack Rabbit, the festival's official newsletter, has been hitting our inbox since February, informing the nearly ... More >>

The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: 20-11

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time Who are these hipsters we see each day in the streets, on our Tumblr feeds, and on the local news? And why are so many in bands? It's not the mere existence of hipster groups that distress ... More >>

Lost His Edge | James Murphy and a New Concert Documentary Reflect on the End of LCD Soundsystem

The Dictator Review

Sacha Baron Cohen is back

Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie Stars Dish on Their New Film and What's Not Funny

Tim and Eric's new movie​Watch any 11-minute episode of Adult Swim's warped, experimental sketch series Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, and then try to explain what Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim -- the show's stars and creative engine -- do for a living. "'Comedians' never seems the ... More >>

China Debuts $44 Bottle of Pabst Blue Ribbon

Maybe we've watched Blue Velvet too many times, but to us there's something uniquely American about Pabst Blue Ribbon. Sure, it's been widely acknowledged from Williamsburg to Echo Park as the beer du jour of the hipster masses, but really, who doesn't appreciate a blue-collar beer once in a while, ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Goodbye, Sunset 5

South and Vizio Create L.A.'s First (and Only) 3D Sports Bar, With an Appearance By Blake Griffin

Paul T. BradleySouth, Powered by Vizio: This is the Sports Bar...of the Future​ In the bars of the future, will we all be sharing beers around android tablets...bespectacled with 3D glasses...eating Dippin' Dots? Santa Monica sports bar South and local electronics giant Vizio hope so (well, ... More >>

Salt's Cure: Manliest Restaurant in America?

Anne FishbeinA hunk of meat from Salt's Cure.​Sometimes, the hive mind is just wrong. Men's Health took a poll to determine the "manliest restaurants in America." With all that blather about "the wisdom of crowds" and whatnot, what did the genius readers of the magazine decide was the most man ... More >>

Our Idiot Brother Review

Bonnie McKee: Pop Tart

The singer-songwriter behind Katy's and Britney's sugarcoated hits

Music to Pick Up/Download

Over The Weekend: Best Coast, Cops and the Cheesecake Factory at Make Music Pasadena

Sam BlochBest Coast, Assembled Multitudes​ STORY BY SAM BLOCH At the dawn of the Napster age, sociologist Tia DeMora wrote eloquently of the relationship between commerce and pop music. "Consumption behavior can be understood as a kind of dance," she wrote. And in a retail environment, it's ... More >>

Tim Hetherington, Director of Oscar-Nominated War Doc 'Restrepo,' Killed in Libya

Tim Hetherington on the set of "Restrepo"​Update: Chris Hondros took these stunning photographs just hours before he died. More after the jump. Tim Hetherington, a wartime photographer and documentary filmmaker -- along with his associate, Chris Hondros, also a war photojournalist -- were kil ... More >>

Pigging Out: 5 Spots for Charcuterie

Los Angeles may be known as the land of vegan baked goods and brown rice sushi, but plenty of local chefs also turn out damn fine charcuterie, the prepared meat products (proscuitto, pâtés, terrines, sausages, etc.) that are a celebration of all things animal. Most often made from pork, charcuter ... More >>

Funniest Song About Hipsters. Ever.

They all play synths​Apparently, there are hipsters in the UK (yeah, I know--shocking!). And...they're just like Silver Lake and Williamsburg hipsters! And now someone's written a funny song about them. It's very funny. Best line: "We all play synths." 'Nuff said. Check it out:

Live in L.A.: Woodsist Festival, Thurston Moore, Sting, Justin Currie, Abandoned Pools

Sarah McKayKurt Vile​In case your lifeline to Brooklyn is broken: Woodsist is a four-year-old record label, founded by Woods guitarist Jeremy Earl, that caters to fans who like things gloriously unvarnished, or who think the Vivian Girls are original. The label has brought a small army of lo-f ... More >>

Website Wants L.A.'s 'Fake Eastside' Renamed

franklinhills.orgSee hipsters, these cholos were here before you, and they use W.S. to delineate "west side."​It's been a peeve of ours ever since the long-defunct New Angeles magazine called its core circulation zone -- Silver Lake, Echo Park, Los Feliz -- "the new Eastside." What happened to ... More >>

Hipstergasm!: Spike Jonze and Arcade Fire Working on Precious Short-Film Together

​MTV is reporting that popular-yet-monotonous pop group Arcade Fire and eccentric trust-fund-skater director Spike Jonze are collaborating on a secretive movie project (a "short film"). That faint sound you just heard is the controlled explosion of thousands of heads of hipsters (aka Pabstafa ... More >>

Is 'Prep Rock' the New 'Yacht Rock'?

It was but a few weeks ago that we music lovers were treated to a massive ad campaign for Vampire Weekend's Contra, featuring an allegedly mysterious picture of an uberpreppy girl in a yellow polo shirt (a Ralph Lauren Polo© shirt to be more precise) with an upturned collar. Now the indie tastemake ... More >>

Cinefamily to Screen Amazing Cult Films From the Silver Lake of the Soviet Era

The print version of the LA Weekly has a really neat article by Michael Atkinson about the awesome program of cult Czech movies that Cinefamily will be showing every Saturday this month and in March. Titles like Daisies and Valerie and Her Week of Wonders are now part of Hipster 101 syllabi from Wil ... More >>

East Coast Clobbers West Coast in 2009 Pazz & Jop Music Poll

Well, if you're keeping track at home, the so-called "west coast sound" got clobbered this year in the Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll of the year's best music. And when we say "clobbered," we actually mean "beaten to a bloody pulp." Consider this: In the list of the top 100 albums o ... More >>

Plastic Afrobeat!: Fool's Gold (with The Entrance Band and Tearist) @ The Echo, 12/17

Legend has it that a stoned Paul McCartney was one day listening to the playback of something The Beatles had just recorded and kept cracking himself up by repeating "Plastic soul, man, plastic soul." Later, he and his band mates embraced the autoderogatory comment and, famously, titled their next r ... More >>

Silverlake Scene Girl Porn or New Bishop Allen Video?: YOU Be the Judge!

To promote "True of False," the latest single from their months-old Grrr... album, Bishop Allen did what any clever bunch of average-looking, expensively-educated beardos from Brooklyn with Calexico-style horns and a stand-up drummer would do: draft your Bobbie-Gentry-lookalike girlfriend (now wife) ... More >>

Larry Tee Talks: 'L.A. Has a Better Club Scene Than New York'

Larry Tee has floated through contemporary club history like Forrest Gump on ecstasy, seemingly everywhere you'd want to be. Growing up in Atlanta, he hung out with R.E.M. and co-wrote fellow Atlantan Ru Paul's 1992 hit "Supermodel (You Better Work)." In 1990s New York he became a DJ on the club kid ... More >>

Franco-Francophonic

Other than Fela and arguably King Sunny Ade, few afro-pop lights burned brighter than the Congo's Franco Luambo. A guitar prodigy and auto-didact who taught himself to play at age 7, Luambo amassed a sprawling discography of over 2,000 songs before dying in Belgium in 1989. Thankfully, the recen ... More >>

Weiss' 25 Best Non Hip-Hop Songs of 2008 (A-L)

Graffiti originally spotted on Bedford Ave., Williamsburg in 2002--soon followed by copycat crimes on Silverlake Blvd. and San Francisco's Mission District. Now playing at a Hot Topic near you. For spread-the-wealth reasons, this list was restricted to songs from albums that did not make the Top ... More >>

Beards, Blazers & Glasses, Or Yeasayer, The Indie Spin Doctors

Yeasayer are a jam band, they just aren't aware of it yet. At one point during the Brooklyn four-piece's set Saturday night at the Echoplex, lead singer Chris Keating even paused to extemporaneously inform the crowd that "people call us hippies, but that's just not true. We're from Baltimore." Thi ... More >>

Be Your Own Guinea Pig

Entering Andrea Zittel’s “Critical Space”

The Royal Treatment

Royal Claytons

Face in the Hip Crowd

London Falling, Hollywood Calling

Rupert Thomson’s Divided Kingdom and Daniel Fuchs’ L.A.

The Milliner’s Tale

Give PEACE^® a Chance

Get on It or Else

Heavy Petting

Tracy Nakayama’s sex from a woman’s perspective

Advice From a Diva

Being the hostess with the mostess

Compound Interest

Rubble Rockers

It’s High Time

Birth of a Notion

High Desert Test Sites realizes Andrea Zittel’s dream of an explorable, alternative art space

Burning Questions

Date With the Night