Willie Nelson

Mr. Burns Strikes Again

David Sedaris Does Not Have a New Book, But Nobody Really Cares

Willie Nelson & Family - Walt Disney Concert Hall - 3/13/12

Willie Nelson & Family Walt Disney Concert Hall 3/13/12 Better than ...trying to find a place to stay in Austin this weekend. Last night, before a sold-out crowd at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, country legend Willie Nelson dipped into a fifty-year catalog of hits, backed by his son Lukas, his sis ... More >>

Music Picks: Guns N' Roses, Nneka, Billy Childs, Willie Nelson & Family

Also, Slow Club, Kneebody, The Pretty Reckless, Apparat and others

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 >>

Karen O: Burrito Crooner

Karen O with her bandmates in The Yeah Yeah Yeahs.​ What do post-New Wave songstress Karen O, country crooner Willie Nelson and Chipotle burritos have in common? They've teamed up to promote awareness about the economic hardship that American family farmers face in an industrialized agricultu ... More >>

Music Picks: Willie Nelson's Country Throwdown, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs, Peter Murphy

Also, Erykah Badu, Andre Williams, Animals & Men and others

Top 10 Songs About Hangovers, One Night Stands and That Rough Morning After

Top 10 Songs About Hangovers, One Night Stands and That Rough Morning After

Snoop Dogg To Texas Sheriff Who Arrested Willie Nelson For Six Ounces Of Weed: 'Leave Willie The Fuck Alone!'

This one's for the elders​Another day, another way for Snoop Dogg to tell the world how much he loves smokin' deh weed. This time, though, he's not speaking for himself. Not even Prop. 19. Last night, it was country-music legend and "Dukes of Hazzard" sell-out Willie Nelson whose back Snoop h ... More >>

Craftmas- Handmade Gifts For Boozers, Tokers (And Home-Makers) This Weekend

Betty Oatmeal's smokin' Willie shirt design. ​You're gonna be hearing about a crapload of Craft fairs in the next few weeks leading up to Christmas, but there's one this weekend that you really don't want to miss, and we're not just saying that because *full disclosure* we'll be signing our cr ... More >>

Good Morning, L.A: Cold Enough For You?

L.A. does cold too, sometimes.​How cold has it been the last few nights? Charlie Sheen hired two porn stars just to keep him warm. Willie Nelson was arrested for possession of marijuana. Frozen marijuana. And people who planned to protest the TSA's airport-security pat-downs at LAX actually b ... More >>

Willie Nelson Busted for Pot (Again), U2's Broadway Spiderman Flops, David Lynch Releases Single, Kathleen Hanna Doc & More Haiku News

Willie Nelson Busted for Pot, U2's Broadway Spiderman Flops, David Lynch Releases Single, Kathleen Hanna Doc & More Haiku News

Top 10 Country Radio Songs to Open Your Mind (Even if You Think You Hate Country Music)

Eazylanish/Flickr​We've seen it over and over on Facebook profiles. Music: "I like just about anything...except COUNTRY, of course!" As if admitting to liking mainstream country music (because, sure, everyone likes Johnny Cash) is like admitting to having a Beanie Babies collection. It's sham ... More >>

This weekend: Rx Bandits, Band of Horses, Vampire Weekend, Muse, Abbot Kinney Festival, Epicenter Festival, Willie Nelson, Rancid, Waved Out II, Helmet

Rx Bandits​Few would have thought that the Orange County ska-punk kids who a decade ago started playing as the Pharmaceutical Bandits would grow up to be a Coachella band. But the quartet now known Rx Bandits has, their party in the desert last spring certifying Matt Embree and crew as musica ... More >>

Music Picks: Ooh La La Fest, Pavement, Beach House

Also, Kris Kristofferson, the Black Keys, Bettye Lavette and others

Swingin' With Ray

Tonight: Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses, Norah Jones, Tokimonsta, Jason Falkner, Jimmy Webb, the Morlocks

Anna AxsterRyan Bingham​Ryan Bingham ought to be a lot more famous than he is. The 29-year-old roots rocker has already won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for "The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)," as well as come up big in the scene he had in the Jeff Bridges movie. He's played Coac ... More >>

Tonight: Phosphorescent, Villagers, Jesca Hoop, Midnight Juggernauts, Polls, Twin Sister

Sebastian MlynarskiPhosphorescent​Good things some to those who ... make good music? Ah, it'd warm our blog band-besotted cackles if it were always so. But there is a happy story to tell about Phosphorescent, the Brooklyn-based, Athens, Ga.-born alt-country band who this spring released the t ... More >>

WAITING TO EXILE

Music Picks: Evelyn Evelyn, Booker T. Jones, Kaki King, Pete Rock

Also, the National, Entrance Band, Noodles, Bunbury and others

Best Alt-Country Folk Records 2009: Willie Nelson is Still A Badass

ALT-COUNTRY/FOLK Meet the Folk-ers Noah W. Bailey slices the Americana pie and determines that, yes, Willie Nelson is still a badass. We spent 2009 sorting through piles of folk and Americana releases, revising this list in our heads till the bitter end and failing repeatedly to understand the hyp ... More >>

Rock Picks: Willie Nelson, Maude Maggart, Two Tears

Also, Cold Cave, Ceci Bastida, Califone, and others

ROCK PICKS: Black Francis, Bob Dylan, Caroline Weeks, Casiokids

Also, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, The Dodos, Buddy Guy and others

This Week in LA Weekly: Jerkin', Sunn 0))), Amanda Blank, LA Ladies Choir, More

This week's hard copy of the LA Weekly is packed with useful music information, news, profiles, and music picks (if we do say so ourselves). Haven't gotten around to grabbing one yet? Here's what you'll see: Star ForemanLA Ladies Choir​ Jeff Weiss has written an in-the-trenches feature on th ... More >>

Monty Alexander's Jamaican Jazz

Plus, Brazilian Carnival, Lou Donaldson, Carl Saunders Sextet

Top 10 New TV Shows From 2008: Hillary & Barack, Gavin & Stacey, Bernard & Doris

The way we watched

Houston Press' Top 10 Reissues of 2008

By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionall ... More >>

Natalie Cole Cancels Wednesday's Hollywood Bowl Appearance with Winton Marsalis, Replaced by ... Willie Nelson?

Hot on the heels of last week's Youssou N'Dour cancellation comes this news from the Hollywood Bowl that Natalie Cole is canceling her guest appearance this Wednesday, July 9 with Winton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. And, oddly, her replacement is Willie Nelson. Or, rather, no ... More >>

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Willie Nelson, Nokia, 2/13

Willie Nelson, Nokia Theatre, Feb. 13 Photos by Timothy Norris If Willie Nelson had delivered a show with half as much heart, enthusiasm and class, it still would have been an excellent night of American music. I'm ashamed I expected so little from the man. With a simple backdrop of the Texas fla ... More >>

Rock Picks: The Kooks, Super Furry Animals, Willie Nelson and more

For the week of Feb. 7-14

The Whole Shootin' Match

Eagle Has Landed

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Coachella And the Cure for the Common Festivalitis

I Found Salvation in Maui

No, I'm not talking about the surfing, though I did take a lesson with "surf teacher to the stars," Tide Rivers, whose dad founded the Maui film festival...and I got up on the first try! Nor am I talking about communing with the gods at Haleakala, aka House of the Sun, the summit of this volcanic is ... More >>

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Everybody in The Fishtank!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Erasure and Smashing Pumpkins News

FRIDAY, 7:30 p.m. Viper Room There was a lively and fashionable crowd at the Viper Room Friday night for MSO PR's soiree celebrating the launch of their new website. Grande dame of public relations, Alexandra Greenberg, introduced me to the MS in MSO, Mitch Schneider. Mitch (above, in black hat) i ... More >>

I Just Shit My Pants

Well, no. Not really. But I just heard that Golden Voice is adding a first ever COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL (it hasn't been given an official name yet) to their Coachella festivities! They are also adding another day to the Indie rock fest, that's right 3 days (Friday, April 27, Saturday, April 28 and ... More >>

Wings & Things

Reviews of Willie Nelson's Songbird and Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose

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Foghat Does Quaaludes, Wille Does Reggae

Willie Nelson & Friends

California Dreaming

Ozomatli and a gathering of West Coast underground hip-hop luminaries fight the power

Six Pack of Lonely

Mike Stinson in the late great Golden State

Fish Fry 2002