Winnipeg

The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, March 8 Nickodemus SUBSUELO AT KOBO'S Nickodemus' multicultural Turntables on the Hudson compilations and New York City-based events have brought together flavorfully funky house and Latin-based sounds from around the world. The DJ then took the series global with his creation of the ongoin ... More >>

Music Picks: California Lions, Efterklang, Lucy Rose

Holy Ship!! Day One: A Suprise Guest Whose Name Rhymes With Drillex

On Friday afternoon, nearly 3,000 raver chicks, dude guys, scenesters, club kids and DJs assembled at a port in Fort Lauderdale and boarded the MSC Poesia, aka Holy Ship!! There are two exclamation points because this is the second edition of the EDM party cruise put on by L.A.'s Hard Events. The li ... More >>

Guy Maddin's Keyhole Reviewed

A dreamworld of ideas, bolted shut

Sparks Premiere Radio Drama "The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman" Live at L.A. Film Fest Saturday, Guy Maddin Directs the "Film-to-Be" Performance

​ L.A.'s own veteran pop duo Sparks, brothers Ron and Russell Mael, bring the world premiere of a staged version of their latest project, a radio drama called The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman, to the Los Angeles Film Festival Saturday night. The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman is a musical compos ... More >>

The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman

What Happens When Six Canadian Musicians Canoe the L.A. River?

L.A. River.​Among the sounds the musicians of the Canadian band Twin heard while canoeing the Los Angeles River were chirping birds, lapping waves, rustling trees and the screeching of a police department helicopter siren. Musically speaking, the LAPD's Loud Hailer airborne siren leaves someth ... More >>

Music Picks: Balkan Beat Box, Cake, Ted Leo, Vanessa Paradis

Also Red Cortez, Troy Walker, Bun B and others

Remembering Neil Young's Collaborator Ben Keith

Billy W. Chernoff, billychernoff.comBen Keith in 1969 at Nashville's Music City Recorders​Ben Keith, the respected Nashville multi-instrumentalist whose distinctive and evocatively lonely steel-guitar adornments provided an inescapably haunting accompaniment to many of Neil Young's biggest hit ... More >>

Meg White Cries: White Stripes Doc Reveals Mysteries Behind the Band

Erin BroadleyJack White​"Make as much noise as you want," recommended The White Stripes: Under Great Northern Lights director Emmett Malloy, before the film's premiere at the SXSW Film Festival on Friday night. In practice, the audience didn't make much noise at all: we were, for the most part ... More >>

Venetian Snares Tonight at the Key Club

The unsung influence of LA's noisy electronic underground is Venetian Snares. The one-man project of Winnipeg native Aaron Funk, Venetian Snares has been experimenting both with ambience and with aggressive beats since the late-'90s. For local artists like Baseck, Kawaiietly Please and Eustachian, h ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Post-Play Discussion

AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS(THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED WITHIN THE LISTINGS)Also, this week's INTERVIEW with playwright Richard GreenbergFOOD FOR HEARTBURN: THE POST PLAY DISCUSSIONAfter watching the opening night production of Vern Thiessen's Apple at Th ... More >>

Leonard Cohen to Gig at the Nokia a Week Before Coachella

Leonard Cohen just announced an extended spring tour, and will hit the Nokia Theater on Friday, April 10 -- a week prior to his Coachella appearance. Which is great for those of us who were a little worried about seeing one of our favorite songwriters surrounded by a bunch of drunken/tripping/coke ... More >>

Film Reviews: Get Smart, Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg

Also, Never Forever, Viva, Brick Lane

Oh, Canada

Guy Maddin pays homage to the tundra of his youth

Capitol Films' Crash and Burn

The company's cash crunch is shutting down indie after indie

California Supreme Court Set to Consider Gay Marriage

Meet the L.A. four who started all the trouble

Gordon Pinsent: Away From Her's Unsung Co-star

A note-perfect late-career triumph

Hail, Farewell

Brand Upon the Brain!

Rock Picks

For the week of Nov. 30 – Dec. 7

Rock PIcks

For the week of Nov. 24 - 30

It Comes With the Job

Songs Sad and Seasonal

Lumpy, Bumpy and Beautiful

Beatnik Renaissance Man

Stitching together the multiple visions of Brion Gysin

More Viola! More!

Letters

Canadian Club

The Royal Art Lodge Spikes L.A. art scene

The Resistance

Barry Lopez, poet and polemicist

Crying Time

The Saddest Music in the World’s surreally funny sob story

The Weakerthans

Nonpunk From Nowhere

Notes From the Front

The Wall defines two Americas in Quebec

Northern Touch

Weird Art and Science

Guy Maddin's primitive genius

The Inner Mounting Flame

Glen Meadmore saddles up