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Before you begin your Boxing Day labors, pour a Smirnoff and eggnog, sit down and YouTube this funny post-Prop 8 video written and directed by Los Angeles theater icon Michael Kearns. Hello? Marie! imagines a gay man (John W. McLaughlin) chatting on the phone with Mormon princess Marie Osmond. By tu ... More >>
Amid online one-hit wonders and blog stars, Regina Spektor rises above
The other night at the Silverlake Lounge we met, very briefly, the singer/songwriter Sara Lov, whose debut album for Nettwerk Records, Seasoned Eyes Were Beaming, came out Tuesday. She told us about a great project she's working on through her MySpace and YouTube pages. Each week for the past thre ... More >>
Celebrating the 21st century's most interactive band
Celebrating the 21st century's most interactive band
Is this adios for the OC wab?
And Kung fu fighting
The presidential debates need more people and fewer videos
The presidential debates need more people and fewer videos
Sometimes something arrives that, while small on the surface -- "What, another YouTube clip to watch?" -- manages to overjoy your heart and eyes with its magic. One such thing is the new video for LA-based Daedelus's new "Make It So." From his forthcoming Love To Make Music To, which comes out on Ni ... More >>
A modest proposal to sully Diddy's Hollywood Star.
How does Pitchfork.tv stack up against YouTube? ALSO, let's just talk about how rad this song is, okay?
View more photos in Colin Young-Wolff's "M.I.A. 'Secret' Warehouse Party" slideshow. Still images not doing it for you? Here's a glimpse of the action via YouTube clips. What do they call these things ... oh yeah, PARTIES. A couple more after the jump ...
Mark Burgess, former frontman of cult-favorite The Chameleons, was simply taking a vacation. He had traveled to the US to meet a friend in Maine, ended up in Boston through a twist of events and was asked to play with some musicians who were also fans of his old band. Word spread and people ... More >>
We'll have a full rundown of last night's Thom Yorke performance at the Echoplex for Monday morning, but for now, YouTube is going to have to do. Our review in 140 characters or less, which we wrote last night to @justinwarfield when he Tweeted "So how was it?" @laweeklymusic: "I liked it. I wasn't ... More >>
We're sick of writing about Dead Man's Bones. We've covered them non-stop over the past few months, at least a post a week on a band that only has one album out. But despite the band's lineage, any budding musician looking for publicity would be wise to study their methods. First, become famous as a ... More >>
We're sick of writing about Dead Man's Bones. We've covered them non-stop over the past few months, at least a post a week on a band that only has one album out. But despite the band's lineage, any budding musician looking for publicity would be wise to study their methods. First, become famous as a ... More >>
Enjoy your long weekend. Squid Ink is taking the holiday off. Although we haven't really gone fishing, here's the Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby soundtrack to our metaphorical fishing trip. (We were going to post a Gone Hunting video, that being more menu-driven, but all those YouTube videos showed ... More >>
While doing a routine search of recent uploads to YouTube, we stumbled across these fantastic behind-the-scenes videos of Depeche Mode preparing for the 1988 MTV video awards in LA. Among other awesome sights, we see the band playing cricket in a parking lot, we watch them leaving the Sunset Marquis ... More >>
Fans of Ghost in the Shell, of which we assume there are many, might want to check out this mash-up featuring audio from Sealab 2021. To echo the comments on YouTube, I'm surprised that more people haven't viewed "Ghost in the Sealab." It's just over seven minutes long, but worth the time.
UK singer Little Boots (English for "Caligula") is one of the most recent vocalists who have captivated the Brits and is now coming our way. She will be performing at the El Rey tonight, where she will be presented by her LA-based label, indie upstart IAMSOUND. But Little Boots (who is also in tow ... More >>
UK singer Little Boots (English for "Caligula") is one of the most recent vocalists who have captivated the Brits and is now coming our way. She will be performing at the El Rey tonight, where she will be presented by her LA-based label, indie upstart IAMSOUND. But Little Boots (who is also in tow ... More >>
Have you ever wondered what Mos Eisley Cantina might be like if it were Lebowski-fied? We haven't, but YouTube user mrdreamisasleep did.
5 Great 8-Bit Cover Songs Including Radiohead, Miles Davis, and Nirvana
Timothy NorrisPeaches is shocking (again) Ah, Peaches... Today the Canadian-by-way-of-Berlin shock-dance diva (and Beta version of the Lady Gaga product) is releasing a new short film through YouTube. Also, for some reason, she wants you to hype it on Twitter in exchange for a mold of her t ... More >>
YouTubeLos Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa recently reached out to the bicycle community via YouTube and announced -- more than a week after he broke an elbow in a bike accident on Venice Boulevard -- that he would help organize a summit about the future of pedal power in L.A.. 'We're go ... More >>
YouTubeHas Lincoln Park in Lincoln Heights been turned into a dirt parking lot? One activist says so, and he's not happy about it. The park houses the city's Plaza De La Raza and, according to YouTube, there's plenty of parking in the neighborhood, including curb-side spots. But for some reas ... More >>
Instigator Chris Dennis.The mayor of Los Angeles is being grilled for taking free tickets. Police go against the ropes every time a nerd with a Flip uploads a traffic stop to YouTube. The economic "recovery" is sputtering. Your favorite pot shop is closing! What we need now is a hero. A super ... More >>
YouTubeAttorneys for a deaf man taken down and choked to blueness by a Forever 21 security guard at the Hollywood and Highland Center in Hollywood threatened to sue the fashion retailer if it doesn't come up with a satisfactory settlement offer, according to ABC7. The chain suspended the gua ... More >>
Perhaps we owe this one to William Wegman, who pioneered the Still Life With Dog. In Wegman's case, it was some extremely photogenic Weimaraners. In this YouTube video by Adlan Adlanov, we have what appears to be an equally photogenic Golden Labrador at a dinner table, and with better table manners ... More >>
YouTube is a wild, woodsy park in the Internet outback: known, accessible, and yet rife with distractions buried amongst its overgrown nooks. From grainy Old Grey Whistle Test clips to vintage NBA highlight reels, it's easy to get lost in YouTube, clicking away at link after link, biting like dim ... More >>
We have Sam Sifton to thank for many things, of course, but the latest in the list is perhaps the funniest. It's the link to this YouTube video, which documents how to use a partially snow-buried 1983 Pontiac Bonneville to deep fry chicken wings. It's hilarious for a lot of reasons: the conceit, th ... More >>
Internet meme for a causeUpdated after the jump with PHOTO EVIDENCE of Wallace herself modeling the "ching chong" shirt for Red Cross! (Sort of.) When UCLA student Alexandra Wallace uploaded her "Asians in the Library" rant to YouTube that fateful Sunday afternoon -- blissfully unaware she ... More >>
The Complete Discography (till this afternoon)
Fans of Parks and Recreation, Amy Poehler's comedy series on NBC, already know that the show provides hilarious proof of The Midwest As Dystopia. What some of us didn't realize until it became the topic of lunch conversation was that it also delves into food commentary. If you didn't see the epis ... More >>
YouTubeDirk Nowitzki, the "Toy Story" versionSomething to rile you up for tomorrow's big Game 3 between the Lakers and the Mavericks: This infuriatingly catchy, anti-L.A. jingle we haven't been able to get out of our heads since we heard it on the radio yesterday morning. (Damn you, KNX!) Th ... More >>
LAFD / YouTubeThe Los Angeles Fire Department must have earned its wings with the animal-rights brigade. (Question: Why is adapting a pet now also called a "rescue?" Discuss). Anyway, the department was called to the he 5300 block of Elvira Road in Woodland Hills last night about 7:18 p.m. f ... More >>
YouTubeI'm the king of the world.Some folks have been threatened with arrest for attempting to get on the closed 405 today, but that didn't stop a woman named Heather Grimmer. She drove onto the southbound 405 from Getty Center Drive, she tweets. The Los Angeles Times says she noticed that a ... More >>
Zachary Pincus-RothThe line to meet the online comedy duo Smosh An army of teens sporting Justin Bieber haircuts, donning animal hoods and wielding Flip cameras invaded the Hyatt Century Plaza in Century City Thursday through Saturday for the second annual Vidcon, which is making a push to be ... More >>
My YouTube videoTwo years ago I assembled a crappy little birthday video montage for my friend, using a combination of Flip clips and ultra-lo-res digi-pics. My masterpiece was set to the tune of the Flight of the Conchords' "Foux Du Fafa" -- with iMovie's Ken Burns effect applied, of course. ... More >>
Thanks to YouTube and The New York Times' @SamSifton for a reminder of this one, the classic I Love Lucy candy wrapping episode. Lucille Ball would have turned 100 years old on August 6th, and even in black & white, she's still funnier than pretty much anybody else. If you want to try this at home ... More >>
Justin Bieber loves hot jumping beans. And bacon, pigs' feet, red Kool-Aid and ham. At least he loves them in this spoof of "That Should Be Me," which raises bad lip reading to an art form, transforming the song of heartbreak into an ode to food. Like one wag commented on YouTube, we prefer to bel ... More >>
Sesame StreetBig Bird, perplexed by the letter 'X.'Poor kids who dialed up the YouTube channel of Sesame Street yesterday looking for their favorite Elmo and Big Bird videos were instead treated to content said to have been brought to them by the letter "X." As in porn, of the variety mostly ... More >>
MrRJCtube via YouTubeA kayak's worst nightmareWhale-watching enthusiasts have been jizzing their wetsuits over the latest handheld footage of a big California blue off the coast of Redondo Beach. The video was shot by YouTube user MrRJCtube, who happened upon his gorgeous specimen while kaya ... More >>
LA Weekly Flickr pool/averagebettyElvis sandwichThis LA Weekly Flickr pool photo, taken by photographer averagebetty, is of an Elvis sandwich, or one of the many variations of sandwiches built in memory of the late Elvis Presley, a man known as much for his questionable food habits and Libera ... More >>
Robert KenneyGreg Ginn, second from leftBy Nicholas Pell On Wednesday morning, several punk bands awoke to find their videos had been removed from YouTube. They were understandably irritated; that's almost worse than running out of beer. In their places were notes that they'd been yanked d ... More >>
YouTubeOh heavens, girl!Wrong day to err on the conservative side of content regulation, YouTube. (See: #StopSopa.) Los Angeles porn star Aurora Snow -- a real fan favorite, best known for her inimitable deep-throating skills -- is calling out the site for taking down "How to Make a Banana H ... More >>
Javier CabralShit Bartenders SayJust three years after Jonathan Gold wrote about Los Angeles's blossoming craft cocktail scene, comes this hilarious YouTube video poking fun at the often extreme measures bartenders take to fix you a tasty drink. The viral video features several second long f ... More >>
YouTubeCops versus kids.University of California police became iconic "bad guys" of the Occupy Wall Street movement back in fall, when an officer from UC Davis pepper-sprayed a peaceful line of protesters directly in the eyes as they sat, motionless, on the ground. (That incident has since be ... More >>
YouTube/HellflowersinLAThe artist in question Paul Abramson, the UCLA psychology professor who helped spearhead our sex issue (on newsstands tomorrow), has a YouTube channel called Hellflowers in L.A., in which he examines various crazy characters in our fair city. After the jump, check out ... More >>
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