Kate Sullivan

? POP MUSIC AS FOOD; FOOD AS PORN: To prove my devotion to you, the hungry pop fan, I went ahead and test-drove the new Elvis-based Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup (“The King Size”!). It’s a huge Reese’s cup containing an improbable layer of banana-flavored rhinestone-studded white polyester sugar butter cream......

Happy summer! It’s been a historic couple of weeks in Hollywood — what with Paul McCartney gigs, White Stripes in-stores and Prince residencies. (See my Prince concert notes below.) But summer’s just begun, and the next two weeks offer some worthwhile rock doings. ROBOTS INVADE L.A.: Daft Punk make pop......

? ALL YOU NEED IS MOZ: Saw Morrissey at the Bowl a few weeks back; never got a chance to scribble much about it. (This was my first Moz sighting since interviewing him in January.) It was one of those milky-perfect Hollywood nights: mild, quiet, warmish, and pregnant with summer,......

{mosimage}Oh, thank God. The new White Stripes album is good. The new White Stripes album is good, and all’s right with the world. It’s been a strange few years for them, and for their fans, but I’m happy to report that the kids are out of bed and full of......

{mosimage}There’s a new Paul McCartney album out. It’s not bad! The cutesy title, Memory Almost Full, pretty much tells you what to expect: This album might not be great, but it may be a much-needed return to that breezy-easy, possibly-cheesy McCartney we once took for granted. Ya know? It’s weird:......

Hot off the email MEDIA ALERT ** MEDIA ALERT ** MEDIA ALERT LA PHIL PRESENTS ARCADE FIRE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 AT 7 PM LCD SOUNDSYSTEM OPENS THE SHOW Plus Special Guests Tickets On Sale Saturday, June 30, 2007 WHAT: Canadian indie-rock band Arcade Fire returns......

As LA Weekly readers already know Prince will be performing a string of dates at the Roosevelt Hotel in H-Wood, just around the corner from the LA Weekly offices. The series begins this Saturday, June 23, and will include seven evenings. Specific dates are not included in the press release......

{mosimage} So I went to the Phil Spector trial recently. Not entirely sure why, but it’s probably Darlene Love’s fault. If she hadn’t sung “Marshmallow World,” I wouldn’t care half as much about Phil damn Spector. He’d just be another bastard genius who never fully caught my imagination — sort......

Compare this effort, for example, to 1979’s The Ethel Merman Disco Album, an astonishing work that changed my life from the moment my best friend, Debbie Urlik, revealed it in her family’s record collection. (It features unforgettable dance versions of Merman classics such as “There’s No Business Like Show Business”......