Andrew Lentz

ELECTROCLASH II at the Henry Fonda Theater, April 5 With straight boys slumming as cross-dressers, fashion damage ranging from aqua satin tops to purple stilettos, and enough cyber-slut cleavage to gag Dale Bozzio, there was no mistaking tonight's crowd as the same misfits that made last year's Electroclash™ premiere such......

Photos by Gregory Bojorquez Clean Needles Now benefit with ELLIOTT SMITH, NEBULA, THE TYDE, MIDGET HANDJOB at Spaceland, January 12 There are at least two lessons to be gleaned from substance-abuse benefits like Clean Needles Now's three-day blowout. First, saving lives without moralistic judgment via an in-your-dreams musical lineup is......

CODY CHESNUTT, ABSTRACT RUDEat Temple Bar, January 3 With genre-spanning vision, 32-year-old guitar god Cody Chesnutt recently put out a double CD of sweaty, funked-up rock & soul (The Headphone Masterpiece), all 36 tracks of it recorded, produced and mixed in his bedroom -- and that was his debut album......

Eighteenth Street Lounge is the epicenter of cosmopolitan swank, a magnet for Beltway hipsters, an after-hours pleasure nexus brought to you by the Thievery Corporation‘s Rob Garza and Eric Hilton. The nightclub-cum-record-label doesn’t seem like the sort of enterprise that would thrive in the officialdom of Washington, D.C. Still, the......

Photos by Gregory Bojorquez THE STREETS at the Troubadour, October 24 When a sold-out show has a will-call line a block long, you know the buzz behind the Streets is industry-fueled, not spurred by heads swapping demo tapes. Well, you can bloody well believe the hype. The Streets, a.k.a. 22-year-old......

You‘d expect the reigning queen of the disco revival -- Geri Soriano-Lightwood, chanteuse for Supreme Beings of Leisure -- to show a little attitude, to work that prima donna mojo into her daily routine whether she’s shopping for shoes, flipping through her Palm Pilot directory, or eyeballing the menu at......

If you saw director Michael Cuesta‘s recent feature film, L.I.E., you saw the guys in Glassjaw: upper-middle-class kids raising hell in Long Island. “I don’t need to see the movie, I know all about that car park,” singer Daryl Palumbo says, referring to the underage hustlers who loiter along the......

Photos by Gregory Bojorquez SUNSET JUNCTION, AUGUST 24-25 Sunset Junction has morphed from a pokey arts-and-crafts fair to a major musical happening, this year booking A-listers from Sonic Youth to Mudhoney to DJ Colette and Chaka Khan. Throw in tasty, reasonably priced grub, kiddie rides and enough gewgaws to preoccupy......

NESHWARP RECORDS NIGHTat Mobius, August 3 At the Los Angeles installment of Nesh, the famed London party night hosted by Warp Records, an international cadre of DJs strained the county’s power grid as they switched on and packed ‘em in at downtown boite Mobius, proof that after-hours loft parties are......

IF YOU DIAL UP MYSTIC ON HER CELL, SHE'LL answer with a friendly "Greetings." This would sound coy coming from anyone else, but with all the good juju this R&B earth mama has earned over the last 10 years, she can get away with New Age affectations. But don't underestimate......