Andy Hermann

From the living room of his house, high up in the Hollywood Hills, Billy Idol gazes out across the Los Angeles Basin, remembering when the city was on fire. "Even in the daytime, you could see the smoke," he says, describing his bird's-eye view of the Rodney King riots in......

It's good fun to laugh at the Grammys' expense. Of all the major award shows, it's the one that seems perennially the least culturally relevant, the most out of touch — the one that showers trophies on one-hit wonders, aging jazz artists, white rappers and past-their-prime rock bands.  So it came......

No one is ever sure how to pronounce Sahy Uhns. And according to Carl Madison Burgin, the man behind the moniker, that’s sort of the whole point. “I’m severely dyslexic,” Burgin confesses, over a Soyrizo Mexican omelette at a coffee shop near his home in Van Nuys. So one of......

Lightning in a Bottle, the five-day camping festival that combines electronic music with performance art, yoga classes, guest speakers and Burning Man-esque art installations, has announced its 2015 lineup. Over 70 acts will grace multiple stages, including headliners Flume, SBTRKT, Odesza and RL Grime. Other highlights of the 2015 lineup......

Did you know that Long Beach's gay and lesbian pride parade is one of the largest in the country? Well, now you do. And it's about to get larger, thanks to this year's headlining act: pioneering female hip-hop group Salt-N-Pepa. L.A. Weekly can exclusively reveal that the trio behind hits......

Puddles Pity Party The Troubadour Friday, January 23, 2015 The man with the clown in his face probably did not expect this. Even for fans of Puddles Pity Party, it's a startling experience to find yourself inches from a six-foot-eight bald man in full clown garb, belting out "I Who......

Between Belle and Sebastian's disco-tastic new single "The Party Line" and the cheekily celebratory title of their new album, Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, a lot of fans have been wondering, with some trepidation, whether their favorite Glaswegian indie-pop band has been listening to too much EDM. But they......

Hey, music industry. We need to talk. I know you’ve been having a rough go of it lately, what with declining album sales and measly streaming revenues and that U2 stunt pissing off roughly 499 million iTunes users. I understand that you’re trying to squeeze every last buck out of......

Within the electronic dance music community, the term “EDM” is a controversial one — which probably seems weird to outsiders, since it’s literally just an acronym for “electronic dance music.” So what’s the big deal? Most of the debate centers around whether EDM refers to all electronic dance music, as......