Art Tavana

Listen, Coachella. We love you. You know that. And when we criticize, it comes from a place of love. And OK, maybe a place of being pissed about not being able to see some of our favorite bands due to preventable logistical issues. And tall people. Seriously, tall people, get......

Coachella, man. Wow. Like a fine wine, you just keep getting better with age. After gorging ourselves on Sumo Dogs and indie-pop, dancing ourselves dusty, head-banging to Death Grips and "Welcome to the Jungle," and maybe drinking a beer or seven, we sifted through the rubble and our reporter's notebooks......

“Internal fixation.” That’s how Axl Rose’s good-looking foot specialist Dr. Rachel Triche described the lead-singer’s broken foot on April 8. Her ESPN-esque medical update, in which she sat in front of all her various credentials, was both great reality TV and evidence of Team GNR’s belief that rock & roll......

Guns N' Roses is playing Coachella this weekend. Had the Rolling Stones played Coachella in 2013, which would have been their first U.S. festival since Altamont in 1969, there would have been similar buzz. But nothing like this. For many — and I mean the vast majority of the 100,000......

I grew up in ungentrified L.A. in the 1990s, South Glendale and Atwater, where anyone who wasn't black or Mexican didn't publicly listen to gangsta rap unless they were juvenile delinquents or worse, wannabe gang members. Back then, wannabes were as common as hipsters are today. I even knew an......

In just two years of existence, Berserktown has helped reunite such underground legends as Royal Trux and Dead Moon; put L.A. punk pioneers The Zeros and The Weirdos under the same roof; brought to the West Coast, for the first time, NYC hardcore freaks Dawn of Humans; it even put grindcore......

They came on a few minutes past midnight, an hour late, or really fuckin' early (depending on what you think of Axl Rose). For Use Your Illusion-era converts like myself, who watched the band implode on MTV, this was a miracle, something that's "Not In This lifetime," which is the......