Daiana Feuer

People like to say size doesn't matter but, come on, who are we kidding? Something big and powerful by sheer force can rock your world to another dimension. For those whose minds stray to the gutter, I'm talking about big bands, music ensembles with many members. The more the merrier,......

One often leaves The Standard Hotel questioning reality, for many reasons, which makes the hotel's Downtown rooftop an appropriate setting for experimental performance and the fashionably interested. That's what The Series is all about. This monthly party-slash-theatrical event put on its fifth "show" last night, embedding actors, musicians, and artists......

Do you like women? Do you like drums? Do you like women on drums? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then the launch of Tom Tom Magazine comes as good news. Founded in New York by Mindy Abovitz, the new magazine dedicated to female drummers heeded the......

What: Wanda Jackson (feat. Jack White) Where: El Rey When: 1/24/11 Wanda Jackson has had three major men in her life--Elvis, Jesus, and Jack White--well, four, counting her ever-loving husband, Wendell. You can't really top that. More than fifty years ago, Elvis took country singing Jackson under his wing, taught......

Regular old songwriting just ain't enough sometimes. A few of our favorite living legendary wrinkly musician men are exploring their creativity, venturing into forms beyond their usual mind-melting melodies. While Mike Watt's new opera is circulating Japan, today, Tom Waits posted a few pages from a new chapbook, an existential......

It isn't too early for best quotes of 2011. While the men of hip hop kick this year off in various states of prison or probation, the women are rousing up their own scandals. Can you name this angry potty mouth? I think this other bitch got a song with......

Born in Santa Monica and raised as the white girl with soul, Teena Marie celebrated the 30th anniversary of her recording career last year with a string of lively performances, including one at the L.A. County Fair. The Ivory Queen was Rick James' protege, starred on The Beverly Hillbillies, received......

Cuss words can be a lazy lyricist's exclamation points but, in the right hands, profanity affords a landscape of creativity and rhyme schemes that breathe new life into descriptions of coitus, anger, and self-reflection. There may not be enough amazing uses of "fuck," "ass," and "shit" in rock music, but......

On Oct. 20, the music world was stunned when John Lydon posted on his website that Ari Up, singer of the legendary punk/post-punk/dub powerhouse the Slits and daughter of his partner, Nora Forster, had died at 48 "after a serious illness." Ari was a revered icon of L.A.'s thriving scene......

Gucci Mane has a knack for making memorable song appearances. Whenever he leaves the studio he gets arrested so it's best he keeps busy at work. See, Gucci Mane is genuine. His real name is Radric, which contains the word "rad" and sounds like an Elizabethan Romance novel character. He......