Drew Denny

Our writer Drew Denny traveled from L.A. to Lithuania, Germany, Poland and Denmark meeting artists and musicians for her "Overseas Underground" series. Her first stop was a national forest on the Baltic Sea where Lithuanian DJs celebrate their country's liberation on air. After the Soviet years of smuggling CDs and......

LA's Hazel Hill McCarthy III outdoes herself (and her gender) with LICKER LICENSE, a touring one-night event of all-female video and performance featuring Kristy Fenton (Modern Witch), Actually Huizenga (Hard Place, Wet Look, et al), Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic T.V.), and many more well-endowed and world-renowned women--all happening......

The infamous, bloody-nosed Andrew WK will be performing at the Check Yo Ponytail 2 party tonight at the Echoplex. We talked (and talked, and talked) with the self-help guru, motivational speaker, and metal-punk-dance-rocker recently. Here's our helpful, bite-size guide inside the mind behind the man: 10. I've thought a lot......

Sheila E.'s being just as hot as she was in Krush Groove at her recent appearances during Prince's 21 Nite Stand at the Forum sent us spinning fantasies involving other musicians who are just as hot (or hotter) with a little age on 'em. This is our list, though- who's......

When we dream of gods speaking, they all sound like Werner Herzog. Revelations granted by viewing Cave of Forgotten Dreams and the following Q&A on Saturday night at the Natural History Museum only made this man seem more like an immortal: Herzog has shot on every continent, including Antarctica; he......

WHAT: Mumford and Sons, Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros, and Old Crow Medicine Show WHERE: San Pedro WHEN: 4/22/11 The Railroad Revival Tour is like the Festival Express but with embedded sponsorships, double the dates, quadruple the ticket prices, and a super savvy marketing ploy that includes mp3 downloads......

The young and the sexy writhing out their witch house tunes for skeletons of extinct species! Forbidden French photographs hidden inside a giant "experiential installation"! Werner fucking Herzog live and in person presenting a 3D documentary about the origins of the modern human! Tomorrow night at the Natural History Museum......

WHAT: Andrew WK WHERE: Dem Passwords WHEN: April 7, 2011 Andrew WK performed a set of piano rags and crunk karaoke that would have won him quite a few new fans had he been playing a fraternity party or a fraternity fundraiser or maybe a fraternity reunion. Unfortunately for many......

WHAT: Amanda Jo Williams, Simon Stokes, John Carpenter, and Feeding People WHERE: The Echo WHEN: 4/4/11 Amanda Jo Williams' first Monday night residency show at the Echo set the bar high for this month's exploration of contemporary outlaw culture and family bands. John Carpenter started the night in true form,......