Tracking down Saint Motel at the band's recording studio isn't exactly easy. Deep in Pasadena, the entrance to Crown City Studios lies hidden in a dark junkyard alleyway, abandoned and eerie like a CSI episode just waiting for you to stumble headfirst into a nail gun before the director calls......
"I've got a disease and the only cure is more piano," Ryan Gosling half-joked into the mic as he raised one eyebrow and took a seat before a vintage, deconstructed piano. The sound-man obliged and the audience cheered for the full-bodied, moody organ sounds that are signature of Dead Man's......
The erotic, popular models of alternative pin-up website SuicideGirls.com have been supposedly banned from participating in this year's San Diego Comic-Con, according to a notice received by SuicideGirls founder Missy on June 22 from Comic-Con International Exhibits Sales representative Rod Mojica. Missy told L.A. Weekly that she was informed SucideGirls......
Want drama? Forget the theater, go to a bar. For over two years Thomas Blake, co-producer and director of the wildly popular stage show Point Break Live!, has been turning traditional theater head over heels over bar stools with the uproarious DIY adaptation of Kathryn Bigelow's 1991 adrenaline-soaked big-screen blockbuster,......
As previously reported, retired pitcher for the L.A. Dodgers Jose Lima was found dead Sunday, May 23 after suffering a heart attack. On Friday, however, the famed baseball player was front and center at Dodger Stadium to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Sci-Fi classic The Empire Strikes Back alongside other......
Check out this behind the scenes look at photographer Kevin Scanlon shooting L.A. Weekly's 2010 People Issue. Subjects include Ken Jeong, Kate Micucci, Lynda Kay, John 5 and more. Music provided by Lynda Kay, John 5, and Kate Micucci......
Courtney Cruz, the brains and buxom beauty behind performance troupe and burlesque sensation Devil's Playground, is having a serious guest-list problem. Just one month after her cult production of Star Wars Burlesque premiered at tiny downtown club Bordello and became an overnight Internet sensation, Cruz has been overrun with requests......
Amateurs get a bad rap, but KamranV believes they are key to creating the future of new media. Contrary to the members-only major-label system, with today's tools everyone has power. It's easier for artist and amateur alike to make music and cut video, easier to master Photoshop, and easier to......
View more backstage and concert photos in our "Street Drum Corps, 30 Seconds to Mars @ The Greek, Pt. 1" and "Pt. 2" slideshows. It's late. It's cold. Our ears are ringing and everyone is tired, but there's still adrenaline pulsing through the intimate crowd of band members, friends and......
Hip-hop group Get Busy Committee has no shortage of back-up these days. At yesterday's pre-party to hype tonight's May 12 Viper Room gig, the trio had major support from digital music pioneers Topspin Media, original game-changers MySpace Music, big man on campus Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park, and perhaps the......
