On Saturday, June 4, legal cannabis full-service management company MedMen opened its flagship store in the heart of West Hollywood. Long known as a progress...
Recordings of experimental material originally conceived as studio creations have become a kind of subgenre within contemporary music. Examples like Zeitkratzer’s live versions of Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music or Alarm Will Sound’s acoustic rendering of Aphex Twin’s sonic landscapes have highlighted unexpected aspects of the original recordings, while also......
The summer pool party season got off to a glittering start (literally) on Memorial Day at the Wavey EDM event — featuring legendary DJs Todd Edwards and Juan Ma...
Last night, EDM label Buygore threw one of their dance parties at Union on West Pico Blvd. (the venue formerly known as Jewel's Catch One). “Buygore is well...
Raymond Chandler's novels and stories defined a kind of literary noir that made everyone see Los Angeles in a different light. After reading Chandler's ...
Although adult films are a signature cultural product of Southern California, there are a lot of misconceptions about how those films are made. Two weeks ago, Bree Mills, head of production for Gamma Films Group and one of the masterminds of the award-winning all-female studio Girlsway, invited us to one......
Girlsway's Bree Mills invited L.A. Weekly to an adult film shoot last week in the Valley. Consistent with Girlsway's philosophy of openness (the all-gir...
The "rabbit hole." Any music fan understands the concept right away, especially in these days of fast Internet streaming and the constant availability of anything. Someone mentions a song that sounds interesting, or you see an intriguing album cover, and off you go into the darkest depths of YouTube, starting......
This week, L.A. Weekly invites you on a journey into one of the most influential Rosetta Stones of obscure music: the legendary Nurse With Wound List. Originall...
On Wednesday, Cannabis Cabaret (produced by Little Face, aka Katelyn Partlow) celebrated 4/20 with a Blind Tiger event, described as "a speakeasy art club featu...