Jeff Weiss

For the last eight years, Low End Theory has reigned as L.A.'s best club for people who hate clubs. The sound system is seismic enough to cause craters. The bookings are eclectic and progressive. The narcotic atmosphere helps lighten the onerous entrance lines in front of the Airliner in Lincoln......

It's been 37 years since George Benson brought his gypsy-nimble funk to the Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood. Yet vivid memories remain of the three-night stand that birthed the platinum-selling 1978 live record Weekend in L.A. "My band featured the baddest young cats in America. We'd had so much success......

Disco can't die. The genre once crucified at a baseball game's Disco Demolition Night has achieved immortality usually reserved for Styrofoam cups and Carpathian sorcerer-kings. After rock critics gleefully wrote its obituary in the early 1980s, disco went underground, splintering and fusing into new wave, house, techno and funk. By......

His frequently sold-out DJ sets turn into communal dance carnivals. His name is appropriated from a neon-glossed Echo Park bar known for PBR and tequila specials. But Goldroom's musical genesis derives from the magic of isolation. For the synth satrap born Joshua Legg, it begins on a boat. Not the......

The funk started flourishing after Turquoise Summers was released from Washington, D.C.'s Walter Reed Hospital. It was 2009 and the Army reconnaissance operations specialist from Corona had spent the previous 18 months recovering from life-threatening injuries. During the modern funk maestro's second tour of Iraq, an improvised explosive device fell......

Topanga Canyon is closer to a collective spell than a parcel of the city. Supine between Woodland Hills and PCH, it's the 1960s' last stand, a mountain enclave suffused with eccentrics, rusted vans and stunning vistas. Even the hitchhikers drink reverse osmosis - filtered water. It's the opposite of the......