Kate Sullivan

You’ve got to feel for Gang of Four. You can’t turn on rock radio today without hearing some damn hipster band copping their shit as if they’d invented disco-punk two weeks ago. (No surprise, GoF guitarist Andy Gill, who once produced the Chili Peppers, is a popular producer right now......

Photo by Dustin RabinTegan and Sara, the guitar-playing twin sisters from Calgary, have done something unbelievably rare: They’ve made a good album. I don’t just mean a decent effort with two standout tracks. I don’t mean a stylish, sonically adventurous record with no songs that’ll actually get stuck in your......

Photos by Wild Don Lewis BOB DYLAN, MERLE HAGGARD & THE STRANGERS at the Pantages, March 21 In the middle of Bob Dylan’s Monday show last week (the first of a five-night stand), heavy red curtains parted, “stars” bloomed on a dark backdrop, and the band played “Moonlight” (from Dylan’s......

Photo by Mariu Mochnacz After 40 years, Marianne Faithfull has just quit smoking. Can you imagine? But the way she talks about it — her voice as throaty over the phone as you’d imagine — giving up her Marlboro Lights wasn’t surrender. It was just change — awful, real, good......

While working on his new record, Guero, Beck told Mojo magazine last fall: “I have no clear idea what people want from me, but I was walking down the street and some hip-hop kid yelled, ‘Hey Beck — get back on track!’ Maybe he wanted another ‘Where It’s At’ —......

Dear God, I know You’ve got a lot going on, and Hunter Thompson’s recent arrival probably has the angels all aflutter, but wanted to bend Your ear a minute about a matter of some concern to us down here in the other city of angels. Just over a year ago......

Photos by Wild Don Lewis MUSIC FOR RELIEF at the Wiltern L.G., January 17 Besides writing compelling anthems about The Rock, Tenacious D also give good tsunami benefit. In fact, of the countless tsunami fund-raisers held recently, the D’s was surely the most fan-effing-rockotastic. Jack Black and Kyle Gass —......

So last night I was downtown with that strange, new radio station on — 103.1 FM, a.k.a. “Indie 103” — and I started driving like a complete asshole, switching lanes between a city bus and some lardass pickup, desperate to get through a yellow light for no reason other than......