Kate Sullivan

At Club Bahia, May 25 By DANIEL HERNANDEZ There's always an element of danger at a Very Be Careful show. They tend to play venues and in neighborhoods where the occasional bar brawl is not uncommon. And the band members themselves, true products of the modern multicultural L.A., are legendary......

Here's a link to an extended version of Falling James' interview with Manu Chao appears on L.A. Weekly's website this week.  They cover his first L.A. show playing with No Doubt in 1989, to his love of punk rock bands like the Ramones and MC5to the worries of turning into......

(Photo by James MinchinI’m no Linkin Park fan. To me, they represent the aesthetic nadir of modern rock — all that shouting and rapping and whining, all so anally polished and digitally enhanced.Still, I would like to thank Linkin Park for bitching about the price of gasoline, and this dreadful......

New White Stripes song. Cool title. “Icky Thump.” Same as the title of the forthcoming album. It’s also an onomatopoeic description of the song itself. It’s icky and it’s thumpy. Come to think of it, that’s an apt description of the band, period. Jack is icky. Meg is thumpy. A......

Kate Sullivan's Little Radio podcast - #13Right click the link to download the podcast to listen to on your computer or MP3 player. Lots of new music this week, and old favorites, including Arctic Monkeys, The Clorox Girls, Any Trouble, The Peachfuzz and Future Clouds and Radar.  If you miss......

As you may know, Prince just completed his first Vegas stand. I say first in the hope that this will become a habit for him. This could be the beginning of a beautiful relationship. It’s true, the conclusion of this several-month stand was announced abruptly, in that way Prince-related news......

As an Angeleno, I feel a certain civic pride in the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. It’s a bit of a Popsicle up the ass to all those East Coast snobs who still consider SoCal a cultural desert. And yes, those people do still exist — in the Midwest......