Lina Lecaro

Freaky Jam

Screen and Be Seen

Lina Lecaro
Screen and Be Seen Puppet-lovin’ pervs rejoice, John Roecker’s stop-motion Helter Skelter–inspired shock fest Live Freaky! Die Freaky! is finally coming to a video store (Wal-Mart . . . not!) near you. To celebrate the release of the filthy flick, which features the vocal talents of Billie Joe Armstrong, Davey Havok, Jane......
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Give 'Em the Boot

Lina Lecaro
W?hen I recently posted a piece on the L.A. Weekly’s Style Council blog proclaiming my (still) shameless love for the much-berated Ugg boot, I wasn’t prepared for the response I would get. My sanity was actually questioned by LA.com’s revered fashion blog Clothes Hoarse, while friends considered an intervention. But......
Axl Rose with Good Charlotte and Avenged Sevenfold at KORN Party: Photo Credit. Photo: John Shearer/WireImage

Dead Man’s Party

Lina Lecaro
Rock & roll spitfire Dayle Gloria (the driving force behind legendary L.A. music joints like Scream and Club With No Name in the early ’90s) is such a staple on the Strip these days, she’s even filming her own reality show about it, called Queen of the Sunset Strip. The “ambassador”......
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Saturday Night Sessions

Lina Lecaro
Saturday Night Sessions There’ll be house music all night long at this underground-style bash (the location is still undisclosed) featuring seminal U.K. party-music duo Inland Knights and local legend Doc Martin, who will open. Both have the chops to command a dance floor in a way that’s both crowd-pleasing and......
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Big & Bad

Lina Lecaro
BIG & BAD New Year’s Eve was a bust for thousands in town, with both GiantVillage and Flauntmag’s Pamela Anderson–hosted outdoor shindigs getting canceled due to rain-related concerns, though we managed to salvage the evening at the Little Radio warehouse bash, where Z-Trip spun a surprise set. But what about......
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High ’05 in Clubland

Lina Lecaro
1. My Space Es Su SpaceYeah, it’s a great resource for bands, but MySpace is still about hooking up, too, and while it will never totally replace meeting the love of your life while drunk at a bar, it’s changing everything else for scenester types. Nobody asks for phone numbers......
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So Alive

Lina Lecaro
The Living Things are four dreamy fellas with cool hair and a flamboyant style that’s really missing from American rock right now. But don’t be fooled by their neo-glitter veneer. The Berlin brothers (singer Lillian, bassist Eve and drummer Bosh) and childhood pal/guitarist Corey Becker are out to make a......
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Tommy, Pamela and a Pole

Lina Lecaro
Tommy, Pamela and a Pole Metal Skool on Mondays continues to spew down-&-dirty fun at the Key Club. (And we do mean dirty; the band says “vagina” a lot during its between-song shtick, and you can always count on some groupie flashing her not-so-God-given goods onstage.) The hairspray-lovin’ heshers have......
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Hello, Ruby Tuesday!

Lina Lecaro
Eminent club promoter/DJ Joseph Brooks (Fetish Club, TVC15, Makeup) has always believed that if you bring the Rock, the Youth will come. Back when he was spinning at the goth-esque Scream and hair-metal Cathouse in the late ’80s/early ’90s, I acquired my first fake ID, which allowed me entrance to......
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Nightranger

Lina Lecaro
Hanging out backstage . . . Priceless The “surprise” OK Go! show at The Roxy on Wednesday for the new IN:LA AmEx credit card (you know, the one with those annoying commercials that promise “VIP access to L.A. hot spots” ) was, uh, okay, but we were more entertained by......