Liz Ohanesian

During LA's punk heyday, Nervous Gender was as notorious as it got. According to their MySpace bio, the synth-based band with a penchant for provocative lyrics had been described as "horrible," "repulsive" and "thoroughly despicable" (and that's coming from just one person). But attitudes change with the times and in......

It was something completely unexpected, that the former frontman of an '80s cult band who made his way to L.A. by little more than happenstance prompted a scene teetering on pandemonium. But, this was exactly what happened when Mark Burgess, formerly of The Chameleons, played Part Time Punks at The......

It's easy to become a cynical dance floor junkie in Los Angeles, especially after the celebrity DJ invasion a few years back, where an army of musicians, actors, etc. took over booths to either have the club resident ghost DJ for them or commit horrifying acts of sonic assault on......

Mark Burgess, former frontman of cult-favorite The Chameleons, was simply taking a vacation. He had traveled to the US to meet a friend in Maine, ended up in Boston through a twist of events and was asked to play with some musicians who were also fans of his old band......

View more photos in the Club Hell slideshow. By 11:30 p.m., Club Hell, the monthly fetish-tinged industrial party at Ivar, was packed. Throughout the smoking patio, up the stairwell and inside the vast Hollywood venue were shiny, tightly packed clusters of people engulfed in a dense cloud of sweat. It's......

Last November, we covered Ruin Hollywood and the resurgence of LA's goth scene. Six months later, the Friday night party, which actually took place in Koreatown at Wilshire Blvd. haunt Monte Cristo, drew its final breath. But nothing goth is truly dead and it looks like Ruin Hollywood might be......

LA-based synthpop artist Mark Lane, who was featured in LA Weekly last December, appears in the new documentary about '80s cassette culture, Grindstone Redux. The film, which was featured earlier this month at the West Hollywood International Film Festival, includes interviews with ten artists from the North American electronic and......

With their "One Night at the Raw Deal" 12" now out on Italians Do It Better (home of Glass Candy), Twisted Wires could be poised to become the next big thing in dance music. However, their tracks are nowhere near typical club fair. Instead, Twisted Wires loves reverb and delays,......