Liz Ohanesian

Marilyn Manson appeared at the opening party for Vivienne Westwood's Melrose Avenue shop where he said that he will be working with X Japan founder Yoshiki on a forthcoming project to benefit earthquake/tsunami relief in Japan. "He's a good friend of mine," said Manson in the red carpet Q/A of......

See more photos in Timothy Norris' slideshow "Röyksopp @ The Wiltern." Near the end of Röyksopp's set at The Wiltern Tuesday night, Torbjorn Brundtland thanked the crowd, calling us "true fans." It was hard not to wonder what makes a "true" Röyksopp fan. With some artists-- Lady Gaga, X Japan......

See more photos in Shannon Cottrell's gallery "Japan Nite with Mo'Some Tonebender, Lolita No. 18, Zukunasisters, Hystoic Vein and Josy."Read more about Japan Nite in Siran Babayan's post "SXSW Recap: Japan Nite Raises Money for Earthquake Relief." For the past fifteen years, Audrey Kimura of Benten Records has been bringing......

Read more in Ali Trachta's story "Mash-Up Party in the USA: The LA Weekly Interview with Girl Talk." Over the course of the past week, both Deadmau5 and Girl Talk, two of the biggest names in dance-oriented music, have played Los Angeles. On the surface, the two are wildly different......

Read Lina Lecaro's review, "The Night a Duran Duran Show Got the David Lynch Treatment in LA." Wednesday night, American Express' Unstaged series brought together Duran Duran and David Lynch for an unusual live experience. As the band played on The Mayan stage, Lynch worked behind the scenes directing the......

Read "David Lynch, (Non-)Musician: The L.A. Weekly Interview." Tonight at the Mayan Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, Duran Duran will take the stage in support of their latest album, All You Need is Now. This won't be a standard concert, it's actually part of American Express' Unstaged series, where bands......

Yoshiki, drummer, pianist and songwriter for legendary Japanese hard rock band X Japan, is auctioning his "crystal" plexi-glass piano, according to a recent press release. The reason? He's raising funds for earthquake and tsunami victims in Japan. L.A.-based Yoshiki was in Japan at the time of earthquake, where the band......