Nicholas Pell

So the other day, I was in the shower listening to Gordon Lightfoot on my phone as one does. I got out and picked up my phone and saw that the song I just listened to, “If You Could Read My Mind,” was covered by Neil Young. As I enjoy......

I have a modest proposal that I doubt many of you will cotton to: It’s time to critically re-evaluate nu metal. You remember nu metal, right? Chugging riffs. Grunted vocals. Big pants. Soul patches. It’s one of the last remaining mutations of rock that no one has bothered to pick......

Let it never be said that I’m a man who can’t admit his own mistakes. Last week it was the authorship of “Slave Girl.” This week, it’s the best Metallica album. A couple years ago I made the bold claim that Metallica only made one truly great record. And while......

I’m fully aware that, since the dawn of the 21st century, the Goo Goo Dolls have been embarrassingly tepid MILFcore. Still, anytime someone name-checks the Goos as a symbol of mediocrity, I can’t help but judge them. How can anyone exhibit shameless excitement over a Sleater-Kinney reunion record (groan) while......

One of the 54 fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People Issue 2015. "I've always been about getting the chicks," says Omar Romero, 32, of Altadena, a man known not just for running Vinny's, one of the best barbershops in town, but also for being one of the top rockabilly......

Nomads frontman Mike (just "Mike" — the band purposely cultivates an air of anonymity) recalls a time when he was touring Poland with an old band of his. "This guy came up to me and said, 'My friend wants to fight you.'" Mike was ready to go. Then the Polish......

What I’m about to say, I say with no trace of irony: Limp Bizkit are pretty awesome. In fact, so far as I can tell, they were the last good thing alt-rock radio had to offer. Let’s talk about their musical merits. I know that Fred Durst got a little......

Even if you don’t know who mononymous artist Coop is, you know his work. During the 1990s, his art graced album covers by such disparate artists as the Reverend Horton Heat, Lords of Acid and even Nirvana. You might know him from his zaftig devil girls or his grinning, cigar-smoking......

Unassumingly located in Monrovia, Resistor Records is Los Angeles County’s most lovingly curated record shop. Opened in October 2013 by erstwhile independent filmmaker Sean Sprinkel and Joe “Jah Paul Jo” Ramsey, late of The Prime Movers and Dread Zeppelin, the store was dealt a major blow with Ramsey’s death right......

Much like you, dear reader, I was shocked and astounded that Randy Newman’s delightful 1983 pop gem “I Love L.A.” was left off of our “20 Best Songs Ever Written About L.A.” list. Imagine my dismay when our new editor, Andy Hermann, informed me that it hadn’t been left out......