Sauntering back from a morning hike with his husky, Serj Tankian greets me on the doorstep of his immaculate, chalet-ish home in a leafy fold of the Calabasas h...
“This is the stupidest story ever — I can’t believe I’ve even started telling you this!” Launching into an obscure tale involving his first guitar, a towel and a light switch, singer-songwriter Jeff Caudill has just become the latest guest to be gently disarmed by DJ Jon Hershfield on his......
“Idon’t ’ave much choice really,” says Paul Weller, speaking on his status as a national institution in the U.K. — where he received an Outstanding Contribution to British Music award at the BRIT Awards last February. “It just makes you feel old really — but I am old, so fair......
REPUBLIC OF LOOSE at the Troubadour, November 8 Irish radio is infamously stingy with its support of homegrown acts, yet it’s spinning the hell out of the jelly-shakin’ genre soup that is Republic of Loose (whose single, “Comeback Girl,” you may have also heard about 11,000 times on Indie 103)......
DEFTONES at Avalon, November 10 DEFTONES at Avalon, November 10 This was some seriously sick shit. The second of two Avalon nights for Sacramento’s stoner/skater icons was a proper concert: the capacity crowd 100 percent engaged, the bars deserted, no one out drunk-dialing in the lobby — in Hollywood. The......
SECRET MACHINES at Avalon, October 23 Seeking a more communal concert experience, the perpetually retro Secret Machines are performing “in the round” on this tour (on a stage in the center of the venue, with the audience surrounding them). The relatively cozy confines of the Avalon lent tonight a welcome......
Best Parking Lot ?for Hollywood Hydes “Have some chocolate to go with the extra parking space you took.” So read the note. Perfectly centered, in a large and elegant ink-jetted font . . . bordered with chocolate syrup and stuck face-down on my windshield, directly in the driver’s line of sight. I......
Best Rock & Roll by the Hour Downtown Rehearsal — a huge cube of a building whose elephantine concrete frame is covered with a flesh of sooty red bricks — dominates a corner just east of Skid Row. Overlooking an auto impound lot and tangling highways, this former warehouse has......
Tonight, in Miami Vice sky-blue blazer and lime T-shirt, the shaven-headed Skinner projected a persona loitering between laddish rave hustler and the Geico gecko. Crucially, he opted for a solid live band highlighted by a prog-articulate drummer, plus MC Leo Ihenacho, who mercifully sexed up Skinner’s almost spoken-word delivery and......
T he flotsam and jetsam littering Orson’s recently abandoned downtown rehearsal space — a spooky concrete room overlooking highways and an auto-impound lot — chronicles a six-year quest for power-pop success: handmade fliers for East L.A. all-ages shows; a wall calendar scribbled with bookings at Suzy’s in Hermosa Beach and......
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