Paul T. Bradley

We were hoping to have a living, breathing fashion expert talk to us about the really fashionable things you're supposed to put on your body at Coachella this year, but that dude flaked out at the last minute and no others were available. So we had to go solo — with......

Spot is best known as the guy who engineered some of the grittiest and most influential punk and hardcore in America from 1979 to 1985 at Hermosa Beach's Media Art Studio. As the house producer for SST Records, he had his hands on the board for albums by Black Flag,......

Time and time again, L.A. has proved itself to be the global epicenter of live and recorded music. Bands drive here in rusted-out vans, singers flock to open mics, and every block from La Puente to Ventura has at least one garage full of dudes trying to perfect the one......

The Power of the Riff Presents: Southern Lord Showcase Excel, Goatsnake, XIbalba, Obliterations, Baptists, Torch Runner Los GlobosOctober 15, 2014 Better Than... getting punched in the mouth with a fistful of battery acid.  For your average workaday shred-head, Wednesday day is always full of those "Hey humpday!" / "Week's half-over!" B.S. coworker-small-talk-platitudes......

When your aunt pulls out her forgotten photos of family vacations past, you're probably going to tune out. But when punk rock photographer Edward Colver tells you he's got boxes of negatives he hasn't looked at in years, you drop what you're doing and gather around. Colver is opening up......

It's a well-known fact that L.A. Weekly music writers are consistently at the forefront of global fashion. The evidence speaks for itself: Ben Westhoff was the first guy in his high school to wear sneakers with a suit, Shea Serrano was born wearing shutter-shade sunglasses, and Jason Roche owns a......

Punk supergroup Dead Men Walking features members of The Damned, The Alarm, and The Stray Cats. When they perform this Sunday, September 14 at the Troubadour they will count among them a bunch of guests, including Duff McKagan and Fred Armisen.  Armisen, of course, is known as the musician-turned-comedian-turned-musician who......

Reissues, man. Reissues. Upon its release in...blabbity-blah blah. In the past couple of years, we've seen so many pointless reissues that the remains of good taste are spinning in their tiny tiny graves. It’s almost as if the current white on white contrast in contemporary music’s race to banality has......