After enduring a rare disease, two brain surgeries and a devastating breakup, the beat scene producer born Jennifer Lee returns with the best album of her career....
The rest of the country only recently caught on, but Los Angeles has long been riding for YG. Listen, and you'll hear him everywhere: That fat-bottomed bass line booming out of the '69 Chevy hittin' switches on Rosecrans belongs to his G-funked–up "Twist My Fingaz." His sparse, Drake and Kamaiyah–featuring......
A block of speakers onstage is wobbling. The kid who’s climbed atop them crouches like a kitten that’s scaled a tree and doesn’t know what to do next. For a second, it appears he might hop off. Instead, he reaches up, grabs a pipe and, dangling, begins to head bang......
By 6 p.m. on a brisk Friday evening in February, the block of office buildings in Burbank that houses radio station Real 92.3 is mostly dark. The 9-to-5ers have left and are already draining their first round of TGIF cocktails. At the station, Nhandi Craig, aka DJ Young 1, has......
“You look beautiful,” Miguel says. Hanging over a pair of white jeans with shredded knees, his halfway-unbuttoned silk Gucci Hawaiian shirt billows a little in the breeze. He pauses, mid–leisurely stroll, in the middle of the Venice Beach boardwalk, and reaches out for a hug. His eyes are shielded by......
In 2012, A$AP Rocky closed out Saturday night of Coachella in the Gobi tent. Considering he had only released his first mixtape, Deep Purple, the summer before, it was a plum set time for the Harlem rapper. Being a rap and Rocky lover, I was excited to see him perform......
Packing for Coachella requires more thought than just tossing your wallet, keys and phone in your bag. First, you need to prepare for two drastically different temperatures: During the day, you'll boil in a bikini; at night, any uncovered skin breaks out into chill bumps. A dead cellphone is almost......
Like the persistent stereotype that everybody in L.A. is whippet-thin and Kardashian-beautiful, the notion that Coachella has become a fashionable playground where glamazon BFFs like Gigi and Kendall frolic is not entirely accurate. There are far more of us than them. However, you wouldn’t know that from the annual deluge......
Okay, so you blew your tax refund on a ticket to Coachella. How do you make these the best three days of your life while on a budget? It’s not easy. Last year, writer Marc Ballon asked a bunch of people how the hell they afforded Coachella. Most estimated they......
