Rebecca Haithcoat

Don't mess with memorials, especially ones dedicated to musicians tragically gone far too soon. Last spring, former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters incited a minor riot (ok, in the comments section of this blog post, but still) when the viral street campaign for his The Wall Live tour defaced the......

The small army splayed around a table on the patio of Inglewood's Simply Wholesome is focused on the black Range Rover parked just outside the door. Stevie Wonder's in the passenger seat. The eight members of Los Angeles collective OverDoz, who open for Dom Kennedy tonight at the Glass House......

Jill Scott Gibson Amphitheatre 8/10/11 Better than ... drinks, dinner, and a movie. No venue is too big for Jill Scott's voice. It wields the kind of deeply supported, belly-rumbling power every Broadway baby dreams of. She had no problem saturating the Gibson Amphitheatre with sound last night, even with......

Re:Play L.A. is our concert series with local indie acts covering classic albums. The final installment — Aug. 17 at the Hard Rock Café on Hollywood Boulevard — will feature genre-unclassifiable duo J*DaVeY. But unlike the other artists in the series, J*DaVeY weren't immediately sure what they wanted to cover......

In "Los Angeles," the first single from Inglewood rapper Thurz's debut solo project, L.A. Riot-- out yesterday --a girl chirps, "To me, L.A. means home, sunny skies, and happy people." But in Thurz's next verse, he flips the city over to examine its underbelly, "Cats would raise a gun before......

If Narduwar isn't the best music journalist working, he's definitely the most entertaining. First of all, the Canadian legally renamed himself "Nardwuar the Human Serviette" in 1986. He unearths so much buried information on his interviewees he should work for the Feds. He ends every interview by sing-songing "Doot doola......

Who says jazz is dead? Nobody, if Canadian trio BADBADNOTGOOD has anything to do with it. Back in April, we happened upon the group's eight-minute re-imagining of two songs from Tyler, the Creator's Bastard and (our personal favorite) Gucci Mane's "Lemonade." Sometimes the cream, not the terrible videos we immediately......

Yesterday Katy Perry's boppy single "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" rose to the number one slot, making Teenage Dream the first album in the near 19-year history of Billboard's Mainstream Top 40 chart to produce five number ones. Big news. But today could bring Perry's career an even bigger boon: If......

While you were running back Jay Z and Kanye's impossibly out-of-touch single "Otis" last weekend, Spaceghostpurrp and Speak were recording in Miami's Poe Boy studios. While you were recalling Jigga and 'Ye's humble roots, two of today's realest rising rappers were tending theirs. While you were wondering what the hell......