Rebecca Haithcoat

You're dripping sweat, searching for shade, drinking just one more and praying you don't end up in the hospital for dehydration. Ahhh, summer festivals. The L.A. area's not lacking in the kind of fun you can only have when a massive crowd is unleashed into a contained-yet-open-air (read: hotter than......

If you had any doubt the entire country wasn't succumbing to delirium, here's your proof: The White House's Twitter account just Rickrolled a follower. Sure, that joke's older than news that broke online a week ago, but that's just further confirmation that the minds behind the great white fortress are......

It's that time of year again. The headliner for this year's LA Weekly Presents LA 101 is Los Angeles' own Airborne Toxic Event. Held at Gibson Amphitheatre on October 23, 2011, the all-ages festival features music, art, vendors and food trucks. Supporting musical acts will be announced August 1st. Known......

"Uh-huh, you know what it is- my nose and ass? They're both big." And that's just the first line. We hoped thought Wiz Khalifa's "Black and Yellow" was all burned out, but Kat Graham's parody, "Black and Jewish," debuted on Funny or (with a Star of David substituted for the......

A Mad Men intro as effervescent as champers? Well, it doesn't suit Don Draper's drowning in Old Fashioneds, Betty's kept suburban housewife boredom, and the cultural malaise that's really the root of the entire show, but what better way to highlight that than by contradicting it? It's like "Born in......

We knew when we visited the set that director Jason Goldwatch's video for Pusha T and Tyler, the Creator's "Trouble On My Mind" was gonna be one of the dopest visuals we'd seen in awhile. As Pusha T told us on set: I said to Tyler, if I'm gonna do......

WHO: Theophilus London WHERE: Troubadour WHEN: 7/18/11 Better than ... the Molly Ringwald dance. Theophilus London has a flight instinct. Just browse his song titles--"Humdrum Town," "Flying Overseas," "Departure," "All Around the World"--or his lyrics, like telling his Queen Bee, "Let's fly away," in "One Last Time." The tricky part......

Hate her or love her, you can't deny Kreayshawn's "Gucci Gucci." The beat sticks in your head like bubblegum to your shoe on a hot-as-all-hell New Orleans' summer day. Guess it got lodged in Lil Wayne's brain, too, since his freestyle over the beat was just released. While we all......

When we interviewed L.A.-via-The Bay rapper Kreayshawn back in May, she told us she was about to perform her fifth show ever. Recently, after signing with Columbia, she announced a 5-city tour at the end of the summer. First, though, she jetted off to spread the swag comin' out her......