Steve Appleford

Warpaint's Emily Kokal

Warpaint: Back From The Road, Ready For The Bowl

The road can take some getting used to for a young garage band. For the ladies of Warpaint, the last seven weeks riding tour buses and airplanes across Australia, Japan, Europe and the U.K. took a serious toll. The indie rock quartet were finishing up promoting their acclaimed debut album......
All this can be yours: The John Anson Ford Theatre; Credit: Paul Antico

The Ford Theatre Is Open to Local Artists!

The young woman with glitter on her eyes is performing songs of death and betrayal before a nearly full house at the John Anson Ford Theatre. It's Sunday night, and Mandi Perkins is at the ancient Hollywood venue with her band Of Verona to perform four acoustic songs on the......
Timothy Norris

Katy Perry – Nokia Theatre – 8/5/2011

Katy Perry Nokia Theatre 8/5/2011 Better than . . . another Law and Order rerun. Katy Perry likes to think of herself as one of us, a regular girl with some spirit who worked hard or got lucky, and isn't so far removed from her days as an unknown singer-songwriter......
Slayer guitarist Kerry King; Credit: Photograph by Steve Appleford

EXCLUSIVE: Slayer's Kerry King Reveals How Thrash Survives

Thrash metal musicians are not always the most social of animals. The guys in Anthrax do tend to get along with other bands, but Slayer, Megadeth and Metallica have famously traded insults across the decades over slights big and small. That all came to an end last year in Europe,......