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og:title: Radiohead not playing L.A. until late summer at the earliest

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og:title: Daft Punk at Vegoose

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og:title: Sonic Youth at Urban Outfitters, July 21

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og:title: Watch this now: new Radar Brothers video

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og:title: Tonight in LA: Berlin techno from Apparat, performed with live band

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og:title: San Fernando Valley Bloodbath

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og:title: Live in L.A.: The Universal Consciousness Orchestra, 8/9

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og:title: Crystal Antlers at High Voltage Party, Safari Sam's, 1/21/08

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og:title: Ten or so from Jonathan Gold in 2007

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og:title: Pellicano Trial’s Restless Defense

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og:title: OBEY SABER collaboration in Echo Park

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og:title: FOLAR's L.A. River Cleanup

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og:title: Clear Channel Messed with LA Weekly and Lost!

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og:title: She & Him, Vista, 4/28

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og:title: Treat Yourself: Head To Bittersweet Butterfly

og:title: Shopping Daze

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og:title: Chris Cornell, Wiltern Theater

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og:title: Meat & Greet: The Delta of Waters

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og:title: BBB (Big, Bold and Beautiful)

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og:title: Kofie'One's Obama Mural

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og:title: They're Back!

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og:title: Tony Wilson of Factory Records Dead

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og:title: Joe Strummer Tribute, Key Club, 12/22

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og:title: SXSW Day 4-Pitchfork Party Gets a 6.4, Due to Highly Derivative Partying

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og:title: Jared Gold's Not-So-Quiet Army

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og:title: Arresting Citizens land in the City of Angels

og:title: Stripping Power

og:description: I love power ballads, power naps and power tools! When I was 15 I asked for a power drill for Christmas, everyone laughed and I got some suede blue pump...

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og:title: Another Hollywood El Mac / Retna

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og:title: Unicorns Need Not Apply

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og:title: Rolling Stones, Scorsese and Black Girls

og:description: "Black girls just want to get fucked all night I just don't have that much jam" I just want to put that out there because it's a funny, mean, maybe even...


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og:title: Clinton Street Art in NYC

og:description: After posting a couple of different Obama art pieces (Iron Man, Obey and Kofie'One), I said that I would happily post photos of pro-Clinton art if only ...

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og:title: Wake for Authur Mag, Come Pay Your Respects

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

og:title: KHAAN! The Greatest Syllable Ever Told

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og:title: Last Night: DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist

og:description: DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist Hollywood Bowl, June 25 By Carlie Armstrong What began as an interestingly ethnic, slightly gimmicky evening at the Hollywood Bow...

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og:title: Out Today in Stores: Larry Norman, "The Father of Jesus Rock," Gets Anthologized

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og:title: Sue Wong Goes Wrong

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og:title: Auto Repair art on Santa Monica Blvd. and Ardmore

og:description: Two very different styles across the street from one another on Ardmore just south of Santa Monica Blvd...

og:title: Black Keys, Jay Reatard, Wiltern, 4/1

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og:title: More Books Than You Can Shake A Dead Indie Bookstore At

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og:title: Bjork at the Nokia Theatre, 12/12

og:description: Bjork at the Nokia Theater, December 12 By Randall Roberts Last night’s Bjork show at the Dystopia – er, I mean Nokia -- Theatre downtown di...

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og:title: Fashion Week, Take 2: Marvin & Quetzal line dazzles

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og:title: Pearl Jam - Rock Werchter Festival, Belgium


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og:title: Grizzly Bear make mustaches actually cool rather than ironically cool.

og:description: When the mustache meme became a thing.

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og:title: Brows, blowouts and Oscar bloggin'

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og:title: Slash Appeals For Lost Kittie on Get The Fuck Up Radio

og:description: Rock overlord Slash called for listeners of Get The Fuck Up Radio to keep an eye out for his poor lost kittie-cat Habib, who has been missing since Apri...

og:title: The 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2007 Pt. 3 (#14-10)

og:description: Mental Note: Avoid guys with the nickname "Mad Dog." 14. Redman-"Blow Treez" Why did we have to wait until 2007 for Redman, the man who taught a generat...

og:title: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers announce two area shows

og:description: Hot on the heels of LA Weekly's map of Tom Petty's Los Angeles, and a few days prior to their appearance at the Super Bowl, Tom Petty & the Heartbreaker...

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og:title: "Talking Heads are the Enemy" (aka Dirty Projectors as Black Flag, Jeffrey Lee Lewis as Crass)

og:description: Has the post-modern condition taken hold to the degree that all artists have left is the ability to comment on what has come before?

og:title: Voodoo Knife Holders and Other Holiday Gift Ideas

og:description: Looking for the perfect holiday gift for your cheating boyfriend or sleazy boss? Well here's one that says it all - the Voodoo Knife Holder. Made in Ita...


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og:title: The Three Shamans Vek, Om and Cobra

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og:title: Wolf Parade and Holy Fuck, El Rey, 9/13

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og:title: Eli Roth Takes Over New Beverly Cinema

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og:title: Live in LA: Iron Maiden invokes Coleridge, Crowley, Eddie in Irvine

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og:title: L.A. River Along the Golden State - Four

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og:title: Former Kraftwerk and Neu! percussionist Klaus Dinger dies

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og:title: Lily Allen Supports Homeless Doggies

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og:title: Kinky at Detour

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og:title: Live from Seattle: A bunch of geeks talking about music

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article:tag: Experience Music Project

og:title: LA Weekly Interviews Mark Eitzel of American Music Club

og:description: American Music Club, circa 2008 American Music Club’s new album, The Golden Age (Merge), begins with what seems to me two perfect Southern Califor...

og:title: Sue Wong Gets Fresh

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og:title: How PM Dawn Could’ve Avoided Getting Set Adrift On “Memory Bliss”

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og:title: Why Biz Markie Should Have Known From the Get-Go That He Was More Than "Just a Friend"

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og:title: Barry Bold

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og:title: The Lipstick and The Damage Done

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og:title: The Future of Reading for Non-Readers: Book Expo America 2008

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og:title: CBS Yard, Melrose, Part 2

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og:title: Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem and Wild Light, Hollywood Bowl, 9/20

og:description: Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem and Wild Light Hollywood Bowl, September 20. By Randall Roberts There was a moment about three-quarters of the way through ...

og:title: Billy Childish at London's Dirty Water Club, 4.11.2008

og:description: Photos by Rena Kosnett Taking 4 late night buses from Camden down to Brockley, yelling at one stranger who sneezed into my hair, standing for 45 minutes...


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og:title: Grilled Cheese Invitational

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og:title: HIllary Clinton, Working Class Heroine

og:description: By Marc Cooper It was far too beautiful a day in Southern California to have spent much time following the West Virginia primary. Taking a late afternoo...

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og:title: St. Patrick's Lament

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og:title: Laker Mania Sweeps Hollywood

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og:title: John Loder, the "ninth" member of Crass

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og:title: L.A.'s Lush Lawns Are in the Crosshairs as Officials Tackle Drought

og:description: The city of Los Angeles is considering an ordinance that would limit lawn watering to two days a week.

og:title: Skullphone may have bought time?

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og:title: Brewer hires Cortines

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og:title: Alan McGee says "No Need" for Record Shops Anymore

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og:title: And the Oscar Goes To....Lina Lecaro!

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og:title: Matthew Barney's Big (No) Show

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og:title: Sticks + Skin + Bones

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og:title: SXSW Day 1-My Morning Jacket Prove That They May Be Invincible and Britt Daniel is Everywhere

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og:title: More Books Than You Can Shake A Dead Indie Bookstore At

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og:title: Björk's brass band, Amy's do-do, Rufus' caftan: Coachella, Day One

og:title: Live in L.A.: Raveonettes Electric Duo, Midnight Movies

og:title: Jerry Hopkins on Fred Neil

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og:title: Craigslist Post of the Week - Studs Seek Sugarmama

og:title: SXSW Day 5-The Triumph of the Blogosphere...High Times at High Times...Why in God's Name Am I At The Perez Hilton Party?

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og:title: BOXeight: Louis Verdad

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og:title: Remembering LA Firefighter Brent Lovrien

og:description: Hundreds of firefighters and other emergency workers gathered to remember Los Angeles city firefighter Brent A. Lovrien, who died in a freak accident on...

article:tag: Ted Soqui


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og:title: Donita Sparks' Mushroom Mullet

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og:title: Calendar Girls

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twitter:title: Calendar Girls

og:title: Into the Groove

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og:title: The Block Is Hot: Hot Chip Take Over the Jimmy Kimmel Show

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og:title: Rime Art Opening at Ghettogloss

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og:title: Summer Strumming Me Softly

twitter:title: Summer Strumming Me Softly

og:title: F YEAH FEST Announces Summer Tour

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og:title: The Many Faces of JT Leroy

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og:title: Bodies moving at MX Beat

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og:title: Happy Rocktober!

twitter:title: Happy Rocktober!


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og:title: Last Night: The Office Night, UCB Theatre, 12/18

og:description: The Office Night Upright Citizens Brigade, Theater, 12/18 Review and photos by Nicole Campos (Right, Brent Forrester) What nuggets of Dunder Mifflin-esq...

og:title: Jessie Evans with Toby Dammit at Bordello, 1/31/08

og:description: “Are we ready?” was the question Jessie Evans put to her drummer Toby Dammit right before she dropped her heavy, black winter coat to the Bo...

og:title: The Hidden Pleasures of Coachella, Part I: Linton Kwesi Johnson

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og:title: The Queering of Cosmo

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og:title: Os Brasileiros at Carmichael Gallery

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og:title: Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#15-11)

og:description: 15. The White Stripes-Icky Thump Icky Thump is the sound of Jack White remembering how to have fun again. Get Behind Me Satan was cool and all but let's...

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og:title: Queens of the Stone Age, Nokia Theater, 10/29

og:description: What I experienced at the Nokia Theater was simply phenomenal. Scary in good ways as well as bad. A sign of things to come and remembering the way it us...

article:tag: Queens of the Stone Age

og:title: 10 Questions Raised By Mista Grimm's "Indo Smoke" Upon Re-Examination In the Year 2008

og:description: 1. Is it ever a bad idea for rappers to open their video with shots of them buying 40's at the liquor store? 2. Nate Dogg> a lump of aluminum foil> Akon...

og:title: Kids Get Retarded at City Hall, Make Out in Confessionals

og:description: Thousands of urban urchins took hits on bowls and marveled at their shroom trails while sitting on the steps of City Hall during the LA Weekly's Detour ...


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og:title: Pity Party People

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

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og:title: Presets Preview

og:description: The Presets play Los Angeles Tuesday, May 20 at the El Rey Theater. Sorry, sold out. But hey, don't go away sad. Here's the new video for the "You Are t...

twitter:title: Presets Preview


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og:title: Simpsonize Yourself!

og:description: Still haven't seen the Simpsons movie, but it's not like I need to what with the massive marketing that permeated the media. At least some of it is clev...

twitter:title: Simpsonize Yourself!

og:title: Daedalus endorses Obama! Hot MP3!

og:description: The prognosticators have been speculating for weeks on who LA-based producer Daedalus was going to endorse for president. We had our money on Ron Paul, ...

twitter:title: Daedalus endorses Obama! Hot MP3!

og:title: Lucinda Williams, El Rey, 9/9

og:description: Lucinda Williams El Rey, September 9 By Tom Cheyney Lucinda Williams kept a firm grip on her joy during the Sweet Old World night of her ambitious &ldqu...

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og:title: Live in L.A. Morrissey at the Hollywood Bowl, June 8

og:description: All the elements of a going-down-in-history Morrissey concert were there: sold-out behemoth venue, two full hours, tight band, a whopping ten stage-dive...


og:title: Elbow, Avalon, 5/9

og:description: Elbow, Air Traffic Avalon, May 9, 2008 Photos and words by Timothy Norris Shortly before Elbow took the stage Friday night for the final show of their l...

article:tag: Concerts and Tours

twitter:title: Elbow, Avalon, 5/9

og:title: Coachella, ah the memories

twitter:title: Coachella, ah the memories

og:title: LA Brew Co Is For Sale After Most Expensive Failed Bar Rescue In History

og:description: Four months after the SpikeTV show filming, the restaurant and bar has not kept any of the changes and is now for sale.

article:section: Restaurants

og:title: Meghan's Secret Rendezvous

twitter:title: Meghan's Secret Rendezvous

og:title: To Live And Try In LA

twitter:title: To Live And Try In LA


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og:title: Peaches and Cream

og:description: Peaches is one hot bitch. I had the pleasure of interviewing her for the cover of Bust magazine (on stands in January) a couple of weeks ago and yeah, I...

twitter:title: Peaches and Cream

og:title: Beds That Follow You Around

og:description: Hell yeah! Sleeping bags that you can walk around in. We like these. You need never buy a bed again because your bed will follow you wherever you go. Ac...

twitter:title: Beds That Follow You Around

og:title: Part of Arroyo Art Project Destroyed

og:description: Talked to Man One at the very cool Festival de la Gente on the 6th Street Bridge downtown Saturday. He told me that much of the artwork from the histori...

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og:title: BRIAN LICHTENBERG

og:description: There was something that made me feel sexy about the unveiling of Brian Lichtenberg’s Spring and Summer Collection at the Museum of Architecture a...

twitter:title: BRIAN LICHTENBERG

og:title: My Name is Caroline and I'm a Slothaholic

og:description: When I was younger I went to a relatively posh private school in London, full of high-achieving daughters who had DJ boyfriends and started nightclubbin...

og:title: The mysterious case of the Microphones who climbed away to Mt. Eerie

og:description: Our newest musical voices who, a decade a ago, might have been tempted to call themselves Moon Flower or Dog Park proudly go by their given names: Sufja...

og:title: Star Me Kitten: Can LA Handle Another Fashion Week?

og:description: This just in: The Standard Downtown will be hosting Kitten Fashion Week, created by designer and publisher Mike Vensel to allow designers who don't have...


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og:title: Peanut Butter Wolf to spin at Obama's California party tonight

og:description: This just in, offering further proof that Obama's down with the scene. PEANUT BUTTER WOLF SPINS TONIGHT AT CALIFORNIA FOR OBAMA PARTY AT THE AVALON Also...

article:tag: James Rockwell

og:title: Coachella Day One: The Raconteurs Stomp the Bejeesus Out of Vampire Weekend

og:description: Coachella, Day One It was hard to watch, honestly. There was blood all over the place. The security guys kept pulling Jack White off of Vampire Weekend ...

og:title: Last Night: Unsane, 400 Blows, Mouth of the Architect

og:title: Auto Repair art on Santa Monica Blvd. and Ardmore

og:description: Two very different styles across the street from one another on Ardmore just south of Santa Monica Blvd...


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og:title: Kinky at Detour

og:description: Up until now, it's been a lot of pleasant surprises: bands that maybe a lot of people hadn't been too familiar with, but ended up digging. Not so with K...

twitter:title: Kinky at Detour


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og:title: Meghan Where's The Love?

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

twitter:title: Meghan Where's The Love?

og:title: DUI Crackdown Greets the First Weekend of April in L.A.

og:description: Los Angeles police and sheriff's deputies have DUI checkpoints and patrols planned for the weekend.


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og:title: Ink N Iron Festival

og:description: Saturday, June 7th Queen Mary, Long Beach The greasers, rockers, 'billies and Betties couldn't ask for a better summer shindig than Saturday at the Ink ...

article:tag: Mike Stinson

twitter:title: Ink N Iron Festival


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og:title: David Beckham Joins LA Galaxy (it's a soccer team)

og:description: Becks is coming to LA in July to start a five year contract with LA Galaxy! He will be paid around $1million a week! LA will become the soccer ep...


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og:title: Earth Day Events Around L.A.

og:description: All day long at 3700 Wilshire Blvd., between Oxford and Serrano Aves. there will be live music on a solar-powered stage, as well as a bike raffle. Micha...

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og:title: Fight Over Arroyo Seco Mural and Whitewash Keeps Going

og:description: Matthew Flesicher wrote a piece in the news section about the County calling an "emergency" over the properly permitted art project held in the Arroyo S...

article:tag: Gloria Molina

og:title: Fashion Weeklings? LA Observed Notices Our Abscence

og:title: Eli Roth Takes Over New Beverly Cinema

og:description: For a few weeks anyway... Roth, the director of Hostel, Cabin Fever and others, is programming two weeks worth of movies at the New Beverly. Roth will b...

twitter:title: Eli Roth Takes Over New Beverly Cinema

og:title: Madame X

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og:title: Bonde Do Role - Solta O Frango - excellent summer morning music

og:title: No Data Found

og:description: I'm digging these multi-layered pasted posters around Hollywood and Silver Lake of video cameras, radios, and other techno-objects. They tend to be plac...

twitter:title: No Data Found


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og:title: Naked Raygun, Knitting Factory, 12/7

og:description: Naked Raygun Knitting Factory, Dec. 7 "Anyone ever tell you you look like Steve Albini?" "We were just talking about Albini! Did you know that he re-rec...

twitter:title: Naked Raygun, Knitting Factory, 12/7


og:title: The Best Grammy Party I Got Invited To (but not really)

og:description: SATURDAY, midnight, my bedroom When I saw the invite in my inbox to Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy shin-dig in Beverly Hills, I couldn't rsvp fast enoug...

og:title: Fun in the Sun

og:description: This is what I woke up to this morning. In my inbox, in between press releases about Josh Homme's new side project called 5:15 (how many side projects c...

twitter:title: Fun in the Sun

og:title: G-Funk Week Concluded: 10 Qualities Highly Sought After in a Regulator As Gleaned From Warren G & Nate Dogg's "Regulate"

og:description: 1. Not being just any geek off the streets How To Avoid Being A "Geek Off the Streets: Learn how to how be to handy with the steel and earn your keep. B...

og:title: AMLO and the battle over Mexico's oil

og:description: Tall, striking, and as piercingly eloquent as ever when addressing throngs of dedicated supporters, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is back at the top of a ...

twitter:title: AMLO and the battle over Mexico's oil

og:title: Waiting For Bowiedot

og:description: Waiting for Bowiedot Act I Caroline: Let's go! Linda: We can't Caroline: Why not? Linda: We're waiting for Bowiedot ok, that's my interpretation ...

twitter:title: Waiting For Bowiedot


og:title: BOXeight: You Wear It Well Film Festival, The Mayor and Eduardo Lucero

og:description: (Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa flanked by two women. He sat front and center at Eduardo Lucero to show his support for BOXeight and LA fashion, and pretty ...

article:tag: Dino Dinco

og:title: Final Check Yo Ponytail tonight starring Dan Deacon and Erol Alkan

og:description: I Heart Comix's long-running Check Yo Ponytail series comes to a close tonight at the Echoplex. The legendary party ends its run with a doozy: Dan Deaco...

article:tag: Christianity


og:title: KooKoo for Coco

twitter:title: KooKoo for Coco

og:title: Newsflash: Iceland is not as unbearably cool as one imagines

og:description: Icelandic innovation includes the "bumper dumper," a flip-down toilet seat on trucks' rear end for use in the wild.

article:tag: Celebrity News

og:title: Last Night: The Klaxons at the El Rey

og:description: The Klaxons El Rey Theatre, July 10, 2007 By Sandy Kanphantha It's almost like any other night at the El Rey. Lines are stretched along the side of the ...

twitter:title: Last Night: The Klaxons at the El Rey

og:title: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers announce two area shows

og:description: Hot on the heels of LA Weekly's map of Tom Petty's Los Angeles, and a few days prior to their appearance at the Super Bowl, Tom Petty & the Heartbreaker...

article:tag: Hollywood Bowl


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og:title: Shower Power

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

twitter:title: Shower Power

og:title: Meat & Greet: The Delta of Waters

og:description: I ran into Tammie Brown at the John Water's Meet & Greet before the mustachioed director's Christmas show tonight at UCLA's Royce Hall. Tammie is a long...

twitter:title: Meat & Greet: The Delta of Waters

og:title: QUEER TOWN: Obama and the Gays

og:description: On Tuesday, the Democratic Party will finally wrap up its long, hard fought primary season. There will be a lot of talk about who will ultimately be the...

twitter:title: QUEER TOWN: Obama and the Gays

og:title: Coachella Friday: Easy Breezy

og:description: One down. Two to Go! Coachella Friday was actually very easy breezy. Okay, we left Thursday night thereby avoiding most traffic and we spent a big chunk...

twitter:title: Coachella Friday: Easy Breezy

og:title: Hank and the Masked Angelenos

og:description: Wheatpasted posters across from the Tiki-Ti and KCET on a Sunset Blvd. billboard pole near Virgil. More pasting - and stickers - on Santa Monica Blvd. n...

twitter:title: Hank and the Masked Angelenos


og:title: Dance Into the Fire

og:description: By Randall Roberts If it's true, as many haggard hipsters have dismissively opined, that 'Nobody goes to Burning Man anymore,' then who the hell are all...

twitter:title: Dance Into the Fire

og:title: Dewey Cox at the Coxy, 12/3

og:description: Dewey Cox and the Hard Walkers at the Roxy, Tuesday, December 3 By Randall Roberts You know what? Dewey Cox can kiss my ass. He’s all back and eve...

twitter:title: Dewey Cox at the Coxy, 12/3

og:title: Looks Good Enough to Eat

og:description: Look for full, juicy coverage of GenArt's fashion week kick-off bash in Thursday's paper. In the meantime, a couple snap shots to whet your whistle... T...

article:tag: Sophia Loren

twitter:title: Looks Good Enough to Eat

og:title: CBS Crew Rat Fink

og:description: Near a couple of auto body shops (and a sharp new Space Invader mosaic that we'll post soon) near Temple and Westmoreland is a CBS wall with a nice Rat ...

article:tag: Mark Mauer

twitter:title: CBS Crew Rat Fink


og:title: Kristoff talks: 'I didn't incite the attacks'

og:description: MTVMusic VideosMTV ShowsEntertainment News Televisa on-air personality Kristoff has finally broke his silence and addressed publicly the wave of anti-em...

article:tag: National Public Radio


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og:title: Make Hip-Hop Not War

article:tag: Entertainment

twitter:title: Make Hip-Hop Not War

og:title: Whitley Kros, Beck and Juliette Lewis

og:description: Yes, one half of Whitley Kros is Mrs. Beck, Marissa Ribisi. The other half is Sophia Banks, Marissa's long-time friend. Beck was of course, the musical ...

twitter:title: Whitley Kros, Beck and Juliette Lewis

og:title: My Conversation with Charles "Cookie" Thornton

og:description: I don't remember much about the conversation, but enough of it to know that this morning when I heard NPR report that a lone gunman had walked into a ci...


og:title: Black Mountain's Stormy High

og:description: Los Angeles always seems strange in the rain. Jim Morrison once may have said something to that effect. Then again, Jim Morrison once declared himself t...

article:tag: Los Campesinos!

twitter:title: Black Mountain's Stormy High

og:title: The Cure, The Shrine, June 1

og:description: The Cure The Shrine Auditorium, June 1, 2008 By Rita Neyter Last Sunday was an absolutely bright and beautiful day, but as the sun slowly descended over...

twitter:title: The Cure, The Shrine, June 1

og:title: My(Space) Secret is Out: Cold War Kids Play For Free

og:title: Sub Pop One Hummer

og:description: By Randall Roberts He’s out there somewhere. I know it. He apparently comes every year. At least that’s what they tell me up in Seattle, whe...

twitter:title: Sub Pop One Hummer

twitter:description: Dewey Cox and the Hard Walkers at the Roxy, Tuesday, December 3 By Randall Roberts You know what? Dewey Cox can kiss my ass. He’s all back and eve...


og:title: Fashion Week

og:description: Welcome to  LA Weekly's coverage of Fashion Week. Our Style Council is ready to fuck you up -- kicking it off at the Gen Art show tonight at Barker...

article:tag: Clothing

twitter:title: Fashion Week


og:title: Fox's Tail - Assistants March

og:description: “Every place has a completely different personality, like, Sony is kinda angry, Fox is where all the really cool people hang out and Radford gets ...

twitter:title: Fox's Tail - Assistants March

og:title: Juicy Bits from the LACMA Search Warrant

og:description: You can download the entire search warrant issued to Los Angeles County Museum of Art here, but these two pages provide the most details of LACMA's invo...

article:tag: Crime

og:title: Why I'm Endorsing Hulk Hogan

og:description: Take That Chuck Norris. As you can see from his "Real American" video above, Hogan has the endorsement of the real JFK, not his younger, drunker brother...

article:tag: Hulk Hogan

twitter:title: Why I'm Endorsing Hulk Hogan


og:title: Playin' With the Queen of Hearts: Susan Cianciolo Show

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

og:title: Guantanamo Detainee Mysteriously Contracts AIDS

og:description: Fresh air for prisoners at Guantanamo Abdul Hamid al-Ghizzawi, a Libyan meteorologist currently designated an "enemy combatant" and imprisoned by the U....


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og:title: Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#45-41))

og:description: 45. Joe Buhdha Presents Klashnekoff: Lionheart: Tussle With the Beast Exactly three British rappers have managed to "break" the American market in this ...

twitter:title: Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#45-41))

og:title: Pellicano Trial's Freaky Friday

og:description: Pellicano Defense Finishes Its First Week It’s a crime to lie to the FBI, so I won’t: The courtroom was bored to tears with Friday's appeara...

twitter:title: Pellicano Trial's Freaky Friday

og:title: Style Council Modfather Gets His Props

og:description: Last night at the Brit Awards, Paul Weller was honored for his Outstanding Contribution to British Music. Now 47, the Original Style Councilor (OSC, lik...

twitter:title: Style Council Modfather Gets His Props

og:title: Magicians, Neil Patrick Harris & a Hula-Hooping Corpse

og:description: I went to the Academy of Magical Arts Awards banquet last week. It was like a dream. Neil Patrick Harris was there. (Neil, who does your voodoo? It's li...

og:title: Coachella '08 Set Times Announced

og:description: You can complain all you want about Coachella 2008's roster, but the reality that I'll be seeing Kraftwerk followed by Portishead followed by Prince on ...

twitter:title: Coachella '08 Set Times Announced


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og:title: Coonskin of My Yellow Country Teeth: The Hipster Davy Crockett?

og:description: “You may all go to Hell...I will go to Texas”-Davy Crockett Davy Crockett's tombstone reads: "Davy Crockett, Pioneer, Patriot, Soldier, Trap...

article:tag: Billy Bob Thornton

og:title: Part of Arroyo Art Project Destroyed

og:description: Talked to Man One at the very cool Festival de la Gente on the 6th Street Bridge downtown Saturday. He told me that much of the artwork from the histori...

article:tag: Visual Arts

twitter:title: Part of Arroyo Art Project Destroyed

og:title: Myspace Taste of the Week

og:description: I'd like to think that I'm way more popular in real life than I am on Myspace. I've only got like 50 friends, but that's probably because I only say yes...

twitter:title: Myspace Taste of the Week

og:title: The Man Behind The Tan

twitter:title: The Man Behind The Tan


og:title: The Frames, 9/6

og:description: The Frames Henry Fonda Theater, Sept. 6 By Mark Mauer Two crowds showed up to see Dublin's The Frames Thursday night. First there were the die-hards, li...

twitter:title: The Frames, 9/6

og:title: Last Night: Pearl Jam in Düsseldorf

og:description: Pearl Jam Düsseldorf, Germany, ISS Dome June 21, 2007 By Ryan Colditz The German crowd at the ISS Dome Germany was more reminiscent of a fütbo...

twitter:title: Last Night: Pearl Jam in Düsseldorf


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og:title: RIP Ike Turner

og:description: It seems that just about everybody, at one time or another, hated Ike Turner (hell, even the Black Panthers once beat his ass onstage at the Oakland Civ...

article:tag: Tina Turner

twitter:title: RIP Ike Turner

og:title: Best Shows in LA, 2007

og:description: Do we need to count down backwards? For a change, why not start with the best and just work our way back to the merely excellent. Frankly, when you get ...

twitter:title: Best Shows in LA, 2007

og:title: My Bloody Valentine announces two LA shows in the fall

og:description: That would be Wednesday and Thursday, October 1 and 2 at the Santa Monica Civic Center. My Bloody Valentine's high-water mark: "Soon."...

og:title: Why Biz Markie Should Have Known From the Get-Go That He Was More Than "Just a Friend"

og:description: Markie appears to have had a Homer Simpsonian sense of delusion. Had he looked at himself in the mirror? The guy was 30 lbs. overweight, rapped like Cor...

article:tag: Biz Markie


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og:title: Black Mountain's Stormy High

og:description: Los Angeles always seems strange in the rain. Jim Morrison once may have said something to that effect. Then again, Jim Morrison once declared himself t...

twitter:title: Black Mountain's Stormy High

og:title: Prince added to Saturday's Coachella Line-Up

og:description: This just in: Prince has joined this year's line-up for the ninth COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, CA (Friday, ...

og:title: Queer Town: June Weddings For Gays

og:description: This morning, the California Supreme Court denied a request to rehear its May 15 ruling that legalized same sex marriage. Gay and lesbian couples can no...

article:tag: Social Issues

twitter:title: Queer Town: June Weddings For Gays

og:title: Upcoming Shows

og:description: Ryan Adams - Royce Hall, Jan. 30 & 31 Dave Alvin - McCabe's Jan. 18 & 19 Autechre - Echo, April 4 Bad Religion - House of Blues, April 4 & 5 Big Sandy, ...

twitter:title: Upcoming Shows


og:title: Lollapalooza Photos

og:description: Roving photographer Timothy Norris was in Chicago for Lollapalooza - the non-traveling festival now firmly anchored in the Midwest.

twitter:title: Lollapalooza Photos

og:title: Buffy The Vampire Slayer Reunion Photos

og:description: The students of Sunnydale High's class of 1999 have gathered at the Cinerama Dome for their eight-year high school reunion. A demon is here. So is a vam...

twitter:title: Buffy The Vampire Slayer Reunion Photos

og:title: Schlockgirl

og:description: Gag me with a glove. The only reason I saw the "romantic" "comedy" Shopgirl, based on Steve Martin's novella of the same name, was because my friend and...

twitter:title: Schlockgirl

og:title: Some Thoughts on the "Best. Politician. Inspired. Single. Ever." Also, Nazis. Also, Jesus. Also, NFL football.

og:description: Los Angeles's own Sa-Ra create a rallying cry for Obama. Plus, a bunch of other crap this video brought to mind. Super random, super fun.

og:title: Lady Madonna, Festival at Your Feet

og:description: "I've never performed at a festival," says Madonna, "and I'm especially excited about playing at Coachella before I start my own tour." Well la-dee-da. ...

twitter:title: Lady Madonna, Festival at Your Feet


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og:title: Introducing Teenage Kicks + A Moment of Rock Crit Glory

og:description: Welcome to Teenage Kicks...

twitter:description: Welcome to Teenage Kicks...

og:title: Hank and the Masked Angelenos

og:description: Wheatpasted posters across from the Tiki-Ti and KCET on a Sunset Blvd. billboard pole near Virgil. More pasting - and stickers - on Santa Monica Blvd. n...

twitter:title: Hank and the Masked Angelenos

og:title: Let the Grieving Process Begin: Pink Floyd's Inflatable Pig Found Dead

og:description: It's a hard time for everyone, I know. But we have to get through this together. The LA Weekly would like to open the comments section so you, the reade...

og:title: The 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2007 Pt. 5 (#5-1)

og:description: Even if you are a jewel thief, it is never wise to mess with a man whose name is Sgt. Larvell Jones. 5. Jay-Z ft. Nas-"Success" These two. Thing is, thi...

og:title: Cashmere Alert! Sale Tomorrow!

og:description: Wearing cashmere makes me feel validated. Empowered. Like a big girl. So when I noticed my roommate floating around the house in beautiful knitted wraps...

twitter:title: Cashmere Alert! Sale Tomorrow!


og:title: BOXeight: Eco Nouveau

og:description: We arrived back at Vibiana Saturday well into the all-day BoxEight Eco-Nouveau event which included spoken word, a couple of films and a music performan...

twitter:title: BOXeight: Eco Nouveau

og:title: James at Spaceland Friday night

og:description: At the end of James' rather excellent live set this morning on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic, Nic Harcourt let slip a little leak that the band would ...

twitter:title: James at Spaceland Friday night

og:title: Devendra & Natalie sitting in a tree. But are they K-I-S-S-I-N-G?

og:description: Is Devendra Banhart a starfucker or just a star?

og:title: Last Night: The Office Night, UCB Theatre, 12/18

og:description: The Office Night Upright Citizens Brigade, Theater, 12/18 Review and photos by Nicole Campos (Right, Brent Forrester) What nuggets of Dunder Mifflin-esq...


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dest: KE

og:title: Buffalo Gals & Bond Girls

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

twitter:title: Buffalo Gals & Bond Girls

og:title: Keep Your VD (Valentine's Day) to Yourself

og:description: I won't be joining my fellow Councilors at Taix Lounge tonight. Sorry, I love them, but I am a little sore around the aorta right now. I had met this du...

og:title: M.I.A. – Kala

og:description: She proposes in her new disc that this is the Third World Democracy, and there’s no arguing here. M.I.A. did a lot of jumping from continent to co...

article:tag: Oscar Pascual

twitter:title: M.I.A. – Kala

og:title: Tony Wilson of Factory Records Dead

og:description: The man who founded Factory Records in Manchester, home of Durutti Column and A Certain Ratio (as well as Joy Division, New Order and Happy Mondays) has...

twitter:title: Tony Wilson of Factory Records Dead

og:title: 17th Annual Divas Simply Singing featuring Natalie Cole, Linda Hopkins, RuPaul and others

og:description: 17th Annual Divas Simply Singing Wilshire Ebell Theater, October 6, 2007 By Ernest Hardy When former choir nun Darlene Koldenhoven let loose a piercing ...


og:title: Shout Out Louds

og:description: Who do I gotta blow to get a drink around here? It's very annoying that you have to choose between drinks and seeing bands. The "beer garden" is roped o...

twitter:title: Shout Out Louds

og:title: Von Bondies, Safari Sam's, 5/23

og:description: Bondies Battle On It’s been nearly 4 years since The Von Bondies breakthrough Pawn Shoppe Heart helped them pierce the indie-rock bubble of obscur...

twitter:title: Von Bondies, Safari Sam's, 5/23


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og:title: Sam Slovick's Skid Row Documentary

og:description: Between December 2005 and March 2006, Sam Slovick did a stunning series of cover stories for the LA Weekly that took readers deep inside the everyday tr...

twitter:title: Sam Slovick's Skid Row Documentary

og:title: FASHION NIRVANA?

og:description: LA Fashion week is in full swing, and though it's too early to make judgments about the season as a whole, some definite trends are already emerging. He...

twitter:title: FASHION NIRVANA?


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dest: CO

og:title: The Problem With Oscar

og:description: First of all, the Academy Awards started at 3, and that means drinking started at 3 and so last night was a very long night. I don't have a television, ...

twitter:title: The Problem With Oscar

og:title: Last Night: White Stripes' Candy Store Rock

og:description: White Stripes Icky Thump/Tower Records, June 20, 2007 By Ryan Ward All photos by Timothy Norris - Click here for a slideshow of the concert If you had b...

og:title: Jeffrey Lewis (Interviewed) & Crass (Covered): Part 2 of 3

og:description: Jeffrey Lewis: "Whereas the Sex Pistols you might hear that played in any given venue. They probably get played in the Gap or something... The Fugs and ...

og:title: LA Times Polls Gays, Not the Opposition

og:description: Yesterday, the LA Times released an amazing poll of Californians' views on same sex marriage. One startling fact--from the gay point of view, at least--...

twitter:title: LA Times Polls Gays, Not the Opposition


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dest: ET

og:title: Snake Shoe-ter

og:description: It's a match made in hipster heaven. Disheveled shutterbug du jour Mark "The Cobrasnake" Hunter (with whom I still proudly share space with in the paper...

twitter:title: Snake Shoe-ter


dest: SY

og:title: Construction Site on Santa Monica and Wilton

og:description: That windowless brick of a Sears store may be closed, and a lot of the old auto repair spots are being torn down for who knows what, but there's some co...

article:tag: Santa Monica


og:title: Bukowski's Bungalow Saved

og:description: Charles Bukowski’s bungalow is safe – at least for now. On Thursday morning the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission voted three-to-one ...

twitter:title: Bukowski's Bungalow Saved

og:title: 10 Questions Raised By Mista Grimm's "Indo Smoke" Upon Re-Examination In the Year 2008

og:description: 1. Is it ever a bad idea for rappers to open their video with shots of them buying 40's at the liquor store? 2. Nate Dogg> a lump of aluminum foil> Akon...

og:title: Kelly Clarkson New Face of NASCAR

og:description: That's right the American Idol winner was just chosen to be the "it" girl for the racing sport. But you're not really surprised are you? (Not that there...

twitter:title: Kelly Clarkson New Face of NASCAR


og:title: Tastemakers Class of 2008

og:description: Cute brunette girl invites people to sample the hors d'oeuvres at the Tastemakers "Class of 2008" public exhibition, spearheaded by style-guru Laurie Pi...

twitter:title: Tastemakers Class of 2008


dest: KR

og:title: Getting to the Gala...

og:description: When I finagled the invite to the Murakami Gala at MOCA, my girlfriends bombarded me with the same question: "What are you wearing?" It was a legitimate...

twitter:title: Getting to the Gala...


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dest: GB

og:title: Shower Power

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

twitter:title: Shower Power

og:title: White Williams, Magic Bullets, Echo 1/27

og:description: White Williams, Magic Bullets The Blakes, Tribal Tats The Echo, Jan. 27 How do people in Seattle do it? It's downright cold tonight, and raining so much...


dest: NE

@tags: warning login

og:title: A Real Monster Mash

og:description: Halloween is for amateurs. If ya wanna party with the real freaks this week, don't wait for Saturday or even Tuesday…. go down to the Henry Fonda...

twitter:title: A Real Monster Mash

og:title: International Anthem

twitter:title: International Anthem

og:title: Deadly Syndrome at Detour

og:description: I managed to miss the Aggrolites, which sucks, cuz they're mean and fun. I caught them at the Getty Museum courtyard earlier in the summer and they were...

twitter:title: Deadly Syndrome at Detour

og:title: Point-Counterpoint: The Pros and Cons of Steve Aoki

og:description: The Daily Swarm collects an argument currently consuming the web regarding the relative merits of L.A.'s reigning superstar DJ, Steve Aoki. A few days b...


dest: CN

og:title: Jean Genie Lets Herself Go

twitter:title: Jean Genie Lets Herself Go

og:title: More on the emo attacks in Mexico

og:description: As I've reported at my personal blog Intersections, emos are under attack in Mexico. Here are a few good primary sources to better understand what's hap...

twitter:title: More on the emo attacks in Mexico

og:title: LA Weekly Pulitzer Streak Ends

og:description: This year marked the first time since 2006 that LA Weekly didn't win a Pulitzer, effectively ending our current streak (at one). UCLA professor of histo...

twitter:title: LA Weekly Pulitzer Streak Ends

og:title: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Week Day 2: "Thuggish Ruggish Bone" And the Importance of "Branding"

og:description: Whether consciously or not, rappers have understood the concept of branding since the on-and-on-to-the-break-of-dawn days. You can listen to everything ...

og:title: Add three more SXSW bands from L.A. to the list

og:description: Last week we offered an extensive list of L.A.-based bands hitting South by Southwest in Austin this year (March 13-16). Alas, we missed three of them, ...


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dest: IN

og:title: Damn that Jonathan Gold!

twitter:title: Damn that Jonathan Gold!

twitter:title: 10 Questions Raised By Mista Grimm's "Indo Smoke" Upon Re-Examination In the Year 2008

twitter:description: 1. Is it ever a bad idea for rappers to open their video with shots of them buying 40's at the liquor store? 2. Nate Dogg> a lump of aluminum foil> Akon...

og:title: Billion Dollar Belle

twitter:title: Billion Dollar Belle

og:title: Shit List

og:description: Grammy week... Fashion week (in NYC)...the writers strike... Britney... There so much to do and watch and bitch, uh write, about.... Our new year's reso...

twitter:title: Shit List


src: MX

dest: EC

og:title: Red Carpet Patrol

twitter:title: Red Carpet Patrol

og:title: Lily Allen Supports Homeless Doggies

og:description: I am still waiting on confirmation that the dark haired muffin with pin-up girl bangs in a demure dress was Lily Allen. I swung by Ashley Paige's shop o...

article:tag: Pets

twitter:title: Lily Allen Supports Homeless Doggies

og:title: Yagman to Surrender

og:description: At the U.S. Federal Courthouse in downtown today, civil rights attorney Steve Yagman has finally been ordered to surrender to prison authorities on Mond...

twitter:title: Yagman to Surrender


src: NL

dest: AF


og:title: Retna, Chaz, Axis at Zero One Gallery

og:description: Huge columns painted by Retna stood throughout Zero One's downtown gallery. The multi-artist show Dysmorphic Visualization Syndrome, opened Saturday nig...

twitter:title: Retna, Chaz, Axis at Zero One Gallery

og:title: Louis Verdad's flirty 1950's-themed

twitter:title: Louis Verdad's flirty 1950's-themed


src: NO

og:title: David Bazan, Spaceland, 12/11

og:description: David Bazan Spaceland, December 11, 2007 By Jonah Flicker The most revealing moment of the man formerly known as Pedro the Lion’s intimate set at ...

twitter:title: David Bazan, Spaceland, 12/11

og:title: Coachella 08: A glimpse at Prince's soundcheck

og:description: At last night's cool Filter party at the Corona Yacht Club, I ran into sculptor Christopher Janney, whose Sonic Forest installation will once again appe...

og:title: Xmas Xcess

og:description: Happy (whatever holiday you celebrate) Style Council readers! The other gals are all back in their respective homelands (NYC and the UK) so I'm holding ...

article:tag: Culture and Lifestyle

twitter:title: Xmas Xcess

og:title: Obama Wins in Iowa, Huckabee Crushes Romney

og:description: Obama wins the Democratic Caucus in Iowa, with 37 percent of the vote, leaving Edwards and Hillary to battle it out for second. On the Republican side, ...

og:title: Ashley Paige Rocks The House

twitter:title: Ashley Paige Rocks The House


og:title: Coachella Day One: Walk the Line

og:description: I hate lines. They're somewhere in the lower rungs of my own personal inferno along with club kids in fedoras, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the abstract ...

twitter:title: Coachella Day One: Walk the Line

og:title: Beauty Mark(et)

og:description: They put Cahuenga on the clubber map, made manicures and martinis a classic combo (wish we could always sip a cocktail while getting clipped and dipped!...

article:tag: San Francisco

twitter:title: Beauty Mark(et)

og:title: The Future of Reading for Non-Readers: Book Expo America 2008

og:description: Book Expo America is supposed to be "for the trade" only. So says the program. That is a move in the wrong direction. Book events, especially the massiv...

og:title: The Weekend's Music in LA: Jonathan Richman, Simone White, Billy Bragg, free vegan pancakes (and No Age) at The Smell

og:description: FRIDAY, JUNE 6 There are many immortal words in rock and roll, but one of the great expressions of untethered joy was originally uttered by Jonathan Ric...


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og:title: Into the Groove

og:description: Last weekend was all about Coachella (see this week's paper), but there is much that I didnt have room for and you, the lucky SC reader get extra scoop....

twitter:title: Into the Groove

og:title: Ex-Cop Gets Third Degree

og:description: Pellicano Briefs Team Pellicano is now taking its turn at bat, but the past few days of the defense’s case have seemed like prosecution by other m...

twitter:title: Ex-Cop Gets Third Degree

og:title: "Air Guitar Nation" Rocks L.A.

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

twitter:title: "Air Guitar Nation" Rocks L.A.


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dest: ZW

og:title: Resolved: If a greying man promises you he's going to revolutionize the music industry, be skeptical.

og:description: Allan Klepfisz, CEO of Qtrax, telegraphs the company's death spiral. Lesson: Do not trust graying, comfortable men when they tell you they've seen the f...

og:title: How PM Dawn Could’ve Avoided Getting Set Adrift On “Memory Bliss”

og:description: Maybe instead of wallowing in unchecked misery over "the girl with the fat diamond ring" (really, the fat diamond ring is the main thing that you rememb...

article:tag: P.M. Dawn

og:title: Banksy Elephant Set to Star in Christina Aguilera Video

article:tag: Celebrity News

og:title: Ben Harper, Jackson Browne, Claremont Folk Festival, 5/3

og:description: Ben Harper, Jackson Browne Claremont Folk Festival, Sycamore School May 3, 2008 Photos and Text by Ryan Colditz Nestled neatly inside the Inland Empire ...


og:title: Shiny, Happy People: El-P's Weareall goingtoburninhell megamixx 2

og:description: In truth, part of me wants to be like, "Yo, El, why don't you just chill out, smoke a blunt, take a deep breath, even if it's not going to be okay, why ...

article:tag: Entertainment

og:title: OBEY SABER collaboration in Echo Park

og:description: Down a little driveway alley next to Brooklyn Projects in Echo Park is an excellent collaborative piece between OBEY and SABER. Enjoy: All photos by Mar...

article:tag: Mark Mauer

twitter:title: OBEY SABER collaboration in Echo Park

og:title: Ghostland Observatory, Henry Fonda, 11/30

og:description: Ghostland Observatory Henry Fonda, Nov. 30 The moment the curtains opened, lasers blasted over the crowd's heads to the back walls while smoke machines ...

og:title: Tee-For-All (The Aftermath)

og:description: Anyone who made it out to the American Apparel Flea Market event last Sunday knows what I'm talkin' about when I say it was post-apocalyptic insanity- a...

article:tag: Dov Charney

twitter:title: Tee-For-All (The Aftermath)


og:title: The Worst Kept Secret in LA: Foxburo Hot Tubs are Green Day, and They Play the Roxy Tonight

og:description: The best kept secret, though, is that the Hot Tubs are way better than Green Day, and sound to us more like the product of Estrus Records than Warners. ...

article:tag: Roxy Tonight

og:title: A Nip Driver remembered: Mike Webber's Legacy

og:description: Remembering Mike Webber of the Nip Drivers By Jula Bell Being an underground musician in L.A., I'm inundated with music. Everyone is up there rocking ou...

og:title: Bonnaroo 2007 Slideshow

og:description: Photos from the four day festival in Tennessee.  Above, Black Angels helped kickoff this year's festival with a Thursday night set at This Tent. Ph...

article:tag: Bonnaroo

twitter:title: Bonnaroo 2007 Slideshow

og:title: BRIAN LICHTENBERG

og:description: There was something that made me feel sexy about the unveiling of Brian Lichtenberg’s Spring and Summer Collection at the Museum of Architecture a...

twitter:title: BRIAN LICHTENBERG


dest: PK

og:title: Crass chose iconography and dissed photography

og:description: Crass preferred resting their image on stencils, flyers, collages, newspaper articles, forged documents, banners, patches. Whenever they had an opportun...


src: BD

dest: US

og:title: Live in L.A.: Spoon at Little Radio

og:description: Spoon Little Radio, downtown, July 16 By John Curry Photos by Timothy Norris It was at least 100 degrees in the slam-packed, converted, downtown warehou...

article:tag: Timothy Norris

twitter:title: Live in L.A.: Spoon at Little Radio


src: NI

og:title: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Week Day 4: Searching For the Elusive Identity of the "Ghetto Cowboy"

og:description: I actually own this on CD-single, which is either keeping it real, or keeping it really retarded. From the first moments of the reel, one can immediatel...

article:tag: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

og:title: Live in L.A.: Entrance at Safari Sam's, 8/3

og:description: Entrance are not who you think they are.  They are not a quiet, mellow trio nipping at the heels of the psych-folk pack mule, despite their long hair, s...


og:title: Lily Allen Attracts Gwen, Orlando, Lohan, Lennon - and Taylor Dane

og:title: The 10 Rules of Pimpology According to the Video for Do or Die's "Po' Pimp"

og:description: 10. The ability to acquire flaming pennies (these were also reportedly Shaquille O' Neal's last words upon leaving Orlando). Such magic coins will give ...

article:tag: Joliet

og:title: Nightranger Show and Tell

twitter:title: Nightranger Show and Tell

og:title: Neil Hamburger, Spaceland, 3/30

og:description: Neil Hamburger Spaceland, March 30 Walking on stage cradling three drinks in his arms, Neil Hamburger makes his first impression on the audience by spil...

twitter:title: Neil Hamburger, Spaceland, 3/30


src: MZ

og:title: Get Off My Shuz Or I'll Betch Slap You

og:description: Now you too can learn to talk like a transvestite shoe-whore from Tarzana - and it's all thanks to an educational YouTube movie current...

twitter:title: Get Off My Shuz Or I'll Betch Slap You

og:title: The 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2007 Pt. 3 (#14-10)

og:description: Mental Note: Avoid guys with the nickname "Mad Dog." 14. Redman-"Blow Treez" Why did we have to wait until 2007 for Redman, the man who taught a generat...

og:title: Beauty Bars Across America- TONIGHT!

og:description: Tonight (Wed, 10/4) kicks off the month-long Fashion Targets Breast Cancer (FTBC) charity event at Beauty Bars across the nation. The Council of Fashion...

twitter:title: Beauty Bars Across America- TONIGHT!


src: TZ

dest: BD

og:title: A Christmas Caroline

og:description: This Christmas, I had hoped to fly back to London, gorge myself on Mum's turkey and sip sherry with my long lost Brit posse. But Fate, it turned out, ha...

twitter:title: A Christmas Caroline

og:title: Fishbone and Slightly Stoopid, Wiltern - 12/01

og:description: Fishbone, Slightly Stoopid Wiltern, Dec 1 Strange and depressing things were afoot in Los Angeles on Saturday night. Up until arriving at the Wiltern wi...


og:title: What would Crass do about this?

og:description: "U.S. imprisons one in 100 adults, report finds," sez NY Times. What would Crass do? Don't matter. Punk. Is. Dead.

twitter:title: What would Crass do about this?


src: UA

og:title: Blek le Rat Stencils up in Silver Lake

og:description: French graffiti forefather Blek le Rat is in town for his upcoming gallery show at Subliminal Projects. Photos by Clare O'Callaghan Click here for more....

twitter:title: Blek le Rat Stencils up in Silver Lake

og:title: Nightclubs of Hollywood, Ballrooms of Mars

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

og:title: Tonight's Hot Chip show at the El Rey cancelled

og:description: Bummer to start Monday off with bad news, but, alas, this news from Hot Chip's people: "Hot Chip have been forced to cancel tonight's show at the El Rey...


src: US

og:title: Thousands Predicted To Attend Fallen SWAT Officers Funeral

og:description: Thousands of mourners and a swarm of media are expected at Friday morning's funeral for fallen Los Angeles Police Department SWAT Officer Russel Simmons...

twitter:description: French graffiti forefather Blek le Rat is in town for his upcoming gallery show at Subliminal Projects. Photos by Clare O'Callaghan Click here for more....


src: IN

og:title: DJing on EastVillage Radio.com right now!

og:description: Go clickity-click at EastVillageRadio.com if you want to listen in, okay?

article:tag: Beverages

og:title: Touched By A Tranny

og:description: We've been calling plus-size punny (lad)y Jackie Beat our "favorite drag queen" for years (and that's saying something... we know a lot of crossdressers...

twitter:title: Touched By A Tranny

og:title: Zero Hour in Pennsylvania

og:description: By Marc Cooper Zero hour in Pennsylvania. Or is it? We've had to somehow fill the gap of the six weeks since the last primary, so we've sort of convince...

twitter:title: Zero Hour in Pennsylvania


src: ET

dest: KH


src: CN


src: GB

og:title: 15 More Minutes

og:description: Fashion week is officially over, but that doesn't mean the strutting has stopped completely. Thanks to a power outage in my area, I missed the David Yur...

twitter:title: 15 More Minutes

og:title: Cordon's Market - Sunset near Normanide

og:description: Across from the closed down Cordon's Market they are playing backgammon in front of a coffee shop. With very tiny dice. More after the jump...

article:tag: Games

twitter:title: Cordon's Market - Sunset near Normanide

og:title: Juicy Bits from the LACMA Search Warrant

og:description: You can download the entire search warrant issued to Los Angeles County Museum of Art here, but these two pages provide the most details of LACMA's invo...

article:tag: Crime

og:title: Tastemakers Class of 2008

og:description: Cute brunette girl invites people to sample the hors d'oeuvres at the Tastemakers "Class of 2008" public exhibition, spearheaded by style-guru Laurie Pi...

twitter:title: Tastemakers Class of 2008


src: HK


src: IT

og:title: G-Funk Week Continued: 10 Things An Alien Would Conclude About Mankind After Watching the Video For "Girls All Pause"

og:description: 1. If one were ever to try to lure a human woman back to one's spaceship for a late-night probe, it is highly advisable to try to find women dancing in ...

og:title: Seattle's Bumbershoot

og:description: The Shins, The Lashes, Panic! at the Disco, The Frames, Wu-Tang Clan and many more descended on Seattle for three days of music, arts and fun. Photo by ...

twitter:title: Seattle's Bumbershoot

og:title: Chino Prison Guard Accused of Nazism on Hunger Strike

og:description: It was a surprise to get another letter from Shayne Allyn Ziska, a former correctional officer at the California Institution for Men in Chino, who has c...

article:tag: Criminal Sentencing and Punishment


src: DZ


og:title: Grammys from the Press Room

og:description: The best view of the Grammy Awards from where I sat. The coolest thing I learned last night in the media room at the 50th anniversary Grammy celebration...

twitter:title: Grammys from the Press Room

og:title: Crass chose iconography and dissed photography

og:description: Crass preferred resting their image on stencils, flyers, collages, newspaper articles, forged documents, banners, patches. Whenever they had an opportun...


dest: CU

og:title: Yagman to Surrender

og:description: At the U.S. Federal Courthouse in downtown today, civil rights attorney Steve Yagman has finally been ordered to surrender to prison authorities on Mond...

twitter:title: Yagman to Surrender

og:title: Bitter Sweet

og:description: Psych... The slide show of Project Runway's final five designer collections at Bryant Park on Bravo.com may have led us to believe there were 5 finalist...

twitter:title: Bitter Sweet

og:title: Harry Nilsson Tribute, Bordello, 1/15

og:description: Harry Nilsson Tribute Bordello, Jan. 15 "Happy Birthday, Harry," one of the band's singers said into his mic before a bandmate whispers in his ear. "Wha...

twitter:title: Harry Nilsson Tribute, Bordello, 1/15

og:title: Jesus & Mary Chain, Wiltern, 10/23

og:description: "Hiya. How ya doing?" Well, hey! Someone's in a talkative mood tonight. In the first five seconds of coming out on stage the Jesus & Mary Chain have alr...

article:tag: The Jesus and Mary Chain

twitter:title: Jesus & Mary Chain, Wiltern, 10/23

og:title: License to Ill

twitter:title: License to Ill


og:title: Rolling on the Coachella Express to Indio

og:description: On the Coachella Express, there are a few distinct types of people: the media, which was invited to document the maiden voyage of the Amtrak line that d...

og:title: Gary Baseman, Vincent Gallo, and the Curse of Numerology

og:description: I have a confession to make - I sat next to the rather famous LA artist Gary Baseman on Saturday night and I had no clue who he was. He mentioned his Em...


src: PL

og:title: Jared Gold's Not-So-Quiet Army

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

twitter:title: Jared Gold's Not-So-Quiet Army

og:title: More on Sunset in Silver Lake

og:description: Opposite the huge exposed wall in the old Silver Lake community garden is a more hidden, smaller wall with some very nice work on it. You may have to ju...

twitter:title: More on Sunset in Silver Lake

og:title: Marc Cooper in Iowa: Obama Strategist "Optimistic"

og:description: Obama campaign top strategist David Axelrod said, "He can't help but be optimistic about tonight's results." He described the energy bubbling at the Iow...

og:title: Pellicano Defense Goes on the Offense

og:description: Sparky remembers to forget On Thursday the prosecution’s guns in the racketeering trial of Anthony Pellicano and four co-defendants fell silent as...

twitter:title: Pellicano Defense Goes on the Offense

og:title: Live in L.A. Very Be Careful

og:description: At Club Bahia, May 25 By DANIEL HERNANDEZ There's always an element of danger at a Very Be Careful show. They tend to play venues and in neighborhoods w...

twitter:title: Live in L.A. Very Be Careful


dest: CM

og:title: James at Spaceland Friday night

og:description: At the end of James' rather excellent live set this morning on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic, Nic Harcourt let slip a little leak that the band would ...

twitter:title: James at Spaceland Friday night

og:title: Banksy in Bethlehem

og:description: BBC has a video report posted on Youtube about Banksy pieces showing up in Bethlehem. There's even a brief phone interview with the artist and a couple ...

twitter:title: Banksy in Bethlehem

og:title: CBS Yard, Melrose, Part 2

og:description: All photos by Mark Mauer. More after the jump...

twitter:title: CBS Yard, Melrose, Part 2

og:title: Mick Jones' Carbon/Silicon, Troubadour, 12/3

og:description: How long has it been since Mick Jones played L.A.? He said on stage he hadn't been here in 12 years, which would put us back into Big Audio Dynamite ter...


dest: BR

og:title: Live In L.A.: Prince — Straight, With Chaser

og:title: Let the Barney's Battles Begin...

twitter:title: Let the Barney's Battles Begin...

og:title: The 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2007 Pt. 4 (#9-6)

og:description: The film that ended the Cold War. 9. Hi-Tek Ft. Talib Kweli & Dion-"Time" "People get caught up in a time and what that song represents to them at the t...

og:title: Silver Daggers @ Part Time Punks, The Echo 5.11.08

og:description: The Silver Daggers were on the bill to play at the Part Time Punks' Third Anniversary show Sunday night. This is what they did for 20 minutes instead (a...

article:tag: Kevin Smith


og:title: Happy Valentine's Day

og:description: This will be the second Valentines Day in a row I have no official object of affection. But this year, February 14th singledom feels perfectly OK, ...

twitter:title: Happy Valentine's Day

og:title: Valentine's Day is for the Birds

twitter:title: Valentine's Day is for the Birds


dest: AU

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og:title: Wale Realizes the Full Potential of the Mixtape

og:description: Last November, Zeus wrote a post dissecting the differences between albums and mixtapes for the benefit of crits and fans who had been mistakenly confla...


src: MG

og:title: Sonic Youth at Urban Outfitters, July 21

og:description: Walking through Santa Monica’s 3rd Street Promenade mall, on my way to see Sonic Youth perform at Urban Outfitters, sponsored by Toyota’s Fr...

og:title: On the List?

og:description: You know how MySpace has that section called "cool new people," and how, at least from the photos, these people always seem anything but cool? Club Prom...

article:tag: Tom Anderson

twitter:title: On the List?

og:title: And the Oscar Goes To....Lina Lecaro!

og:description: And the Oscar Goes To....Lina Lecaro, for being the only member of the Style Council sober enough to actually write anything on Oscar night. We had such...

twitter:title: And the Oscar Goes To....Lina Lecaro!

og:title: Back in Black

twitter:title: Back in Black


src: ID

dest: TJ

og:title: Tom Waits' Anti-Scalping Plan

og:description: There's no L.A. date, so don't get too excited, but the video itself is pretty funny: And oh yeah - He's going to play some dates in Europe too, though ...

article:tag: Tom Waits

twitter:title: Tom Waits' Anti-Scalping Plan

og:title: This Weekend in LA: Foghat, AMC, Naked on the Vague, Robyn, Dirtbombs, Noisy People

og:description: Remember, it’s still technically bike to work week, so if you’re working the clubs this weekend and feel like saving the earth, maybe you sh...

og:title: Eureka! (I have found it.)

og:description: (photo from Oreskaband.com) So it happened: That magical, transportive moment of which I have heard rumors.... the moment when you discover a band at So...

twitter:title: Eureka! (I have found it.)


og:title: Paint It Black

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

twitter:title: Paint It Black

og:title: Welcome to the Jungle

og:description: Speaking of Project Runway (below post), this will come as no surprise to those you’ve read our past posts: we actually kinda liked drag designer ...

twitter:title: Welcome to the Jungle

og:title: Coachella Envy: Why did the artist formerly known as the unpronounceable symbol guy have to ruin it for all of us curmudgeons?

og:description: Video of Prince performing a cover of Radiohead's "Creep" at Coachella 2008.

article:tag: Beth Gibbon

og:title: More Seventh Letter Time Elapse Videos

og:description: Seventh Letter time elapse film for May: RIME, SEVER, and RUETS REYES Art Show...

twitter:title: More Seventh Letter Time Elapse Videos


og:title: Damn You Kids and Your Hip Hop Music

og:description: (Photo of Brother Reade by day19.com)  Things went from "totally awesome!" to "way less than rad..." in mere seconds after cops shut down the Broth...

article:tag: Arts, Entertainment, and Media

twitter:title: Damn You Kids and Your Hip Hop Music

og:title: My(Space) Secret is Out: Cold War Kids Play For Free

article:tag: Entertainment

og:title: Stars of the Lid interview outtake. ALSO, Donald Trump makes a pass at Rudy Giuliani.

og:description: Brian McBride: "I discovered the less that was involved kinetically speaking, the more I was interested. I used to describe it as islands of song, and e...

og:title: Rail Yards Downtown

og:description: Lots of great stuff can be found walking around the railroad tracks downtown along the LA River. It is, however, off limits, and can lead to some twiste...

twitter:title: Rail Yards Downtown

og:title: Obama (and Clinton) Rally in Hollywood

og:description: Hours before the Democratic debate takes takes place at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, hundreds of supporters of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton fille...

twitter:title: Obama (and Clinton) Rally in Hollywood


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dest: DE

og:title: Peanut Butter Wolf to spin at Obama's California party tonight

og:description: This just in, offering further proof that Obama's down with the scene. PEANUT BUTTER WOLF SPINS TONIGHT AT CALIFORNIA FOR OBAMA PARTY AT THE AVALON Also...

article:tag: James Rockwell

og:title: Beards, Blazers & Glasses or Jens Lekman, This Charming Man

og:description: Every time I write about Jens Lekman, I'm tempted to compare him to Morrissey, even though I know I shouldn't. After all, both songwriters specialize in...

og:title: Style Spawn

twitter:title: Style Spawn


src: PK

og:title: Pre-Primary Political Posters

og:description: Above and below in Silver Lake on Sunset Blvd. Below, found in West Hollywood on Santa Monica Blvd...

article:tag: West Hollywood

twitter:title: Pre-Primary Political Posters

og:title: Juan McLean at Avalon

og:description: Juan MacLean Avalon, August 24 By Jonah Flicker The parking gods were smiling on this chilly Friday night. It’s 11:45, I’m in the area aroun...

twitter:title: Juan McLean at Avalon


og:title: Another guide to LA Bands at SXSW

og:description: Here's a list of LA bands/songwriters to chase down at SXSW in Austin next week. This is a tipsheet for those of you with $$$ in your eyes. Looking for ...

twitter:title: Another guide to LA Bands at SXSW


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og:title: Cupcake Challenge Winners (We Called It)

og:description: Cupcake Challenge took place Saturday in Hollywood. Read about the overload of sugar, butter, chocolate, frosting and wine here. The winners have finall...

article:tag: Cupcakes

og:title: New Release Tuesday: Jandek's 52nd album is almost definitely less interesting then #s 1-51

og:description: A few sad truths about the Jandek phenomenon in the internet era. Note to Jandek: "We're just not that into you."

og:title: Feist and Spoon, Gibson Amphitheatre, 11/12

og:description: Feist, with Spoon At the Gibson Amphitheatre, November 12 By Sophia Kercher A few years back among hundreds of urbanite Canucks, I stumbled upon Leslie ...

og:title: Ex-Cop Gets Third Degree

og:description: Pellicano Briefs Team Pellicano is now taking its turn at bat, but the past few days of the defense’s case have seemed like prosecution by other m...

twitter:title: Ex-Cop Gets Third Degree

og:title: She Ra Woman Hater

og:description: I'm relatively new to the whole blogging thing, and today I learned a lesson —never delete a post because you got a bad comment. I had posted "My ...

article:tag: Holidays

twitter:title: She Ra Woman Hater


og:title: International Anthem

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

twitter:title: International Anthem

og:title: Detour DJ Pix: Ed Banger, Justice, DJ Medhi

og:description: Detour's over, but I just got sent a link to a ton of great shots from the DJ stage, including the Ed Banger set, including DJ Medhi and Justice. Great ...

og:title: Gwen takes a bath

twitter:title: Gwen takes a bath

og:title: Burning Man Burns Early

og:description: News Flash from the Playa: The Man Upstaged the Moon By Judith Lewis Here's the news. While the full eclipsed moon still floated above the Playa like a ...

article:tag: Judith Lewis

twitter:title: Burning Man Burns Early

og:title: Stop Making Sense

og:description: Last night I attended a party at my friend Zoe's teeny-tiny adorable Silver Lake cottage on a hill, which comfortably holds a maximum of maybe fifteen p...

twitter:title: Stop Making Sense


og:title: TV Eye Yi Yi

og:description: Ah summer TV. It's really shititlicious fun aint it? Painting the town is what I do, but that doesn't mean I don't love my tube time. My DVR always gets...

twitter:title: TV Eye Yi Yi

og:title: Steven Leigh Morris Responds to "Bitter Homes and Gardens" Comments

og:description: March of the Phony Progressives Who's on first, when the right pretends to be left? Among the smarter reactions in the comments section of my cover stor...

og:title: Madonna to Lead Large Pilates Session at Dodger Stadium on Nov. 6

og:description: Well, at least that's what her performances of the last few years have seemed like: big muscle-flexing sessions, with music. Where's the bouncing? The j...

article:tag: Celebrity News

og:title: Smashbox Day Three: GREY ANT RETURNS!!

og:description: Grey Ant hasn't been seen on an LA runway since 2005. And thank God for its return! It was my favorite show so far this fashion week. It seemed to incor...

twitter:title: Smashbox Day Three: GREY ANT RETURNS!!


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og:title: Low Brow Art and a "Fucking Smorgasbord of Lynchness"

og:description: Fellow Style Councilor Lina LeCaro has been busy suckling her newborn these last few weeks, so our friend Jar, a talented writer who lives in Echo Park ...


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og:title: Add three more SXSW bands from L.A. to the list

og:description: Last week we offered an extensive list of L.A.-based bands hitting South by Southwest in Austin this year (March 13-16). Alas, we missed three of them, ...


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og:title: Black Keys at LA Weekly Party at SXSW

og:description: Mark your calendars if you're making the trip to Austin for South by Southwest this year. The LA Weekly party is Friday, March 14 from noon to 5:00, at ...

twitter:title: Black Keys at LA Weekly Party at SXSW

og:title: Damn that Jonathan Gold!

twitter:title: Damn that Jonathan Gold!

og:title: Final Check Yo Ponytail tonight starring Dan Deacon and Erol Alkan

og:description: I Heart Comix's long-running Check Yo Ponytail series comes to a close tonight at the Echoplex. The legendary party ends its run with a doozy: Dan Deaco...

article:tag: Christianity


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og:title: Jeffrey Lewis (Interviewed) & Crass (Covered): Part 3 of 3

og:description: Jeffrey Lewis: "Musicians have always been the conduits that have introduced people to music. So whether it's making a mix tape for your friends or just...

twitter:title: Steven Leigh Morris Responds to "Bitter Homes and Gardens" Comments

twitter:description: March of the Phony Progressives Who's on first, when the right pretends to be left? Among the smarter reactions in the comments section of my cover stor...

og:title: Last Night: Hot Chip at the Fillmore

twitter:title: Last Night: Hot Chip at the Fillmore

og:title: Lovin' Cups

og:description: As usual, there were a bevy of bare boobies on the runways during LA Fashion Week a couple weeks ago, and it got me thinking- why does anybody get boob ...

article:tag: Clothing and Accessories

twitter:title: Lovin' Cups

og:title: Happy Valentine's Day

og:description: This will be the second Valentines Day in a row I have no official object of affection. But this year, February 14th singledom feels perfectly OK, ...

twitter:title: Happy Valentine's Day


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og:title: Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#35-31)

og:description: 35. Wilco-Sky Blue Sky When music critics scoff that Wilco are "dad-rock," they're absolutely right. Sort of. My dad only listens to sports radio and Is...

twitter:title: Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#35-31)

og:title: Wilco & Gogol Bordello

og:description: Photos of Gogol Bordello at the Henry Fonda Theater. Photos of Wilco at the Greek Theater Photos by Timothy Norris...

article:tag: Timothy Norris

twitter:title: Wilco & Gogol Bordello

og:title: Wale ft. Bun B & Pusha-T: "Back in the Go-Go"

og:description: With a spot on Entertainment Weekly's "8 to Watch in 08" and Ann Powers' SXSW rave in the LA Times, the Wale hype is getting pretty loud, yet it exists ...

og:title: Was the Universal Studios Fire an accident?

og:description: Early reports are calling the fire that gutted three acres of Universal Hollywood's back lot an accident. However, it is unclear what caused the June 1 ...


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og:title: McCartney Fans Stake out Amoeba for Free In-Store Performance

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

article:tag: Life Sciences


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og:title: Greetings from the first annual Marfa Film Festival

og:description: I got on a bus in Los Feliz yesterday at about 1 p.m. headed for Marfa, Texas, to attend the first annual Marfa Film Festival. If you've been to the mov...

og:title: SXSW: One perspective from an official representative of the Music Industry

og:description: Van Morrison + Lou Reed: 2 points. SXSW festival: ZERO.

og:title: Seventh Letter "Letters First" Show

og:description: Above painting by RETNA. All images copyright of the respective artists. From a show earlier this month in Barcelona, "Letters First," check out the sli...

twitter:title: Seventh Letter "Letters First" Show

og:title: eMC's The Show: The First Great Rap Album of 2008

og:description: "This is the number one rule for your set/In order to survive, gotta learn to live with regrets/And through our travels we get separated, never forget/I...

og:title: Back in the Style Saddle

og:description: From grungey Southern comfort to saucy high glamour, my world has been one of extremes the past weeks. Just got back from Texas' South By Southwest Musi...

twitter:title: Back in the Style Saddle


og:title: Maywood Hires a Convicted Ethics Professor as Interim Police Chief

og:description: For a town looking to repair its police department's reputation as corrupt and brutal, Maywood took the unusual step Friday of holding an emergency sess...

og:title: Charmed, I'm Sure

og:description: If you read my post about the Billion Dollar Babes sample sale then you know that I really didn't need to buy any more goodies. But there ...

twitter:title: Charmed, I'm Sure

og:title: How PM Dawn Could’ve Avoided Getting Set Adrift On “Memory Bliss”

og:description: Maybe instead of wallowing in unchecked misery over "the girl with the fat diamond ring" (really, the fat diamond ring is the main thing that you rememb...

article:tag: P.M. Dawn

og:title: June Weddings For Gays May Be Quashed

og:description: If Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was hoping for a quick injection of gay dollars into California's ailing economy this summer, it may not happen. Oppon...

article:tag: Same-Sex Marriage

twitter:title: June Weddings For Gays May Be Quashed


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og:title: Point-Counterpoint: The Pros and Cons of Steve Aoki

og:description: The Daily Swarm collects an argument currently consuming the web regarding the relative merits of L.A.'s reigning superstar DJ, Steve Aoki. A few days b...

og:title: Raiders of the Lost Art

og:description: Sometime after 50 arrived, the art of the narrative wandered into a blizzard of coke raps, artificial hood mythologizing and pandering simplicity. Compl...

twitter:title: Raiders of the Lost Art

og:title: Fun in the Sun

og:description: This is what I woke up to this morning. In my inbox, in between press releases about Josh Homme's new side project called 5:15 (how many side projects c...

twitter:title: Fun in the Sun

og:title: Kinky at Detour

og:description: Up until now, it's been a lot of pleasant surprises: bands that maybe a lot of people hadn't been too familiar with, but ended up digging. Not so with K...

article:tag: Mexico City

twitter:title: Kinky at Detour

og:title: The One Am Radio's "Brittle Filament" and some feedback on Elv(e)rum

og:description: The One AM Radio's video "A Brittle Filiment" was a recent YouTube hit, and a wonderful introduction to Hirway's thing.

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og:title: The Little Radio NYE Fallout

og:description: A fierce debate is still brewing among my pals who went to Little Radio's New Years Eve shindig. Reports had trickled in about rude staff, a missing pag...

article:tag: Buck Owens

twitter:title: The Little Radio NYE Fallout


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og:title: The Old Spaghetti Factory in Hollywood

og:description: The recently shuttered Old Spaghetti Factory on Sunset east of Vine didn't take long to get a new paint job. These pieces went up within the past week. ...

twitter:title: The Old Spaghetti Factory in Hollywood

og:title: Ernie Krivda at Catalina Tonight

og:description: By Brick Wahl Ya gotta love my buddy Dean, he's a nut. And inspired, brilliant, funny, knows everything and everybody Sicilian motormouth of a musician ...

twitter:title: Ernie Krivda at Catalina Tonight

og:title: Highland Ave. South of Sunset Blvd.

og:description: Three large tags on a wall in an empty lot. Painted some time in June or July? More pictures after the jump. See something cool? Email pictures to lurke...

twitter:title: Highland Ave. South of Sunset Blvd.


og:title: Get Off My Shuz Or I'll Betch Slap You

og:description: Now you too can learn to talk like a transvestite shoe-whore from Tarzana - and it's all thanks to an educational YouTube movie current...

twitter:title: Get Off My Shuz Or I'll Betch Slap You

og:title: Bayou Buh-bye

og:description: LA Weekly is the definitive source of information for news, music, movies, restaurants, reviews, and events in Los Angeles.

twitter:title: Bayou Buh-bye

og:title: Eureka! (I have found it.)

og:description: (photo from Oreskaband.com) So it happened: That magical, transportive moment of which I have heard rumors.... the moment when you discover a band at So...

twitter:title: Eureka! (I have found it.)

og:title: Burning Man Burns Early

og:description: News Flash from the Playa: The Man Upstaged the Moon By Judith Lewis Here's the news. While the full eclipsed moon still floated above the Playa like a ...

twitter:title: Burning Man Burns Early