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og:title: Madonna playing Coachella

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og:title: Zero Hour in Pennsylvania

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

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article:tag: Jonny Bell

og:title: The Vegan Beer Festival Returns This May With a Swanky New Location

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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: Another Free Download from NIN

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og:title: A Little Pee(ve)

twitter:title: A Little Pee(ve)

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og:title: Maximo Park at the El Rey 7/27

og:description: Above: Monsters Are Waiting's lead creature, Annalee. The Oohlas also played the sold out concert. Click the link to see Timothy Norris' full slideshow ...

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og:title: The Problem With Oscar

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og:title: Live in L.A.: Roger Waters

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og:title: My New Radio Crushes

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og:title: Live in LA: Aimee Mann Christens the New Largo at the Coronet

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og:title: Ryan Adams – Easy Tiger CD Review

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og:title: Best Bar In LA - And I'm Not Telling You Where It Is

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og:title: Germs, Adolescents, Key Club, 12/28

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og:title: Colin Farrell- A Style Council fan?

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og:title: Coming Up

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og:title: Jane's Addiction reunion at the El Rey, April 23

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

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og:title: Truxtapoz at Meltdown Gallery

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og:title: Love It To Death!

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

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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 ...

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og:title: I'm With the (Hus)Band

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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 ...

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og:title: KROQ Acoustic Christmas - Day One

og:description: Above: Avenged Sevenfold Above and below: Paramore cracks it open! Above and below: Serj Tankian Rise Against rocked it! Gave props to Naked Raygun Show...

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og:title: Where's the Guacamole?

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

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og:title: She Must Be My Lucky Star

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og:title: Where Are You Hollywood?

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

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og:title: Kings of Leon, Greek Theatre, 9/7

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

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og:title: The March That Got Away

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og:title: Nightwatchmen tonight at The Hotel Cafe with .... Counting Crows?

og:description: That's the rumor, anyway, and I'm trying to confirm it right now. But it makes sense: the Crows' new album, Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, dropped l...

og:title: Bad Brains, House of Blues, 9/26

og:description: Bad Brains House of Blues, Sept. 26 By Matthew Flesicher “The bourgeoisie had better watch out for me. All throughout this so called nation, we do...

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og:title: Last Night: Architecture in Helsinki

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

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

og:title: PJ Harvey Live at the Orpheum Theatre

og:description: PJ Harvey at the Orpheum Theatre, October 15 By Randall Roberts Polly Harvey waltzed onto stage last night looking like Emily Dickinson after a rough wr...

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og:title: Arthur Mag Resurrected

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

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og:title: Ryan Seacrap flaps & flashes

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og:title: Neil Hamburger Spins Bing Crosby Live at Dublab.com NOW!

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og:title: Grizzly Bear teams with the Los Angeles Philharmonic

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og:title: Sonic Youth: They Are Not Rock. They Curate Rock.

og:description: Marc Jacobs asked Sonic Youth to leap. Their response was "How high?"

og:title: Polyphonic Spree at the El Rey

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og:title: Billboard Liberation on Melrose and LaBrea

og:description: On the southeast corner of Melrose and LaBrea:...


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og:title: Rick Fox's Burning Question

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og:title: In Defense of Da Vinci Hair

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og:title: Road Trip: Day 20(ish)

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og:title: Youth Gone Wild

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og:title: Buzzcockin'

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og:title: Os Brasileiros at Carmichael Gallery

og:description: The first showing of 2008 for the Carmichael Gallery featured over thirty street and outsider artists from Brazil. Shelley Leopold was at the opening Ja...

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og:title: Pellicano Rebooted

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og:title: The (Once) Great Pumpkins

twitter:title: The (Once) Great Pumpkins

og:title: Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#30-26)

og:description: 30. Jay-Z -American Gangster Is American Gangster that good or was Kingdom Come that mediocre? They're suprisingly surprisingly similar when you think a...

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og:title: More Grammy Week Gossip

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og:title: Smashbox: Day One: Nicky Hilton's Chick

og:description: A few changes at the tents in Culver City this year, for one no VIP tent, which was a better place to hang out, a little more removed from the lobby sle...

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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: Evenings Become Eclectic

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og:title: Grammy Parties: Me and Cinderella

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og:title: Notes from indie and punk shows, and Kristoff in translation

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og:title: New Orleans Jazzfest

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og:title: The Kills, El Rey, 5/21

og:description: The Kills, The El Rey, May 21, 2008 By Jeff Weiss Photos by Timothy Norris There’s something primal about the Kills. Not some sort of cheap $2 voo...

article:tag: Robin Head

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og:title: Home Sweet Home

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twitter:title: Home Sweet Home

og:title: What Happend to My Piece of The Cake?

twitter:title: What Happend to My Piece of The Cake?

og:title: Bo Knows Death

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og:title: A Rant in Remembrance

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og:title: MANDOE On Gower Near Fountain

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og:title: LACMA Raided! Updated With Search Warrants

og:description: County Museum board members busted in illegal art sting The L.A. County Museum of Art got some unexpected visitors this morning, when federal agents arr...


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og:title: Ashley Paige Rocks The House

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

og:description: Sleek and elegant, but still tinged with that trademark vibe of rascally weirdness, the fall/winter line by Marvin & Quetzal helped finish Fashion Week ...

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og:title: BIG PIMPIN

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og:title: Buffalo Gals & Bond Girls

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og:title: Material Girl Returns

og:description: First, she suspiciously played at a indie festival, now I get an email about Madonna Gallerie, a store set up in the lobby of W hotel, selling Madonna a...

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og:title: Arroyo Art Project Whitewash Hits AP

og:description: Associated Press has a story on Yahoo News this morning about the permitted artwork along the Arroyo Seco that went up last year during the Meeting of S...

twitter:title: Arroyo Art Project Whitewash Hits AP

og:title: Leslie and the Lys, Devon Williams at the Echoplex, 3/7/2008

og:description: The Church of Glitter. Photos by Rena Kosnett. For the rest of this review, body glitter = sweat. Iowa’s mainframe zaftig-white-female hip hop sta...


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og:title: Road Trip: Day 2 (still in Sedona)

twitter:title: Road Trip: Day 2 (still in Sedona)

og:title: Siouxsie Sioux, The Music Box at the Fonda, February 15

og:description: Siouxsie Sioux The Music Box at the Fonda February 15, 2008 By Steve Baltin The calendar may have read as the day after Valentine’s Day, but insid...


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og:title: Arroyo Seco Mural Saga Continues

og:description: Three months ago, County Supervisor Gloria Molina, through an emergency measure passed by the County Board of Supervisors, gave Friends of the Los Angel...

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

og:title: Villaraigosa Density Hawks Vs. Angry Valleyites

og:description: A Valley smackdown is brewing for tonight's 6 p.m. density Town Hall at the Beverly Garland Holiday Inn in Studio City, with scores of pissed-off San Fe...

article:tag: Studio City

og:title: New Free Gobbledigook (and Naked People) from Sigur Ros

og:description: We're getting spoiled with all of these free albums, right? Just one song for free? Oh well - for a Wednesday morning it will have to do. Click on over ...

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, ...


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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...

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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: About

twitter:title: About

og:title: Style Spawn

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og:title: “Nikki Finke Is a Badass” ... and Other Judgmental Comments

og:description: It’s the season for journalism awards, and over the past two weeks L.A. Weekly has emerged with a significant number of fresh honors in four diffe...

og:title: Chick Power

og:description: I heart the Dixie Chicks. I know, I can't believe it either. If you'd told me a week ago that I would be saying this, I wouldn't have thought it was pos...

twitter:title: Chick Power

og:title: Looks Good Enough to Eat

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og:title: Yeasayer at the Ukranian Culture Center 4.25.08

og:description: I can’t freakin' wait until Yeasayer come back to Los Angeles. I feel itchy knowing that last Friday's show at the Ukranian Culture Center on Melr...

og:title: El-P, Dizzee Rascal, El Rey, 5/22

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og:title: Dating According to Martini

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twitter:title: Dating According to Martini

og:title: Mexican Coke vs. Pepsi Retro, Part 2

og:description: "What does it taste like to you?" ask the promo advertisements for the new soft drink Pepsi Retro on bus stations and billboards in Mexico City. Clearly...

twitter:title: Mexican Coke vs. Pepsi Retro, Part 2

twitter: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: An Interview With Pete Rock

og:description: Pete Rock needs no introduction. His new album NY's Finest drops on Tuesday. While it might not be a classic on the level of a Soul Survivors or Mecca &...

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twitter:title: An Interview With Pete Rock

og:title: Chuck Phillips should not resign from being a reporter, but it would be fantastic if the LA Times resigned from being a newspaper

og:description: The funniest thing about this scandal is that Philips is one of the few bright spots in an otherwise blighted, stupid, and irrelevant publication.


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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: Workin It

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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...

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twitter:title: Lily Allen Supports Homeless Doggies

og:title: M.B.W. on Melrose

og:description: Some older ones,some new ones. There's a huge Britney/Madonna piece up that's getting a lot of talk, but I haven't been able to drive down there yet thi...

twitter:title: M.B.W. on Melrose

og:title: Narco war update: El Chapo's son goes down

og:description: Fresh off a staggering surge of killings of high-profile anti-narco agents and investigators in Mexico, the latest big-time victim in the country's wild...

og:title: Unicorns Need Not Apply

og:description: I stopped into The Mandrake after Gary Baseman's opening at Billy Shire Saturday night (I'm guessing Caroline will be blogging about the show, so all I'...

twitter:title: Unicorns Need Not Apply

og:title: In the Jury’s Lap: Pellicano Trial Finishes

og:description: The fate of the Pellicano Gang of Five rests with the jury, now that closing arguments have concluded. Attorney Mona Soo Hoo began the morning by announ...


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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, ...

og:title: Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#20-16)

og:description: 20. Jens Lekman-Night Falls Over Kortedala On first listen, Jens Lekman reminds you of Morrissey. Like the ex-Smith's frontman, the 26-year old Swede's ...

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og:title: Its The Oscars and I'll Cry If I Want To

og:description: It always creeps up on me...the Oscars. Already, Hollywood Blvd is shut off at Highland. I know this because I had to go to the Roosevelt Hotel this eve...


og:title: Rime Show at Ghettogloss

og:description: Seventh Letter crew member RIME, aka Jersey Joe, will be showing new work at Ghettogloss this Friday, March 7. The show will run for a couple of weeks, ...

article:tag: Business

twitter:title: Rime Show at Ghettogloss


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og:title: Sometimes I Like Santa Monica

og:description: It took a lot to get me out of the house last night in the rain. It took Viggo Mortensen. I was supposed to go with Steffie to Track 16, Bergamot Statio...

twitter:title: Sometimes I Like Santa Monica

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: 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: Valentine's Day is for the Birds

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

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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

og:title: Elf-ing cute!

twitter:title: Elf-ing cute!


dest: BJ

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: Brewer hires Cortines

og:description: The press release, whether deliberate or not, was sent out late in the news cycle on a Friday evening--6:43 p.m. to be exact. 17 months after officially...

twitter:title: Brewer hires Cortines

og:title: Blah & Pemex on Sunset & Highland

og:description: On the spot where the old French Cottage used to stand - which you can see here - there was a nice clean brick wall just crying out for some tagging. Pe...

article:tag: Santa Monica

twitter:title: Blah & Pemex on Sunset & Highland

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

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

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...


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dest: BE

og:title: Weiss' Muxtapes #5 and #6: The Best "Indie" Songs To Get An Asymmetrical Haircut To (2008 Edition)

og:description: I won't deny it. Things started spiraling rapidly downhill the moment I started compiling mixtapes of my favorite non-hip hop songs released this year. ...


og:title: Vote Finke in '08!

og:description: Time magazine has just published their list of finalists for "The 2008 Time 100." What's that you ask? It's the magazine's list of the world's most infl...

twitter:title: Vote Finke in '08!

og:title: Candice Held: Eco Fashion Gets Sexy

twitter:title: Candice Held: Eco Fashion Gets Sexy


src: ET

dest: LK

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: Pity Party People

twitter:title: Pity Party People

og:title: I Play Joan Rivers

og:description: Yeah, it's that time again. Hollywood is all closed up, and hundred of movie fans have begun to line up outside the Kodak Theater, hoping to catch a gli...

twitter:title: I Play Joan Rivers

og:title: Pigs on Beverly, West of Echo Park

og:description: And here's some body shop art on 1st St. Another big set from the CBS yard coming soon. All photos by Mark Mauer...

article:tag: Mark Mauer

twitter:title: Pigs on Beverly, West of Echo Park


dest: VN

og:title: Always check your change

og:description: Leaving a convenience store just now a cashier tried swindling me out of 10 pesos in change. I left the place a little confused then marched right back ...

twitter:title: Always check your change

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: Insane in the Brain

og:description: Happy 4-20 friends! Yes, it's the unofficial toker holiday known as Four Twenty (which hardcore stoners actually celebrate every day, at 4:20 p.m.). We ...

article:tag: The Wizard of Oz

twitter:title: Insane in the Brain

og:title: Skullphone may have bought time?

og:description: Curbed.la is claiming that Skullphone didn't hack Clear Channel billboards, but actually bought space on them, just like strip clubs and Disney movies d...

twitter:title: Skullphone may have bought time?


extension: php

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

og:description: Alan McGee, legendary British record exec, (referenced in an earlier post about the LA version of his Death Disco club night), posted the following...


src: KZ

dest: RW

og:title: Sticky Fingers

og:description: Ever since Sunday’s Felt Club craft fair at the Ukrainian Culture Center, I’ve been dreaming of pin cushions. Lots and lots of pin cushions....

twitter:title: Sticky Fingers

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

og:description: Black Keys, Jay Reatard The Wiltern, April 1 By Jonah Flicker We’ll get to the white-boy blues-rock in just a sec, but first we have a very seriou...

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

og:title: Best Books of 2007

og:description: But don't take our word for it. The National Book Critics Circle launched its inaugural Best Recommended List, compiled by polling its members, former b...

twitter:title: Best Books of 2007

og:title: Chick Power

og:description: I heart the Dixie Chicks. I know, I can't believe it either. If you'd told me a week ago that I would be saying this, I wouldn't have thought it was pos...

twitter:title: Chick Power

og:title: Beirut free show at Amoeba tonight

og:description: Missed the sold out Beirut shows? Ahh, lucky you. They're playing at 6:30 tonight at Amoeba Records. Go on over and check it out or read Rena Kosnett's ...

twitter:title: Beirut free show at Amoeba tonight


src: PH

og:title: American Apparel Workers Defect as Layoffs Hit the Hipster-Clothing Firm

og:description: Layoffs have hit Los Angeles clothing maker American Apparel. Workers are starting to organize.

og:title: It's Record Store Day!

og:description: Go out and visit your local independent record store today, if there is still one within 100 miles or so. You know your business model is in trouble whe...

twitter:title: It's Record Store Day!

og:title: Keef DID NOT snort his Daddy ok?

og:description: Okay, I may be the biggest Rolling Stones fan I know (except for maybe Falling James) but I'd defend my hero on this one regardless. Snorting his pops? ...

twitter:title: Keef DID NOT snort his Daddy ok?


src: EG

og:title: Pedro Guzman Suing Government for Wrongful Deportation

og:description: By Daniel Hernandez Pedro Guzman, the Lancaster man who was wrongfully deported from the L.A. County jail system, filed suit against the federal governm...


src: PK

dest: CD

og:title: STYLE WARS TONIGHT!

og:description: I'm not a "designer," but I am a fierce competitor -and a STYLE Councilor- so I figured why not? Watch me compete TONIGHT against 7 other fearless fashi...

twitter:title: STYLE WARS TONIGHT!

og:title: Bits: Los Feliz Trash

og:description: Craig Gaines has a Flickr page of trash found around Los Feliz. CCM hockey helmet: Check Brown Sugar and Cinnamon Pop Tarts: Check...

article:tag: Pop-Tarts

twitter:title: Bits: Los Feliz Trash

og:title: Will i Am Offers Obama Handjob Via Campaign Song

og:description: As the voters of Texas, Rhode Island, Vermont and Ohio filed to the polls yesterday to help decide the Democratic Party's nomination for President, will...

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...

article:tag: Entertainment

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


src: NG

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: Naked Ambition at the Art Walk

og:description: Put horror king Clive Barker in a room with some naked people and some body paint, and you've got an enraptured crowd of "art lovers" in your gallery. T...

twitter:title: Naked Ambition at the Art Walk

og:title: Obama and Tool. Two stages. One night.

og:description: Barack Obama at Gibson Amphitheater Tool at Nokia Theatre. By Ryan Colditz I saw a show no one else will ever see. Senator Barack Obama opening for Tool...

twitter:title: Obama and Tool. Two stages. One night.

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...


src: GB

og:title: Jumpin Jack Flashed

og:description: The "ugly beautiful" model trend goes in a groovy new direction with these new Louis Vuitton ads starring Keith Richards. Of course, our man Keef is alr...

article:tag: Martin Scorsese

twitter:title: Jumpin Jack Flashed

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: Whorelore: The Magical World of Warcraft Porn

og:description: Welcome to a dusty fantasy land of deep-throating elf ears, masturbating trolls, and chain-mail-wearing porn stars. by Bonnie Ruberg, Village Voice Porn...

article:tag: Games

og:title: Del tha Funkee Homosapien Returns From Outer Space

og:description: God knows what Del's been doing since the millennium. The guy practically retired around then, after dropping the rightfully canonized Deltron 3030 reco...


src: NP

dest: GB

og:title: The bad rap on the 'death' of the boompa beat

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

og:title: Beachwood Sparks to reunite for Sub Pop anniversary party

og:description: Amidst all the hoo-ha about Jane's Addiction getting back together next week because apparently they're geniuses or something, another reunion's getting...

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: Rain Rain Go Away Charlize Theron Wants To Play

article:tag: Celebrity News

og:title: Super. Fun. Music. Love.

twitter:title: Super. Fun. Music. Love.


dest: ZM

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...

twitter:title: RIP Ike Turner

og:title: ELLEN'S GAY

og:description: Two frosted haired ladies walk stiffly through the ebbs and flows of sidewalk traffic on West Alameda Avenue in Burbank. The street is lined with WGA st...

twitter:title: ELLEN'S GAY

og:title: BIG PIMPIN

og:description: "It's Hard Out There for A Pimp" from Hustle and Flow won for Best Song tonight. Hip hop hooray!!! Though it's not the first rap tune to win (Eminem's "...

twitter:title: BIG PIMPIN

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: Meghan Finds The Love

twitter:title: Meghan Finds The Love


dest: PH

og:title: Radiohead: Reviewing the Price You Paid

og:description: Once upon a time, the music editor and maybe 1 or 2 others at LA Weekly would have gotten an advance of a hotly anticipated new album, often months befo...

twitter:title: Radiohead: Reviewing the Price You Paid

og:title: Arthur Mag Dead

twitter:title: Arthur Mag Dead


src: CN

og:title: Jane's Addiction reunion at the El Rey, April 23

og:description: These days there’s every reason to be skeptical of a reunion concert. After the breakup we watch our heroes get older, buy their post-Great-Band s...

article:tag: Concerts and Tours


src: IN

dest: UA

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: I’m Only Five Foot Two

og:description: Tonight, a trifecta of punk with the Saints, Buzzcocks and Stooges. But first, another panel (I think I am the only one interested in these things). Chu...

twitter:title: I’m Only Five Foot Two

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: Queer Town: Tom Whitman Presents... Wonderland

og:description: Twelve hours before the Big Gay Parade in Boys Town, I decide to hop into the Chevy, pick up my pals Tyle and Ted, and visit gay nightlife uber-promoter...

article:tag: Culture and Lifestyle


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og:title: Cave Singers at the Echo 12/4

og:description: Cave Singers Echo, Dec. 4 To call a spade a spade: I’ve been listening to the Cave Singers album Invitation Songs an appreciable amount over the l...

twitter:title: Cave Singers at the Echo 12/4

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

og:title: The Fab Five

og:description: More fashion critique from New York Fashion Week and The Grammy’s (which we attended) to come today, but for now, check out the designs of the fin...

twitter:title: The Fab Five


src: MA

dest: ID

og:title: About

twitter:title: About

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: Hillary Clinton projected winner in California

og:description: By Jill Stewart The networks and Fox News have projected Hillary Clinton as the winner in California, with huge leads among Latinos, Asians and, to a le...


og:title: Trader Joe’s Says Don't Freak Out Over Arsenic in Wine

og:description: Numerous studies have shown that even small amounts of arsenic have been associated with raising the risk for cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other ...


dest: AF

og:title: Alias Hair

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

twitter:title: Alias Hair

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

og:description: She & Him The Vista Theatre, 4/28/08 By Jonah Flicker At 7pm, there was already a long line winding around the corner outside the Vista Theatre in Los F...

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

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.

og:title: MBW All Over LA

og:description: Mr Brainwash is on fire. His solo art show opens in just two weeks, and he's been pasting and painting his icons all over LA. So which gallery is he sho...

twitter:title: MBW All Over LA

og:title: Pimp C Dies in L.A.

og:description: According to this TMZ report, Pimp C was found dead in his bed in a Sunset Strip hotel room this morning. The rapper, born Chad Butler, had just perform...

twitter:title: Pimp C Dies in L.A.


dest: KE

og:title: Elzhi's Europass: The Best Rap Album of the Year Thus Far

og:description: One of the more frustrating things about hip-hop heads*, specifically those old enough to remember the first two Golden Ages, is the general groupthink ...

og:title: SXSW Day 1: Van Morrison, Division Day, The Ting Tings, The Duke Spirit at  SXSW, March 12

og:description: Van Morrison at La Zona Rosa, Austin, Texas; Division Day, The Ting Tings and The Duke Spirit at Buffalo Billiards. Van Morrison's pretty cool, wearing ...

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: Molasky Pacific Leaves Columbia Square

og:description: Molasky Pacific, a real estate development firm based in Las Vegas, will no longer take part in the effort to build a 40-story skyscraper on Sunset Boul...

twitter:title: Molasky Pacific Leaves Columbia Square


src: ID

og:title: Desanka Pops Her Catwalk Cherry

twitter:title: Desanka Pops Her Catwalk Cherry


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

og:description: The new video for "When Cold Air Goes to Sleep," from the Radar Brothers' upcoming Auditorium, does exactly what a clip should: sent me racing to the CD...

og:title: Burning Man, Day One

og:description: he ring of the bell is the first thing you hear once in range of the Burning Man Festival in bumfuck Nevada. Two of them, the size of logs, hang from po...

article:tag: Festivals and Parades

twitter:title: Burning Man, Day One


og:title: MANDOE On Gower Near Fountain

og:description: MANDOE has a stunner on a wall north of an east-west street crossing Gower around Fountain (but not on Fountain). MADNOE, PROSE and FUKM are listed on t...

twitter:title: MANDOE On Gower Near Fountain

og:title: Buffalo Gals & Bond Girls

twitter:title: Buffalo Gals & Bond Girls

og:title: ReLAX... Don't Do It

og:description: Time to play catch up kiddies. The holidays are behind us, and so far, the ‘08 social calendar is proving to be more jammed-packed -and jammin&rsq...

twitter:title: ReLAX... Don't Do It

og:title: Hurray for Tar-jay: Rogan Roars

og:description: Its bastardization of The Beatles in those relentlessly dizzying TV commercials aside, we still pledge undying love for Target. Where else can you buy m...

twitter:title: Hurray for Tar-jay: Rogan Roars


og:title: The Hives, Wiltern, 2/19

og:description: The Hives, Donnas Wiltern, Feb. 19 Photos by Timothy Norris It's been eight years since the Hives started telling us they were going to take over the wo...

twitter:title: The Hives, Wiltern, 2/19

og:title: Flea's Bitten

og:description: On Saturday night the Diane von Furstenberg store in West Hollywood hosted a benefit for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music, the non-profit music scho...

twitter:title: Flea's Bitten

og:title: Grammy Friends and Family: Spankrocked and A Change of...Pace?

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: First Name Basis

og:description: Last night I went to see Wendy & Lisa. Remember them? After Prince ended his Revolution, guitarist Wendy Melvoin and keyboardist Lisa Coleman, co-wrote ...

twitter:title: First Name Basis


og:title: Chick Power

og:description: I heart the Dixie Chicks. I know, I can't believe it either. If you'd told me a week ago that I would be saying this, I wouldn't have thought it was pos...

twitter:title: Chick Power


src: SN

dest: PK


dest: NG

og:title: Michael Hurley tonight, December 20, at The Bordello

og:description: Michael Hurley has been kicking around since 1965, when he released for Folkways Recordings his First Songs LP. Those songs introduced his aesthetic, on...

article:tag: Cat Power


dest: CA

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: Black Celebration

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

twitter:title: Black Celebration

og:title: Paul, Prince and Paris

twitter:title: Paul, Prince and Paris

og:title: Devendra Banhart, Orpheum, 10/13

og:description: Devendra Banhart Orpheum Theatre, 10/13 By John Curry In every generation of pop music, someone comes along with a fabulous persona to wrap generously a...

twitter:title: Devendra Banhart, Orpheum, 10/13


src: IT

dest: BD

og:title: Camera Eye - Santa Monica and Myra

og:description: All photos by Mark Mauer...

twitter:title: Camera Eye - Santa Monica and Myra

twitter:description: All photos by Mark Mauer...

og:title: Get Your Book On: Book Expo America 2008

og:description: It was so deserted at the Book Expo America at the Convention Center today, I was beginning to despair about the state of the book industry. But it turn...

og:title: South, The Echo, 5/15

og:description: South, The Echo, May 15, 2008 Photos by Timothy Norris Once upon a time, near the dawn of this decade, James Lavelle's Mo'Wax label ruled the record sto...

twitter:title: South, The Echo, 5/15

og:title: Smashbox: Day One: Nicky Hilton's Chick

og:description: A few changes at the tents in Culver City this year, for one no VIP tent, which was a better place to hang out, a little more removed from the lobby sle...

twitter:title: Smashbox: Day One: Nicky Hilton's Chick

og:title: A Tale of Two Top Hats

og:description: I just got back from New York, New York, and since I spent much of my winter holiday hanging with my nieces Flora and Ava, twins aged 18 months, the big...

twitter:title: A Tale of Two Top Hats


src: YE

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 ...


src: NL

og:title: Queer Town: Big Gay Night at Armani

og:description: Christoph Babka, a handsome blonde with a keen sense of duty, was burned out working in Hollywood, so he decided to shake things up. "We try to get the ...

article:tag: West Hollywood

twitter:title: Queer Town: Big Gay Night at Armani

og:title: The Other Side of Cordon's Market

og:description: It was interesting that while one side of Cordon's Market had some stunning work on it (click here to see it), the opposite side, which wasn't even fenc...

twitter:title: The Other Side of Cordon's Market


src: GT

dest: IN

og:title: Louis Verdad: Modness of Love

twitter:title: Louis Verdad: Modness of Love

og:title: Welcome to the Dollhouse

og:description: Walking into the shopping mall with the big pink cherry blossom on the corner of Alameda and 3rd at 8pm on Saturday night, it didn't seem possible that ...

twitter:title: Welcome to the Dollhouse


dest: CN

og:title: Tim & Eric's Awesome Show live @ the Echoplex 5.5.08

og:description: They're so sweet and innocent. Photos by Rena Kosnett. Writing about the experience of seeing Tim & Eric’s Awesome Show Great Job! live on tour wo...

article:tag: Robin Williams


src: US

dest: ML

og:title: Coachella: Sunday

og:description: Coachella: Day Three 10:00 a.m. I can barely wake-up, I'm in complete denial that there's another full day to go. The press band and the ID bracelet tha...

twitter:title: Coachella: Sunday


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...

og:title: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Week Day 3: Why "1st of Month" is the Greatest Song Ever Written About Welfare

og:description: Sometimes, I feel sorry for the 13-year olds of today. I can't even begin to imagine how disgruntled my adolescence would've been had I been forced to l...


dest: IR

og:title: These Shoes are Made for Walkin

twitter:title: These Shoes are Made for Walkin


og:title: Coachella Day Three: The Dangers of Chromeo

og:description: Chromeo at Coachella By Chris Martins Roger Waters was neck-deep in pyrotechnics and paisley. The Gobi Tent was done, abandoned 'til next year, and the ...


src: PE

og:title: Weiss' Top Albums of 2007 (#40-36)

og:description: 40. The Twilight Sad-Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters Take note Bloc Party. This is how you do histrionic, nostalgic and bombastic arena rock for in...

twitter:title: Weiss' Top Albums of 2007 (#40-36)

og:title: Joan and Melissa Give Us Their Oscar Fashion Predictions

article:tag: Celebrity Style

og:title: Kings of Leon, Greek Theatre, 9/7

og:description: Kings of Leon The Greek Theatre, September 7, 2007 By Jonah Flicker When did the Kings of Leon hire a rock stylist? As they took the stage at the Greek ...

twitter:title: Kings of Leon, Greek Theatre, 9/7


src: CH

dest: TD


og:title: Keef DID NOT snort his Daddy ok?

og:description: Okay, I may be the biggest Rolling Stones fan I know (except for maybe Falling James) but I'd defend my hero on this one regardless. Snorting his pops? ...

twitter:title: Keef DID NOT snort his Daddy ok?

og:title: Grizzly Bear live on Morning Becomes Eclectic, Feb. 27

og:description: On Wednesday morning, the subterranean temple that is the KCRW studio complex on the campus of Santa Monica College played host to a great six-song set ...

og:title: RIP: Bingo

og:description: I didn't know Charlton Heston, but I knew Bingo. And I'm sorry to say that Jenny Burman has posted that Bingo was hit by a car and killed last Sunday. B...

twitter:title: RIP: Bingo

og:title: 10 Haikus About 2007's Most Overhyped Albums

og:description: Animal Collective-Strawberry Jam Sounds Like Bad Acid Trip At arcade in New Jersey Let Panda roam solo. Arcade Fire-Neon Bible Right now in heaven Toole...


og:title: Sex Pistols at the Roxy, October 25

og:description: Sex Pistols at the Roxy, October 25 By Randall Roberts Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you and fuck you. Fuck you Johnny Rotten for wasting most of your No Fut...

twitter:title: Sex Pistols at the Roxy, October 25

og:title: Greg Sandow on Art vs. The Arts

og:description: Sandow: "So why am I telling this story? To introduce my thought that art and the arts aren't the same thing." ALSO, some kid in a diaper covering The B...

twitter:title: Greg Sandow on Art vs. The Arts

og:title: Truckin’ Down the ‘Vard with Papa Joe

og:description: "Dante's Inferno": Hollywood Boulevard & Truck Turner The New Beverly Cinema, April 11 The New Beverly Cinema's runaway-hit series of director-programme...

twitter:title: Truckin’ Down the ‘Vard with Papa Joe

og:title: No Age Plays in the River

og:description: ...and then the cops came. Jay Babcock of Arthur Magazine, the recently re-launched counter-cultural journal, sent out a hush-hush e-mail Saturday, Nov....

article:tag: No Age (Band)

twitter:title: No Age Plays in the River

og:title: Laurence Tribe Tangles with CBS and L.A. City Hall

og:description: The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s Courtroom 3 - a miniature auditorium with comfortable, smoked salmon-colored seats - wa...


src: PK

dest: ES

og:title: Tryptophan-tastic!

og:description: Black Friday is my idea of hell. I would rather pay more money to have less people in my way while I shop. Who are all these people who get up at 3 am t...

twitter:title: Tryptophan-tastic!


src: DZ


dest: EG

og:title: Bo Knows Death

og:description: Like many people my age, I learned about Bo Diddley not from any unremembered nostalgia for British Invasion swipes of the ancient bluesman's slippery g...

twitter:title: Bo Knows Death

og:title: Alvarado in Echo Park - REVOK, AUGOR

og:description: The sun was already going down fast by the time I noticed this gem on retaining walls going up a hill in Echo Park. I took some shots anyway and decided...

twitter:title: Alvarado in Echo Park - REVOK, AUGOR

og:title: Meghan's Secret Rendezvous

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

twitter:title: Meghan's Secret Rendezvous

og:title: Laurence Tribe v. City of Los Angeles

og:description: It looks like the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office may have its hands full on June 4 when it goes up against leading First Amendment attorney La...

twitter:title: Laurence Tribe v. City of Los Angeles

og:title: Eagles of Death Metal Play Loudly

og:description: Right now, this very exact second, I am listening to the Eagles of Death Metal playing "I Only Want You" as they perform live on top of the ...

twitter:title: Eagles of Death Metal Play Loudly


src: DE

dest: TR


dest: AR

og:title: Style Spawn

twitter:title: Style Spawn

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...

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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: Madonna playing Coachella

og:description: Madonna, clearly incensed that fellow music icon Robert Plant got to hang with the Style Council in the desert, is now planning a little sandy excursion...

twitter:title: Madonna playing Coachella

og:title: Steal This Look: The Other Lil Kim

twitter:title: Steal This Look: The Other Lil Kim

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...


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og:title: Siouxsie Sioux, The Music Box at the Fonda, February 15

og:description: Siouxsie Sioux The Music Box at the Fonda February 15, 2008 By Steve Baltin The calendar may have read as the day after Valentine’s Day, but insid...

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: Maude!

og:description: SXSW or no SXSW, my first sign of Texas pride was the Texas-shaped gravestone in the Texas State Cemetery I noticed outside the airport shuttle. Landed ...

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og:title: Echo Park Chickens - 2 & 3

og:description: Once again, it's Cache/K4P's impossible to miss chickens along Sunset and on the occasional side street. All photos by Mark Mauer. More after the jump...

twitter:title: Echo Park Chickens - 2 & 3

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: Live in L.A.: Qui, the Bronx, Circle Jerks, Melvins and the Locust at the Echoplex

og:description: Fergie Cuilda deserves a benefit show just to honor his drumming, but last night's benefit at the Echoplex was bittersweet. While on a summer U.S. tour,...


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og:title: Veggin' with Alicia

twitter:title: Veggin' with Alicia

og:title: Would You Wood?

og:description: How do you feel about wall art? I have conflicted feelings about decorative stuff on walls. It's so easy to get sick of posters, even if they're neatly ...

article:tag: Arts, Entertainment, and Media

twitter:title: Would You Wood?

og:title: El Dud

og:description: Quelle bummer! On Friday night I'd just enjoyed a lovely meal with a group of friends at the Sunset Junction French bistro Cafe Stella (I ...

twitter:title: El Dud


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og:title: Smashbox: Day One: Nicky Hilton's Chick

og:description: A few changes at the tents in Culver City this year, for one no VIP tent, which was a better place to hang out, a little more removed from the lobby sle...

twitter:title: Smashbox: Day One: Nicky Hilton's Chick

og:title: Isis meets Quetzalcoatl

og:description: Is Isis, the ancient Egyptian mother-god, related in some mystical way with Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent of Mesoamerican mythology? That's the ce...

article:tag: Cultural Institutions and Parks

twitter:title: Isis meets Quetzalcoatl

og:title: Who's That Girl?

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og:title: I Play Joan Rivers

og:description: Yeah, it's that time again. Hollywood is all closed up, and hundred of movie fans have begun to line up outside the Kodak Theater, hoping to catch a gli...

twitter:title: I Play Joan Rivers

og:title: Love It To Death!

og:description: After four hours at this afternoon's Billion Dollar Babes media/celebrity preview sample sale, I felt a bit like the Babes' patron saint A...

twitter:title: Love It To Death!

og:title: Live in L.A.: Hecuba at the Bordello

og:description: Hecuba opens your eyes, literary and emotionally.... Isabelle Albuquerque's vocals have a dynamic range as grand as the Alps and her body moves as if sh...

twitter:title: Live in L.A.: Hecuba at the Bordello

og:title: Nightranger Show and Tell

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: Arthur Mag Resurrected

twitter:title: Arthur Mag Resurrected

og:title: Comics Amongst the Comics

og:description: Comedy Meltdown 2: Electric Boogaloo Meltdown Comics, January 25th Who needs too-tightly packed tables and a two drink minimum, especially if there&rsqu...

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og:title: Willie Nelson, Nokia, 2/13

og:description: Willie Nelson, Nokia Theatre, Feb. 13 Photos by Timothy Norris If Willie Nelson had delivered a show with half as much heart, enthusiasm and class, it s...

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og:title: Cobrasnake Party Photos

twitter:title: Cobrasnake Party Photos

og:title: Bright Eyes video needs extras!!

twitter:title: Bright Eyes video needs extras!!

og:title: Grizzly Bear and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall, March 1

og:description: Grizzly Bear and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Walt Disney Concert Hall Saturday, March 1 photos by Timothy Norris You knew Saturday night was turning ma...


og:title: Shary Boyle tonight at Hammer: Visual collaborator with Will Oldham and Swan Lake

og:description: Shary Boyle at the Hammer Museum By Casey Henry No one has better appropriated the image of the chain-smoking single mother than Shary Boyle. Her expans...

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...

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...

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

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: Hot Week at Dublab: Live Neil Hamburger, Peanut Butter Wolf, Anticon, Lucky Dragons and others

og:description: Our favorite local music collective/studio/radio station/creative non-profit/record label/DJ team/inspiration to us all, Dublab, is offering an amazing ...

article:tag: Peanut Butter Wolf


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 ...

og:title: Guser Gets a Year

og:description: Cops are mad he didn't get more time. From the Daily News: Tagger gets year for damaging dozens of buses Deputy, prosecutor decry judge's ruling in case...

article:tag: Criminal Sentencing and Punishment

twitter:title: Guser Gets a Year

og:title: Gorilla in East Hollywood

og:description: This is visible on the south side of Melrose (I lost my notes. I don't know what E/W street this on. Beverly?) if you're heading west through East Holly...

twitter:title: Gorilla in East Hollywood

og:title: The Kooks, Morning Benders, Troubadour, 2/7

og:description: The Kooks, Morning Benders, The Troubadour, February 7 It's been two years to the day that The Kooks' first (and so far only) album Inside In Inside Out...


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og:title: It's All Geek To Me

twitter:title: It's All Geek To Me

og:title: Pause & Rewind-Rhyme & Reason

og:description: Filmed before and during that tense six-month window between 2Pac and Big's deaths, Rhyme and Reason has a eerie, unsettling vibe to it. Everyone in the...

twitter:title: Pause & Rewind-Rhyme & Reason

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: The Hills Were Alive

og:description: "Hippie chicks with boob jobs." That's how a (male) pal inaccurately described the annual Topanga Days fest in the Santa Monica hills this past memorial...

twitter:title: The Hills Were Alive

og:title: American Apparel Workers Defect as Layoffs Hit the Hipster-Clothing Firm

og:description: Layoffs have hit Los Angeles clothing maker American Apparel. Workers are starting to organize.


og:title: KCRW Launches New Guest DJ Sessions featuring Conan O'Brien, Jason Reitman and others

og:description: Everybody has an opinion about music, especially celebrities, and KCRW is harnessing this intrinsic reality with a new online series which launches toda...


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og:title: Sex Pistols at the Roxy, October 25

og:description: Sex Pistols at the Roxy, October 25 By Randall Roberts Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you and fuck you. Fuck you Johnny Rotten for wasting most of your No Fut...

twitter:title: Sex Pistols at the Roxy, October 25

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

og:description: The new video for "When Cold Air Goes to Sleep," from the Radar Brothers' upcoming Auditorium, does exactly what a clip should: sent me racing to the CD...

og:title: Neil Hamburger: The LA Weekly Interview

og:description: Interview by Jonah Flicker Comedian Neil Hamburger released the musically excellent and thoroughly funny Neil Hamburger Sings Country Winners (Drag City...

article:tag: Weird Al Yankovic

twitter:title: Neil Hamburger: The LA Weekly Interview

og:title: Justice, Teddybears, Satellite Party

og:description: The show didn't end after Kinky, but my laptop battery did. After a full day of jogging up and down the streets to catch good bands, things seemed to sl...

twitter:title: Justice, Teddybears, Satellite Party

og:title: The 10 Best Local Albums Of 2007

og:description: 10. Sea Wolf-Leaves in the River At times, Leaves In the River reads a little predictably quirky, but Alex Church's pop heart salvages this from being t...

twitter:title: The 10 Best Local Albums Of 2007


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og:title: Pixies and Mission of Burma Movies - Free Screening This Weekend

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

twitter:description: Filmed before and during that tense six-month window between 2Pac and Big's deaths, Rhyme and Reason has a eerie, unsettling vibe to it. Everyone in the...

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


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og:title: Portishead mow us down

og:description: Portishead's newly unveiled song, "Machine Gun," rubs your face in change. The mood has shifted from something sexy to something claustrophobic, industr...

twitter:title: Portishead mow us down

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: F YEAH FEST Announces Summer Tour

og:description: The Yeah Fest formerly know as Fuck has announced its summer tour across the Eastern, Southern, and Middle United States, and a little bit of Canada. Ba...

twitter:title: F YEAH FEST Announces Summer Tour


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og:title: Meghan Where's The Love?

twitter:title: Meghan Where's The Love?

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: Queer Town: Human Rights Campaign Endorses Obama

og:description: The Human Rights Campaign, the ultimate Washington D.C. lobbying group for gays and lesbians, has officially endorsed Senator Barack Obama for president...


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og:title: Uncle George's Diary

og:description: Few directors in any genre draw as loyal, faithful and loving a crowd as the maestro of the undead, George Romero. And they turned out in droves - the b...

article:tag: EI School of Professional Makeup

twitter:title: Uncle George's Diary

og:title: Clueless California Voters Fail IQ Test

og:description: You gotta love the brilliant decision by the respected polling group, Public Policy Institute of California, to once again sneak in subtle test question...

article:tag: Elementary and High School Education

twitter:title: Clueless California Voters Fail IQ Test

og:title: Erasure and Smashing Pumpkins News

og:description: FRIDAY, 7:30 p.m. Viper Room There was a lively and fashionable crowd at the Viper Room Friday night for MSO PR's soiree celebrating the launch of their...

twitter:title: Erasure and Smashing Pumpkins News

og:title: Cave Singers at the Echo 12/4

og:description: Cave Singers Echo, Dec. 4 To call a spade a spade: I’ve been listening to the Cave Singers album Invitation Songs an appreciable amount over the l...

twitter:title: Cave Singers at the Echo 12/4

og:title: KooKoo for Coco

twitter:title: KooKoo for Coco


og:title: Home Sweet Home

og:description: I just woke from a food coma. I went home for the holidays to see my family in NY. For us Christmas means lobster, shrimp, crab, lasagna, and proscuitto...

article:tag: Stuyvesant Town

twitter:title: Home Sweet Home

og:title: Animal radicals banned from UCLA profs' homes

og:description: By Max Taves A judge handed UCLA a big victory over its animal-rights tormentors in Los Angeles Superior Court yesterday. The judge’s order won&rs...

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: Babes in Oi-land

twitter:title: Babes in Oi-land

og:title: Retna, Revok and Frida Kahlo

og:description: On the south side of Pico near Harvard is this nice two artist piece on the side of a Korean food store. Revok. I'm not sure of the age of the wall. It ...

twitter:title: Retna, Revok and Frida Kahlo


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og:title: Donita Sparks' Mushroom Mullet

og:description: I remember going to see L7 at London's Brixton Academy as a teenager. It was 1992, I was 15, and L7 were, in my opinion, the crown princesses of grunge....

twitter:title: Donita Sparks' Mushroom Mullet

og:title: She Must Be My Lucky Star

twitter:title: She Must Be My Lucky Star

og:title: Conflict!

og:description: Perhaps no show on television is more suited to the wonders of TiVo, or in my case, an Adelphia DVR/cable box, than the Academy Awards. Way too many com...

twitter:title: Conflict!

og:title: Notes from indie and punk shows, and Kristoff in translation

og:description: The punks had their day here on Saturday, railing against Mexico City's peace-loving emos in what amounts to at least a psychological escalation of the ...

article:tag: Entertainment

og:title: Marc Cooper on the Primaries in NC and IN

og:description: From Marc Cooper's blog: It's All Over Now, Baby Blue Tuesday night Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic nomination -- again. He did it the ...


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og:title: Catalina Dreaming

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

twitter:title: Catalina Dreaming

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: Richard Edson's Beyond the Valley of the Micro-Bops Show

og:description: The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art opens a new show tonight by photographer Richard Edson. Here's the info: It's tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. at 107 Wes...

article:tag: toys

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: Sherman Alexie on Margaret Seltzer

og:description: Margaret B. Plagiarizin'? A little over two years ago, in the midst of the Oprah/James Frey fiasco, I wrote an expose called Navahoax that outed award-w...

twitter:title: Sherman Alexie on Margaret Seltzer


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og:title: 10 Musicians Definitely Not on Steroids

og:description: From the New York Times: "When news surfaced over the weekend that 50 Cent, Wyclef Jean, Timbaland and other rap stars had been implicated in a steroids...

twitter:title: 10 Musicians Definitely Not on Steroids

og:title: UCLA hits back at animal rights terrorists

og:description: By Max Taves Two weeks after animal-rights extremists fire-bombed the home of a respected primate researcher, UCLA is fighting back—legally, of co...

og:title: Augor: There Will Be Blood

og:description: Somehow, I doubt that Paul Thomas Anderson is going to love this so much that he'll grab it to hang in his house the way Murakmai did with Augor and Rev...

twitter:title: Augor: There Will Be Blood

og:title: SXSW Day 3: Pissed Jeans, Valet, White Rabbits, Thurston Moore, and an impregnated brain

og:description: Last night. Last night? Umm, last night ... What the heck did I do last night? Wait. Where the hell am I? In a hotel room, okay ... yeah ... good. At le...

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og:title: Breeders for Coachella '08 + New Album?

og:description: The dates are the festival official, April 25-27, but little else is. And are there any bands from the 80s and 90s left to reunite/headline for Cocahell...

twitter:title: Breeders for Coachella '08 + New Album?

og:title: Flier of the Week: Becky Stark and Ron Rege as The Mystical Unionists

og:description: This should be a cool opening. It features singer Becky Stark and drummer/comic artist Ron Rege (both of Lavender Diamond) as The Mystical Unionists. He...


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og:title: The Verdict on Writers: All Bloody Nuts (Phew)

og:title: Woman Fatally Shot in Front of Cop as She Asks for Help

og:description: A brazen attacker who allegedly followed a woman even as she asked a cop for help opened fire, killing the woman, before he was taken out by the officer...

og:title: Queer Town: Human Rights Campaign Endorses Obama

og:description: The Human Rights Campaign, the ultimate Washington D.C. lobbying group for gays and lesbians, has officially endorsed Senator Barack Obama for president...


og:title: Panic at the Disco loses their exclamation point, help sell a Honda

og:description: Panic at the Disco at Studio 540 of the Honda Corporation's headquarters, Torrence, January 10. By Julie Seabaugh Around 250 VIPs, suits and press membe...

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

og:description: You don't get a head of hair like that without a little divine intervention, and Larry Norman, who, beginning in the late 1960s, started singing about h...

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og:title: School of Rock

og:description: The LA Weekly's "Class of 05" music issue is out now (check out my local class favorites piece here) and the yearbook-themed edition sure took me back t...

twitter:title: School of Rock

og:title: Pretty Baby

og:description: A movie about a 12-year old prostitute in jazz-age New Orleans may seem like an unlikely inspiration for a new spring line of clothing, but when the pre...

twitter:title: Pretty Baby

og:title: Obama Iron Man

og:description: Photo by Shelley Leopold. Spotted on LaBrea over the weekend - Iron Man posters retooled. If there was any pro-Hillary or McCain street art we'd post th...

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og:title: Truxtapoz at Meltdown Gallery

og:description: I wish I could tell you to head down to Meltdown's Sunset Blvd. location to check out the Truxtapoz show that debuted Saturday night, but it's over: One...

twitter:title: Truxtapoz at Meltdown Gallery

og:title: Ryan Adams, Royce Hall, 1/30

og:description: Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, Royce Hall UCLA, Jan. 30 By Timothy Norris There’s something inspiring about visiting college campuses. The architectu...

twitter:title: Ryan Adams, Royce Hall, 1/30

og:title: Smashbox: Day One: Nicky Hilton's Chick

og:description: A few changes at the tents in Culver City this year, for one no VIP tent, which was a better place to hang out, a little more removed from the lobby sle...

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og:title: Grammy Friends and Family: Spankrocked and A Change of...Pace?

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

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: Philanthropist Daphna Ziman's War for Foster Kids

og:description: Sacramento's politicians created a fat budget deficit. Then, local bureaucrats misspent state funds meant for foster kids. Now, foster kids might pay de...

og:title: Nightwatchmen tonight at The Hotel Cafe with .... Counting Crows?

og:description: That's the rumor, anyway, and I'm trying to confirm it right now. But it makes sense: the Crows' new album, Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, dropped l...


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og:title: Actor Slaying Rattles Local Theater Company

og:description: Darius Ever Truly, who played Bobby Seale in Odyssey Theatre Ensemble's stage production of The Chicago Conspiracy Trial, was fatally stabbed last Satur...

og:title: Laurence Tribe v. City of Los Angeles

og:description: It looks like the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office may have its hands full on June 4 when it goes up against leading First Amendment attorney La...

twitter:title: Laurence Tribe v. City of Los Angeles

og:title: Hurts So Good

twitter:title: Hurts So Good


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og:title: McCartney Vetoed Weird Al's Chicken Pot Pie

og:description: Well, it's been a quiet few days, involving mainly indigestion and a marathon L Word viewing session (seven episodes, back to back). So here's a funny s...

og:title: So Domestic It's Scary

twitter:title: So Domestic It's Scary

og:title: Fabian Nunez a Victim of Racism

og:description: Describing himself as a guy who was "you could say, like a head of state," departing California Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez gave a bizar...

twitter:title: Fabian Nunez a Victim of Racism

og:title: Record cover design finally catches up with "the new ugly"?

og:description: Race to the bottom: Lil Wayne vs. Weezer. Worstest record cover wins.

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

og:description: Some New York Times art critic called multi-media artist Matthew Barney the most important artist of our generation, and Los Angeles believed him. Upper...

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


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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: Conflict!

og:description: Perhaps no show on television is more suited to the wonders of TiVo, or in my case, an Adelphia DVR/cable box, than the Academy Awards. Way too many com...

twitter:title: Conflict!


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 ...

twitter:title: Clinton Street Art in NYC


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...

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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: 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: Unwanted Neighbors for Hollywood Sign?

og:description: By Casey Henry The Hollywood sign may soon have unexpected neighbors. Today, Teles Realtors held a press conference declaring the 138 acres of hillside ...

twitter:title: Unwanted Neighbors for Hollywood Sign?

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: Memorial Daze

og:description: My legs hurt. My arms and torso ache. I never excercise, ever. But on Sunday, Steffie, Caroline, and about 10 of our friends played a full-on game of ro...

twitter:title: Memorial Daze

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: Portishead mow us down

og:description: Portishead's newly unveiled song, "Machine Gun," rubs your face in change. The mood has shifted from something sexy to something claustrophobic, industr...

twitter:title: Portishead mow us down

og:title: Autolux at Little Radio and other NYE ideas (well, one other idea)

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

og:title: The Fab Five

og:description: More fashion critique from New York Fashion Week and The Grammy’s (which we attended) to come today, but for now, check out the designs of the fin...

twitter:title: The Fab Five

og:title: Beachwood Sparks to reunite for Sub Pop anniversary party

og:description: Amidst all the hoo-ha about Jane's Addiction getting back together next week because apparently they're geniuses or something, another reunion's getting...

og:title: It's A Jungle Out Here

twitter:title: It's A Jungle Out Here


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og:title: Christmas Charity Shows

og:description: There are several Christmas charity shows (and just plain Christmas themed shows) around time this month, like Snoop Dogg's Smokin' Christmas Party at t...

twitter:title: Christmas Charity Shows


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og:title: The Vegan Beer Festival Returns This May With a Swanky New Location

og:description: Now in its 6th year, the Vegan Beer Festival will take place this May with more animal-free food and drinks at a much improved location.

og:title: It's a Mr. Funky Christmas at my place

twitter:title: It's a Mr. Funky Christmas at my place

og:title: $50,000-worth of Nasty Shoes Stolen

og:description: Apparently thieves broke into a truck and stole $50,000-worth of Taryn Rose shoes destined for the designer's Beverly Hills boutique. $50,000? I went to...

twitter:title: $50,000-worth of Nasty Shoes Stolen

og:title: The Islands' "Arms Way," Islands' Kona Pie and The Pros of "Miscenegenation"

og:description: Last year when Sasha-Frere Jones wrote his now-infamous piece on the whiteness of indie rock, he repeatedly included the phrase "miscenegation" to descr...

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

og:description: For years now, I only remember the L.A. River clean-up the day after it happens. Wake up on a Sunday morning, and think, "It was yesterday? I missed it ...

article:tag: Jay Babcock

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


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og:title: SXSW Day 1: Van Morrison, Division Day, The Ting Tings, The Duke Spirit at  SXSW, March 12

og:description: Van Morrison at La Zona Rosa, Austin, Texas; Division Day, The Ting Tings and The Duke Spirit at Buffalo Billiards. Van Morrison's pretty cool, wearing ...

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: 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...

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!


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og:title: Arroyo Seco Mural Saga Continues

og:description: Three months ago, County Supervisor Gloria Molina, through an emergency measure passed by the County Board of Supervisors, gave Friends of the Los Angel...

twitter:title: Arroyo Seco Mural Saga Continues

og:title: St. Patrick's Lament

og:description: The trend alarmed me, especially if you search the LA Times online--this city's paper of record--and see them mangle the spelling time after time after ...

twitter:title: St. Patrick's Lament

og:title: NY Hates Jack. Does LA?

og:description: Jack is Dead; Radio Listeners Rejoice The Village Voice reports that their version of Jack FM, which is probably very close to our version of Jack FM on...

twitter:title: NY Hates Jack. Does LA?

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

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


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dest: NG

og:title: Tibet Protest at Chinese Consulate

og:description: Members of the Los Angeles friends of Tibet held a "die-in" outside the Chinese Consulate on Monday afternoon to protest the recent Chinese crackdown on...

twitter:title: Tibet Protest at Chinese Consulate

og:title: Portraits of a Lady...and a Tramp

twitter:title: Portraits of a Lady...and a Tramp


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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: Shary Boyle tonight at Hammer: Visual collaborator with Will Oldham and Swan Lake

og:description: Shary Boyle at the Hammer Museum By Casey Henry No one has better appropriated the image of the chain-smoking single mother than Shary Boyle. Her expans...

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: Girl In A Coma, Knitting Factory, 2/21

og:description: Girl In A Coma Knitting Factory, Feb. 21 By Scott Schultz Girl in a Coma’s Thursday night set at the Knitting Factory demonstrated the growth the ...

twitter:title: Girl In A Coma, Knitting Factory, 2/21


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dest: AR

og:title: Live in L.A.: The Decemberists and Andrew Bird at The Hollwyood Bowl

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: Where's The Good Dance Music in LA?

og:description: Can someone please tell me where the good music is to be found in this city? Last night I went to Dance Right at La Cita downtown which was bursting at ...

twitter:title: Where's The Good Dance Music in LA?


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og:title: Actor Slaying Rattles Local Theater Company

og:description: Darius Ever Truly, who played Bobby Seale in Odyssey Theatre Ensemble's stage production of The Chicago Conspiracy Trial, was fatally stabbed last Satur...

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

og:description: There will be an official 2007 wrap-up from Mr. Gold himself, but with the year drawing to a close, we wanted to do a quick re-cap of some of your favor...

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

og:title: Sunset & Sanborn in Silver Lake

og:description: The last of the shots of the graffiti playground going on behind the El Pollo Loco on the south side of Sunset Blvd near Sanborn, as well as some commis...

article:tag: Staten Island

twitter:title: Sunset & Sanborn in Silver Lake


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og:title: Van Halen, Staples Center, November 20

og:description: Van Halen Staples Center, November 20 By Randall Roberts Jack and Coke? Check. Bic lighter? You know it. Rocker passed out on sidewalk, girlfriend exasp...

twitter:title: Van Halen, Staples Center, November 20

og:title: Chocolate-covered Snails and Other New Year's Delights

og:description: Even if they weren't my friends, I would still think Jenna and Oliver from Materials and Applications were totally rad. Their Maximillian's Schell insta...

og:title: Seattle Pop Conference kicks off talk of diaspora and hegemony (what else is new?)

og:description: There's a reward at the end of this post for those of you who read it, by the way. There are a few words that you don't hear in mixed company, and two o...

article:tag: Seattle Pop Conference

og:title: Jerry Hopkins on Fred Neil

og:description: Thanks to the suggestion of my friend Nacho Genzon, I have been listening quite a bit lately to Fred Neil, the American singer-songwriter of the 60's & ...

twitter:title: Jerry Hopkins on Fred Neil

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: Fashion Week Warrior

twitter:title: Fashion Week Warrior

og:title: Tonight in LA: Le Switch at the Echo, Harvey Sid Fisher at Pehrspace and Mezzanine Owls at Spaceland

og:description: Big ass night for Los Angeles music. If you're in from out of town, you picked a good frickin' Monday to be here. Fortify with a big dinner cuz there's ...

article:tag: Harvey Sid Fisher

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 ...

twitter:title: Clinton Street Art in NYC


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: 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: Babe in Black

og:description: So I've been thinkin' a lot about babies. Yes, I've been grappling with the pressure and possibility of taming my wild life to make room for a family so...

twitter:title: Babe in Black

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


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dest: MY

og:title: SXSW Day 3-The Unifying Power of Devin the Dude

og:description: "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."-Hunter S. Thompson "What you gonna do when the people go home/ and you wanna smoke weed but the reefer'...

og:title: Jumpin Jack Flashed

og:description: The "ugly beautiful" model trend goes in a groovy new direction with these new Louis Vuitton ads starring Keith Richards. Of course, our man Keef is alr...

article:tag: Martin Scorsese

twitter:title: Jumpin Jack Flashed

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: Heavens to Betsey

og:description: We love retro fashion references as much as (maybe more than) the next wear-bear, but the regurgitation coming out of New York Fashion week this season ...

article:tag: Fashion and Style

twitter:title: Heavens to Betsey

og:title: Off to a Smashing Start

twitter:title: Off to a Smashing Start


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og:title: It'll Put Hair On Your Brow

og:description: I'm not sure what Frida Kahlo was doing in her grave last night as a hundred or so people gathered in a real estate tycoon's backyard to sample tequilas...

twitter:title: It'll Put Hair On Your Brow

og:title: Concerts and Tickets Coming Up

og:description: Autechre - 4/14, Echoplex Bad Religion - 3/4,5,11,13, House of Blues Bamboozle (All-American Rejects, Jimmy Eat World, Paramore) - 4/5, Verizon Amphithe...

twitter:title: Concerts and Tickets Coming Up

og:title: Democratic Debate Love Fest - So Far

og:description: The only thing that really stands out about the debate in Hollywood between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is that the softball questions and heavy fo...

twitter:title: Democratic Debate Love Fest - So Far

og:title: Villaraigosa Density Hawks Vs. Angry Valleyites

og:description: A Valley smackdown is brewing for tonight's 6 p.m. density Town Hall at the Beverly Garland Holiday Inn in Studio City, with scores of pissed-off San Fe...

article:tag: Studio City


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og:title: Alec (who is the same age as Jesus) responds to his critic. Also, a special guest appearance by Judas aka Bob Dylan (you know, the guy from the panty commercial).

og:description: I am 33, the same age of Jesus. Clearly those kids in their teens and early twenties who you're meeting have some work to do to get as arrogant as me. B...

og:title: Jane's Addiction Original Lineup Play LA Next Week

og:description: For the first time since the band originally split seventeen years ago, the four original members of Jane's Addiction will play in L.A. as part of the N...

og:title: Chocolate-covered Snails and Other New Year's Delights

og:description: Even if they weren't my friends, I would still think Jenna and Oliver from Materials and Applications were totally rad. Their Maximillian's Schell insta...


dest: BD


src: KR

dest: JP

og:title: Philanthropist Daphna Ziman's War for Foster Kids

og:description: Sacramento's politicians created a fat budget deficit. Then, local bureaucrats misspent state funds meant for foster kids. Now, foster kids might pay de...

og:title: “Preachy Songs”: Phil Elverum (aka The Microphones aka Mt. Eerie) Interviewed: Part 3 of 4

og:description: Elverum on Crass: "I don't really like that music of Crass, but I love the band, and I love their way, and their presentation."


src: IT

dest: ET

og:title: Heads or Tails

og:description: Apparently the newest accessory this season, is a tail. No, not that strand of hair you kept growing despite haircuts. I was speaking to a member of an ...

article:tag: Documentaries

twitter:title: Heads or Tails

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...

twitter:title: HIllary Clinton, Working Class Heroine


src: NG

dest: AE

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: New Daedelus Video for "Make It So" is One of the Best Things You'll Watch Today

og:description: Sometimes something arrives that, while small on the surface -- "What, another YouTube clip to watch?" -- manages to overjoy your heart and eyes with it...

article:tag: World History

og:title: Laurence Tribe v. City of Los Angeles

og:description: It looks like the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office may have its hands full on June 4 when it goes up against leading First Amendment attorney La...

twitter:title: Laurence Tribe v. City of Los Angeles


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dest: PL

og:title: Uncle George's Diary

og:description: Few directors in any genre draw as loyal, faithful and loving a crowd as the maestro of the undead, George Romero. And they turned out in droves - the b...

article:tag: EI School of Professional Makeup

twitter:title: Uncle George's Diary

og:title: Nightwatchmen tonight at The Hotel Cafe with .... Counting Crows?

og:description: That's the rumor, anyway, and I'm trying to confirm it right now. But it makes sense: the Crows' new album, Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, dropped l...

og:title: Shootin' At The Walls of iTunes (bang bang)

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

article:tag: Internet Music Services

og:title: Beyond Thunderdome

og:description: Yanuk featured models in denim corsets, skinny jeans, and wild frayed coats. And remember the tuck and roll of the 80s? You know where you folded your j...

twitter:title: Beyond Thunderdome