Music Pick: Sasami
You might remember Sasami Ashworth from when she used to add synthesizer and unusual musical embellishments during her time as a member of Cherry Glazerr. On her new solo album, Sasami, the local...
View ArticleMusic Pick: Carla Bozulich & Devin Sarno
Carla Bozulich's wide-ranging musical career can't be easily summarized in a short paragraph. She has fronted the intense industrial band Ethyl Meatplow and been a part of such disparate projects as...
View ArticleMusic Pick: Russell Haswell
Blithely brilliant. That's the best way to describe the sounds that erupt and wend their way out of any given speaker system blessed enough — and stressed enough — to be moved by British sonic sorcerer...
View ArticleMusic Pick: Electric Six
Honestly there are few better ways to spend an evening than in the company of Dick Valentine and his Detroit party rockers the Electric Six.
View ArticleBeyond Off Sunset: A Guide to Gay Silver Lake
LGBTQ nightlife in Los Angeles can be a bit detached, but each separate 'gayborhood' has its own vibe and appeal. From West Hollywood to downtown L.A. to Long Beach and the Valley, we've provided...
View ArticleMusic Pick: Dickies
Veteran L.A. punks the Dickies play around the area fairly often, but this show is an interesting one because they're playing the Stukas Over Disneyland and Idjit Savant albums in their entirety.
View ArticleLethal Looks: No Dress Code for Mellow Code
Growing up in L.A. and frequenting nightclubs, art shows and punk gigs, Danny Fuentes became a fan, follower and friend to purveyors of alternative fashion, which led to creating spaces for them in his...
View ArticleMusic Pick: Vince Staples
Compton-born, Long Beach–bred rapper Vince Staples has, in the 3½ years since his Summertime '06 debut album, seen his stock rise to the point that he's one of the most interesting and exciting hip-hop...
View ArticleMusic Pick: The Rubens, Veronica Bianqui
2018 was a big year for Australian pop-soul rockers The Rubens, as they went out on tour in the States, Europe and Australasia before releasing their third album, LO LA RU, and then opening for Pink on...
View ArticleMusic Pick: Children of Bodom
Finnish extreme-metal band Children of Bodom have been terrifying listeners since 1993, and they just released their 10th studio album, Hexed.
View ArticleMusic Pick: T-Pain
T-Pain proves to be the GOAT of both R&B and autotune time and time again. Since releasing his debut album in 2005, the Tallahassee, Florida, native has provided soundtracks and moments for...
View ArticleGoLA Pick: The White Album
In her essay "The White Album," Joan Didion conflated her impressions of such 1960s touchstones as the Black Panthers, The Doors and The Manson Family into a wide-ranging look at the era in California;...
View ArticleGoLA Pick: Stiv: The Life and Times of a Dead Boy
More so than any of the other punk musicians in the mid-1970s, Stiv Bators was fearless about masochistically abusing his body to draw attention. With sonic reductionists The Dead Boys, he rolled on...
View ArticleGoLA Pick: Drunken Masters
Picture this: Three writers nervously read excerpts from works in progress in front of a panel of three veteran writers who offer instant advice. "The only catch is that these master writers may not be...
View ArticleMusic Pick: Meat Puppets
Meat Puppets have been through many changes since they tumbled out of Arizona in 1980. Lineups have mutated, and yet the psychedelic alt-rockers have always managed to persevere. Last year, drummer...
View ArticleMusic Pick: The Warlocks
Although L.A. musical insurrectionists The Warlocks share a name with the original iteration of The Grateful Dead and can also be classified as a psychedelic band, that's about all the two groups have...
View ArticleMusic Pick: T.S.O.L. and The Dwarves
Featuring original members Ron Emory (guitar), Mike Roche (bass) and Jack Grisham (vocals), T.S.O.L. continue with their unique combination of savage intensity and fulsome power leavened with morbid...
View ArticleMusic Pick: Inara George & Larry Goldings
Inara George is a pop-minded singer who has had a thriving solo career in addition to stellar collaborations with Greg Kurstin (as The Bird & the Bee) and Eleni Mandell, Becky Stark and Alex Lilly...
View ArticleMusic Pick: José González & The String Theory
There are only two ingredients needed to make a José González performance a complete experience: his hoarse yet delicate voice and his emotive guitar playing.
View ArticleMusic Pick: Keiji Haino
It used to be decades between appearances in Los Angeles of enigmatic Japanese artist Keiji Haino — but luckily some prosperous saint decided to unfurl a bankroll fairly recently, and so now this time...
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