It has been three years, but the shape of the bloodstain on the street is still seared in Eddie Quiñonez's mind. Just after dusk on Labor Day 2008, two officers with...
Now, I like punk-rock clowns as much as the next guy, but not only do your gravelly, throat cancer-sounding vocals send shrieks of agony up my spine, but you also have the...
Steve Aoki's voice sounds exactly like who he is. His breezy tone is that of a guy who grew up in Newport Beach and went to college at UC Santa Barbara. The fierce intensity...
Desperately trying to appeal to not just the Gen X-ers who grew up with Kermit, Miss Piggy and Dr. Teeth, but also the tykes who've never heard of Jim Henson, The Muppets has...
Amid the hearty backslapping at lectures, performances, galas and dinners celebrating the Getty's massive Southern California-wide arts initiative Pacific Standard Time, there...
For me, the reason to order live amaebi has never been the sushi. When compared to the divine slobber of uni or a luscious piece of toro, the flesh of a recently dispatched...
Gather 'round, children, and let the wizard of garage rock sing you a song. Mark Sultan, Canadian musician extraordinaire and former drummer for the Spaceshits is on the scene...
The best thing to come out of Mexico since tequila? Personally, we consider that to be the delectable Salma Hayek—equally intoxicating, equally heady and equally likely,...
When Pasadena-born Ozma—the classic indie pop/power rock/whatever the hell we call Weezer—announced their first show in more than three years, there was no grand...
Born in Madrid under the creative talents of José Parcel, a premier dancer with Ballet Nacional de España, Compañia Flamenca is a sizzling troupe of...
Hark, consumers! The increasingly frenzied dance of credit cards gliding through digital readers signals the approach of Black Friday. And if, like the folks camped in front...
Here's a fun fact: before Craig Robinson played roles big and small in just about every comedy since 2005, he taught music at an elementary school in Chicago. There's our...
We're going to guess this one's more for the ladies. Chris Isaak, is a rock musician who channels the dreamy swagger of Elvis and is perhaps best known for the 1989 video for...
Morrissey may have forgiven Jesus, but the enigmatic 52-year-old is full of seething ire. Among his least favorite things are KFC, public education, The Cure, the UK Border...
Take a quick look at the Shrills' Facebook page and you'll see they refer to their style of music as "goo-wop." Cute. But we'd say it falls more along the lines of ...
It’s always a boon to any curator when a fresh, new talent is unearthed, and rather exciting to both nurture that young artist and present him or her to the public for...
Anxious pop punk fans have eagerly been awaiting the release of the Atari's forthcoming album Graveyard of the Atlantic. For now, they'll just have to be satisfied with...
Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová of folk duo the Swell Season are no strangers to film. Audiences fell for the pair in 2007's Once, as they dove into love before...
From early punk label Slash Records to doing an album of all Disney covers—it’d be great if that was Darby Crash’s career arc, but it works strangely well...
When you see Dream Theater live, this is what you're not going to get: a performance less than two hours in duration or a stage full of longhairs that are "too metal" to...