AltWeeklies Wire
If God's Good Word Goes Unspokennew
Feeling Sublime, 10 years after Bradley Nowell's death.
L.A. Weekly |
Sheerly Avni |
05-25-2006 |
Music
This Is Not Earth Musicnew
Reintroducing Tom Verlaine.
L.A. Weekly |
Brendan Bernhard |
05-11-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Tom Verlaine
Samba Entanglanew
Tropicalia master Tom Ze apologizes for patriarchy, commits sonic fuckery.
L.A. Weekly |
John Payne |
05-11-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Estudando O Pagode, Tom Ze
Everything Is Divine Marvelousnew
Tropicalia shimmers anew.
L.A. Weekly |
Gustavo Arellano |
05-11-2006 |
Reviews
Jon Brion's Amazing Musicquariumnew
The Nowhere/Everywhere man discusses Kanye West, Fiona Apple, Frank Sinatra, quantum physics, Roxy Music, acoustic alchemy, God and extreme coffee drinking.
L.A. Weekly |
John Payne |
05-11-2006 |
Music
Puttin' the Hella in Coachellanew
This year's festival was filled with music, sunburn, and a "theatrically craptastic" performance by Madonna.
L.A. Weekly |
Alie Ward |
05-04-2006 |
Music
Accident at Seanew
Unicorns become Islands.
L.A. Weekly |
Margaret Wappler |
05-04-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Islands
Death, Drugs, Rap and Redemptionnew
Is all this talk of sex, death and addiction merely calculated theatrics, or is Avalon truly the skinny, white Hollywood version of turning pain and hardship into art and money?
L.A. Weekly |
John Albert |
04-27-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mickey Avalon
Fresh Mozzarellanew
Moz moves to Rome, turns born-again extra-virgin -- Abbondanza!
L.A. Weekly |
Siran Babayan |
04-27-2006 |
Reviews
Sanity: Curse or Affliction?new
Insanity is the only artistic quality bassist Christian McBride lacks.
L.A. Weekly |
Greg Burk |
04-06-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Christian McBride
Live Sexy, Love Sexy, Rock Sexynew
Eagles of Death Metal are actually the Rutles of sleaze rock -- or something.
L.A. Weekly |
Lina Lecaro |
03-30-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Eagles of Death Metal
Buck Owens, 1929-2006new
The philosophy behind Buck Owens' phenomenal success in country music was simple -- run at full steam and hit everything head-on.
L.A. Weekly |
Jonny Whiteside |
03-30-2006 |
Music
Yarr Yarr Yarrnew
Karen O is singin' like a pirate, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are lookin' for a song.
L.A. Weekly |
Chuck Clayton |
03-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Show Your Bones, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Stratocaster Collagenew
Glenn Branca describes his Hallucination City as "large, almost architectural blocks of sound that move around each other, inside of each other, on top of each other."
L.A. Weekly |
Alec Hanley Bemis |
03-23-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Glenn Branca
From Denial to Acceptancenew
There are five stages of South by Southwest.
L.A. Weekly |
Kate Sullivan |
03-23-2006 |
Music
