Inside a Studio City coffee spot, Colette recalls the weekend she first took to the turntables. She threw a party at her Chicago home, turning the kitchen into a sce
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Last call had come and gone at Avalon on Saturday night, but the dancers were still on the floor for the 2 Bears, a British dance music duo featuring Joe Goddard of
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Chad Ubovich of Meatbodies doesn't really know what to do with down time. He's been in basically every local garage rock band, from playing in Together Pange
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Compton-raised artist Justified could be called a Christian rapper, but he grew up on Ice Cube and Tupac.
Now living in Victorville, the 35-year-old emcee has r
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While reporting my recent L.A. Weekly cover story on Bob Marley's Legend, I spent a fair amount of time chatting with Dave Robinson, the founder of Stiff Recor
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If our conversation with Pennywise vocalist Jim Lindberg is any indication, the Hermosa Beach punk group’s newest album Yesterdays (out today on Epitaph Records)
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Electric Daisy Carnival goes down this weekend in Las Vegas. West Coast Sound will be there providing full coverage!
But will you be there yourself? If you are, expe
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Remember Horst Simco, that quiet suburban Texas boy who somehow became Riff Raff? His forever-delayed album Neon Icon still has not seen release, but he's findi
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After two weeks of Coachella came Stagecoach, held this past weekend at the Empire Polo Club in Indio. Attendees dressed in their finest Western-meets–Forever 21 a
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On the 1996 night Tupac Shakur was killed in Las Vegas, Suge Knight was nabbed for violating his probation (for stomping a guy); he spent five years in prison. Durin
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