By Linda Leseman
On Saturday, Judas Priest's farewell Epitaph World Tour comes to the San Manuel Amphitheater. (Thin Lizzy opens.) But frontman Rob Halford maint
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If you meet David Cohn, he won't tell you he's a rapper. Should you ask him what he does for a living, he'll answer that he's unemployed. He used to
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On November 30th, 1994, Tupac Shakur was shot in Manhattan's Quad Studios. The night sparked the East-West coast feud that left legends Tupac and The Notorious B
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[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix
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The website self-titled daily has a neat Q&A with Explosions in the Sky guitarist Mark Smith where he explains the band's plan to have Phish's career (
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Last night, we learned of the untimely passing of the great Nate Dogg. For those of us who grew up listening to Nate Dogg sing-rapping stories, this is a real loss.
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These past weeks it's been Lemmygeddon in L.A., starting with the icon-studded premiere (at the Vista in Los Feliz) of the movie officially titled Lemmy: 49%
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Top Ten This, That, and the Other Thing of 2010, yadda yadda. As 2010 becomes more and more “the year that was,” we'd like to push the fast-forward b
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Today Gawker confirms that the naked nude semi-naked sexy pictures purporting to show Christina Aguilera scantily-clad in burlesque gear are indeed semi-naked sexy p
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Snoop Dogg has had a peculiar relationship with the Brits: sometimes they don't let him in, sometimes he gets in trouble there, but he keeps trying to flirt with
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In the strange wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that i
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The cover of the 1987 album N.W.A and the Posse does not look like something released by one of the most important rap groups of all time. Actually, just looking at
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