Happy President’s Day everyone! While this holiday really only matters to Americans, we’re going to take the day off and hit the slopes. I know everyone in the rest of the civilized world has to work today, but what you gonna do. Hey, we only get two weeks of paid vacation a year, we’ll take advantage […]

As we posted last week the Sunset Strip Music Festival went down this past Saturday, and as expected the festival was a true spectacle — both with the bands performing, and the festival goers who went to celebrate the mighty Sunset Strip… including the armies of aging, drunk and bottle bleached groupies who descended into […]

There are no shortages of music festivals in Los Angeles every year, but none carry the cultural cajones of the the Sunset Strip Music Festival. After all, when you’re celebrating one of the most famous streets in the history of rock n roll it’s tough to compete. Hall of Famers like Van Halen, The Doors, […]

The man, the myth, the legend Kool Keith returns with a new alias, “Bushman”, and a track and video to support it. Produced by Yeti Beats and out on his This Is Not A Hotel album, “Bushman” is just another one of many weird faces for one of the most creative and prolific minds in […]

The thing that most bugs me about this whole BLU mural getting whitewashed is not really the beauty or fantastic nature of the mural itself. To be honest, the mural was so straightforward that it almost bordered on obvious. But that’s not the point. When you ask an artist to paint you a mural — […]

As we reported last week, world class Italian street artist BLU’s controversial mural on the Geffen Contemporary was whitewashed after being up for only 24 hours. As a piece created to promote MOCA’s upcoming Art on the Streets “street art” exhibit, many assumed the buffing over of BLU’s work was a Banksy-style publicity stunt. Well, […]

Oh my lord, I just can’t keep this to myself anymore. I stands all I can stands and I can’t stands no more. I really don’t like to put down people trying to push music, even styles I don’t care for. In a perfect world, no one’s taste is better than another’s. But in the […]

Quite possibly the most believable headline ever for the Globe. I mean, how much sense does this make? The raging paranoia (PATRIOT ACT, anybody?), the rampant mood swings, the belligerent attitudes (whoops, our bad Iraq!), the epic delusions of grandeur, the lies and cover-ups (paging Valerie Plame)…holy shit, George W Bush is a total cokehead!!! […]