Aug
31

Kanye West Delivers a Classic

I’ve never really been a big Kanye West fan. I liked College Dropout well enough and thought roughly half of Late Registration was fantastic. But neither ever seemed to me like the sort of world-breaking achievements that warranted Ye’s massive ego. But with Graduation, West has actually backed up his insane braggadocio, delivering the rare… Continue reading »

Aug
30

Great Scott! 5 of the Worst Movies Involving Rappers

Scott Towler has returned from licking his wounds over ABC’s refusal to grant him an interview regarding their “Go Green” campaign. He is now reasonably convinced that licking one’s own wounds is rather pointless and slightly weird. America loves rappers turned actors. It makes sense in theory. Good rappers are usually born performers and by… Continue reading »

Aug
29

Fuck That Beef Shit, That Shit is Played Out

If these two could reconcile after Jay-Z fucked Nas’ baby mama and then told the world about it, how difficult could it be for me and Bradford of Deerhunter to squash our short-lived and obviously absurd beef, one most aptly summarized by Maura of Idolator as making you regret the invention of the Internet? The… Continue reading »

Aug
29

Tunng-Good Arrows

While the blogosphere hyperventilates about the leak of the new Devendra Banhart album, Smokey Goes to Bear Mountain, Grows a Beard and Has an Orgy with 14 Girls Named Rain Who Have Hairy Arm Pits and Went to Vassar, another, far better folk album has gone practically unnoticed: Tung’s Good Arrows. I attribute the lack… Continue reading »

Aug
28

The Beat Generation: Will I Ain’t

Zilla Rocca, the mastermind behind Beat Garden Entertainment and 1/2 of Clean Guns, (the most OCD fire-arms in the history of automatic weaponry) has returned to once again grace us with his presence. He dedicates this rant to David Banner and Peedi Crakk for respectively melting Al Sharpton’s crusade to censor lyrics and for calling… Continue reading »

Aug
24

Echo Park…Fuck Yeah?

This weekend is the fourth annual Fuck Yeah Fest, two nights full of freaky, eclectic music determined to prove once and for all, that hipsters know how to fuck. Or something. I’ve never heard of 1/4 of the bands slated to play, but at the very least, they all promise to be interesting. I’ve done… Continue reading »

Aug
23

10 Reasons Why You Should Come to Now Blog This Tonight

10. Because if you don’t come, Aaron Kyle, lead singer of Le Switch, will actually beat you with le switch. 9. Because if you don’t, I will cry myself to sleep tomorrow night. And by cry, I mean drink. 8. Because if you don’t, The Deadly Syndrome will actually give you a Deadly Syndrome. I’m… Continue reading »

Aug
21

Great Scott: Green with Angry

Scott Towler has returned once again, this time with an official name for his column: “Great Scott” selected in honor of an expression popularized by a slightly eccentric Hill Valley scientist named Dr. Emmett Lathrop Brown. It’s also called Great Scott because Scott is descended from Ivan the Great (as well as Ivan the Terrible)… Continue reading »

Aug
20

Beards, Blazers & Glasses: Sunset Junction

A few years ago, Sunset Junction was all leather-clad gay guys (some resembling South Park’s Mr. Slave) bumping shoulders with the area’s primarily Hispanic residents. It was sort of like going to a Morrissey concert. But things are different now: the first wave of gentrification came and went, transforming these formerly dicey gang-ridden blocks into… Continue reading »

Aug
20

Where You Should Be This Thursday

Because if not, myself, Aquarium Drunkard, Kevin Bronson and the good folks behind LA Underground will find you, track you down and force you to have better taste in music. Go to LA Underground for MP3′s of the all the bands involved.

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