Californians like to sing songs about California. Actually, so do non-Californians, just ask the Ramones. Even they know Rockaway Beach is a dump. Call it civic pride or just common sense, a song about the sun shining and the top rolled down is never a bad thing in this town: you can look out the window and sing along about three hundred and fifty days out of the year. The great songs about So......

An update on the Capitol Records Building in Hollywood where the construction of a condo's underground parking lot that will come within six yards of the studio's underground recording studio. Julie Wong at Councilman Eric Garcetti's office said in an e-mail that "Capitol Records and Second Street worked out a private agreement between them. Both parties were satisfied with the mitigations (which included Second Street putting $1.5 million in an escrow account to cover any......

After arguing that a proposed condo and office tower's construction would interfere, as well as ambient noise once its parking garage is completed, with the quality of sound in their underground recording studio, Los Angeles City Council allowed the development to go through today. On Wednesday, Capitol Records, in a statement, said "if the City Council votes to approve Second Street Ventures' proposal, we may be forced to shut down the Capitol Studios operations entirely......

Capitol Records was hoping the plan for a 16-story condo building next door to their iconic Hollywood & Vine tower would not go through. They're worried that construction of an underground 242-space parking lot and vibrations from traffic will cause damage. It "will interfere with and potentially ruin the operation of the unique echo chambers and sound studios at the Capitol Records tower next door," the record company said in a statement. On Tuesday at......

Capitol Records wanted to leave it's iconic Hollywood building and turn it to condos back in 2006. But then the city said "no, you're so special to us, stay and prosper and keep the cultural economic engine of Los Angeles going." So Capitol agreed, but now this: "Capitol Records believes that the planned construction of a 16-story building and 240 car underground garage at 6230 Yucca Street (old KFWB radio building), will interfere with and......

Dear MCA, I would like to marry you and have 1000 of your Buddhist-rapper babies. While this may come across trite or ill conceived I assure you I am neither a crazy person nor a stalker fan. Of course I think you make great music, but what I’m saying is that I have not been harboring these feeling for two decades hoping that one day I’d have a chance to spring them on you.......

Interpol Our Love to Admire Capitol Records released: July 10, 2007 On Our Love to Admire, their major label debut on Capitol, Interpol still sound like Joy Division and they are not apologizing for it regardless of how often they are knocked for it. And really, they shouldn’t. The band has long transcended the comparisons and established its own identifiable sound, full of machine-like guitars, ominous piano lines and ennui-infused vocals. Interpol is as......

Believe it or not, but glampop rockers Poison have been on Capitol for 21 years now. And if that doesn't make you feel old, next year, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" will be 20. To celebrate their new album Poison'd (a collection of newly recorded cover songs, which drops today), the band played a short set to about 40 people in the famous Studio A at Capitol Records. They opened with a version of......

Bret and the boys from Harrisburg are back. Consider yourself publicly and servicedly announced. Their new record POISON’D!, out today on Capitol, is a cover-song extravaganza of new and old rockin’ hairsprayed interpretations of classic tunes from Bowie, The Cars, The Rolling Stones, The Romantics, Sweet, etc. And on this very special day, Poison will host a live webcast and Q&A session on the band’s official site. The exclusive one-hour webcast will go out......

A number of architecturally historic buildings reside along Wilshire Boulevard, many of which don't serve their original purposes anymore, having been converted into restaurants, boutiques, or office supply stores. One such example is the newly remodeled Metro Customer Center on Wilshire. Housed in an understated yet elegant building originally designed by Welton Beckett's firm, Metro Customer Center functions as an information and pass distribution center as well as the Lost and Found for the......

LAist was fortunate enough to see Lily Allen, the Brit-pop sensation, play the Troubadour last month, and she was light and youthful and made a great wisecrack against her record label, Capitol Records. For all of these reasons and more, we heart her. So if you're online, go to kcrw.com right now and listen to her live set on Nic Hartcourt's Morning Becomes Eclectic. She is making the rounds this week in LA. Catch......

Mon 5/15 – The Bronx / Wires on Fire / Sabertooth Tiger @ Spaceland (Free) – Mondays are still free at Spaceland. This week you can see three loud, punk-inspired bands. The Bronx portray Black Flag in the new movie about Germs’ singer, Darby Crash. You can watch the trailer for that movie HERE. The Bronx and Wires on Fire will soon be on tour with Priestess and Riverboat Gamblers (they better have their......

Capitol Records doesn't want to move back into its iconic building: instead, it hopes to go condo. Not so fast! LA has been throwing money at the company to get it to stay in Hollywood and the LA Times reports that critics are displeased. Curbed LA doubts city leaders will let the lucrative sale go through. We'll never know if there are enough condo buyers who recognize that the building is meant to evoke......

When it opened in 1949 as the General Petroluem headquarters, the building at 612 South Flower in downtown was the tallest in Los Angeles. Architect Welton Becket, who did the round Capitol Records building, the Cineramadome and other icons of mid-century design, probably never thought it would be turned into apartments. But that's just what happened in 2003, as The Pegasus, taking the name from the oil company's logo. There is much to love:......

Jade Chang, 29, is the West Coast Editor of Metropolis, an architecture and design magazine that’s based in New York City. Her job is to search for stories in LA and throughout the West Coast. One of her most recent features takes a fascinating look at the set-shop of Warner Bros. studios; right now she is currently at work on what she calls "a secret project" and she is always on the lookout for......

For you LA denizens too busy clawing your way up the “Y” of the Hollywood sign, impaling your souls on the spire of the Capitol Records building, or tending bar at the Saddle Ranch, weeping during smoke breaks, your political apathy is understandable. The LA Weekly (LAW) understands too. On the heels of their bound and bountiful “Best of LA” issue, the LAW keeps on kicking out the jams with their action packed “Holy......