"2011: The Adult Industry in Photos" is a candid look back at the past twelve months at a business that is headquartered in the San Fernando Valley. more ›

Music plays a crucial role in all holidays, and All Hallows' Eve is no exception. Pump up your volume, L.A. We've selected a handful of our favorite spooky tunes for today's festive music video lunch. more ›

Director Hoku Uchiyama, who trained at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, joined creative forces with songwriting and performing duo Evelyn Evelyn to mastermind an entertaining and imaginative music video for the duo's song "Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn." more ›

The late King of Pop would have celebrated his 53rd birthday today. We're serving up a special music video lunch today to commemorate the legendary man who brought the world decades of golden tunes and extraordinary video accompaniments. more ›

We LAisters love music. We love to listen, we love to watch, we love to sing, we love to play. Help us wish a very happy 35th birthday to Death Cab for Cutie's lead singer, Ben Gibbard. Hubby to Zooey Deschanel, he probably doesn't need much to keep him happy. more ›

Bye bye green screen. Buildings, trains, beaches, parks, streets, bridges, and dozens more down-home locations were made video-ready with the help of one prop and some bubbles. Jackie Tohn's sweetly simple (and accidentally filthy) song, "I Got It In Me" was given the heavy Los Angeles treatment by Phil Mucci who directed, shot, and edited by video. The Silver Lake songstress and Bravo Platinum Hit competitor spent about a month shlepping around LA to each of these locations. Can you figure out where they are? How many can you count? more ›

Rape. Murder. Regret. It all happens on top of a Caribbean beat in the latest video from 23-year-old Barbados-born pop sensation Rihanna. Since its premiere on Wednesday, "Man Down" has drawn ire from the likes of the Parents Television Council and others for its suggested violence. more ›

Shepard Fairey discusses his collaboration with Lance Armstrong and his latest designs for Team RadioShack's Tour of California bicycles. Also, Death Cab for Cutie's "Home is a Fire" video, with lyrics appearing as street art across the Echo Park cityscape. more ›

Today's video lunch is an AMAZING, rare, grainy, short-film set to music... in other words, an early music video shot like a beer commercial. Whatever it is, it's a beautiful flowy hair Cher on skates in a zebra onesie outrunning a big rig. Behold the majesty of the Cher's 1979 Casablanca Records roller disco anthem, "Hell on Wheels." more ›

With a vibe akin to a Bollywood-meets-High School Musical casting call, KCET's Huell Howser made this oddly charming music video for his rendition of our unofficial state song, "California Here I Come." more ›

Another awesome music video from OK Go, featuring eighteen hours of the band dancing combined with eight full days of LA skyline footage. more ›

LA-based Airborne Toxic Event's new song "Neda" is a eulogy for Neda and proceeds from sales of the song are going to Amnesty International's Neda Project (iTunes link). The band's frontman Mikel Jollett (LAist interview) wrote and directed the video, with artwork by Mona Shafer Edwards. more ›

This unofficial commercial will surely bring a smile, a few good-hearted laughs and maybe that warm fuzzy feeling to any Trader Joe's shopper. Good times, good times. more ›

Last week, singer-songwriter Erin McCarley (MySpace) -- previously mentioned here -- filmed the music video for her song "Love, Save the Empty", for the movie , at a studio in Downtown LA. more ›

Last Monday, New Jersey-based singer-songwriter and Perez Hilton favorite Jenny Owen Youngs (MySpace) -- previously mentioned here -- headlined at the Hotel Cafe (MySpace) in Hollywood. Opening for her was local singer-songwriter Greg Laswell (MySpace) and Minneapolis-based The Abdomen (MySpace). more ›

You saw the video, but here's some of what went down during Weezer's music video shoot of their song "Troublemaker," as seen through the eyes of LAist photographers Tom Andrews and Michael Zampelli. Many world records were attempted, but not all were successful like the longest guitar cable used in a music video. However, they did earn five world records: Largest Air Guitar Ensemble (consisting of 233 participants), Largest Game of Dodgeball (consisting of two teams of 50), Longest Guitar Hero World Tour Marathon (lasting 10 hours 12 minutes and 54 seconds), Most People in a Custard Pie Fight (consisting of 120 people) and Most People Riding on a Skateboard (22 people managed to ride on the skateboard). more ›

Last Wednesday, Hello Stranger (MySpace) frontwoman Juliette Commagere (MySpace) -- backed by a 13 piece band that includes Hello Stranger bandmembers Joachim Cooder and Ben Messelbeck, as well as Obi Best (MySpace) frontwoman Alex Lilly on backing vocals and keyboards, not to mention quartets of horns and strings -- performed her solo act at Spaceland (MySpace) in Silver Lake. Opening for Commagere were Charlie Wadhams (MySpace) and the aforementioned Obi Best, who premiered their music video "It's Because of People Like You." more ›

After the success of their their last music video, Weezer is set to film yet another for their song, "Troublemaker," and looking to break some world records while at it with fans who want to be in the music video (you must be available on August 21st in the Los Angeles Area). more ›

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Flight of the Conchords hit Venice back in April, showing off their sexy skating skills for all the "Ladies of the World." And hey, there's no better place than Los Angeles to find all those worldly ladies -- this is one of the most diverse cities out there. more ›

Just a mere week old on the Interwebs, this video by French DJ team Justice has already managed to cause serious controversy throughout the French media, meaning said controversy will undoubtedly cross the pond upon further exposure. The video's nascent beginnings can be traced back to Kanye West's blog, wherein he claims to be the first to have shared it on May 1st. First or not, this video is pretty cool. more ›

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We have no idea what inspired the 1986 Dodgers to make "The Baseball Boogie", which we bring to you via our sexy friends at WithLeather. Maybe it was the previous year's "Super Bowl Shuffle" phenomena. Maybe Pedro Guerrero was so bursting with creativity that the rest of the team got caught up in his enthusiasm. Maybe they knew that they would finish second-to-last that year, so they figured they it'd be more constructive to work on their choreography. Maybe they knew that in two years they'd have to toughen up, so they were getting all the musical theater out of their system. Maybe they all lost a bet to a noticeably absent Tommy Lasorda over if they could eat more hot dogs then him. Maybe it was their desire to eat free at Johnny Rocket's. Maybe it was their collective love of tight, white pants. more ›

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For my money, the best overall ad campaign for the Super Bowl was Garmin's last year. The initial ad above is great, but what makes the campaign stand out is all the additional web only stuff, including surprisingly funny interviews with the ad's heroes and villains and a music video from Steve "Grim Reaper" Grimmett(!) more ›

Before MC Hammer's "Too Legit To Quit," there was a rap called "Legit" by Caldwell's Most Wanted - a little known group from a small town in Texas. Rather than emulating Hammer's mainstream, soft rap approach, CMW took inspiration from West Coast artists like N.W.A and Ice-T. Comprised of six high school students, the group longed to emulate the hard, thug lifestyle of South Central glamourized on Yo! MTV Raps despite their rural backgrounds. more ›

Silverman came clean last night, honoring boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel's 5th anniversary on late night with a music video. more ›

Music video of Rock Bottom Riser by (Smog). more ›

The 2 Girls 1 Cup Song. more ›

We didn't think there would be any Tonight in Rock column today, but we were wrong. Vault 350 in Long Beach is hosting a night of hip hop and rap starting at 8:30 p.m. Twenty bucks at the door. more ›