Tonight!! British neo-soul for the jet-set ala Belleruche, KCRW live band o' the day The Naked & The Famous performing in the wilds of Echo Park, actor, director, model, musician Vincent Gallo's experimental, non-jammy, never to be recorded, improvised indulgencefest RRIICCEE at the El Rey, and Kitten (hopefully inspired by Kittens). There's also a RFSL Tuesday residency with The Californian at LaBrie's, Metric at Jimmy Kimmel Live, and that guy with a squeaky horn on my street selling corn. That's the sweetest music of all. more ›

Ever since her Fluxus days, Yoko Ono’s art has often revolved around the challenging of her audience’s assumptions, specifically about the nature of art, social mores, gender roles, and the nature of celebrity. The live show she brought to the Orpheum last weekend continued this tradition, bringing together a collective of first-rate musicians and famous guests for a show that held enormous emotional impact. It was a surprisingly diverse (where else are you gonna get RZA, Iggy, Vincent Gallo and Carrie Fisher on the same bill?) and even accessible package for a woman whose music is often thought of as difficult and anti-rock. But anyone expecting a Yoko show to be two hours of oi-yoi-yoi-yoi warbling hasn't heard her records, especially the new one, Between My Head And The Sky, which made up a good part of the set list. We heard a lot of different kinds of music, some of it simple, gentle and lovely. Some of it was tense and funky, some of it joyous and rocked-out. And, yes, some of it was dissonant, and she did break out the oi-yoi-yoi every so often. But the most discordant moments added texture, some of them loud and powerful, some quiet and fragile. more ›

Look to the skies! The flying saucers will always be there! Not even your local cinematheque is safe when evil extraterrestrials & suave spacemen invade Santa Monica. Should our valiant heroes survive these "Far Out" encounters, they must still contend with a Martian militia, led by none other than our governor himself! I heard it through my magick Tesla Coil! more ›

We always knew Jon was a loser, I mean, he was hanging out with Garfield. But the surreal Garfield Minus Garfield paints a picture of a shockingly depressed and delusional Jon. Even cats as annoying as Garfield are some people's only handhold on their sanity. more ›

Wait, the Cobra Snake and Corey were bf/gf? more ›

Tonight - Friday - January 26th, 2007 Paris (the City) Marathon - Paris, When It Sizzles / An American In Paris / To Paris, With Love (TCM, 5:00 p.m.) A mental vacation for you. Winter X Games (ESPN, 6:30 p.m.) Skiing, men's Superpipe final, Snowmobile SnoCross Women's Final - the Australian Open (ESPN2, 6:30 p.m.) It's Sharapova vs Serena Kings @ Canucks (PRIME, 7:00 p.m.) Charlie Rose (PBS, 11:30 p.m.) Oscar nominees Dame Helen... more ›

It's not that Cory Kennedy is an unlikely It girl, it's just that she's an unlikely California It girl, to some. Perhaps they prefer the ditzy blonde surfer girl, well LAist, and clearly everyone else cool, is down with the scrawny fun sixteen-year-old who always seems pleasantly wasted. more ›

- Katie Couric to her critics: "Bite Me." - People - Laker Fans to Britney Spears when her face appeared on the jumbotron: "Boooooooo!" - Pop Sugar - Vincent Gallo to women who want to have sex with him: "Heavy-set, older red-heads and even black chicks can have me if they can pay the bill ($100,000). No real female will be refused." - d listed - Famous rock photographer Ross Halfin on Eddie and... more ›

Like Vincent Gallo, LAist dates girls half our age. So the other day when one of our gfs was reading some older posts, she objected when we made fun of Panic! at the Disco, an easy target if ever there was one. Although it's very difficult to debate the musical plusses of a group like PATD with a young lady who has clearly lost her mind, at some point we, too, lost our mind... more ›

While being asked if he was dating 16 year-old Cobra Snake pallie, Cory Kennedy, the "Buffalo 66" director known for receiving a blow job from Chloe Sevigny in "Brown Bunny", Vincent Gallo, 45, said:

"With the psychotic, middle-aged Madonna out there on the loose buying up all the stolen Negro babies in Africa, I felt it my social and humanitarian duty to take in any young, beautiful and sexy orphaned Jew teens running wild in Beverly Hills. Cory's a great kid, and I'm proud to be her daddy." - Page Six

So how would you end a weekend in which you have the number one movie in the country? Well, if you're Mos Def, you cold rock a party like it was Krush Groove. The Mighty Mos Def and Talib Kweli closed the main stage (to a much smaller crowd than Nine Inch Nails which, we think, had to do with Goldenvoice not naming Mos and Talib in the adverts or the program) with an energetic set spanning their combined efforts as Black Star and their more recognizable solo faire. Common, who loves to show up at LA hip hop shows and do his guest spots, showed in the desert as well. more ›