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Music (Free Tickets) AWOLNATION Live on Jimmy Kimmel Tomorrow

September 6, 2011 - 5:35 pm

AWOLNATION will make their network television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live! September 7th. The band will perform 5 songs on the outdoor stage including the hit single “Sail,” which just broke into the top 5 on the U.S. alternative radio charts and reached #1 on the Canadian Alternative charts, where it’s been certified Gold. The single is on sale this week for $.69 on iTunes and the album will be featured at Best Buy’s ‘Find ‘Em First’ endcap for $5.99. AWOLNATION are currently on tour in support of their debut album Megalithic Symphony, released on Red Bull Records earlier this year.

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Art Gallery Entering The Lucent Dossier Experience

by Mike Bucher and Dustin Downing

August 1, 2011 - 12:32 pm

I felt tired strolling toward the line forming in front of the famous and previously dormant “Palace Theatre” on the opening night of Lucent Dossier, but one step toward the rabbit hole that is Lucent Dossier, and I, like the Palace, was awakened from my slumber.

Ok, that’s a bit dramatic, but the card flipping magician, top hat wearing stilts man and operatic press facilitator welcoming the gathering South Broadway line immersed me into their crafted “experience” before I had even entered the building… and that’s more than you can say about most formulaic entertainment “experiences.”

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Gallery Music Search and Destroy: Linda Perry’s Deep Dark Robot

by Nicole Pajer and Dustin Downing

April 27, 2011 - 11:35 am

After an intriguing interview with Linda Perry back in January, we’ve been looking forward to seeing what Deep Dark Robot is all about. Perry’s new collaboration with Fasto Jeston drummer Tony Tornay has peaked the curiosity of everyone, from the slew of platinum selling popstars she’s collaborated with to music industry aficionados.

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Art/Design Gallery Oceanic Awareness Collaboration’s “Art For Awareness” Auction

by Dustin Downing

March 4, 2011 - 1:00 pm

Every piece of plastic that has ever been stamped, “Made in China”, or by any other country for that matter, still exists. Yes, some small portion has been burnt, but that just released toxic gas to the atmosphere. The rest sits in land fills, in your neighborhood park, or swims with the fishes in one of many swirling pools of plastic debris the size of Texas in our oceans. Tonight, two So-Cal boys named Tanner Hoss and Clay Wendel are out to change that.

Their “Oceanic Awareness Collaboration” has brought together 70+ artists from around the world, including my lovely boss lady Barbie Brady and this photographer’s favorite “photo stylist”/artist Renee Lawter, for an art show and silent auction this past weekend in Pamona, CA. I had a chance to chat up the founders for a quick minute over the roar of the show and the following is what they had to say…

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Featured Music Foo Fighters Secret Shows

by Barbie Brady

February 8, 2011 - 1:43 pm

Sometimes I absolutely love Los Angeles. Where else can you catch a band as big as the Foo Fighters playing a legendary theater such as the Roxy on a Monday night? Lately if you are in the “know” and following the Foo tweets you can find yourself at one of their secret shows. Let me put this into some kind of perspective for you kids out there who maybe don’t get how big this is (that’s right my nephews…I’m glaring at you).

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Gallery Music NOFX: Success Is A Drag

by Lisa Johnson

January 14, 2011 - 7:51 am

Legendary punks NOFX are known for pushing boundaries.

Their cutting edge documentary NOFX: Backstage Passport shocked TV viewers with their global escapades in debauchery on tour when it aired on Fuse in 2008. Earlier this year, singer Fat Mike’s alter ego Cokie The Clown got banned from Emo’s in Austin, Texas when he served what appeared to be urine-infused tequila to an audience of unsuspecting fans (it later proved to be an elaborate hoax). Now for the band’s latest exploit: NOFX dressed in full drag for their New Year’s Heave party at the Wiltern.

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Gallery Oddity Behind the Scenes: Venice Beach Freakshow

by Nicole Pajer and Sidney Bensimon

August 6, 2010 - 11:31 am

Venice Beach has a reputation for being an outstanding location for people watching, but if you’d like to venture beyond the world of crazy tourists, eclectic beach vendors, Muscle Beach, and tattooed passerbys, walk through the doors of the Venice Beach Freakshow. It’s usually hard to miss. Todd Ray, who runs the operation with his son Phoenix, is often outside trying to lure people in with a sneak peak at one of his two-headed turtles. Once inside, you’ll find a world of wonders. The Venice Beach Freak Show currently houses an impressive array of two-headed and very much alive animals, over sixty strange creatures, and a continuously running live show with extraordinary acts such as sword swallowers, the Rubber Girl, fire eaters, the Electric Lady, and Larry the Wolf Boy.

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Contributors Impromptu Fashion Show at Deseret Industries

by Zoetica Ebb

June 25, 2010 - 2:24 pm

After absorbing all that the Dark Arts Festival’s first night had to offer, I got the most out of our hotel’s in-room hot tub and slept a luxurious four hours while the men spent the night’s end plotting. In the morning, it was time to explore Salt Lake City. We had just a few hours before the Festival’s fashion show began and wanted to make the most of our day. As mentioned before, I’d never been to SLC and wanted to see the namesake attraction. We followed the “Salt Lake” signs in good faith, only to be led into a maze of highway stretches, half-empty amusement parks and a pocket of foul weather. With time running out we scrapped the ill-conceived idea entirely and headed for the nearest Deseret Industries outlet.

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