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Featured Gallery Music She Wants Revenge Celebrates Release of “Valleyheart” at The Roxy

May 31, 2011 - 10:24 am

She Wants Revenge played a sold out show at The Roxy on Monday night to celebrate the release of their new album, “Valleyheart.” The band’s family, friends, and avid supporters, such as Danny Masterson (That 70’s Show), swarmed the front of the stage, while the ticketless perched outside the venue offering those that passed by up to $100 for their tickets. After an opening set by the energetic Nico Vega, She Wants Revenge took the stage and celebrated the May 23rd release of “Valleyheart” in their hometown.

Prior to the show, ChinaShop headed to the preparty at Talesai to chat with Adam Bravin and Justin Warfield, who popped in sporadically at the end of the conversation as he was trying to preserve his voice for the evening ahead of him. The band discussed touring with Depeche Mode, the process behind creating “Valleyheart,” and why they consider their latest release to be their greatest musical accomplishment to date.

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Gallery Music Post Rapture Wrap up… Saint Motel

by Dustin Downing

May 27, 2011 - 1:01 pm

If you are wondering why this article is a week late, it is because I was “supposed” to be dead. Yep. Once again, I fell for the ol’ End of the World shtick only to wake the next morning planking a Carl’s Jr drive through with no pants on and a $300 bar tab. I really thought third time was a charm. Thankfully, for you, this time I decided to document my demise along side a packed house at The Roxy on Sunset a la fellow pop rockin doomsdayers Saint Motel’s Judgment Day. If unfamiliar with this assemblage their tombstones should’ve read- A/J Jackson (front man), Aaron Sharp (shredder), Dak (slappin bass), and Greg Erwin (skins).

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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 Nikka Costa Gets Funky at The Roxy

by Nicole Pajer and Dustin Downing

January 25, 2011 - 9:03 am

Thursday night, The Roxy was packed with fans sliding as close to the curtain as possible, fighting tooth and nail for front row status. As I waited for Nikka Costa to take the stage, I flashed back to when I saw her perform in 2005 when she toured with Lenny Kravitz in support of her album “Can’tneverdidnothin.” She put on quite a show then and I expected nothing less, six years later, from the feisty singer. Nikka knows how to work over an audience. She has to; music is in her blood. She is, after all, the daughter of renowned arranger/producer Don Costa, and more importantly the goddaughter of ‘”Ol’ Blue Eyes” himself, aka Frank Sinatra.

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interview Stip Strip Hooray Interview with Dita Von Teese

by Shop Keeper

December 15, 2010 - 11:17 am

This week, the queen of the striptease becomes queen of The Sunset Strip, when burlesque icon Dita Von Teese shimmies into a three night stint at The Roxy Theatre. Starlet and pin-up come to life, Ms. Von Teese has become known around the world for her traditional meets modern style of burlesque that draws inspiration from the glamour of classic Hollywood. Earlier this week, the iconic beauty took a break from rehearsals to speak with The Roxy Theatre about what stirs her martini and what gets her tassels twirling. Here’s what she had to say…

To view the whole interview with Ms. Von Teese go to TheRoxyOnSunset.com

Music Street Drum Corps Tonight at the Roxy: Can’t Beat That!

by Barbie Brady

November 30, 2010 - 5:14 pm

If you missed the Street Drum Corps last week, or even the week before that, you have an awesome opportunity to catch them tonight at the Roxy in Hollywood. They are doing a month long residency and this is almost the last chance..almost..next Tuesday night will be there fond farewell. But shoot…don’t delay! They are just as incredible as you might think they are. Just ask Sam from the Suicide Girls and she’ll tell you all about ‘em.

Words by Barbie Brady

Gallery Music Juke Kartel: A Perfect Mix of Pop and Circumstance

by Jeff Nau and Dustin Downing

November 22, 2010 - 2:03 pm

A Night on the Strip, Part 2:

Ah, another night in Hollywood. And another innocent, virgin band’s relentless hazing on the infamous Sunset Strip. Actually, that’s not entirely accurate – Juke Kartel has played the Roxy before, at least once. But on this particular night, it was a chance to jam under the watchful eye of Tommy Lee, who first brought his brand of glam/sleaze rock to own the Strip decades ago.

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Music Street Sweeper Social Club Tonight at the Roxy

by Shop Keeper and Craig Medlin

November 8, 2010 - 1:48 pm

Featuring the blazing guitar of Tom Morello and the intense vocal stylings of The Coup’s Boots Riley, Street Sweeper Social Club is more than a band, its a Movement. SSSC is performing tonight at the Roxy theater in Hollywood. If you have not yet heard of the band and/or you are a fan of Rage Against the Machine, you will love SSSC and you should get your tush down to Sunset Blvd. for one heck of a show.

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Music Black Gold Shines On Sunset

by Jeff Nau and Sidney Bensimon

February 22, 2010 - 1:22 pm

Ask any of the “Gold-Diggers” — the clever moniker certain some of the more obsessive BG fans/followers have bestowed upon themselves — and they’ll tell you that no matter how short their stage time, Black Gold is always capable of tearing up the most renowned of Hollywood’s row of Sunset bars/clubs. Indeed, tonight’s Roxy crowd seems comprised mostly of BG fans, a line stretching so far down the sidewalk in fact that I don’t stumble inside until the band has already finished their first number. Part of this is due to the fact that Roxy management has become sort of a stage act itself: upon arrival, I’m herded opposite a metal gate outside the box office while a bee-hived, chain-smoking, Jersey-accented club owner barks “Yeh godda wait in line like everyone else!” to a dozen flannel-decked twerpies, one of them who confessed tonight she’d be breaking her Hollywood club cherry (her words, not mine). Judging by the crowd, I’d be hard-pressed to disagree that Black Gold makes for a memorable first time.

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Music Unwritten Law at the Roxy

by Barbie Brady and Sidney Bensimon

May 18, 2009 - 3:49 pm

Scott Russo, lead singer of Unwritten Law sits in his dressing room backstage at the Roxy in Hollywood, shirtless, jagerbomb in hand. Its been a minute since UL has played out in Hollywood, and a minute longer since they were on an all out tour. This show was a bit of a one off, while they are ramping up to finish their new album and take over the world.

Unwritten Law – Shoulda Known Better

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