Snoop Dogg turns Snoop Snail in the animated film 'Turbo'
It's getting confusing keeping track of Snoop Dogg’s animal aliases. Dogg, Lion -- and now snail? The garden creature was the reason for his performance Wednesday afternoon at L.A. Live in downtown...
View ArticleListen to Britney Spears' new single, 'Ooh La La'
Britney Spears debuted a new single Monday morning on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM radio show, and though she's dropped the fake English accent she put to such good use in her and will.i.am's "," the pop...
View ArticleKim Deal leaves the Pixies, stays busy touring with the Breeders
It’s happened again: Kim Deal has left the Pixies, the influential rock band she co-founded with Frank "Black Francis" Black, guitarist Joey Santiago and drummer Dave Lovering in 1986. Deal is also...
View ArticleWatch kids boo NJ Gov. Chris Christie for being a Cowboys fan
Chris Christie might have committed political suicide Tuesday. Luckily the members of his audience were all well under voting age. While admitting “is not the smartest thing for the governor of New...
View ArticleReview: A wacky, inspired 'Midsummer Saturday Night's Fever Dream'
Though Shakespeare’s Bottom claimed his dream was “past the wit of man” to describe, it’s well within the wit of the Troubadour Theater Company to revive in spectacular sequin-studded style with the...
View ArticleTonys 2013: Back in Radio City Music Hall and ready to begin
Sunday is Broadway’s big night -- the 67th Tony Awards -- and from the looks of things, the show is going to be especially, well, big. After two years at the intimate Beacon Theatre, the show -- which...
View ArticleHarmony Korine on 'Spring Breakers': 'We're doing a remix'
Forget the director's cut. Here comes “Spring Breakers: The Remix." In March, the $5-million artsploitation film rippled across the cultural consciousness, spreading across social media on a viral...
View ArticleLegend, Austin, Tyler and Perry join Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame
By the light of the supermoon at Saturday’s Opening Night festivities at the Hollywood Bowl, Patti Austin, John Legend and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry were inducted into the Hollywood Bowl...
View ArticleIndia.Arie is part of the conversation again
On India.Arie's new song, "Cocoa Butter," she sweetly sings of a love that nourishes past scars. It's a signature Arie track with a positive message wrapped in a tender groove that made news of a...
View ArticleTV Picks: 'Major Crimes,' kid sci-fi, the Tonys, 'Falling Skies'
"Major Crimes" (TNT, Mondays). The sequel to the beloved "The Closer" begins its second season this week, with Mary McDonnell back as Capt. Sharon Raydor, the head of a fictional Los Angeles Police...
View ArticleListen to the Civil Wars' new song, 'The One That Got Away'
A bit of good news for roots-music fans bummed out by Tuesday's announcement that Mumford & Sons bassist Ted Dwane had : The Civil Wars are back with a new single. That might surprise you, given...
View ArticleJustin Bieber at Staples Center: Craziest sightings
A Justin Bieber concert promises many things: screaming tweens, exhausted parents, flashy footwork from the pop phenom and incredibly ear-shattering pyrotechnics (if those aforementioned screams don’t...
View Article'Ringo: Peace & Love' show at Grammy Museum unveiled by the Starr
Ringo Starr stopped into the Grammy Museum in L.A. on Tuesday to give the media a preview of the which opens Wednesday. The first major exploration of the life and career of the man born Richard...
View ArticleNetflix gives 'Hemlock Grove' a second season
Eli Roth's "Hemlock Grove" will get a second season on Netflix, though the Pennsylvania terrors will be slightly compressed. The 10-episode second season (down three from its first) will roll out next...
View ArticleShemar Moore moves fundraising from Kickstarter to Indiegogo
"Criminal Minds" TV star Shemar Moore has canceled a fundraising campaign on Kickstarter and moved it to Indiegogo. Moore started the fundraiser for his new film project, "The Bounce Back," on May 23,...
View ArticleAlbum review: Harry Connick Jr.'s 'Every Man Should Know'
Before there was Michael Bublé, there was Harry Connick Jr.: a straight-talking, good-looking, smartly dressed pop-jazz crooner refashioning old music for young people. (Old people tuned in anyway.)...
View ArticleEd Cunningham's film chronicles fight over amputated leg
For most people, playing in the NFL would be the pinnacle of their wage-earning life. Ed Cunningham’s NFL career is just another line on his long and varied résumé. Cunningham, who spent five seasons...
View ArticleTaylor Swift, Tim McGraw, Keith Urban team up at CMA Festival
It was a meeting made in country music fan heaven as teamed with not one but two of country's biggest male heartthrobs — Tim McGraw and Keith Urban — at the this week in Nashville. The occasion was a...
View ArticleBob Thompson, composer of 'Space Age bachelor pad' music, dies at 88
Bob Thompson, a composer and arranger who supplied swinging bachelors in the 1950s with sophisticated, jazz-inflected tunes that came to be known as "Space Age bachelor pad" music, died May 21 in Los...
View ArticleLongtime Devo drummer Alan Myers has died
Chances are when you’re reading about percussionist Alan Myers in the coming days, the word “metronomic” will be used -- as you'll see below. Myers, whose drumming for punk band Devo came to define...
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