Subject: Berlin

• Put Up That Wall, Mr. Bush!

  There are people on the Right who still believe George W. Bush is the greatest thing since sliced Reagan. (People on the Left do, too, but in a totally different way.) So leave it to those qwaaaazy Minutemen Projectors to compare the Dubs to Reagan's archest enemy-turned-steam-room buddy: Mikhail Gorbachev, only in reverse. See if you can follow this Cracked Seiko's twisted logic ('cause damn if we can): Gipper famously told Gorby to "tear down this wall," the divider in this instance being the

  April 21, 2006

• Check Your Head Mic

  Get some head (microphones) and become the envy of your audiophile amigos. Neumann in Berlin (of course) designed this noggin-y novelty. The KU 100 dummy head is a replica of the human head with a microphone built into each ear. When the recorded audio signal is reproduced through high-quality headphones the listener perceives a sound image almost identical to the one he would have heard at the recording location of the dummy head (head-related stereophony). When played back through loudspe

  June 18, 2008

• Go for the Gold

  July 4, 2002

• Life Imitates Art Imitating Life

  August 1, 2002

• Scoring the Fair Bands

  June 19, 2003

• Experimental Kitchen

  March 11, 2004

• Eight Days

  December 2, 2004

• L.A. Weekly's Top Ten Dance Collections of 2008, Both Mixed and Unmixed

  Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry and synthetic to wet and gushy), rhythm tracks can be tempo-tweaked with an upward toggle to change a Timbaland beat into a Chromeo one. Add some T-Pain-esque pitch-correction vocals to your between

  December 18, 2008

• Last Minute Fun: Free Moral Agents Score Silent Film in LA

  This is a neat event: Long Beach's Free Moral Agents, led by the inimitable Ikey Owens, have a unique performance tonight at Cinefamily in LA: They're performing a "live score" of the 1927 silent film Berlin: Symphony Of A Great City. $14, starts at 8 p.m. The event is part of a series; more info is here.

  January 14, 2009

• The Hibbleton Exhibits Photographers With the Rot Stuff

  January 15, 2009

• [CD Review] Various Artists, 'Life Beyond Mars—Bowie Covered' (Rapster/!K7)

  July 24, 2008

• [Web Exclusive!] Summer Grows Up: The Season of Big-Budget Bangs Uses Its Brain

  May 15, 2008

• The (OC) Metro

  April 3, 2008

• [Sprawl of Sound] More Than Bliss: Heru John Basil, Roxy Music

  February 14, 2008

• It Aint Easy Being Cheesy

  May 15, 2003

• Notes from the Underground

  August 17, 2000

• The Zeitgeist

  OCNYE

  December 28, 2006

• Iraq's Cinema of Longing

  A conversation with director James Longley

  December 28, 2006

• Commie Girl

  Madam Chairwoman: Rock on!

  November 16, 2006

• How You Get Excitement

  Kid Congo in a cornfield

  November 2, 2006

• DVDish

  November 15, 2007

• Cruise in Control

  May 4, 2006

• Happy Ending

  April 20, 2006

• The Streets of San Francisco

  March 9, 2006

• Keep the Kids Indoors

  Nightlife and more
  OCT. 13-20

  October 13, 2005

• BROADWAY HITLER

  July 7, 2005

• Transvestives, Junkies, Neurotics, Rock & RollNow That's Entertainment

  May 19, 2005

• Whassup? Docs!

  April 14, 2005

• Blind Spots, Indeed

  March 3, 2005

• Year of the Wolf

  February 19, 2004

• Gale Force

  May 1, 2003

• Ol Ultra-Violence

  May 1, 2003

• The Bitch Is Back

  April 10, 2003

• Czech, Please!

  March 13, 2003

• 1-2-3-4

  March 6, 2003

• Hoochie Who?

  January 23, 2003

• Dangerous? Not Really

  December 26, 2002

• The Great Elaborator

  December 19, 2002

• There Were Freaks Everywhere

  October 17, 2002

• Something Beautiful and New

  September 12, 2002

• Neighborhood Buzzcock

  February 28, 2002

• Diary of a Mad Coffeehouse

  January 4, 2001

• Nude! Nude! Nude!

  June 29, 2000

• Thank Yew, Richuhd Blade!

  May 11, 2000

• Making Memories

  December 23, 1999

• The Wolf Survives

  October 1, 1998

• Hang with Peter Murphy? Who Wouldn't!

  Usually "VIP packages" are shameless ripoffs, but here's one that's seriously enticing: for Peter Murphy's June 8 show at the House of Blues Anaheim, $100 will get you not only a seat in the loge section (alright), a "limited edition poster" (yawn) and early entry into the venue (eh), but also a meet-and-greet with the Murphster himself (whoa!). On sale nowNow, there are a lot of musicians that would probably be complete bores to meet (and greet) in person, but the lead singer of Bauhaus? The go

  May 13, 2009

• [CD Review] Hungry, Hungry Ghost, 'Sleeping English' (Infinite Best)

  May 14, 2009

• 17 Hippies Bring (Free) Euro-Cajun-Balkan-African-Indian Mishmash to Great Park

  17 Hippies mashes up the torrent of sounds that flooded West Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall.​If Gogol Bordello is the Rolling Stones of gypsy punk, 17 Hippies must be their more literate Beatles counterpart. Berlin's "orchester spezial" plays a dizzying, high-energy mixture of French songs, English ballads and Eastern European rhythms that will you have you wondering what exactly you're listening to--as you tap your feet to it. But before proceeding any further, we must confront the

  September 3, 2009

• 17 Hippies

  September 3, 2009