Paul T. Bradley
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Syrian Singer Omar Souleyman Turned the Echoplex Into a Multi-Culti Dance Party
Promoting his forthcoming album on Mad Decent, "To Syria With Love," the wedding singer from Tell Tamer had the crowd whirling their inner dervishes. → Read More
This Guy Had the Most Lit AF Campsite at Coachella 2016
On the fringes of the Empire Polo Club during Coachella, many thrifty and unhinged souls opt to camp out of doors. In prefabricated tents. Certainly it makes sense for the type of uncivilized folks who care little for cleanliness, order, and respectability. It sounds like a ghastly enterprise, if you... → Read More
Best of Coachella 2016 Weekend One
Coachella, man. Wow. Like a fine wine, you just keep getting better with age. After gorging ourselves on Sumo Dogs and indie-pop, dancing ourselves dusty, head-banging to Death Grips and "Welcome to the Jungle," and maybe drinking a beer or seven, we sifted through the rubble and our reporter's notebooks... → Read More
My Futuristic Coachella Earbuds and I Got Along Great at First — Now It's Complicated
The Here Active Listening earbuds supposedly let you customize your Coachella listening experience. But it didn't always work out that way. → Read More
We Tried Some Products Marketed to Coachella-Goers, and They're All Dumb
You don’t have to be a special kind of science person to know that the sun and the desert are both hot and that reveling in the hot desert sun will do damage to your body. It’s barely even science at all. So, given that the sun in the desert... → Read More
Meet the Latest Breed of Proud Potheads: Weed-Loving Jocks
Former NFL tight end Eddie Lee "Boo" Williams tried to kill himself in 2011. Retired UFC fighter Kyle Kingsbury grew tired of getting punched in the face. And Heisman Trophy winner and NFL Pro-Bowler Ricky Williams really just liked getting baked. What do these guys all have in common? They’ve... → Read More
A Bunch of Idiots Tubed the L.A. River With Kurt Braunohler This Weekend
"Here we go. This is it," said a nervous goofball with a British accent as he carried a cheap inflatable raft through the dank, graffiti-covered tunnel beneath the Sixth Street Viaduct down to a sluice of what's possibly one of America's most-polluted streams of water. Leading him and about a... → Read More
A Journey to Discover the Culture and Nostalgia of L.A.’s Record Stores
“I remember pressing up my own records, and as you watch a machine press down on your own vinyl, you think, this is your precious thing that you created, and you think about all of the fights that might have happened because of one song, all of the money, and... → Read More
Call Me "Meh"-by: Carly Rae Jepsen Still Can't Escape Her Biggest Hit
There’s a synthed-up saxophone that opens Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Run Away With Me,” the leadoff single from her 2015 critical darling, Emotion. It lingers for a second or two alone in almost naked fraudulence before the heartbeat throb of a mild dance beat arrives to escort us into Jepsen’s flawless,... → Read More
Print This Elle: A Typical Local Jerk's Daily Routine
Last week, Elle magazine's exhausting May 2015 profile of L.A. celebrity snake-oil saleswoman Amanda Chantal Bacon’s daily routine started making the rounds again. Her list of obscure ingredients and potions would make the contents of Hagrid’s stash box blush. Conveniently, all of her consumables can be purchased at either of... → Read More
HBO's Vinyl Paints a Sympathetic Picture of the Assholes Who Bought and Sold Rock
Vinyl’s two-hour series premiere opened with an apocryphal New York Dolls concert followed by director Martin Scorsese's trademark protagonist voiceover. But its gospel wasn’t uttered until the halfway point. In the scene, the complicated, morally conflicted man at the show’s center, high-powered record executive Richie Finestra (a taut Bobby Cannavale)... → Read More
Meet the Man Behind the Plaque Marking the Site of U2's Famous Joshua Tree
Ernie Navarre turned a lifelong obsession with U2's bestselling album into a desert quest and bronze-casting class. → Read More
My Nemesis Glenn Frey Is Gone and I Feel Lost
History’s greatest eulogies and tributes are usually written and delivered by powerful people who are humbled by the loss of someone they hold in high esteem. They are written to connect that loss to the greater mystery; they are written because the cycle of life and death has confounded them... → Read More
Tool's Latest Tour Is Nothing If Not Workmanlike
Tool Viejas Arena, San Diego State University Jan. 10, 2016 Better than... Driving to San Francisco on a Sunday night. If you want one word about what this current Tool tour feels like, that one word is “underwhelming.” Tool plays concerts, but not often and not in a lot of... → Read More
Rainn Wilson and Will Eno Hate One-Man Shows — So They're Staging One
Rest assured that Thom Pain (based on nothing) — opening soon at the Geffen Playhouse — does not feature Teddy Roosevelt reading diaries by a fireplace. → Read More
Like Their Namesake Liquor Store, Silversun Pickups Won't Change With the Times
On the corner of Silver Lake and Sunset, there’s a big, ugly-ass yellow liquor store in a small, ugly-ass strip mall. Perennially lit by harsh fluorescents, Silversun Liquor is full of hootch, last-minute sundries, frozen burritos, and point-of-sale virility treatments. The guy behind the counter is a crotchety asshole. But,... → Read More
Camilla Cleese and Mindy Rickles Are Inspired by Their Famous Dads, But Their Stand-Up Is Their Own
“Yeah, six-one,” Camilla Cleese says. She mugs for a beat and then traipses across the stage, displaying the obvious: Like her famous father, Cleese is really fucking tall. But height isn't the only thing she inherited from the genius Brit John Cleese, who's one-sixth of Monty Python. He also passed... → Read More
Bootleg Bart Simpson Killed Saddam. He Fought Apartheid. And Now He's Back
Bart Simpson — once an underachiever and proud of it — is about to be the subject of gallery-worthy art. French magazine Be Street’s founder Benjamin Benichou has a deep interest in off-brand cultural detritus, and this weekend he's bringing early Simpsons folk art, aka “Bootleg Bart,” to L.A. The form... → Read More
Did Someone Get a Handstamp Tattoo to Mark His Devotion to L.A.'s Top Comedy Show?
A comic book shop in Hollywood supposedly hides one of the world's biggest comedy fanatics. Somewhere in line for a stand-up show, among Justice League omnibuses and vintage Dr. Who figurines, is a mystery wrapped in an enigma, inked with a mysterious symbol. Blood in, blood out. That's the comedy... → Read More
For Their New Album, Death Magic, Health Reinvented Their Noise-Rock Sound — and Learned to Puke on Cue
The barfing begins more than a minute into the video. Just before it starts, everything stands still and silent for a few seconds — a pause between the quivering melody that precedes it and the jarring blast that follows. Then genuine, brightly colored puke sprays in an artful arc and... → Read More