We’re pretty honored to host this Youtube Mixtape by Baron Von Luxxury. He’s revealing a bit of his heart and soul here, and we respect that. Thanks dude. Go check him out at his monthlong residency at the Echo. Tonight, May 21, L.A. RECORD will be spinning tunes between bands….

Check out Deer Tick’s DICK in this video, then see the band live tomorrow night, May 5th, at El Rey with Turbo Fruits. Deer Tick is: Fireworks. Sparklers. Danger. Destruction. Doo Wop. Pee pee. Fire. Karate kicks. All of this. —Daiana Feuer

Get inside John Peel’s record collection, that is. Every week, the first 100 records of each “letter” of the alphabet will be revealed from May 1 to October 1, 2012.

Poison: These guys wrote songs about being these guys. A friend of mine once dismissed Poison’s seminal power ballad, “Every Rose Has Its Thorn,” as “emotionally retarded.”  This comment did not sit well with me, for reasons both personal and scientific. On a personal level, Poison was my first Rock Show.  Tesla opened up for [...]

I loved this song when it came out as an album track on their debut record in 2008. Now Eddie Chacon and his collaborator (and wife) Sissy Sainte-Marie have re-released the tune as a single, which they’re promoting via a new bad-assed video:

Not really, but kind of if you squint. Days Go By by theoffspringsc

Approximately 1/5 of Coachella’s acts are electronic DJs, but you’d never know it from the crowd response! This entire weekend, the Safari tent’s audience swelled far beyond capacity, even worse than the most wretched desert muffin top—and that’s even during the early afternoon, when L.A.’s DESTRUCTO provided plenty of chill vibes, though without the literal waterworks he’d planned. We caught up with him out back of the Coachella press tent, before the famous tent-puking incident of April 14th (more on that later).

There are a lot of bands referencing the past, and that’s a little disturbing to me. I love Deerhunter and Serena-Maneesh, I think they’re great. They strike me as sort of what Medicine was trying to be, this ideal teen makeout music. I think of Roxy Music’s Avalon – was that a precursor to shoegaze because it’s a great makeout album? Maybe!

It’s 420, a holiday celebrated many different ways. Some smoke it out. But it’s so hot today, it’s turned us on. We’re getting dirty. Here’s some of our favorite sexually explicit songs, collected from staff and friends. Check out the playlist on Youtube at this link. Then go watch some of these songs performed live [...]