August Brown covers pop music, the music industry and nightlife policy at the Los Angeles Times.
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On Feb. 9, there’s a strong chance that Kendrick Lamar will walk onto the stage at the Super Bowl halftime show in New Orleans, and call Drake a pedophile in front of hundreds of millions of viewers.
The show, which will take place at the Intuit Dome and Kia Forum in Inglewood, counts Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, Olivia Rodrigo and Green Day among the many headliners.
L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman announced he will not charge Marilyn Manson, a.k.a. Brian Warner, in cases of alleged domestic violence and rape.
The Beatles’ ‘Now and Then’ may win record of the year. Is it singular for the academy, or a boomer-rock harbinger?
‘We were so beaten down by the industry,’ singer Carisa Bianco Mellado said of L.A. composers. ‘We just want to perform.’
Brown’s suit, filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, seeks $500 million from Warner Bros. Discovery and production company Ample Entertainment.
Rakim Mayers, better known as the rapper ASAP Rocky, will headline the Rolling Loud festival and serve as a chair of the Met Gala this year — as long as he dodges a conviction at his trial for a 2021 Hollywood shooting.
The event — a co-production of Live Nation, AEG, the Clippers and the Azoff Company — will be split between the Intuit Dome and nearby Kia Forum on Jan. 30.
In a cruel coincidence, the Palisades and Eaton fires wiped out two neighborhoods with unique significance in L.A.’s music industry.
The revered rock producer and mixer lost his house and his custom-built home recording studio in the Palisades fire.