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Just a few years ago the LA comedy scene was struggling. If you were not in at the one of the three comedy clubs or the Alternative room Largo, you were pretty out of luck. Former Mr. Show writers BJ Porter and Scott Aukerman were looking to get back into performing and decided to start their...

Brian Molko, the always-engaging frontman of Placebo, has been around the world twice since SuicideGirls last checked in with him. Although Placebo has had a successful decade-long career in the UK and Europe, they've never managed a full-on conquest of America. This summer's Projekt Revolution tour,...

Matthew OBrien is a Las Vegas-based writer and editor. Hes the author of Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas and news editor of Las Vegas CityLife, an alternative weekly with a circulation of 85,000. OBrien was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in the Atlanta area....

Robert Pollard is best known as the songwriter and frontman of Guided By Voices. Though he didnt release an album until the age of 36, today Pollard is about to turn 50, and over 2,000 of his songs have been released on records. His next two albums are twins called Coast to Coast Carpet of Love...

For over five years AFI fans have gathered outside of venues and corralled on message boards and in chat rooms, whispering about whether or not Blaqk Audio, the long rumored side project courtesy of Davey Havok and Jade Puget, would ever come to fruition. Well, it has. And with the recent release...

To appreciate this music, you have to have a streak of wildness, a fierce independence of spirit, and an absolute belief in the unusual, the strange, the unpredictable, the offbeat, and even the generally unacceptable. -- Herschell Gordon Lewis...

The Vacancies are a punk rock maelstrom. Singing about fear, pain and survival, their sound is a mix of Hot Water Music and the Dead Kennedys. The band -- Billy Crooked (vocals), Michael James (guitar), Bo (bass), Dave Long (guitar), Kevin Hopkins (drums) -- formed in 1999 and is made up of five guys...

Screenwriter John August made his bones penning what we'll call surrealist fantasy films -- "Charlie's Angels" and "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle," and embarked on a working relationship with Tim Burton that produced "Big Fish," "Corpse Bride" and 2005's box-office smash "Charlie and the Chocolate...

San Francisco-based Christian Maychack is an artist I met on the art fair circuit (New York, Miami, etc.) over the past couple of years. During these fairs, which have proven to be such a valuable resource in meeting fantastic people, I've become familiar with both the artist and his anthropomorphic...