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  Mary J. Blige Comes Out of the Closet as Zeppelin Fan

  Mary J. Blige has partnered up with American Idol's Randy Jackson (who plays bass), plus Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, Steve Vai, and Michael Jackson's former touring guitarist Orianthi, to record versions of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" an...

  @ West Coast Sound by Gustavo Turner on April 15, 2010 @ 4:00 pm

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  Volcano Fallout: Cribs Cancel Coachella Slot, Other Stranded UK Acts Iffy

  The Cribs were due to fly to Los Angeles on Thursday (15Apr10) from Britain, but their plane was cancelled at the last minute and they have no way of flying to California before their scheduled slot on Friday. They are now hoping festival organise...

  @ West Coast Sound by Gustavo Turner on April 15, 2010 @ 3:04 pm

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  Type O Negative Singer Peter Steele Confirmed Dead

  Before breaking big with Type O Negative, the Brooklyn-based Steele had fronted the influential 80s group Carnivore. In the '90s, Type O's Broken Kisses proved a somehow unexpected huge seller for the band, who continued releasing material (including...

  @ West Coast Sound by Gustavo Turner on April 15, 2010 @ 2:00 pm

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  BREAKING: Will Airport Delays Make British Bands Miss Coachella?

  [UPDATE 12:00pm: Now it seems Gary Numan joins the Cribs, Bad Lieutenant and the other bands who might have to cancel their Coachella appearances.] From the NME: The Cribs, Los Campesinos! and Frightened Rabbit's Coachella festival (April 16-18)...

  @ West Coast Sound by Gustavo Turner on April 15, 2010 @ 12:07 pm

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  Happy April 15!: Soul Cover of The Beatles' 'Taxman'

  The idiotic, possibly racist Tea Partiers are not the first (or last) people to complain about big government and big taxation. Back in 1966 notoriously mystical hippie George Harrison was so pissed off at the British government taking 90% of the Bea...

  @ West Coast Sound by Gustavo Turner on April 15, 2010 @ 12:01 pm

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  MP3 Exclusive: Madlib Remixes Dabrye and DOOM's "Air," Forthcoming on Ghostly

  For over a decade now, Ann Arbor's Ghostly International has been the gold standard in ethereal, beat-driven electronica. Michigan-based boundary-pushers like the poppy Matthew Dear, the hypnotic Deastro and the rap-steeped Dabrye have become the la...

  @ West Coast Sound by Chris Martins on April 15, 2010 @ 11:00 am

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  Mimes, Metal Heads, or Juggalos? You be the judge!

  Now, we're not anti-juggalites or pro-mime, we treat all the people who populate our nightmares equally, and we certainly not saying that all mimes, metal heads, or juggalos look alike (they do). We just want take this opportunity to educate the popu...

  @ West Coast Sound by Drew Tewksbury on April 15, 2010 @ 10:00 am

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  Anger is an Energy Drink: Public Image Ltd. at Club Nokia

  View more photos in Timothy Norris' slideshow "Public Image Ltd. (PiL) @ Club Nokia." It's not that Club Nokia is an awful venue. It has its uses--an intimate Usher show, for example, or a Level 42 reunion (coming soon, for reals), or any act who ha...

  @ West Coast Sound by Gustavo Turner on April 14, 2010 @ 5:40 pm

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  Live Review: Bill Frisell, Jason Moran and Kenny Wollesen at Largo

  At Largo last night, Jason Moran took his place at the Steinway while Bill Frisell tuned his six-string guitar before the first of two sets. Drummer Kenny Wollesen gathered his drum sticks and sat back in his seat. The trio had recently played a few ...

  @ West Coast Sound by Erica Zora Wrightson on April 14, 2010 @ 4:40 pm

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  Siamese Twin Folk Singers Coming to Largo

  Evelyn and Evelyn Neville, the Siamese Twins who graduated from Nightmare Alley-style carnival sideshow to sensations in the tightknit folk universe have started their world tour and they will be coming to Largo next month (May 25-27). The conjoined...

  @ West Coast Sound by Gustavo Turner on April 14, 2010 @ 3:28 pm

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  Video: Best Coast's Bethany C. Hates Sleeping Alone, Dates Famous Clown

  Best Coast has just released their new video for single "When I'm With You." It features Bethany Cosentino (just christened "adorable lo-fi princess" by Spin) cavorting around with Ronald McDonald and pouting that she "hates sleeping alone" (awwwww.....

  @ West Coast Sound by Gustavo Turner on April 14, 2010 @ 2:40 pm

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  Jazzster Jose James gives the West Side some soul

  James isn't R 'n' B, or horn blasting, floor-stomping soul revivalism. He's soulful not soul, tipping his hat more to Sammy Davis Jr. and Curtis Mayfield than D'Angelo. But James' music is distinct not derivative, and on his album, "Black Magic," he ...

  @ West Coast Sound by Drew Tewksbury on April 14, 2010 @ 10:56 am

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  Watch: Glitch Mob Debuts Fancy New Bartender Technology

  Mixologists of the world can rejoice as L.A. mixmasters (see what we did right there?) and Coachella performers Glitch Mob have clearly gotten their hands on a technological prototype set to revolutionize the act of bartending. Think back to the las...

  @ West Coast Sound by Chris Martins on April 14, 2010 @ 10:00 am

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  The Madlib Mystique - An exclusive interview with underground hip-hop's most elusive producer

  Madlib is nowhere to be found. Peanut Butter Wolf, the head of his label, Stones Throw, doesn't know where he is. Despite repeated phone calls, Eothen (Egon) Alapatt, the imprint's general manager, hasn't heard back in 48 hours. J. Rocc, one of his ...

  by Jeff Weiss on June 24, 2010

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  Darby's Last Stand - Remembering the night when the Germs' singer led his band to one final triumph

  Click here for "Catching Up With Pat and Don," by Gustavo Turner. [Rhino Handmade, the branch of Rhino records that best preserves the label's original mission as the labor-of-love curator of recorded music's lost moments, has just released Live a...

  by Jonathan Gold on June 24, 2010

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  Catching Up With Pat and Don

  Click here for "Darby's Last Stand," by Jonathan Gold. After Darby Crash's death, Lorna Doom moved to New York. Pat Smear and Don Bolles continued performing and being part of L.A.'s music scene through different projects. Smear eventually hooked u...

  by Gustavo Turner on June 24, 2010

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  L.A. Philharmonic's Ernest Fleischmann, (1924-2010)

  [Ernest Fleischmann, the former head of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, died on June 13.] "The U.S. is the only country in the world today where the fortunes of most symphony orchestras depend on the generosity, the wisdom, the enthusiasm, indeed t...

  by John Payne on June 24, 2010

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  Music Picks: Goldfrapp, Concrete Blonde, Sally Seltmann, Black Francis - Also, Electric Daisy Carnival, the Adicts, Lou Barlow and others

  FRIDAY/JUNE/25 BLACK FRANCIS AT THE MINT Frank Black, aka Black Francis, seemingly has a lot more time on his hands these days after the Pixies decided to cancel a scheduled appearance at a music festival in Tel Aviv this month, in protest of Isra...

  by L.A. Weekly Music Critics on June 24, 2010

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  Nightranger: Gamer Gauche

  View more photos in Lina Lecaro's slideshow, "Nightranger: Pac-Sun's Beach Ballyhoo, Activision's #E3 Bash & More." While the economy struggles to find its footing, the video-game market only seems to survive and thrive, stronger and more monstrou...

  by Lina Lecaro on June 24, 2010

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  Brick's Picks: A Little Crazier Now

  Starting with the straight-ahead, we see saxist Gil Bernal is doing one of his from-the-heart trio things in the dinner slot at Caf 322 on Friday, 6-8 p.m. Trumpeter James Smith is Houston-born, close enough to New Orleans to give his horn hints of...

  by Brick Wahl on June 24, 2010