The Temple of Whollyness at Burning Man 2013 Another gritty and glorious Burning Man came and went last weekend in the lovely-yet-hostile stretch of desert dubbed Black Rock City. Just miles north of Gerlach, Nevada 61,000 attendees from all ove...
Iron Maiden Friday, September 13 Iron Maiden San Manuel Amphitheatre For many months, "The Battle of San Bernardino" has been the most hotly anticipated metal concert of the summer. The undercard of thrash titans Megadeth, Anthrax and Testament i...
See also: Lives Life, or It Lives You It is late August. I am in the Starbucks at Colorado and Rockland in Eagle Rock, across from the Center for the Arts. It's 2005 hrs. The doors should be opening soon. Electric Flower Group, Endless Bummer and Ty...
Sage Francis From cathartic poems about broken homes to psychedelic spells disguised as pop, Anticon has released some of the most searing, inventive, and strange music of the last decade and a half. In honor of their 15th birthday, and ahead of t...
Cozy Inn On their own, bars tend to be pretty magnificent things. Tasty adult beverages, conversations with friends and strangers, maybe live music, a karaoke machine or one hell of a jukebox; it's all in the mix when you step out for a night on t...
[Editor's Note: Shea Serrano sometimes writes about Why This Song Sucks, and sometimes about his hilarious and poignant life and times. Better put your shoes on because your socks are about to be blown off.] This is easy, same as it was the first ti...
Five years ago, if you told someone that Black Sabbath would be playing strong, sold-out shows across North America, they probably would have shook their heads. Even as recently as a year or so ago, the idea of the band putting the right pieces toget...
[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] When you meet a band for the first time, they inevitably try to impress upon you their all-for-one, one...
Before grunge scrubbed the smeared makeup off of the face of hair metal and trimmed its flowing locks, an endless parade of longhaired dudes did their level best to destroy the ozone layer, fueled by a steady diet of sex, drugs and rock and roll. Oh,...
Black Sabbath circa 2013 (L-R: Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler) Tonight, Black Sabbath plays L.A. behind 13. This recently released LP is the band's first album with Ozzy Osbourne on vocals since 1978. Let's be honest though; while 13 is...
Pereira with Australian DJs Nervo The title "local meteorologist" doesn't exactly conjure up images of sexy nightclubs, superstar DJs or ecstatic house beats. Pablo Pereira, however, is as well versed in DJ Mag terminology as he is at predicting S...
Dear Fan, My band Close To Modern has been together for six years; we are based out of Las Vegas, NV. 2012 was a great year for us. We played shows in L.A., SF and Phoenix, our SXSW set got us a tweet from Carson Daly, and we released our EP in Sep...
Blonde Redhead -- See Tuesday Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Monday, September 2 Summer Sendoff Party featuring The Big Pink, Harriet, et al. BOOTLEG THEATER The fact that this Summer Sendoff event is...
Full body shot tattoo below A UK club promoter named Joe Forsyth recently had the lyrics to the Swedish megastar Avicii's latest megahit "Wake Me Up" tattooed down the entire side of his body. You can make a case that "Get Lucky" and "Blurred Li...
Scout Niblett -- See Friday Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Friday, August 30 Danzig, Doyle, Cherie Currie GIBSON AMPHITHEATRE If there's anyone who has a right to strip-mine his own past, it's Glenn D...
RADIO BROADCAST #231 09-01-13 See also: Live Life, or It Lives You Fanatics! Summer fairly flew by us yet we managed to stay Fanatic throughout. I know that in many parts of the world, the heat is still with you. In Los Angeles, it's now ge...
Andrew Youssef By Andrew Youssef [Editor's Note: Longtime concert photographer Andrew Youssef found out almost two years ago that he had stage IV colon cancer. In that time, he has continued to shoot tons of music events for outlets including our...
The day after headlining Webster Hall in New York, the Haim sisters hoist their equipment out of a black van and lug it across a sidewalk to the entrance of WNYC, which is kind of like the Big Apple's KCRW. Alana, 21, Danielle, 24, and Este, 27, in ...
By 1980, the writing was on the wall: Punk rock might have been making headlines, but it wasn't moving units. The industry responded with the skinny tie bands, retroactively labeled New Wave, a safer, more accessible take on the back-to-basics energy...
Now that the Internet has killed our attention spans, it can be challenging to read a book. But what if the book were short? And there was a soundtrack to it? And an accompanying film and graphic novel? A new project called The Red Bicycle -- cente...
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