See also: Metalheads in Germany I have been restless for as long as I can remember. Perhaps this started when I was a child, moving every few years with my mother around Washington, D.C., different summer camps, different schools, never once feeling...
Cherie Currie As lead singer for The Runaways, Cherie Currie remains an inspirational figure for every girl who dreams of owning the stage and seducing a crowd with rock n' roll. Though she's kept a lower profile than her former bandmates Joan Jet...
Crom Metal group Crom are defined by their intense live performances and their peculiar metal mash-ups. Oh, and their breathtaking lack of ambition. Sure, they count members of famous groups like Mastodon, High on Fire and Slipknot among their fa...
Rachel Bloom The L.A. Weekly's 2013 Web Awards honor the best of what's online. Check out the complete list of winners. The protagonist of "You Can Touch My Boobies" is one Jeffrey Goldstein, a Hebrew-school student studying for his bar mitzvah...
Burning Man is happening at this very moment out in the Black Rock desert of northern Nevada. (You can catch our coverage starting Tuesday.) Also noteworthy is the just-released documentary Spark, which chronicles Burning Man 2012 and the year leadin...
[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Anticon turns 15 this month but it has been imbued with a teenage spirit since its inception. The artis...
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...
[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 my fourth year coaching middle sc...
FYF Fest this year felt like Coachella in L.A. -- the stages and everything else have gotten huge -- although the vibe was even more music-centric and laid back. Though in the heart of L.A., it wasn't about being "seen" as much as seeing one's favori...
Nekrogoblikon Vikings, hobbits, pirates, and of course Satan have inspired metal bands. But L.A. group Nekrogoblikon may be the first inspired by tales of goblin apocalypse. Their new EP Power, like all their other albums, takes place in a unive...
Dear Fan, I'm helping my friend's band book a tour, and as excruciatingly painful as it can be, I'm doing it because I'm an aspiring booking agent. Now I'm not helping a band lucrative enough to even need an agent, nor am I the "CEO of Spanky Nuts Ag...
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...
This year's FYF Fest had plenty to offer in the way of dirt, sweat, guitars, EDM and gastropubbery. We were there to soak it all in. Here's our highlight reel. See also: The Worst of FYF 2013The Locust Apparently, this FYF performance was the San Di...
f(x) performs at KCon 2013 Missy Elliot, 2AM, EXO, f(x), and others Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena 8-25-13 KCon is a massive K-pop festival, and the 2013 edition went down this weekend at the Sports Arena. What was it? Well, it felt like a p...
We had a mostly, pretty great time at FYF Fest this year! Still, some of the bands kind of sucked it up -- and there were some logistical and fashion-oriented problems as well. So let's complain! See also: The Best of FYF 2013 Kelsee Becker ...
Long before Courtney Love was a household name, a famous rocker, actress, drug addict, widow of an icon, estranged mother or social media rabble-rouser, she was Courtney Michelle Harrison, a girl from Northern California obsessed with music and consu...
Lucius Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Monday, August 26 Courtney Love TROUBADOUR Musician, actress, writer, artist, designer -- love her or hate her, she is Courtney Love. Nothing can stop the 49-year-o...
When Dillon Francis, a 25-year-old local EDM producer you may have heard of, isn't making beats, he's harassing people, harassing his cat, or carrying on conversations with the television. Fortunately, he captures it all on Vine. Here are his five be...
Nickelback By Adam Steininger In the wake of the showerless grunge era of the early '90s, a slew of post-grunge bands emerged with diluted, watered-down ditties, all seemingly revolving around suffering through romance. It's not that these bands ...
FYF -- See Saturday Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Friday, August 23 The Breeders EL REY THEATRE It's hard to say which is more surprising, the news that the reunited Pixies have decided to carry on w...
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