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Mike Atta Benefit - The Echo & Echoplex - 1/25/13

The Adolescents, Mike Watt, and others Mike Atta Benefit The Echo and Echoplex 1/25/13 It's time to "pogo and stomp the shit out of cancer," said Alice Bag at Friday's benefit concert to support punk forerunner Mike Atta. See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Alice Bag's 
Punk Rock Legacy Diagn ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Pere Ubu and More Thin Lizzy

KCRW BROADCAST #200 01-26-13 See also: Henry Rollins: No More Talk About Shooting Americans, Please Fanatics! It's amazing how great our show is tonight. Sometimes I have to stand back and marvel at how damn consistently great the music is, just how incredibly excellent week after week all of thi ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: David Bowie's "Scary Monsters"

KCRW BROADCAST #196 12-29-12 See Also: Henry Rollins: Led Zeppelin, All Powerful Fanatics! Tonight we bravely launch into our last week in December, the last installment of our David Bowie marathon and as well, the last show for 2012. We are already gearing up for our first show of 2013. Always ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: David Bowie's "Lodger"'

KCRW Broadcast #195 for Saturday, December 22, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: Gay Marriage Is Punk Rock Fanatics! It is week four (fo!) of our month of Bowie. Of the five albums we are checking out, for me, Lodger is the most interesting. Over the years, I keep listening to it, trying to get differ ... More >>

Henry Rollins: Gay Marriage Is Punk Rock

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Hats off to Washington state where, recently, hundreds of same-sex couples were legally married ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: David Bowie's '"Heroes"'

KCRW Broadcast #194 for Saturday, December 15, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: Christmacidal Fanatics! Here we go into week three of our Bowie month. Tonight, it's the legendary "Heroes" album. Bowie released Low on 01/14/77 and "Heroes" on 10/14/77. This was a very creative period for Bowie but he ... More >>

Henry Rollins: A Death in the Family

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] I am in San Francisco. It is a Saturday night and I should have been in Los Angeles watching T ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Bowie Fest

KCRW Broadcast #192 for Saturday, December 1, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: Coming to an End Fanatics! Here we go into December. A five Saturday month that allows for some serious concepting. I know I wrote you about our Bowie fest that we are about to start and so, tonight, we get to it. If yo ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: New York City Is a Helluva a Town

KCRW Broadcast #189 for Saturday, November 10, 2012 See also: *The American People Kicked Your Ass, Republicans *Henry Rollins: Sandy, the Incredible Mood Swing of Mother Nature Fanatics! Tonight is a great one. I am in NYC this week, so I thought a show that was NYC-based would be just the thing ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Sandy, the Incredible Mood Swing of Mother Nature

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] 10/29/12: As I sit here in Boston on a night off, I can see Hurricane Sandy-powered sheets of ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The American People Kicked Your Ass, Republicans

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] I am in Washington DC right now. The time before the winner of the presidency was announced wa ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Happy Halloween

KCRW Broadcast #187 for Saturday, October 27, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! The Mississippi Blues Fanatics! I think this is as close as close as we're going to get to a Halloween show. If I could split myself in two, I would be onstage here in New Hampshire and also at the KCRW event ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! The Mississippi Blues

[Look for your weekly fix of the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] After more than three decades of touring America, this was only the third time I have been to Mi ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: An All-Kill, No-Fill Show

KCRW Broadcast #186 for Saturday, October 20, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Noise Music Is the Real Thing Fanatics! Tonight we will enjoy an unbelievably cool mix of songs. The weather is cooling slightly and we will take advantage of that and unleash some deep heaviness. If you notic ... More >>

The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Weekend: Oct. 19-21

Friday, October 19 Nosaj Thing LURE PATIO Nosaj Thing's 2009 album, Drift, was arguably the first in the trio of holy-shit records that made Low End Theory regulars -- and by extension, Los Angeles electronic music -- a global phenomenon. (The other two? Gaslamp Killer and Gonjasufi's A Sufi and a ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Noise Music Is the Real Thing

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You ca ... More >>

Music Picks: Robert Glasper, Nick Waterhouse, Omar Rodriguez Lopez

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You ca ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Mississippi Blues

KCRW Broadcast #185 for Saturday, October 13, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! The Failings of Music Writers Fanatics! In Mississippi tonight. We thought it would be a good idea to lay some Blues on you. Blues music comes all kinds of ways and is there to be taken any way you want. If y ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! The Failings of Music Writers

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] A few nights ago, we took the tour bus into the massive parking lot of a Walmart in South Dako ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: For the Cramps Fanatics

KCRW Broadcast #183 for Saturday, October 6, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Our America Fanatics! Hello from Ohio! Columbus, Ohio, to be exact. I thought it would be a great idea to celebrate some great Ohio bands, Ohio-themed songs and Lenny Bruce talking about Ohio! Hour one is a mix ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Our America

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Today: I am in Oklahoma City. Outside the tour bus, the wind is blowing nonstop, hair-dryer ho ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: More Hendrix and Some Old Favorites

KCRW Broadcast #182 for Saturday, September 29, 2012 See also: Fanatics! I am in Pierre, South Dakota. Tonight, we finish our four-part Hendrix trip. Hour 1 is some bootleg material and some of the less traveled roads of Mr. Hendrix. Most of these tracks are in print on different labels, most of ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! How I Spend My Nights Off

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] It is a night off. I am in Boise, Idaho, sitting in the Crux, a coffeehouse on Main Street. No ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Week #3 of Hendrix-Obsession

KCRW Broadcast #181 for Saturday, September 22, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Being a Local, Temporarily Fanatics! I hope yo enjoyed last week's show. Tonight, we get into week #3 of our visit with Mr. Hendrix. Tonight we listen to the Electric Ladyland album, somewhat reconstructed f ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Being a Local, Temporarily

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] We are in beautiful Olympia, Wash. My shows in Hawaii and Alaska are behind me, and a few hour ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Dinosaur Jr.'s Brand New Album 'I Bet On Sky'

KCRW Broadcast #179 for Saturday, September 8, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Living All Over Me Fanatics! Tonight, we have a fantastic show for you. We will continue four weeks with Jimi Hendrix in our first hour with the Jimi Hendrix Experience's second album Axis: Bold As Love in mon ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Living All Over Me

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] I am writing to you from sunny Honolulu, Hawaii. I am not on vacation. I have a show here. The ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Jimi Hendrix Fest

KCRW Broadcast #179 for Saturday, September 8, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Summer Be Gone! Fanatics! Tonight, we start our first of four, count'em four weeks of Jimi Hendrix in our first hour. We start our Hendrix fest with Are You Experienced in mono. You have heard this album plent ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Summer Be Gone!

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] September is upon us. In its final weeks, August was staggering crookedly, profusely bleeding ... More >>

Esther Wong: Her Flawed Legacy

Contrary to revisionist history, her club Madame Wong's did not propel L.A.'s punk scene

Music Picks: Sinead O'Connor, Ryan Adams, Busdriver, Matthew Dear

Also, Wye Oak, Jeff Lorber Band, Hiromi and others

Music Picks: Barry Adamson, Joanna Malfatti Trio, Clare Fischer Big Band

Also, Eleni Mandell, Steve Reich, Call Us Forgotten and others

Henry Rollins: The Column! Alice Bag's 
Punk Rock Legacy

​[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] More than 30 years ago, in Washington, D.C., I secured a copy of a single by a Los Ange ... More >>

Alice Bag Reading And Performance - La Luz De Jesus Gallery - October 15, 2011

Lina Lecaro Alice in Wacko land​Most punk fans know Alicia Armendariz as Alice Bag, the lead singer of The Bags, the group featured copiously in 1981 doc The Decline of the Western Civilization, the one about punk. But Armendariz has another story to tell, and her no book Violence Girl- East ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night:

KCRW BROADCAST #135 for Saturday, October 8 Fanatics! I am in Washington DC at the moment. Engineer X and I taped this show for you from our small studio set up. What we have here tonight is yet another great gathering of tunes that will not only make the weekend rock but will make October all the ... More >>

Day Tripping on the Tom Waits Bus Tour of Los Angeles

​"Most of the stops on this tour are in piss-stained alleys," chuckled David Smay, as a motley--if well-dressed--crew of 47 settled themselves on his bus, which this past Saturday was parked outside King Eddy's--the only dive bar left "on the nickel" in downtown's increasingly gentrified Skid ... More >>

Rock Picks: The Duke Spirit, New York Dolls, Lil Wayne

Also, Darker My Love, X, Legal Weapon, and others

Thebasement Photos

Lighting theMasque

The Basement Photos

Lighting the Masque

Penny Ante for Your Thoughts

Tour posters, photos of cracked-out Pete Doherty and scrawled lyrics to “Apple Pie and Genocide”

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Glam, Bam, Thank You, Ma'am

Abby Travis does it all

Smell Tha Noize

L7: You can take white thrash anywhere

Eastside A-Sides

The casual culture of backyard jamming