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Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: St. Louis Blues

KCRW Broadcast #157 for Saturday, March 24, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Memphis on My Mind Fanatics! It's Blues time in St. Louis Missouri! While you listen to our show, that's where I will be. I thought it appropriate that we spend a bit of time with some very pure and direct sounds ... More >>

Merry Clayton - The Mint - 1/31/12

Merry Clayton The Mint 1-31-12 Better than...getting stomped at Altamont. Merry Clayton is a soul legend. With over 40 years since her appearance on the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter" Clayton has solidified herself as a top-notch belter, tackling anything and everything in between. Last night bef ... More >>

Go Skateboarding Day: Thousands of Skaters Overtake Downtown L.A., Venice Boardwalk

​Updated after the jump with live pics from the traffic nightmare. No, that's not a swarm of cicadas outside your office, celebrating the first day of summer like it's 1840! That, friend, is an adorable mob of 1,000s of skateboarders, practicing their right to rebel on the one day of the year ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Saturday Night: L.A. Weekly Cover Stars Tearist, Plus La Sera, Lydia Kavina

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #113 for Saturday, May 7. Fanatics! Greetings from Louisiana. I am down here doing a little work with National Geographic. It's just the start of a lot of footage we will be shooting over the next several weeks all over America and abroad. It's going to be very ho ... More >>

LinA in LA: Top DJ & Dance Club Picks for this Weekend (& Beyond)

Louie Vega​She can deny it all she wants, but anyone with eyes and ears can see Lady Gaga does rip off -eh, find heavy inspiration from- Madonna, musically and stylistically. Madonna ripped off '70's disco divas, NYC club kids, and gay nightlife looks and moves (Vogue?). The club kids ripped o ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Saturday Night: Kaoru Abe, Acid King, Pontiak

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #111 for Saturday, April 23. Fanatics! It is Friday, early afternoon and I am just now getting a chance to write these brief notes up for you. One of these days I'm going to get some sleep. Just back from Ann Arbor, Michigan where we had a major blast at the Stoo ... More >>

Countdown to Record Store Day: Neil from Origami Vinyl in Echo Park

​You have seen the storefront of Origami Vinyl if you have ever gone to the Echo or had a slice of pizza at Two Boots. The store is packed with an impressive mix of local (and not-so-local) releases in a variety of genres, and host some amazing all-ages in-stores on a pretty regular basis. T ... More >>

Raving Without Ecstasy: Is It Even Possible?

Caesar SebastianRavers at Together As One.​Following our weekend report about the 62 medical emergencies and 25 arrests at the annual "Together As One" New Year's Eve rave, several commenters weighed in to accuse us of being biased. After all, these megaraves are just good clean fun for the w ... More >>

Exile on Sunset Boulevard

Rolling in L.A. with the Stones

Day 2: Coachella's WINs and FAILs (featuring Gossip, MGMT, Dead Weather, and Tiesto!)

On Saturday the "organizers" got some of their act together -- plus most people already had their wristbands after the clusterfuck of Day 1 -- so it was relatively painless to access the festival grounds. People were noticeably more chill throughout the day, which is what happens when you haven't ha ... More >>

Lusty for Life

JUMPIN' JACK STABBED

Taking — and Ruining — Woodstock

Ang Lee's latest cranks up the amp on faux '60s nostalgia

Club Vicious' "Lux for Life" Celebrates Fallen Singer

Rock ’n' Roll Caberet celebrates buxom beauties, and rock

No Age Releases Ultra-Limited 10" EP (With a Clothing Catalog?), Gigs the Smell's Pancake Brunch on Sunday

Well ... this is weird. The spring catalog by skate clothiers Altamont just arrived in the mail, and has a big-ass picture of No Age's Dean Spunt on the cover. On the back is a photo of Randy Randall being doused with water. Bully for them, getting their pics on the cover of a fancy catalog. Oh, w ... More >>

Kenneth Anger Is a Rolling Stone

Zachary Lazar’s ’60s hash, Sway

Rock Picks: Sunset Junction Street Festival, El Vez, Café Tacuba

Also, Veruca Salt, Mike Einziger, Kings X and Junior Brown

Rock Picks: Exodus, Altamont, Art Ensemble of Chicago and more

For the week of Jan. 18-24

The Red Hearts

She's Got It

Mods & Rockers 2006

Music Picks

For the week of August 3 - 10

Back to the Garden

The music and mythology of Laurel Canyon

Lady Madonna, Festival at Your Feet

"I've never performed at a festival," says Madonna, "and I'm especially excited about playing at Coachella before I start my own tour." Well la-dee-da. What Madonna wants. Madonna gets. But Madonna at Coachella? I don't even know what to think. I love Madonna, but... but... Coachella? I like to w ... More >>

Rock & Dance Club Listings

For February 3 - 9, 2006

Cocks of the Rock

The ear-to-ear assault of the Chelsea Smiles

Fuck Yeah Fest for the Kids

Best-named summer music event is also cheapest, punkest, most youth-friendly

Ruffled Feathers

Audubon sues the DWP for the sake of songbirds

Don’t Mince Birds

Wind power for Los Angeles faces down a new foe

More Viola! More!

The Day-Glo Effect

Exhuming Ken Kesey and Further 40 years after the Acid Tests

Gimme Sheltered

Post-revolutionary Patti

Too High To Die

Coming down with the Meat Puppets

Buckets of Rain

Sam & Dave

The politics of mixology

Too Crazy?

Threads to the Social Order

Edited by Kateri Butler

Chinese Baby Girls attack L.A.!

Edited by Kateri Butler

Loud and Proud

Remembering an American icon

Firesigns of Life

The search continues: Set your clocks forward

Cagey Cretins

Tyranny, mutation and Blue Öyster Cult

The Intuitionist

Colson Whitehead, media junkie

Marilyn:
A Re-Examination

The Decline of Western Civilization Part III: The Tribute Years

The Elixirs

Charles Lloyd on ultrapolation, dehumidification and the sound

Midnight Sun

Pearl Jam’s book of changes