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Bizarre Tidbits Hidden in the Children's Audio Tour at the Getty

One of the best things about the Getty Museum is its free-ness. And included in that free-ness is free use of iPods that offer audio tours of the museum. Most pieces of artwork on premises have corresponding numbers -- enter the number into your iPods and get a thoughtful, scholarly analysis of said ... More >>

Should My Band Hire a Publicist?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Why Is There So Much Indie Rock on Television? Music Supervisor Alexandra Patsavas Explains

It's hard not to notice: Indie bands seemingly soundtrack just about every sitcom, film and television commercial today. But why? Influential music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas swears it's not just about cheap labor. "It's far more of a creative decision than a monetary one," she says. "We're pick ... More >>

Ask a Failed Musician: What Defines Success In This Weird Industry?

[Welcome to Ask a Failed Musician, in which writer Daniel Hopkins helps struggling musicians make sense of their careers and offers some advice. Whether or not it will work, who knows? It obviously didn't work for him. But then again, he was on Kimmel once, so there's that.] See also: Advice to Eve ... More >>

Ten Rap Songs More Republican Than Nicki Minaj

Earlier this week Nicki Minaj stepped in a fresh pile of political shit when she, in an attempt to stir the pot on a "Mercy" freestyle remix, rapped that she is voting for Mitt Romney. People stupid enough to think anything Minaj does or says matters were outraged, and some even sent her death threa ... More >>

iPod-Powered Vibrators: We Masturbate To Jack White's Music

​Music-powered vibrators. What a concept! The original, from a company called OhMiBod, has a cigar-shaped design that you plug into an iPod; the vibrating stimulus matches the beat of the song playing. But now there's a pair of fancier new wireless versions, and, guess what? We test drove ... More >>

9 Best High-Tech Vibrators to Buy for Your Valentine, Reviewed by our Experts

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D3, an Artist Collective That Will Destroy the '90s Mixtape Your Ex-Boyfriend Made You

Ever find yourself toting around boxes of unknown childhood memories? Hey, sentimentality can be burdensome. Maybe that's why those New Year's Eve celebrations where people just chuck things into the garbage are so popular. The names of ex-boyfriends and other heartstring-ripping past-year traumas h ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Masochism Has Its Benefits

​[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 Bristol, England. The cold outside has permeated the walls of the utilitarian bac ... More >>

Let's Be Honest: Concerts Are Too Fucking Loud

Chris Reed​By Gabrielle Canon Everyone likes to argue about which bands are the best. But there's one thing everyone agrees on - louder is better. At the end of the day, we all seem to want amps that go to 11. Concerts these days are louder than just about anything else in daily life, unless ... More >>

Don't Panic at the Disco

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Top 5 Songs That Will Sabotage Your Office Holiday Party

5 Songs That Will Sabotage Your Office Holiday Party

Turnovers & Turntables: Taking A Spin at The Redbury Hotel

Lina Lecaro At Redbury, turntables come with directions, iPod docks don't. ​Chocolates on the bed, fruit baskets, iPod docks, free porn... yada, yada. Special little touches like these are nice when staying in a hotel, but after our tour of grand new Redbury in Hollywood last week, we think it ... More >>

Sally Seltmann, Jasmine Ash

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

School Board to Cut $1.6B The LAUSD has voted to make deep cuts in a three-year budget, almost guaranteeing further layoffs and the elimination of summer school. L.A. TimesHollywood Denies Murder Former pot dealer and fugitive Jesse James Hollywood told a Santa Barbara jury he did not order the murd ... More >>

12 Consumer Products That Should Not Have Exploded But Did: Recall-a-rama

In honor of April Fools, I give you a dozen consumer products (and one nuclear battleship) that should not have exploded but unfortunately did. Or, in the case of the ship, could. These are all true. (Except for the last one.) As usual, the joke is on the hapless consumer. 1. Electrolux Vacuum Cle ... More >>

The Day the Muzak Died

Muzak has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection -- but it doesn't put the blame on illegal downloads of its marzipanny melodies. Instead, the company pointed to longstanding debt and the cancellation of contracts by companies put out of business during the recession. A New York Times notice men ... More >>

East Side Stories

The Eastsider L.A. blog mixes up some nice ruminations on the effect of the economy on housing developments, as well as an alert on Tweaker Tom. The site notes that the new Durbin condos going up on Echo Park Avenue and Delta are due to be shown to prospective buyers (at $400k and up) in April -- ev ... More >>

Slapping Skins and Sins at Cinespace; Guitar Center's Drum-Off; Dragstrip 66

Foot Village Releases New Friendship Nation on State of the Art "Cassette" Technology

Queer Town: Apple Donates to No on 8

Apple, the company that created the iPod and the iPhone, has given $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign, Andrew Sullivan at the Daily Dish reports. Apple very publicly stated its position on its start page today, which may make a whole bunch of gay men wear their iPods in the gym with a little more prid ... More >>

Capitol's Vinyl Series: A Storied Label Digs in its Crates, Uncovers Some Gems

Yeah, it's easy to pile on the major labels these days for all their foul-ups and foibles, for their lawsuits and their protectionism, for single-minded focus on money at the expense of dignity (see below blurry photo of Coldplay banner sullying the roof of the majestic Capitol Building of this su ... More >>

Confessions of a Promo-CD Junkie: Who Will Stop the Music Industry Gravy Train?

With so much music available at the click of a mouse, do tastemakers really need hard copies anymore? Is it worth the waste?

Pitchfork Festival Day 1-The Airing of Grievances

A Pitchfork seems like the appropriate emblem. After all, it's been a hellish last two days, culminating with this moment right now, my friends already having set off for the festival at the absurdly early crack of noon, abandoning me to pump Fela on my iPod in a Chicago Barnes and Noble, spitting ... More >>

Staycation? Go to the Bowl Instead

Bacon Bras & Other Meat Accessories

What’s with the meat? Our web editor brought in his bacon wallet a few days ago. Then one of our computer guys said that he had a bacon wallet, too. He muttered something about “bringing home the bacon.” There are all kinds of meat-themed accessories to be had these days. (1) Here’s a Ra ... More >>

It's not the technology stupid!: Romantic & pragmatic thoughts on what consumers want from recorded music

CDs are kind of fucked, but so are radical new models of music consumption. The key to selling music is still not about convenience, price, or practicality. It is about obsession and possession and most of all object fetish.

The Parson Redheads-”Got It All”

The Parson Redheads make sunny day music. I noted this in my Stylus review for last year's King Giraffe. It is now springtime in Los Angeles and everything is 85 degrees and radiant and glowing and even dedicated cranks such as myself have trouble being unhappy in these moments. This is when the P ... More >>

Bedroom Confidential: New Crop of Boutique Record Labels in Town

Corporate counterparts may want to study this model

Hot off the Grill

And CHOLO a go-go

Sucking in the '70s

How deep is your love?

Mood Indigo

Blue Velvet’s Kris Morningstar cooks for the night

Feb. 16, 2007

Choc Nitty�s All-Star Ghetto Mixtape Tour by Sam Slovick and Glow: photographs and text by Matthew Pillsbury

G L O W

Photographs and text by Matthew Pillsbury

Phone Sex, Kiss-offs and Showmances

Hollywood starts new year with a bang

Erased

More or Less

Best Sunken Lair For Techno-Geeks

The Teddybears' Picnic

Meet Sweden�s newest black-metallers-turned-pop-tarts!

Driven to Sew

Looking on the Dark Side

Soul Love

Ten questions with Soul Sides creator � and album curator � Oliver Wang

The Blog That Refreshes

Tony Pierce

L.A. Theater 2006: The Thinning Gray Line

Past: Is theater facing an audience die-off?

Natural History � Gogo

Breaking the museum sound barrier

The Muses on the Tube

Another stroke of bad luck

I found out about Ariel Sharon's second stroke on Thursday morning, just as I was leaving Los Angeles for a three-day trip to Philadelphia.  The circumstances necessitating my trip were sad.  They involved the terminal illness of my father-in-law whose sickness seemed to disprove the exist ... More >>

Blogs & iPods & Jay-Z & (non-ironic) Metal

The Hipster�s musical year-end predictions and post-game analysis

Of Mice and Gorillaz

Panoramic producer Danger Mouse orchestrated some of 2005�s most memorable moments. He�s just warming up