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KDAY Is Closing? A Eulogy to the Best Station in L.A.

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," normally appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] "Remember KDAY?" Tupac asked that question on "To Live & Die in LA," but the answer was obvious. Makaveli never even lived in Southern Califor ... More >>

Music Picks: Bloc Party, Metric, KROQ Acoustic Xmas

The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: 20-11

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time Who are these hipsters we see each day in the streets, on our Tumblr feeds, and on the local news? And why are so many in bands? It's not the mere existence of hipster groups that distress ... More >>

Pop Quiz: What's Your Picnic Style?

Picnics are one of those civic birthrights that redeems living with traffic snarls on the 405 and celebrity divorces superseding the one minute of world event coverage on the evening news. The very bones of the tradition forged by myriad outdoor spaces, summer events, and consistently genial weather ... More >>

Animal's Chefs Have Badass Taste in Music

[Editor's note: Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. Be sure to also check out the archives.] You really haven't heard Kanye West and Jay-Z's "H.A.M." until it plays while you dig into a slab of Animal's balsamic pork ribs, delicata squash, arugula and p ... More >>

Teens Break Into Apple Store on Promenade With Sledgehammer, Take $31K in iProducts

When four L.A. teens hatched a plan to break into the iconic Apple Store along the 3rd Street Promenade last week, theirs wasn't a heisty plot of censor-dodging and lock-popping. Nope. According to Sergeant Richard Lewis at the Santa Monica Police Department, these geniuses simply smashed the glass ... More >>

Conan O'Brien's Workout Mixtape: Stuff White People Like

Last week, we received the following press release: "Curious on how Conan O'Brien maintains his lean physique? It takes hours and hours in the gym -- and to keep his energy up, Conan needs the right kind of music. We we cornered Coco and got him to reveal what's thumping in his headphones while he ... More >>

Christopher Mintz-Plasse: McLovin' Is Finally Cool in His Band The Young Rapscallions

Story by Nicole Pajer As the fake ID-bearing McLovin' in Superbad, Christopher Mintz-Plasse portrayed -- stay with us here -- one of the all-time great on-screen characters. He went on to play the socially awkward, Lair-loving Augie in Role Models and a crime-fighting nerd in Kick Ass. But in real ... More >>

Ernest Cline: The Ready Player One Author's 10 Favorite Songs From John Hughes Movies

While in town for SXSW last week, we checked in with Austin native Ernest Cline, the author of 2011 bestseller Ready Player One. It's sci-fi, but totally readable and compelling; the plot concerns a nerdy overweight teen living in a distopian future America where everyone spends all their time in a ... More >>

Coca-Cola Freestyle: The Soda Machine of the Future ( the Past)

We have seen it, the promised land. The soda dispenser of the future. A machine so sleek it should be in a technology museum and so smart it can dispense more sodas than you can imagine. If you haven't tasted Peach Mello Yello or Raspberry Coke Zero, have you truly lived? We don't normally go gaga ... More >>

Set the Night to Music: Composer Nat Evans Soundtracks a Culver City Sunset

While watching the sun sink at dusk, how many times have you imagined yourself in a movie, an operatic soundtrack swelling as the final moments of light faded? Seattle composer Nat Evans wants to help you realize that fantasy. This Sunday, he's organized an event that literally sets the sunset to mu ... More >>

Westlake Bar Report: Monty

​ The Place: Monty, 1222 W. 7th Street, Los Angeles. The Hours: 8 p.m. - 2 a.m. The Digs: When we heard that Rio Hackford's new Westlake spot Monty was "hot" back in July, we assumed that meant it had swung open its doors, that when we arrived, mugs shimmering in the low golden light woul ... More >>

Marc Maron on KCRW: LA Weekly's Ultimate Guide to the Top 10 Comedy Podcasts

Doug SadlerHost Howard Kremer, guest Zach Galifianakis and co-host Kulap Vilaysack fart up, err chart up the room on the podcast Who Charted?​ As the Buggles once forecasted in their 1980s pop single: "Video Killed the Radio Star." Today, it's more accurate to say that the podcast resurrecte ... More >>

Live Review: We Saw Your Parents Getting Lit at the Jethro Tull Concert

Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.​ We're pretty sure we were getting a second-hand high from your parents Saturday night during the Jethro Tull concert at the Greek Theatre. The audience was an eclectic mix of middle-aged fans, married couples, thirty-somethings and a few awesome dads who brought ... More >>

What's On Dodger Matt Kemp's iPod?

Diamond Bodine-FischerMatt Kemp's first band photo?​We caught up with Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp Thursday during a surprise visit to Bank of America in Burbank where he had been invited to come out and greet people. A way for Bank of America to thank their customers. Everyone was ecstati ... More >>

Jersey Shore's Pauly D, Worst DJ Ever, Makes $50,000 a Night Spinning

djpaulyd.comPauly D's iconic hair.​Worst DJ news ever. While your favorite house jockey has been toiling behind the decks for years trying to make enough to pay her electricity bill, Jersey Shore's Pauly D is pulling down (wait for it ... ) $50,000 per gig. So says the show's co-creator, Sal ... More >>

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Genndy Tartakovsky Talks Sym-Bionic Titan

Have you been watching Sym-Bionic Titan? The Cartoon Network show, which ends its first season Friday night, follows the adventures Lance, Ilana and Octus-- a soldier, princess and robot, respectively-- who flee from their home planet of Galaluna and must now adjust to ordinary high school life whil ... More >>

O.G. Trilogy

In the age of shuffle, rapper Bun B bets on the concept album

New Daft Punk Songs For 'Tron: Legacy' Hit the Interwebs

New Daft Punk Songs For Tron Legacy Hit the Interwebs

Over the Weekend: Miike Snow at El Rey

​ After dancing my ass off at the El Rey on Sunday night, here's what I've successfully established: Miike Snow is not: mythical, Mark Ronson, a lonely Swedish dude, a blinged-out jackelope. Miike Snow is: where the party at, secretly into Phantom of the Opera, responsible for some unexpecte ... More >>

Peruvian Surf Rock's Greatest Hits by Maestro Jose L. Carballo and Brooklyn's Chicha Libre (En Español!)

Peruvian Surf Rock's Greatest Hits by Maestro Jose L. Carballo and Brooklyn's Chicha Libre (En Español!)

The Book of Eli Kicks Ass for Jesus

Denzel Washington preaches the Hughes Brothers' warped postapocalyptic theology

Panic, Despair and Revolution

Yet from industry turmoil, great films arose

The People's Porn Star: Erotica LA Preview with Belladonna

Belladonna: The People's Porn StarDespite seminars like "Expanding Your Orgasm: Backdoor Basics and Beyond With Amy Sung," and shopping for naughty gifts like RealTouch's laptop compatible interactive media massager, according to Erotica LA there is only one reason to attend the convention this year ... More >>

Glass Half Full: A Day and Night of Beauty in L.A.

Beer and sausages, cat fights and cigarettes, and a seat in a hair salon

LA People 2009: Catching Falling Stars — Alex Stickler

Giving L.A.'s dropouts a second chance

Celebrating National Record Store Day: Employees at Houses of the Holy

Featuring members of Abe Vigoda, the Beat Junkies, Pocahaunted, the Sandinistas, and Black Blue, along with DJ Nobody

If the Lakers Were Rappers: A Study in Similitude

Prediction: If Kobe doesn't grow a mullet, the Lakers will take it in June. Kobe Bryant = Kanye West Raised in more affluent circumstances than their peers, Kobe and Kanye are not only among the best in their respective fields, they share a severe lack of humility and empathy. Mutually ol ... More >>

Talking Hip Hop (and Phil Collins) With At the Movies' Ben Lyons

By Brandon Perkins Perhaps if Ben Lyons' movie chops were as obvious as his hip-hop track record, then sites like StopBenLyons.com wouldn't exist. Ever since the E! personality took the helm of the Siskel, Roper and Ebert's beloved At the Movies, Lyons has been berated with more thumbs down than ... More >>

Don't Miss This Show: Oliver Wang on Q-Tip, the Cool Kids (MP3), the Knux and Pacific Division at H.O.B.

Saturday, November 15 Q-Tip, The Cool Kids at House of Blues It has been nine years since Q-Tip's last album yet strangely, it hasn't seemed so long. That says much about the enduring power of Q-Tip's old band, A Tribe Called Quest - guaranteed to be in heavy rotation on iPod playlists for any hi ... More >>

WORN OUT- Last Minute Halloween Costume Ideas Seen On Sunset Strip And Beyond.

Mogwai's Hollyweird Sonics Are Ready for Their Close-Up

Is Scottish rock quintet the "perfect soundtrack for murder"?

Jazzed? But Not Motivated?

The week in fun, June 27-July 3

Rolling on the Coachella Express to Indio

On the Coachella Express, there are a few distinct types of people: the media, which was invited to document the maiden voyage of the Amtrak line that departed LA's Union Station Thursday afternoon, and who wouldn't leave the kids alone. Local LA news crews were doing their two-minute Coachella ... More >>

Morello Jam, Smokin' Date, No A-ttitude

Paranoid Park: The Soundtrack of Their Lives

Skate movie dispenses with the angst, surrounds itself with Nino Rota and Elliott Smith

Hardcore Scores

Son of a Beach

Howdy Partner

Hollywood’s hippest purse buddy

Rock Picks: Detroit Cobras, Gore Gore Girls, MF Doom, Squeeze

For the week of August 9 – 16

What's Smart About Smart Growth?

City Hall's plan for the future expects you to give up the yard, the car - and learn to love density

Must See Art

Bas Jan Ader and Mari Eastman

Rock Picks

For the week of Nov. 30 – Dec. 7

StreetSignism

The new, weird counterculture

Microsoft Wants to Kill Your iPod, Summer Goes Pop!

Music Picks

For the week of June 15 - 22

Young at Heart

Future: Last chance for our theater

Into the Deep

Squinting Into the Sun

How our theater will change over the next decade

Into the Deep