Beck (Musician)

Under-the-Radar Acts to See at Coachella

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Beware any tutorial about the "right way" to do Coachella. Stay sentient, steer clear of phosphorescent forms in spirit hoodies, drink water, and never m ... More >>

The Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, March 4 Jenny O THE SATELLITE Jenny O's just-out new album, Automechanic (on Holy Trinity/Thirty Tigers), is another strong contribution to L.A.'s new-school canyon-country scene. Produced by the supremely versatile Jonathan Wilson, it fits perfectly alongside Father John Misty's recent Fea ... More >>

The Go-Go's: "We Got the Beat" Goes On

Just when you thought how amazing it is that the original lineup of the Go-Go's is still together after 30-plus years, one of them goes and breaks a hip ... well, a wrist. Kathy Valentine will be temporarily replaced by local bass hero Abby Travis for this tour, but with Travis' experience with Beck ... More >>

The 1997 Edition Was the Best MTV Video Music Awards

Tonight is the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards. Now in its 29th year, it's had its share of memorable moments, none more so than during the 1997 broadcast. On the occasion of its 15th anniversary, here's the case for why it was the best VMA's ever televised.

L.A.'s Top Five Actors-Turned-Rappers, Including Warren Beatty

See also: *Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List *Here Are Pictures of Dr. Dre's New $13 Million House Only a decade ago everyone was complaining about how the rappers were taking all of the acting roles in Hollywood. But nowadays the pendulum has swung in the other direct ... More >>

Jack White -The Wiltern - 5/30/12

Jack White The Wiltern 5/30/12 See also: *Our slideshow of the performance *The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time: The Complete List Better than...all of the Dead Weather albums put together. The man who built his career on secrets came to the Wiltern last night. Secret marriages, secret sin ... More >>

Sasquatch! 2012 Wrap-Up: Trivia For The Casual Observer

By Chris Kornelis Sasquatch! went down this past weekend in George, Washington. Test your knowledge of the 2012 edition of the festival in this multiple-choice trivia test. For clues, check out our sister paper Seattle Weekly's coverage of the happenings on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. 1. At w ... More >>

Regent Theatre in Downtown L.A. to Become Performance Venue

Downtown's Regent Theatre -- a Skid Row echo of the movie palaces on Broadway just a couple of blocks west -- has been a first-run cinema, a warehouse, and during the porn heyday of the '70s and '80s, even an adult theatre. Most recently, it's been the site of one-off concerts brought by various pro ... More >>

Why Highland Park Is the New Echo Park

Over the last couple of months I've been doing a lot of what a writer does best -- hanging out in bars and listening to people talk. I live in Echo Park, and around these parts the bar banter is usually centered around one question: what's cool. In L.A., the answer to that changes as quickly as the ... More >>

If You Can Make It Here, You'll Want To Move To New York

Serge Gainsbourg at the Movies

The French cult superstar's new biopic leaves out his multidecade, multivalent film career

Nite Jewel on performing Kraftwerk's Computerworld in L.A. Weekly Re:Play L.A. Series

"Sober People Scare the Shit Out of Me"

Emil Amos of Holy Sons on living off the grid

Found Footage Festival: Back to the Future

One man's trash is another's beloved time capsule

With Godspeed on Our Side

How did an experimental political punk octet become the hottest ticket of the winter?

Os Mutantes Ariel Pink: Return of the Weird

Os Mutantes​That Os Mutantes' edgy brand of psychedelia and Tropicalia continues to get big ups from today's hipster nation (after being championed for years by everybody from Kurt Cobain to Beck to David Byrne) is testimony to the unbending passion in their music. The seminal Brazilian band, ... More >>

Top 5 Strangest Covers of "Freebird," in Honor of Gym Teacher Leonard Skinner, RIP Today

Ok, if you've ever sat through one of those VH1 Behind the Music marathons (and you have), you know that Lynyrd Skynyrd was named after a killjoy Florida gym teacher who hated longhaired hippy rednecks almost as much as longhaired hippy rednecks hated Neil Young's "Southern Man." Well, '60s high sc ... More >>

Chromeo Takes an Ocular Adventure in New Keith Schofield Video

Chromeo Takes an Ocular Adventure in New Keith Schofield Video

Dysfunction Junction

'Mutations' Meets Mutantes: Beck's New Record Club Joint Drafts St. Vincent, Liars, Tropicalia Legends

21st Century Os Mutantes 'Mutations' Auteur Beck!​You know when you're sitting around with your buddies, just chillen, and you start singing along to a favorite record and everyone has a great time? Well, if you're Beck, your buddies are people like the Liars, intensely-staring chanteuse St ... More >>

Charlotte Gainsbourg Reveals Haunting Songs on American Television Debut

Charlotte Gainsbourg Reveals Haunting Songs on American Television Debut

Sounds From Common, Looks From Louis Verdad & Brian Lichtenberg

Remembering Onyx Proprietor John Leech

Tonight at the Smell: The Godfather of Indie, K Records' Calvin Johnson

Among Calvin Johnson's many accomplishments over the course of his illustrious career: He was part of the petri dish that morphed into Sub Pop Records in the early 1980s. He founded K Records in 1982, a label that has gone on to release some of the first and best recordings by Beck, Bikini Kill, ... More >>

TV on the Radio teams with Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O and Nick Zinner at the Wiltern

All photos by Timothy Norris. Click image for entire slideshow. In 1962, at the peak of the Cuban Missile Crisis, James Brown and His Famous Flames stood onstage at Harlem's famed Apollo Theatre and managed to harness the tension that all of America was feeling -- "When will I be blown up?" -- int ... More >>

Live in L.A.: Pop Levi and the Parson Red Heads at the Echo, August 15

Pop Levi and the Parson Red Heads at the Echo, August 15 Photos by Timothy Norris I'm kinda obsessed with this Pop Levi guy right now, and finally saw him Friday night at the Echo during week three of his residency. I tried to catch him on week one, and showed up at 10 o'clock thinking, 'cool, go ... More >>

Islands in the Afternoon, Th' Corn Gangg in the Evening

If you're a fan of Montreal art pop band Islands, who floored us twice this spring at various festivals, you may want to take a half day today, or at least take a long lunch in Santa Monica. The band, who are touring in support of their newly released Arm's Way, are playing at 1 p.m. today at the ... More >>

Annie Lennox: Songs of Mass Destruction

Record review

Thebasement Photos

Lighting theMasque

Exquisite

Unembarrassed and undestroyed, Leonard Cohen at 71

Everything Is Divine Marvelous

Tropicália shimmers anew

Accident at Sea

Unicorns become Islands

Kill the Moonlight

Crumbelievable!

A Mexican and an Irishman Walk Into a Bar...

Love Sculptures

Super Furry Animals’ softer, simpler psychedelia

Bungle in the Jungle

Nightranger

Live in LA

Wise Guy

What We Talk About When We Talk About Harp Players

Joanna Newsom is a riddle wrapped in heartstrings

Wedge Issues

Experiencing Disney Hall

Reach for the Sun

Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, April 27-28

Changing Lanes

The Raw and the Cooked

Edited by Kateri Butler

There’s Something About Geddy

The return of the Flying Hamische

New Tijuana Moods

Reinventing the border with Nor-Tec and Julieta Venegas

Minstrels at the Crossroads

To live and love the blues

Doug Harvey's (Non-Museum) Top 10

Burn, Li'l Debby, Burn