Billy Idol

A Night on the Sunset Strip With Matt Sorum, of Guns N' Roses

[Editor's note: Soon-to-be-award-winning gonzo music journalist Danielle Bacher prowls the late late night scene for West Coast Sound. For this installment, she hit the town with drummer Matt Sorum of Guns N' Roses, the Cult, Velvet Revolver and Camp Freddy.] 10:10 p.m.: Sugar Ray singer Mark McGra ... More >>

We Traveled With the Band Hands to SXSW. Craziness Ensued

This was Los Angeles four-piece Hand's third trek to the festival in the past three years and by far the grandest. With a new van and a new album Synesthesia due to come out in April on Kill Rock Stars, the guys were feeling really good about this year. So good that they foolishly agreed to let me e ... More >>

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - The Fonda Theater - 2/21/13

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds The Fonda Theater 2/21/13 The crowd in the packed Fonda Theater went quiet as a film flickered and began projecting onto the curtain, a documentary about the making of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' new album, Push The Sky Away. It was all the regular stuff -- studio scene ... More >>

Alice In Chains - Club Nokia - 5/31/12

Alice In Chains, Billy Idol, Heart and others Club Nokia 5/31/12 If the riffs are the same and the vocals sound strikingly familiar, is it still the same band? Last night at the Eighth Annual MusiCares MAP Fund Benefit Concert benefit at Club Nokia, the reformed Alice In Chains put that question to ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday

KCRW Broadcast #155 for Saturday, March 10, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Justice, Texas Style Fanatics! I am writing you from the backstage area of the House of Blues down here in Orlando FL. The next four shows are in the Sunshine State. So far, the US leg of the tour has been going ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! The War On Christmas Starts With 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 a veteran of the War on Christmas. It's been a few days now, and I am just emerging ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Dinosaur Jr. Mode

​See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! The Beach Boys' SMiLE: Even Better than Advertised KCRW Broadcast #145 for Saturday, December 17, 2011 Fanatics! I am well into the short tour with Dinosaur Jr. The band have been playing excellently and the audiences have been into it! I sit on J's side ... More >>

The Michael Des Barres Band, Richie Ramone, Roar At Viper Room Leo Fest

Lina Lecaro Michael Des Barres and Steve Stevens get hot in the city.​We got a crash course in Booking 101 last week from recently-returned Viper Room booker Dayle Gloria, whom we joined in planning a duel birthday bash (we're both Aug. 6-ers) at the legendary Sunset Strip venue Saturday night ... More >>

Live Review: The Surreal McCoys (Featuring The Legendary Billy Morrison) at House of Blues and Dragonfly

Jena Ardell.The Surreal McCoys with Billy Morrison at House of Blues.​ WHO: Surreal McCoys WHERE: House of Blues, Dragonfly WHEN: 6/3/11 Who are the Surreal McCoys? Your new favorite cow punk band. We followed them on Friday while they played back-to-back shows at House of Blues and the Dra ... More >>

Music Picks: Breakestra, Slang Chickens, the Muffs, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson

Also Meth Leppard, Tennis With Lord Huron, Kid Infinity and others

This Week in LA Nightlife: Characters, Cannibals, and Horny German Impersonators

Lina LecaroClub Alchemy​ Characters. Personalities. Genuises. This week, we couldn't help but think about the people in LA who always seem to stand out, even in the most audacious of crowds. It's not just how they dress or who they know or even what they do. It's a combination of these and so ... More >>

Music Picks: Nicole Eva Emery, Hard NYE, Peter and the Wolf,

Also, Jesus Makes the Shotgun Sound, Octavius, Cosmologic and others

Music Picks: Sweaters, Jonathan Richman, Hanni El Khatib, Henry Rollins

Also, Aloe Blacc, Maren Parusel, the Greenhornes and others

Nightranger: REDRUM & RITZ

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 >>

JACK NICHOLSON DOES THE TIME WARP!

Former Saved By the Bell Star Joins Jack Nicholson in Rocky Horror Picture Show Tribute (a.k.a. The Greatest Thing Ever to Happen to Mario Lopez)

myprettyrose/Photobucket​Some serious stars have aligned to pay tribute to the 35th anniversary of cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show this month at the Wiltern. On October 28th, Jack Nicholson will lead a cast of movie reenactors including Danny Devito, Billy Idol, Evan Rachel Wood of ... More >>

Iggy and the Stooges by Shepard Fairey

File under "How Cool Is This": Local icon-maker (much like Echo Park's own Andrei Rublev!) Shepard Fairey has just released a very limited edition print of Iggy and the Stooges celebrating Columbia Record's revamping of the Raw Power franchise. Print it yourself for free here: Shepard Fairey̴ ... More >>

Guest Blogger: '(500) Days of Summer' Co-Screenwriter Scott Neustadter on Music & Film

By Scott Neustadter​ Editor's note: Screenwriter Scott Neustadter struck gold in 2009 with his script for (500) Days of Summer, which he co-wrote with Michael H. Weber. The film, shot in downtown Los Angeles, stars Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and viewers watch the rise and fall ... More >>

Interview: Slash Talks LAYN Rocks Benefit Concert, Reveals Surprise Guest Steven Adler

Erin BroadleySlash... not on a jet to Vegas​There's an old photograph in Slash's autobiography of him and actor Charlie Sheen on a private jet, where they're probably headed to Las Vegas. Sheen wears the guitar legend's signature black top hat and mugs for the camera, while Slash, Heineken in ... More >>

WORN OUT: Obama Chic at the Emmy Parties. Oh Yeah!

Cheech and Chongin' It

Also, Eastside story, Billy Idol's Face and more

LAFF 2008: Gardening at Night

Scott Hamilton Kennedy is one of the whitest looking white guys you’ll meet, and yet he makes movies about South Central L.A. that come from a real place of knowing. Of course, OT: OUR TOWN was on one level just a movie about his girlfriend (now wife), but she also happened to be a drama teacher i ... More >>

Billy Morrison

Making a splash

Fuck the DNA

The evolution continues with the return of Genesis P-Orridge and Psychic TV

Rock Picks

For the week of July 12 – 19

P.S. I Don't Love You, Patti. Smith, not Smyth

Goodbye to you

The Gospel According to Cee-Lo

The poet of Gnarls Barkley reveals the broken-but-beating heart of an unlikely hit

Rock Picks

For the week of September 14–21

Get Your Cover On

On rock-tribute albums by Nouvelle Vague and Susanna & the Magical Orchestra, old is the new new...

Electric/Acoustic

Finger-Pickin' Good

Japanese Metal (It's Aaaall Fuuucked Uuuppp!)

DIR EN GREY, OPIATE FOR THE MASSES at the Wiltern LG, March 23

Bang Bang Rock & Roll

Art Brut! Art Brut!

The Year in Live Music

Who is Your Musical Hero?

Rebel Yelp

Fear of Music

South by Southwest 2005, as told by its survivors

Putting Faith in Dog

Hard ROQ

Skulls and Flowers

Hollywood Rap

Tired of movie roles going to rappers, the Fronterz crew made a movie about it

Doctors of Apeshit

?Quién Es Palestino?

The Face of Pirate Cat Radio

Screwing the Airwaves Since 1997

Homage to Catatonia

A history of drugs and the movies

Welcome to the Machine

The musician and the development deal

Happy Fucking Birthday, Asshole

The best of Sitegeist

Happy Fucking Birthday, Asshole

A Day in the Life

Bob Mould gets personal about it