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May 9, 2012
Off! - Whisky a Go Go - 5/8/12
Off! Whisky a Go Go 5/8/12 See also: Off!'s Keith Morris Mouths Off, Before the Group's Show at the Whisky Tomorrow Better than... a keg party at Ian McKaye's house. Somewhere between a rock and roll history lesson and a lock-in at the Punk Rock Rec Center, Keith Morris and his supergroup Off! ... More >>
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May 7, 2012
Off!'s Keith Morris Mouths Off, Before the Group's Show at the Whisky Tomorrow
See also: Still a Malcontent: A midlife crisis spawns Keith Morris' new band Off! In this week's music feature we get inside the heads of punk rock "supergroup" Off! on the eve of the release their self-titled debut album. (They hate that term, btw.) The group, which is led by former Black Flag and ... More >>
Music
May 3, 2012
Still a Malcontent
A midlife crisis spawns Keith Morris' new band Off!
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April 9, 2012
Greg Ginn On Black Flag Nostalgia and His Band The Royal We
See also: Coachella Preview 2012: Everything You Need to Know About the Performers Greg Ginn is primarily known as the driving force and only constant member of Black Flag, which is unfortunate as he's done a lot since the Flag broke up 25 years ago. He's so tired of talking about it that he rarely ... More >>
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February 9, 2012
Henry Rollins: The Column! I'm Not Dead Yet
[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.] A few days ago, I was sitting backstage at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, in the same area ... More >>
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February 3, 2012
Abigaile, Kitchen 24 to Open Monday
Monday, Feb. 6, sees two restaurant openings: Abigaile in Hermosa Beach and Kitchen 24 in West Hollywood. Like a phoenix, Abigaile rises from the ashes of Union Cattle Co., which closed in January. Same owner (Jed Sanford), new concept (upscale American brasserie), new chef (Max DiMare of Wood Taver ... More >>
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January 26, 2012
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 >>
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January 12, 2012
Henry Rollins: The Column! The Time I Made a Punk Rocker Cry
[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.] Weeks ago, my L.A. Weekly super editor Ben Westhoff asked me about my plans for 2012. I told h ... More >>
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January 12, 2012
Union Cattle Co. Closing; Becoming Abigaile
This Sunday, South Bay local Jed Sanford will close down a Hermosa Beach landmark. Union Cattle Co. will shutter for a month-long overhaul and will reopen in early February as Abigaile, an upscale American brasserie with touches of Italian, French and Spanish influence. The chef is Max DiMare of Woo ... More >>
Music
December 22, 2011
Black Flag's Damaged Changed Punk, and L.A.
30 Years Later, Its Impact Is Still Felt
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December 19, 2011
GV30: Black Flag, Descendents, The Vandals - Santa Monica Civic Auditorium - 12-18-2011
Javier CabralKeith Morris and Chuck Dukowski of Black FlagSee also: *Reviewed: GV30 Night One, featuring Social Distortion, X, Adolescents, 12-16-2011 *Tons Of Punk Videos Were Yanked Off YouTube: Here's What Happened *Milo Aukerman Interview: The Descendents Attempt To Clone Themselves Las ... More >>
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December 16, 2011
Tons Of Punk Videos Yanked Off YouTube: Here's What Happened
Robert KenneyGreg Ginn, second from leftBy Nicholas Pell On Wednesday morning, several punk bands awoke to find their videos had been removed from YouTube. They were understandably irritated; that's almost worse than running out of beer. In their places were notes that they'd been yanked d ... More >>
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December 1, 2011
Henry Rollins: The Column! The Time I Drank The Sweat From My Socks
[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.] Florida is a crazy place and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here. I ... More >>
Film+TV
November 3, 2011
The Other F Word Review
[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.] Florida is a crazy place and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here. I ... More >>
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September 26, 2011
The Five Most Underrated East L.A. Backyard Punk Bands Of All Time
Javier CabralSee also: *East L.A. Backyard Punk Scene Rages On As Uninhibited and Intoxicated As Ever *The Five Best East L.A. Backyard Punk Bands *Reviewed: Stomp-Outz, The Lumberjacks, Who Gives A Fuck in a Backyard on West 79th St. Last week I wrote about movers and shakers on the curren ... More >>
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September 22, 2011
The Many Travels of Henry Rollins
Javier CabralSee also: *East L.A. Backyard Punk Scene Rages On As Uninhibited and Intoxicated As Ever *The Five Best East L.A. Backyard Punk Bands *Reviewed: Stomp-Outz, The Lumberjacks, Who Gives A Fuck in a Backyard on West 79th St. Last week I wrote about movers and shakers on the curren ... More >>
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July 11, 2011
The Real "LA Ink": Fletcher Dragge Of Pennywise Opens 3rd St. Tattoo
The South Bay has been more than influential in the punk rock scene worldwide since the early 1980's- a legendary scene that has produced fashions, trends, and music that reach far beyond the confines of Southern California and even the U.S. Hermosa Beach itself has churned out legends like Black ... More >>
Music
June 23, 2011
Music to Pick Up/Download
The South Bay has been more than influential in the punk rock scene worldwide since the early 1980's- a legendary scene that has produced fashions, trends, and music that reach far beyond the confines of Southern California and even the U.S. Hermosa Beach itself has churned out legends like Black ... More >>
Music
June 2, 2011
Page Two: Cerebral Ballzy Are Brainy, Nuts
The South Bay has been more than influential in the punk rock scene worldwide since the early 1980's- a legendary scene that has produced fashions, trends, and music that reach far beyond the confines of Southern California and even the U.S. Hermosa Beach itself has churned out legends like Black ... More >>
LA Life
May 19, 2011
Igloo Tornado: Fan Friction
The South Bay has been more than influential in the punk rock scene worldwide since the early 1980's- a legendary scene that has produced fashions, trends, and music that reach far beyond the confines of Southern California and even the U.S. Hermosa Beach itself has churned out legends like Black ... More >>
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March 23, 2011
LA Punk Supergroup OFF! Arrested in Arizona for Hippiest Crime Ever
Pitchfork reports that LA punk supergroup OFF!, the hard-working outfit led by Black Flag and Circle Jerks' Keith Morris, has been arrested in Arizona and is facing trial. What for, you might ask? Fighting the power? Failing to prove US citizenship? Stickering and skating? Shooting a man in ... More >>
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March 9, 2011
SXSW Bands from A-Z: M-Q
Here we are once again, with our servicey enterprise that's both informative and educational. A mix of genres awaits you at the jump as we go through awesome bands in M-Q playing SXSW official showcases.
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February 17, 2011
HENRY + GLENN = K-I-S-S-I-N-G
Here we are once again, with our servicey enterprise that's both informative and educational. A mix of genres awaits you at the jump as we go through awesome bands in M-Q playing SXSW official showcases.
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February 3, 2011
"Hardcore Is a Complete, Legitimate California-born Music Form": An Interview with "American Hardcore" Author Steven Blush, Who Speaks Today at Book Soup with Keith Morris and Others
In his 2001 compendium, American Hardcore: A Tribal History, New York writer and former promoter Steven Blush all but dispensed with your dad's glamorized spit-scabs-and-safety-pin punk, instead focusing on hundreds of DIY, anarchic hardcore bands from the scene's peak between 1980 and 198 ... More >>
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December 17, 2010
Jane's Addiction's "Nothing's Shocking": The Word Cloud
Hey gang--guess what popular West Coast Sound feature is back? The Word Cloud! The 'Cloud has been M.I.A. for a few months, but we're restarting this Friday tradition with a great one--as per usual very suitable for making stencils and T-shirt iron-ons. For those of you with memories oblit ... More >>
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December 3, 2010
The LA Times Uncovers Echo Park Gentrification with Insane, LULZy Trend Piece!
Echo Park: Gentrifying itself since 1984It's generally a bad idea to mock our fellow old-media LA institution the LA Times too much because a) it's too easy and b) they've been known to hire LA Weekly music editors after their stint in our gleaming Culver City cube (hi Randall!) However, ... More >>
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November 18, 2010
THE SPITTLE SCREEN
Echo Park: Gentrifying itself since 1984It's generally a bad idea to mock our fellow old-media LA institution the LA Times too much because a) it's too easy and b) they've been known to hire LA Weekly music editors after their stint in our gleaming Culver City cube (hi Randall!) However, ... More >>
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November 9, 2010
Off! Releases New MP3 -- Seconds Of Pleasure Within (NSFW)
Keith Morris, Steven McDonald, Mario Rubalcaba and Dimitri Coats are Off!, the rippin'-est "supergroup" since the Wylde Ratttz, and today they release a 34-second track from the fourth of the four EPs due for eventual collection and release on Vice later this month. It's called "Full Of ... More >>
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October 15, 2010
Live Review: OFF!, Redd Kross (aka Red Cross) and Scream at Club Lingerie
Diamond Bodine-FischerOFF! at Club LingerieClub Lingerie, Hollywood. Last Wednesday evening. By 9:30 the line wrapped around the block, by 10 a roomful of people shuffled their feet, snuck looks at the crowd around them and sipped their beer. Around 10:30 Keith Morris -- founder of Black Fl ... More >>
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October 13, 2010
LA Punk Revival Show: Tonight Redd Kross and Scream join Keith Morris (Black Flag, Circle Jerks) and Raymond Pettibon's OFF! EP Release Party
Here's a little last-minute communication from Keith Morris (Black Flag, Circle Jerks) and his new band OFF!: TONIGHT at CLUB LINGERIE in Hollywood! Surprise guests are RED CROSS (performing the early punk hits) followed by SCREAM (original lineup)! OFF! is on first at 10pm so hurry across t ... More >>
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October 5, 2010
Interview: Beloved DJ Joe Sib On Growing Up Punk Rock in LA
Joe Sib, unpluggedJoe Sib -- Side One Dummy Records co-owner, former Wax frontman and former Indie 103.1 DJ (he currently hosts Complete Control on Star 98.7) -- gets nostalgic in his one-man show, California Calling: Growing Up Punk Rock, which he's been touring for a year and performs at th ... More >>
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September 30, 2010
KNOW YOUR PUNK
Joe Sib, unpluggedJoe Sib -- Side One Dummy Records co-owner, former Wax frontman and former Indie 103.1 DJ (he currently hosts Complete Control on Star 98.7) -- gets nostalgic in his one-man show, California Calling: Growing Up Punk Rock, which he's been touring for a year and performs at th ... More >>
Music
September 2, 2010
Q&A: The FYF Fest
Joe Sib, unpluggedJoe Sib -- Side One Dummy Records co-owner, former Wax frontman and former Indie 103.1 DJ (he currently hosts Complete Control on Star 98.7) -- gets nostalgic in his one-man show, California Calling: Growing Up Punk Rock, which he's been touring for a year and performs at th ... More >>
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August 3, 2010
LA Punk Supergroup OFF! (Featuring Members of Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Redd Kross, Etc.) Signs with Vice Records
Raymond Pettibon will provide art for OFF!'s Vice Records debutWe previewed in our print section a few months ago the live presentation of OFF!, the Keith Morris-led quartet featuring members of Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Redd Kross, Burning Brides and Earthless, and the art of Raymond Pettibo ... More >>
Music
April 29, 2010
Off! That Outsider Feeling
Black Flag's Keith Morris and iconic artist Raymond Pettibon reignite the DIY punk fuse
Blogs
April 28, 2010
What Do Justin Bieber and Black Flag Have in Common?
[From one of our sibling alt-weeklies, St. Louis' Riverfront Times, comes this LA-related find by music editor Annie Zaleski:] According to this Etsy listing, "Both groups have caused riots, both embrace DIY." Someone named Josiah Hughes is selling the following home-screened T-shirt, which feature ... More >>
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February 12, 2010
Tupac's 'All Eyez on Me': The LA Weekly Word Cloud [NSFW]
West Coast Sound has been analyzing classic Los Angeles albums for the past six months by creating word clouds from the lyrics. We've tackled Black Flag's Damaged, the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, N.W.A's Straight Outta Compton, Guns 'n Roses' Appetite for Destruction and, most recently, just for kicks, ... More >>
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February 4, 2010
Tonight in NYC: Sebastian Meissner and Kwartludium Adapt SST Records Output
This struck us as a potentially fascinating exercise that we would love to see tonight --except it's in New York. German electronic producer Sebastian Meissner (aka Klimek) is teaming up with Polish avant-classical group Kwartludium to present "Solid State Transmitters," an homage to great LA label ... More >>
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December 1, 2009
Black Flag Word Cloud: 'Damaged' Boiled to Its Essence
In an ongoing effort to better understand the many classic albums of Los Angeles, we've come upon an equation that gets to the heart of the matter without much thinking, analysis, verbiage or any of those other "old-model" music criticism techniques that have become obsolete. Specifically, wo ... More >>
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November 12, 2009
LA Ink's Corey Miller: "I'm a Grateful, Old-School Kind of Carny"
Powerflex 5 via MySpaceSt. Louis is hosting a tattoo convention and Nick Lucchesi at our sister paper The Riverfront Times scored an interview with LA Ink's Corey Miller, reality star (he's the one on the show without the boobs), surf rocker, punk rock lifestyle decorator, and self-described ... More >>
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October 30, 2009
Got a Black Flag Bars Tattoo? Get It Photographed for Art Book This Weekend
Barred for life? Black Flag's four bars, that is? Philadelphia writer Stewart Ebersole invites tattooed fans of the legendary hardcore band inked with their famous Raymond Pettibon-designed logo to be a part of his upcoming book Barred for Life (estimated publication in 2010). ****More hardcore th ... More >>
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June 17, 2009
25 Years of 'Double Nickels on the Dime': Celebrating Los Angeles, 1984
The 25th Anniversary of the Summer of LA Post-Punk is upon us. It was a quarter-century ago this month that San Pedro's best, the Minutemen, with a simple, defiant declaration -- "Take That, Huskers!" -- unleashed Double Nickels on the Dime, a double-album response to SST labelmate Husker Du's equal ... More >>
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May 14, 2009
ROCK & ROLLS OF FILM
The 25th Anniversary of the Summer of LA Post-Punk is upon us. It was a quarter-century ago this month that San Pedro's best, the Minutemen, with a simple, defiant declaration -- "Take That, Huskers!" -- unleashed Double Nickels on the Dime, a double-album response to SST labelmate Husker Du's equal ... More >>
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April 23, 2009
Mike Watt Interviewed by Ian Svenious for Soft Focus
Not many people have acknowledged that this June will be the 25th anniversary of the release of the Minutemen's seminal Double Nickels on the Dime. As part of an ongoing celebration of that monumental, transformative album, we'll be tossing up classic Minutemen moments in the coming few months. Th ... More >>
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April 20, 2009
Ten Great Cover Songs from Coachella 2009 (and a few extras)
Timothy NorrisEven the machinery was flashing the horns. Nothing says "I love you" like a cover song. Artists at Coachella like to acknowledge their influences, love to thrill the crowd with a surprise singalong. This year bands drew from music of many genres, from ragtime to post punk to hip hop. ... More >>
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April 2, 2009
New Book to Arrive on Black Flag Tattoos, and the People Who Get Them (MP3)
Rednecks and punks alike understand the unspoken power of FOUR BARS. The Daily Swarm has a great post on a new photography book coming out called Barred for Life, featuring people who have Black Flag's iconic four-bar logo tattooed on their body.
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December 25, 2008
Weiss' 50 Best Albums of the Year (#40-31) (Sponsored By Crystal Pepsi)
If you're going to drink one clear cola this year, make it Crystal Pepsi. Please.40. No Age-Nouns (Sub Pop) Face it, *Nouns* is this decade's *Let it Be* (The Replacements, not The Beatles): A ragtag posse of scruffy dudes sonically illustrating their homes with spectacular tunes and pure passi ... More >>
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December 14, 2008
Idealist Propaganda: The Raw Power of Glen E. Friedman
Photos by Erin Broadley. Click images for entire Idealist Propaganda slideshow."Search and Destroy" funnels out onto the 10:30 p.m. Saturday Sunset Blvd. sidewalk, violently greeting late-arrivals to Glen E. Friedman's Idealist Propaganda exhibit. Iggy's cocaine cacophony carves up Tymphanic cavitie ... More >>
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May 15, 2008
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February 29, 2008
Jeffrey Lewis (Interviewed) & Crass (Covered): Part 2 of 3
Jeffrey Lewis: "Whereas the Sex Pistols you might hear that played in any given venue. They probably get played in the Gap or something... The Fugs and Crass, though, you just don't hear them in polite society."
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