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The Definitive Guide to the Music of The Big Lebowski

L.A. Weekly is celebrating The Big Lebowski's 15th anniversary with a massive cover story tribute! Check out our other Lebowski-themed stories. Not doing so would be very un-Dude. The Dude's identity is strongly informed by music. As a former Metallica roadie and free love-era denizen still trying ... More >>

Music Picks: Eagle Rock Festival, New Order, Madonna

RIP Spin Print Edition (Probably): Why We Loved the Magazine

After being purchased by Buzzmedia last week, Spin Magazine looks to be on its last legs -- the magazine part of it, anyway. Though Buzzmedia representatives haven't said it's going digital-only, they haven't committed to maintaining the print edition, either. It seems likely that we won't see much ... More >>

Oh Ziggy You're So Fine

L.A. Traffic Makes Us More Creative and Other Revelations From Jonah Lehrer's New Book Imagine

With his third book, Imagine, neuroscience researcher Jonah Lehrer (Proust Was a Neuroscientist, How We Decide) answers the question "Where does creativity come from?" with some questions of his own: Why do long jogs inspire jolts of insight? How did anybody dream up Scotch tape before Scotch tape e ... More >>

A New Album Release, 40 Years Late

Geoff Barrow's Protege Anika on Politics and Pissing Off Pop-Culture Consumers

​See also: Our interview with Portishead's Geoff Barrow With her faltering deadpan, spare dubby grooves and post-punk clanking, Anika's eponymous debut album on Stones Throw is political, a substance-over-style snub at standard music biz fare and the many who love it. A former music promoter ... More >>

Occupy L.A.: Street Musicians Reign at City Hall

So we were wondering what kind of music was popular at Occupy L.A., the anti-Wall Street demonstration the surrounds Los Angeles City Hall night and day, and took a drive to downtown to find out. But rather than people listening to their favorite bands on iPods or whatever, we soon came to realize ... More >>

Top 10 Music Managers Who Fucked Over Their Clients

The family Knowles in happier times​In light of the surprising news over the reasons Beyonce fired her longtime manager (and longtime father for that matter) Mathew Knowles, we remembered a time when scummy managers were not only the norm, but expected. Here are the Top 10 Managers in Music Hi ... More >>

Music to Pick Up/Download

Dive Bar Report: Kibitz Room

Vidalia/FlickrThe scene at a benefit show.​ The Place: Kibitz Room, 419 N. Fairfax Ave., West Hollywood; (323) 651-2030. The Hours: Every day from 10:30 a.m. to 2 a.m. The Deals: Well, that can be a relative term in a dive bar. What did we think? Turn the page to find out...

Why Esperanza Spalding Matters (Sorry, Justin Bieber Fanatics--She Does)

TheGrio​ [Here at LA Weekly, we're honored to count with the services of LA's Top Jazz Journalist, the inimitable Brick Wahl. We asked Brick to weigh in on the Esperanza Spalding Grammy upset. Brick has been an Esperanza fan from way back, and he was happy to put it all in context for us (and ... More >>

Music Picks: Iannis Xenakis Now and Tomorrow, Ozzy Osbourne, War Tapes, Liz Pappademas

Also, Savage Republic, Tanya Morgan, the Church, the Fling and others

Henry Rollins Column: How to Talk to Right Wing Talk Show Callers

Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins will be contributing a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every Friday and make sure to tune ... More >>

Henry Rollins: Out of Africa and Into the Land of Acting Without a Script (with Cameo Appearance by Princess Leia and His Favorite Dylan Song)

Timothy NorrisHenry Rollins' Weird Record Academy for the Open of Ears: Last night at the Echoplex​ [For more exclusive shots from Henry Rollins' event last night, see Timothy Norris' slideshow 'Henry Rollins @ The Echoplex'.] I am back from Africa. That was a long haul. From Entebbe, Uganda ... More >>

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY GIRL!

Phil Collins Tells Rolling Stone He's Contemplated Suicide -- Well So Have We, Every Time We've Ever Listened To 'In The Air Tonight'

Last.fmThe last thing we saw before we slit our wrists​This week's issue of Rolling Stone featured an EXCLUSIVE interview with Sting -- er, Phil Collins. (Remember when RS wrote about shit that was relevant, instead of resorting to a loop of Mick Jagger career retrospectives and top-5,000 list ... More >>

The Sausage Stand at the Echo

A music innovator and sound impressionist gets inspired by the life customizers of Echo Park

Swing Low, Sweet Mavis

Producer Daniel Lanois in Intensive Care after LA Motorcycle Accident

​The NME reports that producer and performer Daniel Lanois, known for his atmospheric collaborations with Brian Eno, U2 and Bob Dylan, suffered a motorcycle accident in LA that forced him to postpone a UK tour. The report is not specific as to the details: The Quebec-born musician/producer, b ... More >>

IF YOU KNEW LULA

East Coast Clobbers West Coast in 2009 Pazz & Jop Music Poll

Well, if you're keeping track at home, the so-called "west coast sound" got clobbered this year in the Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll of the year's best music. And when we say "clobbered," we actually mean "beaten to a bloody pulp." Consider this: In the list of the top 100 albums o ... More >>

New Bob Dylan Video is a Merry Christ-mess!

Our favorite Malibu resident, Bob Dylan, has just released a new video for his contribution to the Xmas carol tradition, "Must Be Santa." The song, from his charity holiday album Christmas in the Heart, goes all klezmer on the Christian holiday, perhaps to remind us that, after all, all these belie ... More >>

Tiny Tim Returns

ROCK PICKS: Black Francis, Bob Dylan, Caroline Weeks, Casiokids

Also, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, The Dodos, Buddy Guy and others

This Week in LA Weekly: Jerkin', Sunn 0))), Amanda Blank, LA Ladies Choir, More

This week's hard copy of the LA Weekly is packed with useful music information, news, profiles, and music picks (if we do say so ourselves). Haven't gotten around to grabbing one yet? Here's what you'll see: Star ForemanLA Ladies Choir​ Jeff Weiss has written an in-the-trenches feature on th ... More >>

Rock Picks: Electric Daisy Carnival, Explosion in the Sky, Rodriguez

Also, DAT Politics, Mika Miko, Etta James and others

The Drop Edge of Yonder: Rudy Wurlitzer Rides Nowhere Again

The Eastern Western

Michael Reich's Videothing.com Captures the Essence of L.A.'s Underground

TV party tonight

Blog This: 2007’s Best Films

No argument about this list

Rock Picks: The Police, Sage Francis, Radio Birdman and more

For the week of June 14 - 21

Love, Love, Love

The romantic songs that shape our hearts: A special Valentine’s Day report

The Year Blogs Got Lame, Business Got Hip and Nostalgia Was King

No cartooning today

All three of these bear the date 11/25/84.  I remember some details of the day.  I was a freshman art student at Rutgers University and had just gotten the thick black frame glasses, modeled more on Arthur Miller and Jean Paul Sartre than Woody Allen, that I still wear today.  It was ... More >>

People-Watching

Who is Your Musical Hero?

What We Talk About When We Talk About Harp Players

Joanna Newsom is a riddle wrapped in heartstrings

Every Now and Then He Falls Apart

Seeing Bright Eyes in the big picture

Call me Nostradamus

10 signs of the apocalypse

The Contemporaries

Time of the Session

When the music was fast, and the players anonymous

The Story in the Soil

The Omaha rock scene, the world of the flyover people, the future of the music business, and one vicious head wound

Dial EM for Mussels

Too Much i' the Sun

The festival regurgitated

Waiting to Inhale

Do Right Man

Back on Track With Solomon Burke

Stud on the Tracks

The freewheeling Steve Malkmus, when hard, is about 8 inches

The Decline of Western Civilization Part III: The Tribute Years

Notes From Underground: The Screwtape Leaseholders

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