KCRW Broadcast #173 for Saturday, July 14, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Obamacare vs. the American Death Machine Fanatics! A great show tonight! In both hours we salute the mighty Ruts and acknowledge the passing of the band's legendary front man Malcolm Owen, who passed away on this ... More >>
KCRW Broadcast #173 for Saturday, July 14, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Obamacare vs. the American Death Machine Fanatics! A great show tonight! In both hours we salute the mighty Ruts and acknowledge the passing of the band's legendary front man Malcolm Owen, who passed away on this ... More >>
KCRW Broadcast #151 for Saturday, February 11, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! I'm Not Dead Yet Fanatics! Cold much? Scandinavia has all the cold you could ever want. I am sitting in the airport in Helsinki, Finland, waiting for a flight to Frankfurt. From there we will go to Linz, Austr ... More >>
[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 have spent well over half of the last 30 years living on the road, all over the world ... More >>
[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 have spent well over half of the last 30 years living on the road, all over the world ... More >>
KCRW BROADCAST #1246 for Saturday, August 6 Fanatics! I am sitting in Dulles International Airport, with a long day of travel and traffic ahead. Last night, I was at the Evens show at Fort Reno in Washington DC. What a show! I have not slept much in the last few days. I'll even out before my ... More >>
KCRW BROADCAST #1246 for Saturday, August 6 Fanatics! I am sitting in Dulles International Airport, with a long day of travel and traffic ahead. Last night, I was at the Evens show at Fort Reno in Washington DC. What a show! I have not slept much in the last few days. I'll even out before my ... More >>
Brian Eno's Drums Between the Bells Are people who need people really the luckiest people in the world? Brian Eno's latest winning lottery ticket, "Drums Between the Bells," out July 4 on Warp, continues his lifelong theme of communion on fifteen tracks with Rick Holland, an artist Eno met a ... More >>
Pray you are this cool at 58Sheila E.'s being just as hot as she was in Krush Groove at her recent appearances during Prince's 21 Nite Stand at the Forum sent us spinning fantasies involving other musicians who are just as hot (or hotter) with a little age on 'em. This is our list, though- wh ... More >>
brian-eno.netDrums Between the Bells cover art by Brian EnoBrian Eno has just announced the release of a new album through Warp records: Brian Eno first came across the work of Rick Holland in the late 90's during the Map-Making project; a series of collaborative works between students of th ... More >>
Timothy NorrisKCRW BROADCAST #109 for Saturday, April 9. Fanatics! If you notice, our show tonight does all it can to evade all classification. Perhaps the single song that embodies the idea behind the overall is track two, our Ludus. Check that arrangement! That's what tonight's show is all ... More >>
Timothy NorrisKCRW BROADCAST #109 for Saturday, April 9. Fanatics! If you notice, our show tonight does all it can to evade all classification. Perhaps the single song that embodies the idea behind the overall is track two, our Ludus. Check that arrangement! That's what tonight's show is all ... More >>
Captain Beefheart artwork for Doc at the Radar Station album ad (1980)[As we reported this afternoon, Captain Beefheart, Don Van Vliet, died today at 69. We already posted a list of the "Top 14 Reasons Why Captain Beefheart Was a True American Genius" by Beefheartologist Rob Chalfen. You can ... More >>
Coming soon to an e-retailer near you: PJ Harvey's Let England ShakeLast night, LA grooved to the ritual charisma of Nick Cave's Grinderman. Today we keep on grooving to one of Cave's musical fellow travelers, PJ Harvey, who has just released the first peek at her upcoming album Let England S ... More >>
Nosaj Thing levitates in TAKE's hands.Two of the most original voices in the L.A. beat scene come together on this fantastically lush remix of Nosaj Thing's "Light #1" by Take. We first met Nosaj Thing in May of 2009 on the verge of releasing his debut album Drift, now considered a classic e ... More >>
Nosaj Thing levitates in TAKE's hands.Two of the most original voices in the L.A. beat scene come together on this fantastically lush remix of Nosaj Thing's "Light #1" by Take. We first met Nosaj Thing in May of 2009 on the verge of releasing his debut album Drift, now considered a classic e ... More >>
Nosaj Thing levitates in TAKE's hands.Two of the most original voices in the L.A. beat scene come together on this fantastically lush remix of Nosaj Thing's "Light #1" by Take. We first met Nosaj Thing in May of 2009 on the verge of releasing his debut album Drift, now considered a classic e ... More >>
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 >>
This is gonna be really interesting and hopefully not a one-off: Brian Eno is returning to the stage to play three improvised pieces at the Brighton Festival 2010 in the UK. Eno, who's one of the artistic directors of the festival and would be showing his art installations there, will perform as pa ... More >>
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"Hey Oscar! Take your paperwork and shove it up your gold-plated arse!" screams Brian EnoWe fess up to not having paid much attention to the current film The Lovely Bones, a remake of 1990's Ghost with the Patrick Swayze part played by a prepubescent girl and the Demi Moore part played by Mar ... More >>
Just because we seem to be constantly listening to music and hitting up concerts here at West Coast Sound doesn't mean that we aren't also reading comic books or taking nights off to re-watch Star Wars Episodes IV-VI. So, when our interests collide, be it in song or on the small screen, we get a lit ... More >>
Bowie also waited for his manPitchfork reports that Peter Gabriel will be releasing an album of covers, in which he will tackle hits and more obscure cuts by David Bowie, Paul Simon, Elbow, Bon Iver, Talking Heads, The Arcade Fire, Regina Spektor, Radiohead, Lou Reed ("The Power of the Heart" ... More >>
Bowie also waited for his manPitchfork reports that Peter Gabriel will be releasing an album of covers, in which he will tackle hits and more obscure cuts by David Bowie, Paul Simon, Elbow, Bon Iver, Talking Heads, The Arcade Fire, Regina Spektor, Radiohead, Lou Reed ("The Power of the Heart" ... More >>
Required Listening Before Sunn O)))
Slowly, my brain is slinking its way towards sensible shape. Three days of Coachella are not for the faint of heart -- if nothing else it requires a quarter-ounce of weed, an array of narcotic edibles from potcorn to cannabis cakes, several brightly colored pills of indiscriminate origin, copious ... More >>
The critics apparently aren't feeling LA music this year; it's been twelve years since LA snagged the number one spot on the estimable Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll (for Beck's Odelay). All the city got in the top 20 of the album category this year was a #13 nod for No Age's Nouns, and She ... More >>
Graffiti originally spotted on Bedford Ave., Williamsburg in 2002--soon followed by copycat crimes on Silverlake Blvd. and San Francisco's Mission District. Now playing at a Hot Topic near you. For spread-the-wealth reasons, this list was restricted to songs from albums that did not make the Top ... More >>
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Rhino Records’ last parking-lot sale, minus the parking lot
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Daniel Lanois on Brian Eno, Mexican jukeboxes, and his gorgeous new Belladonna
Daniel Lanois on Brian Eno, Mexican jukeboxes, and his gorgeous new Belladonna
Daniel Lanois on Brian Eno, Mexican jukeboxes, and his gorgeous new Belladonna
Daniel Lanois on Brian Eno, Mexican jukeboxes, and his gorgeous new Belladonna
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My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has to go.
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Jon Hassell, hyperreality and the magic of tone
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