Cheech and Chong

Food Is The New Rock Celebrates First Anniversary 50th Episode

It's been a little over a year since food blogger Zach Brooks of Midtown Lunch launched 'Food Is The New Rock,' a collaboration with KCRW DJ Chuck P that produces a podcast exploring the intersection of food and music. Over the last 50 podcasts, Brooks has interviewed an impressive roster of musicia ... More >>

Fanatics! We Think This Is the Right Show for a Sunday

RADIO BROADCAST #218 06-02-13 See also: Henry Rollins: Rush Limbaugh Gets It Wrong, Again Fanatics! I don't know why I keep thinking that each show we do is the best one yet, but I almost always do. This is an amazing line up of songs. I know we have played the Prehensile Monkeytailed Skink track ... More >>

Los Lobos Cinco De Mayo Festival - Greek Theatre - May 5, 2013

By David Monnich Los Lobos Cinco De Mayo Festival Greek Theatre May 5, 2013 Despite the spotty weather, droves of Angelinos headed out to the Greek Theatre on Sunday afternoon for Los Lobos' second annual Cinco de Mayo Festival. Last year's event proved that the East L.A. veteran group are master ... More >>

Gibson Amphitheatre To Shut Down

Gibson Amphitheatre, the mainstay mid-size concert venue at Universal City, will close its doors in September, according to its operator Live Nation Entertainment. As announced in December 2011, the 6,200-capacity amphitheatre is expected to be demolished to make way for The Wizarding World of Har ... More >>

Trail Blazing: Eight Great Pioneers of Pot

Tommy ChongBy Michael Goldstein Tommy Chong is perhaps the biggest celebrity on this list, as a longtime comedian, movie star and half of the still-working duo Cheech & Chong. He is both a hero, as a longtime marijuana advocate, and a martyr, as a veteran of nine months in federal prison for ru ... More >>

Cheech and Chong Tell Us About Their New Animated Movie, the Duo's First Feature in 29 Years

Marijuana Legalization Proposed By SoCal Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher

We're in the midst of strange days: An Orange County Republican wants the Democratic administration in the White House to stop cracking down on marijuana in states where it's legal (!!!). U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher introduced legislation over the weekend that would require federal authorities to re ... More >>

Rock Star Fashions, Without the Douchiness

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Almost everyone has once wanted to dress like a rock star, but most people realize how absurd they look in leather pants and sequins. Wisely, then, Holly ... More >>

Marijuana Users Behind The Wheel Exceed Drunk Drivers, One Study Reports

In California, home of the legal medical marijuana dispensary, there has been a lot of concern about stoned driving and whether or not it's bad for your road skills (most legit studies seem to say it is). Now comes research out of Canada that claims young adults -- college-age people -- are driving ... More >>

The Gaslamp Killer Confronts Tragedy and Finds His Way Forward

Five Song Requests Jazz Bands Wish You Would Stop Making

Most cocktail jazz gigs are not particularly rewarding on an artistic level, but they aren't supposed to be. They pay well but they usually go on for too long and most people there aren't listening to you. Of course, there are benefits. I once played a solo gig on a white piano surrounded by roses w ... More >>

TV's Greatest [Bong] Hits

Kyuss Lives - The Wiltern - 11-17-11

Timothy NorrisKyuss Lives​See also our post on Kyuss Lives: Five Reasons To Embrace The Group Without Josh Homme Kyuss Lives The Wiltern 11/18/11 Better than...16 years of waiting to see members of Kyuss perform these songs live. John Garcia, Nick Oliveri, and Brant Bjork have been touring ... More >>

L.A.'s Got The Worst Traffic in America (Again): Here's Our List of Top 5, Traffic-Impeding, Idiot-Driver Moves in Los Angeles

sean dreilinger​Ah, yes: Another day, another report stating we have the worst traffic in the nation (via LAist). Sure, well let you blame the Mexicans, but only if we can also blame the Koreans and the Jews. But seriously, you know what really pisses us off? Cops will, without fail, target a ... More >>

Troubadours

Is Snoop Dogg Offering To Endorse L.A. Marijuana Shops For Cash?

It ain't no fun, if Snoop Dogg can't have some (of that endorsement money)?​L.A. pot shops are buzzing about an email pitch from a company that says, vaguely, that a pro-cannabis celebrity endorsement from the likes of Snoop Dogg could increase business by up to 75 percent. Some are wondering ... More >>

Grass Reindeer Figures Seized At LAX (No, They're Not Made Of That Kind Of Grass)

CPBDo these belong under a tree, or maybe in a bong?​You know it wouldn't be the holidaze without some seriously grinchy stories coming at ya. Yesterday we told you how L.A. city officials and police cracked down on fake designer crap (and DVDs) your mom buys. Now comes word that the crack, h ... More >>

CITYWALK MAY GET SMOKY

Pot Shop Sells Marijuana Ice Cream: Cheech & Chong Movie Comes True (Sort Of)

​If you think L.A.'s medical marijuana dispensaries are brazen -- with some reopening after being closed down and others simply turning to delivery in the face of being outlawed -- they don't have anything on the pot shops up north, where at least one outlet is a stone-cold chiller. A new sto ... More >>

Nightranger: Stars, Cars & Guitars

Cannabis Rising

The Pot Shop Boys

Returning with a new album, Cypress Hill discusses legalization, where you can get the best strains, and how great it feels to work for a stoner boss

Weed mags sprout across LOS ANGELES

Publications reap windfall from pot ads

After a Fashion

Promote This: The Adler Effect

On the eve of the Sunset Strip Music Festival, Lou Adler and his son Nic talk about the concert business

Festivals Then and Now: Lou Adler and Nic Adler Talk Monterey Pop and the Sunset Strip

The Adler posse knows a thing or two about the concert business. Lou Adler, the patriarch, is responsible for some of the great American cultural touchstones of the past 40 years, and a few of these moments are showcased on the wall of his home office in Malibu. There's the movie poster for The ... More >>

Remembering Tom Wilkes, Album Cover Designer

The eye behind classic album art

Tom Wilkes: Ten Classic LP Covers from a Master of the Genre (and Ten Others That Are Just as Great)

The great Southern California based art director, designer and photographer Tom Wilkes, who died on June 28, left a lasting impact on the Los Angeles music scene. His covers, some of the most iconic of the LP era, presented the area's music with striking images presented in vivid color . He took ful ... More >>

Coachella Friday: Beatles Bonanza, Burning Flesh (and M.I.A.'s Saturday morning Sound Check)

This weekend we pledge not to bitch about: the heat, the long-ass lines, the girl(s) wearing the same dress as us, the camera bullies in the photo pit (think big cars are penis extensions?), forgetting earplugs, and the fact that we WILL miss a band (or 4) we want to see... We will, as we did last ... More >>

On Fashion Week

Couture Salvage, Bettina Hubby's Co-Tour 2008, Rocky Horror Reminder

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

Tonight: Eagles of Death Metal Shake Up the Mayan, Jesse Hughes Promises "The Greatest Night of Your Life, It Will End Rancor in Politics for All Time"

Well, he may have been kidding about that last part but Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse "Boots Electric" Hughes was dead serious about ensuring tonight's gig at the Mayan will be straight-up, hip-shaking, good time rock and roll for all who attend. The Los Angeles-based band led by Hughes and Q ... More >>

Cheech and Chongin' It

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Not McLovin'

Migra Headaches: Brown-on-Brown Crime-Fighting

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Sunset Strip Music Festival

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Totally Ozz-some

Hey, Doc, It’s About my Dog

Asthma doesn't only affect humans

TV at the Movies

Brave new series Weeds and Slings & Arrows break into Showtime and Sundance lineups

The Pleasant Probation of Tommy Chong

Conversations with the creator of “Man”

Sober Justice

The long list of problems with Bush’s nominee for DEA chief

Let Them Drink Beer

The history of Dodger Stadium: A ghost story

The Lime Barty Story

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Money Talks

A conversation with New Line’s Mike DeLuca

Nowhere To Hide

Filmmaker Floyd Mutrux

The Lime Barty Story

As the World Turns

Timbaland, Magoo and Ma$e: These are the daze of our lives

The Brothers Freak

In which the Coens sing the praises of dope, bowling, loyalty and sloth