Concord (Staten Island)

The Top 10 Memorial Day Weekend Concerts in L.A.

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Friday, May 24 Boris ECHOPLEX Japanese experimental rockers Boris have spent their entire 15-year career making sure that their fans are unable to predict what will come next from the band. One album could consist of thrashi ... More >>

Music Picks: Gilles Peterson, Boris, Gothic Tropic

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including '90s Flashbacks

This week, it's all about looking back: One artist revisits 1993 L.A., another borrows the palette of teen pop from 20-some years ago and a museum show features graphically bold, grittily political art of the '80s. 5. What art even is When the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston changed its nam ... More >>

Meiko's Boyfriend Left Her for a Hooters' Girl. It Was the Best Possible Thing

Singer-songwriter Meiko moved to Los Angeles from a small Georgia town outside Macon in 2001. Her career has since taken off; she signed a major label deal with Universal imprint Concord Records, licensed a bazillion of her songs to TV and film, and got big in Japan (seriously, she's on the radio th ... More >>

This Art Event Included Pornographic Balloons, Half-Naked Bartenders and a Bouncy Castle

See also: *25 Alternative L.A. Art Spaces to Check Out Now Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal believes art should be about having fun. But when it comes to her belief that words have the power to connect people, she is not messing around. CLOSE, her event last Friday at Concord Art Space (one of our 25 Altern ... More >>

Henry Rollins: Still Angry After All These Years

[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 turned 52 years of age on the 13th day of February. That morning, I found myself completely u ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Beyonce Singing to the HIV Virus

This weekend, a dinner pays homage to Jonathan Swift, a virus dances to Beyonce and the politically minded star of a soft-core film crosses paths with a pair of kings. 5. Imaginary island dinner In Jonathan Swift's satirical Gulliver's Travels, Lilliput is an island inhabited by tiny people involve ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, From Scented Satellites to Musical Dry Ice

This week, an army of minimalist sculptures emits the sent of Pine Sol, a composer uses dry ice to make music and MOCA PDC becomes an arcade. 5. Climate controlled concert The Quartz Cantabile is an instrument powered by heat. Flames send hot air through tubes of various lengths and sizes, which co ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Father-Son Phone Books

This week, flowers and fetish photos hang one on top of the other at LACMA, the Getty throws a party for an 80-year-old mural and an artist shadows a possibly imaginary former classmate. 5. Nine-year-long sci-fi opera Kathleen Johnson's Brainchild, a performance in nine parts set to unfold over ni ... More >>

The Produce Project: A Pop-Up Produce Market

While we love shopping at the Wednesday morning Santa Monica farmers market, we can't always get there before work. Shaheda Sadhal, former SMFM volunteer, and her Produce Project partner Sarah Delevan, have come up with a novel solution for those of us who want the selection and quality of the Wed ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Market: Kyoho Grapes

Summer is waning, but when we say this most people point us to the markets and say, woah, slow down. Peaches are at their peak, corn is sweet and the melons perfume a whole block. The autumnal equinox is still months away -- September 22 -- and we haven't even hit August yet. It's because the ... More >>

Taiwanese Surf Rock Puppetry?! Yes, Please.

Concord, in Cypress Park, is not your typical performance venue. Lining the hallway as you enter the space are wooden shelves covered in colanders, plates, pots, peanut butter, dried beans, hot sauce and the like, sorted and labeled: "Joshua" "Collective" "Marco" etc. Long fluorescent bulbs hang fr ... More >>

Poncho Sanchez Played the Weekend Wedding Circuit, Until a Gringo Changed His Luck

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] See also: Marlon Brando Rocked the Conga Drums -- in Fact He Invented One "I'd rather be lucky than good." --Lefty Gomez, Hall of Fame pitcher and inven ... More >>

Kris Bowers Played On Watch The Throne: He's At Catalina's Tomorrow Night

Thelonious Monk Jazz Institute​When most college students return home for winter break, they watch TV in the den and get drunk with high school friends. Pianist Kris Bowers, a 22-year old-graduate student at Julliard, however, has come home to Los Angeles with some big prizes, and will perfo ... More >>

Music Picks: Matthew Sweet, Summer Darling, Billy Childs Quartet, Rusko,

Also, The Aggrolites, Kris Bowers, Chasing Kings, Asher Roth and others

A Passover Cocktail Recipe: The Sangria Haroset

Photo courtesy Rosa Mexicano.A traditional Passover food takes many forms, including the Sangria Haroset.​ Charoset -- also spelled haroset, charoses, haroses, charoseth and so on, depending on your phonetic preference -- comes in many forms and textures. Some traditions cook and pulverize dri ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold

Music to Pick Up/Download

Cambodian Pop Freaks Dengue Fever Sign to Concord, Pick Up 'Jeopardy' and 'True Blood' Nods

Dengue Fever appear (in name) on "Jeopardy!"​The last L.A. indie band to get featured on Jeopardy! wound up going to the Grammys. That was Silversun Pickups last May, of course, and now it seems the Cambodian-Angeleno weird-pop ensemble, Dengue Fever, has earned that rare gameshow designatio ... More >>

What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: California Grapes

Felicia FriesemaKyoho grapes​ California grape farmers have been tapping their toes and eying the calendar. It seems the entire agricultural season got knocked back a couple of weeks thanks to the persistent cold weather that wouldn't let go at the end of spring. Early grape varieties just s ... More >>

Everybody Laugh

J'Accuse: the Trial for Luis Santos' Murder

Bad suburban boys break ranks, and Esteban Nunez and pal Ryan Jett are fingered

Complete 1966 Otis Redding Show Live on the Sunset Strip To Be Released

​Here's a scoop for you: We hear from very reliable sources that Stax Records (the current version of the classic Southern Soul label recently revived by Concord Records) will be releasing a completely restored version of Otis Redding's legendary 1966 appearances on LA's very own Sunset Strip ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Here, There and Way Out There

Silencing Hawthorne High's Music Man

Mr. Flaherty changed kids' lives on the drum line. The pencil pushers struck back

Esteban Nunez's Friend Admits Destroying Evidence; Will Testify Against Former Assembly Speaker's Son

Just two weeks before the first anniversary of the death of 22-year-old San Diego college student Luis Santos, one of the four men charged with his fatal stabbing pleaded guilty September 16. Rafael Garcia, the son of a respected Sacramento administrative law judge, also agreed to testify against t ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Markets: Pickling Cukes, Corn, Concords, and How to Keep Them

The kitchen has become a preservation station these past few weeks, requiring a little bit of especially selective shopping at the farmers market. The first rule of preserving is to use unblemished, unspoiled, and practically perfect produce. Any suggestion of spoilage or bruising could mean a lot ... More >>

August Madness: The Doheny Hosts a Sweet Sixteen Chartreuse Competition

Green Chartreuse shots for breakfast kick off a Monday right nice, especially when they're being served to you on the patio at The Doheny. Starting at the ungodly hour of noon, sixteen men and women representing the city's top drinking establishments--The Varnish, The Doheny, SLS, Rivera, Copa d'Oro ... More >>

Summer Seasonals: Farmers Market Finds You Don't Want To Miss

Felicia FriesemaMarket tomatoes​All the big summer market favorites are hitting their stride right now - peaches and other stone fruits, corn, and lordy, the tomatoes. Mountains of each line the market alleys at the Pasadena and Hollywood markets this week and all of them grab your attention ... More >>

New and Noteworthy CD Releases, LA and Otherwise

​ A bunch of good stuff out this week. Here's a selection of new releases of some import, some of specific LA interest, some of general interest. Rainbow Arabia, Kabukimino (Manimal Vinyl) M Ward, "End of Amnesia" 2 x 12" [FUTURE FARMER RECORDINGS] Champagne Socialists, Blue Genes [Singl ... More >>

Esteban Nunez Case: Bad Little Suburban Boys

The son of Fabian Nunez, and his friends, face the music in Lu Santos’ killing

Rock Picks: John Fogerty, Band of Horses, Eek-a-Mouse, Gram Rabbit

For the week of November 23 - 29

Pennington Dance Group: Disrobing Sites

The Secret Lives of Boys

Inside the old spirits, indie fucks, gay best friends and outlaws

Jazz Listings

Concerts Clubs Other Jazz

California Dreaming

Ozomatli and a gathering of West Coast underground hip-hop luminaries fight the power

Fizzle, Puzzle, Dazzle

A Loss of Originality

Busting the FBI

The Judi Bari verdict bares government lies and deceit

The Jazz Singer

Nnenna Freelon’s soul call

Mission Creep

Bush finds his Vietnam

Breakfast With Jellyman

The Best of Sitegeist

Pete Wilson in Gray Pinstripes?

Breakfast With Jellyman

Good, Bad, Beautiful, Ugly, Etc.

The Fifth Otseabed

Music at the Turn

A Memoranda List

The Century, A Primer

Moss Gathering