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View more photos in the Justice Tour slideshow. Timothy NorrisTom Morello backstage at the Henry Fonda for the Justice TourDo-gooders are easy to pick on, especially rock 'n' roll martyrs like Tom Morello who are damned if they don't and even more damned if they do. But rock's most incendiary axem ... More >>
Rapper, stoned, is tired of being typecast as "stoner rapper"
Rapper, stoned, is tired of being typecast as "stoner rapper"
Snoop, Xzibit and Dr. Dre all praise the Palestinian-American freak of beats
The Vegoose Music Festival pleases some of the people some of the time
The Vegoose Music Festival pleases some of the people some of the time
Do you enjoy crowds, music and exhaustion?
DILATED PEOPLES at House of Blues, February 22
DILATED PEOPLES at House of Blues, February 22
Summer love-in for underground hip-hop fans
Summer love-in for underground hip-hop fans
DJ Muggs smokes alone
Suspect Entertainment helps Hollywood keep it real
Suspect Entertainment helps Hollywood keep it real
Dilated Peoples in the main event
20 years of covering the unheard music
Vegoose Music Festival, Las Vegas, Saturday, October 27. By Randall Roberts Back and forth we walk, through fairway-cut grass, soft and padded on practice fields, the kind that feels really good beneath bare feet. Vegoose day one, and everything is neat and tidy near UNLV. We flow in early, a gentl ... More >>
Laurie ScavoI don't need to explain the Playboy Mansion. You've probably seen Girls Next Door, the E! Entertainment show that managed to successfully de-mystify the estate like the channel did Saved by the Bell, Puff Daddy, and Fabio. But despite the camera's depiction of Heff as goofy and groping g ... More >>
Laurie ScavoI don't need to explain the Playboy Mansion. You've probably seen Girls Next Door, the E! Entertainment show that managed to successfully de-mystify the estate like the channel did Saved by the Bell, Puff Daddy, and Fabio. But despite the camera's depiction of Heff as goofy and groping g ... More >>
South by Southwest already? Yes, it's a little under four months away, and earlier this week the annual Austin festival announced the first round of showcase participants. It's a small list, this first batch, and mostly comprises international bands who need to start making visa arrangements, etc. i ... More >>
Editor's note. This week director Jason Reitman is guest blogging at West Coast Sound. Reitman, whose new film, Up in the Air, was nominated for five Golden Globes this morning (including Best Director and Best Screenplay nominations for Reitman ... congrats!), is also a pretty big music head ... More >>
Is there anything Sona Patel can't do? The legendary LA medical marijuana pinup physician is about to release a new album through the boutique Silver Lake label Drama of the Gifted Childd (rumored to be secretly owned by a couple of minor Strokes, the rhythm section of Ozomatli, and nightlif ... More >>
The idiotic, possibly racist Tea Partiers are not the first (or last) people to complain about big government and big taxation. Back in 1966 notoriously mystical hippie George Harrison was so pissed off at the British government taking 90% of the Beatles' money (no, really, they did, before the Beat ... More >>
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
Oh yes they did: Lemmy would not have approved of Hawkwind's 1978 makeoverTribute bands are so a dime a dozen in LA that there even was a whole festival of them last weekend (Tributefest in Santa Clarita, which you knew about thanks to a glossy band covering up half of our awesome Cypress Hil ... More >>
(Via Billboard) A number of influential musicians and other artists have now joined their voices to the organized repudiation of the recent immigration legislation in Arizona. The following names have been posted on the website thesoundstrike.net endorsing a boycott of Arizona, most likely b ... More >>
Piper FergusonThe Swell SeasonBoy, girl. Boy, girl. Boy, girl. It's a bill made for date night on Sunday at the Hollywood Bowl as some of music's favorite collaborative couples team up to provide a soundtrack for your wine and cheese. Of course, the Swell Season -- Glen Hansard of Irish r ... More >>
Alex DistefanoLast night, the focus was on Slash (focus not pictured)On the eve of the third annual Sunset Strip Music Festival, Thursday night, the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip and the city of West Hollywood honored none other than hard rock guitar icon Slash, who rose to fame with Gu ... More >>
Alex DistefanoLast night, the focus was on Slash (focus not pictured)On the eve of the third annual Sunset Strip Music Festival, Thursday night, the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip and the city of West Hollywood honored none other than hard rock guitar icon Slash, who rose to fame with Gu ... More >>
Jason ArthursSuperchunkThe most treacherous territory Superchunk had to negotiate to make Majesty Shredding, the band's first album in nine years, had nothing to do with music. It was -- and you aspiring rockers can relate -- those pesky day jobs. Frontman Mac McCaughan and bassist Laura Ba ... More >>
Urban Nomad, the gregarious Jeremiah Alexis, will be shooting exclusive video for LA Weekly. Make sure you check out the previous installments here. The URBAN NOMAD gets smoked out by B-Real of Cypress Hill's SmokeOut Fest. B-Real talks about medical marijuana and the certification needed to make s ... More >>
Urban Nomad, the gregarious Jeremiah Alexis, will be shooting exclusive video for LA Weekly. Make sure you check out the previous installments here. The URBAN NOMAD returns to Cypress Hill's SmokeOut Festival 2010 to commune with '80s rock en español collective Maldita Vecindad. Bassist Aldo talks ... More >>
Urban Nomad, the gregarious Jeremiah Alexis, will be shooting exclusive video for LA Weekly. Make sure you check out the previous installments here. The URBAN NOMAD returns to Cypress Hill's SmokeOut Festival 2010 to commune with '80s rock en español collective Maldita Vecindad. Bassist Aldo talks ... More >>
The ever controversial Odd Future (OFWGKTA) rap collective is set to perform tonight on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. We're not sure what this means, but we imagine a certain amount of destruction, danger and disrespect will be involved. (At least, we hope.) Earlier today, Roots drummer Quest ... More >>
Lina Lecaro This drummer definitely gets some. LA hook-ups and hang-outs played a major role in the forthcoming release by Travis Barker, "Can A Drummer Get Some," his hip-hop heavy solo debut featuring a who's who of rap superstars: Lil Wayne, Kid Cudi, Snoop Dogg, Lupe Fiasco, Pharell, RZA ... More >>
Originally published May 24, 2011, 8:18 p.m. New artists were just announced on the Rock the Bells 2011 lineup:
Lisette.Update: Lee got six years behind bars as well as a $20,000 fine. AP. She's sorry. So sorry. Lisette Lee, the Beverly Hills woman who used her family's private jet to smuggle 7,000 pounds of weed to the non-medical state of Ohio pleaded for sentencing leniency this week, saying in a ... More >>
By Sheila Dichoso Carmageddon is coming! We thought we'd remind you again about the three-day 405 shutdown. The media warns that chaos will ensue, so stay at home and smoke weed or something. The San Diego freeway is notoriously loathed. Because of its congestion, we put up with way too ma ... More >>
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Lainna FaderCypress Hill Troubadour 8-6-11 Better than . . . smoking at home. "This is our first time rockin' the Troubadour," said B-Real of Cypress Hill, speaking from the fabled club on the twentieth anniversary of the legendary rap group's multi-platinum self-titled debut. "It took us 2 ... More >>
Last week we brought you the 60 worst Lil Wayne lines on Tha Carter IV. Those lyrics are bad mainly because Wayne has stopped exerting effort; he clearly used the first thing that came into his head, even if said thing was, "Nothing standing in my way/ Like nothing's my security." But give ... More >>
Not the actual hot sauce in question.They say salsa is the number one condiment in the United States. Marijuana is often believed to be California's biggest cash crop. Put them together and what do you have? No, not a Cypress Hill house party. You have an all-American drug bust, according ... More >>
See also Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums of All Time: 20-16 Editor's note: For our music issue, out on Thursday, Ian Cohen, Rebecca Haithcoat, Jeff Weiss and Ben Westhoff run down the top 20 L.A. rap albums of all time. We're unveiling the list all this week on West Coast Sound. 10. Freesty ... More >>
Editor's note: In conjunction with our music issue we rolled out the top 20 L.A. rap albums of all time this week, as picked by Ian Cohen, Rebecca Haithcoat, Jeff Weiss and Ben Westhoff. But the list was broken up into four posts, which can get a bit unwieldy, so we've compiled the full list ... More >>
See also: *Don't Call Him Country. Everlast is Hip-Hop, Dammit. *Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List As a teenager, Everlast was a graf writer. He made a couple tapes with his buddies, and the next thing he knew he was part of Ice-T's Rhyme Syndicate crew. He, Dan ... More >>
[Editor's note: Haterade Monday continues! Earlier in the day we told brought you the five dopiest Beach Boys songs (including one where Brian Wilson raps). And now, on the heels of our top 20 greatest L.A. rap albums of all time here's some more drivel from classic artists.] Hip-hop doesn' ... More >>
psycho with a heartMarijuana might be medicine of sorts in California, but a growing body of research suggests that it ultimately might make you crazy. (Not that other prescriptions drugs can't do their own voodoo on your head). A study analyzing the MRI scans of a small sample of weed users ... More >>
Nanette Gonzales [Editor's note: Longtime Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's new column, "Bizarre Ride," begins today. You can find it on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] The L.A. cliché is a war of shadow and light: fallen stars gone to seed, saccharine pop and gangsta rap. But this is 2012 and ... More >>
publicenemy.comWill Mr. D fight the power?Updated at the bottom with what went down. First posted at 4:33 p.m. Friday. A planned "Occupy Skid Row" free street concert Sunday featuring Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, Kurupt and other hip-hop artists is in doubt, police tell the Weekly. The Los A ... More >>
Michael MillerSee also: Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List Michael Miller and Paul Stewart had capped a successful Kickstarter project and planned a digital imprint of their book, a collection of photographs from the golden era of West Coast hip hop, called West C ... More >>
