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The 20 Best Albums Not in the Canon: The Complete List

*Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time A few months back Rolling Stone put out their updated 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. (Here's a quickly-scannable version; Sgt. P ... More >>

The 20 Best Albums Not in the Canon: 10-1

See also: The 20 Best Albums Not in the Canon: 20-11 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time 10. Built To Spill Perfect From Now On (1997) Not really grunge but not springy ... More >>

Music Picks: Bettye LaVette, Johnny Thunders, Johnny Hallyday

Also, Kate McGarry, Enter Shikari, Hype Williams and others

The Ettes, Sade, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Benefit for Nick Curran

Also, Kendrick Lamar, the Punk Rock BBQ, Katy B and others

Now Again's Eothen Alapatt Finally Releases His Dream Soul Reissue

This weekend: HARD Haunted Mansion, Ninja Tune 20th Anniversary, KCRW Masquerade, Of Montreal, Stone Temple Pilots

Perou.co.ukUnderworld​Whether you're all about the costumes or just in it for the tunes, Halloween weekend offers some massive show-going choices ... starting with, well, something very close to a massive. HARD Haunted Mansion, with an eclectic electro lineup including Bloody Beetroots, Busy ... More >>

Across the Universe: New Flying Lotus Video, Weezer Best Coast, RHCP Lawsuit, R.I.P Eyedea

Across the Universe: New Flying Lotus Video, Weezer Best Coast, RHCP Lawsuit, R.I.P Eyedea

Nightranger: REBEL, REBEL(S)

Cut Chemist: Too Many DJs

Call yourself a DJ 'cause you bought two turntables and a mixer? World-class L.A. DJ is putting you on notice

Preview Cut Chemist's New Album 'Sound of the Police' at KCRW.com

Preview Cut Chemist's New Album 'Sound of the Police' at KCRW.com

EXCLUSIVE Video Premiere: RJD2's "The Shining Path"

​East Coast producer/DJ RJD2 will be appearing at the El Rey this coming Tuesday, April 6. This "sample slayer" will be showcasing material from his recent, hip-hop inflected album The Colossus. RJD2's show will present "a mixture of live-band playing and turntable shenanigans," plus, allege ... More >>

Jason Reitman's Concert Highlights: David Crosby's Live Gig at Rob Lowe's House (And 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 six Golden Globes earlier in the week (including Best Director and Best Screenplay nominations for Reitman ... congrats!), is also a pretty big music head, ... More >>

Exclusive Interview: Little Dragon's Yukimi Nagano Offers Required listening for Swedish Psychedelia

Exclusive Interview: Little Dragon's Yukimi Nagano Offers Required listening for Swedish Psychedelia

Tonight: Ninjatune Night @ the Echo with Blockhead and Yppah

Ninjatune Night at the Echo with Blockhead and Yppah

Not the Usual Haunts

Set Times Announced for KCRW Masquerade Ball with DJ Shadow, Sea Wolf, and Edward Sharpe

Set Times Announced for KCRW Masquerade Ball with DJ Shadow, Sea Wolf, and Edward Sharpe

Disco Bloodbath: LA's Freakiest, Creepiest, Trashiest Themed Halloween Dance Parties

​The clock is ticking, and even if you don't have a (clever) costume yet, it's time to brave your social fear and figure out what the Hell you're gonna do this Halloween weekend. As far as dance dens go, pretty much everything bubbling this weekend will have a creep factor (more than usual in ... More >>

First Listen: Wayward Saints Meld Downbeat, Hip Hop, and Far Out Jazz

First Listen: Wayward Saints Meld Downbeat, Hip Hop, and Far Out Jazz MP3

Ten Best LA Recordings 2009 (So Far)

​Last week as we were sorting through our piles of CDs and accumulated MP3 files, we started to notice how big the stack of recent excellent LA music was. It became apparent that we're in the middle of a pretty great year for Los Angeles releases, and decided to give mid-year props to our fave ... More >>

Funky Sole Re-launches Saturday Nights at The Echo/Aloe Blacc Tonight at Rootdown

File this under: news that we should have reported last month but were too swarmed with year-end stuff to get to promptly. However, Funky Sole, the Miles Tackett-promoted, Stones Throw-affiliated, pan-global funk party has officially moved to Saturday's at the Echo in Echo Park. While I haven't had ... More >>

The Return of Funky Sole at the Echo

Hang the DJs moves downstairs at the Echoplex

Girl Talk: One Trick Pony, or 21st Century Steinski?

Girl Talk: One Trick Pony, or 21st Century Steinski? By Ian Cohen If you’re the kind of poor soul who watches the workday tick away at places like ilxor.com, June has been Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Tet and the Feast of Maximum Occupancy all rolled into one. Not only have we experienced the ... More >>

South, The Echo, 5/15

South, The Echo, May 15, 2008 Photos by Timothy Norris Once upon a time, near the dawn of this decade, James Lavelle's Mo'Wax label ruled the record store import bins. Blackalicious, DJ Shadow, and UNKLE 12" singles in elaborate packaging fetched tidy sums for their three long, similar-sounding ... More >>

Cut Chemist, DJ Shadow, Kid Koala: Grounded in Sound

Three heavyweights of turntablism converge to celebrate, and scratch, old 45s

Upcoming Shows

Ryan Adams - Royce Hall, Jan. 30 & 31 Dave Alvin - McCabe's Jan. 18 & 19 Autechre - Echo, April 4 Bad Religion - House of Blues, April 4 & 5 Big Sandy, Deke Dickerson - Safari Sam's, Dec. 28 Black Heart Procession - Spaceland, Jan. 11 Black Mountain - Troubadour, Feb. 5 Built to Spill, Meat P ... More >>

Shows and Tickets Coming Up

Ryan Adams - Royce Hall, UCLA, Jan. 30 and Bridges Auditorium, Claremont, Jan. 22. Both shows on sale Saturday Avenged Sevenfold, Atreyu, Suicidal Tendencies - San Diego Sports Arena, Dec. 7 - All ages Andrew Bird, Handsome Family - Orpheum, Dec. 7 Black Ghosts, Mezzanine Owls, Tweak Bird, more ... More >>

Soleful Saturday

Kicking It

Star Shoes says sayonara to Cahuenga boogie

Rock Picks: The Humpers, Secretary Bird, Cut Chemist & DJ Shadow

For the week of June 21–28

Carlos Niño

The beginner

Hella Coachella

When it comes to the annual desert festival, Nightranger’s no minor-leaguer.

Rock Picks

For the week of December 14 – 21

stones throw discog

Eraserhead

Thom Yorke’s solo LP: Radiohead without the radio?

Nothing but Love

JURASSIC 5, DJ SHADOW, CUT CHEMIST, MADLIB, X-CLAN, DILATED PEOPLES, THE BEAT JUNKIES, OTHERS at the Mayan, May 25

DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Madlib, Jurassic 5, Dilated Peoples, MF Doom—No Shit!

Trendscendence

Yesterday and Tomorrow

Pure Class

The Year In Music

The Voice of America

Deep listening with DJ Shadow

A New Ax To Grind

Relax

Zero 7 spin it down

Frozen Entrée

Hope Sandoval wants to make you cry

Be Bop a Blood Feast

Edited by Kateri Butler

Scary Movies

Joe Berlinger’s worked-over Blair Witch 2; Marc Singer’s lovely Dark Days

A to G

As the world turns Blackalicious

Singles Night

Brainfreeze: In praise of the funk 45

More Is More

Loved-up in Indio

Liberation Frequency

Punk's not dead, it just needs a wash