David Lynch

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Is David Lynch's Masterpiece

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, July 30 Big K.R.I.T. EL REY THEATRE The South rises again in the form of Big K.R.I.T. ("king remember in time"), a marvelously dexterous rapper-producer from Mississippi who insists that it's "Cool 2 Be Southern" on his debut full-length CD, Live From the Underground. He has produced key tr ... More >>

Dom Perignon's David Lynch Party: Champagne, 1,000 Friends, Werner Herzog Mysterious Vapors

Dom Perignon's Chef de Cave Richard Geoffroy returned to Los Angeles from Champagne on Wednesday night. He threw a party for about a thousand friends to celebrate the release of a special edition of Dom designed by David Lynch, who was not only the evening's special guest but was the chief architect ... More >>

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Nightmares, Satantango and Tati

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Bullets, Lynch and dinosaurs

The House of David

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Art Show Attracts David Lynch Die-Hards

Twenty years ago auteur filmmaker David Lynch elicited delight and (mostly) rancor from fans by making a film based on his critically successful TV series Twin Peaks called Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Only the staunchest of Twin Peaks fans seemed to appreciate the way the film amplified the TV se ... More >>

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Vertov and Zulawski last shots

David Lynch's Crazy Clown Time; At Times, Like Being Trapped in the Back Seat With An Old Man Who Smells Like Pee

​How to avoid parodying himself must be director David Lynch's biggest challenge these days. Lynch does his trademarked Lynchian dark dreams again (and again) on his solo debut album Crazy Clown Time, a collection of tunes recorded in his home studio with himself on guitar and voice. But Lyn ... More >>

Exclusive: Amanda Palmer's New Track, "In My Mind" and Interview

​Interview by Roselle Chen "It's a beautiful fucking day in Boston," says punk-cabaret performer Amanda Palmer from her home. She is best known as one half of The Dresden Dolls, and has a wildly-popular solo career, but she's on the phone mainly to talk about her work with the David Lynch Fo ... More >>

The Night a Duran Duran Show Got the David Lynch Treatment in LA: Live Review

Lina Lecaro From left: Nick Rhodes, Roger Taylor, Simon Lebon and DD's newest member? ​Few bands have placed as much emphasis on the visual package as Duran Duran. Their good looks, sense of style and glossy, often provocative videos made them innovators during MTV's heyday, a time when the be ... More >>

Five Lessons Learned From Seeing Duran Duran Live for the First Time

Getty Images for American Express​ Read Lina Lecaro's review, "The Night a Duran Duran Show Got the David Lynch Treatment in LA." Wednesday night, American Express' Unstaged series brought together Duran Duran and David Lynch for an unusual live experience. As the band played on The Mayan sta ... More >>

David Lynch on His Live Collaboration with Duran Duran, Plus the Director's Favorite Duran Duran Song

Sean Teegarden​ Read "David Lynch, (Non-)Musician: The L.A. Weekly Interview." Tonight at the Mayan Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, Duran Duran will take the stage in support of their latest album, All You Need is Now. This won't be a standard concert, it's actually part of American Express' ... More >>

Rob Zombie vs. Darth Vader vs. David Lynch: Celebrity Coffee Showdown

Rob Zombie's a freaky guy. Darth Vader's a frightening one. David Lynch is just plain strange. As diverse as these three figures are, they have one venture in common: They have each lent their name to a brand of coffee. Having recently discovered these celebrity roasts, we wondered: How special ar ... More >>

Loving the David Lynch Interview

On Working With David Lynch: 4AD's Vaughan Oliver

Influential designer cites "sense of ambiguity" as a sensibiity he shares with the director

A Selected David Lynch Discography

David Lynch, (Non-)Musician: The L.A. Weekly Interview

David Lynch's Fan Produces Incredibly Strange Music Video for the Filmmaker's New Single "I Know" (Watch)

Buddyhead.comMeathead's animation of David Lynch's "I Know"​ So LA's beloved polymath weatherman David Lynch put out a single called "Good Day Today" b/w "I know" and a British website offered some prizes to contestants who'd make a video for it. Buddyhead's contributor Meathead put together ... More >>

David Lynch's New Single: It's A "Good Day Today" [MP3]

​ David Lynch: visionary filmmaker and....pop star? Lynch just released two new singles on Sunday Best Recordings, the electro-pop "Good Day Today" and blues-y "I Know." While Lynch has worked on his own soundtracks and other music projects in the last few years, these tracks are quite a depa ... More >>

The Lynch Touch

AFI's Guest Artistic Director presents Eraserhead and its influences

Cursed Danger Mouse/David Lynch/Sparklehorse Collaboration Finally Given a Release Date

Pitchfork reports that Dark Night of the Soul, the seemingly cursed collaboration between Danger Muse, David Lynch, and the late Sparklehorse will finally be officially released this Summer: Parlophone/EMI will release Dark Night of the Soul July 12 in the UK and July 13 in the U.S. via Capitol. U ... More >>

Video: Best Coast's Bethany C. Hates Sleeping Alone, Dates Famous Clown

Best Coast has just released their new video for single "When I'm With You." It features Bethany Cosentino (just christened "adorable lo-fi princess" by Spin) cavorting around with Ronald McDonald and pouting that she "hates sleeping alone" (awwwww.....). If you like the Go-Go's, you'll like it. (A ... More >>

David Lynch Double Feature

​ Tonight the New Beverly kicks off a three-day run of a David Lynch double feature: the underrated/underseen Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, followed by the wide critical consensus choice for the best film of last decade, Mulholland Drive. To mark the occasion, our music editor Gustavo Turner ... More >>

Top Ten David Lynch Music Moments

Tonight the Quentin Tarantino-owned-and-operated New Beverly Cinema will be showing David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, one of his most misunderstood masterpieces about the strangeness of everyday American culture (even the ubiquitous power lines are kind of malevolent!). You should go see ... More >>

"Twin Peaks" Series for FREE at IMDB!

We know you come to WCS for the best in Los Angeles music. Therefore anything pertaining to "Los Angeles" and "music" cannot be alien to us. But what if we wanted to bring attention to the underreported news that IMDB, a film website, has been streaming for FREE the entire run of Twin Peaks (minus t ... More >>

"Billy Corgan is a Magical Musician" Declares David Lynch

In case you didn't know, besides directing films, making neo-goth-rockabilly albums, being our local freelance weatherman, and promoting Transcendental Meditation around the world, David Lynch also has a foundation devoted to helping kids concentrate in dangerous high-school environments. The David ... More >>

Surveillance: Highway to Hell

Jennifer Lynch returns triumphant, bringing Julia Ormond along for the ride

Over the Weekend: Jacuzzi Parties, Animal Collective, David Lynch and Danger Mouse's Dark Night of the Soul, Pro-Gay Marriage Rally in Fresno

While some might argue that the most exciting thing that happened this weekend was Sacha Baron Cohen's "Bruno" sitting bare-assed on Eminem's face at the MTV Movie Awards, there was more to take in (and take off) in Los Angeles this weekend that didn't involve well-played publicity stunts. Friday ni ... More >>

The Great Music Save: Dark Night of the Soul Opens at Michael Kohn Gallery

Untitled (Little Girl #2) David Lynch, 2009Last Saturday's Dark Night of the Soul opening at LA's Michael Kohn Gallery, featuring the work of David Lynch, Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse, wasn't just the hot event ticket of the weekend, it was one of the greatest save's in music history.

HORSE & MOUTH DISEASE

Seven John Smiths, a Bob and a Bamford

What to do in L.A., May 29-June 4

Interview: Moby Talks David Lynch, Wait for Me, and Being a "Free Agent"

Timothy NorrisMoby behind the decks at Giant Maximus 2009It's a strange time to be a musician, to be working on the creative end when the business model that has sustained your industry for so long has spent the past several years in the midst of a nosedive. What do you do when people continuously p ... More >>

The Little Engine That Could

A Meeting of the Strange Minds: Peter Ivers, David Lynch and Devo

History is made at midnight: Excerpt from Josh Frank's In Heaven Everything Is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre

Flyer of the week: David Lynch!

Well, his foundation at least... If you are lucky enough to have the David Lynch seal of approval, you can't do much better than to slap his face on your poster and put your own band names below it - not too big either. Wed. July 16th sees Nico Vega, Gods and Monsters, Bangkok Five, and 8MM (So ... More >>

How to Make Your Own David Lynch Movie

A new documentary descends into the mind shaft of the maverick director's imagination

Jim Nicola

Out of the dark

Eighth Annual Polish Film Festival Los Angeles

Rock Picks

For the week of Jan 18 – 25

In Search of The Authentic Character

The reel life of Laura Dern

The Happy Spelunker

David Lynch is into you, deeply

Low Brow Art and a "Fucking Smorgasbord of Lynchness"

Fellow Style Councilor Lina LeCaro has been busy suckling her newborn these last few weeks, so our friend Jar, a talented writer who lives in Echo Park and drives a hearse, has offered to contribute reportage from around LA.  Here he tells us about drkrm.gallery's Low-Brow Art Show, a gro ... More >>

Blue Velvet at 20

Unbuttoning David Lynch

Originally published September 12, 1986

Blue Velvet: Last Tango in Lumberton

Originally published September 12, 1986

Motherfuckin’ Heela-copters!

Truly Sad, Truly Monstrous

David Lynch's Mulholland Drive

Getting Lost Is Beautiful

The light and dark world of David Lynch

Golly!

David Lynch's The Straight Story