Dead Kennedys

Five Unsung Punk Rock Guitarists

You can't please everyone. No sooner had my list of the five best punk rock guitarists gone up than the complaining started. Folks were annoyed that there was a tie for first, yes, but that was only one of the things they found to complain about. Mostly it was about how their no-talent low-life favo ... More >>

FYF Fest - Los Angeles State Historic Park - September 1, 2012

Refused, Warpaint, The Vaselines, and others FYF Fest Los Angeles State Historic Park September 1, 2012 See also: F-Yeah! It's the 2012 FYF Quiz! Better than: Any cookout ever. Braving choking dust clouds, oppressive sunlight and the inevitable game of PortaJohn Roulette ought to deliver an eart ... More >>

Radiohead's Artist Stanley Donwood's New Work Pictures L.A. in Flames

Stanley Donwood doesn't have the slightest objection to the term "commercial artist." Often considered the sixth member of the band Radiohead, the 44-year old Essex native is responsible for all of the band's artwork since 1994 and has the commercial marketplace to thank for part of his success. "It ... More >>

Fidlar Are Drunk, Reckless and Proud of It

The garage punks are about to blow up. Either that, or crash and burn

Top Ten Worst Replacement Singers in Rock and Metal

​At the beginning of the year, Boston metalcore giants Killswitch Engage announced that they had parted ways with vocalist Howard Jones, and two weeks ago they announced they were bringing their first vocalist, Jesse Leach, back into the fold. At the very least, it seems a way to ensure they w ... More >>

Dave Grohl "Clarifies" Grammy Speech After We Call Him Out For Sounding Like an Anti-EDM Geezer

Jena Ardell​Guess we hit a nerve when we called out Dave Grohl for his anti-EDM Grammy Awards acceptance speech. Besides tons of hate mail (our favorite told us to " ... go eat a bag of dicks") and some support (Moby's former manager noted we were there when that real punk rocker went electro ... More >>

X, Dead Kennedys, the Avengers - MOCA at the Geffen - 1/28/12

X, Dead Kennedys, the Avengers MOCA at the Geffen 1-28-12 (Much) Better Than ... hearing many of these same songs butchered on punk rock karaoke night at the local sports bar. Of course there's something oddly oxymoronic about a museum inviting punk rock bands over to play (albeit safely outside o ... More >>

Music Picks: X, Lucinda Williams, Jackie DeShannon, Fujiya & Miyagi

Also, Dengue Fever, Jessie Baylin, Reigning Sound, Black Bananas and others

"She Gets a Free Abortion": The Five Dopiest Political Punk Songs

See also: *The Top Five L.A. Punk Albums of 2011 *Kelly Clarkson Endorses Ron Paul: The Five Most Baffling Political Pairings The Iowa caucuses are being held today, which means that Republican primary season is about to kick into high gear. Spoiler alert: The candidates all suck. But you knew tha ... More >>

Drinkify: We Get Drunk To See If It Actually Works

We at West Coast Sound love little more than good tunes and good booze. So, when Drinkify dropped earlier this month -- an Internet app that suggests cocktails to sip while listening to your artist of choice -- we were intrigued. So much so that we bought a whole shopping bag of elixirs and got to d ... More >>

The Most Vicious Mosh Pit You Will Witness All Year: The Top Five Bands at California Discord Festival

brooklynvegan.comMagrudergrind​One of the year's more relentless metal festivals will lay waste to downtown this weekend. California Discord Fest invades The Vortex for two days of whiplash-inducing death metal, brutal grindcore, and mosh-friendly hardcore. Acoustic interludes, good cop/bad co ... More >>

Tuesday Twofer: The Sounds at Avalon, Punk Rock Karaoke at The Dragonfly

Kirsti Anna UrpaThe Sounds' Maja Ivarsson ​Tuesdays are always teeming with possibility when it comes to live music in Los Angeles. Of course, the toe-to-toe hipster hoedowns that are Dim Mak Studios and Check Yo Ponytail dominate the night most of the time, but other venues big and small seem ... More >>

"Hardcore Is a Complete, Legitimate California-born Music Form": An Interview with "American Hardcore" Author Steven Blush, Who Speaks Today at Book Soup with Keith Morris and Others

​ In his 2001 compendium, American Hardcore: A Tribal History, New York writer and former promoter Steven Blush all but dispensed with your dad's glamorized spit-scabs-and-safety-pin punk, instead focusing on hundreds of DIY, anarchic hardcore bands from the scene's peak between 1980 and 198 ... More >>

Exclusive Interview: Megadeth's David Ellefson on Thrash Metal, his Favorite Bible Story and the Status of That Elusive American "Big Four" Tour (Yes You, Metallica. We're Waiting.)

Valerie McRobertsDavid Ellefson enjoying a stiff Starbucks before Megadeth's set​Megadeth are undoubtedly one of the biggest thrash metal bands of all time. Fronted by Dave Mustaine, founder, guitarist and vocalist, the band was formed in the early '80s after Mustaine was kicked out of Metalli ... More >>

“Bruce Conner in the 1970s” at Michael Kohn Gallery

LA Ink's Corey Miller: "I'm a Grateful, Old-School Kind of Carny"

Powerflex 5 via MySpace​St. Louis is hosting a tattoo convention and Nick Lucchesi at our sister paper The Riverfront Times scored an interview with LA Ink's Corey Miller, reality star (he's the one on the show without the boobs), surf rocker, punk rock lifestyle decorator, and self-described ... More >>

Interview: Seminal Deathrock Band Burning Image Hits LA for Halloween

​ Back in the early '80s, when deathrock was taking over California, a group of young guys from Bakersfield formed Burning Image. They released a 7" single and played with bands like Specimen, Dead Kennedys and Butthole Surfers. Years after their demise, Jello Biafra re-released Burning Image ... More >>

Rock Picks: Daedelus, Peanut Butter Wolf, Femi Kuti, Isis

Also, The Choke, Nouvelle Vague, Wilco, Sunset Rubdown and others

SXSW Day 4 (Pt. 2): On Rap/Rock, The Legacy of the Beasties, and Asher Roth Vs. The Knux

Almost 25 years have elapsed since the Rick Rubin-helmed, Licensed to Ill found the Beasties staking their claim as the first major rap group to incorporate guitar-hero rawk ("Rock Box" aside). Such juxtaposition seems prosaic today, but it's almost impossible to grasp how revolutionary sampling L ... More >>

Bug Music's Commercial Zone

Helping to fill the pockets of indie bands now that CD sales have dried up

Reviving Dead Kennedys, Rolling Over Beethoven and Revisiting Tennessee

What to do in L.A., August 15-21

Serj Tankian, The Wiltern, 08/02/08

Serj Tankian The Wiltern, August 2, 2008 By Siran Babayan System of a Down are kaput, for now, and three of its members have splintered off: guitarist Daron Malakian and drummer John Dolmayan formed Scars on Broadway, and singer Serj Tankian released his debut solo album, Elect the Dead, last yea ... More >>

Joseph Del Real and Benjamin Tovar Martinez

The dragon keepers

Thebasement Photos

Lighting theMasque

The Basement Photos

Lighting the Masque

Rock Picks: Weakerthans, Low, Richard Thompson

For the week of Sept. 27 – Oct. 4

Rock Picks: Air, Rufus Wainwright, Arctic Monkeys, Bad Brains

For the week of September 20 – 27

Penny Ante for Your Thoughts

Tour posters, photos of cracked-out Pete Doherty and scrawled lyrics to “Apple Pie and Genocide”

Paint It Black

Artists reimagine the Star Wars villain for The Vader Project

Must See Art

Kinky Sex (Makes the World Go ’Round) Group Show and Pieter Hugo’s Looking Aside

The Way We Wore

Our unofficial guide to vintage rock T-shirts

Best Place to Bang Your Head

Black Cats, Soccermoms and Bisquits

We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

Feel His Heat

Brent Bolthouse

You Say You Want a Resolution

Rock & Pop Listings

For January 27 - February 2, 2006 Country listings follow.

Nightranger

HOOPLA

A Shy Lady, croquet and Illegal Art

World vs. GOP

War for truth marches on in the streets of New York

After Midnight

Present Perfect

Abloom’s Day

The future of heaviness

Pure Class

Letters

2002 Smiths/Morrissey Convention: Still Sixteen, Clumsy and Shy

Golden Girls

Techno Prisoners

Nerve Action

Flaming Lips and the spark that bleeds

Wise Blood