Dean Spunt

No Age Makes a Record for an Era When Records Don't Matter

Music Picks: John Beasley, Down, and Tift Merritt

Regal Degal Is the Real Deal

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Josh da Costa's favorite thing to say onstage is: "You can do what we do, but you can't do it the way we do it." That's probably the best way to describe ... More >>

Walmart Protest - Chinatown - 6/29/12

No Age and Tearist Walmart protest at Human Resources Gallery in Chinatown 6/29/12 *Walmart Protest in Chinatown is Turning Into Walstock Free Concert Featuring Tom Morello *Tom Morello Dishes On LA Rising, Politics and Rage's 20th Anniversary Activists and rockers descended upon a gallery in Chi ... More >>

No Age - MOCA - 8/7/11

David GreenwaldNo Age performs at MOCA​No Age MOCA 8/7/11 Better than... A Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. Sunday night's show was a strangely modern intersection of corporate invasion and countercultural retaliation: No Age, L.A.'s leading independent experimentalists, clos ... More >>

Music Picks: Bob Dylan, Azalia Snail, Makabert Fynd, Seun Kuti

Also, No Age, Crystal Antlers, Imelda May and others

Music Picks: Liz Phair, DeVotchKa, Peter Murphy, Fergus & Geronimo

Also Whitechapel, Motorhead, Juanes and others

The L.A. Weekly Interview: Best Coast

A few songs about her crazy, lazy, hazy L.A. world turned Bethany Cosentino into a global icon of cool. Yeah, she's as surprised as you are

Music Picks: Batusis, Interpol, Minus the Bear

Also, Taj Mahal, Shakira, Sufjan Stevens and others

Coming of No Age

The Smell darlings graduate to the Hollywood Bowl (with a Craigslist amp)

Music Picks: Dr. John, Herbie Hancock, Sunset Strip Music Festival

Also, Funkfest, Chromeo, Slayer and others

UPDATED: Finally! Listen to Synth-Punks Tearist's Brand New Track "Headless" (Also, Details of their Upcoming Manimal Vinyl Release)

Tearist sign to Manimal, Yasmine has a dirty face​Back in January, we attempted to announce that our favorite highly dangerous synth-punk duo Tearist had signed to L.A. indie label Manimal Vinyl, and we were wrong. UPDATED: Wrong again! So says singer Yasmine Kittles after the jump. But not ... More >>

Everything In Between: White Squalls and Whiteboy Blues

A first look at No Age's new album

Rock Picks: Al Kooper, Year Long Disaster, Steven Severin, the Phenomenal Handclap Band

Also, Kimya Dawson, the Cigarette Bums, Willi Williams and others

The 10 Best L.A. Albums of the ’00s

From Beck and Dilla to Fiona, Jenny and Quasimoto, a mishmash decade of Southern California sounds

INCHES reviews Baron Zen, Bohren & Der Club Of Gore, Soft Circle High Places, I Heart Lung [MP3]

In the strange wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES reviews the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (artists and labels, indie or other), believing that good m ... More >>

Best Coast Abuzz: An LA Noise Pop Artist Pops Nationally

If you've been paying attention to the underground noise pop scene lately -- and who wouldn't be? -- the name Best Coast may mean something to you. In one of those coming-storm moments, the whisper through the blog world on LA-based Best Coast has been gradually turning into a bonafide moan. Pitchfo ... More >>

Last Night: Do the 'Dolittle' -- Pixies @ the Palladium ( No Age)

"Fucking Pixies," No Age's Dean Spunt muttered in lieu of an actual introduction to his own band's set at the Hollywood Palladium on Wednesday. It was the first night of the Pixies' Doolittle tour - wherein the seminal indie group's original lineup performs their classic 1989 album end to end. Anna ... More >>

INCHES012: New Vinyl from Talking Heads, Edward Sharpe, Sole & Skyrider, No Age ( MP3s, chart)

In the unpredictable wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many (with delicious irony) as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES seeks not only to review the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (artists and ... More >>

No Age to Provide Live Soundtrack to The Bear at Cinefamily Sunday

No Age to Provide Live Soundtrack to The Bear at Cinefamily Sunday

Rock Picks: Os Mutantes, Hall and Oates, Bat for Lashes, Davila 666, Maia Sharp

Also, the Mars Volta, Nine Inch Nails, Gun Outfit, the Pretenders and others

And the Bear Rocks On

West Coast Sound Interviews Silk Flowers re: Christian Bale, the Smell and Sun-Bleached Chicken Bones

​ New York's proud sons Silk Flowers make the kind of mood music you can loose yourself in on a sunny winter day, traversing the long open roads of your neighborhood trying figure out what it all means. A most excellent mix of the hypnotic 80s electronic sounds and bizarre noises, the band is ... More >>

New Vinyl Column, Inches, Debuts: New Wax from Mika Miko, Xasthur, Castledoor, Rx Bandits, Shafiq Husayn (MP3)

In the unpredictable wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many (with delicious irony) as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES seeks not only to review the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (one populate ... More >>

LA and Affiliated (and Random) New Releases, August 4, 2009

A selection of new releases for beginning of the end of summer 2009. Los Angeles-related releases out this week: The Dub Club, which takes place every Wednesday night at the Echoplex, has brought to LA some of Jamaican music's most important and legendary figures, and has been recording and int ... More >>

Brooklyn Zombies Descend on NY Night Train Dance Contest, Turn Blue Skies Brown

My little fat cat has been staring up at me all summer with hungry eyes, as if to say, "I won't be round and cuddly for much longer if you don't get some regular food up in this joint." It is under that pressure that I decided to enter myself in the LA Record NY City Night Train dance contest held F ... More >>

Rock Picks: Electric Daisy Carnival, Explosion in the Sky, Rodriguez

Also, DAT Politics, Mika Miko, Etta James and others

No Age's Coachella Debut: Packed Tent in the Early Afternoon, Side-Stage Filled with Musicians

Timothy NorrisThe pit at the Mojave Tent on Sunday; keep in mind it hit 100 degrees that day. Sunday was a good day for the noiseniks. Coachella-goers who arrived early enough were greeted by boxes of complementary earplugs as they piled through the gate -- vital accessories for a My Bloody Valent ... More >>

Mika Miko Announce Release Date for We Be Xuxa on PPM Records

Mika Miko: They be xuxa. Given that they've been around since 2003, it's kinda shocking that LA's Mika Miko have released only one proper full-length. Yeah, they've had their cassettes and demos and 7-inches and compilation appearances and their fantastic 666 EP on Post Present Medium. Last year's ... More >>

Seminal Indie Label Touch & Go Lays Off 20, Leaving Crystal Antlers Without a Label and PPM Without Distribution

Very very sad news in the world of true-blue punk rock. Estimable Midwest label Touch & Go announced today that it was laying off its 20 employees and scaling back its operations. The label, responsible for releasing some of the great post-punk records of 80s, 90s and 00s, played home to legends, i ... More >>

Will the Stink of Success Ruin the Smell?

Downtown L.A.'s DIY haven tries to keep it real as the club's best-known ambassadors - No Age, Mika Miko and Abe Vigoda - hit the mainstream

No Age Releases Ultra-Limited 10" EP (With a Clothing Catalog?), Gigs the Smell's Pancake Brunch on Sunday

Well ... this is weird. The spring catalog by skate clothiers Altamont just arrived in the mail, and has a big-ass picture of No Age's Dean Spunt on the cover. On the back is a photo of Randy Randall being doused with water. Bully for them, getting their pics on the cover of a fancy catalog. Oh, w ... More >>

LA LA: Weiss' Top 10 Local Albums of 2008

How last month of me....However, since I sleep on the hometown scene all-too-frequently, consider this mild penance. 10. Dengue Fever-Venus on Earth (M80) Dreamy and druggy psychedelia built on a bedrock worship of 60s Cambodian pop, and the ethereal buoyancy of Chom Nmol's voice. Adorned w ... More >>

Weiss' 50 Best Albums of the Year (#40-31) (Sponsored By Crystal Pepsi)

If you're going to drink one clear cola this year, make it Crystal Pepsi. Please.40. No Age-Nouns (Sub Pop) Face it, *Nouns* is this decade's *Let it Be* (The Replacements, not The Beatles): A ragtag posse of scruffy dudes sonically illustrating their homes with spectacular tunes and pure passi ... More >>

Pacific Heights: L.A. Weekly's Top 10 L.A. Recordings of 2008

No Age, Chapin Sisters, Mia Doi Todd, the Knux, Flying Lotus, Madlib and more

They Call Him Mawlummawkhaenfalang

Meet Jonny Olsen, former semi-pro skater and downtown scenester. He’s now a Laotian pop star.

F Yeah: Frickin' Yes in the Summertime

This weekend's fest offers a glimpse into the future of rock & roll

David Scott Stone: The Master Modulator Experiments With Old Tones

"I want to make experimental music that affects all the senses"

Pitchfork Music Festival, Day 2: No Age, the Hold Steady, Fleet Foxes and Blunts the Size of Burritos

Pitchfork Music Festival, Day 2 By Jeff Weiss Tad Kubler of the Hold Steady (Photos by Nick Lucchesi) Sometimes, on your own, you arrive at the realization that "hey, it isn't so bad. I'm attending a music festival for free in a very beautiful city and even though I'm trying hard not to gawk at ... More >>

The Beginning of a No Age: Nouns

Simply put, the best punk album of the 21st century

Record Reviews: Gnarls Barkley, Evangelista, No Age, Destroyer

Also, The Knux, Ghost on the Highway, The Little Ones

2007's Long Players You Might Have Missed

Eleven handcrafted gems

Bedroom Confidential: New Crop of Boutique Record Labels in Town

Corporate counterparts may want to study this model

No Age: Rather Ripped

The buzz surrounding L.A. noise-pop band is deafening

Kids Rock

The bands that are saving L.A.’s music scene