Don Bolles

The 911 on Halloween

Ariel Pink's Birthday Meltdown and Fancy Space People, the Musical Version of Sex on X

photo by Cameron GrayFancy Space People​Nothin' like a blissful and theatrical performance of the indulgence of rock-n-roll to remind us why life is worth livin. Fans willing to sing your songs for you? Girls willing to flash their breasts to bulging security guards on Slauson Blvd? Friends wi ... More >>

Nightranger: Inaugural L.A. Nightie Awards

photo by Cameron GrayFancy Space People​Nothin' like a blissful and theatrical performance of the indulgence of rock-n-roll to remind us why life is worth livin. Fans willing to sing your songs for you? Girls willing to flash their breasts to bulging security guards on Slauson Blvd? Friends wi ... More >>

Life Of Crime: Robbing For Records and Five Rock 'n' Roll Criminals

Les Rallizes Denudes -- Rock 'n' Roll Hijackers​ Via Gawker via the NY Post: Four men knocked off a series of laundromats, gas stations, and convenience stores earlier this week, making off with cash and cigarettes in hopes of getting money to start a record label. (180-gram vinyl is expensiv ... More >>

Nightranger: REDRUM & RITZ

Les Rallizes Denudes -- Rock 'n' Roll Hijackers​ Via Gawker via the NY Post: Four men knocked off a series of laundromats, gas stations, and convenience stores earlier this week, making off with cash and cigarettes in hopes of getting money to start a record label. (180-gram vinyl is expensiv ... More >>

Creeps and Cramps: Haunted Rockin' At HM 157

Lina Lecaro The Human Flys​ When it comes to Halloween haps (there are so many this year, it truly is frightening!), nothing beats a house party. Better still, a haunted house party. Lincoln Heights arts and music hub, HM (Historical Monument) 157 has always had a creepy-cool vibe, and on Sat ... More >>

Dance Club Pick: Where Did I Put My Undead Tony Wilson Costume?

Lina Lecaro The Human Flys​ When it comes to Halloween haps (there are so many this year, it truly is frightening!), nothing beats a house party. Better still, a haunted house party. Lincoln Heights arts and music hub, HM (Historical Monument) 157 has always had a creepy-cool vibe, and on Sat ... More >>

Saturday Night Fever: Soul Clap Gets Sweaty, Don Bolles' Drums Get Stolen and The Show Cave Goes On

Lina Lecaro In step with Don Bolles and Jonathan Toubin ​ After stomping the streets at ERMF on Saturday, we gave our feet a much-needed rest and watched others sweat it up for a change, as part of a judging panel for the LA version of New York Night Train's Soul Clap & Dance-Off at TheSex do ... More >>

Nightranger: Where There's Smoke

Lina Lecaro In step with Don Bolles and Jonathan Toubin ​ After stomping the streets at ERMF on Saturday, we gave our feet a much-needed rest and watched others sweat it up for a change, as part of a judging panel for the LA version of New York Night Train's Soul Clap & Dance-Off at TheSex do ... More >>

The Fretted Frog Strums Up Echo Park Acoustic Scene

Lina Lecaro Fretted Frog's ukelele selection​We can probably all agree that The Echo and the Echoplex put Echo Park (we wont use the other "E" word for fear of being rebuked by The "Eastside" Police) on the musical map, and no doubt, the adjacent venues are at least part of the reason why so m ... More >>

Catching Up With Pat and Don

Lina Lecaro Fretted Frog's ukelele selection​We can probably all agree that The Echo and the Echoplex put Echo Park (we wont use the other "E" word for fear of being rebuked by The "Eastside" Police) on the musical map, and no doubt, the adjacent venues are at least part of the reason why so m ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Xeno and Oaklander at the Echo

​The Part Time Punks showcase last Sunday at the Echo expanded the definition of "punk" into the current mini-craze for the "Cold-Wave" or "minimal synth" genre. As Cold-Wave evangelist and pioneering organizer of New York's Wierd parties Peter Schoolwerth told Dazed & Confused recently, "I ge ... More >>

Dreaming of a Day-Glo Xmas

Doug Harvey’s mostly psychedelic shopping list

Public Access Lives! (On DVD): One Of 'The Threee Geniuses' Talks The Re-Death Of Psychedelia

Taking LSD over seven times may or may not make you legally insane (if the myth were true, some of us here at West Coast Sound might have just missed the loony bin), but we can assure you, watching the psycho-delic circus known as The Threee Geniuses as many times is likely to drive you nuts, at lea ... More >>

A Woolly Mammoth Made of Tires and Other 'Anthropological' Oddities Found at TOW

Friday night, I headed deep into one of downtown's warehouse neighborhoods for the closing night party of "Modern Nomads: An Anthropological Exhibition of a Lost Culture Not Yet Founded" at artist workspace TOW. The massive project featured contributions from local musicians Don Bolles (The Germs, ... More >>

Nothing but Treats

Friday night, I headed deep into one of downtown's warehouse neighborhoods for the closing night party of "Modern Nomads: An Anthropological Exhibition of a Lost Culture Not Yet Founded" at artist workspace TOW. The massive project featured contributions from local musicians Don Bolles (The Germs, ... More >>

Goin’ Underground

Friday night, I headed deep into one of downtown's warehouse neighborhoods for the closing night party of "Modern Nomads: An Anthropological Exhibition of a Lost Culture Not Yet Founded" at artist workspace TOW. The massive project featured contributions from local musicians Don Bolles (The Germs, ... 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 >>

Tonight: Members of No Age, Germs, RTX Judge Dancers at the 'New York Night Train Soul Clap Dance-Off"

This looks like a frickin' party. The great L.A. Record is bringing New York Night Train to LA tonight to host its Soul Clap Dance Off at the Nomad Gallery, which is tucked between i-5 and the LA River just north of Elysian Park.

Soul Clap & Dance-Off at Nomad Gallery

Plus Illumination Radio at the Brand Lounge

WHAT WOULD JESUS SPIN?

Plus Illumination Radio at the Brand Lounge

Hyperion Tavern Celebrates an American Original at Lux Interior Memorial Record Hop

Howie Pyro and Don Bolles in the DJ booth for the Lux Interior Memorial Record Hop When The Surrenders played a cover of The Cramps' "Human Fly" backed-up against cover-of-a-cover "Sufin' Bird," it didn't sound as though the local jazzy rock trio had learned the songs two hours earlier. In fact, sin ... More >>

Reading the Signs: Explaining the Inexplicable During the Civil Unrest of 1992

Breaking the tension

Sunset Junction: Germs, Sparks and Blood

Breaking the tension

Crash Landing: What We Do Is Secret

Germs biopic turns a lens on the infamous L.A. punk band and its ill-fated front man, Darby Crash

Me Party Long Time

2 Live Crew, Ron Jeremy and a Germs Biopic

Carnality Circa '82: A Dave Naz Joint

XXX movie, by ex Chemical People band member, delivers punk-drenched, suburban-angst, back-then realism — with a Circle Jerks soundtrack

Target Video @ MOCA, 6.7.08

Target Video screens a 2-hour compilation video at MOCA's Geffen Contemporary, as part of the CineMOCA festival. Photos by Rena Kosnett. Blood brothers: Germs drummer Don Bolles and the night's music programmer, Henry Rollins. The turn-out for the Target Video screening was solid, mostly 30 and ... More >>

Germs, Adolescents, Key Club, 12/28

The Mae Shi jump start the night with some fresh blood. They'll be at the Smell in downtown Jan. 3rd, 2008. The Adolescents get the pit rockin! The hardcore fans swallowed this set a little easier than the Germs set with the "actor" in the vocal slot. Frank Agnew, Jr. on guitar. (Uncle Fran ... More >>

X-ers and Exes

Nightranger paints the town

It Doesn't Kill Germs

In case you haven't heard, local legend Don Bolles (The Germs, 45 Grave, Celebrity Skin) was busted this past weekend by the Newport Police. They say they found GHB in his soap, but Bolles denies even knowing what that drug is. An email campaign put together by friends and fans managed to raise doug ... More >>

Afro Hammond Jr.

In case you haven't heard, local legend Don Bolles (The Germs, 45 Grave, Celebrity Skin) was busted this past weekend by the Newport Police. They say they found GHB in his soap, but Bolles denies even knowing what that drug is. An email campaign put together by friends and fans managed to raise doug ... More >>

Music Picks

For the week of August 10–17

Screwball Diva

Darcey Leonard

Aliens Don't Die (They Just Disappear)

Zolar X, with the Raw Power Rangers January 18 at Club Screwball (El Cid)

Nightranger

Zolar X, with the Raw Power Rangers January 18 at Club Screwball (El Cid)

Nightranger

Zolar X, with the Raw Power Rangers January 18 at Club Screwball (El Cid)

Kitten Sparkles, Justice Yeldham and the Dynamic Ribbon Device, Dave Phillips, Leticia Castaneda

Zolar X, with the Raw Power Rangers January 18 at Club Screwball (El Cid)

The Music Man

Zolar X, with the Raw Power Rangers January 18 at Club Screwball (El Cid)

Re-Germinated

Zolar X, with the Raw Power Rangers January 18 at Club Screwball (El Cid)

Experimental Jet Set & a Few Stars

Edited by Kateri Butler

King of the Hill

Edited by Kateri Butler

Vinyl Fetish

The often weird, sometimes sad and occasionally wonderful world of song-poems

Fish Fry 2002

The often weird, sometimes sad and occasionally wonderful world of song-poems

Sound and Beyond

The music of art, the art of music

Annihilation Man

How Darby Crash lost control. Of the Germs. Of Circle One. Everything.

Queens of Noise

How Darby Crash lost control. Of the Germs. Of Circle One. Everything.

Balls of the Belle

How Darby Crash lost control. Of the Germs. Of Circle One. Everything.

The Low Life

How Darby Crash lost control. Of the Germs. Of Circle One. Everything.