Elliott Smith

Local Natives' Big Vaulted Ceilings

On their new album, the rising indie-folk act show who they are and what they've become

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 >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews MB Post

David LeFevre brings Manhattan Beach up to speed on L.A. restaurant trends

Elliott Smith Memorial Wall Gets a New Face--Again

Elliott Smith's Figure 8 cover art​Don't mess with memorials, especially ones dedicated to musicians tragically gone far too soon. Last spring, former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters incited a minor riot (ok, in the comments section of this blog post, but still) when the viral street campai ... More >>

Patrick Range McDonald Named Best Print Journalist of the Year by L.A. Press Club; LA Weekly Takes Home 5 More Awards

Patrick Range McDonald: awesome, officially.​In case you're wondering why the L.A. blogroll looks kind of groggy this morning: A couple hundred Los Angeles journalists took last night off, putting on their Sunday best for the Press Club Awards, a schmancy round of self-congratulations and free ... More >>

Flaming Lips Stir Souls (Living and Dead) at The Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Flaming Lips Stir Souls (Living and Dead) at The Hollywood Forever Cemetery

L.A. Nightlife in the '90s- Remembering Jabberjaw's Historic Rockin' and L.A. Raves Through The Looking Glass

Courtesy Michelle Carr.Sofia Coppola at Jabberjaw. ​Cheesy Dance hits from the '90s may be all the rage in the clubs right now, but getting nostalgic about L.A. nightlife and how it helped shape the music of the decade, yields two different types of flashbacks (as a gal who dug both rock and d ... More >>

Rodarte: States of Matter

Here come the frock stars

Top 10 Crazy and Ridiculous Music Photos of 2010

Top 10 Crazy and Ridiculous Photos of the Year

Exclusive: L.A. Rapper Mestizo Name-Checks Elliott Smith in Vid for 'Truth Be Told,' via Alpha Pup

Mestizo of Machina Muerte name-checks Elliott Smith on his Alpha Pup debut, "Elecholo"​L.A.-based emcee Mestizo, founder of the up-and-coming indie rap crew Machina Muerte, appears at Low End Theory on Wednesday night behind his brand new album Elecholo, due out tomorrow via Machina Muerte/Alp ... More >>

Vinyl of the Week: Vintage Psych-Pop and a Blondie Cover from L.A.'s Mini Mansions [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, believing that good music deserves much more than a handfu ... More >>

Dysfunction Junction

Mickey Petralia: Blazing Trails

Roger Waters Apologizes for Elliott Smith Memorial Wall "Accident"

​Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters gave an interview to the LA Times this morning where he offered his apologies for defacing Elliott Smith's memorial mural with his viral campaign for his upcoming The Wall Live shows. "Though the oft-abused wall has also been a favorite target for tagg ... More >>

Roger Waters Paid Street Artists to Deface Elliott Smith Memorial Mural

This is major-label viral marketing gone wild. Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters has launched a "viral," "street" campaign for his upcoming The Wall Live tour, which consists of hiring street artists in LA and NYC to strategically place a pacifist quote by Dwight "WTF" Eisenhower on several " ... More >>

Listen: Four Songs From New Jason Boesel (Rilo Kiley) LP [MP3]

Butch Hogan​Longtime drummer for Rilo Kiley and frequent time-keeper to various Conor Oberst-led outfits, Jason Boesel, is releasing his debut solo album next Tuesday, but music fans can hear four songs from Hustler's Son right now. The first three -- "French Kissing," "Black Waves," and "Ne ... More >>

Guest Blogger Jason Reitman Talks Early Soundtrack Influences

Editor's note: West Coast Sound is thrilled to introduce to our blogging world the director Jason Reitman, whose new film, Up in the Air, has just opened in Los Angeles and New York, and opens across the country on December 25. The movie stars George Clooney and Vera Farmiga, it's true, but like his ... More >>

Jump Clubb Covers Elliott Smith's "Angeles" (MP3)

More news from Beverly Hills' anonymous shoegazin' electro crew Jump Clubb. We still don't know who she/he/they/it is/are, but at the very least, it's now clear that there's a female voice involved. And that Jump Clubb has an affinity for Elliott Smith. Download JC's cover of his song, "Angeles" -- ... More >>

Songs for Our City: Weezer Endorses a "Surf Wax America"

Weezer's "Blue Album" is the soundtrack for the beach, beers, and BBQ.

Songs for Our City: X Decries the Co-Dependent "Los Angeles"

There's a song for every neighborhood in this sprawling octopus of a metropolis. The psychedlic folk of Topanga Canyon, the booty droppin' bass of Compton, and lonesome gristle of Silver Lake. This week, as a sonic portrait of Los Angeles, West Coast Sound presents: Songs for our City. ​ In ... More >>

Songs for our City: Elliott Smith on Alameda Street

Elliott Smith's songs filled in the blanks for the musical and emotional landscape of Silver Lake.

I Was A Nerd Before You Were a Nerd

Special Drinko por Cinco Mariachi Cheat-Sheet Edition

Google's New Killer App? Why Are Music Bloggers' Posts Disappearing, and Who Is Deleting Them?

Post-Post-Punk

And the rise and fall of Elliott Smith

Tonight at the Echo: Wait. Think. Fast. celebrates the Release of Vuelve el Mar at the Echo (MP3)

Despite having a name that will piss off copy editors for the duration of their career, Echo Park quartet Wait. Think. Fast. more than make up for their punctuational demands with generous melody and attentive songcraft. The songs are solid without being rigid, and pretty without being cloying. My ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Kung Fu Panda, Mongol, Mother of Tears

Also, The Go-Getter, Trying to Get Good and more

Paranoid Park: The Soundtrack of Their Lives

Skate movie dispenses with the angst, surrounds itself with Nino Rota and Elliott Smith

Glen and Marketa at the Oscars

Once upon a time, Elliott Smith and Aimee Mann were nominated for Oscars, and despite the KCRW-ness of it all, it still felt good to watch them up there against the Celines and the Disney movie stuff. Of course, it was always Celine Dion or Phil Collins or whomever that walked away with the award ... More >>

Record Reviews: Badd Santa, Beanie Sigel, Regime Noir

Holiday music that doesn't suck, unhinged thug talk and a MySpace page

Weird Scenes Inside the Silver Mine

From old-school heads to prepubescent punks, Silver Lake is where L.A.’s indie rock heart still beats

Vintage Evenings at the Ford: Christopher O'Riley

We’re Goin’ Down in Flames

Snakes on a Plane

Gnarls Barkley, the Beauty of Being Blunt, and the Poppy Lips Battle the Apocalypse

Fireball Ministry

Local bands, man

Community Values

Earlimart takes you with them

He’s Not Trying To Break Your Heart

From a Basement on the Hill shatters Elliott’s myth

Letters

People Whose Passing We Lament

CitySweep

L.A. Weekly Music Awards 03

L.A. Weekly Music Awards 2003

Blues From Mars

Sugar 'n' Spikes

Love is Blonde

Edited by Kateri Butler

Rhythm & Chews

Edited by Kateri Butler

Letters

Wait-and-Switch

Why is Amazon.com debuting free digital downloads?

A Day in the Life

Bob Mould gets personal about it