Glasgow

Suntory Rising: The Rise of Japanese Whiskey

In Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola's 2003 cinematic homage to anomie, Bill Murray's character, Bob Harris, travels to Japan and submits to a kind of humiliation by whiskey as the spokesman for Suntory spirits. He endures various slights by pompous art directors, his eyes streaked with mascara and ... More >>

San Fernando: America's Sexiest, Most Scandal-Ridden City Government

The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time: 10-6

See also: *The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: 20-16 *The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: 15-11 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time 10. Eric Clapton Eric Clapton makes Jack White look like Son House. Dude tries so hard it's embarrassing. Kind of weird, considering his pithy quip to a Lond ... More >>

Listen Now: Roy Choi Mike D on 'Food Is the New Rock'

Prior to his days covering the city's tastiest (and unhealthiest) lunches under $10, Los Angeles food blogger Zach Brooks of Midtown Lunch worked as a music programmer at Sirius Satellite Radio in New York. But when Brooks went bicoastal two years ago, he didn't give up his love for music but instea ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! The Time a Religious 
Swiss Guy Beat Me Up

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] In Switzerland at the moment. Ah, the memories! This is from a journal entry from this day, 2 ... More >>

Frozen Food Company Outfits Bus Stops to Smell Like Potatoes

A few years ago, a South Korean company predicted that the Internet would be able to deliver smells to users by the year 2015. It, however, overlooked the far more obvious site of odors and smells: your local Metro stop. To promote its line of microwavable baked potatoes that are ready in just five ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: L.A.'s Experimental Punk Band Bark Bark Bark

KCRW Broadcast #148 for Saturday, January 14, 2012 Fanatics! As you know, I am on the road and will be for some time. Engineer X, the Young Will Bentley and I got together recently at the Auxiliary Wing of the Jasonic Temple and put together a fine show for you all. As you can see below, we have a ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! The Time I Made a Punk Rocker Cry

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Weeks ago, my L.A. Weekly super editor Ben Westhoff asked me about my plans for 2012. I told h ... More >>

Whole Foods Invades Scotland

paulswansen​ Not wanting to deprive the rest of the world from exorbitant prices for locally grown goods, Whole Foods will open a store in Scotland this week, the first of its chain to open in the area. The store will open in Giffnock, a city near Glasgow. Londonites seem to love themselves so ... More >>

Top 5 Athlete Diets: Wade Boggs's Chicken-a-Day, Kenyan Ugali Steve Nash's Nuts

Wheaties may be the breakfast of champions, but plenty of athletes don't swear by dry flakes for their daily sustenance. Lakers forward Ron Artest used to drink Hennessey at half-time. His teamate Lamar Odom likes jelly beans and gummy bears. Former Yankees slugger Babe Ruth once inhaled 24 hot d ... More >>

Science Can Now Tell Real Whiskey from Fake

University of StrathclydeAllyson McIntyre, a researcher at the University of Strathclyde.​In a piece of research that could have come only from Glasgow, chemists at the University of Strathclyde have found new methods of comparing whiskeys that allows them to determine whether what's on the la ... More >>

Carmageddon Playlist: 7 Songs that Namecheck the 405 Freeway

​ By Sheila Dichoso Carmageddon is coming! We thought we'd remind you again about the three-day 405 shutdown. The media warns that chaos will ensue, so stay at home and smoke weed or something. The San Diego freeway is notoriously loathed. Because of its congestion, we put up with way too ma ... More >>

Winter Is Coming & So Are The Cheesesteaks: On Game of Thrones, George RR Martin Food Quests

(c) http://www.westeros.org/2006 WorldCon, Glasgow, Scotland, with haggis in the foreground.​ Until we read Laura Miller's April 11th New Yorker piece on fantasy, horror and sci-fi writer George RR Martin, we didn't know much about HBO's new Game of Thrones, except that it's an American medie ... More >>

Countdown to Records Store Day: We Found Sasha Grey's Favorite Record Store!

​ Wombleton Records sells an amazing collection of rare- and not-so-rare imports--though its stated mission is to further cultural exchange between Los Angeles and Glasgow, it does all that and more carrying everything from Suzy Quattro and Zounds LP's to original pressings of Dutch freakbeat ... More >>

Today's New Releases: Girls, Orange Juice, Rikki Ililonga and Group Doueh

​ ORANGE JUICE, COALS TO NEWCASTLE (DOMINO) Coals to Newcastle is a seven-disc anthology covering Glasgow's Orange Juice's six-year recording career. This box set offers a look into one of most underrated and under-appreciated groups of all time. Six CDs and one DVD contain the band's entire ... More >>

Music Picks: Sasha & Kazell, She & Him, Efterklang, Xiu Xiu

Also, Holly Miranda, Les Blanks, Mumiy Troll and others

Nocando Vs. Wrekonize Battle Tape: Stamina Vs. Homophobia [NSFW]

A few months ago we wrote about LA rapper Nocando, whose work during Project Blowed and, recently, the Low End Theory have garnered him much praise on the experimental beatz scene around town (and in London). We just found this battle clip in which the emcee takes on Miami rapper Wrekonize, and w ... More >>

The Gorbals: Stomp, the Restaurant

A Jewish-Glaswegian inspiration in downtown L.A.

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

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

Glasvegas Gig the Troubadour Tonight, but Offer a Live Teaser on Morning Becomes Eclectic This Friday

And out of nowhere, as these things tend to happen, there's a new Biggest Band in the World (Of the Week), and its name is Glasvegas, who play Big, Important Rock to drive the music freaks crazy. The band, which is from Glasgow, Scotland, gig a sold-out show at the Troubadour tonight, and if you do ... More >>

KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas, Night 2: Vampire Weekend, Snow Patrol, Scott Weiland, Franz Ferdinand, Death Cab For Cutie, Paramore, The Killers, The Cure

By Siran Babayan (All photos by Timothy Norris. Click images for entire KROQ slideshow.) In my worst nightmare, the Cure would be upstaged by Kanye West. Yes, the two would share a bill; West making a surprise appearance and leaving the crowd in a frenzy, the Cure headlining the show and making ... More >>

Beat Feast

Mogwai's Hollyweird Sonics Are Ready for Their Close-Up

Is Scottish rock quintet the "perfect soundtrack for murder"?

Weekend Music: Wolf Eyes, Megapuss, RZA, Bostich Fussible, and More

FRIDAY, JUNE 21 Devendra wears his mega-dick and plays in Megapuss. Crazy. If you don't know by now, Megapuss is the side project Devendra Banhart (sorry, but if he's ballsy enough to put those glasses on in front of paparazzi, we're kind of compelled to use the photo). He's playing a secret show ... More >>

SXSW Day 2-Formed a Band, Everyone Formed A Band

Hey, Aren't You Juliette Lewis? Walking down 6th street yesterday, you had to wonder if everyone in the world somehow heard that Art Brut song, "Formed a Band" and decided that if Eddie Argos could do it, how hard could it really be? I've seen telephone directories thinner than the official SXSW ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Enchanted, August Rush, Hitman, Holly

Also This Christmas, What Would Jesus Buy? and more

And Justice for All

Parisian duo wins the West

Film Reviews: Disturbia, Perfect Stranger and More

Also Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Thetaers, The Ritchie Boys and this week's pick, Red Road

Do-Run-Run

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Great Scot

Sipping tea with James McAvoy

Take Me Out (to Eat)

Franz Ferdinand’s tour-food diary... yum!

I Am...Doll Parts

So, I was bored one evening (tonight, as it happens) and as we do in the digital age I decided to google my name and find out what other Steffies exist on this planet. There's a lot of us in Europe: a couple Germans, a Steffie from the Netherlands, and a Brit Steffie who blogs about her "frolics." ... More >>

Over the Hedge and Under the Radar

Mapping today’s kiddie-movie landscape

High & Outside

2005’s best outsider and experimental music releases

High & Outside

2005’s best outsider and experimental music releases

All Eyes On New Orleans

A look at what the rest of the world is saying

Waiting for Hickey

Culver City’s lounge lizards and bar gators

All Finked Up

Wet Hankie

Shona Auerbach’s Dear Frankie

10 Memorable Moments On The Local Stage

Violent Femme

Denise Mina’s crime fiction is gritty, political and emotionally brutal. Say goodnight, Miss Marple.

Rutting and Nothingness

The Fuzz and the Fury

Human Rites Activist

Depicting real people’s lives, unvarnished, gives screenwriter Paul Laverty his biggest thrill

Beautiful Dreamer

Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar

A Dossier of Desperate Measures

Godspeed offshoots light the fuse.

Death Mix 2001

Les Misérables

Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher

Mourning Mum

Four Orphans grieve in Glasgow

Working Class Act

The socialist realism of director Ken Loach