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Howie Pyro

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2011

    LinA In LA Party Picks: Merry Funking Christmas!

    Blackeyed Soul Club​Our mixed bag of holiday treats this week features soul, art noise, Russian-themed revelry, Prince sounds and retro-electro raving. Fri., Dec. 9 Blackeyed Soul Club moves to a groovy new locale, The Monty Bar, a wood-covered bar with spacious dance floor and great sound. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2011

    LinA In LA Party Picks: Set Your Watches For Pacific Standard Time

    East Village West; see Sat.​Get ready for a host of arty parties in the coming days, as Pacific Standard Time and Fashion Week events take over town. There's also a sure-to-be ferocious fun tribute night pitting two '80s faves against each other on the dance floor, as well as two pop-in worthy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2011

    D Generation - The Troubadour - September 24, 2011

    Lina LecaroSinger Jesse Malin finds his way to the bar ​D Generation at The Troubadour September 24, 2011 Better than... shows where the lead singer doesn't leave the stage, head to the bar, and throw back some tequila. Though they sweat and bleed New York, D Generation has an L.A. fan ba ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 8, 2011

    L.A. Punk Rock History Class Is Now in Session

    Lina LecaroSinger Jesse Malin finds his way to the bar ​D Generation at The Troubadour September 24, 2011 Better than... shows where the lead singer doesn't leave the stage, head to the bar, and throw back some tequila. Though they sweat and bleed New York, D Generation has an L.A. fan ba ... More >>

  • Music

    January 6, 2011

    Nightranger: Inaugural L.A. Nightie Awards

    Lina LecaroSinger Jesse Malin finds his way to the bar ​D Generation at The Troubadour September 24, 2011 Better than... shows where the lead singer doesn't leave the stage, head to the bar, and throw back some tequila. Though they sweat and bleed New York, D Generation has an L.A. fan ba ... More >>

  • Music

    December 9, 2010

    Creep Show, Peep Show

    Heavy Metal Parking Lot, photography at Hotel de Ville Eyewear and the Paul Smith anniversary party, plus saying goodbye to some of our fave haunts

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    In Search Of: Mahssa Taghinia On Rare Iranian Records And More

    courtesy mahssa taghinia​ Mahssa Taghinia of B-Music/Finders Keepers Records is a DJ and record collector whose specialty is long-lost '60s and '70s Iranian pop, psych, and funk gems. Her Pomegranates compilation--available now from Finders Keepers--shows off the best of her finds from flea m ... More >>

  • Music

    November 11, 2010

    Nightranger: WILD FRONTIER

    courtesy mahssa taghinia​ Mahssa Taghinia of B-Music/Finders Keepers Records is a DJ and record collector whose specialty is long-lost '60s and '70s Iranian pop, psych, and funk gems. Her Pomegranates compilation--available now from Finders Keepers--shows off the best of her finds from flea m ... More >>

  • Music

    July 1, 2010

    Dance Club Pick: (Cherry) Bombs — Miss Kitty, Bondage Ball and Erotic City

    courtesy mahssa taghinia​ Mahssa Taghinia of B-Music/Finders Keepers Records is a DJ and record collector whose specialty is long-lost '60s and '70s Iranian pop, psych, and funk gems. Her Pomegranates compilation--available now from Finders Keepers--shows off the best of her finds from flea m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2010

    I Scream Social: Roky Erickson's Psychy-Surreal Kiddie Show

    Zombies, vampires, howls of insanity, cranked up amps and the Fuck Yeah Fest guys-- not your average romp at Chuck E. Cheese. But when the Texas psych-soul crooner Roky Erickson brought his bizarre and amazing "after school" Ice Cream Social party to the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock on Thursda ... More >>

  • Music

    May 13, 2010

    Nightranger: Ritual de lo Rock Show

    Zombies, vampires, howls of insanity, cranked up amps and the Fuck Yeah Fest guys-- not your average romp at Chuck E. Cheese. But when the Texas psych-soul crooner Roky Erickson brought his bizarre and amazing "after school" Ice Cream Social party to the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock on Thursda ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 18, 2010

    FALL IN LOVE WITH JOEY RAMONE ALL OVER AGAIN

    Zombies, vampires, howls of insanity, cranked up amps and the Fuck Yeah Fest guys-- not your average romp at Chuck E. Cheese. But when the Texas psych-soul crooner Roky Erickson brought his bizarre and amazing "after school" Ice Cream Social party to the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock on Thursda ... More >>

  • Music

    November 26, 2009

    Twist and Shout

    Zombies, vampires, howls of insanity, cranked up amps and the Fuck Yeah Fest guys-- not your average romp at Chuck E. Cheese. But when the Texas psych-soul crooner Roky Erickson brought his bizarre and amazing "after school" Ice Cream Social party to the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock on Thursda ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2009

    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.

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2009

    Howie Pyro's Illumination Radio Night Canceled, DJ Set Now At Neon Noise

    For those of you hoping to catch Howie Pyro's new Illumination Radio dance club in Glendale (see my dance club pick here), word is, it's been canceled. Pyro will still be making an appearance at the other club mentioned in the pick -and on this blog- The Soul Clap & Dance-Off as a judge, AND he'll b ... More >>

  • Music

    July 23, 2009

    Soul Clap & Dance-Off at Nomad Gallery

    Plus Illumination Radio at the Brand Lounge

  • Music

    June 18, 2009

    Proud, Out and About

    Plus Illumination Radio at the Brand Lounge

  • LA Life

    April 23, 2009

    LA People 2009: Art-Tart Barbie — Kari French

    Plus Illumination Radio at the Brand Lounge

  • LA Life

    April 9, 2009

    GO LA, the Leonard Cohen Alternative: Mustache Dodgeball and Ron White on Klonopin

    Plus, PaleyFest09 and other events to make you forget you fucked up over Leonard Cohen, April 10-16

  • Calendar

    April 9, 2009

    WHAT WOULD JESUS SPIN?

    Plus, PaleyFest09 and other events to make you forget you fucked up over Leonard Cohen, April 10-16

  • Music

    March 19, 2009

    Nightranger Does Fashion Week

    Stephen Sprouse, Lady Gaga and Box 8

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2009

    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 >>

  • Music

    October 9, 2008
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    July 31, 2008

    Hustle and Flow

    Destination burlesque; nobodies, wait here; birthday cake and jam

  • Music

    February 7, 2008

    Survival of the Fiercest

    Natural History music; art vandals; bashes worth crashing

  • Music

    January 31, 2008

    Bootleg Poppin'

    Hawaii 5-0, Bootie LA

  • Music

    December 15, 2005

    Where’s the Funny?

    The year hip-hop forgot its dick can fly

  • Music

    August 25, 2005

    Cocks of the Rock

    The ear-to-ear assault of the Chelsea Smiles

  • Columns

    December 9, 2004

    Umlautta Love

    The ear-to-ear assault of the Chelsea Smiles

  • Columns

    March 18, 2004

    Re-Germinated

    The ear-to-ear assault of the Chelsea Smiles

  • Music

    November 20, 2003

    Writer’s Block

    Edited by Kateri Butler

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