KCRW BROADCAST #208 03-23-13 Â Fanatics! Hello from Honolulu, Hawaii. Due to a scheduling glitch, I am out here without the means to create this Saturday's show. Engineer X and I looked over some of our older shows and settled on one from last May to roll out for you. You might remember it from wh ... More >>
Morrissey Staples Center 3/1/13 Better than... bacon-wrapped hot dogs. There was the requisite Morrissey drama, for that's who he is, who we want him to be: the postponement last year of the Staples Center gig with Iggy Pop & The Stooges because of his mother's health; the postponement of earlier ... More >>
Tuesday, December 25 Cody Bryant VIVA CANTINA Believe it or not, there are actually a few clubs open on Christmas. Over at Liquid Kitty in West Los Angeles, DJ Charlie X is spinning a no-cover mix of punk rock and various hits from that lost decade, the 1980s. Across town, at Viva Cantina in Burban ... More >>
Monday, December 17 The Moonbeams HEMINGWAY'S LOUNGE The Moonbeams' upcoming single might be titled "Life's a Circus," but the song is more mournful and foreboding than cheery or escapist. Lead singer Beck Black howls her bloody imprecations with a solemn, sullen intensity as drummer Adam Alt and g ... More >>
The San Fernando Valley doesn't come to mind when you think "iconic clubs," but in the 1980s the West Valley was the place to see acts like Tom Petty, Merle Haggard, Metallica and U2. See also: What Makes the Hollywood Bowl So Perfect? The Reseda Country Club, located on Sherman Way near Reseda B ... More >>
The San Fernando Valley doesn't come to mind when you think "iconic clubs," but in the 1980s the West Valley was the place to see acts like Tom Petty, Merle Haggard, Metallica and U2. See also: What Makes the Hollywood Bowl So Perfect? The Reseda Country Club, located on Sherman Way near Reseda B ... More >>
KCRW Broadcast #164 for Saturday, May 12, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! R.I.P. MCA Fanatics! Hello from beautiful Western Australia! This will be the last Saturday I will be here. Soon, off to South Africa for a few shows and then, on the 26th, of this month, we will be live on the rad ... More >>
KCRW Broadcast #161 for Saturday, April 21, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Happy Birthday Iggy Pop! Your Biggest Fan, Henry Fanatics! Hello from Melbourne, Australia! Tonight's show is a very special one. Today, one Iggy Pop turns 65 years old. There is no better way we can say happy bi ... More >>
[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.] Iggy Pop, who was born on April 21, 1947, turns 65 this Saturday. It is perhaps a waste of time ... More >>
See also: Crazy Town's Shifty Shellshock Is Out of His Coma! Here's Everything You Need To Know About Him Rap-rock remains the coolest idea ever. You've just been scared off of it by the mountain of terrible rap-rock in existence. Here are ten songs that prove the Woodstock '99-tainted genre could ... More >>
[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.] One of the best romantic messengers is, of course, music. And then when it's over and you are ... More >>
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 >>
[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.] See also: *Our review of Iggy and The Stooges at Hollywood Palladium, 12-01-11 *Le Butch ... More >>
See also: *Henry Rollins: The Column! Is Raw Power the American answer to Exile on Main St.? *Our Iggy and The Stooges and Le Butcherettes slideshow *Le Butcherettes' Teri Gender Bender is the most volatile woman in rock *Le Butcherettes' Teri Gender Bender On Raw Meat And Sexism In Mexico Iggy and ... More >>
See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! The Time I Drank The Sweat From My Socks Onstage Drop in the Bucket benefit Henry Rollins, Scott Ian, Mike Watt, Corey Taylor, Dave Navarro and others Avalon 11/30/11 Last night handfuls of heavy musicians took the stage for a worthy cause, Drop In The Bucket, ... More >>
See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! The Time I Drank The Sweat From My Socks Onstage Drop in the Bucket benefit Henry Rollins, Scott Ian, Mike Watt, Corey Taylor, Dave Navarro and others Avalon 11/30/11 Last night handfuls of heavy musicians took the stage for a worthy cause, Drop In The Bucket, ... More >>
We were so excited when we saw the wooden box on our desk with the words "Bob Marley" branded into the top. A CD box set? Possibly--if we are very very lucky--a box set of 7"s? With little booklets that have liner notes full of interesting and amazing facts about one of the word's seminal p ... More >>
Timothy NorrisKCRW BROADCAST #109 for Saturday, April 9. Fanatics! If you notice, our show tonight does all it can to evade all classification. Perhaps the single song that embodies the idea behind the overall is track two, our Ludus. Check that arrangement! That's what tonight's show is all ... More >>
Marc Maron
The weather is doing that weird thing we hate wherein there is a forty degree swing in temperature between noon and midnight. Advice: dress in layers if you're going to go out after work on Friday, or you'll be one of those poor fools standing in line outside the club in flip flops and a ta ... More >>
Timothy NorrisKCRW BROADCAST #105 for Saturday, March 12.This is a get ready, so you can get set. This is a heads up, so you can get down. This coming Saturday, I will attempt to melt your radio with a show I have wanted to do for a long time. At 6 pm on 89.9 FM KCRW, we will go scortcho for ... More >>
bowieisgod.tumblr.comEvolutionary Science can explain why many attractive women (like this one) and men (not pictured) think this grotesque man is a "sex god" (i.e., because he plays "rock n roll" music) Why are so many of us attracted to musicians even though (as Iggy Pop noted) many of them ... More >>
bowieisgod.tumblr.comEvolutionary Science can explain why many attractive women (like this one) and men (not pictured) think this grotesque man is a "sex god" (i.e., because he plays "rock n roll" music) Why are so many of us attracted to musicians even though (as Iggy Pop noted) many of them ... More >>
How many big-budget rock and roll movies were made by Canadian animators in the early 1980s? How many of them featured at least one cast member from SCTV, the voice-over work of journeyman Don Francks, and a song by Cheap Trick? Well, at least two. Heavy Metal is the quintessential animat ... More >>
Iggy Pop's L.A. album, cleaned up
Iggy Pop's L.A. album, cleaned up
The late Michael Hutchence plays punk
Last night I went to the premiere of Search and Destroy: Iggy And The Stooges Raw Power, a short documentary included in the just-released limited edition Raw Power box set. The big draw of the film is the new footage of Iggy Pop, candidly shooting the shit about drugs, music, ODing on drugs ... More >>
Erin Broadley"Which guitar do you want me next to: a Les Paul or a Les Paul?"On any given day you can walk into Guitar Center in Hollywood and see Slash. One can't go more than ten feet inside the mega-retailer without coming across a promotional gear-head display or banner bearing the image ... More >>
In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "My friend called me distraught. 'I just ate Iggy!'" Straight Outta Chocolate's Rock N' Roll Cakes: Joy Division & Iggy Pop, In Chocolate. "Cooking for me is a game. My life isn't boring, trust me!" LudoBites Re ... More >>
Want an homage of your favorite rock star? Try a cake depicting Iggy Pop, Dr. Dre or Debbie Harry--in chocolate. Baker, chocolatier and DJ (at Highland Park's Footsies) Kate Steffens specializes in rock n' roll cakes, with musicians depicted in tempered chocolate which she works into elaborate portr ... More >>
Rock-n-roll and breasts often go (tee-hee) hand in hand. In fact, Motley Crue drummer and groupie magnet, Tommy Lee, has this rule about coming into his dressing room: "You're not allowed in unless you remove an article of clothing. And I'm not talking about your socks. It's pretty f***ing c ... More >>
Mother's Day may already be a Hallmark holiday but that didn't stop Oprah, KFC and El Pollo Loco from turning it into a full-blown, corporate flame (grilled chicken) war over the weekend. Is nothing sacred? As Gendy Alimurung reported on Saturday, "The latest installment in our continuing coverage o ... More >>
View more photos in the "MusiCares: Anthony Kiedis, Iggy Pop, Ronnie Wood, Steve Jones @ Club Nokia" slideshow. Colin Young-WolffAnthony Kiedis at the fifth annual MusiCares MAP Fund Benefit"I'm not crying, that's just Iggy Pop's sweat in my eye," joked Anthony Kiedis at the MusiCares fifth annual ... More >>
Nightranger paints the town
With Deerhunter, The Horrors and Pissed Jeans
For the week of June 21–28
When it comes to the annual desert festival, Nightranger’s no minor-leaguer.
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Neuralgia nostalgia at the Queen Mary
Neuralgia nostalgia at the Queen Mary
Edited by Kateri Butler
Edited by Kateri Butler
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