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Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Mississippi Blues

KCRW Broadcast #185 for Saturday, October 13, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! The Failings of Music Writers Fanatics! In Mississippi tonight. We thought it would be a good idea to lay some Blues on you. Blues music comes all kinds of ways and is there to be taken any way you want. If y ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: More Hendrix and Some Old Favorites

KCRW Broadcast #182 for Saturday, September 29, 2012 See also: Fanatics! I am in Pierre, South Dakota. Tonight, we finish our four-part Hendrix trip. Hour 1 is some bootleg material and some of the less traveled roads of Mr. Hendrix. Most of these tracks are in print on different labels, most of ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Going in Deep With One Last Wish

KCRW Broadcast #178 for Saturday, August 25, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! When It Comes to Cracking Down On Protests, Are We Any Better Than Russia? Fanatics! Welcome to September. While I am sure it may still be hot where you are, it is in fact September and autumn is upon us. Tonigh ... More >>

Adventures of Pete and Pete Cast Reunites Again (With the Band Polaris!)

Everything Is...Krebstar! There are all too few synonyms for "awesome" to describe the radical redux of The Adventures of Pete and Pete reunion that went down last night at the Orpheum. Capping off the past eleven days of their annual Everything Is Festival, Cinefamily pulled together another Kre ... More >>

10 Groundbreaking Celebrity and Music Photographers

Right now, there are at least three music-themed photo exhibits going on in L.A., and a few celebrity-themed ones, too. Peter Fetterman Gallery is showing "Forever Young: The Art of Music Photography" through September 8, while Kana Manglapus Projects is exhibiting "Factory 77" through September 10, ... More >>

Music Picks: Too $hort, Best Coast, Brad Mehldau Trio

Also, Lee Fields & the Expressions, Simon Stokes, Sonnymoon, and others

Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: #15-11

See also: *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: #20-16 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List 15. Gwen Stefani Hers is the face that launched ska's third wave, compelled Claire's to mass-produce bejeweled bindis, and brought Harajuku makeup from the streets of Tokyo to TV sets ... More >>

Music Picks: Robben Ford, Hard L.A., Adams Conducts Adams, the Polyphonic Spree

Also, Mindless Self Indulgence, the Pierces, Heartless Bastards, Darasuum and others

Music Picks: Ravi Shankar, Marilyn Scott, Duran Duran, Burkina Electric

Also, Emmylou Harris & Her Red Dirt Boys, Odd Future, Gillian Welch and others

Music Picks: Shunda K, SebastiAn, Fleet Foxes, Miles Evans Band

Also, Ray LaMontagne, Kissing Cousins, the Kills and others

Exclusive: Amanda Palmer's New Track, "In My Mind" and Interview

​Interview by Roselle Chen "It's a beautiful fucking day in Boston," says punk-cabaret performer Amanda Palmer from her home. She is best known as one half of The Dresden Dolls, and has a wildly-popular solo career, but she's on the phone mainly to talk about her work with the David Lynch Fo ... More >>

Live Review: Top Five Reasons Odd Future is L.A.'s Best Live Act

Andrea Domanick#swaggin'​ If Wu Tang, Iggy Pop and the Flaming Lips threw a birthday party, it might approximate Odd Future's swag-as-hell show Saturday night at House of Blues Sunset. Swinging stateside amidst their first European tour, the horrorcore collective took the stage in full force ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Henry on What Makes a Great Band Frontman

Timothy Norris​[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every week and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday eveni ... More >>

Henry Rollins! The Column: The Stooges, Michigan's Original Insane Posse

Timothy Norris​[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every week and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday eveni ... More >>

Henry Rollins Column: Rollins on the Attempted Political Assassination and Massacre in Tucson

Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins contirbutes a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every Monday and make sure to tune in to He ... More >>

Iggy Pop Drummer Alex Kirst (Also of LA Rockers The Nymphs) Found Dead Near Palm Springs

​Alex Kirst, the former drummer for wild LA rockers The Nymphs and a member of Iggy Pop's band was killed late Thursday, Jan. 13, in Cathedral City near Palm Springs. Local police are investigating the death as a hit and run. "We have no evidence of any braking," Sgt. Paul Herrera told The D ... More >>

Henry Rollins Column: How to Talk to Right Wing Talk Show Callers

Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins will be contributing a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every Friday and make sure to tune ... More >>

The Morlocks Play the Blues

Revived band gives the Chess songbook the L.A. punk treatment

Picks from San Diego Comic-Con's Saturday Schedule: Futurama, Peter Bagge and Zombies

Check out our picks from Comic-Con's Thursday and Friday schedules. Saturday marks the 36th annual Comic-Con Masquerade, a massive costume contest where contestants will compete in categories like "Most Humorous," "Best Original Design" and "Best Re-creation." If there's anything we learned from ... More >>

Music Picks: Liz Pappademas, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Mad Professor, Bill Frisell

Also, Taylor Swift, Los Tres, Saint Motel, David Allan Coe and others

INCHES reviews vinyl from Koushik, Avi Buffalo, Nerve City, Psychic Powers (MP3s)

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 (artists and labels, indie or other), believing that good m ... More >>

Strap-On Rock: Peaches at the Wiltern

It might seem hard to believe, but it's been almost 10 years since somebody in the know hipped you to this amazing electro record called The Teaches of Peaches by some crazy Canadian chick who recorded for German label Kitty-Yo. Since then, of course, Peaches has become recognized as a pop visionary ... More >>

Stuck in a Moment: U2 at the Rose Bowl

Safe sex with Bono and the boys

U2 at the Rose Bowl: Concert Porn for the Masses

It was cool. It was a big Happening with flashing lights, lots of color, inspiration, 100,000 people screaming along in unison, moved by the pure ... spectacle of it. If we were in North Korea, these songs would have been about the Supreme Leader and we would have all been flashing colored placards ... More >>

The Great Music Save: Dark Night of the Soul Opens at Michael Kohn Gallery

Untitled (Little Girl #2) David Lynch, 2009Last Saturday's Dark Night of the Soul opening at LA's Michael Kohn Gallery, featuring the work of David Lynch, Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse, wasn't just the hot event ticket of the weekend, it was one of the greatest save's in music history.

In the Red Records: On Fire with Kid Congo, Strange Boys, Thee Oh Sees, Vivian Girls

Eagle Rock label defies the odds and sells records. Says its owner: “I always shoot for that ‘Holy fuck!’ response”

Rock Picks: Air, Rufus Wainwright, Arctic Monkeys, Bad Brains

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Beyond Bubbly

The Style Council’s New Year’s Eve party mixes

The Human Stain

Snaking Through the Garden of Delight

Pick Up the Torch

The Hives in the land of true rock & roll

Getting the Skin-ny

The Other Music A-Z

Getting There

Ring of Fans

Letters

Let Bygones Be Buy Gone

Monomania

The Dangerous Lives of Desert Boys

Forty days and forty nights with Queens of the Stone Age

The Coffee Table

The Coffee Table

Our annual capitulation to last-minute, support-your-local-bookstore holiday commercialism

Taking Thee Piss

Punk rock in re Headcoats, Cometbus

Skull Skratchers

System of a Down’s cure for metal illness

Back to the Source

Uncrossing international pop

Don't Touch That Redial

Ever wondered how the scalpers always get tickets?

Have You Ever Been Teen?

Rodney Bingenheimer remembers

Changing Colors

The BellRays' Maximum Rock & Soul