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Music
January 24, 2013
Local Natives' Big Vaulted Ceilings
On their new album, the rising indie-folk act show who they are and what they've become
Blogs
January 8, 2013
Our Ten Most Anticipated Indie Albums For 2013
With the anticipated return of big-name indie bands like Phoenix, Arcade Fire and Vampire Weekend this year, 2013 is shaping up to be big. But aside from the usual suspects, there are also some newcomers and reunited acts expected to make noise this year. Here are some albums we speculate may end up ... More >>
Blogs
September 14, 2012
Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Dinosaur Jr.'s Brand New Album 'I Bet On Sky'
KCRW Broadcast #179 for Saturday, September 8, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Living All Over Me Fanatics! Tonight, we have a fantastic show for you. We will continue four weeks with Jimi Hendrix in our first hour with the Jimi Hendrix Experience's second album Axis: Bold As Love in mon ... More >>
Blogs
September 5, 2012
Worst Hipster Bands: We Admit It, We Were Wrong
Upon its publication a couple weeks ago, our The 20 Worst Hipster Bands post was an immediately sensation, and quickly became the most-read post West Coast Sound has ever published. (Yes, even besting the interview with a raver who wears electrical tape on her boobs.) Even Questlove tweeted it, with ... More >>
Blogs
September 4, 2012
FYF Fest Day Two - The Faint, Converge, Dinosaur Jr - September 2, 2012
FYF Fest Day 2 The Faint, Converge, Dinosaur Jr and Others September 2, 2012 See also: *Our review of FYF Day One *Take our FYF quiz Better Than: Striking for a 40 hour work week. After a series of intense showers and professional-assisted dust removal, we were back for day two of the purporte ... More >>
Blogs
August 23, 2012
The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: The Complete List
The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: 10-1 Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time Who are these hipsters we see each day in the streets, on our Tumblr feeds, and on the local news? And why are so many in bands? It's not the mere existen ... More >>
Blogs
August 22, 2012
The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: 10-1
Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time 10. White Rabbits Why do bands need a second drummer? In recent years everyone from Local Natives to Bon Iver to fucking Radiohead has thrown a second kit out there, or at least a floor to ... More >>
Blogs
August 21, 2012
The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: 20-11
Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time Who are these hipsters we see each day in the streets, on our Tumblr feeds, and on the local news? And why are so many in bands? It's not the mere existence of hipster groups that distress ... More >>
Blogs
July 19, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
July 18, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
March 6, 2012
Cassette Tapes Are Back. Ask Your Mom to Mail Your Old Jambox.
"I grew up collecting and listening to cassette tapes and records," said Phil Shaheen, drummer for Los Angeles indie band Tijuana Panthers. "I like the fact that cassettes are in again and that cool little labels are putting them out." The band released its album, Max Baker, as a limited-edition tap ... More >>
Blogs
December 16, 2011
Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Dinosaur Jr. Mode
See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! The Beach Boys' SMiLE: Even Better than Advertised KCRW Broadcast #145 for Saturday, December 17, 2011 Fanatics! I am well into the short tour with Dinosaur Jr. The band have been playing excellently and the audiences have been into it! I sit on J's side ... More >>
Film+TV
October 27, 2011
Inni: Sigus Ros' Second Movie
See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! The Beach Boys' SMiLE: Even Better than Advertised KCRW Broadcast #145 for Saturday, December 17, 2011 Fanatics! I am well into the short tour with Dinosaur Jr. The band have been playing excellently and the audiences have been into it! I sit on J's side ... More >>
Blogs
September 26, 2011
TV On The Radio, Arctic Monkeys, Panda Bear, Warpaint and Smith Westerns - The Hollywood Bowl - September 25, 2011
Andrea DomanickArctic Monkeys stole the showTV On The Radio, Arctic Monkeys, Panda Bear, Warpaint and Smith Westerns The Hollywood Bowl September 25, 2011 See also Warpaint: Back From The Road, Ready For The Bowl Better than... any of these acts sound on record. Not quite a festival, Sun ... More >>
Music
September 15, 2011
Music Picks: Joan Osborne, Tears for Fears, the Cute Lepers, J. Cole, Low
Also Bon Iver, Cerebellion, Surfer Blood and others
Blogs
June 24, 2011
Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Dinosaur Jr., Six Major Guitar Players
Timothy NorrisKCRW BROADCAST #120 for Saturday, June 25. Fanatics! Writing to you from the upper level of Terminal Five here in New York City. We are in night four of this amazing Dinosaur Jr. tour. The band has been raising the bar every night and the shows are getting more and more cranked ... More >>
Music
April 14, 2011
Music Picks: Coachella, Girls in Trouble, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Paul Simon
Also, Mary Anne Hobbs, Yoni Wolf, Emmylou Harris and others
Blogs
March 11, 2011
Top 5 Things to Do This Weekend in L.A.
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 >>
Blogs
January 18, 2011
Coachella Lineup Announced: We Told You Odd Future Was in There!
This is the official press release: Coachella 2011. Music. Art. Culture. Community. With the Coachella line-up announcement serving as the official kick-off to the annual U.S. festival season, festival organizers Goldenvoice can now reveal details for the 2011 Coachella Valley Music & Art ... More >>
Blogs
January 6, 2011
Coachella: Now You Can Vote for the Headliner Right Here
lee.org With the lineup for Coachella still unannounced, rumors are flying as to the possibilities for the headliners. Here are the some unconfirmed (but widely rumored) potential headliners, as well as our best guesses as to why each will (or will not) make the cut. We'd like you to vote fo ... More >>
Blogs
November 22, 2010
Tonight: The Naked and Famous, Dar Williams, My Chemical Romance, Chasing Kings, Black Apples, Dirt Dress
The Naked and FamousEven the coolest of cool kids -- you know, the ones who can eloquently extol the virtues of MGMT's second album Congratulations -- have a soft spot the size of Brooklyn for hits like "Kids" and "Time to Pretend." That's the kind of chewy, sweet electro-pop that New Zealan ... More >>
Blogs
October 19, 2010
Tonight: Superchunk, Broken Social Scene, Manu Chao, Deer Tick, Interpol, Ra Ra Riot
Jason ArthursSuperchunkThe most treacherous territory Superchunk had to negotiate to make Majesty Shredding, the band's first album in nine years, had nothing to do with music. It was -- and you aspiring rockers can relate -- those pesky day jobs. Frontman Mac McCaughan and bassist Laura Ba ... More >>
Blogs
October 7, 2010
Tonight: Arcade Fire, the Black Lips, Casiokids, Lissie, Dave Alvin, the Ruby Friedman Orchestra
Arcade FireNot much we can say here is going to change your mind about Arcade Fire. You're either a believer, or not. You've either dropped some paycheck/worked an angle/called in a favor to get a ticket to one of the next two nights' sold-out shows, or not. (Or, you'll wait for Coachella, w ... More >>
Music
September 30, 2010
Music Picks: Plastic Ono Band, Ooh La LA Fest, Belle & Sebastian
Also, Marianne Dissard, Bad Company, Matador 21 and others
Blogs
July 16, 2010
This weekend: The Swell Season, MGMT, One Day as a Lion, Die Antwoord, Shelby Lynne
Piper FergusonThe Swell SeasonBoy, girl. Boy, girl. Boy, girl. It's a bill made for date night on Sunday at the Hollywood Bowl as some of music's favorite collaborative couples team up to provide a soundtrack for your wine and cheese. Of course, the Swell Season -- Glen Hansard of Irish r ... More >>
Music
July 15, 2010
Music Picks: Cobra Lilies, Gaslight Anthem, Shelby Lynne, Die Antwoord
Also, The Dead Weather, New Pornographers, the Swell Season and others
Music
July 15, 2010
She & Him: Sentimental Hearts
Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward come to the Bowl
Music
April 22, 2010
Nightranger: Supermassive Black Hell
Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward come to the Bowl
Blogs
April 18, 2010
Day 2: Coachella's WINs and FAILs (featuring Gossip, MGMT, Dead Weather, and Tiesto!)
On Saturday the "organizers" got some of their act together -- plus most people already had their wristbands after the clusterfuck of Day 1 -- so it was relatively painless to access the festival grounds. People were noticeably more chill throughout the day, which is what happens when you haven't ha ... More >>
Blogs
April 5, 2010
MGMT Track for Manimal Vinyl Bowie Tribute Finally Revealed
We've told you before about the upcoming eclectic, star-studded tribute to David Bowie that LA's Manimal Vinyl has put together. Up until now, "It" band MGMT was said to have recorded the opening track for the double album, but Manimal was teasing us with a TBA as to which track the prep-roc ... More >>
Blogs
March 18, 2010
BREAKING: MGMT Being Cryptic, Creepily Directing You to Silver Lake
BREAKING: Attention LA People: MGMT has just twittered the following nautical coordinates: 34.095036 / -118.283707 And they want you to find out where that is and to go there and say "chickentaco" to someone for something or another. We have no idea what they want with this bullshit, Saw-like, "l ... More >>
Blogs
March 15, 2010
Holy Cosmic Anus!: Devendra Banhart's New Video Features MGMT, GZA, Space Suppository
So, Rolling Stone magazine declared "Freak Folk" over a couple of months ago. They might have been onto something, because Joanna Newsom is now on some kind of "19th-century-courtesan meets Janis Joplin's Pearl in a Betsy Smith bordello" trip and our boy Devendra Banhart trimmed his notorious facial ... More >>
Music
March 11, 2010
Music Picks: Sasha & Kazell, She & Him, Efterklang, Xiu Xiu
Also, Holly Miranda, Les Blanks, Mumiy Troll and others
Music
February 11, 2010
Rock Picks: Van Dyke Parks, Chicago Underground Duo, Rickie Lee Jones
Also, Clipse, Imaad Wasif, Josh Charles and others
Blogs
December 3, 2009
Notes on the Grammy Nominations: Excuse Us While We Puke
What follows are a few random notes on LA-based nominees for the 2009 Grammys, which were announced yesterday in downtown LA. If you're looking for thoughts on the big-ass pop categories, go elsewhere; we're going to try and wade through the rock and lesser known categories without throwing u ... More >>
Blogs
November 4, 2009
Dangerbird Special: INCHES reviews Darker My Love, Silversun Pickups, Sea Wolf, Eulogies (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 >>
Blogs
November 4, 2009
Last Night: Back to the Future with Silversun Pickups, Matt & Kim @ LA 101
LA 101 at Gibson Amphitheatre featuring Silversun Pickups, Dandy Warhols, Matt and Kim, Dengue Fever Tuesday, November 3, 2009 Better than: Watching Biff Griff get arrested outside the clock tower while chilling on your hoverboard. Erin BroadleyMatt and Kim backstage"Okay everyone, for this ... More >>
Music
October 29, 2009
Rock Picks: Amy Millan, Dirty Projectors, Chip Taylor, LA 101
Also, Pixies, Justice, the Happy Hollows and others
Blogs
October 12, 2009
Flaming Lips to Play Free Secret Show at Nike Theater
This just in: Flaming Lips are doing a MySpace show at the Nike Theater in Hollywood on Thursday, October 15: To celebrate the release of their new studio album Embryonic, The Flaming Lips, one of the world's most influential rock bands, will be playing a MySpace Music Secret Show in Hollywood, CA ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2009
Over the Weekend: RIP J.G. Ballard, Three Days of Coachella Madness, Plus Zombie Invasion at Fangoria Convention
We don't know about you but we are the very definition of exhausted. Three days of music, parties and the desert heat at the 10th annual Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio has left us completely wiped. But damn if we didn't get some great coverage while we were there. Randall Roberts put tog ... More >>
Blogs
March 20, 2009
SXSW '09, Day 2: On Applying for Secret Canadian Citizenship, The Tidal Wave of Tastemaking, and Dirty Projecting
Last year was my first year in Austin, so I can't really speak to nebulous notions of the SXSW "good ol' days." Anecdotal evidence suggests that the place has expanded exponentially each year since the rise of the Internet, and the demolition of the quasi-mythological monoculture. In layman's term ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2009
Tonight at the Smell: The Godfather of Indie, K Records' Calvin Johnson
Among Calvin Johnson's many accomplishments over the course of his illustrious career: He was part of the petri dish that morphed into Sub Pop Records in the early 1980s. He founded K Records in 1982, a label that has gone on to release some of the first and best recordings by Beck, Bikini Kill, ... More >>
Blogs
January 30, 2009
Coachella 2009 Announced: Amy Winehouse, Paul McCartney, My Bloody Valentine ... Throbbing Gristle! Leonard Cohen!
Yeah, so all the silly speculation probably isn't done yet, as Goldenvoice always adds a few heavy-hitters after the initial announcement, but the initial line-up is up. Click through to see it in all it's glory. We'll start analyzing it soon, but for now: Throbbing Gristle! No Pavement? Let the ... More >>
Blogs
January 14, 2009
Coachella Rumor Mill Works Overtime, but the Confirmations Continue to Trickle In
(Michel Gondry's video for the Chemical Brothers' "Let Forever Be.") Here's a list of "confirmed" (so far) acts to appear at Coachella 2009, according to the very reliable Monklish blog. His guarantee: "I've been told that these have been making arrangements to attend the festival as contractuall ... More >>
Music
September 25, 2008
Marriage Records: Coupledom in Indie Rock Has a Special Patina but Is Not Without Its Perils
Witness the Submarines
Blogs
April 16, 2008
Make that 129 bands: Swervedriver to reunite at Coachella, and again at the Fonda
Swervedriver was the roughest, heaviest, least wistful of the early 1990s British guitar-band invasion. Yeah, like their compadres, the Oxford-born band's stages were, too, filled with effects pedals, but where Ride, Pale Saints and, to a lesser extent, My Bloody Valentine, accented the pop over th ... More >>
Blogs
December 13, 2007
10 Haikus About 2007's Most Overhyped Albums
Animal Collective-Strawberry Jam Sounds Like Bad Acid Trip At arcade in New Jersey Let Panda roam solo. Arcade Fire-Neon Bible Right now in heaven Toole Composes Lengthy Indictment Against Neon Bible.
Blogs
February 21, 2007
My(Space) Secret is Out: Cold War Kids Play For Free
If you have a MySpace page, then lucky you. You can diddle away hours at work, perp for dates, check up on exs, plug your band, and now...you can attend their secret shows. Well, they've been going on for a year, whether you knew you were invited or not. Last February, MySpace launched "Secret Show ... More >>
Blogs
January 14, 2006
Myspace Taste of the Week
I'd like to think that I'm way more popular in real life than I am on Myspace. I've only got like 50 friends, but that's probably because I only say yes to requests from peeps who truly are friends. Call me a weirdo. Anyway, the pals I do have, happen to have thousands of friends and way too much ... More >>
Music
December 22, 2005
Blogs & iPods & Jay-Z & (non-ironic) Metal
The Hipster�s musical year-end predictions and post-game analysis
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