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Blogs
August 15, 2012
House Shoes Offers  His Rules For DJs
[Editor's note: Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. Be sure to also check out the archives.] See also: House Shoes: Seminal Producer Talks New Album, J Dilla Beef Hang the DJ. Or don't. When Morrissey wrote the hook to "Panic," the definition of a DJ w ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2012
House Shoes: Seminal Producer Talks New Album, J Dilla Beef
You may not always like what House Shoes has to say, but he certainly commands your respect. The sharp-tongued DJ and producer is known for calling out lame trends and fake rappers; for starters, he put rapper Charles Hamilton's career on life support in 2009 after the latter lied about his album be ... More >>
Blogs
December 22, 2011
Common - House of Blues - December 21, 2011
Common House of Blues December 21, 2011 Attempting to get everyone in the mood last night, Power 106's DJ Reflex spun classics from folks like Souls of Mischief, A Tribe Called Quest, and Pete Rock & CL Smooth. He attempted to throw in some more recent, mainstream songs and played a few cuts ... More >>
Music
November 3, 2011
Low End Theory Anniversary
The story of the influential party from those who created it
Blogs
October 21, 2011
Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List
Editor's note: In conjunction with our music issue we rolled out the top 20 L.A. rap albums of all time this week, as picked by Ian Cohen, Rebecca Haithcoat, Jeff Weiss and Ben Westhoff. But the list was broken up into four posts, which can get a bit unwieldy, so we've compiled the full list ... More >>
Blogs
October 17, 2011
Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: 20-16
Editor's note: For our music issue, out on Thursday, Ian Cohen, Rebecca Haithcoat, Jeff Weiss and Ben Westhoff run down the top 20 L.A. rap albums of all time. We're unveiling the list all this week on West Coast Sound. The party waits for no man. So while we watched the tubes for Detox, Los ... More >>
Blogs
April 4, 2011
Exclusive Mix- J. Rocc Gives Us "Some Cold Rock Stuf"
J.Rocc at the Do-OverOne of Cali's finest, the world famous J. Rocc, drops his double album, Some Cold Rock Stuf, tomorrow on similarly solid label Stones Throw. Because he's as nice in real life as on the turntables, he gave us an exclusive mix in anticipation of the release. One of the or ... More >>
Blogs
February 7, 2011
It's J. Dilla's Birthday! Here's the Best Way to Celebrate It
Only the good die young. J Dilla -- the Detroit producer who was a founding member of the Soulquarians collective (along with Questlove, D'Angelo and James Poyser) and is heralded as one of the most influential producers in hip-hop -- passed away five years ago this month. But House Shoes, Di ... More >>
Music
February 3, 2011
A Cure for the Monday Funk
Only the good die young. J Dilla -- the Detroit producer who was a founding member of the Soulquarians collective (along with Questlove, D'Angelo and James Poyser) and is heralded as one of the most influential producers in hip-hop -- passed away five years ago this month. But House Shoes, Di ... More >>
Music
December 30, 2010
Music Picks: Nicole Eva Emery, Hard NYE, Peter and the Wolf,
Also, Jesus Makes the Shotgun Sound, Octavius, Cosmologic and others
Blogs
October 4, 2010
Live Review: Black Milk at The Roxy
Rebecca HaithcoatBlack Milk, Master of Ceremonies"We at nine right now; I wanna bring it up to ten," Black Milk instructed the orchestra of fans near the end of his set last night at The Roxy. Actually, they'd already surpassed his directive. The crowd's energy, simmering dangerously close to ... More >>
Blogs
September 8, 2010
Aquacrunkgate: L.A. Artists Take to Twitter to Protest Latest Blog-Made Microgenre
Aquacrunk: noun, a name for a style of electronic music that incorporates heavy beat-based music and earthy, organic textures which sometimes resemble the aquatic. Yeah, it's news to our eyes and ears as well, but not surprising. In the era of the blog, a new genre name pops up every other day, and ... More >>
Blogs
September 2, 2010
New Flying Lotus Track and Video With Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble from Grand Performances
New Flying Lotus Track and Video With Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble from Grand Performances
Calendar
August 5, 2010
THERE'S NO BEAT LIKE A FREE BEAT
New Flying Lotus Track and Video With Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble from Grand Performances
Blogs
July 29, 2010
Attention J-Dilla Heads: Slum Village's T3 on Finally Releasing the Album, Dilla's pre-Tribe Beginnings and that Whole "New Native Tongues" Reputation
E1 MusicSlum Village's T3: No fear of a black hat"The idea for a Slum Village reunion album came from a conversation I had with J Dilla before he passed away," says T3, the last living member of the beloved Detroit rap group. Released this week, Villa Manifesto is a fitting end to the Slum Vi ... More >>
Blogs
July 28, 2010
Mayer Hawthorne Hooks Up with Virginia Beat-Maker Nottz, Drops Etched 12-Inch for 'I Need You'
Mayer Hawthorne meets NottzIt's been an incredible year for Mayer Hawthorne. He's turned Snoop Dogg's ear. He's released a series of awesome music videos. He'll be doing the international festival circuit into October and--perhaps most importantly--he just beat Fitz & the Tantrums to the thr ... More >>
Blogs
July 23, 2010
This Weekend: Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Rage Against the Machine, Robyn, Jackson Browne, Lyle Lovett, Keith Urban, Delta Spirit
via MySpaceMiguel Atwood-FergusonTonight's installment of Grand Performances at California Plaza -- one of our town's finest, free music al fresco opportunities -- figures to be especially grand. Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, the composer/producer/arranger/multi-instrumentalist who boasts a resume ... More >>
Music
June 24, 2010
The Madlib Mystique
An exclusive interview with underground hip-hop's most elusive producer
Blogs
March 23, 2010
Classy 'Timeless' poster art show opens at Mochilla headquarters Thursday
Classy 'Timeless' poster art show opens at Mochilla headquarters Thursday
Blogs
March 18, 2010
J Dilla Estate Drops Unreleased Gem, "Safety Dance," and Greatest Slipmats Ever
Dilla for the digital DJThough we know very little about the man's culinary tastes, it makes a certain kind of sense (the stoner-y kind) that the donut has become a symbol of late, great hip-hop producer J Dilla. Tasty loops were a widely known specialty of the beatsmith, who lived out his ... More >>
Blogs
February 12, 2010
Watch: Sao Paulo's Cibelle Pays Tribute To J Dilla's "Lightworks" [MP3]
The late, great Jay DeeAs West Coast Sound scribe Drew Tewksbury just reported, Wednesday marked the fourth anniversary of the tragic passing of legendary hip-hop producer J Dilla, a.k.a. James Yancey. After years of excellent behind-the-scenes production work, Dilla rose to fame as a member ... More >>
Blogs
February 10, 2010
J Dilla Day: Remembering the Legendary Producer 4 Years Gone
J Dilla Day: Remembering the Legendary Producer 4 Years Gone
Music
February 5, 2010
Scouting Talent
J Dilla Day: Remembering the Legendary Producer 4 Years Gone
Blogs
January 19, 2010
Madlib To Kick Off Album-A-Month Series At Good Hurt Thursday [MP3]
(stonesthrow.com)It's no secret that L.A.'s best-kept secret, hip-hop producer extraordinaire Madlib, is a prolific dude. During the aughts, he helmed upwards of 20 albums operating under numerous pseudonyms -- Quasimoto, DJ Rels, Yesterday's New Quintet -- and released a handful of classics ... More >>
Blogs
January 4, 2010
Suite for Ma Dukes Orchestra's "Take Notice," Based on Music of J Dilla, Video Premiere [MP3]
Suite for Ma Dukes Orchestra "Take Notice" Video Premiere [MP3]
Music
December 31, 2009
The 10 Best L.A. Albums of the ’00s
From Beck and Dilla to Fiona, Jenny and Quasimoto, a mishmash decade of Southern California sounds
Blogs
December 28, 2009
10 Hip Hop Highlights of 2009, from Doom to Raekwon to Antipop and Beyond
Top of the Hip-Hop Or, how Dan LeRoy learned to stop worrying and love da bomb. While year-end, catch-all wrap-ups are common to every musical genre, in no other style of music do they turn into the hand-wringing, "state of the game" examinations that hip-hop seems to provoke. (I've certainly wr ... More >>
Blogs
July 17, 2009
Light in the Attic Interviews Echo Park Producer Dave Cooley
Echo Park producer and mastering engineer Dave Cooley, who owns Elysian Masters, has worked with a lot of LA bands you know. He's produced Silversun Pickups, Darker My Love and Mickey Avalon, among others. But it's as a mastering engineer that Cooley really seems to thrive. He's been the final ear ... More >>
Blogs
July 3, 2009
Soul of the Samurai: Afro Samurai Creator Takashi Okazaki Shares the Tunes Behind His Characters
Takashi Okazaki always liked the idea of being a DJ. In fact, he apparently has a pretty hefty collection of hip-hop, funk and soul on vinyl that needs to upload to his computer. But, as Okazaki said through a translator during our interview at Anime Expo, he thought that all DJs "were really cool ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2009
J Dilla's Legacy Honored at Luckman, Talib Kweli, De La Soul's Pos, Common, Others Make Surprise Appearances
Randall Roberts (with apologies to professional photographers everywhere)Miguel Atwood-Ferguson conducts his Suite for Ma Dukes at the Luckman Last night at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex composers/producers/musicians Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Carlos Nino debuted their "Suite for Ma Dukes," a colle ... More >>
Blogs
February 13, 2009
Live at Amoeba Records: Illa J and the Timelessness of J Dilla
Erin Broadley Los Angeles is always hot, but it's rarely warm. And cold, cavernous Amoeba Records is hardly an emotional bastion, unless you're talking caustic clerks castigating a moldering collection of Chicago records. But behind me, a group of saucer-eyed sophomore girls, eyebrow rings and flann ... More >>
Blogs
January 19, 2009
David Axelrod to Perform His Legendary Solo Tracks Live in LA
David Axelrod, the legendary LA-based jazz/funk/breakbeat king whose work has been heavily sampled by hip hop producers, will perform some of his classic tracks live for the first time ever (though he did do something similar in London in 2004) this spring as part of the Timeless Concert Series, a ... More >>
Blogs
January 13, 2009
In the Studio with Build an Ark at Knobworld in Echo Park -- and a 39-Piece Orchestra Tribute to J Dilla!?
Build an Ark at Knobworld "Give me swirly!" Joshua Spiegelman calls out from behind his flute. Three musicians hold handmade strands of bells out in front of them, tracing fancy configurations in the air like delicate kites. "Robust, curvaceous!" Spiegelman exclaims, offering up a poetic biology ... More >>
Blogs
December 31, 2008
The 50 Best Albums of the Year (#10-1) (Sponsored By My Secret Identity )
And people acted surprised when Jerry O' Connell landed Rebecca Romjin. 10. Why? Alopecia (Anticon) It's tough to write about Why?'s breakout record without anxiously jotting down a few choice lyrics from songwriter Yoni Wolf's notebook. Not to downplay its musicianship, but Alopecia is forem ... More >>
Blogs
December 30, 2008
The 50 Best Albums of the Year (#30-21) (Sponsored By Medieval Times)
You better believe they serve Pepsi at Medieval Times. 30. Los Campesinos-Hold On Now, Youngster (Wichita/Arts and Crafts) Gareth Campesinos and Co. clearly grew up not just liking music but being obsessed by bands, and they've done the only honourable thing you can in that position: they've ... More >>
Music
December 18, 2008
Pacific Heights: L.A. Weekly's Top 10 L.A. Recordings of 2008
No Age, Chapin Sisters, Mia Doi Todd, the Knux, Flying Lotus, Madlib and more
Blogs
November 6, 2008
Q-Tip's-"Move"
I can't tell how much I like Q-Tip's, The Renaissance. It's good sure, but it's impossible to listen to without noting the elephant in the room: the fact that Q-Tip has been a.w.o.l. for most of the decade and y'know, that whole "centerpiece of one of the greatest groups of all-time" thing. So wi ... More >>
LA Life
October 2, 2008
Best L.A. Record Label: Stones Throw Records
I can't tell how much I like Q-Tip's, The Renaissance. It's good sure, but it's impossible to listen to without noting the elephant in the room: the fact that Q-Tip has been a.w.o.l. for most of the decade and y'know, that whole "centerpiece of one of the greatest groups of all-time" thing. So wi ... More >>
Music
September 25, 2008
Has the L.A. Hip-Hop Plague Finally Passed?
Four on the floor
Blogs
September 15, 2008
Solillaquists of Sound, J-Live and Chali 2Na Release a Tribute Song to J Dilla, Inspired By LA Weekly Article/Follow-Up Interview With Dilla's Mom, Ms. Maureen Yancey
Still a little stunned by this one. I suppose we can chalk this up as some minor triumph to the power of the media, at a time when the Fourth Estate isn't exactly going through its finest moment. I'm not in the habit of running press releases in full, but I'll make the exception after the jump. I ... More >>
Blogs
July 24, 2008
An Interview with J Dilla's Mother, Ms. Maureen Yancey
A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece discussing the difficulties J Dilla's estate has had in enforcing copyright law and paying off the six-figure IRS debt left behind. In the aftermath of the story's publication, I had the chance to speak with his mother, Ms. Maureen Yancey about Dilla's legacy and ... More >>
Music
June 19, 2008
Who's Biting J Dilla's Beats?
Hip-hop producer's legend ascends posthumously; estate struggles to maintain control
Music
March 1, 2007
Killah's Message of Love
Ghostface Killah at the Key Club
News
December 7, 2006
Rebel Central
The fantastical real-life story of L.A.�s Stones Throw Records, a hip-hop legend in the making
Music
May 25, 2006
DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Madlib, Jurassic 5, Dilated Peoples, MF Doom�No Shit!
The fantastical real-life story of L.A.�s Stones Throw Records, a hip-hop legend in the making
Music
February 16, 2006
Fatlip
Fatlip: the Stoneliest Pun Ex-Pharcyder rocks the Blue Caf�, Long Beach, Feb. 10
Music
February 16, 2006
Thank You, J Dilla
Fatlip: the Stoneliest Pun Ex-Pharcyder rocks the Blue Caf�, Long Beach, Feb. 10
Music
December 6, 2001
The Raw and the Cooked
Edited by Kateri Butler
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