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Jack Johnson

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    Top Ten Jazz Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Jazz

    See also: *Top 10 Rap Albums For People Who Don't Know Shit About Hip-Hop *Top 5 Los Angeles Jazz Albums of 2011 Lots of folks know almost nothing about jazz, but condensing the hundred some odd years of the genre into ten albums is not easy, something akin to asking someone to describe the histor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2012

    Ryan Adams - Disney Hall - 2/17/12

    Ryan Adams Disney Hall 2-17-12 See also: Why Ryan Adams Isn't Allowing Photos Better than... Listening to Love Is Hell in its entirety on Valentine's Day because Heartbreaker just wouldn't be depressing enough. Unless that's your thing. I guess I'd consider myself in the 90th percentile of Ryan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2011

    Jack's Banana Pancakes at Jacks N Joe

    M. Caskey​ The pancake menu at Jacks N Joe offers cryptic pancake titles like Pudgie Elvis, Hula Girl and Chloe's Blues. But don't be afraid to try something mysterious, especially Jack's Banana Pancakes (a nod to a Jack Johnson song perhaps?) Opened just a couple of years back, Jacks N Joe s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    So & So - Viper Room - 9/7/11

    Danielle BacherSo & So Viper Room September 7, 2011 Better than: Being stuck in a steam room with 98.7 FM on the radio.Los Angeles-based folk-rockers So & So performed a triumphant gig at the center of a nuclear reactor last night. . . oh, wait. It was actually the Viper Room, which se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2011

    James Earl Jones, Beyond Darth Vader: Five More Fierce Onscreen Roles of the Honorary Oscar Recipient

    ​ The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced yesterday that James Earl Jones will receive an honorary Oscar this year. For many tinseltown pundits, an honorary Oscar is the equivalent of an over-the-pants-hand-job -- a mere token gesture -- for decades of hard work. While we sup ... More >>

  • Music

    July 7, 2011

    Music Picks: Tinariwen, Colbie Caillat, A.R. Rahman, Best Coast

    Also, Monopoly, David Bazan, Gravespawn and others

  • Music

    January 20, 2011

    Music to Pick Up/Download

    Also, Monopoly, David Bazan, Gravespawn and others

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2010

    Tonight: Remy Zero, Macy Gray, Eels, the 88, Alice in Chains, Fran Healy, the Blakes

    Cinjun Tate of Remy Zero​Remy Zero winds up a bittersweet reunion tour tonight, but it might not be the last fans have heard of the Alabama-bred, L.A.-based quintet. The band known best for the single "Save Me" (the theme for TV's Smallville) reunited earlier this year to play shows in memory ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    This weekend: Klaxons, Chapterhouse, the Besnard Lakes, Maroon 5, Caribou, Jack Johnson, Liz Phair, Tom Tom Club, the Weepies

    The Besnard Lakes​The Culture Collide festival, which kicked off Thursday night at five venues in Silver Lake, Echo Park and downtown, is making for some wonderful daze in the neighborhood. The brainchild of Filter music mag, the inaugural event has imported bands from more than a dozen natio ... More >>

  • Music

    June 3, 2010

    Nightranger: Bringing Sounds to the Sea

    The Besnard Lakes​The Culture Collide festival, which kicked off Thursday night at five venues in Silver Lake, Echo Park and downtown, is making for some wonderful daze in the neighborhood. The brainchild of Filter music mag, the inaugural event has imported bands from more than a dozen natio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2010

    HUNG- Hang The DJs Herculean Memorial Weekend Happening

    In our upcoming Nightranger column (out Thursday) we joined the mainstream masses in a major way (the American Idol finale at Nokia Theatre, a Sex and the City 2 party at Arclight and Jack Johnson on the Santa Monica Pier) but for Memorial Weekend it was all about a homier locale (as in "what up, ho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    Live in L.A.: At the movies with Isaac Brock, Band of Horses, Angus & Julia Stone, Peter Himmelman, the Airborne Toxic Event

    ​Think of it as an indie rocker with extra butter. Modest Mouse main man Isaac Brock is in town tonight to perform a short set after a screening of a documentary to which he (along with James Mercer, Jack Johnson and others) contributed music. The film is "180ΒΊ South," which retraces a 1968 t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2010

    Live in L.A.: Jack Johnson, Sweethead (and famous friends), Noodles, the Like, War Tapes

    Jack Johnson​Surf's up, and so is Jack Johnson's domination of the saleable-sappy-soft-surf singer-songwriter market. The 35-year-old Hawaiian feel-gooder's new album is called "To the Sea" (perhaps you've heard the cloying single "You and Your Heart"), out next week, and that's where Johnson ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    Air America Goes Down; Liberal Talk Radio A Fail

    Liberal talk radio network Air America announced Thursday that it will cease programming. The network was launched in 2004 but saw its share of troubles, including bouncing a check to a radio station that aired the network in Los Angeles only two weeks after Air America launched. In 2006 it filed it ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    April 9, 2009

    Boxing, Sex and Madness: Mike Tyson, James Toback and the Ties That Bind

    In Tyson documentary, boxer tells it in his own words

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2008

    Busted Rhymes: The Top 10 Most Preposterous Rap Songs of 2008

    By Ben Westhoff Hip-hop A-listers including Rick Ross, Akon and Plies were caught grossly exaggerating their gangster credentials this year. (Turns out they were painfully law-abiding. The horror!) But even if your favorite rapper wasn't caught in a lie, you can bet he or she put out a hilariously ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2008

    Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

    You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were dem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2008

    Stage Raw: Robert Wilson at USC

    You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were dem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2008

    Stage Raw: Abuse for Its Own Sake

    You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were dem ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 25, 2008

    Ragtime: The Musical

    You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were dem ... More >>

  • Stage

    September 25, 2008

    Theater Reviews: 9 to 5: The Musical, 43 Plays for 43 Presidents

    Also, Asleep on a Bicycle, Speech & Debate, Pugilist Specialist and more

  • Music

    August 28, 2008

    Rock Picks: Ice Cube, Bob Dylan, Dog and Pony Show

    Also, Chuck Berry, Southern Culture on the Skids, Paul Weller, and more

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2008

    Outside Lands Day 3-We Have a Winner

    Ted DiBiase knows a winner when he sees one. That's how he earned the nickname "The Million Dollar Man" when those Cash Money clowns were still learning to ice their first teeth. And rest assured, Teddy B. would've inevitably proclaimed Day 3 of Outside Lands, the winner of the match, even if he wo ... More >>

  • Music

    May 1, 2008

    Good Times Never Seemed So Good: Snapshots From Coachella

    From the express train to the Gobi Tent to the VIP and beyond

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2008

    Coachella Friday: Easy Breezy

    One down. Two to Go! Coachella Friday was actually very easy breezy. Okay, we left Thursday night thereby avoiding most traffic and we spent a big chunk of yesterday poolside at the BPM party (which was supposed to be Smurf-themed but didn't exactly turn out that way... more on this in our Nightran ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2008

    Coachella Day One: Walk the Line

    I hate lines. They're somewhere in the lower rungs of my own personal inferno along with club kids in fedoras, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the abstract concept of valet parking. Unfortunately, entering Coachella brings me into contact with three of those four food groups as quite often, while wai ... More >>

  • Music

    April 17, 2008

    Coachella by the Numbers

    Digging deep into the Valley

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2008

    Ill-Thought Out Observations From This Year's Grammy's

    Because Live Blogging is so gauche. Occasionally the Grammy Committee's old fogey sensibility yields huge dividends. See the inclusion of Morris Day and the motherfucking Time. As far as I know, only two people have paid much attention to Morris Day and the Time post "Jerk Out:" the illustrious ... More >>

  • Music

    January 24, 2008

    Low Voltage: Brushfire Records

    One of the planet's most eco-friendly studios is nestled in Larchmont Village

  • Music

    January 3, 2008

    Rock Picks: Circle Jerks, Money Mark, No Age

    For the week of Jan. 3 - 10

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2007

    Rogue Wave, El Rey, 10/11

    Rogue Wave El Rey, October 11, 2007 When the red curtains parted, Zach Rogue stood on the drum riser pumping both fists in the air like a prize fighter, while Pat Spurgeon pounded out the beat (and the too long intro) to "Harmonium," the fist track off their new album, Asleep at Heaven's Gate. It's ... More >>

  • Music

    July 26, 2007

    Rock Picks: Lee ''Scratch'' Perry, The Swell Season, Maximo Park and More

    For the week of July 26 – August 2

  • Music

    July 5, 2007

    Rock Picks

    For the week of July 5 - 11

  • Columns

    February 15, 2007

    Smoked Out

    Joint interviews with a medical-pot pharmacist and a neighbor who says, Not in My Schoolyard.

  • Columns

    November 9, 2006

    The Side Man

    Joint interviews with a medical-pot pharmacist and a neighbor who says, Not in My Schoolyard.

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2006

    The Kidz Are Alright, Mate!

        There was an Aussie Assault at the Troubadour earlier this week, and I got hit, hard! The night started smashingly with a literal rock star parking space: none other than Seal was sitting in a Ferrari convertible outside Dan Tana's, so my uber rock chick friend Laurel chatted up the si ... More >>

  • Music

    February 9, 2006

    Rock & Pop Listings

    For February 10 - 16

  • Music

    February 9, 2006

    Rock Listings

    For Feb. 10 - 16, Country & Folk listings follow

  • Calendar

    February 9, 2006

    Rock Picks

    For February 9 - 16, 2006

  • Calendar

    January 19, 2006

    Picks for Saturday, February 11

    For February 9 - 16, 2006

  • News

    December 9, 2004

    The Malloy Brothers Conspiracy

    They left behind the world of competitive surfing and big-money contracts to get back to the roots of classic surfing. They might just save the sport.

  • Music

    October 21, 2004

    Ho Down

    Mos Def

  • News

    September 23, 2004

    A Small New Future

    ALEC HANLEY BEMIS on the casualties and survivors in the war between the Cynics and the True Believers

  • Music

    June 12, 2003

    Planetary Waves

    Jack Johnson defeats the horizon

  • Music

    May 9, 2002

    Reach for the Sun

    Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, April 27-28

  • Music

    October 29, 1998

    Titanic Tales and the Roots of Rap

    Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, April 27-28

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