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Trois Mec Opens for Registration, Reservations Dinner

As you doubtless know by now, chefs Vinny Dotolo and Jon Shook (Animal, Son of a Gun) and Ludo Lefebvre (LudoBites, LudoTruck) are opening a restaurant together, kind of like the foodist's ideal mashup of time, place, cuisine and ethos. After much waiting and many rumors, Trois Mec, which means "thr ... More >>

The Best Concerts to See In L.A. This Week

Monday, April 1 Rhye, Nosaj Thing MASONIC LODGE Love hurts! On the one hand, Rhye does offer more of that sort of nu-quiet-fire sexy pop that blows through cocktail bars from here to Ouagadougou. You know, the kind that, if your timing is off in the hearing of it, might just encourage you to go ahe ... More >>

The Best Concerts to See In L.A. This Week

Monday, March 25 Corima, Upsalon Acrux PEHRSPACE There are, in fact, thriving musical styles that have blessedly little to do with the latest pop trends. Roughly intersecting prog-rock and art-jazz is a thing called Zeuhl Music, a very heavy, propulsive sonic form whose roaring rhythm sections and ... More >>

Low Cut Connie Is the Coolest Critically Lauded Band That You've Never Heard Of

Low Cut Connie is a band that basically defies all laws about how a band is supposed to make it in 2013. I know this because instead of sending me a CD or asking me to review a show, the duo's singer took me out to lunch and invited my band to open for them. Combustible frontman/upright pianist Ada ... More >>

Classic Rock Is Actually Amazing, You Jerk

So, a certain editor of this blog think classic rock is totally bogus, huh? See also: Classic Rock Is a Cancer on Our Society The point of his argument is that folks from our generation need to have their own taste, not be stuck in the past. But one can't deny that the music which emerged from th ... More >>

Bizarre Ride: Jeff's Humorous Predictions and Most Anticipated Albums for 2013

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Half of January has elapsed and we've survived. There was no collapse due to fiscal cliff, Central American apocalypse or dubstep deluge. A new year unfu ... More >>

The Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, January 11 Carolyn Edwards, Adam Marsland TAIX As leader of both Spindle and 3D Picnic and a longtime member of The Negro Problem, Carolyn Edwards is one of the best and brightest musicians in Silver Lake's indie-pop underground, but she reveals the full breadth of her talent through her so ... More >>

Music Picks: Bloc Party, Metric, KROQ Acoustic Xmas

The Five Best Shows in Los Angeles This Week: Grimes, Madonna

Monday, October 8 Superhumanoids THE ECHO L.A.'s Superhumanoids make pop songs out of star parts -- like the glow, the heat, the empty space and of course the wisps of fire that make NASA scientists curse every time a space probe gets singed by the stuff. This is heavenly stuff, with singer Sarah ... More >>

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 >>

What You Missed at Oinkster's Burger Week: Brought to You by Hood Burger

Did you miss out on Oinkster's 2nd annual Burger Week? We sampled a few of the seven classics-inspired sandwiches ourselves, but lacked the true gastronomic constitution to sample all of them. Luckily, Geoff Sawyer and Molly Bergen of the new food blog Hood Burger have been providing burger aficiona ... More >>

The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time: 10-6

See also: *The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: 20-16 *The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: 15-11 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time 10. Eric Clapton Eric Clapton makes Jack White look like Son House. Dude tries so hard it's embarrassing. Kind of weird, considering his pithy quip to a Lond ... More >>

The Most Overrated Male Musician Sex Symbols

See also: Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: The Complete List Last week, we unveiled the Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time. As usual, there were cries of "What about that one guy I think is hot?" We agree with some of them. Jim Morrison was a talented mess with serpentine hips that ... More >>

Alert: SXSW Coverage Ahead

"What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area." -- Tommy Lee Jones, The Fugitive You don't have to spend much time at South By Southwest to know that all of the above building ... More >>

iPod-Powered Vibrators: We Masturbate To Jack White's Music

​Music-powered vibrators. What a concept! The original, from a company called OhMiBod, has a cigar-shaped design that you plug into an iPod; the vibrating stimulus matches the beat of the song playing. But now there's a pair of fancier new wireless versions, and, guess what? We test drove ... More >>

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #20-16

See also: *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #15-11 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #10-6 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #5-1 What makes a terrible band? Is it being prepared to do the wrong thing, whatever the price? That and a pair of testicles. Only, some of the below groups possess testicles ... More >>

Zooey Deschanel and Ben Gibbard Call It Quits: The Year's Five Biggest Music Couples to Hit Splitsville

See also: Wherein We Hilariously Predict Katy Perry's 2012 It was a sad day in indieville yesterday as actress/singer Zooey Deschanel officially filed for divorce from Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard. Though the two had been rumored to be on the rocks for some time, fans held out hope that the du ... More >>

The Kills - The Wiltern - September 10, 2011

Timothy Norris​The Kills The Wiltern September 10, 2011 Better than... a date with Jack Daniel's. Opening their nearly-sold out show with their song "No Wow" served as a palette-cleanser for Brit-American duo The Kills: Forget that singer Alison "VV" Mosshart fronts The Dead Weather with Ja ... More >>

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

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

Top 5 Things to Do This Weekend in L.A.

​ There is a cold front headed our way so you can either spend it huddled alone in your apartment, or out dancing, drinking, and merrymaking with friends and wellwishers alike. We think you should go out dancing, drinking (but not driving) and merrymaking, and have some events so awesome that ... More >>

Page Two: Night of the Living Death

Top 10 Bands That Should Have Broken Up Instead of the White Stripes

10 Bands Who Should Break Up

10 Shows We're Stoked About in Early 2011

10 Shows We're Stoked About in 2011

Henry Rollins: Out of Africa and Into the Land of Acting Without a Script (with Cameo Appearance by Princess Leia and His Favorite Dylan Song)

Timothy NorrisHenry Rollins' Weird Record Academy for the Open of Ears: Last night at the Echoplex​ [For more exclusive shots from Henry Rollins' event last night, see Timothy Norris' slideshow 'Henry Rollins @ The Echoplex'.] I am back from Africa. That was a long haul. From Entebbe, Uganda ... More >>

Today's New Releases: Hanni El Khatib, Nguzunguzu, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Complete Anthology of American Folk Music

​ HANNI EL-KHATIB, "BUILD. DESTROY. REBUILD." 7" (INNOVATIVE LEISURE) "Build. Destroy. Rebuild" is the second fuzzy single from Hanni El-Khatib's upcoming debut album Will The Guns Come Out, which I've been anxiously awaiting ever since I heard his first 7" months ago. "Build. Destroy. Rebui ... More >>

Tonight: Laura Marling, Squeeze, Sister Nancy at Dub Club, Obits, Neon Trees, Vanaprasta

Laura Marling​One week, two acclaimed U.K. folk singers: Somebody must have planned this thing. Last night it was Conor O'Brien, aka Villagers, giving a mesmerizing solo performance at the Hotel Cafe. (And, yes, this Conor O. very much recalls Conor Oberst.) Tonight, Laura Marling visits the ... More >>

Live in L.A.: Karen Elson, Themselves (with Talkdemonic and Baths), the Good Life

Danny SwansonKaren Elson​If you can get past Karen Elson's flaming red hair, if you can get past her unblemished skin, if you can get past her supermodel comportment, if you can get past the fact she's Mrs. Jack White ... well, you should. The 31-year-old singer plays Southern gothic chanteuse ... More >>

Meg White Cries: White Stripes Doc Reveals Mysteries Behind the Band

Erin BroadleyJack White​"Make as much noise as you want," recommended The White Stripes: Under Great Northern Lights director Emmett Malloy, before the film's premiere at the SXSW Film Festival on Friday night. In practice, the audience didn't make much noise at all: we were, for the most part ... More >>

Keeping Up With the Times

Regent Gets a Makeover for Third Man Pop Up Shop and Free Dead Weather Performance

Regent Gets a Makeover for Third Man Pop Up Shop and Free Dead Weather Performance

Movie Reviews: Bandslam, Flame & Citron, The Time Traveler's Wife

Also, The Goods, It Might Get Loud and more

Culture Clash Tonight at the Roxy: Dead Weather Rockers vs. British Dubsteppers Zomby and Joker

The Roxy is the place to be tonight is Los Angeles, for sure, and not just because of the Dead Weather show. Yes, Jack White and Allison Mossheart's new project is one of the most discussed new collaborations in rock, and lots of people are excited. But immediately following their thing, which has a ... More >>

Rock Picks: Dan Auerbach, Primal Scream, Lyrics Born

Also, the Von Bondies, Tindersticks, Dave Rawlings Machine & Gillian Welch, and others

Katy Perry Unpeeled — and Other Signs of Life in the Dead of the Grammys PressRoom

Including the buzz over Rihanna and Chris Brown, and revelations from Natalie Cole on heroin addiction

Behind the Scenes at the Grammys: In the Press Room, A Quiet Night Jolted Alive by Chris Brown/Rihanna Allegations

When you tell an outsider that you're "covering the Grammys," it sounds pretty swank. Before I did it for the first time, I imagined glamor, some rubbing shoulders, and, above all, a lot of music. But the reality is different. Those of us not covering the red carpet are planted in a hotel-confere ... More >>

Rock Picks: Digable Planets, Pigeon John, the Wedding Present, Prima Donna

Also, Josh Rouse, the Raconteurs, Chicha Libre and more

Von Bondies, Safari Sam's, 5/23

Bondies Battle On It’s been nearly 4 years since The Von Bondies breakthrough Pawn Shoppe Heart helped them pierce the indie-rock bubble of obscurity –due both to infectious pop grinders on that disc like the buoyant single “C’mon C’mon” and (according to Jack White, at least) -the wide ... More >>

Behind the Velvet Fence

Prince of the desert; VIP couch; and other tales from Coachella

Day One in Photos

All photos by Timothy Norris. Vampire Weekend appear in broad daylight, above and below. Kim (or Kelly) Deal of The Breeders Jack White with The Raconteurs

Bloc'd Party

A terribly polite chat with U.K. dance-punk dude Kele Okereke

Pop 'n' Stuff

Arresting Citizens land in the City of Angels

New York City's most glamorous political cabaret troupe, the Citizens Band, is marching into the Avalon this Thursday for their Los Angeles debut (a lucky few caught their act at a private party at the Roosevelt last year). The show's theme is "Masquerading in Paradise," and you can expect a fanta ... More >>

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