Jane's Addiction

Gibson Amphitheatre To Shut Down

Gibson Amphitheatre, the mainstay mid-size concert venue at Universal City, will close its doors in September, according to its operator Live Nation Entertainment. As announced in December 2011, the 6,200-capacity amphitheatre is expected to be demolished to make way for The Wizarding World of Har ... More >>

Damien Echols

Four Reasons Lollapalooza Needs EDM

By Ian Traas See Also:EDC 2012: The Underground Has Left The Building Dave Grohl: His Grammys Speech About Electronic Music Was Bullshit [Slideshow] Lollapalooza 2012: The PeopleJustice at Lollapalooza, 8/5/12Ten things your Lollapalooza outfit says about youWith every year that passes, it feels li ... More >>

Top Ten Best Historic Rock Clubs in L.A.

For all the best of L.A. music, download our free Best Of Mobile app. See also: Top 10 Live Music Venues in L.A.: The Complete List L.A. has some of the best rock n' roll venues in the country. From the sparkly glam rock of the Sunset Strip to the grimy punk of dim little clubs in questionable ar ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: California Love

KCRW Broadcast #158 for Saturday, March 31, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! The Ugly World of eBay Hustling Fanatics! Tomorrow night we have a bit of a concept show for your enjoyment. Since I write this ahead of a show in San Diego, I thought it would be a great idea to play bands from ... More >>

Top 10 Badass L.A. Parties of 2011

Also see 10 Ways to Get Past a Bouncer and Top 10 L.A. Club Nights of 2011. At the risk of referencing LMFAO again, LA knows its party rockin' and we do it bigger and better than any other city in the world. New York may beat us at chic soirees, Miami might be sultrier and Vegas gaudier, but Los A ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! A Modest Proposal: Occupy Music Festivals

​[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Does music have the power to cause real change? Several times in my life I have been as ... More >>

Smashing Pumpkins - The Wiltern - 10/5/11

Timothy Norris​See also: The Wiltern Opened 80 Years Ago. Its Survival Story Is As Grand As Its Terra-Cotta Tile Smashing Pumpkins The Wiltern 10/5/11 Better than...going to a Zwan show It's been a big week for Generation X'ers. First Jane's Addiction played at the Ford Theatre, and last ni ... More >>

Monster Movie: Bob Forrest Talks Rock and Rehab

​It's one thing for a rock musician to get sober (you can't fling a cigarette butt outside a coffee shop without hitting one in Los Angeles), but it's another to devote your life to helping others wrestle those demons. Bob Forrest was once one of the most promising front men in the L.A. music ... More >>

One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other: Our Off-the-Beaten Path Guide To Summer Festivals

​ One of the best parts about being at a festival are those moments you walk by a stage and have that "what the fuck" moment. It's when you hear something that just doesn't fit. It's the feeling some people probably had at Chaos In Tejas this summer when, coming from Unbroken's set, they stumble ... More >>

Jane's Addiction at Tim Burton's LACMA Bash, plus Some of Burton's Best Movie Music

Lina Lecaro LACMA CEO Michael Govan, Tim Burton and Slash​ There is seemingly no rest for the wicked mind of Tim Burton. With current/recent projects ranging from the film version of Dark Shadows to a reworking of his stop-motion short Frankenweenie to Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty (sadly, ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Saturday Night: Kaoru Abe, Acid King, Pontiak

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #111 for Saturday, April 23. Fanatics! It is Friday, early afternoon and I am just now getting a chance to write these brief notes up for you. One of these days I'm going to get some sleep. Just back from Ann Arbor, Michigan where we had a major blast at the Stoo ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Death, Sun Ra, Boris

Timothy Norris​ [For the rest of Henry's columns, go to our Henry Rollins archives. To subscribe to his RSS, click here.] KCRW BROADCAST #103 for Saturday, Feb. 26. Fanatics! Are you kidding? This might be one of the bestest examples of sonic supremacy we have ever assembled! Immediatel ... More >>

NIGHTRANGER: 2010

NIGHTRANGER: Maulings and Mohawks at the Movies

Live Review: LA 101 with Massive Attack and Thievery Corporation

timothy norrismassive attack​ See more of Timothy Norris' photos in 'LA 101 with Thievery Corporation, Massive Attack and more.' By any metric, last night's LA 101 at the Gibson Amphitheatre was a success--save for maybe the fact that the headliners didn't hail from LA. Of course, Massive At ... More >>

Listen: The Entire New Ima Robot Record, Another Man's Treaure Now Streaming

Ride, Alex, ride: Ima Robot returns with "Another Man's Treasure"​Stepping aside from his successful Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Alex Ebert has returned to his formerly new-wavey Ima Robot project. The band's first album in four years, Another Man's Treasure, is streaming now (embedde ... More >>

Nightranger: Outta-Sight Night

This Weekend: Dâm-Funk, Jane's Addiction, Hootenanny, Mates of State, Baths, CocoRosie

Matthew ScottDam-Funk​Chalk it up to one of music's little mysteries -- how the old synths and creaky drum machines on Dâm-Funk's sprawling Toeachizown can sound so new. L.A.'s "Ambassador of Boogie Funk," born Damon Riddick, unleashed that double-CD, five-LP collection on the world last yea ... More >>

More Free Jane's Addiction Tickets for Friday's Surprise Roxy Show Coming Via Facebook

Dave Navarro and Duff McKagan​Yesterday, West Coast Sound got word that the already rumored "fans-only" surprise Jane's Addiction show is indeed going down on Friday night at The Roxy in Hollywood. What's more, Dave Navarro gave away five pairs of tickets via his Twitter account last night, a ... More >>

Fishbone Documentary Screens This Week at L.A. Film Fest

Fishbone Documentary Screens This Week at L.A. Film Fest

Live Review: Activision's E3 2010 Preview Event with Eminem, Jane's Addiction & Usher - "We Got the Cash!"

Last Night: Activision E3 2010 Preview Event with Eminem, Jane's Addiction, & Usher

The Nightlife Before Christmas

Reznor Nails It One Last Time

Nine Inch Nails at Palladium: Sweat and Darkness

Never let it be said that Trent Reznor can't admit when he's wrong. Last spring's co-headlining tour with Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction was an exciting idea; two alt-rock giants -- one exiting the music scene, the other re-entering -- hitting the road together. But it wasn't NIN's tour to ste ... More >>

R.I.P., Adam Goldstein, A.K.A. DJ AM

Rhino's New Jane's Addiction Box: A Cabinet of Curiosities, Quite Literally

Randall Roberts It's pretty great, this new 3 CD, 1 DVD boxed set from Jane's Addiction. The highly anticipated set, which comes out Tuesday, April 21, contains some of the legendary LA band's earliest recordings -- marvelous Radio Tokyo studio demos -- and a ton of other out takes, as well as cove ... More >>

Rock Picks: George Clinton, the Kris Special, Banyan

Also, Eleni Mandell, Tom Verlaine & Jimmy Rip and others

L.A. Dee Dallapalooza

Birth of a Nightranger

Between the Lines

The music at the edges

The Week in LA Music: Scott Weiland, GnR, Vivian Girls at Part Time Punks, Jason Bentley

Cassie Ramone of the Vivian Girls (photo by Timothy Norris) These things happened in LA music this week: Erin Broadley sat down with Scott Weiland at his Lavish Studios for an interview, and the former Pilot, former Revolver, was, well, in a sentimental mood. KCRW announced that DJ Jason Bentle ... More >>

Beachwood Sparks to reunite for Sub Pop anniversary party

Amidst all the hoo-ha about Jane's Addiction getting back together next week because apparently they're geniuses or something, another reunion's getting less ink: This week the Beachwood Sparks announced that they'd be reuniting this summer as part of Sub Pop Records' 20th anniversary party in Seatt ... More >>

Eddie Vedder, Mickey Avalon and Red Hot Chili Peppers at Hullabaloo

Uplifting mofo party

Yarr Yarr Yarr

Singin' like a pirate, lookin' for a song

Crumbelievable!

Hello, Ruby Tuesday!

Bowled Over

My own private culture clash

Live in LA

Lit Up and Emotional

Primal Screen (Print)

All Gates Open

San Francisco and/or Bust

Edited by Kateri Butler

Hang Him on the Wall

Edited by Kateri Butler

Dream Land

From Lollapalooza to IPO

Festival founder Marc Geiger bets on online music

There She is, Miss Macabre

Groove Robbers

For the Record

The life and premature death of Mary’s Danish

Third Ear

Demolisten Derby