Janis Joplin

Jubilee - Arts District - June 7 and 8, 2013

Jubilee Music and Arts Festival Arts District 6/7/13 & 6/8/13 This year the Jubilee festival departed Silver Lake and set up camp under the 6th Street bridge in the arts district. The new digs gave welcome respite from the previous bottleneck at Sunset Junction and offered beautiful views of Downt ... More >>

The Top 10 Memorial Day Weekend Concerts in L.A.

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Friday, May 24 Boris ECHOPLEX Japanese experimental rockers Boris have spent their entire 15-year career making sure that their fans are unable to predict what will come next from the band. One album could consist of thrashi ... More >>

West Hollywood Lesbian Bar The Palms to Shut Down

West Hollywood's The Palms Bar, a hangout for the local lesbian community since the '60s, will close on June 9. Located on Santa Monica Blvd. at La Cienega, the historic building that houses The Palms will be demolished to make space for a new mixed use development. In late April, the landlord told ... More >>

Patti Smith Talks About Her Greatest Success

By Jessica Baran Profoundly influential, incantatory songstress, poet, artist and writer Patti Smith may be best known as the Godmother of Punk. Her groundbreaking album Horses, released in 1975, has been hailed as one of the greatest rock albums of all time. Born in Chicago, she was raised in Sout ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week

Adapter-performer Brian T. Finney has adapted Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in what Paul Birchall describes as "hypnotic." It's this week's pick of the week. Neal Weaver found charm and passion in Actors' Co-op's revival of The Miracle Worker. See below for all the latest new theater reviews. ... More >>

A Janis Joplin Musical Boosts the Pasadena Playhouse Box Office

One Night With Janis provides some nostalgic comfort food

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Garry Marshall Directing a Play About the Making of Double Indemnity

Lost Moon Radio did another bang-up job hosting the 34th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Monday night. (See the full list of L.A. Weekly Theater Award winners here.) Thanks to Lauren Ludwig, Trish Hadley and the LMR troupe for their talent, and thanks for all the kind missives from people who had ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Pycho-Sexual Boxing Match

Pycho-sexual spectacles got nods from our critics this week, including Illyrian Players' Lord Blackberry's Apocalypse and our Pick of the Week, Tender Napalm. Nice reviews also for Doma Theatre Company's Dreamgirls at the MET, Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice at A Noise Within, Latino Theatre Company's Melacho ... More >>

Enslaved - Troubadour - 2/8/2013

Ancient VVisdom, Royal Thunder, Pallbearer, Enslaved The Troubadour 2-8-13 Better Than: Watching your medicinal marijuana garden grow. The crowd piled in slowly but steadily, the Troubadour alit in blue. This was an older crowd for a metal show, full of parents out for the night, child-free marri ... More >>

Rock Star Fashions, Without the Douchiness

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Almost everyone has once wanted to dress like a rock star, but most people realize how absurd they look in leather pants and sequins. Wisely, then, Holly ... More >>

Classic Rock Is a Cancer on Our Society

There's a disease spreading through our generation of 20- and 30-year-olds. We inherited this malady from our parents, and it's rendering us culturally stagnant. It's sapping our identity. Perhaps most tragically, we are welcoming this plague into our homes, cars, and phones -- even into our kar ... More >>

This Is the Mixtape I Made For the Guys Who Keep Breaking Into My Car

Three, maybe four times in the last month, my car has been broken into. I suppose at least a portion of that is my fault, both macro and micro. Macro: I mean, if I'd have maybe paid more attention in school, I'd probably make more money than I do today, which means I wouldn't have to live across t ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Japanese War Brides Musical Tea, With Music

A musical about World War II war brides, Tea, With Music, for which the author, Velina Hasu Houston, has added songs and music for this production, is our Pick of the Week. For all new theater reviews, see below. This week's stage fature looks a couple of plays aiming to be light fare: Micha ... More >>

American Moves

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: World Debut of J Mascis/Heavy Blanket Album

KCRW Broadcast #162 for Saturday, April 28, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Down Under and 
Hard to Find Fanatics! Hello from beautiful Sydney, Australia. I am a few hours away from another show here. I have been finding some great records here that will find themselves in our upcoming ... More >>

The Doctor Will Slay You Now

'Don't Stick Your Dick in My Mouth Before We've Kissed': Sheri Sanders' 10 Tips on Auditioning for Rock Musicals

Rebecca HaithcoatSheri Sanders​Inside the Lyric Theatre on La Brea, the compact Sheri Sanders is curled in a chair, squinting her eyes and smiling almost apologetically at the nervous girl in Uggs onstage who keeps forgetting her lyrics. "I hate to be a cunt," Sanders murmurs. "I hate to be a ... More >>

Top 10 Live Music Venues in L.A.: The Complete List

Timothy Norris​California knows how to party. -"California Love" It's the unofficial state motto. But not only do we know how, we know where. Los Angeles is home to a wide spectrum of live music venues, from the teeniest Echo Park hole-in-the-wall only you and five friends know, to grand ol' ... More >>

Top 10 Best Live Music Venues in L.A.: #5-1

For all the best of L.A. music, download our free Best Of Mobile app. See also: Top Ten Best Live Music Venues in L.A.: #10 - #6 5. Music Box See also: R.I.P. the Music Box? Legendary Hollywood Venue Shuttered [UPDATE: Short-term?] News of the Music Box's overnight shuttering this month was met wi ... More >>

The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #15-11

​See also: The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #20-16 ​15. Spinal Tap This Is Spinal Tap soundtrack (1984) Rob Reiner's brilliant mock-rockumentary sends up longstanding hard-rock obsessions like Druids and getting super-heavy. (Aspiring local hair-metal god Paul Shortino of Roug ... More >>

They All Die At 27: Jason Ritter and Taryn Manning Discuss The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll

Eric Genson (Jason Ritter) serenades his road manager Rose Atropos (Taryn Manning) in a scene from the film. ​By Roselle Chen The title of the new rock saga film The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll refers to 27 and the many famous musicians who have died at that age, including Robert Johnson, K ... More >>

Stage Raw: Somewhere, Over the Radar

COMPLETE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE : A Case for Small Theater​The Groundings' Crazy Uncle Joe Show has a one-night only tenth anniversary performance (Wed., June 22, 8 p.m.) featuring (pending cast availability) Kristen Wiig, Kevin Nealon, Maya Rudolph, Michael Sheen, Will ... More >>

The Five Most Hilariously Offensive Misuses of Classic Songs For Commercial Purposes

​ We were so excited when we saw the wooden box on our desk with the words "Bob Marley" branded into the top. A CD box set? Possibly--if we are very very lucky--a box set of 7"s? With little booklets that have liner notes full of interesting and amazing facts about one of the word's seminal p ... More >>

Top 10 Songs About Hangovers, One Night Stands and That Rough Morning After

Top 10 Songs About Hangovers, One Night Stands and That Rough Morning After

Nightranger: WILD FRONTIER

Cherry Vanilla Scoops On David Bowie, Warhol and more in new book, 'Lick Me.'

Photo by Ray Stevenson.​The name Cherry Vanilla may conjure nothing more than an ice cream flavor for some, but anyone obsessed with David Bowie, Andy Warhol or the well-documented hedonism of '70's New York nightlife knows it's in fact, the more-than-apropos moniker for a multi-faceted woman ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Heart at the Gibson Amphitheatre

Nancy Wilson gets crazy on you​On Wikipedia, the band Heart pops up in search results before the blood-pumping organ does. From the ecstatic beer and arm swaying rapture rattling the Gibson Amphitheater Saturday night, it's possible that over the last 35 years, Ann and Nancy Wilson have become ... More >>

Rock Out With Your Doc Out

Nightranger: Bringing Sounds to the Sea

Strange Cozmic Experience

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 >>

SUSAN MOGUL AT JANCAR GALLERY

When Phil Silvers, Janis Joplin and Moses collide.

This Ain't Your Dad's Sid and Nancy: Film Maverick Abel Ferrara Brings his Chelsea Hotel Documentary to LA

​About a year ago, cult NYC film director Abel Ferrara (Driller Killer, Ms. 45, the OG Bad Lieutenant, The Addiction, etc.) wrapped his indiepunk documentary on the legendary Chelsea Hotel. The film premiered at Cannes last year and is now being gradually unrolled across the US. Ferrara is com ... More >>

Keeping Up With the Times

Brick’s Picks: Notes of Summer

They Say If You Remember the '60s, You're Really, Really Old

Licensed to Ill

Flowers, Felt and Fantasy

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Dream Dames

And straight mates

Kate Clinton: Lesbo Domo

At the Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center, Long Beach

Theater Reviews

Including Doubt, Beehive and this week's pick, Rocks in my Salsa

Mods & Rockers 2006

Gnarls Barkley, the Beauty of Being Blunt, and the Poppy Lips Battle the Apocalypse

Unchain Your Heart

Bookstores for the independent-minded book lover

An After Hours Burrito

Underage Drinking

Calm down — it’s Mommy and Daddy’s turn

They'll Always Have Paris

Edited by Kateri Butler

Landmarks

Scars of Sweet Paradise

Globular

Hollywood at its most, er, golden. Plus, the latest disco-era lesbian heroin-addict supermodel biopic