Jason Bentley

Why Are Old School Electronic Artists Annoyed With EDM?

Broadly speaking, if you're an electronic music fan over 40, you probably dig Danny Tenaglia more than Skrillex. And chances are, if you're a Skrillex fan under the age of 30, you're like, "Who the hell is Danny Tenaglia?" Coachella 2013 exemplified the generation gap in the world of dance music. ... More >>

Jason Bentley Influences the Country's Indie Musical Taste, but His Heart Still Beats to the Electronic Underground

"When you're music director at KCRW," Jason Bentley says, "you're kind of music director of Los Angeles." This may sound a bit presumptuous on its face, but it's basically correct. For many listeners, KCRW is a community as real as any actual physical location in the city, its personalities the fir ... More >>

Lightning in a Bottle 2013 Lineup Announced

The lineup for Lightning in a Bottle 2013 is out! This year's electronic-heavy festival will feature headliners Nicholas Jaar, Rusko, Tycho, Emancipator, Griz and Paper Diamond. Ten GIFs of Ultra Ravers Shaking Their Shit As exclusively reported by West Coast Sound in January, the fest is going ... More >>

Exclusive: KCRW to Relaunch Metropolis with Original Host Jason Bentley

Electronic music program Metropolis is returning to KCRW with its original host Jason Bentley, West Coast Sound can exclusively report. The dance music show, which Bentley created and hosted from 1992 to 2008, will air Saturdays from 10pm to midnight, starting this Saturday. Bentley will maintain hi ... More >>

We Attended the KCRW Pledge Drive - And Lived to Tell the Tale!

It's pledge drive time again at KCRW. twice a year, the station -- one of the pre-eminent public radio stations in the country -- interrupts regular programming to ask for money. But this isn't your typical "send us five bucks and we'll mail you a bumper sticker" pledge event. No no, this one has Co ... More >>

Jason Bentley: Al Walser's "Embarrassing" Grammy Nomination the Result of Manipulating the System

Al Walser-gate continues. After the Hollywood-via-Lichtenstein DJ somehow snagged a Grammy nomination for best dance recording last week -- alongside much more famous folks like Aviici and Skrillex -- many suspected fraud. In our interview, Walser got defensive and posited that simple good old-fas ... More >>

Music Cruises Hit the High Seas, But Who Can Afford Them?

All aboard a tiny, star-packed boat

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Happy Halloween

KCRW Broadcast #187 for Saturday, October 27, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! The Mississippi Blues Fanatics! I think this is as close as close as we're going to get to a Halloween show. If I could split myself in two, I would be onstage here in New Hampshire and also at the KCRW event ... More >>

Deadmau5 - Sonos Studios - 10/19/12

Deadmau5 Sonos Studios 10/19/12 Better Than: The cheap seats On Friday night, Deadmau5, née Joel Zimmerman, played for a crowd of 200 people at acoustic gallery space Sonos Studios. This is a guy who played four nights in a row at the Palladium last August and was the first electronic artist to h ... More >>

Pulp to Headline Coachella Cruise: Here's the Full Lineup

All aboard. Let the Coachella branding begin! Goldenvoice today announced a pair of Coachella boat tours; each will leave in December from Fort Lauderdale. Pulp will headline, with Hot Chip, Yeasayer, Girl Talk and Sleigh Bells among the bigger names.

Hollywood Bowl-Adjacent Homeless Swept Out: No More Free Concerts For You

The people with the best seats in the house above the Hollywood Bowl were unceremoniously bounced from the party by the L.A. County Sheriff's Department today. These were not, however, ordinary gatecrashers with good taste in tunes, a bottle of chianti in their Louis Vuitton bags, and their radios ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday

KCRW Broadcast #155 for Saturday, March 10, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Justice, Texas Style Fanatics! I am writing you from the backstage area of the House of Blues down here in Orlando FL. The next four shows are in the Sunshine State. So far, the US leg of the tour has been going ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Henry's Dedication to Jason Bentley

KCRW Broadcast #154 for Saturday, March 3, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Alone in My Man Box, Listening to Al Green Fanatics! Here we are, once again all together. As many of you probably know, I am already on the road again and this is a pre-taped show that Engineer X, Will "The Doub ... More >>

One for the Books

Peanut Butter Wolf, Gaslamp Killer, Jason Bentley -- 11/11/11/ Party -- Eagle Rock Center for the Arts

Lainna FaderGaslamp Killer​Peanut Butter Wolf, Gaslamp Killer, Jason Bentley, Hyasynth and others 11/11/11/ Party Eagle Rock Center for the Arts Since 2006, Stones Throw label head Peanut Butter Wolf has specialized in numerically-aligned calendar day parties. Last night's party, which went f ... More >>

St. Vincent - Berkeley Street Studios - September 12, 2011

Jeremiah Garcia​St. Vincent Berkeley Street Studios September 12, 2011 Better Than: Watching the Raiders and Broncos. Fresh off a cameo appearance with her favorite band The National at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday night, Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, played a private, intimate gig at Sant ... More >>

KCRW's Jason Bentley Breaks Raphael Saadiq's "Stone Rollin'"

Rebecca HaithcoatLike a rolling stone ​In Twitter times like these, we turn to the (by comparison) quiet calm of music. And who better to break up the barrage of Osama/bama opinion than the soothing voice of our very own Jason Bentley, ruminating and divulging little-known facts (Raphael Saadi ... More >>

L.A. DJs Jason Bentley, Damian Lazarus Headed to Ibiza Next Month For Dance Music Summit

J to the B rockin' Stussy like it's '93.​While we like to think of ourselves as worldly ragers, the City of Angels often doesn't rate on the world map of professional partying. You know, Miami, Vegas, Berlin, Ibiza. But we're getting there (glad we have our priorities straight). Some of the g ... More >>

David Bowie's Most LA-centric Single Gets KCRW Remixes and Its Own iPhone App

​One of our favorite artists just announced that he is releasing one of our favorite songs as a $2 iPhone app allowing fans to make their own remixes. David Bowie (or whoever handles his business this days--he hasn't been since in public in a long while and there are some wacky conspiracy the ... More >>

Is the NPR Music Blog Trying to Be More "Low-Brow" Than Us? How Dare They?

​We thank commenter Toby (on today's Strokes post) for pointing us in the direction of NPR's music blog The Record, which apparently called us out for, are you ready? "Going low-brow" while discussing the demise of revered alt-legends The White Stripes. This would be amusing enough--after all ... More >>

Dance Club Pick: Bashing the Grammies

Jason Bentley Demands Money, Drugs and Sex From KCRW Listeners

​You should have read by now our enlightening article on the challenge to KCRW and other NPR stations by GOP and Tea Party goons, who are trying to defund them through Congress. As we said before, we support KCRW and all the other Public Radio stations and everything they do for good music in ... More >>

KCRW To Debut Daft Punk's "Tron: Legacy" Soundtrack on Monday

KCRW To Debut Daft Punk's "Tron: Legacy" Soundtrack on Monday

What's Your Dirtiest Jason Bentley Sexual Fantasy?

Jason Bentley: sexxxy voice, sexxxy look (wait, isn't that "Blue Steel"?!?!?!)​We were talking to an acquaintance (female, late 30s, educated, divorced) and she was telling us that one of the main reasons she listens to NPR every morning has to do with... well, the tingly feelings she gets fro ... More >>

Watch: KCRW Presents Space Diva Janelle Monae on Morning Becomes Eclectic Today

KCRW Presents Janelle Monae on Morning Becomes Eclectic Today

Clips and a Free MP3 from Brazilian Maestro Arthur Verocai's LA Visit

New Videos and Free MP3 from Brazilian Maestro Arthur Verocai's LA Visit

SXSW Roundup: KCRW Jason Bentley on Bad Mixes, Bad Bands and the Best Booze/iPhone Battery Ratio

Jeff MillerJason Bentley playing the Virgin Freehouse, SXSW 2010​KCRW's music director Jason Bentley is one of the patron saints of bands at South By Southwest. Countless bands playing the fest got their start from DJs at the station, and Bentley himself has championed dozens of them on his da ... More >>

On the Airwaves: Zero 7 on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic

On the Airwaves: Zero 7 on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic

Best LA Radio Shows: Required Listening for Traffic-Clogged LA

​In this week's Best of LA issue of LA Weekly, writer Wendy Gilmartin gives proper love to two radio shows on KXLU: Part Time Punks' Michael Stock snagged Best Afternoon DJ, and Melissa McAllister was honored with the award Best Reason to Turn on Your Radio in the A.M. Both great shows, and ... More >>

Labor & Leisure Suits

Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes: First Radio Performance This Morning on KCRW

West Coast Sound has had the great fortune of witnessing the rise of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes from nearly the beginning. We saw their raucous first Troubadour gig in the summer of 2007 when Edward Sharpe (aka Alex Ebert) and Jade Castrinos were exuding the joy and thrill of new love - ... More >>

Kid Congo Powers Covers Cramps and Gun Club at SXSW, Thrills Imo's

The first official night of South By Southwest music, you'd think, would be kind of a pace-setter, a warm-up night. But no, even if you arrive late and think you're going to do some stretching and calisthenics, grab an easy dinner, before really cooking it on Thursday, something calls you from bey ... More >>

Remixing the Grammys

Glasvegas Gig the Troubadour Tonight, but Offer a Live Teaser on Morning Becomes Eclectic This Friday

And out of nowhere, as these things tend to happen, there's a new Biggest Band in the World (Of the Week), and its name is Glasvegas, who play Big, Important Rock to drive the music freaks crazy. The band, which is from Glasgow, Scotland, gig a sold-out show at the Troubadour tonight, and if you do ... More >>

In the Studio with Jason Bentley, Newly Christened Host of KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic

(Photos by Timothy Norris. View the "Beyond the Stage: Mercury Rev on KCRW with Jason Bentley and at El Rey Theatre" slideshow.)

Work It: Weekend's Best Labor Day Parties

KCRW Launches New Guest DJ Sessions featuring Conan O'Brien, Jason Reitman and others

Everybody has an opinion about music, especially celebrities, and KCRW is harnessing this intrinsic reality with a new online series which launches today called the Guest DJ Project. Each week, a member of KCRW's on-air staff interviews a person of note, and broadcasts the results, which so far has ... More >>

Summer in the City

Downtown gets down

Lisa D'Amato Likes Balls, Jason Bentley "Not Sure" About Elephants

I wasn't at Banksy's Barely Legal opening party last night, but I did bump in to OBEY artist Shepard Fairey later on at La Cita downtown, and he told me all about it. He said that it was 'amazing' (not an unexpected response from Fairey, who believes Banksy to be one of the most important ... More >>

Nightranger

The Mayor of Metropolis

Nightranger

Can't Let It Go

Ring-a-Ding 2004

Edited by Kateri Butler

Ding-Dong Electro-Song

Edited by Kateri Butler

Space Cadets

Edited by Kateri Butler

Gift Bag of the Dolls

Edited by Kateri Butler

No Crystal Method

Edited by Kateri Butler

Hello, Dali

WMA winners announced, worlds collide

Beat Freaks

Dance clubs L.A.: a forbidden world beckons