Jerry Lee Lewis

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 >>

Stagecoach 2013 Lineup Announced

The lineup for Stagecoach 2013 has been announced. It will be held April 26-28, 2013 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio. See also: *Stagecoach Festival: The Fashion Report *Stagecoach Festival: The Music *Johnny Cash's Anti-Semitism Touched On In New Documentary The headliners are Toby Keith on F ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Great German Music

KCRW Broadcast #176 for Saturday, August 4, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! In a Rut Fanatics! Hello from Germany. I am currently living in the Hamburg at an airport hotel. I am doing two nights at the Wacken Festival. Since I am here and not with you and the other two at the Jasonic Tem ... More >>

Five Song Requests Jazz Bands Wish You Would Stop Making

Most cocktail jazz gigs are not particularly rewarding on an artistic level, but they aren't supposed to be. They pay well but they usually go on for too long and most people there aren't listening to you. Of course, there are benefits. I once played a solo gig on a white piano surrounded by roses w ... More >>

La Vida Boheme: Venezuelan Disco Punks Perform Before the Dodgers Game on Sunday

See also: Viva Los Dodgers 2012 Lineup Announced: Ximena Sariñana, Ana Tijoux, More Henry D'Arthenay is psyched for this Sunday's Dodger game, and not just because it's only the second of his life. As he tells us over Skype from his home in Caracas, Venezuela, his band La Vida Boheme will also per ... More >>

Why L.A. Schools Should End Their Ban on Hugging

By Dr. Paul Abramson and L.J. Williamson Riot Act is a semi-regular column that challenges conventional wisdom in controversial issues Last month, Tennessee, the state where Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13-year-old first cousin and John Thomas Scopes was convicted for teaching evolution, made waves ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Music From Down Under

KCRW Broadcast #162 for Saturday, April 28, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Hunting, Gut Stew, and Sex With Your Sister Fanatics! I am still here in Australia. The shows have been going great and I have been picking up a lot of great Australian music that we will throw into the mix in ou ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Memphis on My Mind

[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.] Sitting on the tour bus, the Bon Jovi Mobile-Def Leppard Express (no offense to either corpora ... More >>

X, Dead Kennedys, the Avengers - MOCA at the Geffen - 1/28/12

X, Dead Kennedys, the Avengers MOCA at the Geffen 1-28-12 (Much) Better Than ... hearing many of these same songs butchered on punk rock karaoke night at the local sports bar. Of course there's something oddly oxymoronic about a museum inviting punk rock bands over to play (albeit safely outside o ... More >>

Wanda Jackson/Best Coast - Club Nokia - Dec 31 2011

Daniel KohnWanda Jackson​See also: Wanda Jackson On How Jack White Convinced Her To Do Amy Winehouse's "You Know I'm No Good" Wanda Jackson/Best Coast Club Nokia 12/31/11 Legendary rockabilly singer Wanda Jackson has experienced a career renaissance in the past 12 months, as summed up by the ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! How Music Has Enacted Social Change: A Primer

​[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.] I spoke recently at the Central Library in downtown Los Angeles. I was mercifully brief ... More >>

Music Picks: Esperanza Spalding, Elbow, Toro Y Moi, Blink-182

Also, Glen Campbell, the Smashing Pumpkins, Lanie Lane and others

Simon Reynolds' Retromania: Critic Talks About Pop's Obsession with the Past and the Digiculture of Tomorrow

Courtesy of Simon ReynoldsThe cover of Retromania, released in May​ Isn't it ridiculous that it's now fair game to recycle the nineties and call your product retro? We've entered a phase where mashing up the sixties and the seventies is overdone -- now, the recent decades are up for grabs in t ... More >>

X, The Blasters and Kris Kristofferson Turn In a Ring of Fiery Performances at Johnny Cash Music Festival

Lina Lecaro Exene Cashes in.​ Few music icons (dead or alive) come close to the enigmatic spirit of Johnny Cash. He may have been a country fella, but he was a whole lotta rock n' roll, too. His outlaw swagger, black attire and risky, rebellious choices (from jail jamborees to Nine Inch Nails ... More >>

Falling James' Gig of the Week: The Crawdaddys at the Rhino Pop Up Store, 5/29

Falling JamesThe Crawdaddys​In what one hopes will be an annual tradition, Rhino Records returns again this year with a pop-up version of its beloved Westwood retail store, presenting two weeks of cutout-bin sales and surprise in-store gigs by a stellar lineup of pop-rock veterans. The concert ... More >>

Godard, American-Style

Richard Gere as hunk-pinup in Jim McBride's '80s remake of Breathless

Tonight: Perfume Genius, the Black Keys, Guster, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sara Bareilles, Bettye LaVette, Funeral Party

Perfume Genius​Mike Hadreas, the 28-year-old Seattle-based pianist who makes music as Perfume Genius, creates hyper-emotional ballads so fragile a stiff breeze might knock them over. He's found plenty of strength in the them, though -- Hadreas turned to the keyboard to quell the inner turmoil ... More >>

This weekend: Rx Bandits, Band of Horses, Vampire Weekend, Muse, Abbot Kinney Festival, Epicenter Festival, Willie Nelson, Rancid, Waved Out II, Helmet

Rx Bandits​Few would have thought that the Orange County ska-punk kids who a decade ago started playing as the Pharmaceutical Bandits would grow up to be a Coachella band. But the quartet now known Rx Bandits has, their party in the desert last spring certifying Matt Embree and crew as musica ... More >>

Movie Review: Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould

Nightranger: Tatted and Torn

Nightlife: Wonderland LA Opening featuring Kat Von D & Jesse James' "Love," Lemmy's Head, and Some Seriously Mad Art

Lina Lecaro Kevin Llewellyn, Kat Von D and Jesse James in Wonderland​ Tabloid culture met tattoo culture in an over the top, somewhat curious (and curiouser!) fashion last night at the grand opening of Wonderland, the new art gallery from LA Ink's Kat Von D (adjacent to her shop) featuring the ... More >>

Nightranger: Pounding the Pavement

A CAVALCADE OF BROKEN DREAMS

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 >>

Ten Great Cover Songs from Coachella 2009 (and a few extras)

Timothy NorrisEven the machinery was flashing the horns. Nothing says "I love you" like a cover song. Artists at Coachella like to acknowledge their influences, love to thrill the crowd with a surprise singalong. This year bands drew from music of many genres, from ragtime to post punk to hip hop. ... More >>

GO LA: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Young Frankenstein and Other Horrors

Plus, Doug Stanhope, Fake Radio, Oliver Sacks and more, April 17-23

WHAT'S IN A BUMPKIN'S ATTIC?

Steve Jones Releases Statement on the Future of Jonesy's Jukebox

Steve Jones has released a farewell note to his fans via his publicist after the shuttering of Indie 103.1 earlier today, and hints that Jonesy's Jukebox may return elsewhere on the dial. Here is the press release: STEVE JONES AND HIS FLAGSHIP "JONESY'S JUKEBOX" RADIO SHOW BID FAREWELL TO INDIE 10 ... More >>

Great Night for Music in LA: Tom Verlaine Performs with Silent Films, and Guns 'n Bombs Debuts Club at the Echo

New York guitarist Tom Verlaine possesses one of the strongest and most identifiable tones in rock, with a no-bullshit, clean, Coltrane-esque appreciation of sound and space. He builds solos like an architect designs buildings, line by line, measure by measure. The founding member of New York art ... More >>

Live in L.A.: Radiohead at the Hollywood Bowl, August 24

All photos by Timothy Norris Perhaps it’s most illustrative to consider last night’s Radiohead performance at the Hollywood Bowl not as a "concert" but as a massive geometric light sculpture constructed in a natural basin, with grand musical accompaniment. Kind of like Cirque de Soleil, but de ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Tigran Hamasayan, Kneebody, Nels Cline and more

Grammy Kisses

Pre-awards parties; star spotting; survival of the hippest

Vampire Weekend, Amoeba, 2/4

Vampire Weekend Amoeba Records, Feb. 4 It's packed. You maybe thought of coming down yourself, but if you did, you were way back in one of the clearance bin aisles, staring at row after row of mid-90s Sony alt-rock comps and Jane Child CDs. And that's if you arrived at six. Otherwise you're outsid ... More >>

The Phil Zone

Aloha From Hell

Jerry Lee Lewis, still on fire

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For the week of June 15 - 22

Silver Lake Film Festival

Back in Black

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Do You Remember Rock & Roll Radio

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When It Blows Its Stacks

Neuralgia nostalgia at the Queen Mary

The Piano Lesson

Squarepusher

Go Plastic (Warp)

Animal Boy

Joey Ramone leaves home

Super Furry Sound

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