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I Tried To Teach My Sons About Music While Fishing But Instead They Just Did Karate Moves On The Beach

[Editor's Note: Shea Serrano sometimes writes about Why This Song Sucks, and sometimes about his hilarious and poignant life and times. Better put your shoes on because your socks are about to be blown off.] 7:18 a.m.: I'm taking the boys fishing this morning. There's a serviceable little fishing p ... More >>

Fanatics! The Music Does the Talking

RADIO BROADCAST #214 05-05-13 Fanatics. I hope this finds you well. I am in the Washington D.C. area, working on some television stuff. We have a tremendous mix of music here that I hope you will like. Thank you so much for the letters you have sent in over the last several days. This show is all ... More >>

Henry Rollins: A Death in the Family

[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 am in San Francisco. It is a Saturday night and I should have been in Los Angeles watching T ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Mississippi Blues

KCRW Broadcast #185 for Saturday, October 13, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! The Failings of Music Writers Fanatics! In Mississippi tonight. We thought it would be a good idea to lay some Blues on you. Blues music comes all kinds of ways and is there to be taken any way you want. If y ... More >>

Exclusive: A Disgruntled Label Exec Spills the Beans About Taylor Swift's Insane-Sounding New Album

Big news: Young country-pop starlet Taylor Swift took a bit of time out from making the "Who me?" face to record another album. Red, out October 22, is about "relationships and breakups," according to Swift, and its first single is called (no shit) "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together." She's be ... More >>

Jimmy Cliff - Sonos Studio - 5/9/12

Jimmy Cliff Sonos Studio 5/9/12 Better than: Staying in and watching The Harder They Come. Sonos Studio had an auspicious debut in Los Angeles last night, hosting a evening of music and conversation with reggae legend Jimmy Cliff. Sonos, which opens to the public on Sunday, is a 4,000 square foot ... More >>

Coachella: The Five Best Guitar Moments From the First Weekend

By Adam Lovinus See also: *Our complete Coachella coverage *Coachella Preview 2012: Everything You Need to Know About the Performers *Coachella: Five Signs You're An Aging Hipster This year's Coachella lineup mostly favored artists not necessarily known for guitar prowess, but it did feature some ... More >>

Coachella: Seven Lesser-Known Acts You'd Be Silly to Miss

Mono/Poly Disses Obama, Praises Ron Paul

It was the '90s in Bakersfield, and West Coast gangster rap gripped much of the town. But Charles Dickerson felt bored. So he ignored what was popular, sticking with his beloved electronic music. He now performs under the name Mono/Poly, and released an EP under Brainfeeder last year. The 25-year-o ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Walking Alone
 at Night

​[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 have many traditions and rituals. None of them is based in reality, but none of them is ... More >>

Music Picks: Alison Krauss, Flying Lotus, My Morning Jacket

Also, Jaga Jazzist, Kid Cudi, Baths and others

Page Two: Love album Black Beauty at the Roxy

Arthur Lee's long-lost Love album re-emerges, live

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Saturday Night: Happy Birthday, Ian MacKaye

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #110 for Saturday, April 16. Fanatics! It is Record Store Day. It is also Ian MacKaye's birthday. Today, Ian hits the deck at forty-nine years of age. I believe he will be at the Coachella Festival this weekend so we send our greetings and congrats from here. To ... More >>

Quick Peek: Malibu Inn Revamp [Photo Gallery]

Malibu Inn on PCH has been many things in its 60 years (more than 60 if you count its original location, erected farther inland). Tourist draw, biker hub, Sunday brunch spot, concert venue, post-surf fill-'er-up and local hangout. At one point, it was Crazy Horse, a saloon and rock concert venu ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Songs in the Key of Tour

Timothy Norris​[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every week and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday eveni ... More >>

Jesus the Messiah-astronaut, C-3P0 rocks an ascot, and other craziness from Out of the Closet on Sunset

​Each Monday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets around Los Angeles. Extraterrestrials in Biblical Prophecy Author: G. Cope Schellhorn Date: 1990 Publisher: Horus House, Madison, ... More >>

20 Musicians We Will Miss: 2010, the Year in R.I.P.

20 Musicians We Will Miss R.I.P.

Henry Rollins Column: How to Talk to Right Wing Talk Show Callers

Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins will be contributing a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every Friday and make sure to tune ... More >>

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 >>

THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR LEE

Patti Smith Talks Harry Smith at the Hammer Museum

Harry Smith, inventor of the mixtape​The Hammer museum's Smith On Smith event last Thursday night paid tribute to the eccentric artist and music collector Harry Smith through exploits that Patti Smith recounted from her new book, Just Kids. Patti befriended Harry at the Chelsea Hotel during it ... More >>

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 >>

"Wait! Who's That Singing????": Top Ten List of Major Stars Covering Other People's Music

Bowie also waited for his man​Pitchfork reports that Peter Gabriel will be releasing an album of covers, in which he will tackle hits and more obscure cuts by David Bowie, Paul Simon, Elbow, Bon Iver, Talking Heads, The Arcade Fire, Regina Spektor, Radiohead, Lou Reed ("The Power of the Heart" ... More >>

Right Said Fred Cancels Halloween, Will Not Dance on King Tut's Tomb

By Daiana Feuer King Tut might rise from his fake tomb at the Egyptian Theatre, but Right Said Fred will not be dancing on his head. Richard and Fred Fairbrass were scheduled to perform "I'm Too Sexy" live during the King Tut's Tomb Halloween spectacular on Saturday night in Hollywood. An email ... More >>

Promote This: The Adler Effect

On the eve of the Sunset Strip Music Festival, Lou Adler and his son Nic talk about the concert business

FYF Fest 2009: Parks and Inspiration

Event's new mission: Save Our State Parks (and deliver a mind-bending roster of punk, electronics and noise)

Taking — and Ruining — Woodstock

Ang Lee's latest cranks up the amp on faux '60s nostalgia

THEATER REVIEWS: BIG BRO/LIL BRO, HELLZ KITCHEN ABLAZE AND THE NUCLEAR FAMILY

Also, The Pain and the Itch, The Tempest and Terminus Americana and More

Live in L.A.: Prince's Three Shows at L.A. Live Provide Much Frustration for Many People (including Prince)

Randall RobertsPrince at L.A. Live (taken on dinky cell camera) There's a lot of responsibility to go around for the wildly uneven Six Hours of Prince gig at L.A. Live on Saturday night. You can blame AEG, the owners of L.A. Live, which is what Prince did during the final of his three performances ... More >>

Beck, Arabian Prince, Dennis Wilson, Love: Four More Great L.A. Reissues of 2008

Diggin' in the crates

Blown Chunks from Black Dice

"Rock band" mashes up same popular-poopoo influences that have ruined everybody else

Royal Welding

Jewelry fit for a king or a queen, baby

Theater Reviews: Black Watch, Clay, Lauren Weedman, Durango

Also Goblin Market, Wendy Wasserstein's Third, Twelfth Night and more

Across the Universe: Help!

Julie Taymor’s ’60s-set musical is a bust

Film Reviews: Bratz, El Cantante, Hot Rod and more

Also, this week's picks, Laura Smiles and This is England

Medusa

The real

Badly Drawn B(h)ummer

And an intriguing new anti-Starbucks campaign

Music Picks

For the week of May 4 - 11

Oh, Say Can You Hear the Clichés?

GUSTAVO ARELLANO reviews “Nuestro Himno”

The Last Burger Stand

Race & Roll

Lenny Kravitz

California Tuffy

Carla Bozulich in the time of the preacher

Mixism

Sampling Christian Marclay

Boys Are for Noise

Repotted Palms

Hinterlander goes Hawaiian

Perry Farrell's Mystical Musical Tour

The hedonist at 42

Letters

Sound + Vision

Music and the movies

Changing Colors

The BellRays' Maximum Rock & Soul

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