Jimi Hendrix

Fanatics! Tonight's Show Is Packed With Mix Tape Goodness

RADIO BROADCAST #215 05-12-13 Fanatics. I would like to thank the girls from Honest Marquee for giving us one of their new tracks for us to play. I think it's a great one. Tonight's show is packed with mix tape goodness and I think you're going to dig it. I want to thank you for all the letters y ... 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 >>

You Know You Want an iPhone Flask: 4 Awesome Booze Oddities You Can Buy Online

A couple of weeks back, we scoured the internet to find food oddities for you to lust over and/or buy. Today, we're back with a whole new crop of fun stuff, this time to help you imbibe. It's a little early in the week to fall down the rabbit hole of internet lists and consumerism, but hey, what the ... More >>

Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Moves to Sunday Nights

See also: Henry Rollins: Dead Children in Afghanistan KCRW BROADCAST #212 04-21-13 Fanatics! Our show has moved, or that is to say, has been moved by forces much, much greater than The Big Three and now we find ourselves on Sunday nights from 8 to 10 pm. The wisdom or lack thereof shall make itsel ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Pere Ubu and More Thin Lizzy

KCRW BROADCAST #200 01-26-13 See also: Henry Rollins: No More Talk About Shooting Americans, Please Fanatics! It's amazing how great our show is tonight. Sometimes I have to stand back and marvel at how damn consistently great the music is, just how incredibly excellent week after week all of thi ... More >>

The Best Concerts To See in L.A. This Week: Nov 12-15

Monday, November 12 In The Valley Below BOOTLEG BAR Looking like Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman walk-ons, and with an eye-contact connection to rival Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham in their good times, Echo Park hubby-and-wife Angela Gail and Jeffrey Jacob patchwork together love-in-ready bluesy ro ... More >>

Fuck Guilty Pleasures: John Mayer's Body of Work is a Wonderland

[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] John Mayer has been persecuted for years. Way back in 2003, the Village Voice mocked his music in an article called "Phal ... More >>

Maná Gets Inducted Into the Hollywood Guitar Center's Rock Walk

Mexican rockers Maná made their mark in concrete as the foursome were inducted the Hollywood Guitar Center's Rock Walk yesterday. Like Bon Jovi, The Boss and Guns N' Roses all rolled into one (but from Guadalajara, Jalisco), Maná has garnered dozens of accolades -- including winning eleven Grammys ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, September 17 Josh Nelson VITELLO'S Josh Nelson looks much younger than his 34 years but has already become a seasoned veteran and one of the most respected pianists on the L.A. music scene. Nelson's talents are strong enough to have won him a job as Natalie Cole's primary touring pianist w ... More >>

Oh, Look Out You Rock & Rollers

Henry Rollins: The Column! Hunting, Gut Stew, and Sex With Your Sister

[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.] Still in Australia, get used to it! I will be here for quite a while. Things are going very we ... More >>

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 >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: St. Louis Blues

KCRW Broadcast #157 for Saturday, March 24, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Memphis on My Mind Fanatics! It's Blues time in St. Louis Missouri! While you listen to our show, that's where I will be. I thought it appropriate that we spend a bit of time with some very pure and direct sounds ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Live From Amoeba

​KCRW Broadcast #140 for Saturday, November 12, 2011 Fanatics! Tonight, we are live at the rekkid sto! We will be broadcasting live from Amoeba Records at 6400 Sunset Blvd. Like I would need to tell you that address. Anyway, I will be there doing my shift from 8-10 live at the store. Any excu ... More >>

'Scuse Me While I Kiss My Squeezebox

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 >>

RIP Cornell Dupree

Cornell Dupree​Famed jazz and R&B guitarist Cornell Dupree passed away Sunday, May 8, in his hometown of Fort Worth, TX. He was 69 years old. At 19, the blues musician joined King Curtis and the Kingpins, playing alongside a young Jimi Hendrix. In the 1960s, he became one of Atlantic Records ... 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 Tonight: Tunes from Down Under

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #104 for Saturday, March 5. Fanatics! It's me, your FM favorite. I am in Australia at the moment and to pay tribute to the great musicality of this country, we made the first hour all Aussie. Some of the bands are quite familiar but perhaps not all of them. The M ... More >>

Paz Lenchantin, Psychedelic Goddess

The Entrance Band's bassist discusses her inspirations and their Satellite residency

'SCUSE ME WHILE I MISS THIS GUY

Brick's Picks: Jazzapino Sounds

Stars, Cars and Guitars: Gibson GuitarTown Debuts on the Sunset Strip

Lina Lecaro Cherie Currie and son Jake Hays with The Runaways guitar by artist Sonia Lopez-Chavez. ​A drive down the Sunset Strip always promises a few things: flashy billboards, rockin' (usually studded) get-ups, beckoning marquees and maddeningly slow-moving cars. Now there's something fun ... More >>

Nightranger: Gamer Gauche

Day 2: The Dirty Projecters and Bowling With Angels

Endlessly talented and unaffected by the rubber stamp placed on them by the ILM elite, Dirty Projectors played precocious, innocent and brilliant. Leadman Dave Longstreth wields his guitar upside down and left-handed, a furious Jimi Hendrix play shackled only by boat shoes and effete charm. Plunging ... More >>

Music Picks: Laura Veirs, Experience Hendrix, Boyz II Men, Earthworm Ensemble

Also, David Scott Stone, Slow Club, Little Boots and others

WARNING: CONTENTS MAY BE HOT

Ever Wondered How "World Music" Got Its Awkward Name?

We are the World (Music)​Music, as Madonna wisely pointed out, makes the people come together (it also apparently makes the bourgeoisie and the rebel. Oh, Madonna...). But the endless, relentless, unmanageable offer of music that the invention of recording unleashed in the very late 19th centu ... More >>

Keeping Up With the Times

Festivals Then and Now: Lou Adler and Nic Adler Talk Monterey Pop and the Sunset Strip

The Adler posse knows a thing or two about the concert business. Lou Adler, the patriarch, is responsible for some of the great American cultural touchstones of the past 40 years, and a few of these moments are showcased on the wall of his home office in Malibu. There's the movie poster for The ... More >>

Heavy Like the Weight of a Flame

Newport '69 Remembered

Kevin Roderick recalls L.A.'s forgotten Woodstock, a three-day open-air concert in Northridge that still brings smiles to its participants. In his L.A. Observed entry, Roderick recalls that "Jimi Hendrix jammed with Buddy Miles on Sunday afternoon in a session still bootlegged around the Internet, n ... More >>

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Week Day 2: "Thuggish Ruggish Bone" And the Importance of "Branding"

Whether consciously or not, rappers have understood the concept of branding since the on-and-on-to-the-break-of-dawn days. You can listen to everything from the "The Breaks" to "Crank That" and figure out pretty quickly that they were performed by Kurtis Blow and an autistic 4th Grader with a rud ... More >>

Holiday Coffee-table Books for the Whole Damn Family

Blissfulsomeness

Fall Harvest

While the media was examining a fake beef, a bounty of music dropped

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Fall Harvest While the media was examining a fake beef, a bounty of music dropped

Flowers, Felt and Fantasy

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Dream Dames

And straight mates

Lion of Panjshir

“It’s like in Alice in Wonderland, we’re painting the roses red!”

Sweet Val-en-tine (Bump, Bump Bahhh!)

What to do in Los Angeles this week

A Sax Supreme

Jazz picks for the week of January 19 – 25

The Right to Die... Onstage!

Between rock and a sidesplitting place with “World’s Funnyman” Neil Hamburger

Local Bands, Man

Viva K

The Revelators

Martin Scorsese’s blue Christmas

Music To Kill By

War with Iraq? It's in the bag, dad

This Ain't No Juilliard!

Life and violins at the school that Flea built

Top Jimmy, 1954–2001

Of Wasps and Wind

James Newton loves the wrong notes

Declaration of Independence

Patti Smith speaks

Good Friday