Joey Ramone

No Age Makes a Record for an Era When Records Don't Matter

Music Picks: Culture Collide, Nick Lowe, Screaming Females

The Sloths' Jeff Briskin Hired a Private Detective to Track Down His Former Bandmates

Try as time might to diminish this filthy city's hot brat-beat heritage, there's never a shortage of dormant talent lurking deep within the twisting corridors of our rock and roll maze of myth and history. While squandered legacies and the yoke of mediocrity befall so many once promising players, th ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Original Songs Vs. Their Covers

KCRW Broadcast #169 for Saturday, June 16, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Joey Ramone's Legacy Is in Danger Fanatics! Take cover! If you check out our show for tonight, you will note we have a bit of a concept happening here. I have broken the two hours below, so you can quickly see wha ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Joey Ramone's Legacy Is in Danger

[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 been listening to a record that is one of the strangest things I have heard in a long t ... More >>

D Generation - The Troubadour - September 24, 2011

Lina LecaroSinger Jesse Malin finds his way to the bar ​D Generation at The Troubadour September 24, 2011 Better than... shows where the lead singer doesn't leave the stage, head to the bar, and throw back some tequila. Though they sweat and bleed New York, D Generation has an L.A. fan ba ... More >>

Tim Burton at LACMA

How a Hollywood director became a counterculture hero

Delivery Boys

SpongeBob and Stimpy: Q&A with Voice Actors Billy West and Tom Kenny

Tom Kenny (left) and Billy West​ You know them, but you don't know them: Live Talks Los Angeles, who brought us Tina Fey and Steve Martin for a chat recently, present An Evening of 1,000 Voices With Billy West and Tom Kenny. West is best known as the voice of Philip J. Fry on Futurama and Stim ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Henry on What Makes a Great Band Frontman

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 >>

Japan Nite 2011 at The Viper Room: Presenting 5 Japanese Bands You Should Hear Right Now

Shannon CottrellLolita No. 18​See more photos in Shannon Cottrell's gallery "Japan Nite with Mo'Some Tonebender, Lolita No. 18, Zukunasisters, Hystoic Vein and Josy."Read more about Japan Nite in Siran Babayan's post "SXSW Recap: Japan Nite Raises Money for Earthquake Relief." For the past fi ... More >>

The Column!: Postcard From NYC

Henry Rollins: The Column! Rollins on Being an Angeleno in New York (and Missing Joey Ramone)

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 Wednesday and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday ... More >>

Top 10 Strangest Rock Star Action Figures (In Honor of the "Hard Rock Barbie" Lawsuit)

Tiny Rockers! 10 Best Rock Star Action Figures (Not Including HorrorPops' Lawsuit Lovin Bassist)

Nightranger: Mo BET-ta Booze?

Music Picks: Baaba Maal, Snuffaluffagus & Rats, Carlene Carter and Friends, Country Throwdown

Also, Freestyle Fellowship, Bebe Buell, Billy Joe Shaver and others

Lusty for Life

Bob Dylan at the Palladium, Night One: A Change is Gonna Come

By Falling James "For years, they had me locked in a cage/Then they threw me onto the stage," Bob Dylan once sang/confessed/bragged/warned. "Some things just last longer than you thought they would." It's impressive that Bob Dylan is still touring heavily at the age of 68, but what's really amazin ... More >>

ROCK PICKS: CEU, GIRL IN A COMA, COLDPLAY, GRAVEYARD

Also, Amadou & Mariam,The Pains of Being Pure, Jason Collett, The Smithereens, and others.

Box of Broken Dreams: In Search of a Soul Lost and Found in L.A.

A young photographer's belongings are abandoned on a Hollywood street, leaving our writer to piece together the fragments of his life. Video extra: excerpts from a life on DVD

Wax On, Wax Off

Car wash, yeah; pole-dancing queen; photo Zone at Drkrm

Little Sister the Sky is Falling

Stories from a California girl FICTION

Come On, Feel the Boys

Boy-band vets all grow’d up

Killing the Angel in the House

With a major-label contract and a spot on the Lollapalooza tour, the Distillers are set to become big rock stars. How will Brody Armstrong tolerate the fame?

The Defiant Ones

Letters

Play It Loud, Real Real Loud

Mission of Burma's cluster bomb for a new millennium

Endless Vacation

Dee Dee Ramone, 1952–2002

Golden Girls

Loud and Proud

Remembering an American icon

The Year in Music

Stop the World

Joe Strummer’s rebel waltz

Perry Farrell's Mystical Musical Tour

The hedonist at 42

Puffy Stuff

Animal Boy

Joey Ramone leaves home

The Classics

Michael Chabon on reading Richard Yates

Joey Ramone

1951 - 2001

Ladymen at the Crossroads

Sleater-Kinney is more than your Joey Ramone

Shooting Off Sparks