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Joni Mitchell

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2013

    Austin Peralta's Death Was Fueled By Drugs and Alcohol, Says Coroner's Report

    Twenty-two-year-old virtuoso pianist Austin Peralta died shockingly the day before Thanksgiving. Until now, details of the final hours of his life have been mostly a mystery. See also: The Life and Death of Austin Peralta His coroner's report, obtained by West Coast Sound, states that viral pneumo ... More >>

  • Music

    February 28, 2013

    Lady Lazarus Rising

    Singer-songwriter Melissa Sweat released her inner artist through great trial and tribulation

  • Calendar

    January 31, 2013

    Ol' Blue Eyes is Back

    Singer-songwriter Melissa Sweat released her inner artist through great trial and tribulation

  • Calendar

    December 6, 2012

    A Down & Dirty Christmas

    Singer-songwriter Melissa Sweat released her inner artist through great trial and tribulation

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2012

    The Laurel Canyon Country Store's Inneresting Musical History

    The Canyon Country Store has been the makeshift cultural center of Laurel Canyon for a full century. Immortalized in the Doors song "Love Street," this deli-market is not a venue, but it's got historical music importance to spare, and continues to be -- as Jim Morrison put it -- the "store where the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2012

    The Best L.A. Albums 
So Far This Year

    We are impeccable thieves, transplanting artists both from burgs bearing but a single Waffle House and metropolises where they measure the cold in Celsius. Biggie credited the centripetal pull of L.A. to the weather, the women and the weed. The ability to work was implied. The city has been a music ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2012

    Top 10 Vintage and Second-Hand Boutiques in L.A.

    Whether you're looking for 1960s Peggy Moffitt mod couture or 1980s stonewashed denim castaways from the Valley, Los Angeles has a vintage and second-hand shopping scene that's bursting at the old-school seams. In a city known for making old things look fresher than they really are, its no surprise ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    Top Ten Best Historic Rock Clubs in L.A.

    For all the best of L.A. music, download our free Best Of Mobile app. See also: Top 10 Live Music Venues in L.A.: The Complete List L.A. has some of the best rock n' roll venues in the country. From the sparkly glam rock of the Sunset Strip to the grimy punk of dim little clubs in questionable ar ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 2, 2012

    I Wish They All Could Be California Bands

    For all the best of L.A. music, download our free Best Of Mobile app. See also: Top 10 Live Music Venues in L.A.: The Complete List L.A. has some of the best rock n' roll venues in the country. From the sparkly glam rock of the Sunset Strip to the grimy punk of dim little clubs in questionable ar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2012

    Bizarre Ride: Jeff Weiss's Five Los Angeles Music Archetypes

    [Editor's note: Longtime Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's new column, "Bizarre Ride," begins today. You can find it on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] The L.A. cliché is a war of shadow and light: fallen stars gone to seed, saccharine pop and gangsta rap. But this is 2012 and Dr. Dre is a headphone g ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 22, 2011

    HAPPY FUN TIME OF THE WEEK

    [Editor's note: Longtime Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's new column, "Bizarre Ride," begins today. You can find it on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] The L.A. cliché is a war of shadow and light: fallen stars gone to seed, saccharine pop and gangsta rap. But this is 2012 and Dr. Dre is a headphone g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    Henry Rollins: The Column! The Cool Sounds of September

    ​[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.] Now that we have been released from the grips of August and go deeper into September, I a ... More >>

  • Music

    August 11, 2011

    Music Picks: Linda Perhacs, Joni's Jazz, L.A. Phil, the Go-Go's

    Also, J*DaVey, the Decemberists, Dragon Head, Wye Oak and others

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2011

    Live Review: James Blake at the Troubadour

    Lainna FaderJames Blake​Who: James Blake Where: Troubadour When: 5/23/2011Last night's sold out Troubadour show marked the London-based, classically-trained dubstep producer's Los Angeles debut. "This venue has historic importance and I'm massively glad to be here," James Blake said, and so were w ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 2, 2010

    PETER AND GORDON AND EVERYBODY ELSE

    Lainna FaderJames Blake​Who: James Blake Where: Troubadour When: 5/23/2011Last night's sold out Troubadour show marked the London-based, classically-trained dubstep producer's Los Angeles debut. "This venue has historic importance and I'm massively glad to be here," James Blake said, and so were w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    Over the Weekend: Joanna Newsom at the Orpheum

    Gustavo TurnerDifficult? Complex? Nah, just one-of-a-kind: Joanna Newsom​Joanna Newsom presents a challenge for the reviewer. So much of music writing is anchored in comparison, from the facile (this artist is so-and-so meets so-and-so), to the workmanlike (placing the work in a general or par ... More >>

  • Stage

    April 22, 2010

    Theater Reviews: Dirty Pooh, L.A. Noir Unscripted, Looking for Trouble

    Also, My Sister in This House, Paved Paradise: The Art of Joni Mitchell and more

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Stage Raw: Dirty Pooh

    NEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE BOYS IN THE BAND AND SURVIVAL EXERCISENEW REVIEW GO DIRTY POOH​Photo courtesy of Zombie Joe's UndergroundHow does Zombie Joe's Underground make A.A. Milne's short story, "In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets Into a Tight Place," NSFW? When Winnie-the ... More >>

  • Stage

    December 24, 2009

    Theater Reviews: A RUBICON FAMILY CHRISTMAS, THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG, A VEGAS HOLIDAY! SONGS FROM LIVE AT THE SAHARA

    NEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE BOYS IN THE BAND AND SURVIVAL EXERCISENEW REVIEW GO DIRTY POOH​Photo courtesy of Zombie Joe's UndergroundHow does Zombie Joe's Underground make A.A. Milne's short story, "In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets Into a Tight Place," NSFW? When Winnie-the ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 24, 2009

    A Rubicon Family Christmas

    NEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE BOYS IN THE BAND AND SURVIVAL EXERCISENEW REVIEW GO DIRTY POOH​Photo courtesy of Zombie Joe's UndergroundHow does Zombie Joe's Underground make A.A. Milne's short story, "In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets Into a Tight Place," NSFW? When Winnie-the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2009

    Stage Raw: A Rubicon Family Christmas

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE on Palestine, New MexicoNEW REVIEW GO A RUBICON FAMILY CHRISTMAS ​Though Andy Williams and his fancy sweaters are nowhere to be seen, the Rubicon company misses little else this corny Christmas delight. Not a word of spoken ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2009

    Linda Perhacs to Perform Live, Debut New Song Tonight (And Five Other Moments of Canyon Bliss)

    For fans of semi-obscure Canyon folk music, tonight is a watershed moment. Linda Perhacs, whose single album from 1970s, Parallelograms, is a transcendent piece of Topanga beauty, will perform selections from the album for the first time ever. As well, she will debut a new song, the first she's unve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2009

    Phish to Take Over Coachella Site for Halloween Festival. Like, Whoa.

    Whoa. This could be huge! Billboard is reporting that Phish has announced a three-day festival called "Festival 8" at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio. Writes Billboard's Michael Ayers: After several weeks of speculation and a shape-shifting "Save the Date" map decorating its homepage, Phish h ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 26, 2009

    He Walked the Line; He Walked the Line

    Whoa. This could be huge! Billboard is reporting that Phish has announced a three-day festival called "Festival 8" at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio. Writes Billboard's Michael Ayers: After several weeks of speculation and a shape-shifting "Save the Date" map decorating its homepage, Phish h ... More >>

  • LA Life

    January 1, 2009

    The Worst Hoopla Ever!

    What to do in L.A., January 2-8

  • Music

    December 25, 2008

    Linda Perhacs' Parallel Universe

    How a Topanga dental hygienist who worked on Paul Newman's teeth created an acid-folk masterpiece (and one of the year's best reissues)

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2008

    USC Thornton School of Music Announces New Popular Music Performance Program

    Wanna be famous as a superstar musician? Learn how to bed groupies by the sheer force and magnetism of your stage strut? Find out which hallucinogens will help best develop the plot of your career-defining Concept Album? Before now, you'd have bang your head against your snare a few times, have to s ... More >>

  • Music

    October 2, 2008

    Brick's Picks: Connect With Your Inner Mingus

    Jazz in L.A., October 3-9

  • Music

    September 25, 2008

    A Half-Century of McCabe's Guitar Shop

    Little shop of adorers

  • Calendar

    June 19, 2008

    Shame

    Little shop of adorers

  • Music

    March 6, 2008

    Bjorkestra: An Army of Her

    18-piece jazz ensemble takes on our favorite Icelandic art-pop diva

  • Music

    November 8, 2007

    Fall Harvest

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

  • Music

    November 8, 2007

    Music

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

  • Music

    October 11, 2007

    Devendra Banhart Curls Up in Your Hand

    A wide-ranging interview on Tarot cards, Topanga Canyon, the tackiness of the "freak folk" label and his wonderous new album, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon

  • Art+Books

    July 19, 2007

    Must See Art

    Videos by Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn and “Radiant City”

  • Music

    March 29, 2007

    Take You Higher!

    Featuring Prince as Joni, Emo as jock-jam

  • News

    June 15, 2006

    The Circle Game

    ’70s girls inspired by Joni get their day in the sun via a new compilation

  • News

    June 15, 2006

    Back to the Garden

    The music and mythology of Laurel Canyon

  • LA Life

    May 11, 2006

    Mommies and Tommy's

    The music and mythology of Laurel Canyon

  • Film+TV

    April 20, 2006

    Film Reviews

    For the week of April 21-27

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2005

    Madame X

    The Santa Monica Museum is currently exhibiting a collection of  Exene Cervenka's journals, sketches, and assorted ephemera from the past several decades, and on Thursday night the lady herself gave a reading at the Bergamot Cafe next door. Still beautiful, the elementary school-teacher-by-day, ... More >>

  • News

    June 9, 2005

    Who is Your Musical Hero?

    The Santa Monica Museum is currently exhibiting a collection of  Exene Cervenka's journals, sketches, and assorted ephemera from the past several decades, and on Thursday night the lady herself gave a reading at the Bergamot Cafe next door. Still beautiful, the elementary school-teacher-by-day, ... More >>

  • Music

    July 22, 2004

    Goddesses

    The Santa Monica Museum is currently exhibiting a collection of  Exene Cervenka's journals, sketches, and assorted ephemera from the past several decades, and on Thursday night the lady herself gave a reading at the Bergamot Cafe next door. Still beautiful, the elementary school-teacher-by-day, ... More >>

  • News

    April 8, 2004

    The Contemporaries

    The Santa Monica Museum is currently exhibiting a collection of  Exene Cervenka's journals, sketches, and assorted ephemera from the past several decades, and on Thursday night the lady herself gave a reading at the Bergamot Cafe next door. Still beautiful, the elementary school-teacher-by-day, ... More >>

  • News

    April 8, 2004

    Solo Sax

    Plas Johnson and his eight-bar miracles

  • News

    April 8, 2004

    Time of the Session

    When the music was fast, and the players anonymous

  • News

    April 8, 2004

    South of Here

    Greg Leisz essays the roots

  • News

    January 6, 2000

    Letters

    Greg Leisz essays the roots

  • Art+Books

    December 16, 1999

    Blue Chips

    Joni Mitchell, Martin Mull, Herb Alpert

  • Art+Books

    May 28, 1998

    Marry Me Before I Get Fat

    Elizabeth Wurtzel wants to be bad, but not all by herself

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