Joy Division

When Goths Go to Disneyland

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week If you go to Disneyland on Sunday, May 5, and find yourself surrounded by kids of all shades of pale, looking as sinister as the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, don't be alarmed. It's just Bats Day in the Fun Park, the annual Magic ... More >>

New Order - Coachella - April 13, 2013

New Order Coachella April 13,2013 While over at the main stage the bulk of the Coachella crowd was enduring Phoenix with the hope that Daft Punk would come out -- they instead got R. Kelly -- a smaller but perhaps-more-enthusiastic crowd got a first-rate greatest hits set from New Order last night. ... More >>

Culture Collide Festival - Zola Jesus, Resplandor - 10/5/2012

Zola Jesus, Dean Wareham, Resplandor, The Balconies Culture Collide Festival 10/5/2012 Better Than... losing the last round of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? on live TV. Friendly folks came to Echo Park this weekend from far flung places to play the Culture Collide festival. Sure, there ... More >>

Music Picks: As Blood Runs Black, Kelly Hogan, Regina Spektor

Also, Agalloch, Antibalas, Power of the Riff and others

Tyler Shields: Warhol or Wannabe?

Ominous glitz of a controversial celebrity photographer

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Procedure Club, Horrors

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #124 for Saturday, July 23. Fanatics! Another week, another great show lined up for you! I am listening down to the songs at this moment and it's going to be an excellent night of jams. I wanted to make a show that rocked out but had some quiet dynamics. I am r ... More >>

Sunday is World Goth Day! DJ Cruel Britannia and Martin Oldgoth on "Darkly-Inclined Lifestyles"

World Goth Day​Did you know that May 22 is World Goth Day? Yes, it's true. The annual celebration of the international goth scene began in 2009 and was spearheaded by two U.K. DJs, DJ Cruel Britannia and martin oldgoth (intentionally all lowercase). It began with a day of special programming o ... More >>

Music Picks: Stiff Little Fingers, CunninLynguists, The Nubians, System of a Down

Houses, Aloe Blacc, Krautrock Nite, The Radio Dept. and others

Storm Thorgerson at John Varvatos

Legendary designer has created conceptual album cover photographs for bands from Pink Floyd to Mars Volta

Ke$ha Gets Sleazy at the Hollywood Palladium (Fans, Midriffs and Glitter Galore!)

Jena ArdellKe$ha loves you, L.A.​ [Originally published Saturday, May 7, 8:38AM] [Commentary by Dave Parkman] What: Ke$ha Where: Hollywood Palladium When: Fri. 5/6/2011 Ke$ha brought her Get Sleazy tour last night to the Hollywood Palladium. Openers were HAIM and Beardo. Here are some phot ... More >>

Music Picks: The Psychedelic Furs, Orgone, Raekwon, Beach Fossils, The Raveonettes

Also, Thao & Mirah, Sun Araw, Cass McCombs, Trinket and others

Henry Rollins! The Column: Spring Time for Henry

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 >>

David J's Black Dahlia

The brains behind Bauhaus and Love and Rockets, conjures up his own L.A. noir

Speak Softly, Drive a German Tank: Lemmy Kilmister at His Documentary Film Opening

Henry Rollins Column: Rollins on the Attempted Political Assassination and Massacre in Tucson

Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins contirbutes 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 Monday and make sure to tune in to He ... More >>

Is This The Real Life?: Henry Rollins on Feeling Lonely in LA, His Utilitarian Hovel and the Respective Geniuses of Fela Kuti, Marnie Stern and Keiji Heino

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 >>

The American: As American as Existential Dread

Anton Corbijn turns the tried-and-true thriller inward

Cold Cave Does Southern California, Plays the Glass House & Echoplex, 'Guest Curates' Origami Vinyl (w/ Free Colt 45)

Up-and-coming darkwave sensation Cold Cave are in town. Tonight they will be appearing at the Echoplex, for a sure-to-be-packed show in their natural habitat. Last night, however, the band ventured out for a preview to Pomona, where they played the far less hipsterastic Glass House venue. If you ha ... More >>

New Year's Eve in LA: Bubbly and Bumpin' In the Clubs with Arabian Prince, Hang the DJs, Part Time Punks and More

The year -and decade- are done, and the city's biggest, most buzzed about New Year's Eve bashes (Hard, Giant, Gridlock) are either out of your budget or out of your comfort zone. The house party of a good friend -with lots of other good friends- might be optimal this Thursday night, but we think we' ... More >>

Straight Outta Chocolate's Rock N' Roll Cakes: Joy Division & Iggy Pop, In Chocolate

Want an homage of your favorite rock star? Try a cake depicting Iggy Pop, Dr. Dre or Debbie Harry--in chocolate. Baker, chocolatier and DJ (at Highland Park's Footsies) Kate Steffens specializes in rock n' roll cakes, with musicians depicted in tempered chocolate which she works into elaborate portr ... More >>

Rock Picks: Daedelus, Peanut Butter Wolf, Femi Kuti, Isis

Also, The Choke, Nouvelle Vague, Wilco, Sunset Rubdown and others

The Day the Music Died: The End of Indie 103.1

Henry Rollins, music director Mark "Mr. Shovel" Sovel and DJ Darren Revell talk about the shutdown

Houston Press' Top 10 Reissues of 2008

By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionall ... More >>

KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas, Night 2: Vampire Weekend, Snow Patrol, Scott Weiland, Franz Ferdinand, Death Cab For Cutie, Paramore, The Killers, The Cure

By Siran Babayan (All photos by Timothy Norris. Click images for entire KROQ slideshow.) In my worst nightmare, the Cure would be upstaged by Kanye West. Yes, the two would share a bill; West making a surprise appearance and leaving the crowd in a frenzy, the Cure headlining the show and making ... More >>

Norwegian Pie: Joachim Trier's Reprise

These guys want to get laid and get somewhere

Coachella Day One: Walk the Line

I hate lines. They're somewhere in the lower rungs of my own personal inferno along with club kids in fedoras, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the abstract concept of valet parking. Unfortunately, entering Coachella brings me into contact with three of those four food groups as quite often, while wai ... More >>

White Williams, Magic Bullets, Echo 1/27

White Williams, Magic Bullets The Blakes, Tribal Tats The Echo, Jan. 27 How do people in Seattle do it? It's downright cold tonight, and raining so much that a good sized river flows along Sunset Boulevard. The Echo hasn't opened its doors yet, despite it being more than half an hour from the post ... More >>

Gallery Roundup: Liebowitz, Beshty, Hoshino, Bon

Leviathans, vessels and bees

Chromeo: Stop Listening to Joy Division

Sound of silver

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Shit, Forgot the Drugs

She Wants Revenge at El Rey Theater, January 20

Busking for Stardom

What matters for buzz bands these days is becoming the next blog thing

Tough Guys, Effete Snobs and Mad Women

Introducing Europa Editions

Attention, Skaters With Visa Cards!

Site Pacific

Two Russian classics get L.A.’d

Weddings & Funerals

The Arcade Fire tap into all the bliss running wild underneath

Abloom’s Day

The future of heaviness

Celebrity Justice: Winnobega Driver, Estrella

Cease to Exist

The opening of Genesis P-Orridge

This Band Could Be Your Film

Jamming with car alarms in the dark

Pure Class

Wavebreakers

Like a Rhinestone Preacher

Nick Cave survives and surpasses

Cool Schmool

N*E*R*D want theirs

Under Desert Skies

Beachwood Sparks, sons of the pioneers

Sunshine Superman

Louis Philippe's music for libertines

For You Blue