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Music Picks: Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge, and Anthrax

The Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, March 4 Jenny O THE SATELLITE Jenny O's just-out new album, Automechanic (on Holy Trinity/Thirty Tigers), is another strong contribution to L.A.'s new-school canyon-country scene. Produced by the supremely versatile Jonathan Wilson, it fits perfectly alongside Father John Misty's recent Fea ... More >>

The Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, January 11 Carolyn Edwards, Adam Marsland TAIX As leader of both Spindle and 3D Picnic and a longtime member of The Negro Problem, Carolyn Edwards is one of the best and brightest musicians in Silver Lake's indie-pop underground, but she reveals the full breadth of her talent through her so ... More >>

Music Picks: Chino XL, Marissa Nadler, As Blood Runs Black

Friday, January 11 Carolyn Edwards, Adam Marsland TAIX As leader of both Spindle and 3D Picnic and a longtime member of The Negro Problem, Carolyn Edwards is one of the best and brightest musicians in Silver Lake's indie-pop underground, but she reveals the full breadth of her talent through her so ... More >>

The Top 10 L.A. Albums of 2012

Los Angeles music was a big part of the national conversation this year, from Frank Ocean and Miguel's artisan R&B to Top Dawg Entertainment's hip-hop dominance to the electronic inspirations of Flying Lotus and Gaslamp Killer. Picking but ten albums from this crop as the West Coast Sound writers ha ... More >>

Music Picks: R. Kelly, Leonard Cohen, Cat Power

Los Angeles music was a big part of the national conversation this year, from Frank Ocean and Miguel's artisan R&B to Top Dawg Entertainment's hip-hop dominance to the electronic inspirations of Flying Lotus and Gaslamp Killer. Picking but ten albums from this crop as the West Coast Sound writers ha ... More >>

The Best Concerts To See in L.A. This Week: Oct. 15-18

Monday, October 15 Joyce Manor CENTER FOR THE ARTS, EAGLE ROCK South Bay punk-pop band Joyce Manor have gone from house parties to festival shows pretty damn quick, but what can you do? They have charisma, hooks, the decorum you need to keep going even when your fans get obsessive, and of course th ... More >>

Music Picks: Neil Young, Aimee Mann, Low End Theory Anniversary

Monday, October 15 Joyce Manor CENTER FOR THE ARTS, EAGLE ROCK South Bay punk-pop band Joyce Manor have gone from house parties to festival shows pretty damn quick, but what can you do? They have charisma, hooks, the decorum you need to keep going even when your fans get obsessive, and of course th ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, September 24 Lavender Diamond THE ECHO Lavender Diamond are back, and they come in peace, as usual, and also with synthesizers, which is a bit more unusual. The heartbroke piano-folk they made on their one-and-a-half beautiful albums about five years ago is still there on the new Incorrupti ... More >>

Music Picks: Dublab Anniversary, Ladyhawke, Flying Lotus

Monday, September 24 Lavender Diamond THE ECHO Lavender Diamond are back, and they come in peace, as usual, and also with synthesizers, which is a bit more unusual. The heartbroke piano-folk they made on their one-and-a-half beautiful albums about five years ago is still there on the new Incorrupti ... More >>

FYF Fest - Los Angeles State Historic Park - September 1, 2012

Refused, Warpaint, The Vaselines, and others FYF Fest Los Angeles State Historic Park September 1, 2012 See also: F-Yeah! It's the 2012 FYF Quiz! Better than: Any cookout ever. Braving choking dust clouds, oppressive sunlight and the inevitable game of PortaJohn Roulette ought to deliver an eart ... More >>

Music Picks: Rusko, HARD Summer, SMOD

Also, Beachwood Sparks, Jesca Hoop, Ravi Coltrane and others

Nostalghia Listened to Their Album While on Acid and Thought They Were Going to Die

Iranian singer Ciscandra Nostalghia doesn't like to talk about where she's from. "It's a personal thing for me. I moved from my mother's womb to Earth and ended up in a couple of places. Now I'm here for a short while," she says. It made sense, then, that a year and a half ago, she posted a request ... More >>

Five Must-See L.A. Bands at SXSW

Initially a place where music executives could check out a bunch of emerging bands in the span of a few days, SXSW has become the spring break of the music biz. Bands from all over the globe descend on Austin hoping to convince the masses they're the next big thing. While megastars like Bruce Spring ... More >>

5 Best Songs From John Hughes Films

Breakfast Club scene from the musical revue For the Record: John Hughes (Holiday Road)​If you were alive in the 1980's, chances are that the films of John Hughes have worked their way into your memory and/or heart. Whether it was that kiss over cake in Sixteen Candles, that never ending detent ... More >>

Morrissey & Kristeen Young - The Shrine Auditorium - 11-26-11

Timothy Norris​See also: Our Morrissey slideshow Morrissey & Kristeen Young The Shrine Auditorium 11-26-11 Better than ... walking down Hoover in a blue-&-gold Bruins shirt after the big game. For a person who once famously declared that he was celibate, Steven Patrick Morrissey is clearly ... More >>

Zola Jesus Brings Her Unsettled and Prickly Vision to L.A.

Timothy Norris​See also: Our Morrissey slideshow Morrissey & Kristeen Young The Shrine Auditorium 11-26-11 Better than ... walking down Hoover in a blue-&-gold Bruins shirt after the big game. For a person who once famously declared that he was celibate, Steven Patrick Morrissey is clearly ... More >>

So & So - Viper Room - 9/7/11

Danielle BacherSo & So Viper Room September 7, 2011 Better than: Being stuck in a steam room with 98.7 FM on the radio.Los Angeles-based folk-rockers So & So performed a triumphant gig at the center of a nuclear reactor last night. . . oh, wait. It was actually the Viper Room, which se ... More >>

Music Picks: Elvis Costello & the Imposters, Prince, Ricky Martin, Carrie Rodriguez, The Low Anthem, Mogwai

Also, Gutbucket Chamber Orchestra, Pegi Young, Mike Stinson and others

Countdown to Records Store Day: We Found Sasha Grey's Favorite Record Store!

​ Wombleton Records sells an amazing collection of rare- and not-so-rare imports--though its stated mission is to further cultural exchange between Los Angeles and Glasgow, it does all that and more carrying everything from Suzy Quattro and Zounds LP's to original pressings of Dutch freakbeat ... More >>

Readers Respond to Mick Karn's Death, Plus the Bassist's Cover of David Bowie's "Ashes to Ashes"

Ohconfucius via Wikimedia Commons​ Mick Karn may not have been famous, at least not in the celebrity gossip column sense of the word, but he was well-known and, more importantly, well-respected. Since the 1970s, the bassist, who sadly passed away yesterday after a battle with cancer, Karn had ... More >>

Mick Karn, Bassist for Synth Heroes Japan and Peter Murphy's Dalis Car, Dead at 52

[Updated with reaction to Karn's passing. First posted at 12:27 p.m.] Ohconfucius via Wikimedia Commons​Mick Karn, best known as the bassist for influential synth pop outfit Japan died on January 4 at the age of 52. The following is the statement from his website: It's with profound sadness ... More >>

Teena Marie, LA Legend of '70s and '80s Soul and Funk, Dead at 54

The Ivory Queen Of Soul​Born in Santa Monica and raised as the white girl with soul, Teena Marie celebrated the 30th anniversary of her recording career last year with a string of lively performances, including one at the L.A. County Fair. The Ivory Queen was Rick James' protege, starred on Th ... More >>

Watch: Nada Surf Debut "Electrocution" Vid Before Two-Night Run at the Troubadour

Peter Ellenby​Optimistic rockers Nada Surf begin a two-night stint at the Troubadour tonight in support of their sixth album, if i had a hi-fi (palindrome alert). The record, in stores June 8, is actually a covers collection rounding up work by artists as disparate as Kate Bush, Arthur Russel ... More >>

West African Get Down with Polyrhythmic Songstress Wunmi

West African Get Down with Polyrhythmic Songstress Wunmi

Give Up!: Top Five Sad Songs, Picked by Dublab's Frosty and Dntel

Just give up. Do it.​Mark "Frosty" McNeil will be spinning at "GIVE UP -- stop dancing and cry...," dublab's regular "dj's-on-a -bummer" night at the Hyperion Tavern this coming Sunday, March 21st. WCS interviewed him this week about this peculiar event. What is "Give Up"? Give Up is an expl ... More >>

Little Boots Dragonette and Class Actress @ the El Rey (3/10), Also Tonight in Pomona

Little Boots, with openers Class Actress and Dragonette, will be appearing tonight at the Glass House in Pomona. Last Wednesday, the diminutive dance diva from Lancashire, UK headlined the same bill at the El Rey, where she attracted a fairly typical West Hollywood crowd of young professionals and ... More >>

Rock Picks: GZA, the Ettes, A.A. Bondy, Mose Allison

Also, the Kris Special, Jesse Sykes, Mamak Khadem and others

Manimal at the Echo, Week Two: Loving Thunder, Rainbow Arabia, Jessica 6, We Are the World

Night number two of Manimal Vinyl's Echo residency began with its feet planted on the ground and worked its way up the body. Loving Thunder's loud metal-ish music loosened toes, Rainbow Arabia rapped knees using tropical percussion, Jessica 6 sent blood rushing to the pelvis, and then We Are The Wor ... More >>

The French Invade L.A.: Sébastien Tellier, Gonzales, Nouvelle Vague, Emilie Simon, and More

What's that wafting this way? The stink of well-aged cheese? A ripe bouquet of sex and spilled wine? The craven stench of wartime neutrality? It's far too easy to skewer the French for a cheap laugh, which might help explain why the Consulate General Of France In Los Angeles and the French Embassy h ... More >>

The 50 Best Albums of the Year (#30-21) (Sponsored By Medieval Times)

You better believe they serve Pepsi at Medieval Times. 30. Los Campesinos-Hold On Now, Youngster (Wichita/Arts and Crafts) Gareth Campesinos and Co. clearly grew up not just liking music but being obsessed by bands, and they've done the only honourable thing you can in that position: they've ... More >>

Record Reviews: The Knux, Robin Thicke, Gang Gang Dance

You better believe they serve Pepsi at Medieval Times. 30. Los Campesinos-Hold On Now, Youngster (Wichita/Arts and Crafts) Gareth Campesinos and Co. clearly grew up not just liking music but being obsessed by bands, and they've done the only honourable thing you can in that position: they've ... More >>

CD Review: Daphne Carr on TV on the Radio's Dear Science

Dear Science is a letter on compassion, freedom, great sex, redress, and the end of war. It demands these things unqualified even when it stumbles with awkward metaphors and bulky Latinates. As the album following their 2004 masterpiece, the modest frequency of vivid images rendered rich in sound ... More >>

Rock Picks: Detour Music Festival, Dandy Warhols, David Byrne, Die Rockers Die

Also, Henry Butler, Deerhoof, Eagle Rock Music Festival, Global Drum Project

Music Sales Sink to 1985 Levels. Did 1985 Really Suck or Something?

Sure, the papers are full of stories of gas prices shooting up and housing prices plummeting, but those are new phenomena compared to the steady declines in the fortunes of the record industry. The latest sales numbers show a decrease of 11% over last year - and that includes legal digital downloads ... More >>

Music Picks: Black Heart Procession, Vandelles, Minnie Driver, Ronnie Mack

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Patrick Wolf's The Magic Position

The tortured Brit boy finds love, new pop life

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I Art the '80s

Pettibon, Ocampo, Foulkes, Rath and Deen at Track 16; Herman at INMO

We Feel This Concert Billing Is Somewhat Phallic

Morningwood, with Head Automatica at the Roxy, January 27

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Morningwood, with Head Automatica at the Roxy, January 27

Most Compulsively Watchable Self-Tortured (and Otherwise) Singer-Pianists of 2005

Morningwood, with Head Automatica at the Roxy, January 27

Dead End Kids, Celebrity Air and Scandinavians — Especially Norwegians

Morningwood, with Head Automatica at the Roxy, January 27

Let’s Roll!

Fun with gravity on our city’s finest grassy hills

Small Revolt

The Futureheads take over, one listener at a time

Let’s Get Small

Back to the future with Laurie Anderson & Ed Ruscha

Goddesses

Back to the future with Laurie Anderson & Ed Ruscha

Booty Recall

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