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What Is Ayahuasca and Why Is Everyone Singing About It?

Ever heard of ayahuasca? It's an ancient medicinal plant that has become trendy of late, particularly in Los Angeles. It's not uncommon to overhear ladies at Soho House discussing their transcendental experience with the substance, which is consumed as a thick, almost chocolatey tea and comes from ... More >>

Dance Club Pick: Designer Drugs Within Reach

Coachella Lineup Announced: We Told You Odd Future Was in There!

​This is the official press release: Coachella 2011. Music. Art. Culture. Community. With the Coachella line-up announcement serving as the official kick-off to the annual U.S. festival season, festival organizers Goldenvoice can now reveal details for the 2011 Coachella Valley Music & Art ... More >>

Music Picks: Nicole Eva Emery, Hard NYE, Peter and the Wolf,

Also, Jesus Makes the Shotgun Sound, Octavius, Cosmologic and others

DJ Q&A: Simian Mobile Disco Says L.A. Club Scene Needs To Get A Grip On 'Twin Evils Of Bottle Service And Photo Blogging' (Indeed)

SMD is headed to MIB in L.A.​The nu-electro revolution. Boy, that came and went fast. Case in point: British act Simian Mobile Disco, which has moved on to that boom-tss dance-floor sound known as ... techno. You'd have to drag us kicking and screaming to see Steve Aoki or Shiny Toy Guns. But ... More >>

And the Jukebox Sailed On

KROQ brings back everyone's favorite Sex Pistol radio jock. Will they allow Steve Jones to be his burpy self?

This weekend: Klaxons, Chapterhouse, the Besnard Lakes, Maroon 5, Caribou, Jack Johnson, Liz Phair, Tom Tom Club, the Weepies

The Besnard Lakes​The Culture Collide festival, which kicked off Thursday night at five venues in Silver Lake, Echo Park and downtown, is making for some wonderful daze in the neighborhood. The brainchild of Filter music mag, the inaugural event has imported bands from more than a dozen natio ... More >>

Music Picks: Liz Phair, the Weepies, Tom Tom Club, Evan Voytas

Also, the Lee Boys, Klaxons, Macy Gray, Eels and others

FILTER Magazine's Inaugural Culture Collide Festival

vegasandfood/FlickrTakoyaki from Takoyaki Tanota, an L.A.-based food truck turning out for FILTER's Culture Collide Festival​ FILTER Magazine's first annual Culture Collide Music Festival is merely two weeks away, and already we're imagining what we'll be eating. Although music festivals are ... More >>

Klaxons, Sebastien Tellier, Black Lips, Tokyo Police Club Confirmed for Filter Mag's 'Culture Collide' Fest

Klaxons, Sebastien Tellier, Black Lips, Tokyo Police Club Confirmed for Filter Mag's 'Culture Collide' Fest

Over the Weekend: Chemical Brothers at the Hollywood Bowl

Timothy NorrisWine, cheese and blockrockin' beats: The Chemical Brothers at the Hollywood Bowl​ LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip, Klaxons and all other dance-rockers currently carving a profitable niche owe a debt of gratitude to electronica's "Born Slippy"-era--namely the holy trinity of stadium DJs ... More >>

Live Review: Empire of the Sun at the Music Box

Debi del GrandeShogun club: Empire of the Sun​After finally hitting U.S. soil in Chicago for Lollapalooza and New York this month, outer space-via-Australia electro-rockers Empire of the Sun landed at the Music Box on Wednesday for the first of four nights, playing their 2008 Astralwerks debut ... More >>

Black Lips, Klaxons, and Sea Wolf to Play Filter Magazine's 'Culture Collide' Festival

Black Lips, Klaxons, and Sea Wolf to Play Filter Magazine's 'Culture Collide' Festival

Music Picks: Goldfrapp, Concrete Blonde, Sally Seltmann, Black Francis

Also, Electric Daisy Carnival, the Adicts, Lou Barlow and others

Guest Blogger Jason Reitman IDs Some of His Favorite Cover Songs

Editor's note. This week director Jason Reitman is guest blogging at West Coast Sound. Reitman, whose new film, Up in the Air, was nominated for six Golden Globes yesterday (including Best Director and Best Screenplay nominations for Reitman ... congrats!), is also a pretty big music head, as you'll ... More >>

Rock Picks: THE JOE KROWN TRIO, THE FIERY FURNACES, THE LILYS, MR. GNOME

Also, Simian Mobile Disco, Wolfmother, El Perro del Mar and others

Rock Picks: Rain Machine, Pearl Jam, Wallpaper, Bon Iver, Dodos

Also, Seasons, Brodinski, Autolux and others

LA's New Robotics: L.A. Riots, Guns N Bombs, Caxsio and Others Are Revolutionizing the City's Dance Clubs

Screw the hazy, lazy indie-rock tunes of Silver Lake; the biggest L.A. revolution is happening in the clubs

Midnight Juggernauts, Holy Ghost and Disco Legend Nicky Siano

Live in L.A.: Pop Levi and the Parson Red Heads at the Echo, August 15

Pop Levi and the Parson Red Heads at the Echo, August 15 Photos by Timothy Norris I'm kinda obsessed with this Pop Levi guy right now, and finally saw him Friday night at the Echo during week three of his residency. I tried to catch him on week one, and showed up at 10 o'clock thinking, 'cool, go ... More >>

Rock Picks: 88BoaDrum, Projekt Revolution, Juana Molina

Also, Flosstradamus, Bigelf, The Crystelles

Rock Picks: Peanut Butter Wolf, Serj Tankian, Conor Oberst

Also, Carrie Rodriguez, Dolly Parton, Buddy Guy, and more

Beards, Blazers & Glasses, Or Yeasayer, The Indie Spin Doctors

Yeasayer are a jam band, they just aren't aware of it yet. At one point during the Brooklyn four-piece's set Saturday night at the Echoplex, lead singer Chris Keating even paused to extemporaneously inform the crowd that "people call us hippies, but that's just not true. We're from Baltimore." Thi ... More >>

Are You Not Devo? You Are Mutato

How Mark Mothersbaugh, an Agent of De-Evolution, wormed his way into America’s subconscious

Mix and Mash

Neighborhood Music Fest and Nocturnal Festival

Twinkle Toes

Last Night: The Klaxons at the El Rey

The Klaxons El Rey Theatre, July 10, 2007 By Sandy Kanphantha It's almost like any other night at the El Rey. Lines are stretched along the side of the building. Giddy and shivering cold concert attendees waiting to get inside. But last night, Klaxons brought the heat in L.A. at the sold out show ... More >>

Rock Picks

For the week of July 5 - 11

Nightranger: Mi Casa vs. Su Casa

The Deadly Syndrome

“We stand around and smash stuff”

Coachella And the Cure for the Common Festivalitis

Anti-Gravity Rainbow

The Klaxons' Myths of the Near Future

Rock Picks

For the week of March 15 - 22