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Fanatics! We Are Onto Something With This Playlist

RADIO BROADCAST #219 06-09-13 See also: Henry Rollins: The Interview! Anger, Drugs and the Black Flag Reunion Fanatics! Good grief, we are onto something with this playlist. Celebrating the Stooges being in Southern California this weekend, we will begin both hours with Raw Power tracks. Alas, t ... More >>

Fanatics! Sunday's Show Is Packed With Mix Tape Goodness

RADIO BROADCAST #215 05-12-13 Fanatics. I would like to thank the girls from Honest Marquee for giving us one of their new tracks for us to play. I think it's a great one. Sunday's show is packed with mix tape goodness and I think you're going to dig it. I want to thank you for all the letters yo ... More >>

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees Announced: N.W.A Was Fucking Slighted

The craptastic rock and roll hall of fame inductees were just announced. Here's who was nominated: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Chic Deep Purple Heart Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Albert King Kraftwerk The Marvelettes The Meters Randy Newman N.W.A Procol Harum Public Enemy Rush Donna Summer ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Bowie Fest

KCRW Broadcast #192 for Saturday, December 1, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: Coming to an End Fanatics! Here we go into December. A five Saturday month that allows for some serious concepting. I know I wrote you about our Bowie fest that we are about to start and so, tonight, we get to it. If yo ... More >>

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 >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Memphis on My Mind

[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.] Sitting on the tour bus, the Bon Jovi Mobile-Def Leppard Express (no offense to either corpora ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Cramps, Andy Warhol References

KCRW Broadcast #156 for Saturday, March 17, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Rebelling in Sweet Home Alabama Fanatics! I am writing you from what's left of a night off in Washington DC. I had a good day driving around town with Ian MacKaye. A few hours ago, we drove by the house where Min ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday

KCRW Broadcast #155 for Saturday, March 10, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Justice, Texas Style Fanatics! I am writing you from the backstage area of the House of Blues down here in Orlando FL. The next four shows are in the Sunshine State. So far, the US leg of the tour has been going ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Henry's Dedication to Jason Bentley

KCRW Broadcast #154 for Saturday, March 3, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Alone in My Man Box, Listening to Al Green Fanatics! Here we are, once again all together. As many of you probably know, I am already on the road again and this is a pre-taped show that Engineer X, Will "The Doub ... More >>

Dave Grohl "Clarifies" Grammy Speech After We Call Him Out For Sounding Like an Anti-EDM Geezer

Jena Ardell​Guess we hit a nerve when we called out Dave Grohl for his anti-EDM Grammy Awards acceptance speech. Besides tons of hate mail (our favorite told us to " ... go eat a bag of dicks") and some support (Moby's former manager noted we were there when that real punk rocker went electro ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Henry's Ode to Winter

KCRW Broadcast #151 for Saturday, February 11, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! I'm Not Dead Yet Fanatics! Cold much? Scandinavia has all the cold you could ever want. I am sitting in the airport in Helsinki, Finland, waiting for a flight to Frankfurt. From there we will go to Linz, Austr ... More >>

I Spent Friday Night Drinking Beer and Seeing Bands at the Zoo

Ben WesthoffThe Steelwells​My wife and I went to "Brew at the Zoo" on Friday night. We and scads of beer aficionados -- which I call bullshit on, but more on that later -- sampled "craft" beers, peered at animals and saw some music. It wasn't Friday night jazz at LACMA, but it was something. ... More >>

Nite Jewel - Hard Rock Cafe - 8/10/11

Sam BlochRamona Gonzalez of Nite Jewel​Nite Jewel Hard Rock Café Hollywood 8/10/11 Better Than: A school night concert at Fresno's Tokyo Garden. I wasn't at the first installment of LA Weekly's RE:Play LA series, but unfortunately this week's edition, with Ramona Gonzalez of adult contempor ... More >>

Bring in Da Kraut Funk: Nite Jewel Performs Tomorrow for Re:Play L.A.

Justin LoyNite Jewel​Ramona Gonzalez, aka Nite Jewel, was the first artist we considered here at LA Weekly when putting together our Re:Play L.A. series, which consists of four local indie artists covering their favorite classic albums, for free, at the Hard Rock Cafe on Hollywood Boulevard. ... More >>

Nite Jewel on performing Kraftwerk's Computerworld in L.A. Weekly Re:Play L.A. Series

Top 10 Unmissable Bands Inexplicably Hidden on the Coachella 2011 Poster

Top 10 Unmissable "Small Type" Acts of Coachella 2011

Top 10 Cover Songs of 2010

Top 10 Cover Songs of 2010

The Vegetable Orchestra Plays With Their Food

The Vegetable Orchestra Plays With Their Food

A Heartwarming Coming of Age Story, Featuring Kraftwerk

​ Last week we told you about the "Henry Rollins/Glenn Danzig as a loving gay couple" minicomic. This week we found another little gem at Secret Headquarters: A Very Kraftwerk Summer. Premise: a young teen feels alienated in his crappy hometown until one magical summer when four red-and-bla ... More >>

West Coast Sound Interviews Underworld on Eve of Hard Summer 2009

​ With roots that reach back to the dawn of the Reagan Administration, Underworld is one of the longest surviving electronic dance bands in history, outlasted only by the likes of Kraftwerk (which, frankly, isn't really Kraftwerk without Florian Schneider, who left the act in January). You wo ... More >>

Synthpop and Hi-NRG Star Stacey Q Returns with a New Album, Live Dates

SSQ "Synthicide" In the early-1980s, a group of Southern California musicians channeled their love of Kraftwerk and The Plastics into Q, a short-lived synthpop studio project that quickly morphed into SSQ. The band was a unique presence amidst LA's musical landscape, where, despite the popularity ... More >>

Depeche Mode on Hollywood Blvd: Jimmy Kimmel Live Gig Stops Traffic

View more pics in the Depeche Mode slideshow here. Timothy NorrisHollywood Babylon: Depeche Mode clogs up the corridor. By Paul Rogers Face it, Depeche Mode are a duo. Sure, the English electro-pop vets have that other bloke hanging about, manning his hi-tech station with all the panache of a t ... More >>

SXSSXSW Day 4/Days Late (Pt. 1): On Rap/Rock, The Legacy of the Beasties, and Asher Roth Vs. The Knux

Other than freshman Delta Sigma Theta rushes at Cal-State Chico, no substrata of the American population has worse taste in rock than rappers. Sure, your little brother likes Fall Out Boy, but eventually, he's going to grow up and discover The Clash, then weed, then hopefully Junior Murvin and Lee ... More >>

Beards, Blazers & Glasses: How Fujiya & Miyagi Helped Mitigitate My Pre-Election Anxiety

Larry David articulated the maddening, finger-nail gnawing, pre-election neuroses far better than I can, so no need to reiterate. This final descent towards election day has been excruciating for us all, to the point where it’s nearly impossible to talk about anything else. Hell, on Friday nigh ... More >>

Detour Dance Party: Cut Copy, Hercules and Love Affair, Silent Disco Caught on Video

Despite foreboding clouds and a few rounds of mist-like rain, dancing began in the early afternoon at this year’s Detour Festival and continued until the witching hour. For much of the day, the electronic grooves were confined to the courtyard of City Hall, where DJs like Paparazzi and Kid Lightn ... More >>

Arabian Prince: A Jheri Blossoms

Electro pioneer who quit N.W.A weeks before Compton now makes beats for Grand Theft Auto

Matmos and Wobbly, Echoplex, July 13, 2008

Matmos, with Wobbly, at the Echoplex on July 13, 2008 (All photos by Timothy Norris) The tear that collected in my left eye was a long time coming, and began clouding my vision around three minutes into “Supreme Balloon, the 24-minute climax of the Matmos’ most recent album of the same name. I ... More >>

Coachella Day Two: The Triumvirate of Kraftwerk, Portishead and Prince

The Coachella mainstage on Saturday night was a glory to behold, a spirit-lifting evening celebrating joy through technology, through contemplation and through celebration. In a single four hour chunk of time, the lucky masses at Coachella witnessed two-and-a-half humongous performances, two of whic ... More >>

Bob the Lefsetz vs. Antony & the Johnsons. ALSO, some words about Coachella.

Why we love Antony and why we hate Coachella.

Coachella '08 Set Times Announced

You can complain all you want about Coachella 2008's roster, but the reality that I'll be seeing Kraftwerk followed by Portishead followed by Prince on Saturday night is pretty frickin' exciting. Don't forget your sunscreen.

Former Kraftwerk and Neu! percussionist Klaus Dinger dies

You've heard the Motorik beat, one of the seminal rhythms of the late 20ths century. Created in the early 1970s by Dusseldorf, Germany percussionist Klaus Dinger, the Motorik beat over the past thirty years has become of the essential rhythms of our time. Dinger died last week, though his thoroughly ... More >>

LCD Soundsystem

Review of Sound of Silver

Must See Art

Markus Amm and Sue Willilams

Summer Songs, Blues Hollers and Genre Actions

Myspace Taste of the Week

I'd like to think that I'm way more popular in real life than I am on Myspace. I've only got like 50 friends, but that's probably because I only say yes to requests from peeps who truly are friends. Call me a weirdo. Anyway, the pals I do have, happen to have thousands of friends and way too much ... More >>

Don’t Go Away Mad, Just Go Away

Man-Machines of Loving Grace

Kraftwerk return!

Rock in Total Retrograde!

How do you solve a problem like the Mars Volta?

Gimme Sheltered

Post-revolutionary Patti

Coachella 2004

They Don’t Make 'Em Like That Anymore

The Neptunes Don't Front

Future Sounds

Death Mix 2001

Music of the Heart and Other Organs

You can’t dance to everything

Motor City Breakdown

Freeways’ hot fahren in the summertime

The Body Electric

Warrior saints from a microhard world

Minstrels at the Crossroads

To live and love the blues

Dance Kontrol

Let’s have sex on the beach. Or not.

Third Ear

Bossa Nova Hunchback Corpses on the Moon