Latin Music

Levitt Pavilions: Summer Lineups Announced

The Levitt Pavilions have announced their schedules, so you know what that means: It's summer! In an exclusive to West Coast Sound, the Levitt Pavilion Los Angeles in MacArthur Park and Levitt Pavilion Pasadena in Memorial Park have released their full lineups, with shows held throughout June, July ... More >>

Cinco de Mayo Food Drink Specials

Cinco de Mayo is on this coming Sunday, but some restaurants around town are offering specials in food and drink leading up to the day Mexico gained victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. We highlighted a few events in town for you to check out what's in store over the next ... More >>

Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Moves to Sunday Nights

See also: Henry Rollins: Dead Children in Afghanistan KCRW BROADCAST #212 04-21-13 Fanatics! Our show has moved, or that is to say, has been moved by forces much, much greater than The Big Three and now we find ourselves on Sunday nights from 8 to 10 pm. The wisdom or lack thereof shall make itsel ... More >>

What Music Do Immigrant Janitors Listen To? And Other Questions at L.A.'s EMP Conference

The Seattle-based EMP Pop Conference -- Shangri-La for music nerds -- has this year split into five regional ones, and the Los Angeles incarnation starts tonight. Musicians, scholars, and music writers from all over Southern California will discuss and debate, with specific focus on everything from ... More >>

Top 4 Weekend Food Events: Fiesta Fridays, Chinese New Year Festival, Cupcakes and Cocktails MSG Pop-Up

Fiesta Fridays Every third Friday of the month, food vendors set up shop at the weekly Boyle Heights farmers market at Mariachi Plaza. Live music from singers, bands and DJs completes the fiesta. WHAT: Fiesta Fridays WHEN: Friday, Feb. 15, 5-10 p.m. WHERE: Mariachi Plaza,1836 E. First St., Boyle Hei ... More >>

Be Dead or Be Square

Music Picks: Charli XCX, Polica, Esperanza Spalding and More

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: L.A. Taco Fest, Lucky Rice Night Market, Plate by Plate Fundraiser, Chichen Itza Seafood Class L.A. Weekly Pancake Breakfast

Los Angeles Taco Festival Enjoy some of Boyle Heights' and East L.A.'s best tacos, from birria to carne asada to shrimp, as well as live mariachi music, arts and crafts at this new outdoor event. Proceeds go to support Jovenes Inc., a nonprofit that provides housing for homeless youth. WHAT: L.A. T ... More >>

Music Picks: Kaskade, Dirty Projectors, Ondatrópica

Viva Los Dodgers 2012 Lineup Announced: Ximena Sariñana, Ana Tijoux, More

See also: *Ximena Sariñana: An Indie-Pop Star In Mexico, Anonymous In L.A. *Our review of Ana Tijoux at Levitt Pavilion at MacArthur Park Viva Los Dodgers, a festival celebrating Los Angeles' Latino culture, just announced this season's lineup exclusively through West Coast Sound. Held in Lot ... More >>

The Vex and Chicano Punk: A Very Brief History

See also: The Five Best East L.A. Backyard Punk Bands Chicanos have played a defining role in punk rock since its inception. In fact, Michigan's ? and the Mysterians are a strong contender for the first band to be labeled "punk rock." A little closer to home, East Los's Cannibal and the Headhunter ... More >>

Brazilian Carnaval: Exotica - Club Nokia - 2-25-12

Brazilian Carnaval: Exotica Club Nokia 2-25-12 On Saturday night Brazilian Carnival descended upon Club Nokia. The exhilarating festival aimed to recreate the party scene that galvanizes Brazil every year around this time. Women danced in glitzy, revealing attire, many wearing feathers on their bac ... More >>

Poncho Sanchez Played the Weekend Wedding Circuit, Until a Gringo Changed His Luck

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] See also: Marlon Brando Rocked the Conga Drums -- in Fact He Invented One "I'd rather be lucky than good." --Lefty Gomez, Hall of Fame pitcher and inven ... More >>

SNL Stars Whose Careers Have Done a 180

'Scuse Me While I Kiss My Squeezebox

Ronald Reagan Library New Year's Eve Celebration

Clientele, Lay Low, Gangi

Album Review: Caetano Veloso's 'Zii e Zie'

[From LAWeekly's column The Beat] ​Caetano Veloso plays the Greek this Thursday, April 15, marking the belated U.S. release of his 2009 album, Zii e Zie, a challenging collection of new songs co-produced by his son Moreno. Veloso is 67, a year younger than Dylan, four years older than Bowie ... More >>

Future-popster AM Covers Charlie Brown Christmas Classic and Visits Hotel Cafe Tonight [Exclusive MP3]

EXCLUSIVE MP3! - AM Covers Charlie Brown X-mas Classic and Visits Hotel Cafe Tonight

Interview: Robbie Rivera Hates It When His Warm-Up DJs Play 'Crazy' Hard

The dance music underground might be rocking bleepy techno and dark-wave house from Europe, but the stuff that really moves the masses combines the synthetic strings of trance with the tough percussion of house. One look at the most popular DJs in the world, from Tiesto to Deadmau5 to Kaskade, point ... More >>

Rock Picks: Sunset Rubdown, Alela Diane, Pelican, Rose Melberg

Also, Yacht, the Woolly Bandits, Linda Ronstadt and others

Chavolot: Heavy Mariachi Parking-Lot Party

And fun at El Chavo, Rock 'n' Roll Au Go Go and HLNR boutique

FLORIA DEL RIO WILL GET YOUR GOAT

The bleat goes on with hot birria and cold Cerveza and a mariachi serenade

Viva Brasil!

'MATLI CREW

Countdown With Pink Martini!

How Do They Walk in Those Heels?

Havana Comes to Hollywood

Put Heading Here

Concert Clubs Other Jazz Concerts Clubs Other Blues Other Country/Folk

Viver Brasil offers up a liquid asset

"The Gift on the Water/Omi Odara" performed at Ford Amphitheatre

Green Rhythms

Caetano Veloso: Tropical Troublemaker

Caetano Veloso at Pasadena Civic Auditorium, November 14

Theater Reviews: Wicked, Trying, Monsieur Chopin

Relatives in the Mirror

Unearthing la raza’s Third Root

Whirled Music

Nawal whips African, Arabic and Indian sounds into Brazilian-tinged jazz

Very Be Careful

At Club Bahia, May 25

Nirvana Cubana

Claves, Cohibas and Che at Echo Park Lake

Music Picks

For the week of June 22 - 29

Everything Is Divine Marvelous

Tropicália shimmers anew

Dance Club Listings

For February 24 - March 2

Dance Club Listings

Dance Club Listings for Feb. 17-23

Archive

Sunday Night Fever

Steak and salsa in City of Commerce

Friday Night at the Races

Can't Let It Go

Unaborted

Love and crap from the Sex Pistols

Music for a New World

Noche a Noche

U Don’t Know

Summertime

A calendar of festivals under the sun and stars