Led Zeppelin

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: FIDLAR, Pissed Jeans and Lamp

KCRW BROADCAST #202 02-16-13 See also: Henry Rollins: Football, Violence, and America Fanatics! Tonight's show is a great one from top to bottom. I am listening to it right now and I am excited to roll it all out for you. I just got the Fidlar and Pissed Jeans records last week and am digging the ... More >>

Henry Rollins: Led Zeppelin, All Powerful

[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.] Two nights ago, I was sitting in front of my speakers listening to a very clean pressing of Led ... More >>

Why Is There So Much Indie Rock on Television? Music Supervisor Alexandra Patsavas Explains

It's hard not to notice: Indie bands seemingly soundtrack just about every sitcom, film and television commercial today. But why? Influential music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas swears it's not just about cheap labor. "It's far more of a creative decision than a monetary one," she says. "We're pick ... More >>

Pop Goes the Geezer!

Henry Rollins: The Column! Alone in My Man Box, Listening to Al Green

[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.] I came back to Los Angeles a few days ago with 32 shows behind me on this tour, in England, Ir ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! My New Year's Resolution: To Rock Out

​[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.] For many years I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great ... More >>

Kraddy's Anthems of the Hero: "The idea was Led Zeppelin 3000"

One week before the release of his new album, Anthems of the Hero, electronic dance music producer Kraddy, aka Matthew Kratz, is shooting the video for the album's first single "Black Box" at a house in Venice. Directed by Mickey Capoferri, the video depicts a house party gone awry, as two girls fig ... More >>

Top Five Worst Ironic Indie Rock Band Names

Robert Plant and The Band of Joy: Live Review

Daniel KohnRobert Plant: A Whole Lotta Love​WHO: Robert Plant and The Band of Joy WHERE: The Greek Theater WHEN: 4/23/11 If you came to the Greek on Saturday night expecting to a hear a half-assed, run-of-the-mill set of Led Zeppelin covers, well, you have another month until Jason Bonham's ... More >>

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Also, Miguel, L.A. Bluegrass Situation, Heidecker and Wood, the Ditty Bops and others

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Saturday Night: Happy Birthday, Ian MacKaye

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #110 for Saturday, April 16. Fanatics! It is Record Store Day. It is also Ian MacKaye's birthday. Today, Ian hits the deck at forty-nine years of age. I believe he will be at the Coachella Festival this weekend so we send our greetings and congrats from here. To ... More >>

DJ of the Week Nobody (Low End Theory, Alpha Pup) Talks Touring, Blank Blue, and Sampling!

Jacob Connelly​ Nobody is a humble genius, one of "extremely minor fame" from Soulmates, Pacific Drift, And Everything Else, Tree Colored See, and Blank Blue. His solo album, released last year on Alpha Pup, attracted rave reviews for its creative use of samples, beats, and Autotune vocals; ... More >>

Henry Rollins Column: How to Talk to Right Wing Talk Show Callers

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 TEMPEST

Exclusive Interview: Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience

courtesy MSOPR​ Jason Bonham never expected to get the call to play with Led Zeppelin. But there were always rumors about the legendary hard-rock act, some suggesting that the accomplished drummer might even sit in for his late father, John Bonham, whose 1980 death meant the end of Zeppelin. ... More >>

Ask Mr. Gold: Ou Est Le Cassoulet À L.A.?

Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: My wife had a great cassoulet in Paris several years ago. Is there a place in Southern California that has a real French cassoulet? I know this is the time of year they make it. --Jim Nakano, Glendora Dear Mr. Nakano: The Donut Man! It g ... More >>

DANCE LIKE A MONKEY!

Jam's Addiction: Musicares MAP Fund Benefit Gathers Slash, Lemmy, Ace, Exene and more

The rock community's struggle with substance abuse is no secret, but the glamorization of sex, drugs and rock n' roll means that some sad stats often get buried. For example, new studies show that only 8% of women with drug and alcohol problems ever seek help. The Grammy Foundation's Musicares MAP F ... More >>

Destination Coachella

L.A. bands take to the desert for three days of music overload

Not Your Father's Rice Bowl: Roy Choi Is Back, With Chego

Mary J. Blige Comes Out of the Closet as Zeppelin Fan

Mary J. Blige has partnered up with American Idol's Randy Jackson (who plays bass), plus Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, Steve Vai, and Michael Jackson's former touring guitarist Orianthi, to record versions of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" and "Whole Lotta Love." This strange project was pro ... More >>

Led Zep Tribute at the Wiltern Will Feature 50-piece Orchestra (and Lots of Wailing)

Okay, here's something oddly alluring and potentially surreal: LiveNation has just announced that a 50 piece orchestra will be performing eighteen Led Zeppelin songs at the Wiltern on January 30. The vocalist? Randy Jackson. No, not that Randy Jackson. Nor the other Randy Jackson. But another Randy ... More >>

Them Crooked Vultures Rain Rockness Upon the Wiltern (11/16)

Them Crooked Vultures Rain Rockness Upon the Wiltern

Last Night: Wolfmother's Cosmic Egg Gets Laid Inside Lazarium

With blatant Black Sabbath riffage and Rush-like song structures, Wolfmother were, and still are, full-on retro-metal revivalists. So why does their music somehow feel fresh? We were asking ourselves this question last night as we soaked in their new record, Cosmic Egg, in its entirety during a lis ... More >>

Jimmy Page and Jack White talk Loud, love, The Edge and new projects

In his tribute to the art of guitar-playing, It Might Get Loud, documentarian Davis Guggenheim explores the personal histories, techniques and creative processes of three of the music world's most revered axe men: Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White. Whether or not this trifecta of talent represent ... More >>

The Lunatic Is In My Head! It Really Is!

JOURNEY BACK TO 40 YEARS C.D.

XIV: Royal Tease

Michael Mina’s swank Sunset Strip restaurant gilds the coconut

Mythical Mystery Tour

Last Night: Devil Horns all Around with Eagles of Death Metal, the Hives

If you were looking for a kick-ass, rock and roll time last night and were anywhere other than the Mayan Theatre downtown, then you just didn't find it. With the Hives and Eagles of Death Metal on the bill, it's hard to think there was a more rockin' spot in Los Angeles last night (unless Led Zeppel ... More >>

For Those Who Stand Long . . . A Led Zeppelin Reunion?

Checking out the rumors at the Sunset Marquis' Gibson Through the Lens reception

Rock the Cradle: Inherit the Wind

MTV's new celeb-kid talent search

Ask a Mexican! Las Puertas

Never realized Jim Morrison was the equal of Morrissey and Charles Bronson among other Mexican guero icons.

Led Zeppelin, O2 Arena, London, 12/10

Led Zeppelin/A Tribute to Ahmet Ertegun O2 Arena, London, December 10 By Steve Baltin As was the case for so many people, Led Zeppelin began my ascent into rock ‘n’ roll worship. Being a kid in the late ‘70s trying to impress my older friends and the perfect girl, my first album purchase was ... More >>

So Long, Summer 2007, We Hardly Knew You

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Trying to Shake the White Stripes Icky

What the thump

Rock Picks

for the week of January 25 – February 1

Rock Docs Are Go! Rockumentary Recommendations

As CDs wither, the low-budget rockumentary is born again

Sweet, Horny, Hot and Wet

Master of the Off-Chance

Misty Mountain Stomp

Citay, and the unspeakable joy of harmonized lead guitars

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 >>

A Small New Future

ALEC HANLEY BEMIS on the casualties and survivors in the war between the Cynics and the True Believers

They Don’t Make 'Em Like That Anymore

Ask Mr. Gold

Super Gyration

Broken Circles

Dark Tidings

Mercury Rev’s bedtime stories

The Steamy Muse

Rhapsodies of light and heat and hope