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Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: An Ian MacKaye Wrap-Up and Loads of Great, New Music

KCRW BROADCAST #211 04-13-13   See also: Henry Rollins: Joe Cole and American Gun Violence Fanatics! I hope you had a chance to listen to last week's show by now. Ian MacKaye was our guest and like last year, it was a great night that went by all too quickly. I didn't want to spoil the fun by putt ... More >>

Henry Rollins: Tragedy, and How to Carry On

[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.] See Also: Henry Rollins: When It Comes to Gun Control, the Bad Guys Have Won the Day A few nig ... More >>

No, Seriously, the Sunset Strip Has Gotten Cool

In 1975, Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant stood on a balcony at the Continental Hyatt House above the Sunset Strip and screamed "I am a golden god!" Allegedly. From similar balconies at the same hotel, Keith Richards and Keith Moon both hucked TVs to the street below in fits of excess and Jim Morris ... More >>

Henry Rollins: When It Comes to Gun Control, the Bad Guys Have Won the Day

[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.] Of all the things that transpired last year, I want to take on the Sandy Hook shooting incident ... More >>

Henry Rollins Doesn't Smoke Marijuana. But He Has No Problem With It

[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.] If the spread of marriage equality wasn't enough good news for you, recreational use of marijua ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: British Invasion

KCRW Broadcast #175 for Saturday, July 28, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Americans Will Never Give Up Their Guns Fanatics! Since I will be in beautiful Dorset, UK on this evening, we have already put this show together and it is ready to lunge forth when the engineers at KCRW hit the b ... More >>

Off!'s Keith Morris Mouths Off, Before the Group's Show at the Whisky Tomorrow

See also: Still a Malcontent: A midlife crisis spawns Keith Morris' new band Off! In this week's music feature we get inside the heads of punk rock "supergroup" Off! on the eve of the release their self-titled debut album. (They hate that term, btw.) The group, which is led by former Black Flag and ... More >>

Coldplay - Hollywood Bowl - 5/1/12

Coldplay Hollywood Bowl 5/1/12 Chilly Tuesday nights in May isn't exactly what the Hollywood Bowl is all about. But despite the less-than-ideal conditions, Coldplay warmed up the sold out crowd last night with songs off their latest album, Mylo Xyloto, and an assortment of hits. Since the band's ... More >>

Tonight: RRIICCEE, Midnight Juggernauts, the Naked and Famous, Unsane, 400 Blows, Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience, Kitten

Vincent Gallo​Tonight's musical headliner at the El Rey Theatre has no albums, no mp3s, no songs on the Internet, scant YouTube presence, and not even any merch, unless you count guitar picks from a 2007 tour, and those are sold out. No, with the experimental rock ensemble RRIICCEE, you get o ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Heart at the Gibson Amphitheatre

Nancy Wilson gets crazy on you​On Wikipedia, the band Heart pops up in search results before the blood-pumping organ does. From the ecstatic beer and arm swaying rapture rattling the Gibson Amphitheater Saturday night, it's possible that over the last 35 years, Ann and Nancy Wilson have become ... More >>

Last Night: Lower Heaven and Black Mountain at the Bootleg Theater

Leslie KalohiLower Heaven ​Ever had that feeling when you wake up from a dream and can only vaguely recall what happened? You can kind of remember that it was pleasant or frightening as the case may be, but the details are lost on the edge of your memory just out of reach. There may have been ... More >>

Tonight: Betty LaVette, Jews on Vinyl Revue, Eastern Conference Champions, Wallpaper, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Jets Overhead

Elizabeth FladunBetty LaVette​One of the best Betty LaVette stories came out of the veteran soul singer's performance a couple years ago at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C. In a nod to one of the year's honorees, the Who, LaVette delivered a show-stopping rendition of "Love Reign ... More >>

Nightranger: Mo BET-ta Booze?

Persian Setar Hero Sahba Motallebi Shreds at the Museum of Jurassic Technology

Persian Setar Hero Sahba Motallebi Shreds at the Museum of Jurassic Technology

Last Night: Emily Lacy's LACMA Performance

Emily Lacy's experimental sound performance, Temples of the Minds, Saturday night at LACMA was a great example of how music can transform a space. That the piece was set in the museum's Japanese sculpture garden made it easy to arrive at an open and meditative state: It's an indoor spiraled room wit ... More >>

Villains w/Lykke Li at Echoplex Tonight AND Villains' EXCLUSIVE 5 Decade Remix Wishlist Free Remix MP3's

Villains w/Lykke Li at Echoplex Tonight! Villains' EXCLUSIVE 5 Decade Remix Wishlist Free Remix MP3's

Public Access Lives! (On DVD): One Of 'The Threee Geniuses' Talks The Re-Death Of Psychedelia

Taking LSD over seven times may or may not make you legally insane (if the myth were true, some of us here at West Coast Sound might have just missed the loony bin), but we can assure you, watching the psycho-delic circus known as The Threee Geniuses as many times is likely to drive you nuts, at lea ... More >>

Rock Picks: Quantic and his Combo Bárbaro, Elvis Costello, Rock & Roll Summer Circus

Also, Flaming Lips, Clipse, Silk Flowers, the Muffs and others

News on the Runaways Movie

Trippin' on Wolfmother Lazerium

GOOD JOB, GRAMMY MUSEUM PRESS DEPT.!

The Dead Weather at the Roxy: Jack White and Alison Mossheart vs. The Cream of the Blues-Rock Canon

The Dead Weather, the new supergroup featuring Jack White of the White Stripes/Raconteurs, Alison Mossheart of the Kills, Dean Furtita of Queens of the Stoneage, and Jack Lawrence of the Raconteurs and Greenhornes, arrived at the Roxy last night to make the case whether a blues rock band in the 21st ... More >>

LA People 2009: The Throat — Lemmy

Touring is too fun to stop for Motorhead's lead singer, who's taken his vocal cords to hell and back for nearly 35 years, but he'll always come home to his barstool at the Rainbow

SXSW Day 4 (Pt. 2): On Rap/Rock, The Legacy of the Beasties, and Asher Roth Vs. The Knux

Almost 25 years have elapsed since the Rick Rubin-helmed, Licensed to Ill found the Beasties staking their claim as the first major rap group to incorporate guitar-hero rawk ("Rock Box" aside). Such juxtaposition seems prosaic today, but it's almost impossible to grasp how revolutionary sampling L ... More >>

Jane's Addiction to Release $75 Limited Edition Box Set, Reissue Classic Albums on $25 Vinyl

If nothing else, Jane's Addiction sure know how to stretch out the publicity surrounding their impending return. It seems like every few weeks for the past half year the band does something, releases something, announces something, denies something or collaborates on something. There are the secre ... More >>

Live Nation's Crown Jewel: Hollywood Palladium Reopens This Week

From Blue Eyes to Jay-Z, venue has played host to the history of American music

Rockers at Morrison Hotel Gallery with Legendary Music Photographer Bob Gruen

To be honest, I never thought I'd be standing in legendary photographer Bob Gruen's teenage bedroom. The unkempt bed covered by a Led Zeppelin blanket, the shelves of rock memorabilia, the walls plastered with photos and cutout articles from vintage rock magazines like Creem and Rock Scene... it is ... More >>

Hoop of L.A.

What to do in L.A., October 3-9

Rock & Roll Power Outage

Few and hard between; Kitty come home; Bra Boys roll in

Black Mountain's Stormy High

Los Angeles always seems strange in the rain. Jim Morrison once may have said something to that effect. Then again, Jim Morrison once declared himself the lizard king and was known to drink blood at wiccan ceremonies, so maybe he wasn't the best best guy to take advice from. But he was right in th ... More >>

Escape from Allentown

Beardo’s long journey into teenage wasteland

Good Vibrations

The American Cinematheque puts the “rock” back into Mods & Rockers

Erased

Rock Picks

For the week of Jan 12 – 18

It's Two Thousand What??????

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Over the Hills and Far Away

The Mars Volta’s burden of dreams

Music Picks

For the week of July 20 - 27

Music Picks

For the week of July 13 - 20

California Dreamin’

Whips, Whacks and a Whole Lotta Love

Girls Incited, City Burned

Chaos at the Greasy Spoon

South by Southwest: Music, money and madness

Revenge against the ’70s (and other hostile decades)

The Vindicators

It’s High Time

Reach for the Sun

Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, April 27-28

Children of the Grave

From Black Sabbath to modern heavy metal: The dark at the end of the tunnel

Sea of Dirt

A stone by any other name

Hymn & Her

Modern devotional music, Virgin voices

Have You Ever Been Teen?

Rodney Bingenheimer remembers

How To Snort an Airplane

The raunch and roll of rock autobiography