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Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Mississippi Blues

KCRW Broadcast #185 for Saturday, October 13, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! The Failings of Music Writers Fanatics! In Mississippi tonight. We thought it would be a good idea to lay some Blues on you. Blues music comes all kinds of ways and is there to be taken any way you want. If y ... More >>

Music Picks: Rome, The xx, Aretha Franklin

Also, Cannibal Corpse, I See Hawks in L.A., Smokey Robinson and others

The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List

*Top 20 Worst Bands Ever: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All-Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List Considering that most all of today's popular music -- be it roc ... More >>

Greg Ginn On Black Flag Nostalgia and His Band The Royal We

See also: Coachella Preview 2012: Everything You Need to Know About the Performers Greg Ginn is primarily known as the driving force and only constant member of Black Flag, which is unfortunate as he's done a lot since the Flag broke up 25 years ago. He's so tired of talking about it that he rarely ... More >>

Dave Grohl: His Grammys Speech About Electronic Music Was Bullshit

See also: Dave Grohl "Clarifies" Grammy Speech After We Call Him Out For Sounding Like an Anti-EDM Geezer We like Foo Fighters. They're the Samuel Adams beer of pop -- solid, familiar, a good call in a one-jukebox town. But innovators they're not. Quite the opposite: If one could feed off a dying ... More >>

Dr. Dre Tribute Album: We Tear It A New One

Now I need a doctor​Seeing as Detox still shows no signs of life -- seriously, another couple years of this and we're going to get angry -- what's a real G supposed to do? For that matter, what are we supposed to do? Well, there certainly is plenty of prime Dr. Dre material ripe for re-purpo ... More >>

Groupon Concert Tickets: Why The Ke$sha, Rick Ross, and Rihanna Fire Sale?

​In May, Live Nation and Groupon combined forces in a presumed effort to jumpstart the struggling concert ticket market. Indeed, in recent months you've been able to get Groupons for all sorts of big shows. The partnership has been a boon to musically-inclined bargain hunters, but it also gets ... More >>

So & So - Viper Room - 9/7/11

Danielle BacherSo & So Viper Room September 7, 2011 Better than: Being stuck in a steam room with 98.7 FM on the radio.Los Angeles-based folk-rockers So & So performed a triumphant gig at the center of a nuclear reactor last night. . . oh, wait. It was actually the Viper Room, which se ... More >>

Bad Past Gone Away: Tour NewVillager's New Album in Chinatown Tonight

Sam BlochGallery visitors under the spell of Black Crow Boy ("Shot by Horixon").​ STORY BY SAM BLOCH I'm on the floor of Human Resources, a performance space and art gallery off Broadway in Chinatown, and NewVillager's Ross Simonini is taking me on a physical tour of his band's forthcoming d ... More >>

Music Picks: Alison Krauss, Flying Lotus, My Morning Jacket

Also, Jaga Jazzist, Kid Cudi, Baths and others

Storm Thorgerson at John Varvatos

Legendary designer has created conceptual album cover photographs for bands from Pink Floyd to Mars Volta

Henry Rollins: The Column! Songs in the Key of Tour

Timothy Norris​[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes 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 week and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday eveni ... More >>

Rock & Roll, Entry Level

What does the perennial L.A. dream of stardom look like circa 2010?

The L.A. Weekly Interview: Billy Corgan

Smashing Pumpkins singer opens up about his spiritual journey, what the rise and fall of grunge felt like from the inside, and his current role model (Robert Mitchum?)

Billy Corgan: The Uncut, Expanded LA Weekly Interview (Discussing Los Angeles Occultism, the Fall of Grunge, His Current Happiness, His Disappointments, and his Love for Christina Aguilera, Lady Gaga and ... Robert Mitchum?)

Kristin BurnsBilly Corgan: The Uncut, Expanded LA Weekly Interview!​Billy Corgan and the Smashing Pumpkins will be headlining the last night of the 2010 Sunset Strip Music Festival this Saturday, August 28. Corgan is the subject of this week's LA Weekly Interview in our print edition. He spok ... More >>

The Runaways: Wild Thing

How Sandy West was lost

Camp Freddy's Billy Morrison Highlights His 10 Most Important Cultural Events of the 1970s

Billy Morrison​Editor's Note: For Angelenos, guitarist Billy Morrison is perhaps best known for his work with all-star cover band Camp Freddy, which also features core members Dave Navarro (guitar), Matt Sorum (drums), Donovan Leitch, Jr. (vocals), Chris Chaney (bass). Indie 103.1 fans no doub ... More >>

It Might Get Loud: Davis Guggenheim’s Guitar Heroes

In director’s new documentary tribute, Jimmy Page, the Edge and Jack White talk axes, licks and other euphemisms

Buddyhead Redux

L.A.'s most loved and feared music Web site is back, leading the never-ending quest for music that doesn't suck

Anvil! The Story of Anvil: A Canadian Metal Band's Great Feature-Length Doc

Duo will make you laugh, cry and cheer with songs like "Hair Pie" and "Show Me Your Tits"

West Coast Sound: An L.A. Music Pro's Guide to South by Southwest

Ten to watch: The next Ford jingle?

GO LA: Gay Fusion, Jackie Kashian and the Gold Standard Food Festival

Plus, lots more to see, hear and consume in town, March 6-12

Up With People Under the Stairs

Hip-hop duo celebrates a decade in L.A.

Tonight at the El Rey: People Under the Stairs Come Up for Some Air

"We'd been around the world ten times and done Glastonbury, Redding, and Leeds before people had even thought about leaving LA. And we've never been heralded by any local media."

Nothing Could Be Reiner!

What to do in L.A., June 20-26

Record Reviews: Whitesnake, Pyramids, Greeley Estates

Also, Santogold, Sumatran Folk Cinema

Super Tuesday

Ed Banging; Ponytail checks out; rock-star mash-up; Lemmy see that

Coachella Day Three: Neil Diamond's Amazing Performance Opening for Justice

Sunday at the Empire Polo Field is softer than Saturday, more like Seurot than the previous day's Van Gogh, a little hazy and lazy and everybody's sleeping off last night's feast. Sunday = day of rest, except that at Coachella that's not true, at least in the Sahara tent, which is packed with LA's k ... More >>

Why My Morning Jacket Is the Best Live Band in the World

In an age when certified rock stars are a dying breed, a Kentucky band stakes its claim

Rock Picks: Stevie Wonder, Lucinda Williams, The Frames

For the week of Aug 31 – Sept. 6

Robots, Mods, Rockers

And one shining Prince

Rock Picks: The Police, Sage Francis, Radio Birdman and more

For the week of June 14 - 21

Aloha From Hell

Jerry Lee Lewis, still on fire

Born in the USA

Killers summon their inner Springsteens

Like a Star

CORINNE BAILEY RAE at House of Blues, July 31

Theater Reviews

For the week of April 21-27

Thoroughly Postmodern Lily

On how to survive bar mitzvah season

A Bore No More

Race & Roll

Lenny Kravitz

Abloom’s Day

The future of heaviness

One Band, Under God

Alien Nation

Things That Mean Things

Poison the Hood

Dead Air

Jim Ladd on the demise of freeform radio

Like It That Way

Nerve Action

Flaming Lips and the spark that bleeds

Free Bird

Susan James plays (and sings and records and mixes and releases) it her way

Macaroni & Cheese

And the crossing of cultural borders

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