Led Zeppelin

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 >>

The Five Most Iconic Key Club Shows in Its History

We broke some sad news last week: the Key Club will close its doors this Friday. Since opening in 1967 as Gazzarri's, it has been a staple of the Sunset Strip for decades, under various names and ownership. The venue has seen many popular styles of music come and go, but has, Zelig-like, been at the ... More >>

The Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, February 15 Foxygen ECHOPLEX If you add up the ages of Foxygen's 20-something Sam France and Jonathan Rado, then subtract it from the current year, you will verge on the era from which the duo's album, We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic, takes its cues. There isn't a '60s ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, July 23 The xx FONDA THEATRE These U.K. goth-soul ghouls haven't played in the United States since 2010, when The xx wrapped up support of their self-titled semi-hit debut and subsequently went into studio-hibernation mode. This summer, they're back on the road ahead of the Sept. 11 release ... More >>

The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: 15-11

See also: *Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: 20-16 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time 15. Michael McDonald A yacht-rock refugee, McDonald took the blandest elements of his former bands Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers -- smooth jazz keys, pinched falsetto harmonies, bass lines kidnapped from d ... More >>

Foster Wallace, Ginsburg, Warhol: These Are Kyle Nicolaides' Favorite Works of Art

Kyle Nicolaides is a thinking man's rocker. The frontman and songwriter for L.A. band Beware of Darkness -- who sound like a literary Led Zeppelin -- grew up in Santa Barbara, where his father owns a small Greek restaurant. In addition to playing music from a young age, Nicolaides read a lot, he s ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: St. Louis Blues

KCRW Broadcast #157 for Saturday, March 24, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Memphis on My Mind Fanatics! It's Blues time in St. Louis Missouri! While you listen to our show, that's where I will be. I thought it appropriate that we spend a bit of time with some very pure and direct sounds ... More >>

Michael Jackson's "Wanna Be Startin' Something": Why This Song Sucks

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Michael Jackson's "Wanna Be Startin' Something" History: "Wanna Be Startin' Something" is the fourth single from Michael Jackson's album Thriller (said Th ... More >>

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

KCRW Broadcast #149 for Saturday, January 21, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Are You Collector Scum? Fanatics! Sitting on the tour bus here in raining Wolverhampton UK. I am well into the Long March Tour and things are going well. I am sorry to put you Fanatics through a pre-taped show ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Three for the Price of One -- Engineer X, the Young Will Bentley, and Henry

KCRW Broadcast #147 for Saturday, January 7, 2012 Fanatics! Just so you know, this set was specifically engineered and put together with great care in order to bring you the maximum enjoyment as we gather together live for the first time this year. 2012 promises to be interesting to say the least ... More >>

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Review

Lisbeth Salander, meet David Fincher

Whole Lotta Lens

Thoughts From A Random Black Guy: Mullets Let People Know You Mean Business

Kelly ClancyL-Boy​[Editor's note: Odd Future member Lionel Boyce writes a weekly column for West Coast Sound. His archives are available here.] There are 140,000 strands of hair in the mullet. I found that shit out on Google. When I think of the mullet, the first word that comes to mind is "a ... More >>

Top Five Worst Ironic Indie Rock Band Names, Besides Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.

Stuart Conner​This week Brian Jonestown Massacre, a seminal and well-named act, announced the release of a new double CD, The Singles Collection (1992-2011), out at the end of August. It got us thinking about indie rock band names, and how they've gone from fun-ironic to kill-yourself-ironic. ... More >>

Ou Est Le Cassoulet a L.A.?

Or, for a good bean stew, call ...

Nightranger: Ritual de lo Rock Show

EXCLUSIVE: Rodney Bingenheimer's 'English Disco' Returns As Art Project!

[Ed's Note: this is a preview of this week's Nightranger column.] [Last week, Lina attended the premiere party for the Runaways movie.] "It was a fun party, but like most premiere bashes, too segregated to enjoy if you weren't privy to the quarantined A-list area. We left pretty soon after arriving ... More >>

Heavy Metal Internship Studies Sabbath, Priest, and Napalm Death

Heavy Metal Internship Studies Sabbath, Priest, and Napalm Death

Twist and Shout

Grohlapalooza!: New Vultures Single, Foo Comp, Nirvana Live

"New Fang," the advance single from supergroup Them Crooked Vultures drops today, whetting the appetite of millions of old-school rawwwwk fans who are still recovering from the shock of learning that their fantasy-baseball team-up of Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), John Paul Jones (Led Zeppeli ... More >>

Brendan Mullen the Writer: Highlights of his Work for the Weekly

In addition to opening punk club the Masque, LA DIY music giant Brendan Mullen, who died at age 60 yesterday after suffering a stroke on Saturday, was a longtime LA Weekly music writer whose prescient insight and in-the-trenches curiosity captured the experience of being a music head in LA in the 8 ... More >>

Down on the Strip

Top 5 Topless Groupies: Women Who Bared It All For Music (NSFW)

​Rock-n-roll and breasts often go (tee-hee) hand in hand. In fact, Motley Crue drummer and groupie magnet, Tommy Lee, has this rule about coming into his dressing room: "You're not allowed in unless you remove an article of clothing. And I'm not talking about your socks. It's pretty f***ing c ... More >>

Chavolot: Heavy Mariachi Parking-Lot Party

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

Movie Reviews: Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Dragonball: Evolution, Hannah Montana: The Movie

Also, The Escapist, Forbidden Lies and more

LA at SXSW Tip #1: Is Fol Chen the City's Best New Band?

At least 171 Los Angeles-area acts will represent at the South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas, next week, and they range from metal (Ancestors, Metallica, Black Math Horseman), acoustic (Jim Bianco, Tom Brosseau, Tori Amos) and punk (Japanese Motors, the Mae Shi, DEVO) to hip-hop ( ... More >>

Robert Plant / Alison Krauss, Greek Theater, 6/24

Robert Plant/Alison Krauss, Sharon Little, the Greek Theater, June 24. By John Payne Photos by Timothy Norris It wasn’t all that strange when Led Zep’s iconic hip-swiveler Robert Plant chose to do the duo thing with bluegrass-country diva Alison Krauss. Their musical connections make easy sen ... More >>

Brix @ 1601: The Newest Home of Rock-Star Sommelier Caitlin Stansbury

Plus food from former Hollywood Roosevelt chef Michael McDonald ... wined and dined in Hermosa Beach

Licensed to Ill

Fuck Tha Police

And culture clash at LACMA

Lion of Panjshir

“It’s like in Alice in Wonderland, we’re painting the roses red!”

We Are the champions

Citay, Earthless, The Fucking Champs at Spaceland

Take Me Out (to Eat)

Franz Ferdinand’s tour-food diary... yum!

Do the Monster Mashup!

The Tomorrow Show

New From Our Contributors

Japanese Metal (It's Aaaall Fuuucked Uuuppp!)

DIR EN GREY, OPIATE FOR THE MASSES at the Wiltern LG, March 23

The Kidz Are Alright, Mate!

    There was an Aussie Assault at the Troubadour earlier this week, and I got hit, hard! The night started smashingly with a literal rock star parking space: none other than Seal was sitting in a Ferrari convertible outside Dan Tana's, so my uber rock chick friend Laurel chatted up the si ... More >>

Beyond Bubbly

The Style Council’s New Year’s Eve party mixes

The Style Council: Undressing L.A. Nightly

Don’t Go Away Mad, Just Go Away

Rock Monsters

Sleater-Kinney’s The Woods takes Northwest indie back to its stoner roots

Rock in Total Retrograde!

How do you solve a problem like the Mars Volta?

Sail Away

The Weather Prophet

A Little Faith

Howls of love from the BellRays

Tribal Gathering

Coachella festival: It's all in the mix

Satori Night Fever

A Ghost in the space-time machine

Music Reviews

The Morning After