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March 13, 2013
Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including 'The Happiness Show'
See also: *Asshole Festival 2013: Artists Yell at the Assholes of Los Angeles From a Street Corner in Chinatown *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week, a designer explains happiness in West Hollywood, a fact-blurring foreign correspondent's office opens in Highland ... More >>
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June 19, 2012
Here's Scientific Proof That Dubstep Makes You Want to Kill People
Why did the squeal of Jimi Hendrix's guitar cause girls to practically claw their way onstage? Why does the Psycho-like intro to Tyler the Creator's "Yonkers" inspire moshing? Why do furry-booted dubheads turn into a writhing mass during Skrillex's drops? Researchers working at UCLA think they've d ... More >>
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May 17, 2012
Music Picks: Too $hort, Best Coast, Brad Mehldau Trio
Also, Lee Fields & the Expressions, Simon Stokes, Sonnymoon, and others
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March 16, 2012
Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Cramps, Andy Warhol References
KCRW Broadcast #156 for Saturday, March 17, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Rebelling in Sweet Home Alabama Fanatics! I am writing you from what's left of a night off in Washington DC. I had a good day driving around town with Ian MacKaye. A few hours ago, we drove by the house where Min ... More >>
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January 30, 2012
Lou Reed on How His Attempt at Career Suicide, Metal Machine Music, Became an Art Show
Lou Reed is a rock & roll legend. That is an indisputable fact. And he doesn't bless Southern California with his downtown swagger very often. So when he takes part in a staged conversation, it is only fair that he gets to pick the subjects. Unfortunately for many who paid 45 bucks to hear Reed's ... More >>
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December 27, 2011
Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Lulu Is the Best Album of 2011
[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] See also: *Top Five '80s Metallica Songs That Deserved Kick Ass Music Videos *Exclusive: Metallica's Lars Ulrich On Survi ... More >>
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September 9, 2011
Top Five Reasons For Metallica Fans Not To Fear The Metallica and Lou Reed Album
Anton CorbijnBack in February Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett cryptically commented to Rolling Stone that the band was crafting something that was "not really 100 percent a Metallica record." Indeed, it turned out that the band was working with Lou Reed on a full album; a collaboration with ... More >>
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September 8, 2011
Henry Rollins: The Column! The Cool Sounds of September
[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.] Now that we have been released from the grips of August and go deeper into September, I a ... More >>
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July 12, 2011
Stage Raw: D is for Dog
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Gregg Ostrin's KowalskiKris BicknellD is for DogThis week, Deborah Klugman was smitten with Kate Polebaum's new play about 1950 suburbia gone awry, D is for Dog. Also, weekly critics filed strong reviews this week for As You Like ... More >>
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March 17, 2011
Rock & Drool!
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Gregg Ostrin's KowalskiKris BicknellD is for DogThis week, Deborah Klugman was smitten with Kate Polebaum's new play about 1950 suburbia gone awry, D is for Dog. Also, weekly critics filed strong reviews this week for As You Like ... More >>
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January 28, 2011
Top 10 Reasons Music Fans Should Go to L.A. Museums This Weekend (#1: They're FREE!)
LA Weekly's contributing writer (and dapper man-about-town) Drew Tewksbury has tipped us to the fact that this weekend many of the major museums in L.A. are FREE to the public! Details are on the L.A. museums' website, and we think everyone should take advantage of this deal, particularly mu ... More >>
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December 30, 2010
Mick Rock
LA Weekly's contributing writer (and dapper man-about-town) Drew Tewksbury has tipped us to the fact that this weekend many of the major museums in L.A. are FREE to the public! Details are on the L.A. museums' website, and we think everyone should take advantage of this deal, particularly mu ... More >>
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November 10, 2010
Rock & Rule Blu-Ray Release: Debbie Harry and Cheap Trick vs. Cartoon Guitar Mutants (and Lou Reed!)
How many big-budget rock and roll movies were made by Canadian animators in the early 1980s? How many of them featured at least one cast member from SCTV, the voice-over work of journeyman Don Francks, and a song by Cheap Trick? Well, at least two. Heavy Metal is the quintessential animat ... More >>
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October 28, 2010
Live Review: Gorillaz at Gibson Amphitheatre
Timothy NorrisGorillaz: an unprecedented revue Say you dreamed up a virtual band with a friend of yours who's a comic book artist. Say a bunch of instruments were lying around waiting for you to pick and pluck at them, and a bunch of friends kept dropping by to play. You'd act like a kid. No, ... More >>
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October 27, 2010
Tonight: Gorillaz, Reigning Sound, White Sea, Bullet for My Valentine, VersaEmerge, Onra
GorillazThe festival-closing Coachella set by Gorillaz back in April was as memorable for what it wasn't as what it was. The Damian Albarn-fronted collective went it without its typical big-screen animations and played unmasked -- with the Clash's Mick Jones and Paul Simonon joining for a se ... More >>
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October 14, 2010
Music Picks: Laurie Anderson, Onibaba, Superchunk
Also, Hoodoo Gurus, Die Antwoord, Jonsi and others
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June 16, 2010
I Can Has Whipit?: Devo Throws Cat Listening Party for their New Album
Crushable reports that Devo is celebrating the release of their first album in twenty years ("Something for Everybody") by holding an exclusive listening party streamed online, and only about twenty felines made the list. Who, quite frankly, don't seem that intrigued. (Psst -- notice the sh ... More >>
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June 3, 2010
Today in WTF: Lou Reed as a Mermaid (No, Really)
[UPDATE: ...or is it a Mer-man? (see comment) Out verdict: either works--he's a "Transformer"! har har.] After Billy Corgan and Bozo and a lost-and-found Del Close video, today is shaping up like one of those bizarro Thursdays. Here comes numero tres: From our friends at the Village Voice comes th ... More >>
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April 13, 2010
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 >>
Music
April 8, 2010
The Beat: Bossa Novissima
Caetano Veloso's tropical distortions
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January 21, 2010
Screw Coco! We're With Jesus, Lou Reed, the Blind Boys of Alabama, and David Letterman!
As we continue to be amazed by the bizarre spectacle of thousands of college-age simpletons (who are all facing underemployment and debt) rallying around a multimillionaire Ivy Leaguer (and a known ginger, to boot) and helping him get the goldenest parachute in the entire history of failing upwards, ... More >>
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November 19, 2009
Holy Warhol Maos! China's Carsick Cars Cover the Velvets' "Sunday Morning"
Meet the Carsick CarsThis morning you woke up and we bet you didn't think "You know what my life needs right now? An underground Chinese band doing a live cover of the Velvet Underground's 'Sunday Morning'!" Let's pretend you thought that and, magically, the godess of music (Euterpe or somet ... More >>
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November 13, 2009
"Wait! Who's That Singing????": Top Ten List of Major Stars Covering Other People's Music
Bowie also waited for his manPitchfork reports that Peter Gabriel will be releasing an album of covers, in which he will tackle hits and more obscure cuts by David Bowie, Paul Simon, Elbow, Bon Iver, Talking Heads, The Arcade Fire, Regina Spektor, Radiohead, Lou Reed ("The Power of the Heart" ... More >>
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April 23, 2009
LA People 2009: Fucking With Drew Barrymore
Bowie also waited for his manPitchfork reports that Peter Gabriel will be releasing an album of covers, in which he will tackle hits and more obscure cuts by David Bowie, Paul Simon, Elbow, Bon Iver, Talking Heads, The Arcade Fire, Regina Spektor, Radiohead, Lou Reed ("The Power of the Heart" ... More >>
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November 13, 2008
ROCK OUT WITH THE BLOCKS OUT: Kid Stuff with Cool Cred
This week we profiled the ebullient pre-school TV sensation Yo Gabba Gabba, but the show (created by two So Cal rocker dads) isn't the only alternative for parents sick of dumbed-down cartoons and uninspired kiddie ditties. More and more artists from the rock world are exploring the children's mark ... More >>
Film+TV
July 17, 2008
Lou Reed's Berlin: Julian Schnabel Captures the Music, Moment and Mood of His Man
Director makes cinematic trance of Reed's days-long 2006 concert at Brooklyn's St. Ann’s Warehouse
LA Life
May 15, 2008
Billy Morrison
Making a splash
Music
March 20, 2008
The Glowing Trough of Music: Five Days of South by Southwest
We laugh, we cry, we hate, we score some dirt weed, suck at the corporate teat, rejoice
Blogs
March 14, 2008
SXSW: One perspective from an official representative of the Music Industry
Van Morrison Lou Reed: 2 points. SXSW festival: ZERO.
Blogs
March 12, 2008
Lou Reed is a complete maniac and he will probably kick your ass in hand-to-hand combat...
Tai Chi Lou Reed & other Lou Reed combat madness. 'Nuf said.
Music
February 22, 2007
Can You Feel It?
Having some �me time� with Explosions in the Sky
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October 5, 2006
Rent a War
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October 5, 2006
Best Mask Since the Masque
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February 16, 2006
Natural History � Gogo
Breaking the museum sound barrier
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June 16, 2005
Ironic Chef America
Breaking the museum sound barrier
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February 24, 2005
Boys Do Cry
Antony and the Johnsons� uncut emotions
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November 11, 2004
Snaking Through the Garden of Delight
Antony and the Johnsons� uncut emotions
Music
September 18, 2003
The Weakerthans
Nonpunk From Nowhere
Art+Books
September 11, 2003
The Sound and the Fury
Lester Bangs and the relevance of rock criticism
News
February 6, 2003
The Tell-Tale Tone
Talking with Lou Reed about sound, spirit and Poe
Film+TV
February 21, 2002
Today, on a Vicious Blue Planet
Katie Couric, Britney Spears, Lou Reed and Alastair Fothergill. Alastair Fothergill?
Music
April 19, 2001
Western Stars
Once upon a Tyde
Music
January 25, 2001
Spare 1 Bdrm. Fully Furnished.
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has to go.
Music
November 16, 2000
What Goes On
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has to go.
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June 1, 2000
Hot Wheels
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May 25, 2000
What's Welsh for Zen?
Summer motorcycling in and around L.A.
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July 22, 1999
The Asphalt Jingle
Pavement's creeping Terror
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November 12, 1998
Ziggy Stardust Memories
Todd Haynes' heady new film
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February 12, 1998
Highway 65 Revisited
Todd Haynes' heady new film
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