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    July 29, 2011

    Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: MC5, Tinariwen, Dax Riggs and More

    ​KCRW BROADCAST #1245 for Saturday, July 30 Fanatics! We have put together a stellar playlist for you to check out tomorrow night. It took me a long time to get into the MC5 album Back In The USA. It wasn't that the songs weren't great -- they are. It was always the production that bugged me ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    "I've Seen The Future:" Clarence Clemons' Career In Video

    There is a concert photograph from the early 1950s of saxophonist Big Jay McNeely lying flat on his back with a mouth full of wind, wailing at a crowd full of feral greasers. The all-white audience, with their eyes and fists both clenched, seem to be trying to capture rock and roll saxophone at it ... More >>

  • Music

    June 16, 2011

    Now Again's Eothen Alapatt Finally Releases His Dream Soul Reissue

    There is a concert photograph from the early 1950s of saxophonist Big Jay McNeely lying flat on his back with a mouth full of wind, wailing at a crowd full of feral greasers. The all-white audience, with their eyes and fists both clenched, seem to be trying to capture rock and roll saxophone at it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2011

    Henry Rollins Column: Rollins on the Attempted Political Assassination and Massacre in Tucson

    Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins contirbutes 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 Monday and make sure to tune in to He ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    Stage Raw: Loveland

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater Feature on La Razon Blindada and A Wolf Inside the Fence and NEW REVIEW GO LOVELAND ​Photo by Leland Auslender What a rare experience it is, when a character that's as maniacal, sexually overheated and as transparently off the rails as a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2010

    Stage Raw: Voombodian Women from Outer Space!

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on Happy Ending and WaterVOOMBODIAN WOMEN FROM OUTER SPACE! Staged reading of Barry Schwam's new play at Sierra Madre Playhouse, 87 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., in Sierra Madre. Sun., 7:30 p.m. $5 (626) 355-4318 AN EVENING WITH PAT BOONE, ... More >>

  • Music

    August 5, 2010

    Sonny Rollins: The Colossus Speaks

    One of America's greatest musical treasures reflects on jazz, and the good life

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2010

    Live Review: Bill Frisell, Jason Moran and Kenny Wollesen at Largo

    At Largo last night, Jason Moran took his place at the Steinway while Bill Frisell tuned his six-string guitar before the first of two sets. Drummer Kenny Wollesen gathered his drum sticks and sat back in his seat. The trio had recently played a few concerts at Yoshi's in Oakland, the finale to Fris ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2010

    Top 10 Songs About Food (But Not Buildings)

    Books about food; art about food; movies about food. What about songs about food? Here's 10 songs to put on your foodie playlist. For this list--which is in no particular order--children's songs, instrumentals and songs using food as a euphemism for, em, other activities, have been excluded. Also d ... More >>

  • Music

    December 17, 2009

    It Came From Spanish Harlem

    N.Y. transplant Coati Mundi has been a Buzzard and a Coconut. Now he’s just himself

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2009

    Today in Photographs: September 12, 1959

    ​French actor-singer Maurice Chevalier celebrates his 71st birthday with fellow Can Can cast members Louis Jordan and Shirley MacLaine.LA Herald-Examiner/LAPL

  • LA Life

    July 28, 2005

    Cowboys and Engines

    ​French actor-singer Maurice Chevalier celebrates his 71st birthday with fellow Can Can cast members Louis Jordan and Shirley MacLaine.LA Herald-Examiner/LAPL

  • Music

    June 17, 2004

    Fullness

    Gerald Wilson, big bands and the rewards of non-suicide

  • Music

    February 10, 2000

    Nervous Man Nervous

    Big Jay McNeely in 3-D

  • Music

    June 18, 1998

    Hear Him Roar

    Gerald Wilson, king of swing

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