Manchester

Weekend DUI Checkpoints Start Tonight In Koreatown

They say March goes in like a lion and out like a lamb, but the month made famous by Shakespeare still has some bite left in it. The LAPD is prepared to make this your least favorite month of all time. It has weekend DUI checkpoints ready for you in Koreatown, South L.A. and Sherman Oaks -- startin ... More >>

How to Become a Music Snob In Four Simple Steps

I'm not going to begrudge anyone for not knowing who Coachella headliners The Stone Roses are. The simple fact is that their first album, (the only one that really matters), came out in 1989. If you're in college now, you most likely weren't even born then. Plus, The Stone Roses were a bigger deal i ... More >>

Los Angeles, Inglewood Officials to Sacrifice 400 'Majestic' Trees in Way of Space Shuttle Endeavour

"Space exploration events are like the Olympics; everyone just feels good," Inglewood Mayor James Butts said at a triumphant press conference on the September 20 arrival of the space shuttle Endeavour. And the spacecraft's 12-mile trip from LAX to the California Science Center on October 13, added ... More >>

Olympic Drinking: Beer, Gin Whisky

By now you're fully ensconced in the full-on drama of the Games of the XXX Olympiad, a global event featuring feats of human skill so thrilling that you're likely to have to endure a few marathon sessions yourself -- in front of the telly, that is, unspooling TiVo recordings hour after hour, devotin ... More >>

Amid South L.A. Rapes, Suspect in 1 Attack Nabbed After Victim Found on Bus Bench

A man was behind bars today after a woman was found with her pants down on a bus bench in an area of South L.A. where a series of rapes had occurred, police said. A police dog tracked down a suspect after the woman was discovered at Manchester and Normandie avenues in Manchester Square just before ... More >>

St. Patrick's Day Drunk Patrols, Checkpoints in Full Effect in L.A. Starting Tonight

As if we need another beer holiday St. Patrick's Day, the drunkest of such occasions, is upon us. And, of course, your friendly, neighborhood police officer is fully ready to haul you into jail. On top of that, St. Patrick's Day this year falls on a Saturday (this Saturday), which should fuel the a ... More >>

No Parking on the Dance Floor: Amanda Brown and the 100% Silk Crew Make You Actually Dance

See also: Amanda Brown: Raw Foodist, Colossal In Kiev M Dinner House was a Japanese jazz club nestled into a strip of bodegas and windowless brick facades atop the Hollywood Freeway. Once a week, the club hosted Grown, a lurid soiree soundtracked by the best chill-out, house and bass music in Los A ... More >>

Car Fueled By Coffee Sets Speed Record It's National Coffee Day

Today is National Coffee Day -- let's say it all together now, Everyday is National Coffee Day -- and to celebrate, we bring you a slightly different take on our beloved pick-me-up: the Coffee Car. The car, which is powered by used coffee grinds, just set the Guinness World Record for the fastest v ... More >>

LinA In LA Party Picks: Set Your Watches For Pacific Standard Time

East Village West; see Sat.​Get ready for a host of arty parties in the coming days, as Pacific Standard Time and Fashion Week events take over town. There's also a sure-to-be ferocious fun tribute night pitting two '80s faves against each other on the dance floor, as well as two pop-in worthy ... More >>

Hooray for Hollies' World

WU LYF's Anti-Establishment "Heavy Pop" Hits L.A. Tonight

Jonathan FlandersThis BBQ's getting out of control​Leading today's pack of gnashing, anti-establishment wolves are Manchester's WU LYF, a quartet who play self-described "heavy pop." Formed in 2008, they are the latest followers in the Mancunian footsteps of Joy Division, the Buzzcocks and the ... More >>

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LinA In LA Club/Party Picks: Club Underground, Bloom Fest, Sexy Time

So far this summer, the club scene is...whatever you want it to be. Be it indoor or outdoor, goth or groove, retro or nouveau, there's even more to do than usual around town. Here are this week's boogie bests. The Stone Roses get spun Friday​Fri., July 22 We've heard of week-long birthday c ... More >>

Simon Pegg's New Autobiography: Well Done, Nerd!

​ Since he and Edgar Wright unleashed their horror-comedy masterpiece Shaun of the Dead on audiences in 2004, Simon Pegg has become as in-demand a performer here as in his native Britain, not to mention something of an alpha geek amongst genre fans. His deeply-rooted boyhood love of the Star W ... More >>

Ask Mr. Gold: The Eternal Dilemma of LAX Food

Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic​ Dear Mr. Gold: Do you have a lunch recommendation near LAX? I'm not opposed to In-N-Out, just looking for other options. --Evan Cohen, via Facebook

Ten European Artists You Should Have Heard By Now

Parisian rapper Rohff​In the States, it's easy to be stuck in the bubble of our domestic music. Sadly, many European artists have a difficult time breaking into the North American market. Often, this stems from the language barrier, but it can also be due to the straight-up oddball nature of t ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Saturday Night: Ludos, Buzzcocks, Joy Division

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #109 for Saturday, April 9. Fanatics! If you notice, our show tonight does all it can to evade all classification. Perhaps the single song that embodies the idea behind the overall is track two, our Ludus. Check that arrangement! That's what tonight's show is all ... More >>

Q&A with Joy Division's Peter Hook

An album tour of Unknown Pleasures resonates with fans

Joy Division's Peter Hook: "We Wanted to Sound Like The Damned and The Sex Pistols"

​After a Joy Division U.S. tour was thwarted 30 years ago, the opportunity for most Americans to hear the band's 1979 debut album live was, much like its title, an unknown pleasure. For the past several months, Peter Hook -- without fellow Joy Division/New Order members Bernard Sumner and Step ... More >>

Shoplifters Unite and Pick Up "Mozipedia": 'The Encyclopedia of Morrissey and The Smiths' Comes to the US

​ British journalist Simon Goddard's Mozipedia: The Encyclopedia Of Morrissey And The Smiths was recently released in the US. And seeing as how we were once his neighbors (maybe still are, occasionally, even if he disses us in interviews), West Coast Sound combed through the book's more-than 5 ... More >>

This weekend: Sufjan Stevens, Interpol, the Temper Trap, Shakira, Monster Massive, Bobby Brown

Denny RenshawSufjan Stevens​If you take in Sufjan Stevens' shows in Los Angeles this weekend expecting some warm-and-fuzzy orchestral pop from a banjo-toting folkie, you've got another thing coming. In fact, dancing shoes may be in order. Stevens' newest album The Age of Adz is full of insist ... More >>

Waterloo & City's New Wreck Room: Blood Pie & Darts

A. ScattergoodWaterloo & City ​ For those of you who've been lining up to get your pints of beer and plates of Manchester quail with chopped liver on toast at Waterloo & City, the newish British gastropub in Culver City, you now have a rec room in which to enjoy them. Or Wreck Room, as owners ... More >>

EXCLUSIVE: First Interview with LA DJ Kutmah after His Controversial Deportation

​ Two months ago, news broke that the popular Dublab and Low End Theory-affiliated DJ, Justin "Kutmah" McNulty had been detained by Department of Homeland Security authorities for failing to honor a voluntary deportation notice that he had signed over a decade earlier. The arrest triggered a ... More >>

Looking for Eric: Soccer It to Me

Ken Loach's latest window into the working class, featuring King Eric Cantona

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 >>

Sister City Act: Tom LaBonge, Our Man in the U.K.

Petra Fried at Mayor Sam's Sister City took umbrage today twice -- over City Councilman Tom LaBonge's absence from the council and the fact that he's apparently junketing in Northern England, doubtlessly impressing locals there with his plenipotentiary powers as District Four's man in the U.K. What ... More >>

Fall Film: From Manchester to Mumbai with Danny Boyle

A Filmmaker Less Ordinary

Living Room On the Street: Public Parking on a Sofas Level

San Francisco landscape architect takes the indoors outside in L.A. neighborhoods

Movie Reviews: The Grocer's Son, Kenny, Space Chimps

Also, Felon and A Very British Gangster

The Beginning of a No Age: Nouns

Simply put, the best punk album of the 21st century

Guetta Grip

David Guetta at Giant; Laurent Garnier at Avaland anniversary bash

Joy Division to the World

Ian Curtis’ afterlife seems like it’s been one big after-party

Smarting Over Growth

Letters from our readers

Rock Picks

For the week of March 22-29

Moz the Cat

In which Steven Patrick Morrissey speaks of ghosts, glam rock, Obama... and why squirrels like him

That Seventies Cop

Life on Mars, sideburns required

Festivus Maximus

Do you enjoy crowds, music and exhaustion?

Editors at Cinespace

Meet Interpol’s heirs apparent, all drizzled in Celtic melancholy and hope

Reclaiming the Air

Ah, the memories of sweet orange blossoms in downtown L.A.

I’m Steve Coogan

. . . and Alan Partridge and Paul Calf and Tony Ferrino and Tony Wilson and 'Steve Coogan' and, oh yes, Phileas Fogg in the soon-to-open remake of Around the World in 80 Days

We Are the Fall

Boomslangers

The Boy of Summer

A Mythic Thing

Tony Wilson on the city of Manchester, the Sex Pistols, Joy Division, Factory Records, New Order, the Hacienda Club, Happy Mondays . . . had enough yet?

New Dawn Fades

Joy Division's grim effervescence

Hit the Decks

Mope Springs Eternal

'Thees Ees Zee Reel Shit!'

Remembering Claude Bessy, a.k.a. Kickboy Face

Burn, Li'l Debby, Burn

Let's Get Dead

Music for the modern zombie