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Manchester

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2012

    [Updated] Jamie Oliver DOES NOT Find Joy Division and New Order Master Tapes in Basement of New Manchester Eatery

    Update: 2/15/12 3:00 p.m. We should have known this was as bogus as the prospect of a goat on a leash getting down (in the video) to a band bolstered by the drumming talents of a man known to cheerily carve and cook domesticated beasts. NME was wrong and so were we. The treasures used to reside ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2011

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    September 8, 2011

    Hooray for Hollies' World

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    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 >>

  • Music

    July 21, 2011

    Page Two: WU LYF

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    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

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2011

    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 >>

  • Music

    December 9, 2010

    Q&A with Joy Division's Peter Hook

    An album tour of Unknown Pleasures resonates with fans

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    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 >>

  • Film+TV

    May 20, 2010

    Looking for Eric: Soccer It to Me

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

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    Waterloo & City Gastropub Opens Tonight in Culver City

    Although it's not officially opening until tomorrow, the new Culver City gastropub Waterloo & City will start serving tonight. So if you're over on that side of town this evening and need a pint and a plate of Manchester quail with chopped liver on toast, or whole roast chicken with wild mushroom po ... More >>

  • News

    December 31, 2009

    Los Angeles' Red-Light Ticket Ripoff

    Cameras capture motorists and huge fines follow. Streets may not be safer

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    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 >>

  • Film+TV

    November 13, 2008

    Fall Film: From Manchester to Mumbai with Danny Boyle

    A Filmmaker Less Ordinary

  • Columns

    August 7, 2008

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

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

  • Film+TV

    July 17, 2008

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

    Also, Felon and A Very British Gangster

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2008

    James, Spaceland, 6/6

    James, Spaceland, June 6, 2008 By Siran Babayan Well, dye my eyes and call me a reborn James fan. Apparently the Manchester folky pop band has had a more profound impact on some of the people here at Spaceland than they did on me back when I casually listened to them in college. Hours before James ... More >>

  • Music

    May 8, 2008

    The Beginning of a No Age: Nouns

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

  • Music

    November 15, 2007

    Guetta Grip

    David Guetta at Giant; Laurent Garnier at Avaland anniversary bash

  • Music

    October 18, 2007

    Joy Division to the World

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

  • News

    June 21, 2007

    Smarting Over Growth

    Letters from our readers

  • Music

    March 22, 2007

    Rock Picks

    For the week of March 22-29

  • News

    February 1, 2007

    Moz the Cat

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

  • Film+TV

    July 20, 2006

    That Seventies Cop

    Life on Mars, sideburns required

  • Music

    April 27, 2006

    Festivus Maximus

    Do you enjoy crowds, music and exhaustion?

  • Music

    January 26, 2006

    Editors at Cinespace

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

  • News

    September 22, 2005

    Reclaiming the Air

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

  • Film+TV

    June 10, 2004

    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

  • Music

    May 6, 2004

    We Are the Fall

    . . . 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

  • Music

    February 6, 2003

    Boomslangers

    . . . 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

  • Columns

    November 14, 2002

    The Boy of Summer

    . . . 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

  • News

    August 22, 2002

    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?

  • News

    August 22, 2002

    New Dawn Fades

    Joy Division's grim effervescence

  • Music

    July 25, 2002

    Hit the Decks

    Joy Division's grim effervescence

  • Music

    May 11, 2000

    Mope Springs Eternal

    Joy Division's grim effervescence

  • Art+Books

    October 28, 1999

    'Thees Ees Zee Reel Shit!'

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

  • Music

    October 8, 1998

    Burn, Li'l Debby, Burn

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

  • Music

    September 24, 1998

    Let's Get Dead

    Music for the modern zombie

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