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The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Weekend

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Friday, September 13 Monophonics THE MINT Monophonics are like a whole section of the record store come to life -- especially that wall above the register where they keep the serious stuff. The Bay Area band do acrobatic son ... More >>

Is There Any Such Thing as Australian Cuisine?

This week, I reviewed Outback Steakhouse, and one of the main takeaways of the piece is that the food served at Outback is in no way Australian. This prompted an email from Jason Kessler (the same Jason Kessler who writes the Nitpicker column for Bon Appetit that prompted our recent post on touchy-f ... More >>

This Ridiculous "Club Tour" Across the U.S. Costs $6,600

So, these Australian promoters are offering "clubbing tours." They are bonkers. The company is called Pilgrimage, and their two week U.S. package takes foreign raver wannabes from L.A. to Las Vegas to New York to Miami, where they will go to dance clubs, pool parties, and private mansions. They'll ... More >>

Swedish House Mafia - L.A. State Historic Park - 3/8/13

Swedish House Mafia L.A. State Historic Park 3/8/13 Better than: Just...anything. Most other things. Anyone who thought that chilly temperates and some rain might deter the rave kids from raving full throttle at the Swedish House Mafia show last night underestimates the heartiness of rave kids an ... More >>

MessHall Reviewed

This Los Feliz hot spot is a stylish riff on the summer camp of your childhood

Q & A With Australian Brewery Mountain Goat Beer: Surfboards as Collateral The Influence of American Craft Beer

Australia doesn't just produce enviable beer commercials, as we learned last week, they produce beer equally worthy of our interest. One such brewery, Mountain Goat Beer of Melbourne, Australia, is kicking off a launch party for extended distribution at Rock & Brews in El Segundo tonight, and Congre ... More >>

Seven L.A. Comics Report From the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a festival unlike any other. The 65-year-old whirlwind event lasts the entire month of August and is essentially a free-for-all: interested performers merely have to book their own venue, travel, and accommodation, then show up, self-promote like mad, and pray you ge ... More >>

5 Lessons Learned at Tales of the Cocktail 2012

This year marked the 10th anniversary for Tales of the Cocktail, the massive cocktail convention that takes place each July in New Orleans. It's an outrageously sweaty and boozy event that transforms the French Quarter into a sea of fedoras and waxed mustaches. Bartenders come from around the world ... More >>

Top 12 LGBT Movies You Need To See, as Picked by Film Fest Organizers

Outfest, L.A.'s gay and lesbian film festival, ended on Sunday, reminding us that films about the LGBT experience serve an important role in the community, from teaching teenage boys and girls that it's alright to kiss other boys and girls, respectively, to connecting social activists with images su ... More >>

L.A. Weekly's New Columnist, Besha Rodell, Offers Greetings From the Nosh Pit

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: African Music

KCRW Broadcast #165 for Saturday, May 19, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Advice From Diamond Dave Fanatics! Hello from Cape Town! Before we go any further, I want to say that hours ago, I read about the passing of Chuck Brown, the legendary Washington DC musician, the founding father of ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Hunting, Gut Stew, and Sex With Your Sister

[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.] Still in Australia, get used to it! I will be here for quite a while. Things are going very we ... More >>

Gotye: His Life Story

See Also: *Our Review of Gotye at the El Rey Theatre, February 2, 2012 *Coachella Preview 2012: Everything You Need to Know About the Performers Raised in Australia, Gotye has a completely sold out US tour, over 140 million YouTube hits, and a single ("Somebody That I Used to Know") so potent it h ... More >>

Why Limp Bizkit on Cash Money Makes Sense

See also: Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Limp Bizkit Had An Amazing Run It's confirmed: The Limp Bizkit-on-Cash Money era is upon us, whatever that might entail. We know because last week at the Laundry Bar in Melbourne, Austrailia, Bizkit/House of Pain turntabilist DJ Lethal spun "Ready to Go," the world ... More >>

Getty Museum Gets a New Director: Timothy Potts

Timothy Potts is the new director of the Getty Museum, and will begin the job on Sept. 1. Potts, a native of Sydney, Australia, has been director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, since January 2008. He also has been director of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, and before ... More >>

Ecstasy Use Results in 'Erratic And Dangerous Driving,' Says New Study: New Year's Eve Ravers Warned to be Careful

Ravers.​'Tis the season to be raving. At least in the L.A. region, where we'll have two major New Year's Eve massives, Together As One, and White Wonderland, at which to lose it, not to mention several electronic club nights. But in a timely warning a Melbourne university professor says in ju ... More >>

Impro Theater's Chekhov Unscripted: How to Improvise an Homage to Uncle Vanya

Dan O'ConnorRyan Smith in Chekhov Unscripted​In 1999, after 11 years of wringing laughs from willing audiences through competitive comedy and newfangled styles of longform improvisation, Impro Theater devised a upstart project called Shakespeare Unscripted that would turn into an enormously su ... More >>

Cut Copy, Washed Out - The Palladium - October 12, 2011

Andrea Domanick​Cut Copy, Washed Out The Palladium October 12, 2011 Better than... Kanye's Workout Plan. Summer and all its carefree sentiments may be behind us, but a look at L.A.'s concert circuit this month would tell you otherwise. From The Rapture to the Culture Collide fest to last ni ... More >>

Skrillex, Odd Future, Gaslamp Killer, and Chromeo at HARD Summer Fest - Los Angeles State Historic Park - 8/7/11

Timothy Norris​By Roselle Chen Guys in rice picker hats and Jabbawockeez masks, and girls in booty shorts, sports bras and furry boots filtered into sunlit, grassy Los Angeles State Historic Park Saturday for HARD Summer Music Festival. 30,000 people were in attendance, so perhaps one should ... More >>

Henry Rollins! The Column: Listening to Ramones in Tehran

Timothy Norris​[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes 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 Wednesday and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday ... More >>

Sunset Strip Follies

Compton Cricket Team 'Homies & the Popz' to Rep U.S. in Tourney Down Under (BONUS: They Rap About It)

Compton Cricket ClubThis is not a joke​A dozen dreamers from the hood, one geographically displaced athletic passion. Dare we say Jamaican bobsled team? Nah, but the Compton Cricket Club is nine times as street. Even streeter: These guys might actually have a chance at beating "comparably com ... More >>

Hollyweird: Angelenos Take it Off for Annual No Pants Subway Ride

View more photos in the slideshow, "CuriousJosh: No Pants Metro Ride." Josh "CuriousJosh" Reiss​It was a gorgeous and quiet Sunday afternoon at Los Angeles Union Station.  The commuters scattered throughout were diverse -- a young couple, an old man reading a newspaper, a family heading to a ... More >>

Live Review: Midnight Juggernauts and The Naked and Famous at The Echoplex

Michael OrloskyMidnight Juggernauts​ Last night the line to get into the Echoplex stretched all the way down the driveway and around the block. Security guards had to shoo away alternate lines that started forming by those who were still hoping in vain for an extra ticket even though the place ... More >>

INXS and a Paean to Excess

The late Michael Hutchence plays punk

Mélisse Hosts The Spotted Pig's April Bloomfield in 'Michelin Mashup'

Photo via Kitchenrat.com.​There are guests, there are guest chefs and there are guest star chefs. On July 26th, Mélisse will feature chef April Bloomfield of New York City's The Spotted Pig, who would come under the latter category, in an event the restaurant is calling "Michelin Mashup: Cook ... More >>

When Reality Crashes Into a Tree

Tim Crouch’s brilliant act of conjuring

Let’s Get Something Straight Between Us Straight Between Us

The “All About Me” Show?

Eat What Bourdain Just Ate: Sichuan, Kebab, Brains & More

Anthony Bourdain was at it again this week, delving into the surprising culinary scene of Melbourne, Australia. But unless you have a bunch of highly-skilled chef pals with access to local Aussie ingredients, you're probably not going to be able to recreate that charming little rooftop potluck. Howe ... More >>

WHO'S SUPER NOW?

Talking with the Institute for Figuring’s Margaret and Christine Wertheim

Masters of the Woolen Reef

Film Reviews: Delirious, Death at a Funeral, 7 Dias

Vintage Dame

Cate Blanchett exhumes Hollywood’s golden era

Ain't Too Proud to Beat You Raw

THE VASCO ERA at Spaceland, July 16

Letters

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Letters

Coffee, Tea or Handcuffs?

An Australian journalist gets a taste of Department of Homeland Security hospitality

Letters

Letters

Killing the Angel in the House

With a major-label contract and a spot on the Lollapalooza tour, the Distillers are set to become big rock stars. How will Brody Armstrong tolerate the fame?

It’s High Time

Letters

The Million-Dollar March

A tribute to greed, power and excess

Notes From the Front

The Wall defines two Americas in Quebec

Canada Semi-dry

The Toronto Film Festival turns 25

Dark Stars

Micro-East Collective in the race for space

The War Over Your Personal Privacy Is Over.
You Lost.

The top five ways the technological revolution has been a war against you

Satori Night Fever

A Ghost in the space-time machine