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  • Music

    January 19, 2012

    Music Picks: Skrillex, Diplo, Wu-Tang Clan, The Health Club

    Also, Art Lande, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Gilad Hekselman, The Stitches, The Villains and others

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2011

    Occult L.A.: Season of the Witch at Cinefamily Reveals L.A.'s Underground Magick Scene

    Courtesy of Jodi WilleEat you heart out Harry Potter -- this is what witches and wizards really look like​ The full moon was in Aquarius and Mercury in retrograde as members of L.A.'s cosmic mafia -- a fashionable collection of white witches, black wizards, Crowleyites, healers, shamans, alch ... More >>

  • Music

    December 30, 2010

    NIGHTRANGER: 2010

    Courtesy of Jodi WilleEat you heart out Harry Potter -- this is what witches and wizards really look like​ The full moon was in Aquarius and Mercury in retrograde as members of L.A.'s cosmic mafia -- a fashionable collection of white witches, black wizards, Crowleyites, healers, shamans, alch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Captain Beefheart: The Legendary 1980 Profile by Lester Bangs

    Captain Beefheart artwork for Doc at the Radar Station album ad (1980)​[As we reported this afternoon, Captain Beefheart, Don Van Vliet, died today at 69. We already posted a list of the "Top 14 Reasons Why Captain Beefheart Was a True American Genius" by Beefheartologist Rob Chalfen. You can ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2010

    In Honor of the Walkman: Ten Must-Have Cassette Classics, From 'Da Da Da' to Deathrock to 'Do Me!'

    Turns out the Walkman isn't dead yet, but let's face it (those of us who weren't surprised to find that the outmoded portable was still being manufactured): The writing's on the wall. As a sort of premature eulogy for the player, West Coast Sound revisits some of the Walkman's finer moments through ... More >>

  • Music

    September 16, 2010

    Nightranger: Outta-Sight Night

    Turns out the Walkman isn't dead yet, but let's face it (those of us who weren't surprised to find that the outmoded portable was still being manufactured): The writing's on the wall. As a sort of premature eulogy for the player, West Coast Sound revisits some of the Walkman's finer moments through ... More >>

  • Music

    March 18, 2010

    The Runaways: Wild Thing

    How Sandy West was lost

  • Music

    March 11, 2010

    Long Gone: The Great Lost Quick Album

    Band's sole album, Mondo Deco, is reissued on vinyl

  • Blogs

    December 26, 2008

    Houston Press' Top 10 Reissues of 2008

    By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionall ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2008

    2008's Top Ten Pop Songs

    By Annie Zaleski Pop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2008

    Viva Los Angeles Burlesque, Mods and Rockers at the Derby

    By Erica Wrightson Violet Valentine seduces the crowd at the Derby. Photo by Jackie Canchola. Click image for entire slideshow. Backstage at the Derby in Los Feliz on Saturday November 15, a miniature classic car show materialized in the parking lot. Members of the Venice-based Devils Car Club pa ... More >>

  • Music

    November 13, 2008

    Rock Picks: Part Time Punks Festival, The Breeders, Rodney Crowell

    Also, Uh Huh Her, James Intveld, Miranda Lee Richards and more

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2008

    Citizen Lame

    Having always thought fondly of Richard Linklater's underseen and underrated 1920s bank-heist comedy The Newton Boys, I've been eager to see the versatile, Austin-based director take another stab at directing a period film. Unfortunately, after catching up with Linklater's Me and Orson Welles here i ... More >>

  • LA Life

    December 7, 2006

    Movin' On Up

    Our city gets vertical with a crop of new high-rise condos

  • Music

    June 1, 2006

    Band on the Run

    Unsigned local group finds fame, fortune, Duran Duran in the U.K.

  • Calendar

    December 1, 2005

    Busking for Stardom

    What matters for buzz bands these days is becoming the next blog thing

  • News

    March 31, 2005

    Goldberg Flies Air America

    Music-biz biggie pilots a new radio hit

  • Music

    March 24, 2005

    Chambers of the Heart

    Music-biz biggie pilots a new radio hit

  • News

    September 23, 2004

    A Small New Future

    ALEC HANLEY BEMIS on the casualties and survivors in the war between the Cynics and the True Believers

  • Columns

    March 11, 2004

    Leapin’ Ladies

    ALEC HANLEY BEMIS on the casualties and survivors in the war between the Cynics and the True Believers

  • Music

    August 7, 2003

    Sounds Like a Hit

    Pop potentates the Matrix go for The Grab

  • Music

    May 22, 2003

    Burning Questions

    Pop potentates the Matrix go for The Grab

  • Calendar

    March 6, 2003

    Pure Class

    Pop potentates the Matrix go for The Grab

  • Columns

    December 6, 2001

    Beautiful People: I’m Your Biggest-Paid Fan

    Pop potentates the Matrix go for The Grab

  • News

    June 14, 2001

    Independent Music’s Right to Fight

    The record industry sued Napster and has just inhaled MP3.com. Is there a future for music on the Internet? Analog Pussy thought so... Then they got a scary e-mail...

  • Music

    May 17, 2001

    This Is Our Music

    The Napster museum of cultural heritage

  • Music

    November 16, 2000

    Hard Knocks

    Downset’s American prayer

  • Music

    November 25, 1999

    Please Don't Like Me

    Mike Ness' social contortions

  • Music

    April 1, 1999

    For the Record

    The life and premature death of Mary’s Danish

  • Music

    November 12, 1998

    Have You Ever Been Teen?

    Rodney Bingenheimer remembers

  • Music

    March 5, 1998

    Mockin' Bird

    Patti Page comes out swinging

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