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  • Blogs

    July 24, 2012

    Millage Peaks, Son of Former LAFD Chief, Pleads Guilty in TSA Pot Smuggling Scheme at LAX

    Millage Peaks, the son of former L.A. Fire Department chief of the same name, today pleaded guilty to a charge that he paid a TSA agent to smuggle marijuana through security checkpoints at LAX. Peaks "initiated the bribery scheme" that has brought guilty pleas to federal charges from five defendant ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2012

    Five Quite Good K-hop Albums

    See also: *K-pop Till You Drop: The Skinny on Korean Boy and Girl Groups" *Reviewed: Drunken Tiger at the Jungle Concert In L.A., 12-02-11 This just in: the best South Korean music to get international play is not K-pop. Sorry. Much like J-pop, and their American cousins, y'know, girl bands and bo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2012

    Rock the Bells 2012 Lineup Announced

    See also: Our review of Rock the Bells 2011 Last night Guerilla Union announced this year's Rock the Bells 2012 dates, headliners and lineup. Beginning in 2010, the hip-hop festival's headliners -- famous acts whose first few albums often outshine their later work -- have performed their classic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2012

    Seven Ghostface Killah Songs Showing His Softer Side

    ​See also Ghostface Killah Changes Mind About Online Impersonator Ghostfase: 'Shout Out to My Mini Muse.... Funny Ass Ninja' Story by Reed Fischer Ghostface Killah has flirted with mainstream hip-hop, but has spent most of his career being the critics' favorite rapper -- for good reason. Tony St ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2012

    Wu-Tang Clan - Club Nokia - 1/21/12

    Wu-Tang Clan Club Nokia January 21, 2012 Sorry, but Wu-Tang Clan is something to fuck with these days. Sure, their fans remain passionate -- a group of grown-ass music writers I know do almost nothing but analyze their lyrics and recent solo projects -- but there's fewer of them. The group's rele ... More >>

  • 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

    January 11, 2012

    J-Swift Made Big Hits 
With The Pharcyde 
Before Tragedy And Drugs 
Nearly Took Him Down

    Nanette Gonzales​[Editor's note: Longtime Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] See also: Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List J-Swift hit rock bottom five years ago. Sacks o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2011

    Curren$y, Method Man - Music Box - 11/5/11

    Timothy NorrisCurren$y​Curren$y, Method Man, Smoke DZA, Fiend, Corner Boy P Music Box 11/5/11 Better than ... hanging with Curren$y at his crib. Oh, wait. The average person would use a broken ankle as a reason to relax and take a little time off, especially if said person had succeeded Dev ... More >>

  • Music

    November 3, 2011

    Music Picks: Method Man, Sufjan Stevens and Raymond Raposa, Billy Childs Jazz Chamber Ensemble

    Also, Lights, Gallows, Slow Club

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2011

    Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Limp Bizkit Had An Amazing Run

    They don't like hairy buttholes​Fred Durst was the Kanye West of his day. Not to say he was as talented. But at the height of Limp Bizkit's fame -- and make no mistake, this was hundreds of millions of dollars of fame -- he was the same type of beloved villain. He succeed in that era's popul ... More >>

  • Music

    September 8, 2011

    G-Funk All-Star Kurupt Sails Uncharted Rap Waters

    They don't like hairy buttholes​Fred Durst was the Kanye West of his day. Not to say he was as talented. But at the height of Limp Bizkit's fame -- and make no mistake, this was hundreds of millions of dollars of fame -- he was the same type of beloved villain. He succeed in that era's popul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2011

    Ice-T vs. Soula Boy: Who Won?

    ​[Editor's note: In honor of Soulja Boy's performance at L.A. Memorial Sports Arena this Saturday, August 20, along with Kid Ink, Travis Porter and many others, here's an excerpt from my book Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop, which wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2011

    Top Five Rapping Basketball Players Phil Jackson Might Actually Like

    ​Phil Jackson, of all people, recently had some harsh words for "Fix The Knicks," the odd, showtuney-tune penned by New York Knicks owner James Dolan. (You can hear it here.) Dolan needs either "a better lyricist or a better musician," Jackson said. Ouch! Of course, it's hard to disagree with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    Top Ten Rap Remixes Of '90s R&B Songs

    Take that​This Friday, the Stokely Williams-fronted Mint Condition will be taking the stage at Club Nokia. The group came to prominence in the '90s with the huge hit ballad "What Kind Of Man Would I Be?" But beyond Mint Condition's slick soul moments, the band also embraced the mid-'90s trend ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Top 7 Hall & Oates-Sampled Hip-Hop Songs

    We can go for that!​By Sheila Dichoso Nothing says hip-hop like Hall & Oates. That's right. Not even the filthy mouths of 2 Live Crew could resist their soft rock hooks, luxurious hair and awkward, ambiguous lyrics. (You can't go for what, exactly?) From Wu Tang to Kanye, rappers have paid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    Top 10 Songs That Namecheck Los Angeles Strip Clubs

    What happens at the strip club...​ February is the month we worship upon the altar of amour -- and what better way to let Cupid's arrow fly than investing your hardly-earned dollar bills into the g-string of a bare-bottom UCLA co-ed? If you need some risque recommendations once you or your si ... More >>

  • Music

    December 2, 2010

    Music Picks: Sweaters, Jonathan Richman, Hanni El Khatib, Henry Rollins

    Also, Aloe Blacc, Maren Parusel, the Greenhornes and others

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2010

    Is Wu-Tang without the RZA still Wu-Tang?

    Not all of these people will be coming to Club Nokia next Sunday...​Next Sunday, concert promotion juggernaut Golden Voice is bringing what they claim is the Wu-Tang Clan to Club Nokia. To be more precise, as Mikael Wood pointed out in this week's pick, they're bringing "seven of the eight or ... More >>

  • Music

    November 11, 2010

    Music Picks: Amanda Jo Williams, Usher, Masaki Batoh, Procol Harum

    Also, Dustin Wong, Greg Dulli, Ghostface Killah

  • Blogs

    August 23, 2010

    Over the Weekend: Rock the Bells Hip-Hop Festival, featuring Snoop, Wu-Tang, Lauryn Hill

    Kasey StokesMethod Man of Wu-Tang Clan​As it turns out, you should not fuck tha police. Our Rock the Bells road trip began promisingly: left for San Bernardino early, avoided traffic. We'd maintained a cool objectivity all week, but now were free to exclaim over the lineup, a mix of ones-to- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2010

    ICP Blame Tila Tequila's Boobs for Her 'Gathering of the Juggalos' Attack

    ICP Blame Tila Tequila's Boobs for Her 'Gathering of the Juggalos' Attack

  • Music

    July 22, 2010

    The Continuing Adventures of Squeak E. Clean

    The star-studded N.A.S.A. project by L.A.'s best-connected producer gets a remix

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    What's Method Man's Cheap Wine of Choice? Why Did Tom Waits Want to Hang Out with Kool Keith? Which Rapper Moonlights As Lingerie Designer?: N.A.S.A.'s DJ Squeak E. Clean Tells It All

    N.A.S.A. reloaded: Squeak E. Clean (front) and collaborator DJ Zegon ​On this week's print edition of the LA Weekly, Drew Tewksbury interviews DJ Squeak E. Clean, aka Sam Spiegel, aka Spike Jonze's brother, aka the man behind the star-studded N.A.S.A. project. Spiegel's N.A.S.A. concept album ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    Live in L.A. This Weekend: Drive-By Truckers, Peter Gabriel, Les Savy Fav, First Fridays

    Drive-By Truckers​You may not have noticed if you don't live in a neighborhood where "y'all" is the prevalent pronoun -- and no, that's not pejorative -- but the Drive-By Truckers have a new album out. "The Big To-Do" is just that, out-sized riffs, growling vocals and sweat-stained rhythms sup ... More >>

  • Music

    April 22, 2010

    The Pot Shop Boys

    Returning with a new album, Cypress Hill discusses legalization, where you can get the best strains, and how great it feels to work for a stoner boss

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    The Long and Winding Road to 'Wu-Massacre'

    The latest Wu-Tang-related album is dropping (we are almost certain, though this is the Wu we're talking about, so insert proverbial grain of salt here) on March 20th, and the names on the cover--Ghostface, Method Man and Raekwon--are promoting Wu Massacre in their expectedly eccentric way. Method ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2010

    Tupac's 'All Eyez on Me': The LA Weekly Word Cloud [NSFW]

    West Coast Sound has been analyzing classic Los Angeles albums for the past six months by creating word clouds from the lyrics. We've tackled Black Flag's Damaged, the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, N.W.A's Straight Outta Compton, Guns 'n Roses' Appetite for Destruction and, most recently, just for kicks, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2009

    10 Hip Hop Highlights of 2009, from Doom to Raekwon to Antipop and Beyond

    Top of the Hip-Hop Or, how Dan LeRoy learned to stop worrying and love da bomb.   While year-end, catch-all wrap-ups are common to every musical genre, in no other style of music do they turn into the hand-wringing, "state of the game" examinations that hip-hop seems to provoke. (I've certainly wr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2008

    Weiss' 50 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2008 (#50-26)

    Over the next two weeks, myself and a very talented cadre of contributors will be emulating the book above. Unlike said tome, it won't cost money and you'll get free MP3s--which, presumably, serve a tangible purpose. Now go cry into your near-beer, Phillip Ardagh, you lovable rogue. 50. Redman ft ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2008

    Beards, Blazers & Backpacks: Pacewon, Mr. Green & Outsidaz Nostalgia

    Prior to Lee Perry and the technicolor Lucky Charms Coat taking over that Mormon bastion, the El Rey theater, I watched Pacewon and his DJ/producer/token white boy, Mr. Green deliver a capable, simple set of beats and rhymes. It was fine, but the entire time I couldn't help but wish I was watching ... More >>

  • Music

    August 7, 2008

    The Many Moods of Rock the Bells

    Hip-hop's been in a lull. Meet the new torchbearers

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2008

    The Islands' "Arms Way," Islands' Kona Pie and The Pros of "Miscenegenation"

    Last year when Sasha-Frere Jones wrote his now-infamous piece on the whiteness of indie rock, he repeatedly included the phrase "miscenegation" to describe the cross-pollination of sound between black and white music. The diction seemed deliberate, a molotov cocktail designed to rile up the chatte ... More >>

  • Music

    March 27, 2008

    GZA's Liquid Swords of Truth

    Artist performs his masterpiece in its entirety this week. Here's why you should care.

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2008

    Pause and Rewind: The Show

    I remember watching The Show for the first and only time when I was a freshman in high school. I wasn't very impressed. This was 1995, Biggie was alive, Warren G was the biggest star in the world, Wu-Tang was in the middle of the greatest run in rap history and Snoop Dogg hadn't yet released Tha D ... More >>

  • Music

    January 17, 2008

    Record Reviews: Juno soundtrack, Carpenters ring tone

    Also: Disco Not Disco, Trus'me's Working Nights

  • Music

    December 20, 2007

    Wu-Tang Clan Still Sting

    Sentencing Diagrams: A swarm turns in on itself

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2007

    The 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2007 Pt. 5 (#5-1)

    Even if you are a jewel thief, it is never wise to mess with a man whose name is Sgt. Larvell Jones. 5. Jay-Z ft. Nas-"Success" These two. Thing is, this song shouldn't be this high on my Best Of list. Say these guys hadn't spent a decade trying to fuck each other's baby mama's, Sean Carter an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2007

    The 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2007 Pt. 3 (#14-10)

    Mental Note: Avoid guys with the nickname "Mad Dog." 14. Redman-"Blow Treez" Why did we have to wait until 2007 for Redman, the man who taught a generation of impressionable youths how to roll a blunt, to sample Bob Marley, the greatest blunt roller of them all? Flipping the halcyon palm-tree ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2007

    Bishop Lamont-The Next Great West Coast Hope?

    I...listened to all that Death Row stuff....and Lords Of The Underground, Busta Rhymes, Redman and Keith Murray, where your takes had to be so clean and ill to get off the phonetics that you were dropping. Your lines had to be crisp. Other cats don’t come from that school. It took me studying R ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2007

    Wu-Tang Clan's 8 Diagrams

    Wu-Tang Clan 8 Diagrams (Loud/SRC/Universal) By Ben Westhoff The long awaited fifth Wu-Tang Clan album, 8 Diagrams, just leaked, and it’s fucking solid. After just a few listens, it’s already in my 2007 top ten, and it will surely battle Graduation for supremacy on hip hop critics’ year-end l ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    August 16, 2007

    Geek Love

    Superbad director Greg Mottola puts his own spin on the Judd Apatow school of emo-raunch filmmaking

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2007

    My(Space) Secret is Out: Cold War Kids Play For Free

    If you have a MySpace page, then lucky you. You can diddle away hours at work, perp for dates, check up on exs, plug your band, and now...you can attend their secret shows. Well, they've been going on for a year, whether you knew you were invited or not. Last February, MySpace launched "Secret Show ... More >>

  • Music

    December 14, 2006

    City of Gods

    L.A.’s Omar Cruz: Could he become the first Mexican-American rap star?

  • Music

    December 15, 2005

    The Dude With the Most Cake

    Superhustler Damon Dash is sitting on ODB’s last album. What gives?

  • Music

    December 2, 2004

    Pose and Mean It

    Superhustler Damon Dash is sitting on ODB’s last album. What gives?

  • Music

    July 26, 2001

    Bring the Sunshine

    Superhustler Damon Dash is sitting on ODB’s last album. What gives?

  • Music

    January 18, 2001

    Can’t Go to Sleep

    Superhustler Damon Dash is sitting on ODB’s last album. What gives?

  • Music

    April 13, 2000

    Naked

    D’Angelo: It’s an “I” thing

  • Music

    December 30, 1999

    Thieves Like Us

    Stalking classic rock with the Charlatans UK

  • More >>
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