Mick Jagger

An Arrested Development Variety Show

See also: *5 Awesome Album Covers Inspired By Arrested Development *5 Best Arrested Development Artworks at Gallery 1988 *Why Emily Maya Mills Could Be the Next Carol Burnett On Saturday, Silver Lake's Lyric Hyperion Theater staged an Arrested Development-inspired variety hour called Bluth Fest for ... More >>

Classic Rock Is a Cancer on Our Society

There's a disease spreading through our generation of 20- and 30-year-olds. We inherited this malady from our parents, and it's rendering us culturally stagnant. It's sapping our identity. Perhaps most tragically, we are welcoming this plague into our homes, cars, and phones -- even into our kar ... More >>

The Best Concerts To See in L.A. This Week: Nov 12-15

Monday, November 12 In The Valley Below BOOTLEG BAR Looking like Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman walk-ons, and with an eye-contact connection to rival Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham in their good times, Echo Park hubby-and-wife Angela Gail and Jeffrey Jacob patchwork together love-in-ready bluesy ro ... More >>

Music Picks: Dublab Anniversary, Ladyhawke, Flying Lotus

Santa Monica Auctions Says Goodbye, as Bergamot Station's C Building Will Be Demolished for Expo Line

Johnny Cash's lyric "I hear the train a comin'" best captures the mood at the Santa Monica Auctions farewell event, held this past weekend, June 9 and 10. Due to the planned extension of the MTA's Expo Line, the entire C Building at Bergamot Station -- home to Track 16, The Robert Berman Gallery and ... More >>

Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: #20-16

*Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time *Top 20 Greatest Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre What we talk about when we talk about sex and rock 'n roll is often dudes, the lusty front men and axe-grinders who, perhaps, joined the band in the first place for the pu ... More >>

Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: #5-1

See also: *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: #20-16 *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: #15-11 *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: #10-6 5. Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen is the only man, of any age, who can pull off tight-ass jeans and a bandana. Those broad shoulders ... More >>

Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List

Yeah, yeah, we know. The top 20 greatest musicians of all time, in any genre. Where do we get off? Well, we'll tell you where we get off -- at Accuracy Station. Our team of writers listened to thousands and thousands of hours of music for this list, digging deep into the annals of history and explor ... More >>

Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: #20-16

See also: *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, In Any Genre: #15-11 *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, In Any Genre: #10-6 *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, In Any Genre: #5-1 Yeah, yeah, we know. The top 20 greatest musicians of all time, in any genre. Where do we get off? Well, we'll tell you where we get of ... More >>

Why This Song Sucks: Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger," featuring Christina Aguilera

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger," featuring Christina Aguilera History: God (likely) intended for Maroon 5 to be an important-but-middling critic's darling, ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Of Rock and Dinosaurs

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 week and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday eveni ... More >>

Mad Crushin' For Diplo At Departure

Lina Lecaro Diplo tears it up at Vanguard.​ Remember when everyone was comparing DJs to rockstars? Sometimes the comparison was warranted, but most of the time it was not. Paul Oakenfold is no Mick Jagger and Tiesto is no Bono, right? Rockstar eminence is about swagger and attitude, and even t ... More >>

Grammy Party Report #3: Relentless Rhythms at Roots Jam and The Black Keys on Deck at Hemingways

Lina LecaroRoots' Capt. Kirk Douglas and Jimmy Fallon- less talkin,' more rockin.'​ You never know who might pop up on stage at the Roots Jam, which was, with the exception of Clive Davis' A(ss)-list kiss/croon-a-thon, the most buzzed about bash Saturday night. It was wishful thinking of cour ... More >>

Charlie Gilmour, Son of Pink Floyd's Guitarist, Charged with Violent Disorder at Student Riot (and with Stealing a Mannequin's Leg)

​While the children of American rock stars wallow in decadence and (repeatedly) try to get their own reality shows, British rock children are trying to become, as Mick Jagger once taught them, "street-fightin' men." Witness the exploits of young man Charlie Gilmour, long-haired son of Pink Flo ... More >>

Mick Rock's Top 10 Iconic Rock Images, with Running Behind-the-Lens Commentary (and a Few Surprises)

Mick Rock (c)​ Mick Rock has shot some of the most recognizable portraits in rock music history and he's got, hands down, the best name in shutterbugdom. But with a candor and style that's as palpable as any of his subjects, he is also just as cool. In LA this weekend for a couple of events ... More >>

Rock & Rule Blu-Ray Release: Debbie Harry and Cheap Trick vs. Cartoon Guitar Mutants (and Lou Reed!)

​ How many big-budget rock and roll movies were made by Canadian animators in the early 1980s? How many of them featured at least one cast member from SCTV, the voice-over work of journeyman Don Francks, and a song by Cheap Trick? Well, at least two. Heavy Metal is the quintessential animat ... More >>

"Mick Jagger" on Keith Richards' Life by Bill Wyman (But Not The Rolling Stones' Bill Wyman)

​ Slate's Bill Wyman once got in a legal tussle with the Rolling Stones' ex-bassist Bill Wyman because his name was also Bill Wyman. Happily, he was allowed to keep using the name he was born with--a certain David Jones wasn't so lucky--and now he's used that particular coincidence to write a ... More >>

Nightranger: Mo BET-ta Booze?

RONA BARES IT

Nightranger: Bringing Sounds to the Sea

Music Picks: Gary Numan, Ana Moura, Mark Sultan, XBXRX

Also, California E.A.R. Unit, Bonobo, Mr. Gnome, Grouper and others

Carly Simon Resurrects "You're So Vain" Rumors, Once Again

Who So Vain?​About forty years ago, Carly Simon fornicated with some famous dudes. The list allegedly includes James Taylor (her main squeeze), Warren Beatty, Mick Jagger, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, the 1968 Yugoslavian Alpine skiing team, Spiro Agnew, the 14th Dalai Lama, a young Dav ... More >>

Watch the Bizarro Kenny G Version (and Video) of Beck's "Sexx Laws"

Sexx Laws​Remember Beck's incredible video for the incredible Midnight Vultures tune, "Sexx Laws"? Directed by Mr. Hansen himself, the goofy surrealist short features DayGlo footballers sacking a group of well-meaning Ojai New Age-ists, resulting in Jack Black getting smacked with a slab of dr ... More >>

U2 at the Rose Bowl: Concert Porn for the Masses

It was cool. It was a big Happening with flashing lights, lots of color, inspiration, 100,000 people screaming along in unison, moved by the pure ... spectacle of it. If we were in North Korea, these songs would have been about the Supreme Leader and we would have all been flashing colored placards ... More >>

JUMPIN' JACK STABBED

Woman, Man Walking: PJ Harvey and John Parish Return to California

GO LA: Let's Play Fuck, Marry, Kill With Morrissey, Molly Prather and Christoph Eschenbach

And other reasons to not go straight home after work, May 22-28

Coachella Day 3: The Kills Kill It, Throbbing Gristle Force Me Into The Fetal Position, and The Clipse Cancel

Slowly, my brain is slinking its way towards sensible shape. Three days of Coachella are not for the faint of heart -- if nothing else it requires a quarter-ounce of weed, an array of narcotic edibles from potcorn to cannabis cakes, several brightly colored pills of indiscriminate origin, copious ... More >>

Nightranger Does Fashion Week

Stephen Sprouse, Lady Gaga and Box 8

Great Night for Music in LA: Tom Verlaine Performs with Silent Films, and Guns 'n Bombs Debuts Club at the Echo

New York guitarist Tom Verlaine possesses one of the strongest and most identifiable tones in rock, with a no-bullshit, clean, Coltrane-esque appreciation of sound and space. He builds solos like an architect designs buildings, line by line, measure by measure. The founding member of New York art ... More >>

USC Thornton School of Music Announces New Popular Music Performance Program

Wanna be famous as a superstar musician? Learn how to bed groupies by the sheer force and magnetism of your stage strut? Find out which hallucinogens will help best develop the plot of your career-defining Concept Album? Before now, you'd have bang your head against your snare a few times, have to s ... More >>

Rocking the Rhetoric at the DNC: Coachella for C-Span Junkies

With notes on Harry Reid — the unknown poet of the political speechwriting?

Pitchfork Day 3-I Now Pronounce You Hip-Stock

Every time I inasmuch as mention the word "hipster" on the blog these days, some Mensa Mind has to scrawl some stupid, scurrilous statement about how "maaan, all you do is stereotype hipsters and make egregious generalizations and you, Jeff Weiss, are the worst writer in the history of time. Plus, ... More >>

Hey! You! Get Off of My Lap!

What to do in L.A., April 4-10

These New Puritans

"We do like to keep it quite elusive. I really like the aesthetics of terrorist videos - how grainy and far-off yet immediate they seem - there’s something about the fuzzy screen which let’s you add layers of meaning."

Ascots and Madness

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Bringin’ Sassy Back

A Mexican and an Irishman Walk Into a Bar...

To Queen or Not To Queen

A fan deliberates on the year’s most questionable “reunion” tour

Genesis Regenerated

The Contemporaries

When It Blows Its Stacks

Neuralgia nostalgia at the Queen Mary

All Tomorrow’s Parties Today

Matt Groening talks outsider music and party planning with a fellow gearhead

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?

Midnight Bumblers

Cause Célèbre: Green Carpets and Ancient Elves

On Their Own Authority

Sahara Hotnights: Butter, not margarine

Not Fade Away

Oasis, three bridges shy

Beats Chocolate

The matter of Mr. Mesfin’s Mercedes

Can Blue Men Play the Whites?