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February 26, 2013
Death-Metal Band The Faceless Draws Criticism for Becoming Less Death-Metal
By Jason Roche When music from Los Angeles metal group The Faceless' newest album, Autotheism, began to leak out into the blogosphere last summer, fans were divided, and so were critics. "A botched experiment of sorts," opined SputnikMusic.com; "razor sharp," countered ThePRP.com. The group's prev ... More >>
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February 19, 2013
Tomahawk's Duane Denison Is Tired of Your Questions
Tomahawk guitarist/founder Duane Denison is bored with questions about the six-year break between the band's new album Oddfellows and their last album, Anonymous. "I was in prison for manslaughter. I was in a laundromat. This woman was looking at my wife's underwear, and I shot her." See also: Wha ... More >>
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February 18, 2013
The Best Concerts in L.A. This Week
Monday, February 18 Om CENTER FOR THE ARTS, EAGLE ROCK Om's Al Cisneros is a cosmic explorer of the highest order, the kind of guy whose every musical effort is one more step along a spiral path to ... ultimate truth? Ultimate beauty? Something too ultimately primal and sacred for the guy who write ... More >>
Music
February 14, 2013
Music Picks: Foxygen, Tomahawk and Nick Cave
Monday, February 18 Om CENTER FOR THE ARTS, EAGLE ROCK Om's Al Cisneros is a cosmic explorer of the highest order, the kind of guy whose every musical effort is one more step along a spiral path to ... ultimate truth? Ultimate beauty? Something too ultimately primal and sacred for the guy who write ... More >>
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September 12, 2012
Comedian Eric Andre Trained at Berklee and Had a Band Called Blarf
[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Shortly after Eric Andre enrolled at the Berklee School of Music, he formed the band Blarf. The goal was to be the gonzo zygote of Frank Zappa and the Be ... More >>
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July 12, 2012
Music Picks: Aesop Rock, Azealia Banks, Toots & the Maytals
Also, Mariachi El Bronx, Phil Ranelin, Spaceghostpurrp and others
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June 4, 2012
Top 10 Jukeboxes in Los Angeles
For all the best of L.A. music, download our free Best Of Mobile app. See Also: Best Hip Hop Jukebox in a Dive Bar An amazing jukebox will tell exactly how connected bartenders and their bosses are to their patrons and the moods they want to create. This list is composed of those heroes that wou ... More >>
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April 25, 2012
The Best Supergroups in Metal
Bereft's debut album, Leichenhaus, was released this week. Featuring members of Abysmal Dawn and Intronaut, and an ex-member of The Faceless, the group plays snail-paced doom-metal inspired by 90's U.K. acts like Paradise Lost and Anathema. Since it came out just this week, it is still too early to ... More >>
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February 21, 2012
Top Ten Best Replacement Singers in Rock and Metal
Dio-era Black SabbathSee also: *Top Ten Worst Replacement Singers in Rock and Metal *Ozzy Osbourne vs. Ronnie James Dio: Who's Better? One of the biggest stories in metal this year is the revolving door for vocalists. Jesse Leach has returned to Killswitch Engage. Iced Earth played their fi ... More >>
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January 12, 2012
Music Picks: Barry Adamson, Joanna Malfatti Trio, Clare Fischer Big Band
Also, Eleni Mandell, Steve Reich, Call Us Forgotten and others
Music
November 10, 2011
Mary J. Blige, Larry Carlton, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Also, Peanut Butter Wolf, Lucy Woodward, Chromeo and others
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October 18, 2011
The Top Five Portishead Cover Songs
PortisheadBack in the mid-'90s, the British trio Portishead emerged as bastions of the trip-hop movement. Trip-hop was a term invoked more often by the media than the bands themselves -- because, you know, we love to label things! -- but Portishead's music fit the template with beats born out ... More >>
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August 25, 2011
Music Picks: Janet Jackson, John Escreet Quartet, DJ Quik, Charles Bradley
Also, Charlie Haden Quartet West, John Williams, Philip Glass and others
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June 28, 2011
Falling James' Gig of the Week: The Middle Class and Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds at the Echoplex, 6/24
Falling JamesThe Middle ClassSo much of punk rock is centered around nostalgia these days, whether it's played by modern corporate pretenders aping their elders in watered-down, insipid ways or the surviving elders themselves, whose reunions are often too sluggish and self-congratulatory to e ... More >>
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May 14, 2011
Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tonight: Gray Joel, Melvins' Sugar Daddy Live
Timothy NorrisKCRW BROADCAST #114 for Saturday, May 14. Fanatics! I am back from a few days in Louisiana and Florida. I am in one piece although my legs have been eaten by all manner of insects. We all got chewed upon quite a bit. Our cameraman Kris stood on fire ant hill and they really did ... More >>
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February 24, 2011
Music Picks: SWANS, Sebadoh, Arbouretum, Cass McCombs
Also Meshell Ndegeocello, Kaki King, Local Natives and others
Music
November 25, 2010
Music Picks: The Hangmen, Brother Ali, Tommy Rock-A-Shacka, Weezer
Also, Hellride, Bonobo, New Kingdom and others
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June 14, 2010
Wanna Go to London to See "Watchmen"'s Alan Moore and Musical Friends do Strange Things?
Wired is offering you a chance to travel to London to attend a special multi-media experience (aka, a fun, creepy-ass time) crawling through tunnels with comics legend Alan Moore while a host of great musicians -- including Anticon's Doseone, Fog's guitarist Andrew broder, and (very likely) members ... More >>
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May 19, 2010
Legendary L.A. Post-Metal Band Isis Breaks Up, Announces Final Tour
Legendary Los Angeles Post-Metal band Isis Breaks Up, Announces Final Tour
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April 27, 2010
Will Alan Moore-Mike Patton Collaboration Top "March of the Sinister Ducks"?
Pitchfork reports that comics legend Alan Moore, the revered writer responsible for From Hell, Watchmen and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (the comics, NOT the movies) has a couple of new musical collaborations ready, including one that features the one and only Mike Patton. From Pitchfork: Moo ... More >>
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April 22, 2010
Telling It Like It Was: How Coachella 2010 (aka Clusterfuckchella) Really Went Down
Philippa AllamYour average view at Coachella While other news outlets keep telling you that Coachella 2010 was a resounding, trouble-free success, and while the organizers are bragging about the size of the crowds to Billboard (as if bigger meant better when it comes to crowds...), you know ... More >>
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April 20, 2010
Reunited and It Feels So Good: Faith No More at Coachella, Plus Mike Patton's Thoughts on the Festival
Timothy NorrisMike PattonIt's half-way through Faith No More's Saturday night set at Coachella and Mike Patton is already being groped and grabbed by the audience. No sooner had the band begun to wind down its cheeky rendition of Michael Jackson's "Ben" than the crooner leapt into the pit of ... More >>
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April 7, 2010
Top Ten David Lynch Music Moments
Tonight the Quentin Tarantino-owned-and-operated New Beverly Cinema will be showing David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, one of his most misunderstood masterpieces about the strangeness of everyday American culture (even the ubiquitous power lines are kind of malevolent!). You should go see ... More >>
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March 17, 2010
First Listen: Mike Patton's 'Mondo Cane,' An Inventive Love Letter to Morricone
On the eve of a high-profile Coachella appearance with the reunited Faith No More, the epically strange (and hugely prolific) Mike Patton has announced the May 4 release of his sorta-solo LP, Mondo Cane. The album rounds up 10 traditional Italian pop songs, along with one Ennio Morricone cov ... More >>
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January 6, 2010
Winter Music Games: Machine Project to Host Improv Classes, Play John Zorn's 'Cobra' Game
This month the great Machine Project space in Echo Park will host three workshops on improvisation, open to players of all levels, and learn a music game called Cobra created by genius New York saxophonist John Zorn. The two hour sessions will be held each Sunday afternoon through January, and w ... More >>
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November 25, 2009
Thanksgiving Crate Digger: 19th Century Native American Jams MP3's
Thanksgiving Crate Digger: 19th Century Native American Jams
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October 26, 2009
Soundtrack to Our Lives? Arcade Fire Richard Kelly Team Up for the Box
Arcade Fire Richard Kelly Team Up for the Box
Blogs
April 20, 2009
Over the Weekend: RIP J.G. Ballard, Three Days of Coachella Madness, Plus Zombie Invasion at Fangoria Convention
We don't know about you but we are the very definition of exhausted. Three days of music, parties and the desert heat at the 10th annual Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio has left us completely wiped. But damn if we didn't get some great coverage while we were there. Randall Roberts put tog ... More >>
Music
April 16, 2009
Rock Picks: Mark Eitzel, Wanda Jackson, Dan Deacon, Heartless Bastards
Plus, Hecuba, James Pants, Angus & Julia Stone and others
Music
August 28, 2008
Rock Picks: Ice Cube, Bob Dylan, Dog and Pony Show
Also, Chuck Berry, Southern Culture on the Skids, Paul Weller, and more
Music
July 31, 2008
David Scott Stone: The Master Modulator Experiments With Old Tones
"I want to make experimental music that affects all the senses"
Music
May 29, 2008
Rock Picks: Beirut, The Cure, Jonathan Richman
And other May 29-June 5 shows
Music
May 8, 2008
Rock Picks: Slick Rick, Tapes 'n Tapes, Kate Nash
And other May 8-15 shows
Music
August 9, 2007
Rock Picks: Detroit Cobras, Gore Gore Girls, MF Doom, Squeeze
For the week of August 9 – 16
Music
December 14, 2006
The Season to Be Rockin'
Tralala, Jim Noir, Annuals at Spaceland
News
April 27, 2006
High & Outside
2005�s best outsider and experimental music releases
Calendar
February 9, 2006
Rock Picks
For February 9 - 16, 2006
Music
February 2, 2006
We Feel This Concert Billing Is Somewhat Phallic
Morningwood, with Head Automatica at the Roxy, January 27
Calendar
January 19, 2006
Pick for Friday, February 10
Morningwood, with Head Automatica at the Roxy, January 27
Calendar
January 5, 2006
High & Outside
2005’s best outsider and experimental music releases
Music
September 1, 2005
So Many Beards
First annual ArthurFest promises extreme heaviosity
Music
February 3, 2005
Out of the Mystic
Finding a way to John Zorn
Music
August 5, 2004
Clean and Technical
Finding a way to John Zorn
Music
February 19, 2004
An Anthem Reclaimed
Finding a way to John Zorn
Music
February 5, 2004
The Deepest Cut
Finding a way to John Zorn
News
October 9, 2003
Letters
Finding a way to John Zorn
News
September 25, 2003
A Day With The Locust
On the road with the world�s most dangerous band. Also, an investigation of death metal, �hardcore,� millionaire punks and the mysterious Tijuana zebra
Music
October 17, 2002
Back in Black
On the road with the world�s most dangerous band. Also, an investigation of death metal, �hardcore,� millionaire punks and the mysterious Tijuana zebra
Music
July 25, 2002
Warped 'n' Woofers
Great Unwashed scrubbed squeaky clean
Music
August 31, 2000
Smack My Glitch Up
Great Unwashed scrubbed squeaky clean
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