Motley Crue

The Time Axl Rose and Steven Adler Nearly Killed Each Other

Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal, by Jon Wiederhorn and Katherine Turman comes out today. It's an amazing account of the four-decades-old genre -- more than 700 pages long, with hundreds of interviews, many of them with essential players. It gets into everything from the mu ... More >>

The Most Important Album of the Last 25 Years Isn't Nevermind, It's Guns N' Roses' Appetite For Destruction

Pearl Jam Are the Most Boring Band in 20 Years Top 20 Hair Metal Albums of All Time: The Complete List Guns N' Roses' seminal album Appetite For Destruction came out 25 years ago this past Saturday. I was 9 years old when a foreign exchange student taped me a copy of it. I had heard "Welcome to the ... More >>

The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List

*Top 20 Worst Bands Ever: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All-Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List Considering that most all of today's popular music -- be it roc ... More >>

The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: 20-16

See also: *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List Considering that most all of today's popular music, be it rock, pop, dance, or rap, sprang from genres pioneered by black musicians, to be all caucasian about your songs is to, literally, betr ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday

KCRW Broadcast #155 for Saturday, March 10, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Justice, Texas Style Fanatics! I am writing you from the backstage area of the House of Blues down here in Orlando FL. The next four shows are in the Sunshine State. So far, the US leg of the tour has been going ... More >>

Crate-Digging with Dam-Funk...at Best Buy

Rebecca Haithcoat​Dam-Funk always comes prepared. As L.A.'s ambassador to the funk gods, he's always equipped with the booty-rotation essentials he's acquired from years of digging in the crates. (You can bet his show tonight at the El Rey Theatre will be no exception.) The man reigns so sup ... More >>

The Ettes, Sade, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Benefit for Nick Curran

Also, Kendrick Lamar, the Punk Rock BBQ, Katy B and others

'Beauty Culture' Exhibit Is Full of Hot Women. That's the Problem

© Walter IoossDoes this challenge our traditional notions of beauty? Be quiet, you're distracting me.​ The Annenberg Space for Photography has been pulling out all the stops to promote its latest exhibit, "Beauty Culture" -- a collection of images that aims to explore "how feminine beauty is ... More >>

The Dirt Master: Neil Strauss Talks Rockers, Hookers, Drugs and Getting Hate Mail from his Ultimate Nemesis, Phil Collins

​You'll be seeing a lot in the blogosphere and beyond about Neil Strauss' revealing new book, Everyone Loves You When You're Dead, (out this week). The tome reveals shocking things about -and intimate moments with- the author's vast array of interview subjects over the years: Lady Gaga bawling ... More >>

Pay to Play On the Sunset Strip: Commenters Explore Desolation Boulevard

the sweet on the street in front of sunset's old filthy mcnasty's​ Last issue's To Pay Or Not To Pay To Play The Sunset Strip article (by Diamond Bodine-Fischer) provoked a pile-on in the comments section, much of it reinforcing the frustrations of musicians like Loana dP Valencia and Josh Ne ... More >>

Whatever Happened to Chet Thompson?

Amazing LA Bus Rants: "What Ever Happened to Chet Thompson?" (With ridiculous video)

​Ranter: Shaved-headed white dude, in his mid-forties, wearing black hoodie and beret Location: West Sunset bus stop and then the 2 bus Time: Eleven p.m., Saturday, October 16 Topics Covered: Whether buses can be proven to exist; the possibility that this is a duplicate earth; time travel; Sl ... More >>

You Can't Go Home Again: Henry Rollins on Being Back in the USA, Autumnal Feelings and his Favorite Thomas Wolfe Passage!

Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins will be contributing 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 Friday and make sure to tune ... More >>

Sigh ... Diplo Gets Drunk, Trashes His New Major Lazer Record, Nikki Sixx, Dubstep and Owl Movie

Diplo disses the next Major Lazer album, and his partner Switch. What's new?​Ol' "Dirty Laundry" Diplo has done it again. Last night he took to Twitter to air some grievances, and chief among those was yet another record that he's contributed to. Last time, of course, it was M.I.A.'s latest, ... More >>

Emperor of the Air

Ex-Motley Crue Manager Joins Guns 'n Roses, Sebastian Bach Saves Axl's Life

Ex-Motley Crue Manager Joins Guns 'n' Roses & Sebastian Bach Saves Axl's life

Countdown to Lambertgeddon! (Day 12): "Gene Simmons is a dick!"

Candis"Hot & Wet," Fan Art by Candis​The official Adam Lambert website is previewing our hero's upcoming Q&A with Rolling Stone magazine! We're so excited! We just can't hide it! We're about to lose control and we think we like it! Among the revelations: * Adam is upset that Gene Simmons qu ... More >>

Rock Picks: Future of the Left, Deerhoof, Ronnie Mack's Barndance, The Urinals

Also, Torche, Alejandro Escovedo, Quintron & Miss Pussycat, and others

Sunset Strip Strippers Return to the Body Shop

Nick Ut/APIn one of the most heart-warming narratives yet to emerge from our economic recovery, Associated Press announces that the Body Shop will begin hiring about 500 strippers. AP quotes owner Salah Almudarris as saying his club will re-open tonight, nearly five months after an electrical fire t ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Fewer Freshmen at UCLA The University of California confirms that, in a system already tightening the number of freshmen admissions, UCLA has the toughest 2009 entrance rates with the fewest number of new students admitted. L.A. TimesSupes Want Park The L.A. County Board of Supervisors approved desi ... More >>

Long Winters' Michael Shilling Hits Rock Bottom With First Novel

Meet the Blood Orphans, Silver Lake should-have-beens that never actually were

The Future is Here: Swimming Through the Flood of New DJ Gear at NAMM

"It's overwhelming," said Sisely Treasure, vocalist of L.A. synth-rock band Shiny Toy Guns, "how many people are here and all of the new gear." Treasure and her band mates were at the 2009 NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) Show, held at the Anaheim Convention Center, to demonstrate ... More >>

Mickey Rourke and Darren Aronofsky Make a Visceral Comeback in The Wrestler

Lord of the ring

Between the Lines

The music at the edges

Over the Weekend: Rockie Gardiner Memorial, Art Core, Viva Los Angeles Burlesque, Naked Scavenger Hunt and Clowns!

Is it just me or was it was incredibly hard to keep up with the insane amount of art and music events that happened in Los Angeles over the weekend? Friday night I remember hanging out backstage with Street Drum Corps when they opened for Motley Crue at the Palladium (pics coming soon) and Saturday ... More >>

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

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

Over the Weekend: "Thriller" Zombie Dance-off, Backstage with Flogging Molly, SuicideGirls Halloween Party Go-Go Dancers

There's a bit of advice I want to share with you readers this fine Monday morning: never drink red wine and whiskey in the same night. Never, ever. Not even if it's free. You see, over the weekend I hightailed it out of L.A. and up to San Louis Obispo for a friend's wedding where I made the aforemen ... More >>

The Lennon Year: Mr. Fish Anticipates 40

Kat Von D

Ink stained

Bookworm in a Tequila Bottle: 2007's Most Intriguing Music Books

Oh, those bed-wetting, penis-injecting, 43-person gangbang days of yore

Master Mizoguchi

Life, love and loss in the films of a cinematic giant

A (Really) Hard Day's Night

Gosling discusses the sexual Internet, life in L.A. and Disappearing Record Label disease

Vegas in the E.R.

GNARLS BARKLEY at Avalon, July 23

Bow Down!

Nine Inch Nails, with Bauhaus and Peaches at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, July 7

Venue Directory

Satan Loves You

Cuddly moments in new-millennium metal

Raspberry Preserves

“Overnight Sensations” the Raspberries return to stake their claim as the greatest power-poppers ever

For Those About to Rock

Seven nights at the Whisky, where dreams still die hard

Proxy Music

The Real Dadrock

A Moment Like This

The Year in Music

Cagey Cretins

Tyranny, mutation and Blue Öyster Cult

But the ''Y'' Looked Cool

Burning Man

Getting in Touch with One's Inner Churl

Wavemakers

At work and play in musical L.A.

Time After Time

Dance clubs L.A.: In one era and out another

Moist 'n' Meaty

A hairy Palm Pictures production

Let's Get Dead

Music for the modern zombie