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Fanatics! Yet Another Great Night of Sonic Bliss

RADIO BROADCAST #235 09-29-13 Fanatics! This show is so good, I can barely stand it! Take a moment to look over tonight's 31 flavors. As some of you obviously know, VUM reached their target amount of funds to be raised to press their new album, which we have been playing here. I would like to thin ... More >>

Henry Rollins: Metalheads in Germany

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Sunday KCRW broadcast.] Two weeks ago, I left you in Germany at the start of the Wacken Festival. Now, we continue ... ... More >>

Ten Metal Albums to Hear Before You Die

By Alex Distefano When you're talking about something as all-encompassing as heavy metal, you might as well be talking about something as infinitely complicated as the universe. It's that vast, and the amount of territory to cover is seemingly limitless. From black metal and thrash, death metal to ... More >>

The Best Concerts to See in Los Angeles This Week

For any show in town see our regularly-updated concert calendar. Monday, May 13 Torches THE ECHO Torches are an L.A. band (the band that was once Torches in Trees, if your indie rock database needs an update) who've submerged themselves completely in the same kind of anthemic, happy-sad music that ... More >>

Music Picks: Rhye, Papa and Motörhead

Five '70s Metal Bands Who Are Better Than Black Sabbath

Ok, we get it. You like Sabbath. Everyone does. But there's a whole big world out there of '70s metal bands that goes beyond Sabbath -- even beyond Sir Lord Baltimore, if you can believe that. The '70s offered so much in the way of doom-and-gloom heaviness that it's criminal so many stop with Ozzy, ... More >>

Our Top Ten Favorite Online Resources for Metal Knowledge

The bar has closed. You are standing outside with friends. You have failed at attempts to hook up for the evening. But just as you have given up hope for the night, you encounter a hot metal chick or dude that has just left the metal show at the venue next door. Drunken conversation has started, but ... More >>

The 20 Greatest Metal Albums in History: 20-11

If you count Black Sabbath's 1970 self-titled debut as heavy metal's birth, the genre is now over 40. It can no longer be called a fad. It can have adult children, and it can run for president. (Insert "presidental metal of freedom" joke here). See also: Top 20 L.A. Metal Albums: The Complete List ... More >>

Reviews of Wines From Famous Rock 'n' Roll Bands!

See also: Top 20 Hair Metal Albums of All Time Lately we've noticed a lot of bands have their own brands of wine, including Motörhead, Kiss, AC/DC, and Ratt. (Even Warrant has a wine. Warrant.) One of our friends at Wine Spectator magazine showed us the piece they wrote in April about this trend, ... More >>

Hardcore Deathmatch: Cro-Mags vs. Beowülf

[Editor's note: Deathmatch pairs two artists who have something in common, and determines who is better. It's a concept we sort-of ripped off from MTV, except that instead of claymation it's the printed word!] See also: Top Five Best Post-Hardcore Records Harley Flanagan, founding bassist of New Y ... More >>

EDC Raver's Craigslist Ad Claiming She Got Pregnant by Anonymous Guy Goes Viral

Updated at the bottom: The poster got back to us and admitted it's a hoax. First posed at 3:11 p.m. Death and destruction seem to follow Electric Daisy Carnival almost wherever it goes, through no fault of its own: L.A. organizers did a nice job of putting on America's biggest festival stage in Las ... More >>

A Lemmy Interview You Can Read in 30 Seconds ... Go!

Top Ten Metal Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Metal Motörhead frontman Lemmy is surrounded by a staunch pack of protectors. When the publicist for the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival -- a handle so long you practically need an energy drink to get through it -- offered a phone int ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Aussie Tribute

KCRW Broadcast #160 for Saturday, April 14, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Japanese Guitar Freaks From Outer Space Fanatics! I am Australia bound. At this moment, I am in Wellington, New Zealand with show #60 for the year a few hours behind me. I will be in Australia for quite a long sp ... More >>

The Museum That Roared

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Cramps, Andy Warhol References

KCRW Broadcast #156 for Saturday, March 17, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Rebelling in Sweet Home Alabama Fanatics! I am writing you from what's left of a night off in Washington DC. I had a good day driving around town with Ian MacKaye. A few hours ago, we drove by the house where Min ... More >>

Music Picks: Hugh Cornwell, Carlos Guitarlos, Zakir Hussain's Masters of Percussion

Also, Charlene Soraia, Chuck Loeb, the Head Cat, Feed Me and others

Dave Mustaine's Advice for Starving Women in Africa: "Put a Plug in It"

Dave Mustaine is intense. His band Megadeth pairs oppositional forces -- aggressive, machine-gun rhythms with near-pop melodies -- and similarly Mustaine's personality seems a yin-yang contradiction of simmering rage and family values. On the road with the fourth Gigantour, which hits Gibson Amphit ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! How Music Has Enacted Social Change: A Primer

​[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] I spoke recently at the Central Library in downtown Los Angeles. I was mercifully brief ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: New York Dolls, Fugazi, Motörhead and more

​KCRW BROADCAST #1248 for Saturday, August 20 Fanatics! Beaming in from Edinburgh, Scotland. The weather is great and the streets are full of people. It is time for the annual Edinburgh Festival. You might remember that I wrote you from here last year. This year, I am only here for two shows. ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Boris, Gun Club, R.I.P Ex-Motörhead Guitarist Würzel

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #123 for Saturday, July 16. Fanatics! What a show we have for you tonight! All you need to do is look down the list and it's all good all the way the way through. If you look a ways down this stellar gathering of great tunes and you will see two Boris tunes wit ... More >>

Music Picks: Liz Phair, DeVotchKa, Peter Murphy, Fergus & Geronimo

Also Whitechapel, Motorhead, Juanes and others

Speak Softly, Drive a German Tank: Lemmy Kilmister at His Documentary Film Opening

Top 10 Strangest Rock Star Action Figures (In Honor of the "Hard Rock Barbie" Lawsuit)

Tiny Rockers! 10 Best Rock Star Action Figures (Not Including HorrorPops' Lawsuit Lovin Bassist)

Motorhead Announces World Tour, LA Date

Motorhead live in LA!​ [More forthcoming]Los Angeles strip club Patron of the Decade Lemmy and his current crop of Motörhead bandmates have announced a world tour that will take them all over the US and then over to Australia and South America. If you can't wait to see Lemmy (singing, not j ... More >>

Top 10 Worst Musician-Endorsed Stocking Stuffers, Including 50 Cent Condoms, ODB Rap Snacks, and More

Top 10 Worst Stocking Stuffers Including 50 Cent Condoms, ODB Rap Snacks, and More

Sunset Strip Festival: West Hollywood Declares August 26, 'SLASH DAY'

Alex DistefanoLast night, the focus was on Slash (focus not pictured)​On the eve of the third annual Sunset Strip Music Festival, Thursday night, the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip and the city of West Hollywood honored none other than hard rock guitar icon Slash, who rose to fame with Gu ... More >>

Udon: The Second Best Japanese Movie Ever Made

The Weekly's food critic on his LAFF presentation

Live in LA Tonight: Flying Lotus, Links, Ingrid Michaelson, Stanton Moore, the Head Cat

Links​Whoever said the best things in life are free never got gouged for parking in Hollywood. So suffice to say a couple of the best things tonight are ... convenient. Flying Lotus -- his acclaimed sophomore album "Cosmogramma" having just hit the shelves -- plays a 7 p.m. in-store at Amoeba. ... More >>

The Portable Lemmy

​Any rock journalist can tell you that Motörhead frontman and honorary Angeleno (he can easily be found at the Rainbow and a certain well-known East Hollywood bikini bar) Lemmy Kilmister gives great quote. Lemmy's words of wisdom have the weight of a career that has taken The Bewarted One fr ... More >>

Lazy Ox Canteen: Where's bäco?

Finding your bliss in Josef Centeno’s ambitious new downtown bistro

Interview: Blacklist's Josh Strawn on Heavy Metal, Victor Serge and Irony

Jammi Yorklow​ In 2009, there have been few albums that have grabbed this writer like Blacklist's debut full-length, Midnight of the Century. The Brooklyn-based band seems to be completely at odds with the this decade's dominant rock sounds. Where so many other have embraced minimalism, Black ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Oktoberfest Scandal, Dodger Victory, Motorhead and Chromeo Rock Downtown L.A.

No matter where you went over the weekend -- a restaurant, bar, or even a friend's house -- there were more baseball-crazed Angelenos glued to the television than normal as the Dodgers finished off the St. Louis Cardinals in the postseason throwdown. Looks like Villaraigosa is going to be sending a ... More >>

Ten Great Motorhead Moments for the Unenlightened

We could go twenty, actually, but will stick to ten. Motorhead plays tonight at Club Nokia. Any other information seems superfluous. But: If you've never seen Motorhead and you call yourself a Buddhist, well, you need to look a little deeper within, because nothing clears the mind of extraneous thou ... More >>

Rock Picks: Steve Earle, Polvo, These Arms Are Snakes, Correatown

Also, Bob Dylan & His Band, Motorhead, John Doe & Exene Cervenka and others

Judas Priest's Performance of British Steel at Gibson Amphitheatre: Sonically Beefier, Possibly Record-Breaking

By Skylaire Alfvegren Judas Priest at Gibson Amphitheatre, August 2 Last year, Birmingham, UK stalwarts Judas Priest released an ambitious double album conceptualizing the life of French seer, Nostradamus, and mounted an epic summer escapade with Motorhead and Heaven & Hell. Under the stars abo ... More >>

East of the 5: Skull-shattering Metal Mayhem Mondays at Footsies

Metal Mondays Shatters Skulls in Highland Park.

Stage Raw: Molotov Cocktail Flung in the Cold

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS MOLOTOV COCKTAIL FLUNG IN THE COLD Photo courtesy of HighwaysThat's the PR description for the "Free Performative Mixtape (dub)zeck being staged at Highways on Saturday, Aug. 1, 8 p.m. And it's free. "Plunging Pa ... More >>

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LA People 2009: The Throat — Lemmy

Touring is too fun to stop for Motorhead's lead singer, who's taken his vocal cords to hell and back for nearly 35 years, but he'll always come home to his barstool at the Rainbow

Music for the Depression: Motorhead, Now More Than Ever

This press release arrived in our inbox and elicited expressions of disappointment among our staff: 2009 MUSINK TATTOO AND MUSIC TOUR CANCELEDMUSINK producers have announced that the 2009 tattoo and music tour hasbeen canceled due to the current economic climate.  The U.S. tour wasscheduled ... More >>

Exhuming Nostradamus: Judas Priest's Lead Singer on UFOs, Concept Albums, Motörhead and Dio

There is only one Metal God, and his name is Rob Halford

"Air Guitar Nation" Rocks L.A.

"Air Guitar Nation," a brand-new documentary about the real art of air guitar, winner of the audience award at SXSW this year, is premiering at the NuArt Cinema in Santa Monica this Friday. Later that night, air guitar virtuoso and "Air Guitar Nation" poster boy Bjorn Turoque (pictured above) will ... More >>

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