Monday, January 21 Baron von Luxxury, Yellow Alex, Yung Skeeter THE SATELLITE Electro-pop comes in splendiferous shapes and sizes. And Baron von Luxxury brings the wicked-wit version, in which DeBarge, ELO, Hall & Oates and other formerly uncool '80s soul stylists float through the disco in super-s ... More >>
Monday, January 21 Baron von Luxxury, Yellow Alex, Yung Skeeter THE SATELLITE Electro-pop comes in splendiferous shapes and sizes. And Baron von Luxxury brings the wicked-wit version, in which DeBarge, ELO, Hall & Oates and other formerly uncool '80s soul stylists float through the disco in super-s ... More >>
Monday, January 21 Baron von Luxxury, Yellow Alex, Yung Skeeter THE SATELLITE Electro-pop comes in splendiferous shapes and sizes. And Baron von Luxxury brings the wicked-wit version, in which DeBarge, ELO, Hall & Oates and other formerly uncool '80s soul stylists float through the disco in super-s ... More >>
Also, Charlene Soraia, Chuck Loeb, the Head Cat, Feed Me and others
[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] See also: Top 5 L.A. Garage Rock Bands Not everything needs to sound like the future. Not everyone wants to dwell in the present. In fact, some aim to a ... More >>
Also, Art Lande, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Gilad Hekselman, The Stitches, The Villains and others
Also Bon Iver, Cerebellion, Surfer Blood and others
Courtesy of the Getty VillaThe Helen and Hecuba Show, in "Trojan Women (After Euripides)"SITI Company's Trojan Women (After Euripides) at the Getty Villa is a regal and passionate affair about despair, oddly floating in its own world. See Theater feature on Wednesday. Also check out this ... More >>
Torry PendergrassThis is for the people of the sunL.A. Rising feat. Rage Against The Machine, Muse, Rise Against, Lauryn Hill Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 7/30/11 Better than...spending a Saturday at the beach. "Apathetic music with apathetic fans." "Do the fans even get it?" "Rage Agai ... More >>
20 years in and still ragingFor first time in 11 years, Rage Against The Machine will be playing a hometown gig tomorrow, but this isn't just any run-of-the-mill show. The band will be making their return to Los Angeles in style with an all-day extravaganza featuring themselves, Muse, Lauryn ... More >>
That's the spiritYou're dripping sweat, searching for shade, drinking just one more and praying you don't end up in the hospital for dehydration. Ahhh, summer festivals. The L.A. area's not lacking in the kind of fun you can only have when a massive crowd is unleashed into a contained-yet-o ... More >>
World Goth DaySunday was World Goth Day and with that came the end of voting for the annual World Goth Day Awards. The winners were announced on Monday and we were happy to see that several people from the L.A. scene received awards. See World Goth Day's website for a full list of awards and ... More >>
Legendary designer has created conceptual album cover photographs for bands from Pink Floyd to Mars Volta
Is it already time to think about summer music festivals? Indeed, with SXSW and Coachella firmly behind us, we must now turn to the upcoming festival of festivals that has come to mark every summer. First major fest to reveal its lineup is Lollapalooza, which celebrates its 20th anniversary ... More >>
The brains behind Bauhaus and Love and Rockets, conjures up his own L.A. noir
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Free $$$ and TrioL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESTHEATRIFICATION POSTPONEDFrom Georgeous PR:Theatrefication, the event slated to launch the City of Los Angeles' "Broadway 100" celebration, has been postponed until later this year. ... More >>
Lina Lecaro A ghostly image of J. David J. has always had a flair for the theatrical, and the busy ex-Bauhaus/Love & Rockets songwriter/musician brought it last night to Part Time Punks, presenting a dark cabaret-styled set with Portland's Adrian H and the Wounds as his backing band. The sho ... More >>
COMPREHENSVIE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Tim Crouch's The Author, and the Belarus Free Theatre L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESTHEATRIFICATION AND BROADWAY 100 Broadway and the Vaudeville circuit began in Los Angeles 100 years ago, in the downtown Historical Theater Di ... More >>
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Also, Jesus Makes the Shotgun Sound, Octavius, Cosmologic and others
SMD is headed to MIB in L.A.The nu-electro revolution. Boy, that came and went fast. Case in point: British act Simian Mobile Disco, which has moved on to that boom-tss dance-floor sound known as ... techno. You'd have to drag us kicking and screaming to see Steve Aoki or Shiny Toy Guns. But ... More >>
SMD is headed to MIB in L.A.The nu-electro revolution. Boy, that came and went fast. Case in point: British act Simian Mobile Disco, which has moved on to that boom-tss dance-floor sound known as ... techno. You'd have to drag us kicking and screaming to see Steve Aoki or Shiny Toy Guns. But ... More >>
Also, Hoodoo Gurus, Die Antwoord, Jonsi and others
Timothy NorrisMuse, rising victorious after avenging Emerson Lake and Palmer's murder by the forces of Punk [For many more exclusive photos of the show, see Timothy Norris' slideshow "Muse @ Staples Center"] Walking into Staples Center right before the Brit trio Muse hit the stage, there was ... More >>
Also, Kris Kristofferson, the Black Keys, Bettye Lavette and others
Also, Tonya Watts, Modeselektor, Heart and others
5 Great 8-Bit Cover Songs Including Radiohead, Miles Davis, and Nirvana
5 Great 8-Bit Cover Songs Including Radiohead, Miles Davis, and Nirvana
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 >>
Dennis RomeroFor those about to rock, we ... ask that you step aside and make room for 50,000 raging fans of the operatic dance sound known as trance. For all of Coachella's claims to being a desert temple of rock-god worship (Muse, Them Crooked Vultures, The Dillinger Escape Plan), the peak- ... More >>
On Saturday the "organizers" got some of their act together -- plus most people already had their wristbands after the clusterfuck of Day 1 -- so it was relatively painless to access the festival grounds. People were noticeably more chill throughout the day, which is what happens when you haven't ha ... More >>
Muse is a band made for Coachella. The British trio has a sound so large, so anthemic that it seems as though they formed simply to play open air gigs to tens of thousands of screaming fans. Where many musicians have come to the three-day desert music fest and failed amidst the vastness of the space ... More >>
Check out more scenes from the show in Shannon Cottrell's photo gallery. If you read our interview with L.A. duo Faith and the Muse back in December, then you know that William Faith and Monica Richards had ambitions for a "slightly more grand show" to follow the release of their most recent album ... More >>
Also, Tales From the Script, Neil Young: Trunk Show, See What I'm Saying and more
Also, Tales From the Script, Neil Young: Trunk Show, See What I'm Saying and more
L.A.-based Faith and the Muse have long been influenced by world music and traditions and the duo's latest effort :ankoku butoh: is no different. This time around, though, William Faith and Monica Richards looked towards Japan, specifically taiko drums, butoh dance and Shinto spirituality, to inform ... More >>
KROQ-FM's annual Almost Acoustic Christmas this year featured some of our favorite bands from the 90s, the decade in which we learned to play guitar just so we could jam the songs in some crappy all-ages venue. Revisiting Alice In Chains, Sublime and 311 reminded us why we liked them in the first pl ... More >>
Also Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Espers, a Nicollete Larson Tribute, and others.
Also Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Espers, a Nicollete Larson Tribute, and others.
Woke up this morning to find out that tickets for Thom Yorke's formerly-secret show at Echoplex tonight, which West Coast Sound broke news of on Wednesday morning, will go on sale today at noon. Tickets are available through Ticketweb. There is a two ticket limit and they are non-transferable. The ... More >>
Every year, thousands of sci-fi, fantasy and related fans descend upon Atlanta for Dragon*Con. Aside from a great schedule of panelists (William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy on the same panel! Terry Gilliam!), Dragon*Con seems heavy on night time entertainment, including concerts from artists like Volt ... More >>
Timothy NorrisEven the machinery was flashing the horns. Nothing says "I love you" like a cover song. Artists at Coachella like to acknowledge their influences, love to thrill the crowd with a surprise singalong. This year bands drew from music of many genres, from ragtime to post punk to hip hop. ... More >>
Timothy NorrisEven the machinery was flashing the horns. Nothing says "I love you" like a cover song. Artists at Coachella like to acknowledge their influences, love to thrill the crowd with a surprise singalong. This year bands drew from music of many genres, from ragtime to post punk to hip hop. ... More >>
Still a little stunned by this one. I suppose we can chalk this up as some minor triumph to the power of the media, at a time when the Fourth Estate isn't exactly going through its finest moment. I'm not in the habit of running press releases in full, but I'll make the exception after the jump. I ... More >>
un:armed The Echo, August 27 By Nazanin Arandi They are armed with black, gray and white ensembles, bringing endless energy to the stage and into the audience. un:armed creates a dark moody sound with catchy hooks through songs of love, lust, heartbreak and our political misfortunes. They play thei ... More >>
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