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Henry Rollins: The Day After Bowie's The Next Day

[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.] It's already an interesting year for album releases, and it's not even Record Store Day yet. B ... More >>

The Worst of SXSW

Security and Cops Gettin' Wild: Look, I get it. Every drunken dickhead in town "knows someone" or thinks he has pull at the door, but that doesn't mean the hammer goes down on everyone. I was stopped by two cops who didn't want me to walk 50 yards from where the Smashing Pumpkins would be playing an ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: David Bowie's '"Heroes"'

KCRW Broadcast #194 for Saturday, December 15, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: Christmacidal Fanatics! Here we go into week three of our Bowie month. Tonight, it's the legendary "Heroes" album. Bowie released Low on 01/14/77 and "Heroes" on 10/14/77. This was a very creative period for Bowie but he ... More >>

Music Picks: Lauryn Hill, Bad Brains, Shuggie Otis

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Going in Deep With One Last Wish

KCRW Broadcast #178 for Saturday, August 25, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! When It Comes to Cracking Down On Protests, Are We Any Better Than Russia? Fanatics! Welcome to September. While I am sure it may still be hot where you are, it is in fact September and autumn is upon us. Tonigh ... More >>

Five Unusual Designer Toys Based on Celebrities

There's no shortage of toys and merchandise based on celebrities floating around the Internet, but some are a bit more unusual than others. In the designer toy and art toy world, artists turn recognizable figures into vinyl characters and mash them up with other pop culture references into amazing s ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival 2012: LCD Soundsystem's Last Show in Shut Up and Play the Hits

A mash-up of cinema and journalism, document and performance; a concert film sandwiched between a mission statement and a staged punctuation to a career: the LCD Soundsystem documentary Shut up and Play the Hits offers more basic narrative satisfaction than many of the fiction films shown here usin ... More >>

Music Picks: Barry Adamson, Joanna Malfatti Trio, Clare Fischer Big Band

Also, Eleni Mandell, Steve Reich, Call Us Forgotten and others

The Warlocks and The Icarus Line - The Mint - 9/10/11

Lina Lecaro ​The Warlocks, The Icarus Line The Mint 9-10-11 Better than: That Lou Reed/Metallica project... maybe. After a brief hiatus, The Warlocks have been conjuring music magic in L.A. again. The local psych band toured Europe last year and "got burned out," according to leader Bobby H ... More >>

Kid Congo Powers: The Abrasive and the Beautiful

Ex Gun Club, Cramps guitarist revisits the early L.A. punk scene with Gorilla Rose

Henry Rollins Column: Rollins on the Attempted Political Assassination and Massacre in Tucson

Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins contirbutes 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 Monday and make sure to tune in to He ... More >>

Music Picks: Dum Dum Girls, Tricky, Leon Russell, OFF!

Also, Peaches, Killing Joke, Albert Lee and others

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: The End Is Near

And the kids are not all right in Part 1 of the franchise's finale

Henry Rollins Column: Decision Points, the Dreamosphere and the Voice-Over Cliffhanger

Maura Lanahan​ [The one and only Henry Rollins contributes a 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 in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday evening, ... More >>

Music Picks: Batusis, Interpol, Minus the Bear

Also, Taj Mahal, Shakira, Sufjan Stevens and others

Will Mark Wahlberg Play Eric Draven in a Remake of The Crow (Written by Nick Cave)?!

Marky Mark goes for the Gothy bunch?​Misanthropic masses, commence with the head-scratching. It's rumored that Mark Wahlberg has been offered the role of Eric Draven in a remake of The Crow, which may have been written by Nick Cave. Scoff, scoff. (Sorry, we're a bit under the weather.) Despi ... More >>

The Rollins Machine Turns You On (to Some Amazing Long Jams): Henry Rollins on the Velvet Undeground, Fela Kuti and Sleep's "Dopesmoker"!

Maura LanahanOur new 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 in ... More >>

Gemma Ray: Under the Covers

U.K. chanteuse on musical remakes, dim-witted dinosaurs and missing her sauerkraut

Brian Eno Returns to the Stage!

This is gonna be really interesting and hopefully not a one-off: Brian Eno is returning to the stage to play three improvised pieces at the Brighton Festival 2010 in the UK. Eno, who's one of the artistic directors of the festival and would be showing his art installations there, will perform as pa ... More >>

Middle of The Road

Long-delayed Cormac McCarthy adaptation takes the path of least resistance

Music for the Wasteland: Our Post-Apocalyptic Playlist

Check out our recap and our slideshow from Road Warrior Weekend, along with Erin Broadley and Shannon Cottrell's photo tributes to the Gyrocopter and Interceptor and Mad Max's "Babes and Bikes." When you're roaming around the desert alongside Mad Max and Warrior Woman, with a Gyrocopter overhead an ... More >>

Ten Creepy Cool '80s Songs to Get You Through Halloween

​Now that you're probably engaged in the almost-last minute Halloween costume cram session, you might be in the need for some tunes to get you through the hours of skirt-hemming and wig-styling. At the same time, though, we figured you might be a little tired of hearing Ministry's "Every Day i ... More >>

The Horrors: London’s Burning

Prowling cobblestone streets, telling tales of murder with bloodcurdling screams

Rock Picks: Broken Nobles, Anny Celsi, Seu Jorge, the Killers

Rock Picks: Broken Nobles, Anny Celsi, Seu Jorge, the Killers

Also, Destroy L.A., Sunset Strip Music Festival, the Drones and others

Los Angeles Film Festival: Reviews, A to Z

Our critics weigh in on what — and what not — to see

In the Red Records: On Fire with Kid Congo, Strange Boys, Thee Oh Sees, Vivian Girls

Eagle Rock label defies the odds and sells records. Says its owner: “I always shoot for that ‘Holy fuck!’ response”

Rock Picks: Acid Mothers Temple, Kate Maki, Marissa Nadler, Mirah

Also, Jesca Hoop, Jerkagram, Puscifer and others

PJ Harvey and John Parish Interviewed: The Pair Discuss Collaboration, the Art of Staging, and Echo and the Bunnymen

View more photos in the PJ Harvey and John Parish @ El Rey slideshow. Timothy NorrisPolly Jean Harvey and guitarist Giovanni Ferrario at the El Rey on Monday This past Monday night PJ Harvey and John Parish introduced California to songs from their incredible new collection, A Man A Woman Walked B ... More >>

Drive In, Sit Out, Rock On

What to do in L.A., September 12-18

Jessie Evans with Toby Dammit at Bordello, 1/31/08

“Are we ready?” was the question Jessie Evans put to her drummer Toby Dammit right before she dropped her heavy, black winter coat to the Bordello stage floor, causing the crowd to inhale collectively at the sight of her costume underneath. (all photos by Rena Kosnett) Never has a country- ... More >>

Lee Hazlewood: A Stranger in This Land

The renaissance cowboy cut a wide swath through the West, and inspired a generation of songwriters

Rock Picks: Akron/Family, Duncan Sheik, PJ Harvey, Jill Scott

For the week of Oct. 11 - 18

Rock Picks: Ruins, Beirut, Turbonegro, Metric

Also, Bill Callahan, Emmylou Harris and more picks for the week of October 4 �11

Anatomy of a Murder

The famous outlaw, the fawning outcast and an epic movie that’s as stylized as it is insane

Rock Picks: Stevie Wonder, Lucinda Williams, The Frames

For the week of Aug 31 – Sept. 6

Dorian Wood: Beautiful Losing

Bolka combines baroque flourish and naked emotion

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Pretty Mysterious

Marisha Pessl�s Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Exquisite

Unembarrassed and undestroyed, Leonard Cohen at 71

Rock & Roll Torchbearer

Brett Gurewitz

Bless the Child

Marianne Faithfull�s life after the poison

Lick My Detox

At work and play with rockaholics the Sharp Ease

So Fresh, So Clean

Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk

Rufus Wainwright poses as rock star, makes an imperfect-summer record

Jukebox Juju

'Thees Ees Zee Reel Shit!'

Remembering Claude Bessy, a.k.a. Kickboy Face

New Trad, Dad

Mark Lanegan uncovered