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The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, April 13 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival EMPIRE POLO CLUB Although it's unlikely that the Rolling Stones and their sprawling entourage will descend on this sun-baked music festival for a surprise set, as was rumored earlier this year, there are still many intriguing storylines scatte ... More >>

Music Picks: Coachella, Merle Haggard, Spiritualized

The Biggest Sellouts at SXSW

SXSW is not a music festival so much as it is an experiment in excess. In honor of the world's most bloated city this week, we present the five biggest sellouts at SXSW. 1. Best Coast Psh, I remember when you were all cool and tweeting as your cat. Now look at this, all done up in fancy lights an ... More >>

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - The Fonda Theater - 2/21/13

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds The Fonda Theater 2/21/13 The crowd in the packed Fonda Theater went quiet as a film flickered and began projecting onto the curtain, a documentary about the making of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' new album, Push The Sky Away. It was all the regular stuff -- studio scene ... More >>

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 Picks: Foxygen, Tomahawk and Nick Cave

Coachella 2013 Lineup Announced

The Coachella lineup is here. It's actually here! There have been ten tons of fakes, some quite convincing, and many of which had the Rolling Stones headlining. (West Coast Sound, however, broke the story that they would not appear.) But never mind all that! The lineup is here, and the headliners a ... More >>

Coachella 2013 Lineup: Is This It?

Could the below be a leaked line-up for Coachella 2013? Or is just another fake like we get every year? Some signs point to the possibility that this flyer, which is going round the internets, might have at least a grain of truth. After all, there's reason to believe the Rolling Stones will be in at ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Tuesday, December 4 The Starvations THE ECHO Sometimes you gotta amend "never again" to "just once more," especially when there's a good reason, and this completely unexpected reunion of L.A.'s Starvations didn't come easy. It's a benefit for writer Joseph Mattson, author of a much-acclaimed novel ... More >>

Music Picks: Robert Glasper, Nick Waterhouse, Omar Rodriguez Lopez

Lawless Review: Shia LaBeouf Goes Bootlegging

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Great German Music

KCRW Broadcast #176 for Saturday, August 4, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! In a Rut Fanatics! Hello from Germany. I am currently living in the Hamburg at an airport hotel. I am doing two nights at the Wacken Festival. Since I am here and not with you and the other two at the Jasonic Tem ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Henry's Ode to Winter

KCRW Broadcast #151 for Saturday, February 11, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! I'm Not Dead Yet Fanatics! Cold much? Scandinavia has all the cold you could ever want. I am sitting in the airport in Helsinki, Finland, waiting for a flight to Frankfurt. From there we will go to Linz, Austr ... More >>

Falling James' Gig of the Week: The Middle Class and Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds at the Echoplex, 6/24

Falling JamesThe Middle Class​So 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 >>

Page Two: 7 Fun Facts About Shilpa Ray

Nick Cave is a fan. What are you waiting for?

Henry Rollins: The Column! Henry on What Makes a Great Band Frontman

Timothy Norris​[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes 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 week and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday eveni ... More >>

Henry Rollins Column: Optimism, Lemmy and 3,000 Downloads Just For You

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 >>

Top 10 Best Musician Mustaches of 2010: Whiskers and Thigh Ticklers

Top 10 Best Musician Mustaches, Whiskers, and Thigh Ticklers

Nick Cave's Grinderman at the Music Box

Timothy NorrisNo, YOU da man!: Nick Cave and his grindermen​ [For more photos, see Timothy Norris' slideshow "Grinderman @ Music Box"] Nick Cave's merry band of wizard dervishes Grinderman came to a packed-to-the-gills Music Box last night. The crowd was oh-so-Hollywood: like-minded celebs a ... More >>

PJ Harvey: Listen to Fantastic New Song from Her Upcoming Album

Coming soon to an e-retailer near you: PJ Harvey's Let England Shake​Last night, LA grooved to the ritual charisma of Nick Cave's Grinderman. Today we keep on grooving to one of Cave's musical fellow travelers, PJ Harvey, who has just released the first peek at her upcoming album Let England S ... More >>

Tonight: Faith No More, Roger Waters, Grinderman, the Frames, Street Drum Corps

Grinderman​When Nick Cave unveiled Grinderman -- his project with Bad Seeds bandmates Warren Ellis, Jim Sclavunos and Martyn Casey -- the Australian songwriter described the music as a soundtrack to "a massive midlife crisis." So we suppose it's both good (for consumers) and bad (for the 53-y ... More >>

Einstürzende Neubauten vs US Homeland Security: Tour Cancelled Due to Visa SNAFU

Just before noon this afternoon Einstürzende Neubauten announced the cancellation of their North American thirtieth anniversary shows, including an appearance at the Music Box December 2 and intimate show at the Echoplex December 3.  Don't hold your breath for them to reschedule.   The press re ... More >>

This Is a Damn Band

In which Henry Rollins finds out how Nick Cave became a Grinderman

Interview: Teebs on Art, Ardour And The Christmas Records No One Wanted

eric coleman / mochilla.com​ Teebs' Ardour (Brainfeeder) is one of the most delicate and lovely albums of the year--all blooming tones, jingling percussion and subtle artful beats. Teebs joined us just before his record release party to discuss his art--his paintings on discarded record sleev ... More >>

INXS and a Paean to Excess

The late Michael Hutchence plays punk

Chicago Artist Nick Cave's Soundsuits Make Noise After Dark

Chicago Artist Nick Cave's Soundsuits Make Noise After Dark

ACTUALLY, ART IS LIKE A BAD METHPHOR

WARNING: NOT THAT NICK CAVE

Rest in Peace Roland S. Howard, 'King of Kalifornia,' Proto-Goth Guitarist for the Birthday Party

In the "Unsung Heroes of Rock & Roll" category, it is with great sadness to report the death of one of the most inspired guitarists of the post-punk era -- and self-proclaimed 'King of Kalifornia' -- Roland S. Howard. Best known for his strange, angular, genius work with Australia's best punk band, ... More >>

Tonight at the Silent Movie Theater: LA Premiere of 'All Tomorrow's Parties' Documentary

Tonight Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theater will host the Los Angeles premiere of what looks to be a pretty amazing movie on the All Tomorrow's Parties festival -- at least judging by the trailer below. Those featured in the film, in case your eyes can't register all that stuff so quickly, in ... More >>

New(ish) Music for the Dark at Heart

Cover for Blacklist Night of the Century​ Last week, I put together a small playlist of mostly '80s tunes that reminded me of Halloween, but weren't the usual holiday hits. The response was great and I couldn't help but take notice of reader Alexander Tregaskis' comment: " I really wish the ... More >>

Easy Come Easy Go: Marianne Faithfull and Hal Willner's Songs of Tragedy and Heartbreak

Icon's sandpaper vocals sing it like no one else

SXSW: Who Would Leave Metallica for Black Cobra? Our Man in Austin

Randall Roberts Finds Himself in the Studio With the Silversun Pickups

Kid Congo Powers Covers Cramps and Gun Club at SXSW, Thrills Imo's

The first official night of South By Southwest music, you'd think, would be kind of a pace-setter, a warm-up night. But no, even if you arrive late and think you're going to do some stretching and calisthenics, grab an easy dinner, before really cooking it on Thursday, something calls you from bey ... More >>

ROCK OUT WITH THE BLOCKS OUT: Kid Stuff with Cool Cred

This week we profiled the ebullient pre-school TV sensation Yo Gabba Gabba, but the show (created by two So Cal rocker dads) isn't the only alternative for parents sick of dumbed-down cartoons and uninspired kiddie ditties. More and more artists from the rock world are exploring the children's mark ... More >>

Robert Plant Rules Out Led Zeppelin Reunion

Rock critics speak, art mavens debate, Mideast authors talk peace

Writers Rock

Nick Cave, Spiritualized, Cat Power Stanch the Wounds at the Hollywood Bowl

Nick Cave: Grinderman Has a Plan

Interview with a Bad Seed

Neko Case: Deep Red Belle

She's an auburn-haired Caucasian woman of Ukrainian descent. Is Case also the blackest woman in indie rock?

Tiffany Bozic, American Gothic

Film Reviews

Viva la Raza and All That

Chapter and Verse

Rick Moody, Jonathan Lethem and John Darnielle on the crossbreeding of literature and pop

Pink Flag Burning

Like a Rhinestone Preacher

Nick Cave survives and surpasses

Dark Tidings

Mercury Rev’s bedtime stories

No Exit

David Holmes’ urban nightmare

Music 1998:

The good, the bad and the combusticated

The Prodigal Son

Nick Cave's sin and salvation