Nina Simone

Nina Simone: 'Nuff Said

She & Him - Hollywood Bowl - 6/23/13

She & Him Hollywood Bowl 6/23/13 Better than...Watching Failure To Launch on basic cable When Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward first joined forces for what was supposed to a fun side project in 2007, they couldn't really have thought they'd eventually be playing the Hollywood Bowl for a second time. Wa ... More >>

A Janis Joplin Musical Boosts the Pasadena Playhouse Box Office

One Night With Janis provides some nostalgic comfort food

One Night With Janis Joplin

The Definitive Guide to the Music of The Big Lebowski

L.A. Weekly is celebrating The Big Lebowski's 15th anniversary with a massive cover story tribute! Check out our other Lebowski-themed stories. Not doing so would be very un-Dude. The Dude's identity is strongly informed by music. As a former Metallica roadie and free love-era denizen still trying ... More >>

BiteSize Studio Hits Hollywood

A Truman Show–like view into the world of online video creators

We Attended the KCRW Pledge Drive - And Lived to Tell the Tale!

It's pledge drive time again at KCRW. twice a year, the station -- one of the pre-eminent public radio stations in the country -- interrupts regular programming to ask for money. But this isn't your typical "send us five bucks and we'll mail you a bumper sticker" pledge event. No no, this one has Co ... More >>

Elvis Costello - The Wiltern - 4/17/12

Elvis Costello The Wiltern 4/17/12 Better than...a show with a standard set list For the past year, Elvis Costello has been challenging himself and fans with his Spectacular Spinning Songbook Tour. With his extensive catalog that includes over 30 studio albums, multiple live albums and appearances ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Procedure Club, Horrors

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #124 for Saturday, July 23. Fanatics! Another week, another great show lined up for you! I am listening down to the songs at this moment and it's going to be an excellent night of jams. I wanted to make a show that rocked out but had some quiet dynamics. I am r ... More >>

Top Ten Songs About Beer

​Wine and cheese; scotch and cigars; tequila and...more tequila: Good things come in pairs, and drinks are no exception. Our personal favorite? Beer and music. As card-carrying beer nerds, we couldn't be more excited that Monday kicked off American Craft Beer Week; and, as your trusted music ... More >>

The Black Rap Bart Simpson Returns: Fresno's Fashwan Drops New J. Cole-Featuring Mixtape

​Fresno rap up-and-comer and local pot promoter (hey, bruh, keep the green in Grizzly City), Fashawn has just dropped a new mixtape/free album via XXL Magazine. You should cop it, if only to hear what a black Bart Simpson sounds like rapping. (We actually think Fash owes West Coast Sound some ... More >>

Underground Rappers' "White Rage" Song Honors Gabrielle Giffords and Targets Tea Party Hate in Arizona

Sole raps takes on "White Rage" surrounded by Tea Party picketers.​Former Anticon Records rapper and founder Sole has released a brand new song that takes aim at the Tea Party, Arizona immigration laws and political race-baiting in "post-Obama" America. The track, called "White Rage," is rappe ... More >>

Top 10 Women With Fruit Names

We've brought you the Top 10 Men With Meat Names and the Top 10 Men With Salad Names. But what about women? And what about fruit? Well, now is the moment for both, as pomiculture and nomenclature come together for the debut female-themed edition of our "People with Food Names" series. Of course, the ... More >>

Topless Gay Bears Cover Antoine Dodson's "Bed Intruder Song" as an AMAZING Blues Jam (plus 2 Other Bonus Covers!)

Bears play the blooze​ We know what you were thinking--"Man, I sure love that viral sensation Antoine Dodson's "Bed Intruder Song" that was put together by the Auto-Tune the News people, but I only wish there was... there was... I don't know... maybe... AN AMAZING COUNTRY BLUES COVER VERSION ... More >>

ATONE AT HOME

Top Ten David Lynch Music Moments

Tonight the Quentin Tarantino-owned-and-operated New Beverly Cinema will be showing David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, one of his most misunderstood masterpieces about the strangeness of everyday American culture (even the ubiquitous power lines are kind of malevolent!). You should go see ... More >>

Give Up!: Top Five Sad Songs, Picked by Dublab's Frosty and Dntel

Just give up. Do it.​Mark "Frosty" McNeil will be spinning at "GIVE UP -- stop dancing and cry...," dublab's regular "dj's-on-a -bummer" night at the Hyperion Tavern this coming Sunday, March 21st. WCS interviewed him this week about this peculiar event. What is "Give Up"? Give Up is an expl ... More >>

Straight Outta Chocolate's Rock N' Roll Cakes: Joy Division & Iggy Pop, In Chocolate

Want an homage of your favorite rock star? Try a cake depicting Iggy Pop, Dr. Dre or Debbie Harry--in chocolate. Baker, chocolatier and DJ (at Highland Park's Footsies) Kate Steffens specializes in rock n' roll cakes, with musicians depicted in tempered chocolate which she works into elaborate portr ... More >>

OUTFEST: VOTE "YES"

It's a politically charged year for L. A.'s Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

Weiss' Best Reissues & Compilations of 2008

Steve Stein and partner Double Dee, were dropping lessons on kids when Shadow and Cut Chemist were still constructing crates out of lincoln logs. Finally collected on the aptly named, Illegal Art label, Steinski's seminal singles are that rarity--as fun as they are important. Neither The Avalanches ... More >>

Farm Aid: Auntie Em's Produce-Driven Dreams

An Eagle Rock favorite takes a fresh approach to cooking

Last Night: Antony and the Johnsons Deliver the Perfect Music for the Times at Disney Hall

It did feel like a Moment, like the crowd last night was part of something Big and Important, an event which in better times with less distraction and attention deficiencies might even have been a Landmark. For reasons perhaps too obvious to state, the reception that Antony Hegarty was given in one ... More >>

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

Staycation? Go to the Bowl Instead

Jazzed? But Not Motivated?

The week in fun, June 27-July 3

The Athletic Complexions Contemporary Ballet Returns

Muscle Memory

Rock Picks: HorrorPops, Steve Earle, Ace Frehley

And other March 20-27 music shows

Baby Dee: Life Is Bitter and Death Is Sweet

"Find a sweetie and make mad love. Smoke lots of cigarettes and stop wearing underpants."

Man-Sized

PJ Harvey at the Orpheum Theater, October 15

PJ Harvey Live at the Orpheum Theatre

PJ Harvey at the Orpheum Theatre, October 15 By Randall Roberts Polly Harvey waltzed onto stage last night looking like Emily Dickinson after a rough wrestle in the meadow, hair mussed, wearing a floor-length white Victorian gown, its poufy shoulders sprouting high above her frame. The word grow wa ... More >>

Dorian Wood: Beautiful Losing

Bolka combines baroque flourish and naked emotion

Theater Reviews: Zorro in Hell, The Idiot Box, Bad Seed and More

Also this week's pick, Alice in One-Hit Wonderland

Prisons, Punks and Don Quixote

Our critics’ guide to the very best of LAFF

Critics’ Picks

Our guide to the best of AFI Fest 2006

The Circle Game

’70s girls inspired by Joni get their day in the sun via a new compilation

Hard and Harder, Abstract and Abstracter

2005 in metal and jazz

Interpol, Boom Bip, Antony and the Johnsons, CocoRosie

Boys Do Cry

Antony and the Johnsons’ uncut emotions

Stripping Lessons

Abloom’s Day

The future of heaviness

Buckets of Rain

Pure Class

Baby Blue

Restless nights with Julianna Raye

So Fresh, So Clean

Nasty Gal

Get-Well Tune

Darkness Audible

An interview with Me'Shell Ndegéocello

A Funky Epiphany

Bitter truths from the Crack Emcee

Child of the Night

A Day in the Life

Bob Mould gets personal about it