Nine Inch Nails

Gibson Amphitheatre To Shut Down

Gibson Amphitheatre, the mainstay mid-size concert venue at Universal City, will close its doors in September, according to its operator Live Nation Entertainment. As announced in December 2011, the 6,200-capacity amphitheatre is expected to be demolished to make way for The Wizarding World of Har ... More >>

Death-Metal Band The Faceless Draws Criticism for Becoming Less Death-Metal

By Jason Roche When music from Los Angeles metal group The Faceless' newest album, Autotheism, began to leak out into the blogosphere last summer, fans were divided, and so were critics. "A botched experiment of sorts," opined SputnikMusic.com; "razor sharp," countered ThePRP.com. The group's prev ... More >>

Joey Danan, Instructor at Valleywide Driving School, Charged With Molesting Teen Student During Lesson

The LAPD fears that the owner of Valleywide Driving School in Granada hills, a 44-year-old Filipino man named Joselito Valencia Danan (but known locally as "Joey"), may have a habit of coming onto his driver-ed students. A 17-year-old boy claims he was sexually molested by Danan during a driving le ... More >>

Top 10 Best Karaoke Bars in L.A.: #5 - #1

For all the best of L.A. music, download our free Best Of Mobile app. See also: Top 10 Best Karaoke Bars in L.A.: #10-6 5. Max Karaoke Studio For some of us, karaoke is all about either watching or being drink-sodden disasters -- specifically the kind poorly belting out ballads to a hooting crowd ... More >>

Oghr - El Rey Theatre - 12/11/11

Lina Lecaro Ogre and Bill Moseley scare up some noise​Oghr El Rey Theatre 12/11/11 Better than: Trent Reznor scoring a horror film. Like so many industrial artists, collaboration fuels the fiendish sounds of Nivek Ogre. The same is true of his latest project, Ohgr, his group with composer M ... More >>

Rasputina - Key Club - 7/29/11

Rasputina at Key Club​WHO: Rasputina
 WHERE: Key Club WHEN: 7/29/11 Better Than... Your kid sister's recital. Russian religious icon Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin has long been a great source of intrigue, fear and inspiration, and one of those inspirations is New York-based act Rasputina. B ... More >>

Beavis and Butt-Head Returns to MTV October 27: Here's Our Top Ten Music Video Moments From the Old Show

Get More: Beavis and Butt-Head, MTV Shows It's official: The Beavis and Butt-Head re-boot now has a premiere date on MTV: Thursday, October 27th at 10PM. Exciting for fans, but will it be as edgy as it once was? When it debuted in 1993 Beavis and Butt-Head displayed a pathological lack of compass ... More >>

R.I.P. Cat Club: Sunset Stripped

Lina LecaroNightranger at Cat Club last year. ​Looks like nine lives are not in the cards for the Cat Club. The venerable Sunset Strip rock pit, owned by Slim Jim Phantom of the Stray Cats and known for its raucous and often stellar jam sessions, has been sold and word is the new hang, an Iris ... More >>

John Frame: The Huntington's Unintentional Steampunk Exhibit

Photo by John Frame, courtesy of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens​ When people ask John Frame what his work is about, the curators of "Three Fragments of a Lost Tale: Sculpture and Story by John Frame" write in the show's catalog, "he feels that the real answer sh ... More >>

X, The Blasters and Kris Kristofferson Turn In a Ring of Fiery Performances at Johnny Cash Music Festival

Lina Lecaro Exene Cashes in.​ Few music icons (dead or alive) come close to the enigmatic spirit of Johnny Cash. He may have been a country fella, but he was a whole lotta rock n' roll, too. His outlaw swagger, black attire and risky, rebellious choices (from jail jamborees to Nine Inch Nails ... More >>

Timur Bekbosunov: The Reform Tenor

Top 10 Workout Songs To Play When You're Ready To F Someone Up

​ Going to the gym sucks, more so when your Tylenol PM hasn't worn off yet and the guy next to you reeks. But being really pissed off helps, especially when you have a soundtrack to back you up. Plug in your earphones, crank up the treadmill and imagine the tool's face who stood you up at the ... More >>

Top 10 Gratuitous Acoustic Pop Covers

​Watching Katy Perry's cover of Lady Gaga's "Born this Way" reminded us: In college, roughly 68% of undergraduates (a figure we made up for purposes of sounding researched) take up the acoustic guitar. Think of it as a rite of passage marred by awful covers of Neil Young and the inevitable Bla ... More >>

Top 10 WTF LA Nightlife Moments of 2010

Lina Lecaro(T)hat's All Folks! at Dragstrip 66​ What a year. Looking back as we always do around this time, one thing was very clear, LA be crazy after dark! Was it end-(or beginning?)-of-decade (yup, look it up) dementia, all the mercury in retrograde activity or something else that gave th ... More >>

Autolux: A Lot of Hours of Insanity and Escape

Over the Weekend: Rage Against The Machine's Immigrant Rights Benefit at the Palladium

Timothy NorrisRage Against Arizona's Controversial Legislation​[For more photos check out Timothy Norris' slideshow,"Rage Against The Machine's Immigrant Rights Benefit @ Palladium."] With all the turmoil and wrongdoing in the world, it's a wonder Rage Against the Machine ever left the stage. ... More >>

New Daft Punk Songs For 'Tron: Legacy' Hit the Interwebs

New Daft Punk Songs For Tron Legacy Hit the Interwebs

Rage Against The Machine To Headline Concert Fighting Arizona Immigration Law [Updated]

By Steve La Steve La(From left) Zack de la Rocha and Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine​ Some rockers are taking on the Arizona immigration law that has stirred a lot of passionate opposition here in L.A., including boycotts of Arizona by several cities. "This is not a Latino or immig ... More >>

Rage's Zack de la Rocha: Arizona Debate is Not about Immigration, but "a Battle for Human Dignity"

​Rage Against the Machine Zack de la Rocha, organizer through his group Sound Strike of a concert in opposition to Arizona's controversial immigration law, gave a press conference today to explain the reasons behind the upcoming show. The Informer, LA Weekly's news blog, sent reporter Steve L ... More >>

Top 5 Cover Songs By Chuck E. Cheese's Animatronic Band

Top 5 Cover Songs By Chuck E. Cheese's Animatronic Band

Live Review: Timur and the Dime Museum at the Central Library

http://www.myspace.com/timurandthedimemuseum​ In downtown Los Angeles last night, some set out for the Music Center to see Ukranian bass Vitalij Kowaljow sing a passionate farewell to his daughter, as Wotan in Wagner's "Ring" cycle, while others tucked into the Central Library to see Timur Bek ... More >>

Tonight: Melissa Auf Der Maur at the Viper Room

​ [Preview by Mikael Wood] Think Melissa Auf der Maur is pissed at Courtney Love? Nearly six years after the release of her self-titled solo debut, Auf der Maur has finally completed work on its belated follow-up -- just in time to be overshadowed by Love's recently announced revamp of Hole, ... More >>

Drummers, Drag-sters and Death Rockers

West Coast Sound's Top Ten Cover Songs of the Decade

Cover songs are a massive gray area for music fans. If a band sticks too close to the original, they might be perceived as a cheap knock-off, but if the band makes a drastic diversion, the results might only be amusing for a moment. When a cover works, though, the payoff can be massive. Fans can be ... More >>

Camp Freddy's Billy Morrison and Donovan Leitch List Ten Important Cultural Moments of the 1990s

Editor's note: In honor of the final week of Camp Freddy's December residency, which happens tonight at the Roxy, West Coast Sound asked members of the band to chime in on their favorite music of the decades. Two weeks ago Billy Morrison highlighted his favorite things about the 1970s. Last week Don ... More >>

Watch the Bizarro Kenny G Version (and Video) of Beck's "Sexx Laws"

Sexx Laws​Remember Beck's incredible video for the incredible Midnight Vultures tune, "Sexx Laws"? Directed by Mr. Hansen himself, the goofy surrealist short features DayGlo footballers sacking a group of well-meaning Ojai New Age-ists, resulting in Jack Black getting smacked with a slab of dr ... More >>

SF Edition: INCHES reviews Lazer Sword, Tempo No Tempo, Themselves, Young Prisms (MP3)

In the strange wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES reviews the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (artists and labels, indie or other), believing that good m ... More >>

Rock Picks: Loudon Wainwright III & Richard Thompson, Miss Jilly, Mission of Burma, The Mountain Goats

DEVO's Twofer at the Fonda - Night #1: "Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are DEVO!"

Who needs the Fountain of Youth when you can grow old disgracefully with DEVO? Nicole Campos​DEVO are so old they probably heard Darwin himself explain his evolutionary theory. They have a combined age of 234. Guitarist Bob Casale looks like he has to take a deep breath just to pick up the gu ... More >>

INCHES006: New Wax from HEALTH, Mayer Hawthorne, and White Shit ( MP3s, chart, video)

In the unpredictable wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many (with delicious irony) as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES seeks not only to review the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (artists and ... More >>

INCHES004: New Wax from Division Day, Nosaj Thing, Anticon and Bygones ( MP3s, chart)

In the unpredictable wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many (with delicious irony) as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES seeks not only to review the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (artists and ... More >>

Division Day's Startling Reinvention

L.A. band’s new Visitation is an album apart

Got Twilight Fatigue? 5 Manga and Anime Vampire Sagas You Should Check Out Instead

Yes, we all know that vampires are the most alluring of all monsters, wan yet beautiful beings that lurk in the darkest corners of the night. They hold their sometimes willing mortal victims in a deep embrace as they seductively grin, dig sharpened fangs into the neck and then lap up the blood. B ... More >>

SXSW and The Future of Media: Impromptu Core Conversation on Content Distribution at RVIP lounge

Erin BroadleyKestrin Pantera in the {RV}IP lounge.Some of the best discussions at SXSW Interactive happen in the corridors, where visionaries in their respective fields talk shop between panels and during cigarette breaks. I had the fortuity to be a party to one such conversation between Los Angeles ... More >>

L.A. Dee Dallapalooza

Birth of a Nightranger

The 10 Songs/Albums That No One Should Ever Have Sex to Again

Because playing these albums in flagrante delicto is the only romantic gesture lamer than offering a woman a fish sandwich. 10. Cornball Stevie Wonder Songs (I.E. "You are the Sunshine of My Life." "I Just Called to Say I Love You") I'm not going to tell you that these songs don't serve a ... More >>

Rock Picks: DJ Quik, Alejandro Escovedo, Ratatat

Also, the Bad Plus, Amos Lee, Built to Spill, and more

LAFF 2008: Whiskey Wanted

What to make of a film festival that made its name on indie fare now opening and closing with big-budget summer blockbusters from Universal? In fairness, the folks behind the Los Angeles Film Festival have thought that one out, noting that both WANTED and HELLBOY II are directed by critically acclai ... More >>

Indienomics 101

Writing romantic indie pop doesn’t insulate Stars from the business of music

Fuck the DNA

The evolution continues with the return of Genesis P-Orridge and Psychic TV

Site/Sound

Remapping the land- and soundscapes of L.A. (and beyond)

Gypsies, Vamps and Queens

Music Video Showcase

Grand Theft Autolux

Re-Tooled

Viva la Revoluçion

Sound and sedition at the LAMC

Apocalypse Maintenant

French-filtered transgressive graphics at Track 16, plus young outsiders at Overtones

Your Time Is Now

This Is the Rock

Smashing Pumpkins: Headbangin' in the houses of the holy

Master of the Game

Kool Keith of the no-rule school