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April 20, 2012
Dive - The Satellite - 4/19/12
Dive The Satellite 4/19/12 Better than... not keeping it country. Last night east-coast rockers Dive, who have been building a strong buzz through publications like Pitchfork, played a surprising set at The Satellite. They are a group of thin white guys from Brooklyn -- a trope that has, deserv ... More >>
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April 9, 2012
Butch Vig: The Super-Producer Talks About the Genius of Garbage (and Nirvana)
See also: Nirvana Little-Known-Facts Revealed: Butch Vig, the Band and Jon Stewart Celebrate Nevermind's 20th Anniversary You could easily make the case that Butch Vig is the most influential record producer of the last 25 years. With Nevermind, he and Nirvana ushered in a new era of alternative ro ... More >>
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March 28, 2012
Rachel Goodrich Closes Out Her Residency at The Standard, Hollywood Tonight. Here's Her Story
Miami-bred songstress Rachel Goodrich decided to focus on her career around 2004. She had moved upstate to Gainesville for college, but felt no creative inspiration. So she returned home and spent whole days playing her guitar in her room. "I knew I wanted to do music, and I couldn't do it in Gaines ... More >>
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March 21, 2012
Robert Glasper's New Album Is Not Jazz. Who Cares?
Thirty-three-year-old Robert Glasper has been putting out fairly straight-forward jazz records since the mid-'00s. Last month, however, Houston-bred, New York-based pianist released a R&B and hip-hop indebted album, Black Radio, under the moniker the Robert Glasper Experiment. This has some jazz fan ... More >>
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February 13, 2012
Dave Grohl: His Grammys Speech About Electronic Music Was Bullshit
See also: Dave Grohl "Clarifies" Grammy Speech After We Call Him Out For Sounding Like an Anti-EDM Geezer We like Foo Fighters. They're the Samuel Adams beer of pop -- solid, familiar, a good call in a one-jukebox town. But innovators they're not. Quite the opposite: If one could feed off a dying ... More >>
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February 9, 2012
Young the Giant Blows Up
Last year was a busy one for Irvine's Young The Giant. They released their first album on a major label, toured all over the world and played at both the VMAs and MTV Unplugged. Meanwhile, the band's two singles, "My Body" and "Cough Syrup" both were in rotation on rock radio stations nationally. B ... More >>
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December 23, 2011
Drink This Now and Later: Firestone Walker XV Anniversary Ale
B. MesirowFirestone Walker XV from box to glassThe enlightened readers of this blog should be well aware by now that great beer is just as complex as wine. However, in the off chance that you have yet to ascend to the craft beer plane of being, we've found you a shortcut to Nirvana: Fireston ... More >>
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October 14, 2011
Foo Fighters - The Forum - 10/13/11
Timothy NorrisSee also: *Nirvana Little-Known-Facts Revealed: The Band and Jon Stewart Celebrate Nevermind's 20th Anniversary in New York *1991: Nirvana Documentary Captures the Band Moments Before They Broke *Nirvana's Photographer Kirk Weddle Recalls The Day In Pasadena He Shot Nevermind's ... More >>
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September 30, 2011
Nirvana's Photographer Kirk Weddle Recalls The Day In Pasadena He Shot Nevermind's Cover (Plus Rare Photos)
See also: Nirvana Little-Known-Facts Revealed: The Band and Jon Stewart Celebrate Nevermind's 20th Anniversary in New York You might not know his name, but you certainly know his work. On the 20th anniversary of "Smells like Teen Spirit"'s debut on MTV, we spoke with Kirk Weddle, who shot the cove ... More >>
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September 26, 2011
Nirvana Little-Known-Facts Revealed: The Band and Jon Stewart Celebrate Nevermind's 20th Anniversary in New York
Jena ArdellWho: Nirvana Where: SiriusXM's studios in New York City When: September 24, 2011 Better than... bands inspired by Nirvana. Saturday marked the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind, an album most people feel changed the landscape of music. To celebrate, SiriusXM satellite radio ... More >>
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September 21, 2011
Five Things That Could Go Wrong at Disney's Newly-Planned Avatar Land
Of all that is in the name of being over-commercialized and tacky, Disney is prepping to open one of several Avatar lands at its Walt Disney World theme park in Florida. The first is expected to break ground in 2013 at its Animal Kingdom portion. Here are five things that are bound to go w ... More >>
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September 16, 2011
Silverlake Wine: Best Weekly Wine Tastings
Kathy A. McDonaldNo attitude, pretension-free wine tastings blow up weekly at Silverlake Wine Is Silverlake Wine a religion? Consider what makes it so: Devoted followers, a weekly schedule and a straight-up welcoming-to-all philosophy of no pretension at this neighborhood wine shop that speci ... More >>
Music
September 15, 2011
1991: Nirvana Documentary Captures the Band Moments Before They Broke
Kathy A. McDonaldNo attitude, pretension-free wine tastings blow up weekly at Silverlake Wine Is Silverlake Wine a religion? Consider what makes it so: Devoted followers, a weekly schedule and a straight-up welcoming-to-all philosophy of no pretension at this neighborhood wine shop that speci ... More >>
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August 4, 2011
The Perfect Age of Rock 'N' Roll Review
Kathy A. McDonaldNo attitude, pretension-free wine tastings blow up weekly at Silverlake Wine Is Silverlake Wine a religion? Consider what makes it so: Devoted followers, a weekly schedule and a straight-up welcoming-to-all philosophy of no pretension at this neighborhood wine shop that speci ... More >>
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July 30, 2011
Rasputina - Key Club - 7/29/11
Rasputina at Key ClubWHO: 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 >>
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July 29, 2011
Five Reasons L.A. Rising is the Perfect Festival for Los Angeles
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 >>
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July 25, 2011
Death, Drugs and Rock n' Roll- "Don't Knock The Rock's" Timely Glimpse into Musicians' Triumphs and Tragedies
Lina LecaroAllison Anders and Patty SchemelThere is a segment in the riveting new documentary Hit So Hard- The Life and Near Death Story of Patty Schemel that explores the concept of "Saturn Returns" (the astrogical phenomenon which is said to influence and test a person's life development be ... More >>
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June 28, 2011
Don't Call It a Comeback: Red Hot Rio 2's Paul Heck
Since the late 1980s the Red Hot Organization has released over a dozen music compilations to help raise funds for AIDS research with help from artists as varied as George Michael, Wu-Tang Clan, Nirvana and Alice Coltrane. This year the Organization will be releasing Red Hot Rio 2 - a star- ... More >>
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May 26, 2011
June Bloom
Since the late 1980s the Red Hot Organization has released over a dozen music compilations to help raise funds for AIDS research with help from artists as varied as George Michael, Wu-Tang Clan, Nirvana and Alice Coltrane. This year the Organization will be releasing Red Hot Rio 2 - a star- ... More >>
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May 26, 2011
Melvins' Sugar Daddy Live: Pour Some Sugar on Me
Since the late 1980s the Red Hot Organization has released over a dozen music compilations to help raise funds for AIDS research with help from artists as varied as George Michael, Wu-Tang Clan, Nirvana and Alice Coltrane. This year the Organization will be releasing Red Hot Rio 2 - a star- ... More >>
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May 17, 2011
L.A. Nightlife in the '90s- Remembering Jabberjaw's Historic Rockin' and L.A. Raves Through The Looking Glass
Courtesy Michelle Carr.Sofia Coppola at Jabberjaw. Cheesy Dance hits from the '90s may be all the rage in the clubs right now, but getting nostalgic about L.A. nightlife and how it helped shape the music of the decade, yields two different types of flashbacks (as a gal who dug both rock and d ... More >>
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April 5, 2011
From the Archives: Jonathan Gold's "13 Ways of Looking at Nirvana" (Kurt Cobain, RIP 17 Years Ago Today)
Kurt Cobain, RIP (1967-1994)Today, on the 17th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's untimely death, we reprint the following reflections from Jonathan Gold, originally written seven years ago. 1. A friend's East Village studio somewhere in July 1989. Nirvana, who had slept on the floor, are pissed, ... More >>
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March 24, 2011
The Other Nirvana
Kurt Cobain, RIP (1967-1994)Today, on the 17th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's untimely death, we reprint the following reflections from Jonathan Gold, originally written seven years ago. 1. A friend's East Village studio somewhere in July 1989. Nirvana, who had slept on the floor, are pissed, ... More >>
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March 17, 2011
Miller's Time
Kurt Cobain, RIP (1967-1994)Today, on the 17th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's untimely death, we reprint the following reflections from Jonathan Gold, originally written seven years ago. 1. A friend's East Village studio somewhere in July 1989. Nirvana, who had slept on the floor, are pissed, ... More >>
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February 17, 2011
Page Two: EsotErykah
Kurt Cobain, RIP (1967-1994)Today, on the 17th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's untimely death, we reprint the following reflections from Jonathan Gold, originally written seven years ago. 1. A friend's East Village studio somewhere in July 1989. Nirvana, who had slept on the floor, are pissed, ... More >>
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February 3, 2011
"Hardcore Is a Complete, Legitimate California-born Music Form": An Interview with "American Hardcore" Author Steven Blush, Who Speaks Today at Book Soup with Keith Morris and Others
In his 2001 compendium, American Hardcore: A Tribal History, New York writer and former promoter Steven Blush all but dispensed with your dad's glamorized spit-scabs-and-safety-pin punk, instead focusing on hundreds of DIY, anarchic hardcore bands from the scene's peak between 1980 and 198 ... More >>
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January 13, 2011
The Melvins Have Landed
The world finally catches up to the elder statesmen of sludge
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December 22, 2010
Michael Azerrad, Author of "Our Band Could Be Your Life," Writes a Very Smart Essay Defending Hipsters
minithreadWe're big fans of Michael Azerrad, Nirvana biographer and, most importantly, the author of the indispensable story about the development of what we now call "indie" music, Our Band Could Be Your Life (if you haven't read it, read it now). That's why we were so happy to hear that Aze ... More >>
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August 23, 2010
"What does it feel like to have Kurt's blood pumping through your veins?": The Incredibly Strange World of Grampa Cobain's Fan Mail
Peter MumfordSmells like senior spirit: Grampa Cobain Meet Leland Cobain. Our sister publication the Seattle Weekly has an amazing feature by Connor Christofferson on the incredibly strange world of the obsessive fan mail sent to this day to Kurt's grandfather, who lives in a trailer decorat ... More >>
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July 6, 2010
5 Great 8-Bit Cover Songs Including Radiohead, Miles Davis, and Nirvana
5 Great 8-Bit Cover Songs Including Radiohead, Miles Davis, and Nirvana
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July 5, 2010
Scum-F*cked: GG Allin's Ghost Conjured by Frances Bean Cobain, Porn Stars in Same Night
GG Allin haunted us last week. He seemed a vile, mysogynist and downright repugnant human being, but the deceased shock-rocker (who makes Marilyn Manson look like Pee Wee Herman) continues to inspire ... women, or so it seemed so Friday night. Fiddle Tim's "Scum Fuck" (Laluzdejesus.com) F ... More >>
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June 24, 2010
Catching Up With Pat and Don
GG Allin haunted us last week. He seemed a vile, mysogynist and downright repugnant human being, but the deceased shock-rocker (who makes Marilyn Manson look like Pee Wee Herman) continues to inspire ... women, or so it seemed so Friday night. Fiddle Tim's "Scum Fuck" (Laluzdejesus.com) F ... More >>
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June 11, 2010
Sludge Rock Originators The Melvins Storm the Billboard Charts
Sludge Rock Originators The Melvins Top the Charts (sort of...)
Music
December 24, 2009
The Nightlife Before Christmas
Sludge Rock Originators The Melvins Top the Charts (sort of...)
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December 11, 2009
Hanukkah or Xmas? Who Cares -- Free Stuff Either Way from the Universal Music Truck & Fool's Gold
Fool's Gold, offering praiseWe here at West Coast Sound like free stuff and assume you do too. And despite the fact that we have every reason to root for a well-fed music industry (well, at least the non-bloated part of it), we especially like pointing you in the direction of free (or near-fr ... More >>
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November 3, 2009
Grohlapalooza!: New Vultures Single, Foo Comp, Nirvana Live
"New Fang," the advance single from supergroup Them Crooked Vultures drops today, whetting the appetite of millions of old-school rawwwwk fans who are still recovering from the shock of learning that their fantasy-baseball team-up of Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), John Paul Jones (Led Zeppeli ... More >>
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August 19, 2009
LA Flashback: Live at Jabberjaw
Mike Desert, guitarist and vocalist from San Francisco-based punk band Jack Saints, has the coolest YouTube channel I've seen yet. Since the band originally formed in Palm Springs in the mid-1990s, the members bore witness to tons of cool Southern California shows at venues that no longer exi ... More >>
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April 23, 2009
GRAFFITI CAN BE A REWARDING CAREER!
Mike Desert, guitarist and vocalist from San Francisco-based punk band Jack Saints, has the coolest YouTube channel I've seen yet. Since the band originally formed in Palm Springs in the mid-1990s, the members bore witness to tons of cool Southern California shows at venues that no longer exi ... More >>
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March 2, 2009
Bob Mould Gets Intimate at the Hotel Cafe Tonight
First, there was Hüsker Dü, one of the most important post-punk bands of the '80s, and partially responsible for R.E.M., Nirvana, and the Pixies (pictured above performing tracks from Zen Arcade). Then there was Sugar, the Bob Mould-fronted trio which, in the early '90s, saved distorted guitars ... More >>
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December 1, 2008
Taking the Sleighride to Artistic Hell With the Trans Siberian Orchestra
I'm not normally one to chuck stones at the tastes of an entire population, but I feel more comfortable doing it when I'm a member of said population, in this case a white Midwestern American (returning from the west coast for Thanksgiving) wanting to do something special with family to kick off the ... More >>
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December 1, 2008
Dog Day Evening
I gotta say: Living in a time when the ice caps are melting, bees are dying out and the end of the Chevy is nigh, it's as reassuring as a glass of Makers by the fireplace to know that New York playwrights still hate L.A. I was reminded of this becalming fact last night during a performance of Dougla ... More >>
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March 10, 2008
“Preachy Songs”: Phil Elverum (aka The Microphones aka Mt. Eerie) Interviewed: Part 3 of 4
Elverum on Crass: "I don't really like that music of Crass, but I love the band, and I love their way, and their presentation."
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March 6, 2008
Eye Mouth Graffiti Bodyshop & 20 Plays in 20 Minutes
Elverum on Crass: "I don't really like that music of Crass, but I love the band, and I love their way, and their presentation."
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November 27, 2007
Krist Novoselic Says Flipper Still Rules, OK???
If you're going to listen to any aging punk rocker wax nostalgic for a cult-band like Flipper - and we've all probably heard more than we need to - is there anyone you'd rather give the benefit of the doubt to than Nirvana's bassist / Northwest political gadfly? You're in luck. Krist Novoselic is ... More >>
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October 11, 2007
Rush to Your Phones!
KPFK needs to raise some hush money
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August 30, 2007
Sub Pop One Hummer
By Randall Roberts He’s out there somewhere. I know it. He apparently comes every year. At least that’s what they tell me up in Seattle, where Bruce Pavitt, co-founder of Sub Pop Records, is some sort of minor legend. You know, Bruce Pavitt, the dude with the vision to uncover a few of the gr ... More >>
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March 1, 2007
Mood Indigo
Blue Velvet’s Kris Morningstar cooks for the night
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June 17, 2004
Kids Rock
The bands that are saving L.A.’s music scene
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August 30, 2001
Richie Lee, 1966�2001
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