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March 18, 2013
The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Week
Monday, March 18 The Specials CLUB NOKIA Even though The Specials instigated the massively popular ska revival of the early '80s, they're far from a typical ska band. Whereas many modern groups are happy to employ ska's peppy, jerky rhythms merely for escapist dance fare, the English band preferred ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2013
Dave Grohl - Hollywood Palladium - 1/31/13
Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, Stevie Nicks, Queens of the Stone Age, Rage Against the Machine, and others Hollywood Palladium 1/31/13 When Dave Grohl announced late last year that the Foo Fighters were going on an indefinite hiatus, folks weren't quite sure how to interpret the news. The band had just ... More >>
Blogs
January 29, 2013
Dave Grohl On His Film Tribute to the Studio That Gave the World Nevermind
By Whitney Friedlander The lobby of Dave Grohl's Northridge-based 606 Studios has a Joan Jett book on the coffee table and a row of classic arcade games like Donkey Kong Jr. against one wall. On top of a photo booth sits an iconic "Moonman" MTV Video Music Award, festooned with a roll of toilet pap ... More >>
Blogs
October 24, 2012
The Melvins vs. George Thorogood: A War of Words Erupts Over Claims of a Record-Setting Tour
The Melvins are in the midst of an ambitious tour, performing in all 50 states (plus Washington, D.C.) in only 51 days. Pretty impressive, considering the legendary band soon will be entering their fourth decade. One of the pioneers of the 1980s Seattle scene that later birthed Nirvana and Soundgard ... More >>
Blogs
October 10, 2012
Begley/Huffman in November, Roger Robinson in Fraternity, Brushing up Our Shakespeare, Plus All the Latest New Theater Reviews
Our critics were brushing up their Shakespeare over the weekend, with reviews of CymbelineJulius Caeser and Henry VI, Part I Jeff Stetson's 1987 retrospective drama on the effects of church Bombing in Birmingham, Alabama is this week's Pick of the Week. For all the Latest New Theater Reviews, go to ... More >>
Blogs
October 1, 2012
The Five Best Shows in Los Angeles This Week: Garbage, Nick Lowe, Culture Collide
Tuesday, October 2 Garbage WILTERN When they formed in 1994, future chart fixtures Garbage had the makings of a sterile vanity project. Created by veteran studio rats (including Butch Vig, producer of Nirvana's Nevermind), with a grafted-on unknown vocalist, their formula appeared better suited to ... More >>
Blogs
August 9, 2012
What's Nirvana's Best Album? Hint: It's Not Nevermind
See also: The Most Important Album of the Last 25 Years Isn't Nevermind, It's Guns N' Roses' Appetite For Destruction If you aren't familiar with Nirvana's sophomore release, 1991's Nevermind, you were probably born after the Y2K scare or believe that music peaked when Rush released Moving Picture ... More >>
Calendar
August 9, 2012
Bad Brains: Band in D.C.
See also: The Most Important Album of the Last 25 Years Isn't Nevermind, It's Guns N' Roses' Appetite For Destruction If you aren't familiar with Nirvana's sophomore release, 1991's Nevermind, you were probably born after the Y2K scare or believe that music peaked when Rush released Moving Picture ... More >>
Blogs
August 3, 2012
The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend
Friday, August 3 Rusko AVALON Quite possibly the most honest man in dubstep, Leeds-born, L.A.-dwelling producer Rusko has taken responsibility for the existence of the much-maligned "brostep" trend -- which is to say, injecting the dark atmospherics and effects of the original genre with a distinct ... More >>
Blogs
July 24, 2012
The Most Important Album of the Last 25 Years Isn't Nevermind, It's Guns N' Roses' Appetite For Destruction
Pearl Jam Are the Most Boring Band in 20 Years Top 20 Hair Metal Albums of All Time: The Complete List Guns N' Roses' seminal album Appetite For Destruction came out 25 years ago this past Saturday. I was 9 years old when a foreign exchange student taped me a copy of it. I had heard "Welcome to the ... More >>
Blogs
July 16, 2012
The Best Five Concerts in L.A. This Week
Monday, July 16 Animal Raps LOS GLOBOS By day, Paul Prado is one of the brevity-obsessed comic geniuses at L.A.'s own 5 Second Films. He's their in-house Method actor -- a guy who takes what he does so seriously, he'll shave his head clean for a five-second spoof of Citizen Kane. He can occupy a ch ... More >>
Blogs
May 31, 2012
Garbage - The Roxy - May 30, 2012
Garbage The Roxy 5-30-12 See also: *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time *Butch Vig: The Super-Producer Talks About the Genius of Garbage (and Nirvana) Nylon threw a party at The Roxy last night, and it was the fete's rock starlet hostess -- Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson, who graces the ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Music
September 15, 2011
1991: Nirvana Documentary Captures the Band Moments Before They Broke
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 >>
Film+TV
August 4, 2011
The Perfect Age of Rock 'N' Roll Review
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Calendar
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 >>
Music
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Calendar
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 >>
Calendar
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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
Blogs
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 >>
Music
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 >>
Blogs
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...)
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Calendar
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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."
Calendar
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."
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
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
Music
June 17, 2004
Kids Rock
The bands that are saving L.A.’s music scene
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February 19, 1998
Creme Brulee
And the sweetness of selling out
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