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April 26, 2012
Five Unusual Designer Toys Based on Celebrities
There's no shortage of toys and merchandise based on celebrities floating around the Internet, but some are a bit more unusual than others. In the designer toy and art toy world, artists turn recognizable figures into vinyl characters and mash them up with other pop culture references into amazing s ... More >>
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February 13, 2012
Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #20-16
See also: *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #15-11 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #10-6 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #5-1 What makes a terrible band? Is it being prepared to do the wrong thing, whatever the price? That and a pair of testicles. Only, some of the below groups possess testicles ... More >>
Music
December 1, 2011
Music Picks: Digital Underground, Beady Eye, Erykah Badu
Also, Jane Birkin, Human Drama, Big Jay McNeely
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December 1, 2011
Liam Gallagher On His Brother Noel: "I'd Rather Eat My Own Shit Than Be In A Band With Him Again"
See also: Our review of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Oasis has been a rock radio staple since the mid-'90s. But the band came apart in 2009 when, after years of infighting, Noel Gallagher left the outfit. His brother Liam and the rest of the group have since soldiered on under the name Beady ... More >>
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November 18, 2011
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Royce Hall - 11-17-11
Chris WalkerNoel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Royce Hall, UCLA 11-17-11 Better than...Liam's nasally singing on "Wonderwall" What do Noel Gallagher, Paul McCartney, Q-Tip, and David Lee Roth all have in common? Each have attempted solo careers after their immensely popular groups, to var ... More >>
Music
November 10, 2011
Mary J. Blige, Larry Carlton, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Also, Peanut Butter Wolf, Lucy Woodward, Chromeo and others
Blogs
October 11, 2011
Ryan Adams performs at Hollywood Forever, October 10, 2011
David BlackSee also: *Our Q&A With Ryan Adams *Ryan Adams Responds To Our Interview Ryan Adams Hollywood Forever October 10, 2011 Better than:...the sum total of every single stand-up comedy show concurrently happening in the greater Los Angeles metro area. "How L.A. is it that you can se ... More >>
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October 9, 2011
Tiesto - Home Depot Center - October 8, 2011
See also: Our Q&A With Tiesto Tiesto's Home Depot Center Show in October Billed as Largest One-DJ Gig in U.S. History Tiesto The Home Depot Center October 8, 2011 Better than...shows that aren't the biggest of their kind ever. The last time I saw Tiesto was February 2002 at Exit in New York City, ... More >>
Music
September 15, 2011
Music Picks: Joan Osborne, Tears for Fears, the Cute Lepers, J. Cole, Low
Also Bon Iver, Cerebellion, Surfer Blood and others
Blogs
August 15, 2011
The Pulp Revival Continues With Eve Woods' Documentary The Beat Is Law
Screen shot from The Beat Is LawJarvis Cocker on stage at GlastonburyOn August 10, L.A. Pulp fans gathered at Cinefamily for a sold-out screening of The Beat Is Law: Fanfare for the Common People, part of this year's Don't Knock the Rock film festival. The movie is Eve Wood's follow-up to the ... More >>
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August 2, 2011
Top Ten Bands Who Need To Reunite, NOW
Nope, this doesn't countLast week, we discussed ten bands who ruined their legacy by reuniting. Don't get the wrong idea, though -- we're not complete haters. And so, here are the groups we'd like to see put together one last reunion tour. Note: We're only talking about bands with all of thei ... More >>
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July 20, 2011
Night Moves and Movies: Outfest's Platinum Party
Lina LecaroChloe and Nao at Night Moves. Outfest concluded in a suitably outlandish way this weekend: with a sweaty, crafty and homo-sexy happening called Night Moves at the Alexandria Hotel downtown, courtesy of Platinum, the performance-based offshoot series created 10 years ago by art pion ... More >>
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June 30, 2011
Why Do Musicians Hate America? The 5 Worst Songs With "American" in the Title
Oh, United States Of America. We love you, we really do. Hell, we live here, so we kind of have to. We show our love through the composition of endless tributes to the land, the people and the country itself. Clarification: we do this by shamelessly co-opting the entire continental Western He ... More >>
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May 27, 2011
Wanna Hear What Pulp's "Disco 2000" Sounds Like in 2011?: New Video from their Comeback Gig!
Who else could that be onstage?: Pulp, 2011There are those who think of Pulp as a 1990s Britpop band that duked it out (and continues to duke it out) with the likes of Oasis and Blur for the dubious title of "Best Britpop Band of the 1990s." Those people, of course, are very, very wrong. Pu ... More >>
LA Life
May 19, 2011
Mari Iijima: Anime Idol
Who else could that be onstage?: Pulp, 2011There are those who think of Pulp as a 1990s Britpop band that duked it out (and continues to duke it out) with the likes of Oasis and Blur for the dubious title of "Best Britpop Band of the 1990s." Those people, of course, are very, very wrong. Pu ... More >>
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April 19, 2011
Coachella Party Report 2: After Dark Desert Debauchery at Oasis Beach Club and Neon Carnival
Lina Lecaro Sexy/shady at Oasis. Fun in the sun is one thing, but Coachella parties at night are an entirely different animal. For one, the people you will encounter are way more blitzed out of their minds (a combo of too much sun at the fest or parties all day, drinks, drugs(?) and general ... More >>
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March 10, 2011
Page Two: Gypsy Revivalism Is Not All Washed Up
Lina Lecaro Sexy/shady at Oasis. Fun in the sun is one thing, but Coachella parties at night are an entirely different animal. For one, the people you will encounter are way more blitzed out of their minds (a combo of too much sun at the fest or parties all day, drinks, drugs(?) and general ... More >>
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March 9, 2011
Rebel and Revel in Our Favorite Songs About Smoking
What's cooler than cool?If good things come in pairs than bad things just rain down like the ashes of an atomic bomb. If you follow the Catholic faith (or believe in the cruelty of forced asceticism) then you know that today is Ash Wednesday--otherwise known as the first day you give up all y ... More >>
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February 10, 2011
Top 20 Most Ridiculous Grammy 2010 Nominations: Still Ridiculous after All These Months
Grammys: they're nuts! [Originally published December 2010] It's that time of the year, the time when the imploding music industry gathers to display their astonishing cluelessness by nominating a bunch of hacks, flashes-in-the-pan, and old people that have done their best work 40 years ago ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
Top 20 Most Ridiculous Grammy 2010 Nominations
Grammys: they're nuts!It's that time of the year, the time when the imploding music industry gathers to display their astonishing cluelessness by nominating a bunch of hacks, flashes-in-the-pan, and old people that have done their best work 40 years ago as "the best music of the year." Yup-- ... More >>
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November 11, 2010
Hollywood's Soft Psychedelic Underbelly
Filmforum's "Alternative Projections" symposium draws a line from avant-garde to Avatar
Music
October 14, 2010
Brick's Picks: Far East, Far Out
Filmforum's "Alternative Projections" symposium draws a line from avant-garde to Avatar
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October 11, 2010
Tonight: Fran Healy, Teenage Fanclub, Radar Bros., Jessie Baylin, Evan Voytas, Mark Ballas
Fran HealyFran Healy could charm the fedora off a hipster. In fact, he pretty much did Sunday night in one of the closing sets at Filter's Culture Collide festival. The frontman of the Scottish quartet Travis played an acoustic set inside a crowded, steamy church in Echo Park, starring as mu ... More >>
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October 6, 2010
Tonight: The Futureheads, Broken Bells, Slash, Mexicans With Guns, CocoRosie, Nightmare & the Cat
The FutureheadsThe Futureheads streaked out of Sunderland, England, in 2004 in jetstream of U.K. post-punk bands such as Franz Ferdinand (the respective quartets' debut albums came out only months apart) who looked to the likes of Wire, Gang of Four and XTC for inspiration. The difference-ma ... More >>
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September 14, 2010
Tonight: The Daylights, Tracy Bonham, Shonen Knife, the Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group, Mike Posner
Steven TaylorThe DaylightsL.A.-based trio the Daylights -- Texans Ran and Ricky Jackson and Danish drummer Svend Lerche -- have a nice little buzz going, at least in the FM radio world. The trio's self-titled debut album, out today, bears the fingerprints of plenty of A-listers -- Youth prod ... More >>
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August 30, 2010
Over the Weekend: Chemical Brothers at the Hollywood Bowl
Timothy NorrisWine, cheese and blockrockin' beats: The Chemical Brothers at the Hollywood Bowl LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip, Klaxons and all other dance-rockers currently carving a profitable niche owe a debt of gratitude to electronica's "Born Slippy"-era--namely the holy trinity of stadium DJs ... More >>
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April 19, 2010
Tell Us Your Coachella Stories!
Josh "CuriousJosh" Reiss"Does this toothbrush make my ass look big?": Oral hygiene is very important at Coachella. Your stories are too. Tell us. Back from Coachella? Back to the daily grind? Everyone who stayed behind asking you "how was it? how was it?" jumping around you like the yappy do ... More >>
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April 17, 2010
Day 1: Volcano, Disorganization Can't Stop the Music
We're tempted to tell you about Jim Morrison and the really interesting remixes of their old catalog featured on the soundtrack to the new documentary People Are Strange. This is because we spent a few hours listening to it trapped in traffic trying to get to the parking lot so we could get to spend ... More >>
Music
April 8, 2010
The Specials: Back in Black and White
Lynval Golding on the return of ska's magnificent seven (minus one)
Blogs
April 5, 2010
Bob Dylan Banned in China Because of Bjork
LiuzhouLaowaiThe Guardian reports that Malibu-resident Bob Dylan has had to cut his Asian tour short because the Chinese government prevented him from playing in Beijing and Shanghai. According to the UK paper (quoting Hong Kong's South China Morning Post): Dylan's planned tour of east Asia ... More >>
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February 15, 2010
'Beatles are Bigger than David Crosby,' Says the Vatican
L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper of record, has apparently released a list of their Top Ten Rock Albums. We're saying apparently because most links to this story lead back to articles in the British press reporting this. The Osservatore's website--a bizarre Umberto-Eco-worthy labyr ... More >>
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December 18, 2009
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 >>
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November 11, 2009
Slit-eyed Ladies, Edible Willies, and Evan Dando Up Your Nose: Deep Inside the World of Crap Lyrics
Rod the Mod (#7) once fell in love with "a slit-eyed lady" (not pictured)For every "Blowin' In the Wind"and "The Times They Are A-Changin'" there's a "We Didn't Start the Fire" and "Muskrat Love." There's never a shortage of lists out there of good and bad pop lyrics. And who among us hasn't ... More >>
Music
September 24, 2009
The Horrors: London’s Burning
Prowling cobblestone streets, telling tales of murder with bloodcurdling screams
Blogs
July 28, 2009
New and Noteworthy CD Releases, LA and Otherwise
A bunch of good stuff out this week. Here's a selection of new releases of some import, some of specific LA interest, some of general interest. Rainbow Arabia, Kabukimino (Manimal Vinyl) M Ward, "End of Amnesia" 2 x 12" [FUTURE FARMER RECORDINGS] Champagne Socialists, Blue Genes [Singl ... More >>
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June 29, 2009
Rest in Peace: Pablo Castelaz of the Dangerbird Records Family
It's been a rough week, for sure. The untimely deaths of Michael, Farrah, Ed, Sky, and Billy were all pretty jarring in their own way. The news, however, that Pablo Castelaz, son of Dangerbird Records co-owner Jeff Castelaz and his wife Jo Ann, had died on Saturday after a long, heart-wrenching and ... More >>
Music
June 18, 2009
Rock Picks: Daedelus, Peanut Butter Wolf, Femi Kuti, Isis
Also, The Choke, Nouvelle Vague, Wilco, Sunset Rubdown and others
Blogs
April 14, 2009
Top 5 Songsmith Remixes: Fudging a Microsoft Program to Create "Music"
Songsmith, by Microsoft: a time-sucking monster One has to wonder if Microsoft knew what type of time-sucking monster they had created upon releasing Songsmith. An extension of the MySong project, the program allows even the musically inept to formulate a song and gives skilled players what the com ... More >>
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January 15, 2009
Britpop Piano Man: Adam Unknown Pays Homage to Five Decades of U.K. Music
At Royal Clayton's, a British pub on the bottom level of the Toy Factory Lofts, Adam Unknown leans into a microphone as he tickles piano keys. At times, it seems as though the clang of silverware against glass wants to compete with the performer's subtle croon, but the background noise never qui ... More >>
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December 5, 2008
Oasis at the Staples Center in LA: 'I Am the Walrus' All Night Long?
(All photos by Timothy Norris. Click photos for entire slideshow)Seven albums and seventeen years into their career, Oasis still doesn't seem to have listened to a record made after 1973. The band's recently-released Dig Out Your Soul offers echoes of their era-soundtrack second album, 1995's (Wha ... More >>
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October 27, 2008
Warner Brothers to Release 50th Anniversary Book, 320-Song (copy-protected, of course) USB Flash Drive
The main thing that the major labels have going for them, and why even the most battle-scarred of them has more "value" than budding minor labels, is due to their combined back catalog. During the fat times of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, the labels weren't just selling records but buying other labels ... More >>
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February 6, 2008
Black Mountain, Troubadour, 2/5
By Timothy Norris It's a big night in Los Angeles for Psych Rock. Dead Meadow's also doing their thing over at the EchoPlex. I've never heard tonight's opening band, Howlin' Rain, but the effects lineup certainly looks like they'll be worth the listen. Ahh, the Troubadour's fries... Don't fo ... More >>
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January 31, 2008
Ryan Adams, Royce Hall, 1/30
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, Royce Hall UCLA, Jan. 30 By Timothy Norris There’s something inspiring about visiting college campuses. The architecture, the formality and the certainty of purpose in almost everyone you pass as you walk towards your destination. Maybe it's that while you’re on a ... More >>
Columns
February 10, 2005
Hard ROQ
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, Royce Hall UCLA, Jan. 30 By Timothy Norris There’s something inspiring about visiting college campuses. The architecture, the formality and the certainty of purpose in almost everyone you pass as you walk towards your destination. Maybe it's that while you’re on a ... More >>
Music
June 17, 2004
Kids Rock
The bands that are saving L.A.’s music scene
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September 11, 2003
Keepers of the Magic Kingdom
Watch closely among Disneyland�s tourists and you might spot the Disneyana people, protecting Walt�s vision and living most of their waking lives in the happiest place on Earth
News
June 19, 2003
A Man Out of Time
Rodney Bingenheimer on life as the erstwhile Mayor of the Sunset Strip
Film+TV
January 2, 2003
The Year in Film
Rodney Bingenheimer on life as the erstwhile Mayor of the Sunset Strip
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August 2, 2001
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