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April 5, 2013
The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Weekend
Friday, April 5 Vum, Esben and the Witch THE BOOTLEG There's plenty of the spirit of New York synth-punk pioneers Suicide in minimal L.A. synth-wave trio Vum on their new single "I Will Return" -- and is that song title a promise or a threat? This is menacing stuff, built on bare-bones electronic b ... More >>
Blogs
February 27, 2013
We Review Michael Bolton's New Motown Covers Album, Track By Track
Michael Bolton was before my time. I know this because Office Space had a character who was ashamed to share a name with him, and because half the laughs for his surprise appearance in SNL's "Jack Sparrow" skit were Because It's Him, and because I haven't actually heard any of his own music. I think ... More >>
Music
December 6, 2012
Chris Robinson: Rock Star Revisionist
Once a rock and roll cliché, the former Black Crowes frontman re-writes his character
Stage
August 23, 2012
Martin Crimp's The City and How Obama Got His Groove Back Show the Art of Escaping Reality
Once a rock and roll cliché, the former Black Crowes frontman re-writes his character
Blogs
August 22, 2012
Mary Poppins, Moliere, 12 Angry Men and a Japanese Swordfight Play in This Week's New Theater Reviews
A bucket full of enthusiastic reviews this week, starting with the Pick of the Week, Sweet Thursday, Pacific Resident Theatre's stage adaptation of the novel by John Steinbeck. Also garnering good notices: Neo Ensemble Theatre's Epic Proportions, Moliere's The Fools at Santa Monica Playhouse, also i ... More >>
Blogs
June 29, 2012
Fruits and Vegetables May Help Smokers Kick the Habit
If you're trying to quit smoking, you might want to take a trip to your local farmers market: According to a study conducted by University at Buffalo researchers, eating fruits and vegetables may help smokers kick the habit. One thousand smokers 25 years or older were surveyed about their smoking ... More >>
Blogs
June 29, 2012
Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 6/25 - 6/29
In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "'You can always spot people who don't cook because they think that pancakes are made with butter,' she said." An Elegy for Nora Ephron: Pancakes, Bakery Dreams the Strawberry Ambrosia Fraud. "I just don't understand the ... More >>
Calendar
June 14, 2012
Janis, Anyone?
In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "'You can always spot people who don't cook because they think that pancakes are made with butter,' she said." An Elegy for Nora Ephron: Pancakes, Bakery Dreams the Strawberry Ambrosia Fraud. "I just don't understand the ... More >>
Music
April 19, 2012
Music Picks: Bettye LaVette, Johnny Thunders, Johnny Hallyday
Also, Kate McGarry, Enter Shikari, Hype Williams and others
Blogs
March 22, 2012
Ernest Cline: The Ready Player One Author's 10 Favorite Songs From John Hughes Movies
While in town for SXSW last week, we checked in with Austin native Ernest Cline, the author of 2011 bestseller Ready Player One. It's sci-fi, but totally readable and compelling; the plot concerns a nerdy overweight teen living in a distopian future America where everyone spends all their time in a ... More >>
Music
August 25, 2011
Music Picks: Janet Jackson, John Escreet Quartet, DJ Quik, Charles Bradley
Also, Charlie Haden Quartet West, John Williams, Philip Glass and others
Blogs
June 22, 2011
The Five Best Cover Songs Ever Covered, Rediscovered!
Sometimes the artist who authored a song does a bang-up job in the recording and you never need hear from the song again, except to hear it over and over and enjoy its overwhelming awesomeness. And sometimes an artist writes an incredible song and does an amazing job, and later on, some oth ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Music
February 3, 2011
Henry Rollins: The Column!
Plastic fantastic: why vinyl still matters
Blogs
February 3, 2011
5 Reasons to Check Out Har Mar Superstar's Residency at the Satellite
Angel CeballosHar Mar SuperstarHar Mar Superstar may be the unlikeliest dancefloor hero ever to perform in his underwear, but the pasty, diminutive songwriter/producer, born Sean Tillman, has proven over four albums that you don't have to have coiffed hair and a chiseled physique to fashion h ... More >>
Blogs
February 2, 2011
Henry Rollins: The Column! Is Here: Preview of the First Henry Rollins Column, Exclusive for the Print Edition of the LA Weekly
Timothy Norris[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every Wednesday and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday ... More >>
Blogs
October 11, 2010
Soul Legend Solomon Burke, Dead at 70
Solomon Burke. RIPSolomon Burke, one of the great soul survivors, died yesterday on a plane in Amsterdam at 70. Burke started off in Philly as a straight-up preacher/gospel singer, but after a move to Atlantic Records -- at the time the label for sophisticated, urban soul -- he produced a se ... More >>
Blogs
October 8, 2010
[UPDATED: Venue Changed] Peanut Butter Wolf: "My 10 First 45s," in Honor of Stones Throw's 10-10-10 Bash, Plus His Exclusive Bruce Haack Remix
Peanut Butter Wolf talks about his earliest vinyl purchases ahead of the Stones Throw 10-10-10 blowout.UPDATE: Due to permit restrictions, Stones Throw's 10-10-10 event is no longer taking place at The Sex. The location has been changed to downtown's Club 740. New flyer after the jump. That ... More >>
Blogs
August 20, 2010
"Fuck You," the New Single by Gnarls Barkley's Cee-Lo Revives Jackie Wilson/Otis Redding Era Soul
Repeat after Cee-Lo: "Fuck Youuuuuuuuu" A lyrics video for Cee-Lo's upcoming single "Fuck You" reveals the Gnarls Barkley singer trying to revive old-school Jackie Wilson/Otis Redding soul, with a little touch of ELO at the end. It's a triumph and it could be this year's "Hey Ya!" Enjoy the ... More >>
Calendar
July 29, 2010
Rock Out With Your Doc Out
Repeat after Cee-Lo: "Fuck Youuuuuuuuu" A lyrics video for Cee-Lo's upcoming single "Fuck You" reveals the Gnarls Barkley singer trying to revive old-school Jackie Wilson/Otis Redding soul, with a little touch of ELO at the end. It's a triumph and it could be this year's "Hey Ya!" Enjoy the ... More >>
Blogs
April 2, 2010
Complete 1966 Otis Redding Show Live on the Sunset Strip To Be Released
Here's a scoop for you: We hear from very reliable sources that Stax Records (the current version of the classic Southern Soul label recently revived by Concord Records) will be releasing a completely restored version of Otis Redding's legendary 1966 appearances on LA's very own Sunset Strip ... More >>
Music
September 17, 2009
Mayer Hawthorne: From Motown to Our Town
Soul salvation finds seed in Los Angeles
Blogs
September 14, 2009
Falling James on the Beatles Remasters: "Get the Originals Out There First. Desecrate Later"
By Falling James I was surprised to see that the 7-11 up the street had a carton of the new Beatles CDs on sale, sitting on the counter right beside the register. Usually, 7-11 doesn't traffic in such fine musical merchandise, apart from the occasional Miley Cyrus plastic bauble, and definitely not ... More >>
Music
September 10, 2009
Promote This: The Adler Effect
On the eve of the Sunset Strip Music Festival, Lou Adler and his son Nic talk about the concert business
Blogs
September 8, 2009
Festivals Then and Now: Lou Adler and Nic Adler Talk Monterey Pop and the Sunset Strip
The Adler posse knows a thing or two about the concert business. Lou Adler, the patriarch, is responsible for some of the great American cultural touchstones of the past 40 years, and a few of these moments are showcased on the wall of his home office in Malibu. There's the movie poster for The ... More >>
Blogs
August 26, 2009
Aquarium Drunkard's Summer Mixtape, Created by LA/NYC's Mondo Boys
The estimable LA-based music blog Aquarium Drunkard has posted a totally boss summer mixtape that you should all download asap. It's a smart mix of old (Otis Redding, Orange Juice, the Kinks) and new (Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Little Joy, Atlas Sound), and was compiled by NYC/LA mi ... More >>
Blogs
August 11, 2009
John Hughes Remembered at Little Cave Tonight
It wasn't just the quirky teens and funny, sincere one-liners that made us love John Hughes' teen movies, it was the music. Whether we were introduced to The Smiths through Pretty in Pink or The March Violets through Some Kind of Wonderful, the soundtracks for Hughes' movies were, in many w ... More >>
Blogs
July 14, 2009
Rhino to Release 'Digital 45s,' with A-sides, B-sides and Original (PDF) Sleeves
In ongoing effort to bring weird little songs from Rhino's catalog to the top of the digital avalanche, the legendary LA reissue label is launching a new series of so-called 'digital 45s.' This morning the label announced the program: Rhino will spotlight songs originally issued on 45 by offering t ... More >>
Music
May 14, 2009
Rock Picks: Doves, Ceci Bastida, Carina Round, New York Dolls
Also, The Detroit Cobras, the Aggrolites, Loney Dear and others
Blogs
December 4, 2008
No Age Gets Grammy Nomination?! No, really ...
The morning after the Grammy nominations are announced is usually a pretty harrowing moment for many music fans as we struggle to come to terms with what the rest of America is listening to. And not even in a snobby way; just in an ignorant way. By not listening to pop radio when we're driving (or e ... More >>
Music
September 18, 2008
Like Fresh Cream: Al Green Teams With the Roots
Reverend re-imagines the notion of smooth soul
Blogs
July 11, 2008
King Khan & The Shrines at The Echo 7.10.08
Photos by Ignacio Genzon. Touring on the heels of their first kiss with Vice Records, the brother-from-an-Indian-mother King Khan led his keyboard, guitar, bass, brass, rhythm, and booty section through a dozen or so tracks off of their new compilation album, The Supreme Genius of King Khan and th ... More >>
Music
December 27, 2007
2007's Long Players You Might Have Missed
Eleven handcrafted gems
News
May 3, 2007
Jailhouse Rock
Singing for supper in the Alcatraz of Arizona
Music
November 9, 2006
Dirty Reggae
The Aggrolites play ska as Jah intended
Music
October 19, 2006
Rock Picks
For the week of October 20-26
Film+TV
August 17, 2006
Mods & Rockers 2006
For the week of October 20-26
Music
August 10, 2006
Forever Love
Arthur Lee, 1945-2006
Blogs
January 14, 2006
Myspace Taste of the Week
I'd like to think that I'm way more popular in real life than I am on Myspace. I've only got like 50 friends, but that's probably because I only say yes to requests from peeps who truly are friends. Call me a weirdo. Anyway, the pals I do have, happen to have thousands of friends and way too much ... More >>
LA Life
December 29, 2005
Beyond Bubbly
The Style Council�s New Year�s Eve party mixes
Music
March 31, 2005
It�s No Shame About Ray
Ray LaMontagne�s hard past fuels startling songs and an anxious cult following
Music
September 16, 2004
Think About Aretha Franklin
A conversation and an appreciation
Music
November 13, 2003
How To Play a Mountain
A conversation and an appreciation
Music
April 3, 2003
Side Tripping
DJ Muggs smokes alone
Music
September 26, 2002
Broken Circles
DJ Muggs smokes alone
Music
June 27, 2002
Do Right Man
Back on Track With Solomon Burke
Music
January 31, 2002
Noche a Noche
Back on Track With Solomon Burke
Music
October 25, 2001
Up in Smoke
Edited by Kateri Butler
Music
January 14, 1999
Music 1998:
The good, the bad and the combusticated
Music
April 30, 1998
Music Reviews
The good, the bad and the combusticated
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