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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 >>

The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, April 13 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival EMPIRE POLO CLUB Although it's unlikely that the Rolling Stones and their sprawling entourage will descend on this sun-baked music festival for a surprise set, as was rumored earlier this year, there are still many intriguing storylines scatte ... More >>

Let's Be Honest: Sonic Youth Are Really Boring

In the annals of rock there are many bands that people pretend to like, bands with fandoms consisting entirely of people desperately wanting to appear interesting by proxy. Royal Trux is a good example, as are Ween. Basically any Burzum fan who isn't a corpse paint-wearing, basement-dwelling Nazi fr ... More >>

The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison: Our Book of the Week

According to the people who track these things, there are roughly 170,000 new books published each year in the United States -- an alarming percentage of which arrive, unbidden, at the L.A. Weekly office. Each week, we'll offer a snapshot of a newish book that's caught our attention. Just as there ... More >>

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 >>

Pearl Jam's "Jeremy": Why This Song Sucks

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] See also: *Pearl Jam Are the Most Boring Band in 20 Years *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List Song: Pearl Jam's "Jeremy" History: Pearl Jam was ... More >>

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List

​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 only in the symbolic sense. Because, even if you're composed of ladies, it takes balls to make music that is simultaneousl ... More >>

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #10-6

See also: *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #20-16 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #15-11 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #5-1 10. Pussycat Dolls The Pussycat Dolls may seem like an easy target, but they're actually a quite difficult one, considering they're less band than brand. There's their rea ... More >>

Top 5 Music Documentaries the Academy Should Consider This Year

Tomorrow the Academy will announce the nominees for the 2012 Oscars. Best documentary has always been one of the most controversial categories, from the snubbing of Hoop Dreams to Michael Moore's loudmouth acceptance speeches to Banksy's denial a year ago. In hopes that they get things right this ye ... More >>

Pearl Jam Are the Most Boring Band in 20 Years

See also: The Worst Song Of The '90s? A Line-By-Line Dissection Of Alanis Morissette's "Ironic" August marked the 20-year anniversary of Pearl Jam's Ten. Yes, for 20 soul-crushing years we've listened to Eddie Vedder mumble. Which is somehow even worse than Jeff Ament's endless procession of silly ... More >>

The Most Popular Music Posts Of 2011

Josh "CuriousJosh" ReissPeople are freaking psyched about this post​Man, y'all did some clicking this year. You must have had, like, a lot of time on your hands, or not been interested in advancing in your professions or hanging out with your family. Well, we at West Coast Sound salute you! We ... More >>

Bitches Brew Returns For The Holidays: From Miles Davis To Your Pint Glass

When the 9% ABV fusion beer Bitches Brew was first released by Delaware-based Dogfish Head Brewery in June 2010 -- on the 40th anniversary of the jazz fusion album of the same name -- the beer world sipped slowly, hoping to delay the inevitable end to its glorious existence. But as with most limit ... More >>

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Four Things to Love About Patrick Warburton

​ Patrick Warburton has a knack for scoring roles that foster pop culture obsession. Back in the 1990s, he played Elaine Benes' boyfriend, David Puddy, on Seinfeld. He went on to star in the short-lived, yet beloved live-action adaptation of The Tick. More recently, you can hear his deep, boom ... More >>

Live Review: Eddie Vedder at The Wiltern

Daniel KohnVedder getting started​ WHO: Eddie Vedder WHERE: The Wiltern WHEN: 7/8/11 There are many points in Eddie Vedder's 20-year plus music career where he's had moments of clarity. However, there was a point when he lived in a crummy apartment in San Diego when he realized enough was eno ... More >>

Ten Reasons To See Eddie Vedder Tonight (Besides Reliving Your Grunge Glory Days)

​Yes, yes, the '90s have gone the way of the flannel shirt, BUT they are making a comeback faster than you can say "Citizen Dick" (the Day-Glo '80s could only interest newborn hipsters for so long). That being said, the drummer of the fictional band from Singles, the one and only Eddie Vedder, ... More >>

Further Proof That Punk Rock Can Lead to a Fulfilling Career

Top 10 Bands That Should Have Broken Up Instead of the White Stripes

10 Bands Who Should Break Up

Why is Armenia Anti-Emo?

Lauryn Hill Schedules Tour, Anti-Emo Armenia, Pearl Jam Makes Festival, Dylan's Lyrics Bring Big Bucks

Who Cares About Bieber, Gaga, or the VMA's? You Do! Winner Recaps Past and Present

Who Really Cares About Bieber, Gaga, or the VMA's? You Do! Winner Recaps Past and Present

Nightranger: Bringing Sounds to the Sea

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 >>

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 >>

Gitmo Torture Music: Songs That Will Break You

Music by Pearl Jam, NIN, R.E.M. used at Gitmo, musicians protest.

Math-Rockers Polvo Crunch the Numbers at Spaceland MP3

Nineties Math-Rockers Polvo Crunch the Numbers at Spaceland

Pearl Jam at the Gibson Amphitheatre, Night One

View more photos in Timothy Norris' Pearl Jam slideshow. What seemed to be the entire unofficial Los Angeles Pearl Jam fan club made it out to the Gibson Amphitheatre at City Walk last night, and that's a good thing, because Eddie Vedder certainly plays to his fans. Timothy NorrisVedder (airborn ... More >>

Rock Picks: Rain Machine, Pearl Jam, Wallpaper, Bon Iver, Dodos

Also, Seasons, Brodinski, Autolux and others

Kanye Who? VMA Moments That Didn't Suck

Kanye West interrupts Taylor Swift, continuing a long tradition of unspontaneous VMA quackery. Back in the day, VMA's didn't suck, here's evidence.

Raise Your Arms, Flick Your Bic, and Close Your Eyes

Coachella: Indio Times 10

Goldenvoice’s Paul Tollett on the decade-old music festival

Tom Waits' Anti-Scalping Plan

There's no L.A. date, so don't get too excited, but the video itself is pretty funny: And oh yeah - He's going to play some dates in Europe too, though the markets haven't been announced. Now, more interesting than his hydra constellation map is his anti-scalping plan for the tickets. Think "t ... More >>

Eddie Vedder, Solo at the Wiltern, 4/13

Photos by Timothy Norris. Text by Ryan Colditz Eddie Vedder is taking it solo. Pearl Jam has broken up and all that is left is Eddie Vedder. Just kidding. REALLY. In fact, Pearl Jam are touring this summer with shows announced on the east coast and there are rumors of a return to L.A. in July or ... More >>

Taking the Downtown Detour

Scenes from L.A. Weekly's second annual music festival

LA Weekly Detour Festival: A Race for the Prize

LA Weekly Detour Festival Downtown Los Angeles, October 6. By Randall Roberts You can tell a good music festival by the number of sprinters, joggers, and speed walkers racing from stage to stage during set lulls -- you know, the excited fans torn between two bands, not wanting to leave one but not ... More >>

Immagine In Cornice "Picture in a Frame"- A Pearl Jam Film

Immagine In Cornice "Picture in a Frame"- A Pearl Jam Film By Ryan Colditz I have been on Pearl Jam overload the past few months. That's saying a lot if you know me. Traveling to Europe to see the band this past summer had been a lifelong dream. I Did it. I Loved it. After returning, I felt like ... More >>

Pearl Jam, as Hot as the Devil’s Asshole

All in the Jamily

An Ugly Truth

The year — in style? Help stop global leg warmers

Bong Hits, Bluegrass, Pervy Puppets, and Tom Petty As Hipster

Soul Men

Pearl Jam’s traveling love-in hits the Fonda

Middle-Aged Bastards and Still Monsters of Rock

The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam once again roam the earth

Festivus Maximus

Do you enjoy crowds, music and exhaustion?

They Will Drink It All

Letters

Still Rockin’ in the Almost Free World

Bring the Noise

All Tomorrow's Parties feeds back to the future

Letters

Midnight Sun

Pearl Jam’s book of changes

Tribal Gathering

Coachella festival: It's all in the mix

Burn, Li'l Debby, Burn

Built for Speed

Fastbacks: Punk in the present tense