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December 11, 2012
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees Announced: N.W.A Was Fucking Slighted
The craptastic rock and roll hall of fame inductees were just announced. Here's who was nominated: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Chic Deep Purple Heart Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Albert King Kraftwerk The Marvelettes The Meters Randy Newman N.W.A Procol Harum Public Enemy Rush Donna Summer ... More >>
Blogs
December 10, 2012
The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week
Monday, December 10 Lamps PEHRSPACE Lamps are punk (like Chrome? Or Suicide?). They're from space (like Hawkwind?) but also from hell (like Electric Eels!), where everything melts together into a big hot white ball of confusion that's bright enough to give off some sick kind of light but which will ... More >>
Music
December 6, 2012
Music Picks: Bloc Party, Metric, KROQ Acoustic Xmas
Monday, December 10 Lamps PEHRSPACE Lamps are punk (like Chrome? Or Suicide?). They're from space (like Hawkwind?) but also from hell (like Electric Eels!), where everything melts together into a big hot white ball of confusion that's bright enough to give off some sick kind of light but which will ... More >>
Blogs
July 6, 2012
Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Long-Awaited Unreleased Can Tracks
KCRW Broadcast #172 for Saturday, July 7, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Some of the Best Times of My Life Fanatics! I hope you are enjoying your holiday. Tonight, again, we have put together two hours of music that works well on ever level. I have played all the songs through three tim ... More >>
Blogs
January 17, 2012
Chuck D of Public Enemy Gets Into Twitter Beef With LA Weekly
I had hoped my brush with fame would involve winning the lottery or meeting the president. But for a second there Chuck D made me Twitter-famous (which is to say, in the words of Saturday Night Live, not famous). It all started when I reported that a weekend event in L.A., widely publicized as a fr ... More >>
Blogs
January 16, 2012
Public Enemy - Occupy Skid Row - 1/15/12
Public Enemy, Yo-Yo, Kurupt, King T, Kid Frost, Egyptian Lover Downtown, Gladys Ave. and 6th St. 1/15/11 See also: *Public Enemy and Matt & Kim - Sunset Strip Music Festival - 8/20/2011 *Our slideshow of the Skid Row Street Festival Public Enemy is known for fighting the powers that be. So even ... More >>
Blogs
January 15, 2012
'Occupy Skid Row' Concert Featuring Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, Kurupt in Doubt, LAPD Says: It Doesn't Have Permit
See our review of the festivities here. Updated at the bottom with what went down. First posted at 4:33 p.m. Friday. A planned "Occupy Skid Row" free street concert Sunday featuring Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, Kurupt and other hip-hop artists is in doubt, police tell the Weekly. The Los Angeles Co ... More >>
Blogs
October 25, 2011
Everlast's Top Five Most Influential West Coast Rap Albums
See also: *Don't Call Him Country. Everlast is Hip-Hop, Dammit. *Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List As a teenager, Everlast was a graf writer. He made a couple tapes with his buddies, and the next thing he knew he was part of Ice-T's Rhyme Syndicate crew. He, Dan ... More >>
Blogs
October 21, 2011
Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List
Editor's note: In conjunction with our music issue we rolled out the top 20 L.A. rap albums of all time this week, as picked by Ian Cohen, Rebecca Haithcoat, Jeff Weiss and Ben Westhoff. But the list was broken up into four posts, which can get a bit unwieldy, so we've compiled the full list ... More >>
Blogs
October 18, 2011
Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: 15-11
See also Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums of All Time: 20-16 Editor's note: For our music issue, out on Thursday, Ian Cohen, Rebecca Haithcoat, Jeff Weiss and Ben Westhoff run down the top 20 L.A. rap albums of all time. We're unveiling the list all this week on West Coast Sound. The party ... More >>
Calendar
May 26, 2011
911 Is a Joke, and So Is Flavor Flav
See also Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums of All Time: 20-16 Editor's note: For our music issue, out on Thursday, Ian Cohen, Rebecca Haithcoat, Jeff Weiss and Ben Westhoff run down the top 20 L.A. rap albums of all time. We're unveiling the list all this week on West Coast Sound. The party ... More >>
Eat+Drink
May 5, 2011
Jonathan Gold Judges Cochon 555's Traveling Pork and Wine Bacchanalia
See also Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums of All Time: 20-16 Editor's note: For our music issue, out on Thursday, Ian Cohen, Rebecca Haithcoat, Jeff Weiss and Ben Westhoff run down the top 20 L.A. rap albums of all time. We're unveiling the list all this week on West Coast Sound. The party ... More >>
Blogs
January 28, 2011
Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 1/24-1/28
In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "If a Korean Public Enemy were to record an album on the subject, they'd call it Fear of a Kimchi Planet." First Bite: Simon King Cooks Suburban Korean in Pasadena at Gaon. "These days, it's all about knowing a book's shippi ... More >>
Eat+Drink
January 27, 2011
Gaon: Suburban Korean
Where chef Simon King respects tradition
Blogs
January 26, 2011
First Bite: Simon King Cooks Suburban Korean in Pasadena at Gaon
Jonagold apple, portion removedAnother suburban Korean restaurant? When you put it that way, I guess we are a little obsessed with the idea of gentrified Korean food. Everybody knows the cuisine is going to hit the mainstream at some point, but nobody has quite figured out what it is going to ... More >>
Blogs
May 28, 2010
Shocker! Naked Internet Gun Lover Rockglockcock Is a Bonnaroo Festival Kinda Guy
The imaged that launched a thousand lunches towards the bottom of the toilet: Rockglockcock in all his glory The wonderful Lisa Carver has tracked down naked Internet gun enthusiast Rockglockcock, the model for one of the most meme-tastic photos that tends to illustrate many heated arguments ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2010
Celebrate 5 de Mayo with the Controversial "El Corrido de Arizona" by Los Cenzontles
Corridos are narrative ballads in Spanish, a much-loved form in popular song among Mexicans and the Spanish-speaking populations of the Southwestern US. (Note to gringos: If Johnny Cash had been Mexican, he would have sung corridos). One of the most interesting aspects of corridos is that, since th ... More >>
Blogs
April 21, 2010
White Gang Investigated In Attacks On SoCal Police
Hemet Police training.Thirty-five houses were searched and 23 people, mostly connected to a white gang, were arrested this week in a probe of attempted attacks against Hemet police in Riverside County, according to Fox 11 News. The operation against the gang, which went unnamed (there are b ... More >>
Music
November 5, 2009
Not the Usual Haunts
Hemet Police training.Thirty-five houses were searched and 23 people, mostly connected to a white gang, were arrested this week in a probe of attempted attacks against Hemet police in Riverside County, according to Fox 11 News. The operation against the gang, which went unnamed (there are b ... More >>
Blogs
November 5, 2009
DEVO at the Fonda Night #2: "Freedom Of Choice" Is What We Got
From the iconic red energy dome hats on its cover to its sublime synthesis of robotic riffs and synths, Freedom Of Choice is more than just the album that broke Devo into the mainstream (for some, their last great album), it's a potent, punchy, pogo-worthy, pop culture masterpiece. The Fonda sure wa ... More >>
Blogs
April 30, 2009
A Conversation with Posdnuos of De La Soul: On Nike Run Mixes, The Current State of Hip-Hop and Oodles of O's
De La Soul, back in the day Only a handful of rap groups can be bandied about as G.O.A.T: Wu-Tang, Outkast, EPMD, Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, Run-DMC, UGK, The Geto Boys, and De La Soul. If you need an introduction to the De La -- Posdnuos, Dave/Trugoy the Dove, and Maseo -- you obviously hav ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2009
Coachella Sunday: No Holding Back Public Enemy, The Cure, The Horrors, K'Naan
Anyone who's ever been to Coachella knows it leaves you with a special brand of Monday morning pain. This 3 day monster will test even the fittest, most fervent music fan. For most attendees this was a call-in-sick day, a day of rest and merciful silence. Or, if you did the weary drive home today li ... More >>
Music
February 5, 2009
Maybe We're Amazed: Notes on the Fairly Odd Coachella 2009 Lineup
Our only hope — that Macca gets Ram tough
Blogs
January 30, 2009
Coachella 2009 Announced: Amy Winehouse, Paul McCartney, My Bloody Valentine ... Throbbing Gristle! Leonard Cohen!
Yeah, so all the silly speculation probably isn't done yet, as Goldenvoice always adds a few heavy-hitters after the initial announcement, but the initial line-up is up. Click through to see it in all it's glory. We'll start analyzing it soon, but for now: Throbbing Gristle! No Pavement? Let the ... More >>
Blogs
January 14, 2009
Coachella Rumor Mill Works Overtime, but the Confirmations Continue to Trickle In
(Michel Gondry's video for the Chemical Brothers' "Let Forever Be.") Here's a list of "confirmed" (so far) acts to appear at Coachella 2009, according to the very reliable Monklish blog. His guarantee: "I've been told that these have been making arrangements to attend the festival as contractuall ... More >>
Blogs
December 14, 2008
Idealist Propaganda: The Raw Power of Glen E. Friedman
Photos by Erin Broadley. Click images for entire Idealist Propaganda slideshow."Search and Destroy" funnels out onto the 10:30 p.m. Saturday Sunset Blvd. sidewalk, violently greeting late-arrivals to Glen E. Friedman's Idealist Propaganda exhibit. Iggy's cocaine cacophony carves up Tymphanic cavitie ... More >>
Film+TV
September 18, 2008
That's Not All, Folks: PBS Tackles The Warner Bros. Story
Brando? Check. Bogart? Check. But the American Masters segment could have used more from the studio's most successful film, The Dark Knight
Blogs
September 10, 2008
Double Impact
Brando? Check. Bogart? Check. But the American Masters segment could have used more from the studio's most successful film, The Dark Knight
Music
August 7, 2008
The Many Moods of Rock the Bells
Hip-hop's been in a lull. Meet the new torchbearers
Blogs
July 19, 2008
Pitchfork Festival Day 1-The Airing of Grievances
A Pitchfork seems like the appropriate emblem. After all, it's been a hellish last two days, culminating with this moment right now, my friends already having set off for the festival at the absurdly early crack of noon, abandoning me to pump Fela on my iPod in a Chicago Barnes and Noble, spitting ... More >>
Music
December 6, 2007
N.W.A: Compton's Most Vaunted a Hard Act to Follow
Two decades later, Straight Outta Compton is as vital � and brutal � as ever
Music
November 29, 2007
N.W.A: A Hard Act to Follow
Hip-hop and hype from the streets of Compton (reprint of May 5, 1989, Weekly cover story)
Blogs
October 28, 2007
Vegoose: This is How they Dance
Random observations on dancing at Vegoose and elsewhere: photographs by Timothy Norris Shins fans don't dance. I know this because it was at the beginning of this show that I first discovered that my wristband was in fact MAGIC and offered me backstage access. And free food. And free cocktails. A ... More >>
Music
August 16, 2007
Bells On Parade
Public Enemy, Wu-Tang Clan, Rage against the Machine and more at Rock the Bells
Music
August 9, 2007
Rock Picks: Detroit Cobras, Gore Gore Girls, MF Doom, Squeeze
For the week of August 9 – 16
Music
August 9, 2007
Public Enemy's 20 Years in the Game
Bringing that beat back
Columns
August 2, 2007
Flavor Flav in the Roaster
�How do you embarrass a crackhead?�
Music
March 22, 2007
Days of Lines and Poses
SxSW journal
Music
December 21, 2006
Rock Docs Are Go! Rockumentary Recommendations
As CDs wither, the low-budget rockumentary is born again
Music
December 7, 2006
Rock PIcks
For the week of December 7 - 14
Music
April 27, 2006
Freaky Kinky Nation
The weird-ass, beautiful history of �80s hip-hop, as curated by Tommy Boy records
Music
October 17, 2002
Back in Black
The weird-ass, beautiful history of �80s hip-hop, as curated by Tommy Boy records
Columns
July 18, 2002
Subterranean Speed-Freak Blues
The weird-ass, beautiful history of �80s hip-hop, as curated by Tommy Boy records
News
November 8, 2001
Music of the Heart and Other Organs
You can�t dance to everything
Music
November 23, 2000
Rap and Revelation
Words to the wise from Blood of Abraham
Music
June 29, 2000
Down for the Good Life
A Unified Revolution Called Jurassic 5
Music
July 29, 1999
Shout at the Devil
Public Enemy rants to the music
Art+Books
July 8, 1999
Wait-and-Switch
Why is Amazon.com debuting free digital downloads?
Music
April 1, 1999
Downloading the Future
The MP3 Revolution � the End of the Industry as We Know It
Music
December 10, 1998
Sound Barrier
OutKast�s Southern-fried hip-hop breaks through
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