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Blogs
March 29, 2013
Terrace Martin's Jazz and G-Funk
Terrace Martin plays tomorrow's Paid Dues festival in San Bernardino. The producer, saxophonist, and emcee came up on the streets of Crenshaw and Slauson, and was tapped for Snoop Dogg's 2004 Rhythm & Gangsta album at 17 and for Quincy Jones' production staff at 22. Millions of record sold contain ... More >>
Blogs
January 24, 2013
I Rode the Entire L.A. Metro in a Single Day
I once dreamed of being a transportation planner: fast-roping into jungles, skirting ancient booby traps to snag gilded idols, natives and Nazi occultists in hot pursuit. Sadly, urban planners do none of those things. The most daring thing most of them will ever do is Sharpie "Fuck you, Robert Moses ... More >>
Blogs
January 16, 2013
Bizarre Ride: Jeff's Humorous Predictions and Most Anticipated Albums for 2013
[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Half of January has elapsed and we've survived. There was no collapse due to fiscal cliff, Central American apocalypse or dubstep deluge. A new year unfu ... More >>
Blogs
November 28, 2012
Roc Marciano, In the Sunshine
[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] The most cold-blooded and grimy New York rapper of the last decade lives by the Beverly Center. It's worlds removed from the drug-infested projects of hi ... More >>
Blogs
August 2, 2012
The Bizarre World of Makeup Artists, Where Ovals are Perfection and Monsters are Beautiful
When the International Makeup Artist Trade Show rolls into town, it brings with it a million tiny pans of eye shadow -- and the utter conviction that the right shade of lipstick can change your life. At the Pasadena Convention Center, where the trade show took place earlier this summer, beauty i ... More >>
Blogs
June 18, 2012
Make Music Pasadena - Old Town Pasadena - 6/16/12
Make Music Pasadena Festival Old Town Pasadena 6-16-12 With the Sunset Junction Festival filing for bankruptcy and the Silver Lake Jubilee upping admission to $20 a head, one's options for quality summer music festivals in L.A. have dwindled a bit. Meanwhile, at this point the only two free festiva ... More >>
Blogs
May 8, 2012
Top Ten Rap Albums For People Who Don't Know Shit About Hip-Hop
Hip-hop is nearly 40, but many still find this slightly-disorienting world of beats, rhymes and oversize personalities a bit daunting. So consider this our hip-hop Cliff's notes; here are the albums you should know about if you don't want to look silly at cocktail parties. We're not saying these a ... More >>
Music
April 26, 2012
Music Picks: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Esperanza Spalding, Jack White
Also, the Crystelles, Arturo Sandoval, Backbiter and others
Blogs
April 26, 2012
Phife Dawg Is Down With Posthumous Holograms, Likes Funyons
See Also: Michael Rapaport's A Tribe Called Quest Documentary A lazy reader of the internet would believe that since A Tribe Called Quest's 1998 breakup, Q-Tip has a platinum album and Grammy wins, while Phife Dawg has done little more than gotten a kidney transplant and eaten a bag of Funyons. Of ... More >>
Blogs
January 23, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
January 3, 2012
Kris Bowers Played On Watch The Throne: He's At Catalina's Tomorrow Night
Thelonious Monk Jazz InstituteWhen most college students return home for winter break, they watch TV in the den and get drunk with high school friends. Pianist Kris Bowers, a 22-year old-graduate student at Julliard, however, has come home to Los Angeles with some big prizes, and will perfo ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
September 23, 2011
Ayomari and TiRon Get The Girl
TiRon and AyomariUnder-the-radar rapper TiRon Jeffries was nervous about approaching dream hampton, first female editor of The Source and co-author of Jay-Z's Decoded. But like a freshman boy in high school who somehow had a shot with the most untouchable senior goddess, he wavered while his ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2011
Top Ten Rap Remixes Of '90s R&B Songs
Take thatThis Friday, the Stokely Williams-fronted Mint Condition will be taking the stage at Club Nokia. The group came to prominence in the '90s with the huge hit ballad "What Kind Of Man Would I Be?" But beyond Mint Condition's slick soul moments, the band also embraced the mid-'90s trend ... More >>
Blogs
July 21, 2011
Ten Groups Who Never Should Have Gotten Back Together
Beware fellas, bad things may be coming your wayOn New Year's Eve 2009, Chris Cornell made a Twitter declaration: "School's back in session." The implication was that Soundgarden was reuniting. However, it took several months for the official announcement. The grunge pioneers would be putting ... More >>
Music
July 7, 2011
Michael Rapaport's A Tribe Called Quest Documentary
Beware fellas, bad things may be coming your wayOn New Year's Eve 2009, Chris Cornell made a Twitter declaration: "School's back in session." The implication was that Soundgarden was reuniting. However, it took several months for the official announcement. The grunge pioneers would be putting ... More >>
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July 7, 2011
Beats, Rhymes, and Strife: How Michael Rapaport Learned the Hard Way Why A Tribe Called Quest Just Can't Get Along
Kevin ScanlonMichael Rapaport with his lone ATCQ supporter, Phife DawgMichael Rapaport answers the door to his Hancock Park house with a vague look of panic on his familiar, strawberry-blond mop-topped face. As he struggles to restrain two massive dogs so I can make my way into his home, I no ... More >>
Blogs
December 14, 2010
Top 5 Most Disappointing Musical Hypes of 2010
5 Most Over Hyped Albums of the Year
Music
November 4, 2010
2Pac and Walt Whitman
Two professors anthologize the best rap lyrics
Blogs
October 26, 2010
In Honor of the Walkman: Ten Must-Have Cassette Classics, From 'Da Da Da' to Deathrock to 'Do Me!'
Turns out the Walkman isn't dead yet, but let's face it (those of us who weren't surprised to find that the outmoded portable was still being manufactured): The writing's on the wall. As a sort of premature eulogy for the player, West Coast Sound revisits some of the Walkman's finer moments through ... More >>
Columns
October 21, 2010
Art of the Sneeze
Turns out the Walkman isn't dead yet, but let's face it (those of us who weren't surprised to find that the outmoded portable was still being manufactured): The writing's on the wall. As a sort of premature eulogy for the player, West Coast Sound revisits some of the Walkman's finer moments through ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
Blogs
July 29, 2010
Attention J-Dilla Heads: Slum Village's T3 on Finally Releasing the Album, Dilla's pre-Tribe Beginnings and that Whole "New Native Tongues" Reputation
E1 MusicSlum Village's T3: No fear of a black hat"The idea for a Slum Village reunion album came from a conversation I had with J Dilla before he passed away," says T3, the last living member of the beloved Detroit rap group. Released this week, Villa Manifesto is a fitting end to the Slum Vi ... More >>
Music
May 27, 2010
Music Picks: Free Kutmah Benefit, Amanda Jo Williams, Rosie Ledet
Also, Svarte Greiner, Miike Snow, School of Seven Bells and others
Blogs
February 12, 2010
Watch: Sao Paulo's Cibelle Pays Tribute To J Dilla's "Lightworks" [MP3]
The late, great Jay DeeAs West Coast Sound scribe Drew Tewksbury just reported, Wednesday marked the fourth anniversary of the tragic passing of legendary hip-hop producer J Dilla, a.k.a. James Yancey. After years of excellent behind-the-scenes production work, Dilla rose to fame as a member ... More >>
Music
November 5, 2009
Rock Picks: Fuck Buttons, Exene Cervenka, Imogen Heap, John Fogerty
Also, HEALTH, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Múm, Leon Russell and others
Blogs
October 19, 2009
First Listen: Wayward Saints Meld Downbeat, Hip Hop, and Far Out Jazz
First Listen: Wayward Saints Meld Downbeat, Hip Hop, and Far Out Jazz MP3
Blogs
February 13, 2009
Live at Amoeba Records: Illa J and the Timelessness of J Dilla
Erin Broadley Los Angeles is always hot, but it's rarely warm. And cold, cavernous Amoeba Records is hardly an emotional bastion, unless you're talking caustic clerks castigating a moldering collection of Chicago records. But behind me, a group of saucer-eyed sophomore girls, eyebrow rings and flann ... More >>
Blogs
December 30, 2008
The 50 Best Albums of the Year (#30-21) (Sponsored By Medieval Times)
You better believe they serve Pepsi at Medieval Times. 30. Los Campesinos-Hold On Now, Youngster (Wichita/Arts and Crafts) Gareth Campesinos and Co. clearly grew up not just liking music but being obsessed by bands, and they've done the only honourable thing you can in that position: they've ... More >>
Blogs
November 14, 2008
Don't Miss This Show: Oliver Wang on Q-Tip, the Cool Kids (MP3), the Knux and Pacific Division at H.O.B.
Saturday, November 15 Q-Tip, The Cool Kids at House of Blues It has been nine years since Q-Tip's last album yet strangely, it hasn't seemed so long. That says much about the enduring power of Q-Tip's old band, A Tribe Called Quest - guaranteed to be in heavy rotation on iPod playlists for any hi ... More >>
Music
November 13, 2008
Rock Picks: Part Time Punks Festival, The Breeders, Rodney Crowell
Also, Uh Huh Her, James Intveld, Miranda Lee Richards and more
Blogs
November 6, 2008
Q-Tip's-"Move"
I can't tell how much I like Q-Tip's, The Renaissance. It's good sure, but it's impossible to listen to without noting the elephant in the room: the fact that Q-Tip has been a.w.o.l. for most of the decade and y'know, that whole "centerpiece of one of the greatest groups of all-time" thing. So wi ... More >>
Music
January 10, 2008
Check the Technique: Notes from the Golden Age
Hip-hop scribe profiles 36 seminal rap albums. Let the arguments begin
Film+TV
August 24, 2006
Southern Comfort
OutKast�s flashy but flaccid Prohibition musical
Music
February 16, 2006
Thank You, J Dilla
OutKast�s flashy but flaccid Prohibition musical
Music
January 27, 2005
Resistance Is Futile
The Chemical Brothers push the button and you surrender
Music
July 24, 2003
Into the Mix
The Chemical Brothers push the button and you surrender
Music
April 25, 2002
Love in the Abstract
The Chemical Brothers push the button and you surrender
Calendar
December 20, 2001
Don't Let Your Meat Loaf
Edited by Kateri Butler
Music
January 18, 2001
Can�t Go to Sleep
Edited by Kateri Butler
News
January 18, 2001
Marilyn:
A Re-Examination
Edited by Kateri Butler
Music
December 28, 2000
Beat Baggage
Edited by Kateri Butler
Music
July 6, 2000
Saving It
Edited by Kateri Butler
Music
April 13, 2000
Naked
D�Angelo: It�s an �I� thing
Music
December 30, 1999
Thieves Like Us
Stalking classic rock with the Charlatans UK
Music
December 16, 1999
Do U Know Us?
Armand Van Helden, Mos Def: A masculine equation
Music
December 9, 1999
Can You Kick It?
The most beautifullest Tribe Called Quest
Music
May 20, 1999
Corruptors
The rap on Styles of Beyond
Music
September 17, 1998
Bring the Sauce
To live, love and leave before dying in L.A.: how the Beastie Boys beat the very odd odds
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