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Harry Shearer's KCRW Show Canceled

Harry Shearer's weekend, one hour Le Show on KCRW has been canceled, the comedian and actor announced on Twitter today. He told fans on Twitter that the station would be making an announcement shortly. We reached out to the Santa Monica public radio station but ...

KDAY Is Closing? A Eulogy to the Best Station in L.A.

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," normally appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] "Remember KDAY?" Tupac asked that question on "To Live & Die in LA," but the answer was obvious. Makaveli never even lived in Southern Califor ... More >>

Rob Zombie Hates That Movie Scores Aren't Catchy Anymore. So He's Trying to Change Them

Rob Zombie remembers the first time he saw Jaws. It was in 1975. He was a child at the time, probably in fourth grade by his recollections. "There wasn't anything scary happening," he remembers. Yet Jaws became a legend of the horror genre it was, in a large part, thanks to the music. "John Williams ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: FIDLAR, Pissed Jeans and Lamp

KCRW BROADCAST #202 02-16-13 See also: Henry Rollins: Football, Violence, and America Fanatics! Tonight's show is a great one from top to bottom. I am listening to it right now and I am excited to roll it all out for you. I just got the Fidlar and Pissed Jeans records last week and am digging the ... More >>

Carl's Jr. Boycotted in 1989, Fast Food Protests Nothing New

Picketers and protesters outside a Hollywood fast food restaurant, shouting slogans and attempting to dissuade customers from going inside. A scene from Chick-fil-A in the last week? No, it happened at a Carl's Jr. a short distance to the east...in 1989. The protest, on August 30 of that year, wa ... More >>

Woody Guthrie in Los Angeles

A more vivid picture of the folk singer emerges via newly released songs from his time here

Following Whitney Houston 'Crack Ho' Remark, John & Ken Have Been Absent From Regular KTLA TV Duties

Looks like their home station KFI AM 640 wasn't the only one that dropped controversial talk radio hosts John & Ken following their remark that Whitney Houston was a "crack ho." The pair have been missing from nightly hot-topic segments on KTLA News. Hmm. A spokesman for the duo told the Weekly to ... More >>

Whitney Houston 'Crack Ho' Remark: Should Angry White Men Like 'John & Ken' Be Allowed to Have A Radio Station to Themselves in L.A?

Conservative talk radio hosts John & Ken are back on the air this week following a week-and-a-half suspension for calling the late Whitney Houston a "crack ho." A group of African Americans in broadcasting met with the duo yesterday and seem cool with the outcome, but in a statement the coalition s ... More >>

Low End Theory Anniversary

The story of the influential party from those who created it

Stephanie Miller's Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour

Countering the right wing's fury with humor

Anthony Weiner Nude Penis Photo Makes the Rounds, Allegedly Via L.A. Blogger Andrew Breitbart (But it Could be a Hoax)

Weiner's head.​Update: Weiner seems to have admitted the photo is of his organ, via a spokeswoman, who says, " ... He has sent explicit photos." You knew that those boxer briefs could not contain the Twitter scandal, instigated by L.A. blogger Andrew Breitbart, that was set off by a non-nude ... More >>

Radio Host Kevin James Kicks Off Mayoral Campaign With Shots At Rick Caruso and Austin Beutner

Kevin James​Updated below, 3 p.m.: James can stay on the radio, as long as he doesn't talk about the campaign.Talk radio host Kevin James kicked off his campaign for L.A. mayor this morning with a couple of shots at fellow contenders Austin Beutner and Rick Caruso.James is a long shot, partly beca ... More >>

Jason Bentley Demands Money, Drugs and Sex From KCRW Listeners

​You should have read by now our enlightening article on the challenge to KCRW and other NPR stations by GOP and Tea Party goons, who are trying to defund them through Congress. As we said before, we support KCRW and all the other Public Radio stations and everything they do for good music in ... More >>

KCRW To Debut Daft Punk's "Tron: Legacy" Soundtrack on Monday

KCRW To Debut Daft Punk's "Tron: Legacy" Soundtrack on Monday

HOW MANY LIBERTARIANS DOES IT TAKE . . . ?

Tom Leykis and Adam Leemon: A Perfect Pairing

Steve Jones Thanks Malcolm McLaren For Hooker and Heroin

​Our favorite former Sex Pistol (and yours), LA DJ Steve "Jonesy" Jones (come back to commercial radio! please! we miss you!) has just issued his statement on the death of Malcolm McLaren: "I was upset when I heard the news, as I've always had a soft spot for Malcolm.  I knew him since I was ... More >>

Stone's Throw/Now-Again Principal Egon Selects His Favorite African Funk Reissues of the Year

If you're talking African funk and want to have someone do the digging for you, you can do a lot worse than Stone's Throw general manager Egon, whose taste and knowledge of 60s and 70s world funk is unparalleled. His Now-Again records released a few great collections last year, including one of our ... More >>

A Decade of Dublab

Celebrating Los Angeles’ most inspiring, intuitive and tasteful music collective

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

Aussie Radio Star Canned Over L.A. Holocaust Crack

Some people come to Los Angeles to reinvent themselves, but Australian radio shock jock Kyle Sandilands came here to get fired. That is, according to the Jewish Telegraph Agency, what might happen after he did a show from Los Angeles in which he suggested that a Jewish actress in his home country co ... More >>

We’re Jerkin’ (Starring the New Boyz, J-Hawk and Pink Dollaz)

Gangsta rap is over. Clownin’ and Krumpin’ too

Nacional's Pastime

An L.A. label pushes a wild mix of Latin sounds, from Los Fabulosos Cadillacs and Aterciopelados to Mexican Institute of Sound, Pinker Tones and Nortec Collective

Max Taves and LA Weekly beat NYT for DeBakey biomedical award

LA Weekly freelancer Max Taves is in Washington, D.C., today accepting a cash prize for the best 2008 coverage of biomedical research by a large newspaper for his news story, ""UCLA Profs and Scientists Sued Animal-Rights Radicals."Taves beat several leading papers, including The New York Times. Oth ... More >>

It Ain't Necessarily So, Manny

MLB.comFor any sport there is a very finite number of puns and historical references that can be applied to the story of the day. Some writers, however, seem to have set their headlines and leads on autopilot when writing about Manny Ramirez, the disgraced Dodger leftfielder who's been benched 50 da ... More >>

Swine Flu: One U.S. Death, One Attempt to Change Flu's Name

As of 8 a.m. this morning one U.S. death, in Texas, has been attributed to the swine flu outbreak. The fatality was a Mexican toddler whose family was visiting the state. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, 14 Californians are confirmed as being stricken by SF, while New York City lea ... More >>

Harmonic Convergence: Brotherly Opposites Kurt and David Andersen Search for the Right Pitch

One is a famous novelist, the other a rebel piano tuner

TV on the Radio teams with Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O and Nick Zinner at the Wiltern

All photos by Timothy Norris. Click image for entire slideshow. In 1962, at the peak of the Cuban Missile Crisis, James Brown and His Famous Flames stood onstage at Harlem's famed Apollo Theatre and managed to harness the tension that all of America was feeling -- "When will I be blown up?" -- int ... More >>

Robert Kapilow's "What Makes It Great" Series

Turning the classically clueless into connoisseurs

Spreading the Classical Gospel

Listen to "Rehab City" Writer Mark Groubert on Dr. Drew's Radio Show

Mark Groubert, who wrote the three articles that make up "Rehab City" in the June 27 issue of LA Weekly, was a guest on Dr. Drew's nationally syndicated radio show yesterday. Dr. Drew Pinsky is of course the long-time co-host of KROQ's Loveline, and various MTV spinoffs, which have gotten increas ... More >>

Carlos Niño

The beginner

The Imus Factor

Turning the Tables

Lesbian, African-immigrant general manager of KPFK is accused of sexually harassing the station’s white news chief

Robert Greenwald's Modest Proposal

How online activists’ fear of Fox News helped drag Democrats into hyperpartisan censorship

My New Radio Crushes

Indie 103.1FM is officially on my shitlist. I've had enough of retarded Toyota of Huntington Beach ads and Suicide Girls talking about making out with their girlfriends. And most disturbingly, I discovered that morning host Joe Escalante/Dr. LegalDouche is, apparently, an amateur toreador. Ole! ... More >>

And So This Is Christmas

Rebel Central

The fantastical real-life story of L.A.’s Stones Throw Records, a hip-hop legend in the making

The Accidental Hero

PiolÍn

The Year in Live Music

The Voices in His Head

From guitar slinging to Ren & Stimpy, Billy West has found a blueprint for living

The Mayor of Metropolis

Air Time

Our Bodies, Their Solutions

The rise and fall of one more fad diet

The Talented Mr. Ridley

The author, screenwriter and radio commentator keeps his feet on the ground -- and his laptop at the ready

All Things Inconsiderate

The Preteen Files: Man Go Wango Tango

Art Talk: Mass vs. Class, Chapter 3,827

Is the Corpse Smelly Yet?

Independent music in 2001

Air Power

Minnesota Public Broadcasting knocks at KPCC