Rage Against The Machine

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 Economics of Music Festivals: Who's Getting Rich, Who's Going Broke?

By Chris Parker It's as though the sad, lamentable death of recorded music was accompanied by a kick-ass wake. Sure, label executives have had to sell their fancy homes and put their kids in public schools, but the rest of us have been feasting on a musical smorgasbord. Nothing better exemplifies ... More >>

Bruce Springsteen - Honda Center - December 4, 2012

Bruce Springsteen Honda Center December 4, 2012 Having castigated myself during presidential season for missing Bruce Springsteen's show at the Sports Arena in April, I resolved to see him this time around, Orange County traffic be damned. Because the Greatest Rock and Roll Show One Will Ever Exp ... More >>

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena - 4/26/12

See also: Our Springsteen slideshow We've been watching Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band play in concert for decades, and it seems as if he and his crew get better with every tour. How? With few rare exceptions, aren't rockers supposed to kind of get stale once they get older? Whether it's ... More >>

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - SXSW - 3/15/12

By Craig Hlavaty Bruce Springsteen's Thursday started with a keynote speech in one of the big ballrooms at the Austin Convention Center, and ended with a mythic three-hour set at ACL Live across town, in front of a few thousand people cooing "Bruce". The keynote and the show went hand in hand. If ... More >>

Velvet Revolver - John O'Brien Tribute - House of Blues - 1/12/12

Velvet Revolver, Maroon 5, Sheryl Crow, Stephen Stills, The Nightwatchman House of Blues Los Angeles 1/12/11 Better Than...Scott Weiland's Christmas album. Last night, Scott Weiland, Slash, Duff McKagan and company put their differences aside to play a one-off set to honor the memory of composer a ... More >>

Occupy L.A. Now Allowed to Camp on City Hall Lawn: Why Are Politicians Sucking Up to Protesters?

Update: "City Council Unanimously Passes Occupy L.A. Resolution -- Protesters Struggle to Distance Themselves From Democrats, Unions." On Saturday night, the number of tents pitched outside L.A. City Hall had nearly doubled from the night before to 256, according to Joe Briones in the media tent. ... More >>

Electric Daisy Carnival Rave Wants to Return to L.A: After Hollywood Near-Riot 'Los Angeles Times' Says Hell No

Dennis RomeroCops vs. ravers on Hollywood Boulevard.​We here at the Weekly have gotten some shit for affiliating the premier of a documentary about the controversial Electric Daisy Carnival rave with the chaos that ensued outside the theater last week. EDC organizers say a DJ's free performan ... More >>

In Like a Lion, Even in L.A.: Our Favorite Songs about Lions

​There is an old-wives/Farmer's Almanac weather adage that says March "comes in like a lion, out like a lamb." As residents of Southern California, we are pretty much disqualified from every saying about weather ever, although a few days ago we actually experienced gusting winds that fittingly ... More >>

Top 10 Unmissable Bands Inexplicably Hidden on the Coachella 2011 Poster

Top 10 Unmissable "Small Type" Acts of Coachella 2011

L.A. City Councilman Greig Smith Overrides City's Arizona Boycott -- Again -- To Maintain Ties With Taser Company, Of All Things

City of Los AngelesCouncilman Greig Smith likes him an Arizona Taser​When L.A. City Councilmembers approved an economic boycott of Arizona back in May (a trendy move at the time, echoed by the likes of Lady Gaga and Rage Against the Machine), they must have thought themselves mighty noble in t ... More >>

EXTRA!: The Gays Urge Lady Gaga to Cancel Arizona Show

Photo via Domain Barnyard's Flickr stream.​Will Lady Gaga show her p-p-p-pokerface in Phoenix this Saturday night? The Fame Monster, who is scheduled to play the US Airways Center, has been singled out via online petition to honor her LGBTQ compadres and boycott Arizona. With a banner across ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Rage Against The Machine's Immigrant Rights Benefit at the Palladium

Timothy NorrisRage Against Arizona's Controversial Legislation​[For more photos check out Timothy Norris' slideshow,"Rage Against The Machine's Immigrant Rights Benefit @ Palladium."] With all the turmoil and wrongdoing in the world, it's a wonder Rage Against the Machine ever left the stage. ... More >>

Music Picks: Phosphorescent, Bomba Estereo, Gangi, Pablo Heras-Casado

Also, Jimmy Cliff, Suzy Williams, Funeral Party and others

Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello Does MIA's "Paper Planes," Wants to "Slay Goth Children"

Tom Morello wants to slay this​Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello has been playing with The Coup's Boots Riley as Street Sweeper Social Club for a few years now (Morello's minimum wage working-class fetish seems a staple of his side-projects: Street Sweeper, Nightwatchman--it's just a matt ... More >>

Them Crooked Vultures Announce LA Benefit for Eagles of Death Metal's Bassist

​ We've just received an official announcement that Eagles of Death Metal bassist Brian O'Connor "has been diagnosed with cancer, and is undergoing treatment in Los Angeles. He will undergo surgery today and will begin chemotherapy in three weeks." O'Connor is one of America's many uninsured ... More >>

Last Night: The New Lineup of Jane's Addiction @ Bardot

Gustavo TurnerJane's'n'Roses!​ Historic (i.e., pre-Chinese Democracy debacle) Guns'n'Roses bassist Duff McKagan debuted last night holding the low-end for Jane's Addiction in a small gig at Hollywood club Bardot. The band, dubbed by the fans Jane's Addiction 6.0 or Jane's'n'Roses, sounded hap ... More >>

Destination Coachella

L.A. bands take to the desert for three days of music overload

U2 Producer Steve Lillywhite Debases Himself To Be the Next Simon Cowell

Esteemed producer Steve Lillywhite makes an 'Idol' plea and embarrasses music nerds

LA Stories: The Wacky Adventures of the RZA (featuring Sister-Luvin', the Black Tank, and Travolta in Drag)

​Here at West Coast Sound we have been long-time fans of the RZA's 2005 book The Wu-Tang Manual, a really inspirational retelling of the conception and formation of hip-hop's unlikeliest spiritual gang. So we were thrilled when we learned earlier this year that The Abbot was working on a follo ... More >>

Seeking the Rage: Among the Protesters at the Democratic National Convention

The group Recreate '68 tries to ignite the passion of another generation

Election '08: Not Quite Recreating '68

I made my way to Civic Center Park, near the state capitol building in Denver, around midday on Tuesday, hoping to find signs of dissident life to add a bit of hot blood to what had been so far a rather anemic Democratic National Convention. It was the morning after a confrontation between police an ... More >>

A Hero for Our Time

Are rocker video games the new MTV — and will they help save the music universe?

Rock Picks: Detroit Cobras, Gore Gore Girls, MF Doom, Squeeze

For the week of August 9 – 16

Words on Urban Scrawl

Our readers write back on Christian Bale, grafitti and our lack of GLBT coverage

Rock Picks

For the week of July 5 - 11

Mano a Manu Chao

Sitting down with the Out of Time Man

Come On Feel the Rage

Rage Against the Machine and Lemonheads at Coachella

Looking for Mr. Begley

Earth Day in L.A.

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For the week of Jan 12 – 18

The Beat Goes On

Rick Rubin

Bang a Bong

Dilated Peoples: L.A. b-boys hit the NBA

Shit & Payola

Radio killed the radio star

Live in LA

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