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February 4, 2013
We Attended the KCRW Pledge Drive - And Lived to Tell the Tale!
It's pledge drive time again at KCRW. twice a year, the station -- one of the pre-eminent public radio stations in the country -- interrupts regular programming to ask for money. But this isn't your typical "send us five bucks and we'll mail you a bumper sticker" pledge event. No no, this one has Co ... More >>
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January 31, 2013
Ol' Blue Eyes is Back
It's pledge drive time again at KCRW. twice a year, the station -- one of the pre-eminent public radio stations in the country -- interrupts regular programming to ask for money. But this isn't your typical "send us five bucks and we'll mail you a bumper sticker" pledge event. No no, this one has Co ... More >>
Blogs
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 >>
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October 18, 2012
Who Isn't Wild About Harry?
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
October 12, 2012
I Hung Out With Ty$ the Other Night. Things Got Out of Hand
10:00 PM, Monday, Oct 8: I'm standing outside Paramount Recording studios on Santa Monica Boulevard waiting for the publicist for rapper Ty Dolla $ign -- aka Ty$. The plan is for me to hang out with the Hollywood denizen, who rolls with the Pushaz Ink label crew (YG, DJ Mustard, Fuego). Ty$'s blowin ... More >>
Blogs
September 5, 2012
Randy Newman's "You've Got A Friend In Me": Why This Song Sucks (Movie Theme Song Edition)
[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Randy Newman's "You've Got A Friend In Me" History: "You've Got A Friend In Me" is the theme song from Toy Story. It came out in 1995. Teenagers pretended ... More >>
Blogs
August 31, 2012
Lil Wayne Isn't the Only Musician Who Hates New York
See also: Top 60 Worst Lil Wayne Lines on Tha Carter IV "I don't like New York," Lil Wayne said earlier this month, following a show he did in the city. His comments came out of his frustration for being arrested and jailed there, he explained. Still, New York State Senator Malcolm Smith promptly h ... More >>
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March 30, 2012
Rock Bottom: The Five Worst Wrestling Themes of All Time
See also: Rock Out With Your Lockout: 5 Awful Athlete Songs Sunday is Wrestlemania 28, the WWE's annual sports-entertainment extravaganza. This year's card, headlined by The Rock vs. John Cena, is among the most anticipated of all time. One of our favorite parts of the event is the spectacle of th ... More >>
Blogs
June 16, 2011
Breaking News: White People Riot Too
YouTubeWhite-on-car violence in Vancouver.A sad echo of the Lakers championship riots of 2010: Racists seemed to come out of the woodworks to blame the mayhem on Latinos. Guilty. But here's the thing: One out of every two people in L.A. is Latino. So, yeah, when shit goes down, good or bad, ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2011
Did Randy Newman Get Another Oscar Nomination for a Song That Sounds Like All His Other Oscar Nominated Songs? What Do You Think?
It's that time of the year again: Oscar nominations are out! And we know what you're asking yourself: Did Randy Newman get another Oscar nomination for a song that sounds like all his other Oscar-nominated songs? Did he get a nod once again (we can do this post every year--and in fact we do) ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
PETER AND GORDON AND EVERYBODY ELSE
It's that time of the year again: Oscar nominations are out! And we know what you're asking yourself: Did Randy Newman get another Oscar nomination for a song that sounds like all his other Oscar-nominated songs? Did he get a nod once again (we can do this post every year--and in fact we do) ... More >>
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November 26, 2010
Stage Raw: Sweet Mama String Bean
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Randy Newman's Harps and Angels, and NET's L.A. Micro-festSWEET MAMA STRING BEANEthel Waters is celebrated in the "two-person, one-woman show" Sweet Mama String Bean: A Celebration of Blues Woman Ethel Waters, opening this weekend ... More >>
Stage
November 25, 2010
Somewhere, Under the Rainbow
Randy Newman's Harps and Angels, and NET's L.A. Micro-Fest
Blogs
November 9, 2010
(Video) Who Trashed The Idea Of A Downtown Los Angeles NFL Stadium On YouTube?
Sometimes we love L.A. a little too much.Set to Randy Newman's "I Love L.A.," a video depicts downtown sports fans as criminal hooligans and seems to place Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in the back pocket of Staples Center boss Tim Leiweke. It's a rant against Leiweke's suggestion that the comp ... More >>
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October 28, 2010
APATOW FOR AMUSEMENT
Sometimes we love L.A. a little too much.Set to Randy Newman's "I Love L.A.," a video depicts downtown sports fans as criminal hooligans and seems to place Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in the back pocket of Staples Center boss Tim Leiweke. It's a rant against Leiweke's suggestion that the comp ... More >>
Film+TV
October 28, 2010
"My Favorite Thing in the World"
Judd Apatow's midLife report
Music
May 6, 2010
Music Picks: Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, VoicesVoices, Peter Gabriel, Jakob Dylan
Also, Ane Brun, the Melodians, Kate Miller-Heidke, Ian Whitcomb and others
Calendar
March 18, 2010
WHO'S YOUR EGOT?
Also, Ane Brun, the Melodians, Kate Miller-Heidke, Ian Whitcomb and others
Music
February 18, 2010
Rock Picks: Tinariwen, Lucy Schwartz, Brendan Benson, Free Energy, P.O.S.
Also, Randy Newman, Meshell Ndegeocello, Useless Keys and others
Blogs
February 4, 2010
Two Randy Newman Songs That Sound Like Every Other Song Randy Newman Has Written Since the 1980s Fight It Out For the Oscars!
Full disclosure: we love Randy Newman! Go get yourself a copy of his 1974 masterpiece Good Old Boys and you'll see what we're talking about. And that's why we're so pissed that over the last 20 years he's turned himself into a Xerox machine of his own talent, churning out increasingly more faded cop ... More >>
Blogs
January 21, 2010
Screw Coco! We're With Jesus, Lou Reed, the Blind Boys of Alabama, and David Letterman!
As we continue to be amazed by the bizarre spectacle of thousands of college-age simpletons (who are all facing underemployment and debt) rallying around a multimillionaire Ivy Leaguer (and a known ginger, to boot) and helping him get the goldenest parachute in the entire history of failing upwards, ... More >>
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January 18, 2010
Redemption Songs: Mose Allison Live @ Largo at the Coronet (1/17)
Mose Allison has always been a misfit. Not a misfit in the sense of a James Dean or even a Chet Baker (I mean, if Bruce Weber does a documentary on your meaningful junkie wrinkles, you've found some kind of "fit"), but a true unclassifiable. After all, the blues are rumored to be something the devil ... More >>
Film+TV
November 26, 2009
Frog of the South
Disney’s song and dance about a black princess croaks
Music
October 8, 2009
Boxes in Flux: Where the Action Is!
Rhino Records’ landmark volume captures an important moment in L.A. music history. But does it also mark the end of an era?
Calendar
October 1, 2009
Savin' Up for Saturday Night
Rhino Records’ landmark volume captures an important moment in L.A. music history. But does it also mark the end of an era?
Blogs
August 21, 2009
First Listen to Essential Rhino Box: 'Where The Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets, 1965-1968'
Times are tight, for sure. A box set is a luxury that few can afford these days. Given the choice between a 4 cd collection and paying the phone bill or buying a bottle of Scotch, well, let's just say you can't download a bottle of Scotch. But if you're at all curious about the history of th ... More >>
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June 18, 2009
Transformers, Bel-Air Brats and Kobe, Oh My! Lakers Parade at Coliseum Brings L.A. Together
Jeff CowanLakers fans: Storm Troopers and Transformer Bumble BeeLos Angeles doesn't really do civic pride. We're too aloof and jaded for that sort of thing. We're a secular, sunglasses indoors, windows up, bowling alone type of town (except that when we bowl, it's usually at some swanky alley with a ... More >>
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June 4, 2009
A Little Something for the Lakers Fans: Great Songs About Our Team
It might be a hellish commute tonight with a host of Lakers flag-sporting vehicles anxiously crawling across the freeways in the hopes that their drivers can get home in time to catch the first game of the NBA Finals, where the Lakers square off against Orlando's Magic at 6 p.m. Instead of stressin ... More >>
News
December 18, 2008
Through the Past, Weekly
30 years and counting
Music
December 4, 2008
Between the Lines
The music at the edges
Blogs
July 24, 2008
Randy Newman's Harps and Angels, Largo, 7/23/08
Randy Newman, Largo, July 23, 2008 Not one of Randy Newman's largest group of fans is here tonight. The Largo is filled with the casually rich, wearing baseball hats and chinos, slightly overweight music execs who made their bones when such a title meant something, movie folks, actors, wives... ... More >>
Music
July 3, 2008
Rock Picks: Spindrift, Randy Newman, The Gutter Twins
Also, Zola Moon, David Banner, Naïm Amor, and more
Blogs
July 2, 2008
Still Trying to Figure Out What to Do on the Fourth?
Also, Zola Moon, David Banner, Naïm Amor, and more
Blogs
July 1, 2008
Randy Newman, Katrina, The Fourth of July and "Louisiana 1927"
Randy Newman, Katrina, The Fourth of July and "Louisiana 1927" By Alex Rawls In April in The New York Times, Geoffrey Himes described Randy Newman’s “Louisiana 1927” as “more than an anthem, ... it’s also a modern-day folk song that gains new lyrics as singers adapt it to new circumstance ... More >>
Blogs
January 16, 2008
Harry Nilsson Tribute, Bordello, 1/15
Harry Nilsson Tribute Bordello, Jan. 15 "Happy Birthday, Harry," one of the band's singers said into his mic before a bandmate whispers in his ear. "What? Oh. It's not his birthday." No, it was 14 years ago today that Harry Nilsson's heart gave out. It's appropriate though that tonight's celebra ... More >>
Music
February 1, 2007
Big Damn Deal
Media darling Lily Allen�s hype exceeds her
Music
December 14, 2006
Drake Bell, Mick Jagger & Me
Media darling Lily Allen�s hype exceeds her
Music
September 21, 2006
I Love L.A.
Viva los Dodgers theme songs!
News
March 2, 2006
Chapter and Verse
Rick Moody, Jonathan Lethem and John Darnielle on the crossbreeding of literature and pop
Music
January 29, 2004
Guilt by Association
Rick Moody, Jonathan Lethem and John Darnielle on the crossbreeding of literature and pop
Music
November 20, 2003
The Piano Lesson
Rick Moody, Jonathan Lethem and John Darnielle on the crossbreeding of literature and pop
News
January 2, 2003
Future Sounds
Rick Moody, Jonathan Lethem and John Darnielle on the crossbreeding of literature and pop
Music
April 18, 2002
A Really Big Stew
New music, thoughts for the ages from The Negro Problem's chief agitator
Columns
April 4, 2002
It Ain�t Cool
New music, thoughts for the ages from The Negro Problem's chief agitator
News
November 29, 2001
White Man With Attitude
How Randy Newman went from pop music�s reigning schlub to movie-music royalty
Columns
November 22, 2001
Art Happens: Faster Pussy Bird, Kill! . . . Eat!
How Randy Newman went from pop music�s reigning schlub to movie-music royalty
Music
October 4, 2001
Kiwi Catharsis
Getaway tooNZ from Down Under
Stage
June 29, 2000
Maybe They�re Doing It Wrong
Why Randy Newman�s new musical goes limp
LA Life
May 27, 1999
Mob Rule
Swept away in New Orleans
Music
October 8, 1998
Burn, Li'l Debby, Burn
Swept away in New Orleans
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