Randy Newman

Why Tupac's Legacy Endures

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Unlike Biggie, Tupac's questions were rarely rhetorical. His body has been ashes for more than a decade and a half, and people still holler when they hea ... More >>

Two L.A. Musicals Poke Fun at Religious Groups While Celebrating Them at the Same Time

Reviews of When You're in Love, the Whole World Is Jewish and Paradise: A Divine Bluegrass Musical Comedy

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 >>

Jeff Mangum - Orpheum Theater - 4/23/12

Jeff Mangum Orpheum Theater 4-23-12 Better than...standing in 105 degree weather. After a ten-year absence from the road, songwriter-guitarist Jeff Mangum grew into a mythologized character that tens of thousands of kids pinned their hopes and theories upon. His two '90s era albums as Neutral Milk ... More >>

Music Picks: Smokeout Festival, Mike Miller Group, Zola Jesus, Saul Williams

Also, New Multitudes, Cool Moms, Alpha & Omega, Cloud Nothings and others

Christian McBride: A Veteran at 40

​Since the late '80s Philly-bred bassist Christian McBride has been a low end powerhouse for artists including Milt Jackson, Diana Krall and Questlove. He spent the most time in our fair city between 2006 and 2010 when he was the "Creative Chair for Jazz" with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and ... More >>

Music Picks: Matthew Sweet, Summer Darling, Billy Childs Quartet, Rusko,

Also, The Aggrolites, Kris Bowers, Chasing Kings, Asher Roth and others

Stage Raw: Schmutizen Deutche Kabarett

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS and OPENINGS THIS WEEKStage FEATURE on Randy Newman's Harps and Angels, and NET's L.A. Micro-festNEW REVIEW GO SCHMUTZIGEN DEUTSCHE KABARETT ​ Photo by Amanda Marquardt This latest, late-night creation from sardonic, surrealist director-choreogr ... More >>

Stage Raw: NET Microfest L.A.

NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Randy Newman's Harps and Angels, and NET's L.A. Micro-festUPTOWN DOWNTOWN​Leslie Uggams stars in her bio-cabaret at the Pasadena Playhouse. For a review of this and all shows seen over the weekend, press the More tab at the bottom of this page. Photo by Jim CoxN ... More >>

Music Picks: Jail Weddings, Summer Darling, Roky Erickson, Jonathan Richman

Also, Bajofondo, Massive Attack, Minus the Bear and others

Long Gone: The Great Lost Quick Album

Band's sole album, Mondo Deco, is reissued on vinyl

Rock Picks: Van Dyke Parks, Chicago Underground Duo, Rickie Lee Jones

Also, Clipse, Imaad Wasif, Josh Charles and others

Rock Picks: GZA, the Ettes, A.A. Bondy, Mose Allison

Also, the Kris Special, Jesse Sykes, Mamak Khadem and others

Brian Eno Has Plenty of Time for Coldplay But No Time for Oscar Paperwork

"Hey Oscar! Take your paperwork and shove it up your gold-plated arse!" screams Brian Eno​We fess up to not having paid much attention to the current film The Lovely Bones, a remake of 1990's Ghost with the Patrick Swayze part played by a prepubescent girl and the Demi Moore part played by Mar ... More >>

Frogs Have Feelings, Too, Man

The Princess and the ribbit

Your Server's Other Job: Library Bar Cocktailian and Musician Brian Summers A Cocktail Recipe

Deborah StollBrain Summers, Cocktailian​For this installation of Your Server's Other Job, Squid Ink presents Brian Summers. With a gravely voice that rises and falls to some kind of whacked-out metronome, it comes as no surprise to learn that in addition to creating cocktails at The Library ba ... More >>

THE REAL DON STEELE IS ALIVE, ALIVE!

A Hamilton High Teacher Brings Back Boss Radio.

Stage Raw: New Golden Age of British Theater?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Bill Cain's Equivocation and Burglars of Hamm's Land of the Tigers NEW GOLDEN AGE OF BRITISH THEATRE In today's The Guardian, Mark Lawson writes at some length on a new Golden Age of British theater. Among the more salient quotatio ... More >>

"Wait! Who's That Singing????": Top Ten List of Major Stars Covering Other People's Music

Bowie also waited for his man​Pitchfork reports that Peter Gabriel will be releasing an album of covers, in which he will tackle hits and more obscure cuts by David Bowie, Paul Simon, Elbow, Bon Iver, Talking Heads, The Arcade Fire, Regina Spektor, Radiohead, Lou Reed ("The Power of the Heart" ... More >>

Of Ukeleles, Tolkien, Garfunkel and Bond: A Chat With Bret McKenzie of Flight of the Conchords

Brian TamborelloMcKenzie (front, with Clement) rides the folk train​ October is Folktober for fans of New Zealand's fourth most popular digi-folk parodists, the mighty Flight of the Conchords; following the second season of their acclaimed eponymous HBO show, which bagged several Emmy nominati ... More >>

Stage Raw: Rachel Rosenthal at 83

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Poland, where theater is hipRACHEL ROSENTHAL AT 83 ​The Rachel Rosenthal Company (founded in 1989) is throwing a fundraiser to help celebrate the performance artist's 83rd birthday, past achievements and the upcoming publication o ... More >>

Stage Raw: L.A. shows NYC-bound

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leonard Nimoy and Company of AngelsL.A. SHOWS HEADING EAST ​SoulArt Productions presentation of Alex Lyras' The Common Air - a nominee in last year's L.A. Weekly Theatre Awards solo performance award for its 2008 run at the Asylu ... More >>

MATT POPIELUCH ON FOREIGN BORN

Why his band's not pop, or rock, or anything predictable

Rhino Announces Landmark LA Reissue: Where The Action Is: Los Angeles Nuggets, 1965-1968

By far, the Official Most Anticipated L.A. Reissue of the Year has officially become the just-announced Los Angeles Nuggets Box that Rhino Records has announced. It's a four CD-box of garage and weird rock classics of the 1960s, a wild ride through an LA long since vanished.

Movie Reviews: Big Man Japan, Management, Not Forgetten

Also, Brothers at War, The New Twenty, The Skeptic, The Brothers Bloom and Next Day Air

The Year That Anticon Became a Label

After nearly a decade of innovation, an influential hip-hop cooperative goes legit, relocates to L.A.

Rock Picks: Digable Planets, Pigeon John, the Wedding Present, Prima Donna

Also, Josh Rouse, the Raconteurs, Chicha Libre and more

Trouble the Water: Hard Rain

Katrina, stark and surreal, in a remarkable documentary

America: I Want to Be Your Flag Hag!

What to do in L.A., July 4-10

Leatherheads: There Will Be Mud

Clooney tackles preglory gridiron

Rock Picks

For the week of June 28 - July 5, 2007

Love Letter to the L.A. Dodgers

True blue

Bearing the Scars of Oscars

For chrissake, somebody free the frigging show . . . and the Benjamin Franklins too

Rock Picks

For the week of Feb. 8 - 15

The Battle for L.A. Unified

Antonio, Roy and the UTLA sharpen their swords

The Ground You Fall Through

Environmental and social neglect left New Orleans on dangerous footing

Week of the Living Dead

Time of the Session

When the music was fast, and the players anonymous

Audio Visual

Freaky Sundays

Carnivàle comes to town, plus Navy NCIS, Threat Matrix and Joe Pantoliano in The Handler

The Weakerthans

Nonpunk From Nowhere

License to Eel

E Writes the B-Sides

Trux Royalty De-Posed

The Great Divider

A toast to Jim Hahn’s nasty campaign

Independent Music’s Right to Fight

The record industry sued Napster and has just inhaled MP3.com. Is there a future for music on the Internet? Analog Pussy thought so... Then they got a scary e-mail...

Fire and Fire Marshals

The 22nd Annual LA Weekly Theater Awards

Anonymity, Misery, Softness

Can Elliott Smith save pop music?

Shout at the Devil

Public Enemy rants to the music

Pop Purée

The Chords

Woody Guthrie's hitherto unsung anthems