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November 30, 2012
Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Bowie Fest
KCRW Broadcast #192 for Saturday, December 1, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: Coming to an End Fanatics! Here we go into December. A five Saturday month that allows for some serious concepting. I know I wrote you about our Bowie fest that we are about to start and so, tonight, we get to it. If yo ... More >>
Music
November 8, 2012
Music Picks: Gary Clark Jr., Those Darlins, Wiz Khalifa
KCRW Broadcast #192 for Saturday, December 1, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: Coming to an End Fanatics! Here we go into December. A five Saturday month that allows for some serious concepting. I know I wrote you about our Bowie fest that we are about to start and so, tonight, we get to it. If yo ... More >>
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September 4, 2012
The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week
Tuesday, September 4 Krzysztof Urbanski conducts "Three Russian Masters" HOLLYWOOD BOWL The classical canon today is both questioned for its relevance and pounced upon eagerly by a new generation of composers, performers and conductors of prodigious technical and scholarly gifts. The young firebran ... More >>
Music
August 30, 2012
Music Picks: FYF Festival, Jillinda Palmer, Gaslamp Killer
Tuesday, September 4 Krzysztof Urbanski conducts "Three Russian Masters" HOLLYWOOD BOWL The classical canon today is both questioned for its relevance and pounced upon eagerly by a new generation of composers, performers and conductors of prodigious technical and scholarly gifts. The young firebran ... More >>
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June 21, 2012
Henry Rollins: The Column! Zombie Attack
[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Have you heard? Real live flesh-eating zombie freaks are on the attack! In Florida, a man name ... More >>
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June 15, 2012
Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Original Songs Vs. Their Covers
KCRW Broadcast #169 for Saturday, June 16, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Joey Ramone's Legacy Is in Danger Fanatics! Take cover! If you check out our show for tonight, you will note we have a bit of a concept happening here. I have broken the two hours below, so you can quickly see wha ... More >>
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June 8, 2012
Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: New La Sera, Going Deep with George Crumb
KCRW Broadcast #168 for Saturday, June 9, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Stop Whining About How Today's Music Sucks Fanatics! I am sitting in the backstage area here at the Broadway Theater in Saskatoon Canada as Road Manager Ward wrestles with the south of great sound system here in an ... More >>
Music
April 12, 2012
Music Picks: Regina Carter, Madness, Melvins, Grace Woodroofe
Also, Neon Indian, Moab, Damien Jurado and others
Blogs
March 8, 2012
Henry Rollins: The Column! Justice, Texas Style
[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] I was just in Texas for a show. Since 1981 I've done a lot of shows in Texas. Whenever I am the ... More >>
Music
March 1, 2012
Music Picks: Smokeout Festival, Mike Miller Group, Zola Jesus, Saul Williams
Also, New Multitudes, Cool Moms, Alpha & Omega, Cloud Nothings and others
Music
February 23, 2012
Music Picks: Lila Downs, Merle Haggard, I See Hawks in L.A., Die Antwoord
Also, Das Racist, Gonjasufi, Roky Erickson and others
Blogs
February 14, 2012
Henry Rollins: The Column! For Those Suffering Valentine's Day Heartbreak
[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] One of the best romantic messengers is, of course, music. And then when it's over and you are ... More >>
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January 13, 2012
Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: L.A.'s Experimental Punk Band Bark Bark Bark
KCRW Broadcast #148 for Saturday, January 14, 2012 Fanatics! As you know, I am on the road and will be for some time. Engineer X, the Young Will Bentley and I got together recently at the Auxiliary Wing of the Jasonic Temple and put together a fine show for you all. As you can see below, we have a ... More >>
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December 29, 2011
Henry Rollins: The Column! My Travels With Dinosaur Jr.  
[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Of Rock and Dinosaurs I am on the road with Dinosaur Jr. ... More >>
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November 4, 2011
Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: New Track from Fall's Upcoming Album Ersatz GB
KCRW BROADCAST #139 for Saturday, November 5, 2011 Fanatics! The stars at night are big and bright, deep in the heart of Texas. At least that's what I've heard. For the first hour of our show, we will focus on music from the great state. I am in Austin, TX this weekend. I will be at the Fu ... More >>
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October 28, 2011
Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: The Misfits' Rare Album 12 Hits From Hell
KCRW Broadcast #138 for Saturday, October 29, 2011 Fanatics! Tonight is our last Damned album spin. It's a great one. Strawberries was the band's fifth album and the last one with Captain Sensible for a long time.
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July 22, 2011
Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Procedure Club, Horrors
Timothy NorrisKCRW BROADCAST #124 for Saturday, July 23. Fanatics! Another week, another great show lined up for you! I am listening down to the songs at this moment and it's going to be an excellent night of jams. I wanted to make a show that rocked out but had some quiet dynamics. I am r ... More >>
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July 8, 2011
Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: A Whole Lotta Hendrix
Timothy NorrisKCRW BROADCAST #122 for Saturday, July 9. Fanatics! Another week goes by and we find ourselves contemplating the sonic bounty of another Saturday get down. We approach this mountain of sound that awaits us, we must ponder this thought: what keeps bringing us back together ever ... More >>
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July 7, 2011
Henry Rollins: The Column! Now It's Dark, and I Am Real
Timothy Norris[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every week and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday eveni ... More >>
LA Life
May 19, 2011
owleyes: The Psychedelic Icon Maker
Timothy Norris[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every week and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday eveni ... More >>
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April 8, 2011
Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Saturday Night: Ludos, Buzzcocks, Joy Division
Timothy NorrisKCRW BROADCAST #109 for Saturday, April 9. Fanatics! If you notice, our show tonight does all it can to evade all classification. Perhaps the single song that embodies the idea behind the overall is track two, our Ludus. Check that arrangement! That's what tonight's show is all ... More >>
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March 22, 2011
Like SXSW, but Gayer: Gay Bi Gay Gay Fest (Plus Saturday Chill Out with REM's Peter Buck and Steve Wynn, Meat Puppets and Roky Erickson and JEFF The Brotherhood)
photo by J. HettwerGayBiGayGay One last post about the 2011 edition of SXSW: In its 6th year, the SXSW spin-off Gay Bi Gay Gay Fest packs in enough merrymaking and debauchery to hold everyone over until Gay Pride in June.
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December 27, 2010
Top 10 WTF LA Nightlife Moments of 2010
Lina Lecaro(T)hat's All Folks! at Dragstrip 66 What a year. Looking back as we always do around this time, one thing was very clear, LA be crazy after dark! Was it end-(or beginning?)-of-decade (yup, look it up) dementia, all the mercury in retrograde activity or something else that gave th ... More >>
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December 21, 2010
8 Last-Minute Gift Ideas for L.A. Music Lovers (and Obsessives)
There's always that someone in your family or group of friends or entourage (this is LA we're talking about after all) who is a little intimidating come Holidays gift season. They're way into music, but they're into music in an obsessive way that seems to say "you'll never be able to find a m ... More >>
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November 24, 2010
Tonight: Black Mountain/Black Angels, Talib Kweli, Take, Too Rude, Fantasia
Black MountainJust in time for Black Friday, Black Mountain and the Black Angels hit the El Rey Theatre tonight. It's one of the stops on something called the "Dropout Boogie Tour" that pairs the Vancouver psych-rock quintet with the Austin psych-rock quintet, and, cosmically speaking, the s ... More >>
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November 24, 2010
Life Of Crime: Robbing For Records and Five Rock 'n' Roll Criminals
Les Rallizes Denudes -- Rock 'n' Roll Hijackers Via Gawker via the NY Post: Four men knocked off a series of laundromats, gas stations, and convenience stores earlier this week, making off with cash and cigarettes in hopes of getting money to start a record label. (180-gram vinyl is expensiv ... More >>
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October 29, 2010
National Public Rollins: Henry Rollins on the Pleasures of Voting, his New Favorite Documentary, and What Happens When You Give Him Your Band's CD-R (Yes, He Might Play It on his Radio Show!)
Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins![The one and only Henry Rollins will be contributing a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every Friday and make sure to tune ... More >>
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October 1, 2010
Hanoi Henry: Henry Rollins Grooves to Funkadelic in Ho Chi Minh City, Bears Witness to the Still Open Wounds of America's Most Controversial War and Broadcasts Straight Outta Vietnam's Busy Streets
Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins![The one and only Henry Rollins will be contributing a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every Friday and make sure to tune ... More >>
Music
May 27, 2010
Nightranger: Lost Weekend
Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins![The one and only Henry Rollins will be contributing a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every Friday and make sure to tune ... More >>
Blogs
May 21, 2010
I Scream Social: Roky Erickson's Psychy-Surreal Kiddie Show
Zombies, vampires, howls of insanity, cranked up amps and the Fuck Yeah Fest guys-- not your average romp at Chuck E. Cheese. But when the Texas psych-soul crooner Roky Erickson brought his bizarre and amazing "after school" Ice Cream Social party to the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock on Thursda ... More >>
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May 19, 2010
Last Night: Roky Erickson (with Okkervil River) at the Music Box
Lauren ChurchThe crowd for any big reunion tour always draws a mixed crowd, where gray-haired, bearded hippies mingle with shaggy-haired, bearded hipsters, and the audience gathered for last night's show at the Music Box was no different. There seemed a fair combination of dedicated fans and ... More >>
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May 19, 2010
Live in L.A.: Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek, Broken Bells, Caribou, Massive Attack
Rapper Talib Kweli and producer Hi-Tek are officially back in business as Reflection Eternal -- a full decade after their first album, Train of Thought. The new Revolutions Per Minute (out this week) might not feel as revolutionary as their debut, but it'll put a smile on the face of anybody ... More >>
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May 18, 2010
Bring Your Children to Roky Erickson! (Literally)
FYF Fest Folks Present Converge, Coalesce, Roky Erickson, Okkervil River, and Ice Cream
Blogs
May 18, 2010
Live in L.A.: Roky Erickson with Okkervil River, Massive Attack, Jonathan Richman, Bigelf
Todd WolfsonRoky Erickson with Okkervil RiverEven without its remarkable backstory, Roky Erickson's album with Okkervil River, "True Love Cast Out All Evil," feels like a triumph. Full speed ahead on comeback trail after years lost to drug abuse and mental illness, the 62-year-old songwriter ... More >>
Music
May 13, 2010
Music Picks: Jail Weddings, Summer Darling, Roky Erickson, Jonathan Richman
Also, Bajofondo, Massive Attack, Minus the Bear and others
Blogs
January 12, 2010
Roky Erickson Teams Up with Okkervil River's Will Sheff for Rare Confessional Album
No More Mr. Zombie: Roky Erickson, UnfilteredLocal label Anti- has been steadily ignoring the prophets of doom who claim that the record industry is dead, quietly building instead a very impressive stable of alterna-classic stars. Anti-'s roster already includes Bob Mould, Tom Waits, Os Mutan ... More >>
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June 26, 2009
Honor Thy Father: Sky Saxon, R.I.P.
Almost lost amongst the lurid media tumult over Jacko and Farrah's passing, the death on Thursday morning of Seeds frontman Sky Sunlight Saxon was the day's genuine stop-the-presses newsflash, a gloomy finale that closed the book on one of rock & roll's most influential and misunderstood figures. W ... More >>
Music
October 30, 2008
Rock Picks: Orphics, Roky Erickson, Madonna
Also, Linda Ronstadt, Rise Against and more
Music
September 4, 2008
Mogwai's Hollyweird Sonics Are Ready for Their Close-Up
Is Scottish rock quintet the "perfect soundtrack for murder"?
Blogs
March 20, 2008
SXSW Day 5-The Triumph of the Blogosphere...High Times at High Times...Why in God's Name Am I At The Perez Hilton Party?
Bloggers are every journalist's favorite whipping boy. If a shitty band gets too popular, blame the bloggers. If the standards of professional journalism have eroded too much, blame the bloggers. If by 2010, Vampire Weekend has inspired legions of college freshmen to dress as ironic yachters, bla ... More >>
Art+Books
December 6, 2007
Eye Mind: The Saga of Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators
Going up?
Film+TV
October 25, 2007
Put Heading Here
Concerts Clubs Other Rock & Pop
Music
October 25, 2007
Rock Picks: Neil Young, the Pogues, Michelle Shocked
For the week of Oct. 26-Nov. 1
Music
August 23, 2007
Rock Picks: Los Lobos, No Age, Los Abandoned, Slayer
For the week of August 23-30
Music
December 21, 2006
Rock Docs Are Go! Rockumentary Recommendations
As CDs wither, the low-budget rockumentary is born again
Music
September 29, 2005
Satire, Punk and Politics
Or, black people don�t like George Bush
Music
February 20, 2003
Monomania
Or, black people don�t like George Bush
Music
May 18, 2000
Silver Screams
Music mutilates the movies
Music
August 26, 1999
Master of the Game
Kool Keith of the no-rule school
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