Roy Orbison

Music Picks: Gilles Peterson, Boris, Gothic Tropic

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Marnie Stern, Hendrix, Bowie and a Very Special Guest

KCRW BROADCAST #209 03-30-13 Fanatics! I am well aware that you might be getting tired of reading that "tonight's show is amazing" week after week, but what can I say, tonight is a great one. For instance, look at our first track. That's right, Fanatic, thirty years ago, the Birthday Party live at ... More >>

Jeff Lynne Sits At Home, Re-Recording ELO's Biggest Hits (We Visit Him There)

There's one stipulation that comes with our invitation to visit Jeff Lynne at his house: Don't tell anyone where he lives. This is mentioned more than once. You see, Lynne is a bit of a homebody. Kind of private. In the opening scene of the new documentary chronicling Lynne's life and work, Mr Blue ... More >>

American Moves

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Aussie Tribute

KCRW Broadcast #160 for Saturday, April 14, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Japanese Guitar Freaks From Outer Space Fanatics! I am Australia bound. At this moment, I am in Wellington, New Zealand with show #60 for the year a few hours behind me. I will be in Australia for quite a long sp ... More >>

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 >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: New York Dolls, Fugazi, Motörhead and more

​KCRW BROADCAST #1248 for Saturday, August 20 Fanatics! Beaming in from Edinburgh, Scotland. The weather is great and the streets are full of people. It is time for the annual Edinburgh Festival. You might remember that I wrote you from here last year. This year, I am only here for two shows. ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tonight: Gray Joel, Melvins' Sugar Daddy Live

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #114 for Saturday, May 14. Fanatics! I am back from a few days in Louisiana and Florida. I am in one piece although my legs have been eaten by all manner of insects. We all got chewed upon quite a bit. Our cameraman Kris stood on fire ant hill and they really did ... More >>

Ten European Artists You Should Have Heard By Now

Parisian rapper Rohff​In the States, it's easy to be stuck in the bubble of our domestic music. Sadly, many European artists have a difficult time breaking into the North American market. Often, this stems from the language barrier, but it can also be due to the straight-up oddball nature of t ... More >>

Amanda Jo WIlliams, Simon Stokes, John Carpenter, and Feeding People at the Echo: Live Review

Daiana Feuer​WHAT: Amanda Jo WIlliams, Simon Stokes, John Carpenter, and Feeding People WHERE: The Echo WHEN: 4/4/11 Amanda Jo Williams' first Monday night residency show at the Echo set the bar high for this month's exploration of contemporary outlaw culture and family bands. John Carpenter ... More >>

Music to Pick Up/Download

Behind the Mash-Up: Girl Talk Talks!

A Selected David Lynch Discography

David Lynch, (Non-)Musician: The L.A. Weekly Interview

Music Picks: Batusis, Interpol, Minus the Bear

Also, Taj Mahal, Shakira, Sufjan Stevens and others

And the Jukebox Sailed On

KROQ brings back everyone's favorite Sex Pistol radio jock. Will they allow Steve Jones to be his burpy self?

Nightlife: Wonderland LA Opening featuring Kat Von D & Jesse James' "Love," Lemmy's Head, and Some Seriously Mad Art

Lina Lecaro Kevin Llewellyn, Kat Von D and Jesse James in Wonderland​ Tabloid culture met tattoo culture in an over the top, somewhat curious (and curiouser!) fashion last night at the grand opening of Wonderland, the new art gallery from LA Ink's Kat Von D (adjacent to her shop) featuring the ... More >>

Music Picks: Circa Survive, Joanna Newsom, El-P, Roots Roadhouse

Also, Scorpions, Viza, the Park and others

Music Picks: Goldfrapp, Concrete Blonde, Sally Seltmann, Black Francis

Also, Electric Daisy Carnival, the Adicts, Lou Barlow and others

Top Ten David Lynch Music Moments

Tonight the Quentin Tarantino-owned-and-operated New Beverly Cinema will be showing David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, one of his most misunderstood masterpieces about the strangeness of everyday American culture (even the ubiquitous power lines are kind of malevolent!). You should go see ... More >>

MATT POPIELUCH ON FOREIGN BORN

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

GO LA: Fringe Artists, Porno Films and Lisa Lampanelli

Plus some high-brow stuff to do, February 27-March 5

He Walked the Line; He Walked the Line

Houston Press' Top 10 Reissues of 2008

By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionall ... More >>

Jody Reynolds, 1932-2008

Incendiary rockabilly legend, whose “Fire of Love” was covered by the Gun Club, dies

West Coast Rockabilly Provocateur Jody Reynolds Dies, wrote "Fire of Love" and "Endless Sleep"

JODY REYNOLDS 1932-2008 Singer-guitarist Jody Reynolds, the West Coast rockabilly provocateur whose riveting, morbid 1958 hit "Endless Love" sold over a million copies, died in Palm Desert, California on November 7 following a lengthy illness. Born December 3, l932 in Denver, Colorado, Reynolds w ... More >>

L.A. Music Publisher's Suit Against Lil Wayne Threatens to Rewrite Rules on Mixtapes

Karma policed

John McCain's Favorite Songs of the Past 100 Years

Blender recently posted a list of John McCain's favorite songs. Sure, you could make fun of him for choosing kinda gay stuff like Perez Hilton did, but the more telling fact is that the most recent song on this list is more than thirty years old. Think about that. Thirty-one years have come and ... More >>

Rock Picks: Rupa & the April Fishes, Gnarls Barkley, Emmylou Harris

Also, Black Kids, Chromeo, Alejandro Escovedo

Rock Picks: Lucinda Williams, Fuck Buttons, The Sword

Also, Kanye West, The Black Heart Procession and more

Rock Picks: Meat Beat Manifesto, Jay-Z, Eels

Plus other music shows for April 10-17

Walk Hard: Hock the Line

Movie sells cheap laughs, lame cameos, and lifeless Cox

Rock Picks: RZA, Etta James, Zola Moon, Tori Amos, The Monolators

For the week of December 14 - 20

Rock Picks: Deborah Harry, Björk, Richard Hawley, Shonen Knife, Bang Sugar Bang

For the week of December 7 - 13

Neko Case: Deep Red Belle

She's an auburn-haired Caucasian woman of Ukrainian descent. Is Case also the blackest woman in indie rock?

Nick Lowe in the Age of Experience

While his peers are grasping at straws, Lowe’s work outpaces them all

Rock Picks: Lee ''Scratch'' Perry, The Swell Season, Maximo Park and More

For the week of July 26 – August 2

Super Fun Music Hour Podcast #11

Illuminating the Manuscripts

The Arcade Fire’s modest grandeur

M. Is for Mystery

M. Ward El Rey Theatre

The Year Blogs Got Lame, Business Got Hip and Nostalgia Was King

Over the Hills and Far Away

The Mars Volta’s burden of dreams

Jesper Just

Live Sexy, Love Sexy, Rock Sexy

Eagles of Death Metal are actually the Rutles of sleaze rock. Or... something

The Last of the Independents

Michael Almereyda holds forth on his William Eggleston documentary, multiple realities and his own so-called career.

In the Blue August Moon

An Exquisite Scar

Life and commerce along the Alameda Corridor

Sanctuary

Days and nights at the King Edward Saloon

Where Eagles Dare

Don Henley’s life in the diamond lane

Making Tracks

Bobby Fuller, beyond "I Fought the Law"