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Trois Mec Tickets on Sale Again Tomorrow Morning

The above (awfully cute) photo is pretty self-explanatory, right? For the uninitiated, Trois Mec is the new culinary experiment brought to you by Ludovic Lefebvre and the Animal guys, also known in real life as Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo. That's the Who. Where: a kind of reassuringly crappy strip ... More >>

Best of Coachella 2013: Weekend Two

The Visual Stimulations for People Who Were High Coachella's art installations -- the ones designed to impress you while you're high, aka all of them -- were particularly impressive this year. There was the tesla coil, the crane that was formerly a flower but now a praying mantis, the giant floresce ... More >>

Deadmau5, Kylie Minogue, and Timbaland - House of Blues - 2/10/13

Nero, Deadmau5, Kylie Minogue, and Timbaland House of Blues 2/10/13 A crew of electronic artists and pop stars performed last night as part of a Grammy afterparty that was also a benefit for Children's Hospital of Los Angeles Orthopedic Center. (Tickets started at $250.) But the cost didn't deter ... More >>

Update: Times Story on Coachella 2013 Was Fabricated, Says Writer

Update: The Times writer whose byline appears on the screengrab, Mikael Wood, says that the post is completely fabricated. His comments are at the bottom of the post. According to a screengrab of what appears to be a page from the Los Angeles Times website -- which was posted on a Coachella message ... More >>

Bizarre Ride: Jeff's Humorous Predictions and Most Anticipated Albums for 2013

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Half of January has elapsed and we've survived. There was no collapse due to fiscal cliff, Central American apocalypse or dubstep deluge. A new year unfu ... More >>

A Dude's Dream Comes True Aboard the Holy Ship!!

Aboard the Holy Ship!! one gets to mix and mingle with the slew of name DJs. "Hey there's Zedd in line for pasta salad. Oh wow, there's Dillon Francis in the elevator. Oh damn, Diplo is out on the beach swimming with all the fans. "Jackbeats just bought all those people shots!" See also: Holy Ship ... More >>

Dillon Francis: We Talk With Him Ahead of His El Rey Stand

Los Angeles based producer Dillon Francis is 25; after his track "Masta Blasta" found its way to Diplo's computer, and he was signed to Mad Decent. He's now working to help evolve Moombahton, a fusion of house and reggaeton invented by Dave Nada. He's had massive support from Diplo (whom he calls h ... More >>

Music Cruises Hit the High Seas, But Who Can Afford Them?

All aboard a tiny, star-packed boat

Wolfgang Gartner: "I'm One of the Few People That Has Any Integrity Left In the DJ Industry"

Wolfgang Gartner eschews onstage gimmicks typical of electronic music concerts. Ahead of his performance at the Palladium on Saturday, he talked to us about not throwing cake or champagne at his audiences, about stalker fans in small towns, and about his obsession with day spas. See also: EDC 2012: ... More >>

Obama's Got the Techno Vote

LA-based collective, The Looking Class, has taken up the challenge of reinvigorating our political disillusionment through an inspired social engineering design project now embarking on its maiden voyage.

Hard Day of The Dead - Justice, Diplo - 11/3/12

Hard Day of The Dead Los Angeles State Historic Park 11/3/12 5:30 PM: I'm driving through downtown Los Angeles scavenging for a parking spot. The doors at Day of the Dead don't open until 6 so I'm under the impression that arriving early will save me from shelling out 20 bucks to stash my car and/o ... More >>

EDC 2013 Dates Announced

The L.A. promoters behind the massive Electric Daisy Carnival festival in Las Vegas announced its 2013 dates today: June 21, 22 and 23. See also: *Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs *World's Douchiest DJs: The Top Five *EDC 2012: The Underground Has Left The Building A "very" limited numb ... More >>

Steve Aoki Responds to Death of Three at His Show in Spain

A stampede at a Steve Aoki show in Madrid, Spain last night has left three women dead. Two more fans remain in critical condition after a crowd rush during the Thriller Music Park Halloween event, which also featured Autoerotique and other electronic acts.

Deadmau5 - Sonos Studios - 10/19/12

Deadmau5 Sonos Studios 10/19/12 Better Than: The cheap seats On Friday night, Deadmau5, née Joel Zimmerman, played for a crowd of 200 people at acoustic gallery space Sonos Studios. This is a guy who played four nights in a row at the Palladium last August and was the first electronic artist to h ... More >>

The Best Concerts To See in L.A. This Week: Oct. 15-18

Monday, October 15 Joyce Manor CENTER FOR THE ARTS, EAGLE ROCK South Bay punk-pop band Joyce Manor have gone from house parties to festival shows pretty damn quick, but what can you do? They have charisma, hooks, the decorum you need to keep going even when your fans get obsessive, and of course th ... More >>

John Tejada Is a Techno Traditionalist, Dammit

John Tejada's place does not look like the home of an internationally renowned techno producer. Tucked away on a quiet street in a Mayberry-like corner of Van Nuys, where lawn signs from the neighborhood council warn you to "Watch for Kids!", the cozy mid-century ranch house feels far removed from t ... More >>

Avicii Performs in Santa Monica Tonight: Here's Our Interview

Tim Bergling, known to the DJ world as Avicii, just celebrated his birthday last week. At barely 23, the Swedish DJ/remixer/producer ranks No. 6 on the latest installment of DJ Magazine's Top 100 DJ list -- which pretty much means he's living large and has his pick of any neon furry booted rave grou ... More >>

Burning Man: Guess How Many Times Some Rando Creeper Told Me He 'Loved My Energy' While Rubbing My Hand?

See also: *15 Burning Man GIFs That'll Make You Wanna Go Next Year *Genital Portrait Studio: The Five Silliest Burning Man Camp Names Most local RV rental spots have a "Burning Man clause" in their contracts, which is how I found myself, along with a bag of bike tubes, coconut water and some of the ... More >>

Joey Danan, Instructor at Valleywide Driving School, Charged With Molesting Teen Student During Lesson

The LAPD fears that the owner of Valleywide Driving School in Granada hills, a 44-year-old Filipino man named Joselito Valencia Danan (but known locally as "Joey"), may have a habit of coming onto his driver-ed students. A 17-year-old boy claims he was sexually molested by Danan during a driving le ... More >>

Jamie Jones is The Best DJ You've Never Heard Of

See also: *EDC 2012: The Underground Has Left The Building *House Music Beef With DJ Sneak Plays Out in Steve Angello's DJ Set Jamie Jones is the best DJ on the planet. And you've probably never heard of him. That's because he's not Deadmau5 or Kaskade or Afrojack or Avicii, and he's never played ... More >>

We're All Going to Die: How to Pack For the Most Intense Burning Man Yet

Illustrations by Jena Ardell See also: *Why I'll Never Go To Burning Man *Genital Portrait Studio: The Five Silliest Burning Man Camp Names Unlike some festivals, you can't just casually roll up to Burning Man with only a bottle of Jack and a spirit hoodie. Prepping for a week in the desert is onl ... More >>

Why I'll Never Go To Burning Man

It's about that time of the year again, when IT department heads and quality control experts shake off the shackles of their workaday lives, drop acid and hopefully get busy with multiple, anonymous partners. That's right kids, Monday brings us the Grand Poobah of all summer festivals, Burning Man, ... More >>

25 Gorgeous GIFs From Lollapalooza

By Reed Fischer See also: *Ten Things Your Lollapalooza Outfit Says About You *Lovely Ladies of Lollapalooza This past weekend's running of Lollapalooza in Chicago was intense. The heat, the monsoon-like storm on Saturday, and even the lobster corn dogs all exceeded what the human body can take n ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, August 3 Rusko AVALON Quite possibly the most honest man in dubstep, Leeds-born, L.A.-dwelling producer Rusko has taken responsibility for the existence of the much-maligned "brostep" trend -- which is to say, injecting the dark atmospherics and effects of the original genre with a distinct ... More >>

Drip.FM Is HBO for Music Nerds

[Editor's note: Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. Be sure to also check out the archives.] It's hard to pinpoint the date when the music industry stopped speaking like a shell-shocked trench poet, but the sky quietly quit falling. Last year, album sal ... More >>

David Dann, a UCLA Senior, Cracks the Dance Music Charts

David Dann has a DIY approach to making a hit dance album. No band? No problem -- just fire up the midi keyboard. No label or studio support? No problem -- create your own mini-studio in your parent's guest house. No marketing or promotional support? No problem -- work your social media networks and ... More >>

Ask a Teen Raver: Our Teen Raver's Last Column

Kerah Rose is a 19-year-old college student from Riverside and EDM aficionado. Ask a Teen Raver appears on Tuesdays in West Coast Sound. Send your questions to teenraver@laweekly.com. Dear Teen Raver: Do you like any crusty old DJs like Sasha and Digweed and Paul Van Dyk and all them? Don't you thi ... More >>

DJ Justin Martin, at Avalon Tonight, Says West Coast is Best Coast

The West Coast was a shining beacon for American dance music. It was where Kaskade, Miguel Migs, Mark Farina, DJ Dan, Doc Martin, Donald Glaude, Marques Wyatt, Hardkiss and so many others fostered a special sound. While this is still the place to be for massive festivals like Coachella and Electric ... More >>

Interview With a Raver Who Wears Electrical Tape on Her Boobs

Ciara Mimms is perhaps the L.A. area's most devoted raver, in an area crammed with them. The 18-year-old high school senior lives in San Bernardino County, but spends her free time in the city at clubs like The Avalon and The Music Box. She takes her EDM seriously, and making costumes for the part ... More >>

Alert: SXSW Coverage Ahead

"What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area." -- Tommy Lee Jones, The Fugitive You don't have to spend much time at South By Southwest to know that all of the above building ... More >>

Brenmar: His Goal as a DJ Is to Get You Laid

Hearing a DJ throw on the one song you never thought you'd hear other than on your own iTunes playlist will seal your allegiance to him. By spinning Supa Blanco's slurry Southern underground anthem "I Bet I Do," Brenmar did just that when he opened for Iggy Azalea's recent, supa anticipated show. In ... More >>

The Gold Standard

2012 Grammys: The Best, the Worst and the Weirdest

Rebecca HaithcoatDrake's after-party​See also: *Why The Grammys Stink *Deadmau5, Rihanna - House of Blues - 2/13/12 *Dan Wilson: From "Closing Time" to Adele's "Someone Like You" Adele won everything. Kanye didn't show. Nicki Minaj out-Gaga'ed Gaga by showing up with a Pope imitator as her e ... More >>

Nero - The Music Box - 12/22/11

Liz OhanesianNero​Nero (DJ Set) The Music Box 12-22-11 Better than... Listening to Nero's new CD. Earlier this month, Cherrytree Records released in the U.S. the hard copy of Nero's debut album, Welcome Reality. The U.K. electronic dance music duo's work had already been available in other m ... More >>

Music Picks: Woody Allen & His New Orleans Jazz Band, Jane Monheit, Manhattan Murder Mystery

Also, Fishbone, Luciana Souza, Infected Mushroom and others

Jonathan Gold Reviews Tsujita L.A.

Ramen and Tsukemen at the city's new noodle lover's paradise

Porter Robinson: The Libertarian Dubstep Guy

See also: *In Defense Of "Fratstep:" An Open Letter To James Blake *Wait, Now Korn Invented Dubstep?! It's fair to say that most political nerds don't know what dubstep is. But last month libertarian sites like The Daily Paul and Lew Rockwell got geeked up about Porter Robinson's track "The State." ... More >>

Your Counter Intelligence Preview: In Which Mr. Gold Considers Tsujita L.A.

This week Jonathan Gold considers Tsujita L.A., the newish ramen shop on Sawtelle. Tsujita is not exactly one of the crammed noodle closets that are the tsukemen shops in Tokyo -- 5 seats, Foo Fighters blasting, 15 minutes to slurp your noodles so the drunk guys outside can get in -- but it's a lot ... More >>

Drinkify: We Get Drunk To See If It Actually Works

We at West Coast Sound love little more than good tunes and good booze. So, when Drinkify dropped earlier this month -- an Internet app that suggests cocktails to sip while listening to your artist of choice -- we were intrigued. So much so that we bought a whole shopping bag of elixirs and got to d ... More >>

Zedd - Dim Mak Sunday - 11-27-11

Zedd Dim Mak Sundays 11-27-11 Better than... bottle service. Last summer, Zedd hit L.A. to warm up the crowd when Deadmau5's Meowingtons Hax tour hit the Palladium for a few sold-out nights. He returned to the city last night as a headliner for his own mini tour, supporting the single "Stars Come ... More >>

LinA In LA Party Picks: Our Post-Thanksgiving Workout Plan

Forget about cornbread. We've got the recipe for the kind of stuffing that won't leave you comatose after consumed, unless you want to be. Stuff your weekend with the following ingredients: '70s disco, '80s new wave, brand-new electro house, zombies, fashion fiends, hipsters, gays, straights, pan-se ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews MB Post

David LeFevre brings Manhattan Beach up to speed on L.A. restaurant trends

Zola Jesus, LA Vampires, Xanopticon - Echoplex - October 31, 2011

ian Cohen​See also: *Zola Jesus Brings Her Unsettled and Prickly Vision to L.A. *Amanda Brown of LA Vampires: Raw Foodist, Colossal In Kiev Zola Jesus, LA Vampires, Xanopticon Echoplex October 31, 2011 Better than... Seeing MC 900 Ft. Jesus on Columbus Day. Gotta admit, perhaps the greates ... More >>

Best Posts Of The Week

​How well do you know your L.A. hip-hop dances? For the debut of her column on the subject, Jessica A. Koslow ran down the controversial origin story of the Dougie this week. Turns out a rapper named Lil Wil was doing it first, and had some choice words for our Inglewood heroes Cali Swag Distr ... More >>

What Will Be The Most Popular Music-Related Halloween Costumes This Year? And How Can They Be Made Slutty?

​By Lina Lecaro and Andrea Domanick Nothing is a more fun cultural zeitgeist indicator than what folks wear for Halloween. And, of course, musical personalities are prime fodder. So here are our predictions for what will be the most common music costumes this year. Of course, despite the fa ... More >>

Best Posts of the Week

We'll tell you exactly how they make us feel​Who needs Snakes On A Plane when you've got a Cobra Starship? This week in his kill-yourself-hilarious column Why This Song Sucks Shea Serrano explored the slick New York band's somehow-popular single "You Make Me Feel," proving why it blows using s ... More >>

Friday Night Fever

Formerly the bastard stepchild of club nights, Friday is giving Saturday some competition

Sirah: Your New Favorite Female Rapper Indie Pop Princess

​A couple of years ago, Sirah, a young, white, female California rapper, was on the rise. She was in talks with major labels. She was about to release an album. She stitched together her outfits with two-dollar thrift store finds and no Fendi. Sound familiar? But unlike Kreayshawn, the white ... More >>

Page Two: How HARD Are You?

L.A.'s Premier Electronic Fest Is Here. Watch Out For Stereotypes!

Craigslist Missed Connections, Coachella Edition: Guy Eye-Bangs Bleach Blonde in Gold AmApp Top at Sahara Tent, Invites Her to Lincoln Heights to "420 It Up and Listen to Deadmau5"

​Ah, romance, or, as Erasure would say, Oh, L'Amour... This little Coachella-related message in a bottle went up today on Craigslist's infamous Missed Connections section, possibly the saddest region in the entire Internet where--most likely late at night and surrounded by a collection of cru ... More >>