Lorde The Fonda 9-24-13 Better than: Moist anything you've ever heard from a 16-year-old girl. Every iPhone in the house was up and Instagramming when Lorde began to sing the first few lyrics of her hit song "Royals." Her performance of the minimalistic, bass-pounding jam was exceptional; the onl ... More >>
[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Slightly sick and bone-weary, Shlohmo staggers past airport security and baggage claim to hop into his ride back to his apartment near Fairfax. After sle ... More >>
This is a ridiculous thing, to be sure; a game birthed in the crevices of 2 a.m. emails and WAY TOO MANY mp3s and SoundCloud links. And it's as simple as it is stupid as it is infinitythings. On the following page you'll find a picture of eight separate sets of eyes. Underneath the picture you'll ... More >>
[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 >>
See also: Skrillex: L.A. DJ, Producer Is Boy King of Electronic Dance Music Today, Skrillex's record label OWSLA unleashes Free Treats Vol. II, 18 tracks from this year's up-and-comers in the EDM world, plus one remix of Skrillex's hit "Ruffneck (FULL Flex)." Free music is always good by us, but so ... More >>
Brian Eno's Drums Between the Bells Are people who need people really the luckiest people in the world? Brian Eno's latest winning lottery ticket, "Drums Between the Bells," out July 4 on Warp, continues his lifelong theme of communion on fifteen tracks with Rick Holland, an artist Eno met a ... More >>
Lina Lecaro Darling Nicki sung for Samsung. Nicki Minaj for cell phones, The Kills for tequila ... it was another winning week on the Hollywood party circuit. If you read Nightranger posts regularly you know we rarely miss an opportunity to cover LA's money bags-backed promotional bashes. An ... More >>
