Soundgarden

Soundgarden - The Fonda Theatre - 11/27/12

Soundgarden The Fonda Theatre 11/27/12 Better than...watching reruns of Headbanger's Ball When Chris Cornell announced on New Year's Eve three years ago that school was back in session and Soundgarden was reforming, no one knew quite what to expect. Would the band simply hit the road for a one-of ... More >>

The Melvins vs. George Thorogood: A War of Words Erupts Over Claims of a Record-Setting Tour

The Melvins are in the midst of an ambitious tour, performing in all 50 states (plus Washington, D.C.) in only 51 days. Pretty impressive, considering the legendary band soon will be entering their fourth decade. One of the pioneers of the 1980s Seattle scene that later birthed Nirvana and Soundgard ... More >>

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Hollywood Bowl - 10/17/12

Neil Young Hollywood Bowl 10/17/12 Any number of incarnations of Neil Young & Crazy Horse could have shown up to play the Hollywood Bowl last night. They might have done the rock-soaked musical folklore of their most recent LP Americana or the slightly-campy concept rock opera that was 2003's Green ... More >>

We Review Richie Sambora's "Indie Rock" Album

Stadium rocking superstar Richie Sambora is, for some reason, attempting crossover success in the vegan-chorizo taco world of Los Angeles indie rock. See also: Richie Sambora Is Putting Out an Indie Rock Album on Dangerbird. No, Seriously After getting clean and sober and renewing his relationship ... More >>

The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison: Our Book of the Week

According to the people who track these things, there are roughly 170,000 new books published each year in the United States -- an alarming percentage of which arrive, unbidden, at the L.A. Weekly office. Each week, we'll offer a snapshot of a newish book that's caught our attention. Just as there ... More >>

The Most Important Album of the Last 25 Years Isn't Nevermind, It's Guns N' Roses' Appetite For Destruction

Pearl Jam Are the Most Boring Band in 20 Years Top 20 Hair Metal Albums of All Time: The Complete List Guns N' Roses' seminal album Appetite For Destruction came out 25 years ago this past Saturday. I was 9 years old when a foreign exchange student taped me a copy of it. I had heard "Welcome to the ... More >>

How to Stage Classic Sitcoms...With Sock Puppets

The dozen or so people gathered at Atwater Crossing on this Wednesday night are watching the first episode of Friends. You remember how it goes: After ditching her fiance, runaway bride Rachel starts a new life in Manhattan with the help of her friends -- uptight Monica, ditzy Phoebe, smarmy Chan ... More >>

Music Picks: Fucked Up, Dolly Parton, Ty Segal, Fitz & the Tantrums,

Also, Soundgarden, Iceage, Earth, Wu Lyf and others

Ten Groups Who Never Should Have Gotten Back Together

Beware fellas, bad things may be coming your way​On New Year's Eve 2009, Chris Cornell made a Twitter declaration: "School's back in session." The implication was that Soundgarden was reuniting. However, it took several months for the official announcement. The grunge pioneers would be putting ... More >>

Coheed & Cambria's Bassist Robs A Pharamcy

​Michael Todd of Coheed & Cambria, the once East Coast emo phenoms now worldwide arena rock stars, was arrested yesterday. Todd decided to add robbing a pharmacy for Oxycontin to his pre-show ritual, obviously the best time to try to pull a stunt like this: After walking up to the pharmacy de ... More >>

EXCLUSIVE: Slayer's Kerry King Reveals How Thrash Survives

Photograph by Steve ApplefordSlayer guitarist Kerry King​ Thrash metal musicians are not always the most social of animals. The guys in Anthrax do tend to get along with other bands, but Slayer, Megadeth and Metallica have famously traded insults across the decades over slights big and small. ... More >>

From the Archives: Jonathan Gold's "13 Ways of Looking at Nirvana" (Kurt Cobain, RIP 17 Years Ago Today)

Kurt Cobain, RIP (1967-1994)​Today, on the 17th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's untimely death, we reprint the following reflections from Jonathan Gold, originally written seven years ago. 1. A friend's East Village studio somewhere in July 1989. Nirvana, who had slept on the floor, are pissed, ... More >>

Page Two: Passion of the Live

Top 10 Songs For the Apocalypse (Bird Death? Crabicide? Snooki's Book? Signs of the Endtimes!)

TK 10 Songs For the Apocalypse

Music Picks: Dum Dum Girls, Tricky, Leon Russell, OFF!

Also, Peaches, Killing Joke, Albert Lee and others

MUSIC PICKS: Ruben Guevara, Buika, Bill Frisell's Beautiful Dreamers

Also, Combichrist, Papercranes, Simone White and others

Why is Soundgarden Trying to Kill Their Fans? [UPDATE: To Sell Them Guitar Hero???]

This poor man was almost killed by his favorite "grunge" band​[UPDATE: 9/28. Apparently the "secret show" fans risked their lives too was a big commercial for the Guitar Hero videogame. Protip: the longer you spend with the little colorful buttons on that toy guitar, the less you're likely to ... More >>

Across the Universe: Reznor Previews 'Social Network' Soundtrack, Vanilla Ice Hawks Houses, 'Borat' Star to Play Freddie Mercury

Across the Universe: Reznor Previews 'Social Network' Soundtrack, Vanilla Ice Hawks Houses, 'Borat' Star to Play Freddie Mercury

Across the Universe: Tupac Film Gets Fuqua'ed, LCD Will Record Again, 50 Cent Crazies Up Twitter

Across the Universe: Tupac Film Gets Fuqua'ed, LCD Will Record Again, 50 Cent Crazies Up Twitter

Live Review: Activision's E3 2010 Preview Event with Eminem, Jane's Addiction & Usher - "We Got the Cash!"

Last Night: Activision E3 2010 Preview Event with Eminem, Jane's Addiction, & Usher

Top Ten Strangest Covers of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean"

Michael Jackson had many hits from the time he was a little kid until his untimely death last year, and even after that. But for some reason there seems to be a certain agreement that "the" quintessential MJ hit is "Billie Jean," from the record-breaking 1982 Thriller album. The impossible-not-to-d ... More >>

Tonight in NYC: Sebastian Meissner and Kwartludium Adapt SST Records Output

This struck us as a potentially fascinating exercise that we would love to see tonight --except it's in New York. German electronic producer Sebastian Meissner (aka Klimek) is teaming up with Polish avant-classical group Kwartludium to present "Solid State Transmitters," an homage to great LA label ... More >>

Coachella Confirmations Begin to Trickle In, Rumors Abound

The Coachella message board is doing a good job of tracking the upcoming Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio. Now's the time that bands begin leaking confirmations, revealing their hands on MySpace, Twitter and Facebook, and basically spilling the beans one way or another. For example, this f ... More >>

The Nightlife Before Christmas

Camp Freddy's Billy Morrison and Donovan Leitch List Ten Important Cultural Moments of the 1990s

Editor's note: In honor of the final week of Camp Freddy's December residency, which happens tonight at the Roxy, West Coast Sound asked members of the band to chime in on their favorite music of the decades. Two weeks ago Billy Morrison highlighted his favorite things about the 1970s. Last week Don ... More >>

Chris Cornell to Play Intimate Hotel Cafe Show Next Week

In the mood for some serious rock/crooning? As we were stumbling across the Interweb tracking shows, we tripped over a surprise Chris Cornell show at the Hotel Cafe next week. Yes, Cornell, best known for his amazing work with Timbaland work with Soundgarden and Audioslave, is playing in the itsy bi ... More >>

FRINGE BENEFITS AND OTHER ODDLY REWARDING CHOICES

Kurt Elling, Frank Marocco, Bob Sheppard

Brick's Picks: Mingus Big Band, Jane Bunnett & Spirits of Havana, Randy Brecker

Free gigs with Don Rader, Jon Mayer and Jack Sheldon

Rock Picks: Warped Tour, Pop Levi, Valient Thorr

Also, Previously on Lost, Raphael Saadiq, Liz Pappademas

Rock Picks: 88BoaDrum, Projekt Revolution, Juana Molina

Also, Flosstradamus, Bigelf, The Crystelles

Swervedriver Gazes Back

A chat at the pub reanimates one of the great also-rans of '90s British guitar rock

Bands and Brands

Your favorite band is playing the Roxy tonight — but you’re not invited

Rock Picks

For the week of July 5 - 11

Yowza

Qui welcomes Uncle David to the fold

Who's That Girl? Lauren Weedman’s Search for Home

Alternative Comedy 2007

Rock Picks

for the week of January 25 – February 1

Cocks of the Rock

The ear-to-ear assault of the Chelsea Smiles

Shit & Payola

Radio killed the radio star

Live in LA

They Will Drink It All

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Nirvana

The Big Bang

Still Rockin’ in the Almost Free World

Larger Than Life

Casting shadows with Fatso Jetson

The Dangerous Lives of Desert Boys

Forty days and forty nights with Queens of the Stone Age

Playlist

Songs for Camden Joy

Is the Corpse Smelly Yet?

Independent music in 2001

Midnight Sun

Pearl Jam’s book of changes

New Trad, Dad

Mark Lanegan uncovered

We're Earnest, and Contagious

How grunge killed alternative country, and why Trailer Bride could save it