Spice Girls

Party Pick of the Week: Rump Shaker

Premiere 1710 Las Palmas, Hlywd., Fri., Oct. 4, 10 p.m.-2 a.m., $5 admission; 18 and older The '90s are officially retro. For real this time! Some clubs tried to make it happen before, but it finally seems to have that pop! pow! wow! factor. The Spice Girls and 'N Sync now are the so-called classic ... More >>

Haim: From a Family Band to International Acclaim

The Best Concerts to See In L.A. This Weekend

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Beyoncé STAPLES CENTER Like her fellow Texan Erykah Badu, Houston-raised Beyoncé is part of the opening-night festivities at the BET Experience. But Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter's worldview is markedly different from Bad ... More >>

Music Picks: Beyoncé, Snoop Dogg and Crazy Squeeze

Yes, Jennifer and Jessica Clavin Used to Be in Mika Miko, But Now They're Bleached

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Let's just get this out of the way. Until now, Jennifer and Jessica Clavin have been primarily known for singing and playing bass in the seminal Smell pu ... More >>

The 20 Worst Albums of the '90s: The Complete List

Sure, you had the Bill Clinton blowjob scandal, OJ, Pakistan and India going nuclear, mad cow disease, the Rodney King decision, and Titanic. But what made the '90s truly awful was its music. That's not to say that there weren't bright spots -- early Beck, say, or Ok Computer and much of hip-hop's g ... More >>

The 20 Worst Albums Of The '90s: 10-1

The 20 Worst Albums Of The '90s: 20-11 Sure, you had the Bill Clinton blowjob scandal, OJ, Pakistan and India going nuclear, mad cow disease, the Rodney King decision, and Titanic. But what made the '90s truly awful was its music. That's not to say that there weren't bright spots -- early Beck, say ... More >>

Henry Rollins: No More Talk About Shooting Americans, Please

[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: Tragedy, and How to Carry On I spent a large part of the afternoon at ... More >>

Top 10 Old-School K-Pop Groups

By Michelle Woo Before there was SNSD, 2NE1, Big Bang, and Wonder Girls, there was S.E.S., g.o.d., and H.O.T. Familiar with these names? You must be an O.G. K-pop fan. See also: *K-pop Till You Drop: The Skinny on the Korean Boy and Girl Groups That Get Major Play in Koreatown *Our review of 2NE1 ... More >>

The 1997 Edition Was the Best MTV Video Music Awards

Tonight is the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards. Now in its 29th year, it's had its share of memorable moments, none more so than during the 1997 broadcast. On the occasion of its 15th anniversary, here's the case for why it was the best VMA's ever televised.

DirecTV's Olympics Closing Ceremonies Feed Goes Dark in Los Angeles

It was bad enough that Angelenos and other Americans had to endure watching key medal events long after the results had been blasted worldwide. DirecTV subjected its L.A.-area customers to the ultimate fail last night when its feed of NBC's coverage of the closing ceremonies went down during prime ... More >>

Top Ten Sexiest Fat Chicks in Music

See also: Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: The Complete List I'm into fat chicks. I run a blog about this subject because, even though I'm not alone (oh, not even close) it's still rare for dudes to come out and say it. Last year, LA Weekly's sister paper Village Voice did a whole story ... More >>

The White-Glove Treatment

Le Butcherettes' Teri Gender Bender On Raw Meat And Sexism In Mexico

See also: *Teri Gender Bender is the Most Volatile Woman in Rock *Our review of Iggy and The Stooges and Le Butcherettes at Hollywood Palladium, 12-01-11 This week's feature story is about Teri Gender Bender -- neé Teri Suarez -- of Le Butcherettes. Let's just say she has no intentions of going q ... More >>

Make No Mistake: Bleached Are Punk as Fuck

Smooth out punk's crinkly guitar riffs, replace the genre's frenetic deliveries with soothing harmonies, and give its drums a low dose of Xanax, and you have Jennifer and Jessica Clavin's brand-new band, Bleached. Like the visuals from their recent "Think of You" video, their sound is that of a vint ... More >>

Five Pop Songs Ruined By Glee

Glee's GQ shoot​You've got to hand it to Lea Michelle, Matthew Morrison, and the rest of the cast of the TV show Glee -- they certainly have a special talent for taking a once awesome pop song and turning it into an insufferable case of over-singing and unnecessary theatricality. The third sea ... More >>

Top Ten Greatest Videos from TRL's Heyday

​MTV turns 30 this week, and on Monday we spotlighted the five '90s shows the channel should bring back. The end of that decade, of course, saw the rise of Total Request Live, which kicked off in 1998, by which point MTV had long succumbed to the domination of reality shows. Part of TRL's appe ... More >>

LA's Coolest Producers (Daedelus, Schlomo, etc.) Do Prince, Lady Gaga, Mariah Carey, Soulja Boy and More (Free Download of Entire Album)

​ Los Angeles' Friends of Friends Music has spent 2010 figuring out how to reinvent the way music is released and as a thank you for a successful year, FoF is giving fans a free download of its Pop Massacre compilation. FoF gave its favorite producers simple instructions: "choose a song from a ... More >>

DANCE CLUB PICK: WHO LOVES THE '90S?

13 Badass Bob Cut Girls: Quorra, Aeon Flux & Other Short-Haired Antiheroes

​ Why is it that every time they need an edgy, bad-ass, anti-hero-type chick, they stick her in a skintight bodysuit and a bob cut? Presented here are a baker's dozen of pop-culture's greatest bob cut women. An homage, if you will, to the hairstyle preferred by little girls, dominatrixes and f ... More >>

Nightranger: Once Bitten, Twice Buy

Once Bitten, Twice Buy: The Cobrasnake's Cobrashop Opens at Hollywood & Highland

Girls with homeless-hag hair and pricey designer bags, boys in fugly (desperate for irony) t-shirts, and cartoon characterish cliques grooving geekily (yet self-consciously) to tunes spun by Shepard Fairey (M.I.A., The Go-Gos and The Beastie Boys). Last Tuesday night's grand opening of The Cobrashop ... More >>

Wendy O. Williams Becomes Bobble Head Doll (ok, "Throbblehead")

Aggronautix​What's a "Throbblehead," you might ask? It's pretty much a "Bobblehead" doll that doesn't want to pay royalties to the people who own the Bobblehead trademark. A few years back the Bobblehead (and Bobblehead-alikes) market exploded when someone figured out that children were less ... More >>

Drummers, Drag-sters and Death Rockers

LA People 2009: Art-Tart Barbie — Kari French

Indie 103.1 Fallout: What's Next For DJ Paul V and Neon Noise

As of this post, Indie 103.1 is still running the looped announcement about its move to the internet, and for some sick reason I can't stop listening to it. The songs they chose (X's "New World," Sid Vicious' "My Way" and Buzzcocks' "Harmony in My Head," etc.) are good for one, though not as much of ... More >>

Forget the Mustache: Beauty-Shop Quartets

Some postquaint, teenage-girl harmonies

Gallery Roundup: Liebowitz, Beshty, Hoshino, Bon

Leviathans, vessels and bees

2007: Outta Sight

Falling, spinning, shining stars and the year's most stellar parties

Spice Girls, Staples Center, 12/10

Fans started lining up early to get to their seats! Some arrived at 5. Skaters stopped in to check out the chicks. And lots of limos. Group of girls made the trek from the O.C. with their parents (all six of them) for the show.

Three Degrees of Taylor Negron

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Moz the Cat

In which Steven Patrick Morrissey speaks of ghosts, glam rock, Obama... and why squirrels like him

Tickled Pink!

No Pussycats!

Reviews of Girls Aloud and Sugarbabes

The Whole Kitty and Kaboodle

One writer’s lifelong love affair with Hello Kitty

Morning Becomes Sifl & Olly

Top of the Pops

Bend Over

Who is David Beckham, and why should I care?

Face Value

Rock savior Andrew W.K. is coming to our town to help us party down

Letters

Rolling Clones

Sporty Spice's Brass Ring

Give Me Shake!

Synth-pop in Nagoya

Homegrrrlz

Reclaiming TLC

Third Ear

Glam Flock

Return of the sweet art of pre-Spice, post-Glitter rock & roll

World Cup ’98

A fan’s notes (week 4)

Nicole Eisenman at Shoshana Wayne

All the President's Flings

Let's separate the women from the girls

Globular

Hollywood at its most, er, golden. Plus, the latest disco-era lesbian heroin-addict supermodel biopic