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Stereo Systems

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    Little Boots - Bardot - 11-21-11

    Little Boots Bardot 11-21-11 Better than...studying on a school night. Over two years have passed since Victoria Hesketh, AKA Little Boots, released her debut album Hands. The electro pop work was popular in England, earning her a top 5 position in the UK album charts and winning the BBC's Best S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    Roy Ayers, J. Rocc, Thundercat - Exchange LA - 11/17/11

    Max MeuleveldRoy Ayers​See Also:*Thundercat Emerges With His Debut, Co-produced by Flying Lotus Homage: Roy Ayers, J. Rocc, Thundercat Exchange LA 11/17/11 Better than...Organizing my vinyl collection. In the break between Roy Ayers' two sets at Exchange LA last night, KCRW DJ Garth Trinida ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2011

    Echo Park Bar Report: El Prado

    josewolff/flickr​ The Place: El Prado, 1805 W. Sunset Boulevard, Echo Park; 213-483-8609. The Hours: Mon.-Fri. 6 p.m.-2 a.m.; Sat.-Sun. 2:30 p.m.-2 a.m. The Digs: Classy yet understated, the interior of El Prado, at least what you can see of it through the shadows, is dominated by the lo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    DJ Turntables Become Art in Pop-Up Gallery Outside MOCA's 'Art in the Streets'

    Lea LionBMX guru Bob Haro's customized CD player​ Thanks to the rise of hip hop, the turntable transcended its status as an electronic device, emerged as the instrument of our time -- and gained a whole lotta respect in the process. Recently an exhibit titled "Art Mix" paid homage to the turnt ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 28, 2011

    Hip-Hop: A Cultural Odyssey

    Lea LionBMX guru Bob Haro's customized CD player​ Thanks to the rise of hip hop, the turntable transcended its status as an electronic device, emerged as the instrument of our time -- and gained a whole lotta respect in the process. Recently an exhibit titled "Art Mix" paid homage to the turnt ... More >>

  • Music

    February 24, 2011

    Dance Club Pick: Designer Drugs Within Reach

    Lea LionBMX guru Bob Haro's customized CD player​ Thanks to the rise of hip hop, the turntable transcended its status as an electronic device, emerged as the instrument of our time -- and gained a whole lotta respect in the process. Recently an exhibit titled "Art Mix" paid homage to the turnt ... More >>

  • Music

    February 10, 2011

    Dance Club Pick: Bashing the Grammies

    Lea LionBMX guru Bob Haro's customized CD player​ Thanks to the rise of hip hop, the turntable transcended its status as an electronic device, emerged as the instrument of our time -- and gained a whole lotta respect in the process. Recently an exhibit titled "Art Mix" paid homage to the turnt ... More >>

  • Music

    February 3, 2011

    Henry Rollins: The Column!

    Plastic fantastic: why vinyl still matters

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    Henry Rollins: The Column! Is Here: Preview of the First Henry Rollins Column, Exclusive for the Print Edition of the LA Weekly

    Timothy Norris​[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every Wednesday and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2010

    8 Last-Minute Gift Ideas for L.A. Music Lovers (and Obsessives)

    ​There's always that someone in your family or group of friends or entourage (this is LA we're talking about after all) who is a little intimidating come Holidays gift season. They're way into music, but they're into music in an obsessive way that seems to say "you'll never be able to find a m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2010

    Turnovers & Turntables: Taking A Spin at The Redbury Hotel

    Lina Lecaro At Redbury, turntables come with directions, iPod docks don't. ​Chocolates on the bed, fruit baskets, iPod docks, free porn... yada, yada. Special little touches like these are nice when staying in a hotel, but after our tour of grand new Redbury in Hollywood last week, we think it ... More >>

  • Music

    September 9, 2010

    Cut Chemist: Too Many DJs

    Call yourself a DJ 'cause you bought two turntables and a mixer? World-class L.A. DJ is putting you on notice

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2010

    Cut Chemist Performs An Intimate Set For Aspiring DJs

    ​Vancouver can have the Winter Games. Here in sunny Southern California, land of the endless summer, our Olympic feats our perennial, and so much cooler than ice dancing. Take DJing for instance -- turntablism, or the art of scratch. Influential as New York was in getting the wheels (of steel) ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    December 3, 2009

    Sean Duffy: Signs of Intelligent Life

    Set the tricorder to temporal disruption mode, Mr. Spock

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    Listening To The Sound...of Woodworms

    ​ What do worms sound like? Zimoun knows. He is a 32-year-old sound installation artist from Switzerland. He makes things that make noise. These tend to be mechanical things that make sounds that are strangely organic, like rain or waterfalls. (Go here for examples.) You get the feeling that Z ... More >>

  • Music

    October 29, 2009

    DJ Hero: From AM to Z-Trip

    L.A. DJ takes on music ed Randall Roberts in Vegas

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2009

    Z-Trip Demos DJ Hero in Las Vegas, Honors DJ AM at Friday Night Residency Debut

    Thursday, October 15, 6:50 p.m. Landed in Vegas, am on way to Palms Hotel from airport. In a half hour, the DJ Hero battle will begin: West Coast Sound vs. Z-Trip. Focus. I've had ten years to learn Technics technique. Countless hours in front of the decks, matching beats, absorbing breaks, tweakin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    Monday Social Makes a Move: A Conversation with Mick Cole

    Monday Social is Los Angeles' longest-running, electronic dance music night. It started in 1996 as an off-night ode to a cast-off scene, a place where true fans of digitally flavored "progressive" house music could get their fix away from the celebrity crowds. It turned into an affair of its own, ho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    Palate Food Wine: Bring-Your-Own-Vinyl

    Photo credit: WinkChris Ramos at the turntable​With its own wine shop and an eighteen-dollar corkage fee, Glendale's Palate Food Wine provides little incentive to BYOB, but has still found a way to create a house party atmosphere. The Sunday afternoon event BYOV (Bring Your Own Vinyl) invite ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 25, 2009

    WHAT? NO TAP DANCING?

    Photo credit: WinkChris Ramos at the turntable​With its own wine shop and an eighteen-dollar corkage fee, Glendale's Palate Food Wine provides little incentive to BYOB, but has still found a way to create a house party atmosphere. The Sunday afternoon event BYOV (Bring Your Own Vinyl) invite ... More >>

  • Music

    February 21, 2008

    Weird Ripper: Baseck Redefines Dance Music ...

    ... with two turntables and two Game Boys

  • Music

    January 3, 2008

    Dance Club Pick: DJ Babu at Boombox

    Old school's in session

  • News

    October 4, 2007

    Best Sources for Building a Vintage Sound System

    A Vinyl Revival

  • Music

    September 13, 2007

    Breaking the Trance

    The unexpected Burning Man soundtrack

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2007

    The Burning Man Returns

    By Randall Roberts The Burning Man, which was prematurely torched by burner-assassin Paul Addis on Tuesday morning, has returned. This morning at about 11:30, a crane lifted what is now known as the Spawn of Burning Man into its rightful place at the center of Black Rock City. The soundtrack to ... More >>

  • Music

    May 31, 2007

    Waxing Frenetic

    Rob Swift at Boombox

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2007

    Manu Chao Sits Down with Falling James

    Here's a link to an extended version of Falling James' interview with Manu Chao appears on L.A. Weekly's website this week.  They cover his first L.A. show playing with No Doubt in 1989, to his love of punk rock bands like the Ramones and MC5to the worries of turning into a rock star asshole. ... More >>

  • Music

    February 22, 2007

    The Chocolate Bar

    Here's a link to an extended version of Falling James' interview with Manu Chao appears on L.A. Weekly's website this week.  They cover his first L.A. show playing with No Doubt in 1989, to his love of punk rock bands like the Ramones and MC5to the worries of turning into a rock star asshole. ... More >>

  • Music

    June 8, 2006

    Solid Ether

    Here's a link to an extended version of Falling James' interview with Manu Chao appears on L.A. Weekly's website this week.  They cover his first L.A. show playing with No Doubt in 1989, to his love of punk rock bands like the Ramones and MC5to the worries of turning into a rock star asshole. ... More >>

  • Music

    May 25, 2006

    Rock the Mic Like Cal Worthington!

    Ugly Duckling put the old-school house-party vibe on wax

  • Music

    December 8, 2005

    Julio G. Is for Real

    After a three-year hiatus from radio, KDAY’s hardcore son comes home

  • Columns

    February 5, 2004

    Aurelito & Shakespeare, Aural Tradition

    After a three-year hiatus from radio, KDAY’s hardcore son comes home

  • Music

    November 13, 2003

    Revolutions Per Minute

    After a three-year hiatus from radio, KDAY’s hardcore son comes home

  • Art+Books

    June 5, 2003

    Mixism

    Sampling Christian Marclay

  • Music

    January 23, 2003

    Utter Non Sense

    Decoding Boyd Rice

  • Columns

    June 6, 2002

    Fertilizer

    Decoding Boyd Rice

  • News

    May 23, 2002

    Wheels of Steal

    Decoding Boyd Rice

  • Film+TV

    March 7, 2002

    Turntablin’

    Scratch takes its beats beyond the bling-bling

  • News

    November 8, 2001

    Music of the Heart and Other Organs

    You can’t dance to everything

  • Columns

    March 29, 2001

    Torturing Coyotes

    The best of Sitegeist

  • Music

    August 31, 2000

    Higher Science

    Better deejaying through turntablature

  • Columns

    August 3, 2000

    Torturing Coyotes

    Better deejaying through turntablature

  • Music

    July 20, 2000

    Frankie’s House

    Better deejaying through turntablature

  • Columns

    February 10, 2000

    Get Brown and Get Down!

    Better deejaying through turntablature

  • Art+Books

    October 14, 1999

    Psst . . . Wanna Pay for a Music Download??

    Better deejaying through turntablature

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