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Eureka! Burger Debuts New Tasting Kitchen Concept at Hawthorne Airport

Hark! There's a new burger place opening up on the horizon! That is, of course, if the horizon is actually just the Hawthorne Airport. Eureka! Burger is the shouty burger lounge concept that's been popping up throughout central and southern California since 2009, and now they're coming to Hawthorne.

Coachella 4/20: Let's Talk About Weed

See also: *The Best of Coachella: Friday, April 20 *Our Complete Coachella Coverage Yesterday was 4/20. It was also Coachella. And so, the percentage of festival-goers who were stoned rose from a paltry 75 percent to a full 98 percent. (These estimates come courtesy of our editor, Ben Westhoff, wh ... More >>

Music Picks: Funk-a-Palooza, Keith Jarrett, Ute Lemper & the Vogler Quartet

Also, Hot Snakes, Strange Boys, Ken Parker, Flash Express and others

Tommy Keene, Power Pop's Dark Knight

Chris Rady ​Power pop, like bubblegum before it, is often viewed as the domain of skinny-tie moptoppers singing ditties about girls and cars. Longtime power pop icon Tommy Keene, however, doesn't fit this stereotype. His moodier music accentuates the "power" in power pop, building his muscular ... More >>

Everything You Wanted To Know About Death Cab But Were Too Emo To Ask

This right here is my swag​I know this is going to sound like a lowball estimate, but there are approximately 102,000 little brothers in the United States. I know this because Codes & Keys moved 102 large in its first week, and the general consensus amongst your friends who "know better" is th ... More >>

Bas Jan Ader and Zoe Crosher: The Art of Disappearing People

Zoe CrosherZoe Crosher's photo of where Michael Douglas jumped at Venice Beach Pier in the movie Falling Down ​ This week's art feature in our print edition, Catherine Wagley connects two current exhibits that explore the art of disappearing people. One shows the work of the artist and cult f ... More >>

No Babysitter? No Problem! Top Five Rockin' L.A. Events You Can Bring Your Kid To

Got a kid? LA can still be your playground, and we're not talkin' about the park or those germy indoor jungle gyms. Whether you're a music lover, an art tart or a scenester who simply likes to be out and about, there are options that don't require a sitter or sitting out on grown-up fun. Read on for ... More >>

Top 10 Songs That Namecheck Los Angeles Strip Clubs

What happens at the strip club...​ February is the month we worship upon the altar of amour -- and what better way to let Cupid's arrow fly than investing your hardly-earned dollar bills into the g-string of a bare-bottom UCLA co-ed? If you need some risque recommendations once you or your si ... More >>

Top 5 Things to Do This Weekend in L.A.

​ [Originally published 1/21/2011] This weekend, like every other in LA, there are soooo many things to do we struggled to distill them down into five. But behold! We did! And many of the stuff we found is all ages---imagine that! So, no excuses--a foundational figure in rockabilly AND a semi ... More >>

Is Wu-Tang without the RZA still Wu-Tang?

Not all of these people will be coming to Club Nokia next Sunday...​Next Sunday, concert promotion juggernaut Golden Voice is bringing what they claim is the Wu-Tang Clan to Club Nokia. To be more precise, as Mikael Wood pointed out in this week's pick, they're bringing "seven of the eight or ... More >>

Welcome Black

After conquering Broadway, "little Silver Lake band" the Negro Problem returns to L.A.

Top 10 Solo Projects by Guest Blogger Big Search, a.k.a. Matt Popieluch of Foreign Born and Fool's Gold (Also: an Exclusive New Big Search Song)

Matt Popieluch (Big Search, Foreign Born, Fool's Gold) writes on his favorite solo projects.​Guest blogger Matt Popieluch is not only the lead singer in Foreign Born and riddim guitarist for Fool's Gold, but an "artist gone rogue" in his own right. He's celebrating the release of the debut alb ... More >>

Top Ten Bizarre Facts About Ace of Base (They're Baaaaack!)

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the reggae-pop​True story: here at the West Coast Sound Headquarters we have a whiteboard where we write down story ideas and one of the items for a while has been "Sweden: WHY?" We're truly puzzled about all these Scandinavian acts that sing in ... More >>

Legendary LA Rock and Surf Pioneer Bob Keane (Del-Fi Records) Dies

You cannot write a history of LA music without mentioning Bob Keane, who died at 87 this past weekend. Though he was a young prodigy clarinetist and bandleader in the pre-rock era, Keane was not destined to make his contribution as a performer--as a discoverer, nurturer, and marketer of talent, howe ... More >>

Petra Haden Sells Out

A singer lets her love flow in a quirky series of Toyota Prius commercials

Weiss' 25 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2008

25. Prafit-"Nice Weather" The nice weather is long gone--the ostensibly immutable Los Angeles sun blotted by kidney colored clouds and cold rain. So Prafit's ode to the sizzle of July feels like an antique postcard documenting endless light, chicken breasts smothered in BBQ sauce, and basement ... More >>

More Songs About Traffic and Sand

Rolling Stones, Scorsese and Black Girls

"Black girls just want to get fucked all night I just don't have that much jam" I just want to put that out there because it's a funny, mean, maybe even important line. It's the very antithesis of the Beach Boys' categorization of females in "California Girls," and it's proof that at least into th ... More >>

Siouxsie Sioux at the Fonda

Also, Grizzly Bear and the L.A. Phil at Disney Hall

The Raveonettes: Lust in the Wind

On their new album, the duo go deep

Stephin Merritt Undistorted

An interview with the Magnetic Fields frontman

The Dragons: Diggin' in the Sand

Ninja Tune records uncovers a psychedelic-pop album with a curiously circuitous back story

Meet Your Favorite New Band(s)

The National, The Broken West The El Rey Theatre, June 26

Roller Coaster of Wub

Disneyland goes all Chili Peppers and shit

Genius of Pop

XTC’s Andy Partridge on songwriting, Sgt. Pepper’s mustache, tinnitus and his huge new box set

The Season to Be Rockin'

Tralala, Jim Noir, Annuals at Spaceland

The Bird and the Bee

Local bands, man

Run, DMC — Run!

The Knack get nasty; “Weird Al” conquers all

Love in the Time of Xanax

TV on the Radio have message of peace, hope, harmony, possible werewolves

Everybody Do the Pigeon!

Underground L.A. rapper Pigeon John can’t help it — he’s weird

Thoroughly Modern Wilson

The latest from the Culver City school of foodbarcafe

Rock & Roll Torchbearer

Brett Gurewitz

Here and There and Back Again

With The World’s Fastest Indian, Roger Donaldson comes full circle

Raspberry Preserves

“Overnight Sensations” the Raspberries return to stake their claim as the greatest power-poppers ever

San Grove-ero Fest And Mo Cheese

You Won’t Forget Him

Supercool dead producer finally gets his own disc

Live in LA

3-D Pop

The Randies sell out to themselves

Revising Los Angeles’ DNA

The perfect apartment balcony beats any ranch tract house

Metal and Wood

Music materials 2004

Bliss Factory

How Sweet It (Still) Is

Standing in the Shadows of Motown and Pleasure and Pain

Walking on Air

Into the Next Sun

Poison the Hood

Melting in the Rain

Ticket to Rut

Super Furry Sound

A year in music

Old-School Ghoul

Wavemakers

At work and play in musical L.A.