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The Killers - Los Angeles Sports Arena - 5/2/13

The Killers Los Angeles Sports Arena 5/2/13 "Tonight, the City of Angels and Sin City are getting together," said Brandon Flowers last night at the Sports Arena, lead singer of the Las Vegas based Killers. "We'll try not to corrupt you." For 90 minutes, Flowers and company danced and moved on stag ... More >>

Gaby Moreno - Largo - September 4, 2012

Gaby Moreno Largo September 4, 2012 See also: Our People issue profile of Gaby Moreno Better than.... Your current favorite Spanish artist. Celebrating the release of her first all-Spanish album Postales, Gaby Moreno performed her entire work live last night at Largo. Wearing a shiny 1920's-inspi ... More >>

Cooper Black: The Story Behind Louie's Typeface

An overweight balding man exits a subway station and, as he walks, up pops his name in bold, cartoonish, drop-shadowed white letters: Louie. He stands alone in the doorway of a pizza parlor inhaling a slice, his eyes searching and expressionless, watching people pass by as people watch him, an urban ... More >>

That's The Way We Like It

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: California Love

KCRW Broadcast #158 for Saturday, March 31, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! The Ugly World of eBay Hustling Fanatics! Tomorrow night we have a bit of a concept show for your enjoyment. Since I write this ahead of a show in San Diego, I thought it would be a great idea to play bands from ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Dinosaur Jr. Mode

​See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! The Beach Boys' SMiLE: Even Better than Advertised KCRW Broadcast #145 for Saturday, December 17, 2011 Fanatics! I am well into the short tour with Dinosaur Jr. The band have been playing excellently and the audiences have been into it! I sit on J's side ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Recovering From A Stooges Coma

​See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Is Raw Power the American answer to Exile on Main St.? KCRW Broadcast #144 for Saturday, December 10 Fanatics! What a show! It's the mother of all shows. It's gigantic and fantastic! It is extraordinary and wonderful in every way. It hits all the marks a ... More >>

If You Can Make It Here, You'll Want To Move To New York

Remember Our Top 20 L.A. Rap Albums? Here Are The Worst Records By Those Artists

​[Editor's note: Haterade Monday continues! Earlier in the day we told brought you the five dopiest Beach Boys songs (including one where Brian Wilson raps). And now, on the heels of our top 20 greatest L.A. rap albums of all time here's some more drivel from classic artists.] Hip-hop doesn' ... More >>

Best Posts Of The Week

Jena Ardell​"It's fucking Halloween, do you know where your skull is?" Glenn Danzig asked the crowd at Gibson Amphitheater on Monday night. Actually, it was his skull that was showing up in strange places this week, as Jena Ardell imagined what scenes from famous movies would look like if Danz ... More >>

Fool's Gold - FYF Fest - September 3, 2011

Ben WesthoffFool's Gold​By Anna Westhoff See also: FYF Review: The Descendents, Kid Dynamite, and Ty Segall FYF review: Smith Westerns and the comedy stage FYF Slideshow! Fuck Yeah! It's the FYF SAT Quiz! FYF Preview: The Descendents Attempt To Clone Themselves FYF Preview: Drinking Tequila ... More >>

DJ of the Week Nobody (Low End Theory, Alpha Pup) Talks Touring, Blank Blue, and Sampling!

Jacob Connelly​ Nobody is a humble genius, one of "extremely minor fame" from Soulmates, Pacific Drift, And Everything Else, Tree Colored See, and Blank Blue. His solo album, released last year on Alpha Pup, attracted rave reviews for its creative use of samples, beats, and Autotune vocals; ... More >>

WE LOVE THEM/YEAH, YEAH, YEAH

Jane's Addiction's "Nothing's Shocking": The Word Cloud

​ Hey gang--guess what popular West Coast Sound feature is back? The Word Cloud! The 'Cloud has been M.I.A. for a few months, but we're restarting this Friday tradition with a great one--as per usual very suitable for making stencils and T-shirt iron-ons. For those of you with memories oblit ... More >>

The L.A. Weekly Interview: Best Coast

A few songs about her crazy, lazy, hazy L.A. world turned Bethany Cosentino into a global icon of cool. Yeah, she's as surprised as you are

The Best of FYF Fest: Best Fashions, Surprising Bands to Watch, Biggest Bummers (oh, and Ariel Pink: Still Crazy)

Timothy NorrisThere's a thin line between hipster and furry, wethink​[See also Timothy Norris' slideshow "FYF Fest 2010 with The Rapture, Dead Man's Bones, Panda Bear and More".] Given that I refuse to pair a word as lovely as "summer" near detractors such as cruel "end" or the gentler "fade, ... More >>

Lisa Carver's Rad Column on the Sounds of Los Angeles, Exclusive for LA Weekly

​If you've picked up the print section of the LA Weekly this week we're sure you've noticed a column penned by none other than the great Lisa Carver, who is a musician (Suckdog), a zine pioneer (Rollerderby), a memoirist (Drugs Are Nice), a columnist and a rad mom. She is also one of the most ... More >>

The Sound of Pretending

Dispatch from the white zone

Tupac's 'All Eyez on Me': The LA Weekly Word Cloud [NSFW]

West Coast Sound has been analyzing classic Los Angeles albums for the past six months by creating word clouds from the lyrics. We've tackled Black Flag's Damaged, the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, N.W.A's Straight Outta Compton, Guns 'n Roses' Appetite for Destruction and, most recently, just for kicks, ... More >>

Surfin' Bird Word Cloud: Papa Ooh Mow Papa Ooh Ma Mow

Okay, so the Trashmen were from Minneapolis, not LA, which means we're breaking a rule for these word clouds that says to be eligible for West Coast Sound inclusion an artist must be from LA. But screw that: they're singing about surfing, which is totally LA, and they're singing about birds, which p ... More >>

Dios Announce New Album, Leak Lotsa Free Music [MP3s]

Dios, 'We Are Dios'​The Hawthorne-hailing psychedelically inclined indie-pop outfit known as Dios has just announced the due date of its third LP (and first in 5 years), We Are Dios. Due out February 16 on the recently revived Buddyhead label, the album is currently tracklist-less but a crypti ... More >>

ALBUM ANALYZER

Get to the bottom of lyrics with Wordle.

Pink Floyd/"Wizard of Oz" Visual Mashup Tonight @ Actors' Gang Fest

We Be JaminWe're off to see the Floyd​Tonight, as part of the Actors' Gang WTF?! Festival, you can finally stop wondering about the Old-School Internet meme regarding Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon being a secret soundtrack to The Wizard of Oz. As our own Siran Babayan explains in her ... More >>

Beverly Hills Pop: Brian Wilson Signs Sir Peter Blake's New Book at Taschen

By Gustavo Turner Last night, the always entertaining Taschen Bookstore in Beverly Hills hosted an event celebrating the release of a very curious artifact: a box set including Brian Wilson's last released CD, That Lucky Old Sun, a handsome little book with an exclusive interview with Brian by Harv ... More >>

Songs for Our City: Weezer Endorses a "Surf Wax America"

Weezer's "Blue Album" is the soundtrack for the beach, beers, and BBQ.

Throbbing Gristle's 33rd Annual Report

They coined the genre name Industrial, foresaw acid house and pushed electronic noise into distant orbits. A legendary art quartet returns to Southern California

Capitol's Vinyl Series: A Storied Label Digs in its Crates, Uncovers Some Gems

Yeah, it's easy to pile on the major labels these days for all their foul-ups and foibles, for their lawsuits and their protectionism, for single-minded focus on money at the expense of dignity (see below blurry photo of Coldplay banner sullying the roof of the majestic Capitol Building of this su ... More >>

Rock Picks: Brian Wilson, the Juan Maclean, Common

Also, Citay, Nightwish, Savina Yannatou

The Wrecking Crew: Behind the Music

Movie retrieves rock history from the cutout bin

Northwest Passage: Seattle's Fleet Foxes Make Languid, Woodsy Rock

Can a flutist be far behind?

The Doors? Black Flag? The Chili Peppers? Nope. L.A.'s Best Band Was Love.

The more things change . . .

Rock Picks: Slick Rick, Tapes 'n Tapes, Kate Nash

And other May 8-15 shows

Robots, Mods, Rockers

And one shining Prince

Shen Wei Dance Arts

Contact art

The Joffrey Ballet

Let's Get Lost

U.K. enigma Lewis Taylor unearths the pop jewel his label buried years ago

Love, Love, Love

The romantic songs that shape our hearts: A special Valentine’s Day report

Pleasant princess Castle

Two Great Tastes that Taste Kinda Awesome Together . . .

Live in LA

Boppadoppadoppadoppadang!

Good Vibrations

Some great sessions

Sparkle Up

California Dreaming

Ozomatli and a gathering of West Coast underground hip-hop luminaries fight the power

Future Sounds

The Adams Family

The Endless Summer Show

Surf's up, down, all over Laguna

Miss the Water

Baby Lemonade’s last testament

Puffy Stuff

Stars/Time/Bubbles/Love

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