The Beatles

The Love Mob Is Saving the World With Group Singalongs

Albert Einstein said, "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." The Beatles said, "All you need is love." The Love Mob, in essence, combines these two concepts. The Los Angeles-based group performs a capella covers of classics. Their goal? Nothing s ... More >>

Stevie Wonder - Outside Lands - August 12, 2012

Stevie Wonder, in theory, is an American artistic treasure. He's more than our Beatles or Rolling Stones; he's our Dickens or Dalí: a figure of impassable recognition, discussion, talent, love, and national pride. In theory. In practice, however, Stevie Wonder is an experience. Less than three m ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Joey Ramone's Legacy Is in Danger

[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.] I have been listening to a record that is one of the strangest things I have heard in a long t ... More >>

Music Picks: Roberta Flack, Summer Twins, John Cage Centenary Festival

Also, Spindrift, Lenny Kravitz, Dorian Wood, Howlin Rain and others

Rock 'n' Roll Tailor Glen Palmer On The Time Gregg Allman Passed Out In His Store

Jennie Warren​By Justin Bolois See also: Glen Palmer Makes Clothes for Rock Gods: Living on Tom Petty's Malibu Estate, He's Tailored Duds for Everyone From Bob Dylan to Fleetwood Mac In this week's music feature, we profile rock n' roll tailor Glen Palmer and his helter-skelter journey desig ... More >>

Mikal Cronin: Ty Segall's Homie on the Bay Area Scene, No Doubt, and Making Music His Mom Likes

Mikal Cronin's self-titled debut arrived last year as part of a successful trio of thrashy rock releases from the Bay Area, which also included Thee Oh Sees' Carrion Crawler/The Dream and Ty Segall's Goodbye Bread. Maintaining a stark level of intimacy, Cronin's album is the most wholesome and engag ... More >>

Can You Seer Me Now?

The Five Most Hilariously Offensive Misuses of Classic Songs For Commercial Purposes

​ We were so excited when we saw the wooden box on our desk with the words "Bob Marley" branded into the top. A CD box set? Possibly--if we are very very lucky--a box set of 7"s? With little booklets that have liner notes full of interesting and amazing facts about one of the word's seminal p ... More >>

Henry Rollins Column: Optimism, Lemmy and 3,000 Downloads Just For You

Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins contirbutes 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 Monday and make sure to tune in to He ... More >>

Six Most Idiotic Attempts to Blame Musicians for Violent Events (or, the Tucson Tragedy Was Caused by a Crazy Person, Not by Drowning Pool's "Bodies Hit the Floor")

6 Horrible Acts of Violence Blamed on Music

Happy Bean Day: 5 Great Bean Events in History

Flickr/Johnny Stiletto​ Beans, beans, the magical fruit, each January 6th, it is thee we salute. Yep, today is National Bean Day, and though there seems to be little reason behind the holiday's designation, that shouldn't stop us from celebrating with some of L.A.'s best beans, like the luscio ... More >>

Untangling Roots of Chicha

Born of Peruvian poverty, genre gained worldwide exposure thanks to a Brooklyn Frenchman

This weekend: Plastic Ono Band, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, School of Seven Bells, the Avett Brothers, Fountains of Wayne

Yoko Ono​John Lennon would have turned 70 next week, and among the events celebrating the legendary Beatle are two shows this weekend featuring a reconstituted Plastic Ono Band, the loose collective of musicians Lennon assembled 40 years ago. His widow Yoko Ono and son Sean Lennon (the musica ... More >>

Autolux Interview: Sounding Like a Woman and Not Running From The Beatles on Their New Album Transit Transit

Star ForemanAfter six years, Autolux reemerges with a lauded new album​ This week the print version of the LA Weekly features an interview with the members of Silver Lake trio Autolux. Gregg LaGambina met up with the elusive members of the band, who discussed the tortuous road to sophomore eff ... More >>

Winery Road Trip: Cliff Lede's New Platinum Playlist Classic Rock Tasting

There are certain specific rules for drinking and listening, say, Johnny Cash with cheap beer (should prison water prove difficult to procure) and just about any wine with jazz. Unless you're opening a bottle of Cliff Lede, which is a classic rock-only leaning vineyard. When it opened several year ... More >>

Dumbass Poll Crowns Celine Dion as America's Favorite Musician Ever

America's Dumbass Choice: Best Musician Ever?​ BREAKING Yahoo Finance (via BeatCrave) reports that America's Favorite Musician is... Celine fucking Dion. She beats Elvis, Sinatra, The Beatles, the Boss, and a bunch of country singers for the heart of America's listeners, according to a Har ... More >>

Music Picks: Neil Innes, Korean Music Festival 8, Avi Buffalo, Lupe Fiasco, Coheed and Cambria

Also, No Age, Sheila E & the Escovedo Family, Greg Laswell and others

'Beatles are Bigger than David Crosby,' Says the Vatican

​L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper of record, has apparently released a list of their Top Ten Rock Albums. We're saying apparently because most links to this story lead back to articles in the British press reporting this. The Osservatore's website--a bizarre Umberto-Eco-worthy labyr ... More >>

Roll Over Eddie Vedder and Give Scott Stapp the News: Real-deal Tuvan Throat-Singers at Zanzibar!

Meet the Tuvan Beatles!​If you thought Eddie Vedder invented throat-singing--well, think again. Traditional throat singers Huun Huur Tu "come from the former Soviet Autonomous Republic of Tuva, a sparsely settled region of grasslands, boreal forests, and mountain ridges" situated north of Mong ... More >>

IF YOU KNEW LULA

Missed Connections, Clubland: Hey Pink Mohawk Girl at the Business - Someone Likes You!

Were you at Ikea over the weekend wearing a Beatles T-shirt? Someone likes you!​It happens: You steal a glance, your heart starts moving faster, she looks back, you return the look, he rubs up against you at the bar, you rub back, and then, boom, he/she has vanished, and love connection has fi ... More >>

Best LA Radio Shows: Required Listening for Traffic-Clogged LA

​In this week's Best of LA issue of LA Weekly, writer Wendy Gilmartin gives proper love to two radio shows on KXLU: Part Time Punks' Michael Stock snagged Best Afternoon DJ, and Melissa McAllister was honored with the award Best Reason to Turn on Your Radio in the A.M. Both great shows, and ... More >>

SONGSTRESS-MUSICIAN SUNNY WAR

She's going to blow your mind

Coachella Day 3: The Kills Kill It, Throbbing Gristle Force Me Into The Fetal Position, and The Clipse Cancel

Slowly, my brain is slinking its way towards sensible shape. Three days of Coachella are not for the faint of heart -- if nothing else it requires a quarter-ounce of weed, an array of narcotic edibles from potcorn to cannabis cakes, several brightly colored pills of indiscriminate origin, copious ... More >>

ONE SINGS, THE OTHER HAMS IT UP

Nielsen SoundScan 2008 Sales Figures Released: LP Sales Up 89 Percent -- And Neutral Milk Hotel Breaks the Top Ten

Among the many fascinating revelations in the recently released Nielsen SoundScan 2008 sales tally of recorded music product is the ranking of the year's top vinyl sellers. As anyone reading this probably knows, the music industry is in the middle of a much ballyhooed "vinyl revival." Publications ... More >>

Record Review: The Nerves, One Way Ticket

Rock Picks: Sunset Strip Music Festival, Neil Innes, Cheap Trick

Also, Nikka Costa, Willie Nile, We Are Scientists, and more

Hurray for Tar-jay: Rogan Roars

Its bastardization of The Beatles in those relentlessly dizzying TV commercials aside, we still pledge undying love for Target. Where else can you buy milk, makeup and designer duds in fell swoop? Thanks to the discount chain’s Go International fashion collaborations, we’ve been getting plenty ... More >>

Weiss' Top Albums of 2007 (#40-36)

40. The Twilight Sad-Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters [Fat Cat] Take note Bloc Party. This is how you do histrionic, nostalgic and bombastic arena rock for indie kids without coming off like total fucking pussies. A Weekend in the City wasn't terrible, but it wasn't good either, and by the end ... More >>

Rock Picks: RZA, Etta James, Zola Moon, Tori Amos, The Monolators

For the week of December 14 - 20

Put Your Bra Back On!

How Cirque du Soleil made Vegas a family town

Rock Picks: Los Lobos, No Age, Los Abandoned, Slayer

For the week of August 23-30

The Couch Gag

Short fiction for short people

You Wear it Well

Lyric Culture puts a song on your sleeve

Yeah, Baby! Yeah!

Seven years on, Mods & Rockers still swings

No cartooning today

All three of these bear the date 11/25/84.  I remember some details of the day.  I was a freshman art student at Rutgers University and had just gotten the thick black frame glasses, modeled more on Arthur Miller and Jean Paul Sartre than Woody Allen, that I still wear today.  It was ... More >>

The Big Blizzard of 2005

Michael Snow blows into town

Music To Party Like a Duckfucker

Ding-Dong Electro-Song

Edited by Kateri Butler

Do Look Back

Mayor of the Sunset Strip producer Chris Carter retraces the long and winding road to LAFF

Midnight Bumblers

Firesigns of Life

The search continues: Set your clocks forward

Loving and Leaving the Phonograph

Why Napster, extraterrestrials, Southern hillbillies and Dick Clark mean more to the future of music than copyright and the Recording Industry Association of America

The Uncle of Us All

Big Boss Man

For a New Love Song

Walter Clevenger in the heart of pop

Consume Part II:

[Mostly] Not Food

Music Reviews- Smashing Pumpkins, Gang Starr, 22-Pistepirkko, more

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