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January 16, 2013
Bizarre Ride: Jeff's Humorous Predictions and Most Anticipated Albums for 2013
[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Half of January has elapsed and we've survived. There was no collapse due to fiscal cliff, Central American apocalypse or dubstep deluge. A new year unfu ... More >>
Blogs
November 13, 2012
Why Is There So Much Indie Rock on Television? Music Supervisor Alexandra Patsavas Explains
It's hard not to notice: Indie bands seemingly soundtrack just about every sitcom, film and television commercial today. But why? Influential music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas swears it's not just about cheap labor. "It's far more of a creative decision than a monetary one," she says. "We're pick ... More >>
Blogs
October 8, 2012
The Five Best Shows in Los Angeles This Week: Grimes, Madonna
Monday, October 8 Superhumanoids THE ECHO L.A.'s Superhumanoids make pop songs out of star parts -- like the glow, the heat, the empty space and of course the wisps of fire that make NASA scientists curse every time a space probe gets singed by the stuff. This is heavenly stuff, with singer Sarah ... More >>
Music
October 4, 2012
Music Picks: Eagle Rock Festival, New Order, Madonna
Monday, October 8 Superhumanoids THE ECHO L.A.'s Superhumanoids make pop songs out of star parts -- like the glow, the heat, the empty space and of course the wisps of fire that make NASA scientists curse every time a space probe gets singed by the stuff. This is heavenly stuff, with singer Sarah ... More >>
Blogs
August 23, 2012
The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: The Complete List
The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: 10-1 Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time Who are these hipsters we see each day in the streets, on our Tumblr feeds, and on the local news? And why are so many in bands? It's not the mere existen ... More >>
Blogs
August 21, 2012
The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: 20-11
Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time Who are these hipsters we see each day in the streets, on our Tumblr feeds, and on the local news? And why are so many in bands? It's not the mere existence of hipster groups that distress ... More >>
Blogs
August 7, 2012
25 Gorgeous GIFs From Lollapalooza
By Reed Fischer See also: *Ten Things Your Lollapalooza Outfit Says About You *Lovely Ladies of Lollapalooza This past weekend's running of Lollapalooza in Chicago was intense. The heat, the monsoon-like storm on Saturday, and even the lobster corn dogs all exceeded what the human body can take n ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2012
The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend
Saturday, July 28 Dirty Projectors, Wye Oak WILTERN What few critics there were of Dirty Projectors' 2009 magnum opus, Bitte Orca, took issue with the LP's idiosyncrasies. As thrilling as those songs were, they clearly weren't written for anyone other than main brain David Longstreth. But on new al ... More >>
Blogs
April 23, 2012
The Worst of Coachella: Weekend Two
See also: *The Worst of Coachella: Weekend One *Our complete Coachella coverage It couldn't all be great performances, decent recreational drugs, and pleasant weather at Coachella. Here are our writers' picks for their least favorite things from the festival's second weekend.
Music
April 19, 2012
The Growlers Have a Shot at the Big Time, but It Makes Them Feel a Bit Uneasy
See also: *The Worst of Coachella: Weekend One *Our complete Coachella coverage It couldn't all be great performances, decent recreational drugs, and pleasant weather at Coachella. Here are our writers' picks for their least favorite things from the festival's second weekend.
Music
April 12, 2012
Coachella: Seven Lesser-Known Acts You'd Be Silly to Miss
See also: *The Worst of Coachella: Weekend One *Our complete Coachella coverage It couldn't all be great performances, decent recreational drugs, and pleasant weather at Coachella. Here are our writers' picks for their least favorite things from the festival's second weekend.
Blogs
April 9, 2012
Coachella: Rain, Wind, Cold Temps Possible as Storms Approach SoCal
See our guide to 2012 Coachella acts here. And, check out our photo primer of Coachella eye candy. Bad news for Coachella hipsters this weekend: The second of two storms headed for Southern California will bring a chance of rain, windy conditions and low temperatures to the desert valley where Ra ... More >>
Blogs
January 26, 2012
Deathmatch: Which Is Better, Pub Rock or Garage Rock?
[Editor's note: Deathmatch pairs two artists who have something in common, and determines who is better. It's a concept we sort-of ripped off from MTV, except that instead of claymation it's the printed word!] Every couple of years, garage rock rears its head again, whack-a-mole-style. Garage per s ... More >>
Blogs
January 9, 2012
Coachella 2012 Lineup Announced
See also: Coachella 2012 Sold Out The Coachella 2012 full lineup was just announced. Go crazy! Headliners include The Black Keys on Friday, April 13th and 20th; Radiohead on Saturday, April 14th and 21st; and Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, Sunday April 15th and 22nd. Full lineup below.
Blogs
December 12, 2011
Jane's Addiction, Black Keys, Mumford & Sons - KROQ Acoustic Christmas - 12/11/11
Timothy NorrisThe crowdJane's Addiction, Black Keys, Mumford & Sons, Foster the People, Florence and The Machine and others KROQ Acoustic Christmas, Night Two Gibson Ampitheatre 12/11/11 For the second night of its 22nd Acoustic Christmas extravaganza, KROQ put on a strong show featuring bo ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2011
Day 1: Coachella's GOODs, BADs and UGLYs (featuring Paul McCartney, Black Keys, Chemical Brothers and Craigslist)
Colin Young-Wolff Compared to last year's problems with wristbands and overcrowding, the first day of Coachella 2011 was smooth sailing. Greasy even. Let's take a look at yesterday's GOODs, BADs and UGLYs.
Music
April 14, 2011
Music Picks: Coachella, Girls in Trouble, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Paul Simon
Also, Mary Anne Hobbs, Yoni Wolf, Emmylou Harris and others
Blogs
March 29, 2011
New Coachella Passes Go On Sale! (If You Got $975 to Spare for VIP Service)
We're in the money! We're in the money! We're in the money and we got what it takes to get to Indiooooo!While for you, me, and everyone we know Coachella has been sold-out for months, for members of an exclusive VIP website called GiltCity, this might not be the case. A tipster pointed us to ... More >>
Blogs
February 14, 2011
Grammy Party Report #3: Relentless Rhythms at Roots Jam and The Black Keys on Deck at Hemingways
Lina LecaroRoots' Capt. Kirk Douglas and Jimmy Fallon- less talkin,' more rockin.' You never know who might pop up on stage at the Roots Jam, which was, with the exception of Clive Davis' A(ss)-list kiss/croon-a-thon, the most buzzed about bash Saturday night. It was wishful thinking of cour ... More >>
Blogs
January 18, 2011
Coachella Lineup Announced: We Told You Odd Future Was in There!
This is the official press release: Coachella 2011. Music. Art. Culture. Community. With the Coachella line-up announcement serving as the official kick-off to the annual U.S. festival season, festival organizers Goldenvoice can now reveal details for the 2011 Coachella Valley Music & Art ... More >>
Blogs
November 30, 2010
Today's New Releases: Hanni El Khatib, Nguzunguzu, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Complete Anthology of American Folk Music
HANNI EL-KHATIB, "BUILD. DESTROY. REBUILD." 7" (INNOVATIVE LEISURE) "Build. Destroy. Rebuild" is the second fuzzy single from Hanni El-Khatib's upcoming debut album Will The Guns Come Out, which I've been anxiously awaiting ever since I heard his first 7" months ago. "Build. Destroy. Rebui ... More >>
Blogs
September 28, 2010
Live Review: The Black Keys at The Hollywood Palladium
Timothy NorrisThe Black Keys play the blues [For more exclusive pictures of the show see Timothy Norris' slideshow "The Black Keys @ The Palladium".] Out of the sweltering night air poured hundreds of Black Keys fans, who openly gasped in relief as soon as they got through the Hollywood Pal ... More >>
Blogs
September 28, 2010
Tonight: Perfume Genius, the Black Keys, Guster, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sara Bareilles, Bettye LaVette, Funeral Party
Perfume GeniusMike Hadreas, the 28-year-old Seattle-based pianist who makes music as Perfume Genius, creates hyper-emotional ballads so fragile a stiff breeze might knock them over. He's found plenty of strength in the them, though -- Hadreas turned to the keyboard to quell the inner turmoil ... More >>
Blogs
September 27, 2010
Tonight: Abe Vigoda, the Black Keys, Pete Yorn, Lucy Schwartz, Semi Precious Weapons, Dragonette, Eastern Conference Champions, Vanaprasta
Abe VigodaThose Abe Vigoda kids, so hard to pigeonhole. The noisy, tropical smirk of the L.A. quartet's 2008 debut album Skeleton has been shelved for the follow-up effort, which in keeping with the naming scheme, ought to be called "Pale Flesh" instead of Crush. Released last week, the albu ... More >>
Music
September 23, 2010
Music Picks: Ooh La La Fest, Pavement, Beach House
Also, Kris Kristofferson, the Black Keys, Bettye Lavette and others
Blogs
September 9, 2010
Rap Supergroup Alert: Bun B Cool Kids Freddie Gibbs Black Keys Other Guy = P.O.C.
Freddie Gibbs collaborates with Bun B, Chuck Inglish, Chip tha Ripper and Dan AeurbachHey! It's a new rap supergroup and Snoop Dogg isn't involved this time. Our favorite L.A. (via Gary, Indiana) nü-gangsta rapper Freddie Gibbs has teamed up with an almost all-star lineup for an outfit tent ... More >>
Blogs
August 9, 2010
Over the Weekend: Chicago's Lollapalooza Music Festival
This year's Lollapalooza brought the city of Chicago their biggest music festival to date. Over three days, 240,000 people browsed the stages along the lake at Grant Park to see 130 performers ranging from Lady Gaga to Blues Traveler. Check out these photos from the recent festival, brought ... More >>
Blogs
July 14, 2010
Catch Up or Die: An Open Letter to the Sunset Junction Festival (or, How FYF Fest is About to Own You, Big Time)
Dear Sunset Junction, What the hell happened? You used to be it. The local music festival. The best of local talent -- upcoming national acts, even music legends, they all beat a path to your door. You weren't just a music festival, you were a local institution. Hell, you were instrumenta ... More >>
Blogs
December 14, 2009
Guest Blogger Jason Reitman Talks Early Soundtrack Influences
Editor's note: West Coast Sound is thrilled to introduce to our blogging world the director Jason Reitman, whose new film, Up in the Air, has just opened in Los Angeles and New York, and opens across the country on December 25. The movie stars George Clooney and Vera Farmiga, it's true, but like his ... More >>
Blogs
June 18, 2009
The Dead Weather at the Roxy: Jack White and Alison Mossheart vs. The Cream of the Blues-Rock Canon
The Dead Weather, the new supergroup featuring Jack White of the White Stripes/Raconteurs, Alison Mossheart of the Kills, Dean Furtita of Queens of the Stoneage, and Jack Lawrence of the Raconteurs and Greenhornes, arrived at the Roxy last night to make the case whether a blues rock band in the 21st ... More >>
Blogs
March 14, 2009
Saturday Night in LA: Phosporescent, Von Bondies, Dan Auerbach, Lyrics Born,
Saturday night in LA and you're looking for music? Here are four good ideas: Phosphorescent, Viva Voce at the Regent Theatre Chris Martins writes: Phosphorescent's Matthew Houck may be a city slicker by day, but once the sun sinks under the prairie, the cowboy comes out. Houck was raised in Alab ... More >>
Blogs
January 30, 2009
Coachella 2009 Announced: Amy Winehouse, Paul McCartney, My Bloody Valentine ... Throbbing Gristle! Leonard Cohen!
Yeah, so all the silly speculation probably isn't done yet, as Goldenvoice always adds a few heavy-hitters after the initial announcement, but the initial line-up is up. Click through to see it in all it's glory. We'll start analyzing it soon, but for now: Throbbing Gristle! No Pavement? Let the ... More >>
Blogs
January 14, 2009
Coachella Rumor Mill Works Overtime, but the Confirmations Continue to Trickle In
(Michel Gondry's video for the Chemical Brothers' "Let Forever Be.") Here's a list of "confirmed" (so far) acts to appear at Coachella 2009, according to the very reliable Monklish blog. His guarantee: "I've been told that these have been making arrangements to attend the festival as contractuall ... More >>
Blogs
December 25, 2008
Weiss' 50 Best Albums of the Year (#40-31) (Sponsored By Crystal Pepsi)
If you're going to drink one clear cola this year, make it Crystal Pepsi. Please.40. No Age-Nouns (Sub Pop) Face it, *Nouns* is this decade's *Let it Be* (The Replacements, not The Beatles): A ragtag posse of scruffy dudes sonically illustrating their homes with spectacular tunes and pure passi ... More >>
Blogs
October 20, 2008
This Weekend: Devo, Chrissie Hynde, the Black Keys Stump in Akron for Obama
I'm finishing a larger piece for later this week on Devo, Chrissie Hynde and the Black Keys' devastatingly great Obama benefit in their native Akron (reassure my editor that it's on its way, really!), but for now I'd like to offer you what for me was the highlight of the night: the band's furious, N ... More >>
Music
August 28, 2008
Sunset Junction: Germs, Sparks and Blood
I'm finishing a larger piece for later this week on Devo, Chrissie Hynde and the Black Keys' devastatingly great Obama benefit in their native Akron (reassure my editor that it's on its way, really!), but for now I'd like to offer you what for me was the highlight of the night: the band's furious, N ... More >>
Calendar
August 21, 2008
Word on the Street
I'm finishing a larger piece for later this week on Devo, Chrissie Hynde and the Black Keys' devastatingly great Obama benefit in their native Akron (reassure my editor that it's on its way, really!), but for now I'd like to offer you what for me was the highlight of the night: the band's furious, N ... More >>
Blogs
August 5, 2008
The 10 Best Non Hip-Hop Albums of the Half Year
Image Via Natalie Dee In case, you were wondering, I do have a pair of boombox pants and yes, they're quite comfortable. 10. King Khan & The Shrines-The Supreme Genius Of.... (tie) If my review of Khan's Pitchfork Fest set didn't convince you, this interview that ran today should seal the ... More >>
Blogs
May 30, 2008
Weiss' Muxtapes #5 and #6: The Best "Indie" Songs To Get An Asymmetrical Haircut To (2008 Edition)
I won't deny it. Things started spiraling rapidly downhill the moment I started compiling mixtapes of my favorite non-hip hop songs released this year. Vampire Weekend? Santogold? Hercules & The Love Affair? I kind of wanted to kick my own ass or at the very least give myself a wedgie. Of cour ... More >>
Blogs
April 2, 2008
Black Keys, Jay Reatard, Wiltern, 4/1
Black Keys, Jay Reatard The Wiltern, April 1 By Jonah Flicker We’ll get to the white-boy blues-rock in just a sec, but first we have a very serious matter to discuss: the awesomeness of Jay Reatard. I have had his most recent release, Blood Visions, playing on repeat for the past few months, and ... More >>
Blogs
February 14, 2008
Black Keys at LA Weekly Party at SXSW
Mark your calendars if you're making the trip to Austin for South by Southwest this year. The LA Weekly party is Friday, March 14 from noon to 5:00, at La Zona Rosa, 612 W. 4th Street, Austin. The LA Weekly / Village Voice concert will feature The Black Keys (seen below playing Austin two years ago ... More >>
Music
May 3, 2007
Hella Coachella
When it comes to the annual desert festival, Nightranger�s no minor-leaguer.
Music
April 19, 2007
Coachella And the Cure for the Common Festivalitis
When it comes to the annual desert festival, Nightranger�s no minor-leaguer.
Music
October 19, 2006
What the Heck Is That?
Arthur Nights, the festival you never expected
Columns
September 28, 2006
Used Country
Waiting for the Black Keys
Music
September 7, 2006
Rock Picks
For September 7-14
Music
September 8, 2005
Arthurfest
For September 7-14
Music
March 25, 2004
Chaos at the Greasy Spoon
South by Southwest: Music, money and madness
News
December 25, 2003
They Don�t Make 'Em Like That Anymore
South by Southwest: Music, money and madness
News
September 25, 2003
The Kids Aren�t Alright . . . They�re Amazing
Why what was old and lost and a bit odd is young and new � and exciting � again
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