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February 21, 2013
Premiere: Quitapenas' "Mas Tropical"
Quitapenas is a nine-piece group from Riverside whose name means, we're told, "take away your worries." They've got afro-Cuban influences and are putting a new spin on cumbia. Which, if you ask us, is something that could use a new spin! Below, we've got the premiere of their single "Mas Tropical, ... More >>
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December 27, 2012
The Ten Best Latin Alternative Albums of 2012
It has become difficult to define what Latin Alternative is these days. The genre seems to encompass everything from traditional roots band playing an accordion to a progressive hip-hop MCs to singer-songwriters crooning romantic ballads -- and can be sung in Spanish, English or Spanglish. It's a hy ... More >>
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November 2, 2012
The Best Concerts To See in L.A. This Weekend: Nov 2-4
Friday, November 2 Grace Potter & the Nocturnals THE WILTERN If anyone should be a star, it's Grace Potter. Commercial enough to sing duets with Kenny Chesney, she's also freaky enough to trip out occasionally with folks like Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne and Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, who produced part ... More >>
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September 5, 2012
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 >>
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August 24, 2012
The Story of a Jewish Guy Who Did Crack and Lived in a Bus, and Now Makes Mexican Music
Growing up Jewish in Southeast Los Angeles with Communist parents who worked alongside the Black Panthers, Wil Abers never seemed to fit in. "I struggled with my identity living around Mexicans and African-Americans, while being white and seeing my parents fight against people in power," says Aber ... More >>
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April 10, 2012
At the Drive-In Speaks! Why They Finally Reunited (Hint: It Wasn't the Cash)
See also: *Coachella Preview 2012: Everything You Need to Know About the Performers *Mars Volta and At the Drive-In's Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Is a Real Bastard *Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Is One Meandering Interview Legendary post-hardcore outfit At the Drive-In is reuniting to perform at Coachella this ye ... More >>
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March 23, 2012
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Is One Meandering Interview
See also: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Is a Real Bastard Our music feature this week focuses on Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, a giant of the progressive rock and post-hardcore scenes who seemingly wants nothing to do with them. The mastermind behind Mars Volta and At the Drive-In tries to tell us he's not a musi ... More >>
Music
March 22, 2012
Mars Volta and At the Drive-In's Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Is a Real Bastard
See also: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Is a Real Bastard Our music feature this week focuses on Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, a giant of the progressive rock and post-hardcore scenes who seemingly wants nothing to do with them. The mastermind behind Mars Volta and At the Drive-In tries to tell us he's not a musi ... More >>
Music
July 21, 2011
Music Picks: Fucked Up, Dolly Parton, Ty Segal, Fitz & the Tantrums,
Also, Soundgarden, Iceage, Earth, Wu Lyf and others
Music
July 14, 2011
Music Picks: Bob Dylan, Azalia Snail, Makabert Fynd, Seun Kuti
Also, No Age, Crystal Antlers, Imelda May and others
Blogs
June 21, 2011
New Crystal Antlers Video: "Summer Solstice" (New Album Coming In July)
Long Beach band Crystal Antlers have decided to greet the longest day of the year by releasing the video to a track appropriately entitled "Summer Soltice", off their new album Two Way Mirror. It's been a bit of a bumpy ride for Crystal Antlers. Their last (and first) full-length, Tentacles, was ... More >>
Art+Books
May 12, 2011
Storm Thorgerson at John Varvatos
Legendary designer has created conceptual album cover photographs for bands from Pink Floyd to Mars Volta
Blogs
January 21, 2011
Top 10 Unmissable Bands Inexplicably Hidden on the Coachella 2011 Poster
Top 10 Unmissable "Small Type" Acts of Coachella 2011
Music
November 11, 2010
Music Picks: Amanda Jo Williams, Usher, Masaki Batoh, Procol Harum
Also, Dustin Wong, Greg Dulli, Ghostface Killah
Blogs
October 19, 2010
Listen: Big Sir's Lisa Papineau Collaborates with the Mars Volta's Omar Rodriguez Lopez
Lisa Papineau makes power moves. Is a new LP on the way?Big Sir vocalist, Air collaborator and solo artist Lisa Papineau lends her haunting voice to a pair of songs on a brand new album by the Mars Volta's Omar Rodriguez Lopez. It seems like the axe-wielding afro'd wonder churns out a new al ... More >>
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September 15, 2010
Now Streaming: The Mars Volta's Omar Rodriguez Lopez Records an Electronic Album with Low End Theory's DJ Nobody (And it's Really Good!)
The Mars Volta's Omar Rodriguez Lopez hooks up with Low End Theory's DJ Nobody for the album "Tychozorente"Much has been made of legendary L.A. hip-hop producer Madlib's 2010 album-a-month series. But another of this city's storied musical madmen has been doing his part to flood the market wi ... More >>
Music
September 9, 2010
Music Picks: The Chapin Sisters, Pink Martini, Freestyle Fellowship, Mark Kozelek
Also Shonen Knife, the Vibrators, Karnivool and others
Blogs
July 13, 2010
Zach De La Rocha's One Day as a Lion (with Members of Mars Volta, the Locust) to Play Mystery L.A. Shows
One Day as a LionRemember the bus bench ads that appeared two years ago to build hype for an unknown project that only wound up releasing a single EP and turned out to be the long-awaited return of former Rage Against the Machine frontman Zach De La Rocha? Yes? No? Sorta? Well, that was One ... More >>
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June 17, 2010
Live in L.A.: Vato Negro, Matt Pond PA, Video Games Live, GBH, Fitz & the Tantrums
Vato Negro's Juan AldereteBring on the hard stuff: Vato Negro, the side project of the Mars Volta bassist and effects pedal fetishist Juan Alderete, makes instrumental rock that sounds like a soundtrack to a war zone. His collaborators in the latest incarnation of this long-running project (w ... More >>
Blogs
January 14, 2010
Mars Volta Ax-man Makes Directorial Debut
We here at West Coast Sound, existing as we do at the geographic crossroads of the music biz and the film industry, like to make a point of keeping readers abreast of inspired audio/visual intersections. For instance, exactly one month ago, we alerted you to yet another outgrowth of Maynard ... More >>
Blogs
January 12, 2010
Watch: Stoner Rock Trio Dead Meadow Unveils New Video
Dead Meadow on its 'comfy throne'Okay, so Genghis Khan, a druid, and Gandalf sit down for a picnic... We're not sure what the punchline is just yet, but it most definitely involves some sort of robe exchange and gratuitous stroking of mustaches. You can make up your own ending after watching ... More >>
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December 29, 2009
Today in O-Face News: I'll Have What The Mars Volta's Omar Rodríguez-López Is Having!
In the annals of "Guitar Face"--that pseudo-orgasmic grimace that some players pull-off, pretending they're playing something with the complexity of John Fahey when in fact they're running scales up and down really fast--there is a noble lineage going from the guy from Free to G.E. Smith (the SNL ba ... More >>
Blogs
October 30, 2009
New Thavius Beck Album Arrives Three Months Early (MP3)
Even if you haven't heard of Thavius Beck, you've probably run into him or his work. In fact, used to be you couldn't enter Amoeba's rap aisle without physically running into the natural-sporting, facially pierced producer/emcee. But when he wasn't stocking hip-hop at the record store, Thavius was s ... More >>
Blogs
September 1, 2009
INCHES005: New Wax from The Mars Volta, Glasser, Wet Hair, Kissing Cousins ( MP3s, video, chart)
In the unpredictable wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many (with delicious irony) as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES seeks not only to review the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (artists and ... More >>
Music
August 27, 2009
Rock Picks: Os Mutantes, Hall and Oates, Bat for Lashes, Davila 666, Maia Sharp
Also, the Mars Volta, Nine Inch Nails, Gun Outfit, the Pretenders and others
Blogs
August 18, 2009
Detour Festival Goes on 'Hiatus'; Whisper Campaign Begins on Impending Amphitheatre Announcement
The LA Weekly's annual Detour Festival, which over the past three years has brought to downtown Los Angeles Basement Jaxx, Beck, Justice, Cut Copy, Gogol Bordello, the Mars Volta, Hercules and Love Affair, and dozens of other bands and DJs, is on hiatus. As in: there isn't going to be one this year. ... More >>
Calendar
May 14, 2009
*IT'S AN AREA OF YOUR BRAIN
The LA Weekly's annual Detour Festival, which over the past three years has brought to downtown Los Angeles Basement Jaxx, Beck, Justice, Cut Copy, Gogol Bordello, the Mars Volta, Hercules and Love Affair, and dozens of other bands and DJs, is on hiatus. As in: there isn't going to be one this year. ... More >>
Music
January 15, 2009
Slapping Skins and Sins at Cinespace; Guitar Center's Drum-Off; Dragstrip 66
The LA Weekly's annual Detour Festival, which over the past three years has brought to downtown Los Angeles Basement Jaxx, Beck, Justice, Cut Copy, Gogol Bordello, the Mars Volta, Hercules and Love Affair, and dozens of other bands and DJs, is on hiatus. As in: there isn't going to be one this year. ... More >>
Blogs
December 4, 2008
No Age Gets Grammy Nomination?! No, really ...
The morning after the Grammy nominations are announced is usually a pretty harrowing moment for many music fans as we struggle to come to terms with what the rest of America is listening to. And not even in a snobby way; just in an ignorant way. By not listening to pop radio when we're driving (or e ... More >>
Blogs
October 5, 2008
Detour Dance Party: Cut Copy, Hercules and Love Affair, Silent Disco Caught on Video
Despite foreboding clouds and a few rounds of mist-like rain, dancing began in the early afternoon at this year’s Detour Festival and continued until the witching hour. For much of the day, the electronic grooves were confined to the courtyard of City Hall, where DJs like Paparazzi and Kid Lightn ... More >>
Blogs
October 5, 2008
Over the Weekend: Dogtown Z-Boys, Detour Fest and Dodger Victory
This weekend was one of celebration in Los Angeles, packed with more events than we could scramble to cover. Friday night kicked off with a special VIP party at Crewest Gallery in Downtown L.A. where The Label Lab hosted the opening of the "The Z-Boy Show—Direct from the Source," featuring work fr ... More >>
Music
September 18, 2008
Record Reviews: Koushik's Out My Window, Black Ghosts' self-titled debut
Also, Final Solution's Brotherman soundtrack, Look Daggers' Suffer in Style
Music
February 7, 2008
Record Reviews: The Mars Volta, Radar Brothers
Also: Vampire Weekend, Crystal Antlers
Music
September 28, 2006
Over the Hills and Far Away
The Mars Volta�s burden of dreams
Music
May 25, 2006
If God's Good Word Goes Unspoken
Feeling Sublime, 10 years after
Music
April 13, 2006
Wonder Twin Powers, Activate!
A scientific study of the two-piece indie-rock boom
Film+TV
March 9, 2006
Film Reviews
Including Failure to Launch, The Hills Have Eyes, Coachella and more.
Music
January 26, 2006
Screen and Be Seen
Including Failure to Launch, The Hills Have Eyes, Coachella and more.
Music
January 12, 2006
400 Blows, Free Moral Agents, Labwaste
Including Failure to Launch, The Hills Have Eyes, Coachella and more.
Music
December 22, 2005
Blogs & iPods & Jay-Z & (non-ironic) Metal
The Hipster�s musical year-end predictions and post-game analysis
Music
August 11, 2005
Live in LA
The Hipster�s musical year-end predictions and post-game analysis
Music
May 26, 2005
Gonorrhea Gorgonzola
System of a Down�s fourth album, Mezmerize, is some crazy-ass bring-your-own-bong-style shit
Music
February 24, 2005
Rock in Total Retrograde!
How do you solve a problem like the Mars Volta?
Music
February 24, 2005
PopQuiz!
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Music
February 24, 2005
Mars Needs Women
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Music
May 27, 2004
Unleashed
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Music
May 27, 2004
LAWMA 2004
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Music
April 15, 2004
Present Perfect
How do you solve a problem like the Mars Volta?
Music
July 17, 2003
Realm of the Senses
How do you solve a problem like the Mars Volta?
Music
July 3, 2003
Secrets of the Sun
The Mars Volta in space and time
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