The Rolling Stones

Rolling Stones at the Echoplex Tonight: Hysteria Hits Los Angeles

UPDATE 2:29 pm: Who got in and who didn't? Details at the bottom of the post. The Rolling Stones are playing the Echoplex tonight. Tickets are onsale right now at the El Rey. $20, cash. It's a lottery. They're handing out tokens at this moment. The official announcement just came down within ... More >>

Coachella 2013 Lineup Announced

The Coachella lineup is here. It's actually here! There have been ten tons of fakes, some quite convincing, and many of which had the Rolling Stones headlining. (West Coast Sound, however, broke the story that they would not appear.) But never mind all that! The lineup is here, and the headliners a ... More >>

S.S. Coachella Cruise: Our Review From the High Seas

By Liz Tracy The maiden voyage of the S.S. Coachella departed Sunday from Ft. Lauderdale, bound for the Bahamas. It set out to sea rather unceremoniously. There weren't horns, not a streamer in sight, and no one smashed bottles against the body of the ship. But we'd all been aboard the Celebrity ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Cereal in Balloons

This week, one artist pays homage to hits of the 1960s, another pays homage to a discount store and a group of photographers make images too unwieldy to hang on a wall. 5. Jazz without music Free-jazz pianist and poet Cecil Taylor has a deep, mysterious voice, and his readings sound like his play ... More >>

Music Picks: X, Lucinda Williams, Jackie DeShannon, Fujiya & Miyagi

Also, Dengue Fever, Jessie Baylin, Reigning Sound, Black Bananas and others

Henry Rollins: The Column! Is Raw Power the American answer to Exile on Main St.?

​[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.] See also: *Our review of Iggy and The Stooges at Hollywood Palladium, 12-01-11 *Le Butch ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 7/18-7/22

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "It is quite true: Korean fried chicken is the new black. Or was the new black three ago when the chicken wars began to get nasty, but that's another story." The New KFC: Korean Fried Chicken. "On ... More >>

The Residents: World's Oldest Lonely Teenagers

Aging ungracefully, thank God

White Irish Drinkers

Jim Dickinson Rides Again; Vernon Wray's Wasted

A Midsummer Night's Dream

L.A. 'Street Artist' Mr. Brainwash Takes Manhattan (With a Velvet Rope, Of Course)

By Barbara Celis David Bowie, U2, Madonna, and the Rolling Stones. What could they possibly be doing together in the Meatpacking district of New York yesterday? Just hanging out at a party with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Damien Hirst and Barack Obama. Kind of. Slash, by Mr. Brainwash​ They we ... More >>

MADLIBERATION

A Movable Feast: LudoBites 3.0 at Royal/T Café

EXCLUSIVE MP3!: "Chicano Power," Scorching Vintage RnB by East LA's Thee Midniters

"They became our Beatles: all the stuff that was going on in Beatlemania, we translated into Midnitermania. In this microcosm which is East Los Angeles, this is something that belongs to us. It gave young kids who would eventually become musicians like myself inspiration to pursue a career in music, ... More >>

Six-String Heroes: Iconic Photographer Neil Zlozower Talks New Book, Mr. Musichead Launch Party, and Making Friends with Rock Stars

Neil ZlozowerEddie Van Halen​"Talking rock n' roll with Zloz is like discussing tan lines with Hugh Hefner or escort services with Charlie Sheen," boasts the Van Halen fans in the David Lee Roth Army (yeah, that's right, army). Not like we'd want to pick a fight with Diamond Dave's soldiers an ... More >>

YouTube Wildcard: Los Angeles Music Clips from Around the Web

There's no way we can cover it all. We try, but, as you well know, West Coast Sound misses a lot of music events every week. We just can't cover them all. But YouTube can, and it's got its own beautifully random tastes. Herewith, stuff that happened recently that we missed, but others caught. Wil ... More >>

Birthday Girl

Tom Wilkes: Ten Classic LP Covers from a Master of the Genre (and Ten Others That Are Just as Great)

The great Southern California based art director, designer and photographer Tom Wilkes, who died on June 28, left a lasting impact on the Los Angeles music scene. His covers, some of the most iconic of the LP era, presented the area's music with striking images presented in vivid color . He took ful ... More >>

Bobby Womack, Mavis Staples to Headline Long Beach Blues Festival in September

Don't know Bobby Womack? The Rolling Stones stole a lot of their mid-1970s balladeering from Womack.

We Smell a Cover-Up: DJ Paul V's Thursday-Night Party at Stinkers, Plus More Thematic Atmospheres

JOURNEY BACK TO 40 YEARS C.D.

WORN OUT- Ancient Band Tees= OG Rocker Chic

It sees you through blood, tears and (lots o') sweat year after year, and in fact, only gets better with age. It proves you've been cool for a very long time, decades even. It tells others who you were and who you are, all without trying. It's the most dressed down and comfy you can be, but it ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: Breaking the Crypto-Mexican Code

Kenneth Anger Is a Rolling Stone

Zachary Lazar’s ’60s hash, Sway

Preschool Confidential

Season two of seminal kids’ show Yo Gabba Gabba! has arrived. DJ Lance Rock and others attempt to explain its allure

Season of the Witch

What to do in L.A., October 24-30

Best Yogi Rock: Vinnie Marino

Mini-me Mania

Babies are not fashion accessories, but until our cherubs can pick out their own outfits, their clothing will inevitably express their parents' (usually mama’s) tastes. My li'l one was a Rolling Stones fan since she was a newborn. I –uh- she has a penchant for purple and leopard prints too. Th ... More >>

This Weekend: The Mae Shi, Fleet Foxes, T.A.M.I. Show at Cinespia

Tonight at Sugar in Silverlake, the Mae Shi play at the Spectrum art opening (see below). The Fleet Foxes, of Seattle, bring their harmonies to the Echo on Saturday and Spaceland on Sunday. Also check out my interview with singer Robin Pecknold in this week's print edition.

Flesh Tone: Dark Meat Need Everything Louder Than Everything Else

Why My Morning Jacket Is the Best Live Band in the World

In an age when certified rock stars are a dying breed, a Kentucky band stakes its claim

10 Musicians Definitely Not on Steroids

From the New York Times: "When news surfaced over the weekend that 50 Cent, Wyclef Jean, Timbaland and other rap stars had been implicated in a steroids investigation, some hip-hop fans were shocked, but to many in the industry the accusations seemed inevitable." Oh, how our collective pride in t ... More >>

Awesome Music

What might the classical music establishment learn from pop?

Keef DID NOT snort his Daddy ok?

Okay, I may be the biggest Rolling Stones fan I know (except for maybe Falling James) but I'd defend my hero on this one regardless. Snorting his pops? It's soooo Keith Richards to say something like that. I've studied him, I've met him, I know. But c'mon even if you're just a casual fan, you're f ... More >>

Rockin’ in the Free World

Best Grooves for the Poverty Stricken

Nightranger

Raspberry Preserves

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

Live in LA

Kanye 4 Prezzy

Nightranger

You Won’t Forget Him

Supercool dead producer finally gets his own disc

Time of the Session

When the music was fast, and the players anonymous

Defending Liz Phair

(4 times better than she does)

Let's Have a Party

Richard Meltzer, Noise Boy

Today, on a Vicious Blue Planet

Katie Couric, Britney Spears, Lou Reed and Alastair Fothergill. Alastair Fothergill?

Almost Infamous

There and back with Punkin Pie

Rolling Clones

Soul Stirrer

The gospel according to Bobby Womack