The Rolling Stones

The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, April 13 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival EMPIRE POLO CLUB Although it's unlikely that the Rolling Stones and their sprawling entourage will descend on this sun-baked music festival for a surprise set, as was rumored earlier this year, there are still many intriguing storylines scatte ... More >>

Oh Andrew (Yes Andrew)

The Mystery of Shuggie Otis

Gone for nearly four decades, the celebrated singer-songwriter is back. But where has he been?

Jazz Bassist Darryl Jones on How to Listen Hyper-Vigilantly

Bassist Darryl Jones should be a household name. His fluid, funky low end has supported at least a dozen of the biggest concert draws of the last 30 years, starting with Miles Davis' band when he was just 21. When Sting left the Police for a solo career in the mid-'80s, Jones was the man he hired to ... More >>

Classic Rock Is a Cancer on Our Society

There's a disease spreading through our generation of 20- and 30-year-olds. We inherited this malady from our parents, and it's rendering us culturally stagnant. It's sapping our identity. Perhaps most tragically, we are welcoming this plague into our homes, cars, and phones -- even into our kar ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, December 31 Redd Kross, The Melvins ALEXANDRIA HOTEL Despite the myriad achievements of the human race throughout history -- moonshots, pyramids, penicillin and the late-night food truck -- one never-realized dream haunted civilization: getting Redd Kross and The Melvins to play on the same ... More >>

Coachella 2013 Lineup: Is This It?

Could the below be a leaked line-up for Coachella 2013? Or is just another fake like we get every year? Some signs point to the possibility that this flyer, which is going round the internets, might have at least a grain of truth. After all, there's reason to believe the Rolling Stones will be in at ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: British Invasion

KCRW Broadcast #175 for Saturday, July 28, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Americans Will Never Give Up Their Guns Fanatics! Since I will be in beautiful Dorset, UK on this evening, we have already put this show together and it is ready to lunge forth when the engineers at KCRW hit the b ... More >>

The Lions Give Roots Reggae New Life

[Editor's note: Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. Be sure to also check out the archives.] Reggae was spawned during one broiling Kingston, Jamaica, summer, spread to the world via the mesmerism of Bob Marley, and now serves as a dorm-room rite of pas ... More >>

Top 10 Jukeboxes in Los Angeles

For all the best of L.A. music, download our free Best Of Mobile app. See Also: Best Hip Hop Jukebox in a Dive Bar An amazing jukebox will tell exactly how connected bartenders and their bosses are to their patrons and the moods they want to create. This list is composed of those heroes that wou ... More >>

Top Five Worst Ironic Indie Rock Band Names, Besides Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.

Stuart Conner​This week Brian Jonestown Massacre, a seminal and well-named act, announced the release of a new double CD, The Singles Collection (1992-2011), out at the end of August. It got us thinking about indie rock band names, and how they've gone from fun-ironic to kill-yourself-ironic. ... More >>

Top 10 Music Managers Who Fucked Over Their Clients

The family Knowles in happier times​In light of the surprising news over the reasons Beyonce fired her longtime manager (and longtime father for that matter) Mathew Knowles, we remembered a time when scummy managers were not only the norm, but expected. Here are the Top 10 Managers in Music Hi ... More >>

Falling James' Gig of the Week: The Crawdaddys at the Rhino Pop Up Store, 5/29

Falling JamesThe Crawdaddys​In what one hopes will be an annual tradition, Rhino Records returns again this year with a pop-up version of its beloved Westwood retail store, presenting two weeks of cutout-bin sales and surprise in-store gigs by a stellar lineup of pop-rock veterans. The concert ... More >>

Luis Arriaga: The Fiery Limerent

David Sedaris Live at UCLA's Royce Hall

David Sedaris​Imagine paying the equivalent of your mortgage on a ticket to see the Rolling Stones and in return the seminal British band hits the stage and opens with a bunch of new songs. Then, to make matters worse, instead of making up for the lackluster beginning, Mick, Keith and company ... More >>

Courtney Love Covers Obscure Leonard Cohen Song

Courtney takes you down to her place near the river​We have it on pretty good authority that when she was a young lass Courtney Love hated traditional rock'n'roll (including the Stones) and was obsessed with two things: Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks and ... Leonard Cohen. Well, she seems to ha ... More >>

MADLIBERATION

Jason Reitman's Concert Highlights: David Crosby's Live Gig at Rob Lowe's House (And More)

Editor's note: This week director Jason Reitman is guest blogging at West Coast Sound. Reitman, whose new film, Up in the Air, was nominated for six Golden Globes earlier in the week (including Best Director and Best Screenplay nominations for Reitman ... congrats!), is also a pretty big music head, ... More >>

THE MAN OF A THOUSAND HYPHENS

Keeping Up With the Times

Down on the Strip

REMEMBER WHEN THE STRIP WAS HIP?

Chavolot: Heavy Mariachi Parking-Lot Party

And fun at El Chavo, Rock 'n' Roll Au Go Go and HLNR boutique

Green Day's New Documentary, Aries in the House, Society at the Bordello

Prince Getts Off At Avalon Post-Oscars Party, Covers the Cars, Rolling Stones and Jimmy Eat World

We'll get to a review of the show in a minute, but first, oblige us to cut to the chase and share/brag/go crazy/get nuts about something: We danced on stage with Prince last night! Near the end of The Artist's astounding covers-packed set at Avalon (for his "surprise" post-Oscar bash), he had one of ... More >>

Nightranger: Maggie Barry, Box 8, Shin BBQ, Brian Lichtenberg, and Fashion Accessories by Cobrasnake

ROCK ’N’ WEAR CIRCUS EIGHT’S GREATS

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 >>

Comics Amongst the Comics

Comedy Meltdown 2: Electric Boogaloo Meltdown Comics, January 25th Who needs too-tightly packed tables and a two drink minimum, especially if there’s an option to pick up a Buffy The Vampire Slayer omnibus and a maquette of Sub-Mariner before the show? Arguably LA’s best recurring comedy show ... More >>

Don't Swerve and Drive

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Sex, God and Little Armenians

Generational divides, from Hollywood to NYC

Boom-Boom

Local Bands, Man

Viva K

Jean Genie Lets Herself Go

Ever wondered what it's like to be so famous that designers just want to give you free stuff all the time? Sure ya have... Yes, it's a great injustice that those who can afford designer wear are the ones who don't usually have to pay for it, but life aint fair, especially when it comes to style and ... More >>

Black in the Saddle

Solomon Burke wants to sell you back your soul

A Small New Future

ALEC HANLEY BEMIS on the casualties and survivors in the war between the Cynics and the True Believers

Sandblasted Standards

The Real Dadrock

Monomania

Six Pack of Lonely

Mike Stinson in the late great Golden State

Free Radical

Country maverick Steve Earle vs. the Nashville machine

Give the Anarchist a Cigarette

Mick Farren on the Deviants, fantasy fiction and blowing shit up

The Intuitionist

Colson Whitehead, media junkie

Animal Boy

Joey Ramone leaves home

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

Ballerina Bon Voyage

Dive In

The Drinkin’s Fine

The Unmaking of a Counterculture

A funny thing happened on the way to the Fillmore

Waxing Nostalgic

G4 and After Science