The Rolling Stones

The Definitive Guide to the Music of The Big Lebowski

L.A. Weekly is celebrating The Big Lebowski's 15th anniversary with a massive cover story tribute! Check out our other Lebowski-themed stories. Not doing so would be very un-Dude. The Dude's identity is strongly informed by music. As a former Metallica roadie and free love-era denizen still trying ... More >>

Don Was on Running Blue Note Records

Don Was is a frequent sight at shows around L.A. He's hard to miss: all hair, hat, sunglasses, and smiles. He made a name for himself as a bass player with Was (Not Was) as well as a producer for the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Bonnie Raitt. Last year, he became the president of Blue Note Records. ... More >>

Tribute to the chart toppers

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Going in Deep With One Last Wish

KCRW Broadcast #178 for Saturday, August 25, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! When It Comes to Cracking Down On Protests, Are We Any Better Than Russia? Fanatics! Welcome to September. While I am sure it may still be hot where you are, it is in fact September and autumn is upon us. Tonigh ... More >>

The Go-Go's and Girl in a Coma - the Greek Theatre - 8-17-11

Falling JamesThe Go-Go's​The Go-Go's, Girl in a Coma The Greek Theatre 8-17-11 Better Than . . . Falling 20 feet from a cliff while hiking in Northern California. You've got to hand it to the Go-Go's. At a time in their career when they could be touring with some predictable '80s new-wave ol ... More >>

The Michael Des Barres Band, Richie Ramone, Roar At Viper Room Leo Fest

Lina Lecaro Michael Des Barres and Steve Stevens get hot in the city.​We got a crash course in Booking 101 last week from recently-returned Viper Room booker Dayle Gloria, whom we joined in planning a duel birthday bash (we're both Aug. 6-ers) at the legendary Sunset Strip venue Saturday night ... More >>

RIP: Influential Guitar Maker Travis Bean Is Dead

Guitarmaker Travis Bean died earlier this week at his home in Burbank. His guitars were played by everyone from Jerry Garcia to Steve Albini to Slash, and were known for their sustain and durability. You just can't break one of them. Born in San Fernando, his eponymous Valley-based company was fo ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Of Rock and Dinosaurs

Timothy Norris​[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes 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 week and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday eveni ... More >>

Music to Pick Up/Download

Mick Rock

The Day Captain Beefheart Outsold the Beatles, the Stones and Pink Floyd

Beatle Bones and Smokin' Stones: The Captain abides​It is a widely known (and kind of sick) fact of the music business that nothing helps sales of the back catalog of an artist like the death of said artist. The massive sales bump caused by people rushing to online (and occasionally also to b ... More >>

"Mick Jagger" on Keith Richards' Life by Bill Wyman (But Not The Rolling Stones' Bill Wyman)

​ Slate's Bill Wyman once got in a legal tussle with the Rolling Stones' ex-bassist Bill Wyman because his name was also Bill Wyman. Happily, he was allowed to keep using the name he was born with--a certain David Jones wasn't so lucky--and now he's used that particular coincidence to write a ... More >>

Soul Legend Solomon Burke, Dead at 70

Solomon Burke. RIP​Solomon Burke, one of the great soul survivors, died yesterday on a plane in Amsterdam at 70. Burke started off in Philly as a straight-up preacher/gospel singer, but after a move to Atlantic Records -- at the time the label for sophisticated, urban soul -- he produced a se ... More >>

Return to Kill City

Iggy Pop's L.A. album, cleaned up

Nightlife: The Dandy Warhols Get Acoustic for Fashion's Night Out at Fred Segal/Ron Herman

Lina Lecaro Slow rolling Dandy's ​ Fashion's Night Out, the self-proclaimed "splurge-inspiring event" that took over major citties all around the world, including LA for the first time this past Friday, presented some notable music and performance elements that went beyond the expected laptop ... More >>

The California International Theatre Festival

Purl's pearl in Calabasas

The T.A.M.I. Show: Santa Monica Rock City

L.A.'s pre-Woodstock music summit, finally on DVD

Rock Picks: The Strange Boys, Memory Tapes, Scout Niblett, Four Tet

Also, El Perro Del Mar, Phranc, Moonrats and others

First Look at the Forthcoming T.A.M.I. Show DVD Featuring James Brown, Rolling Stones, Lesley Gore, Beach Boys and More

It's a little hard to fathom, the line-up of the legendary T.A.M.I. Show film that was recorded over two days at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in 1964. There's James Brown and the Flames (before they became "Famous"), Chuck Berry, the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys, Marvin Gaye, the Miracles, Le ... More >>

Strange Boys Release New Video featuring Ex-Miko Miko Jenna Thornhill

Is it okay to already call the Strange Boys' forthcoming full-length, Be Brave, one of the best rock & roll albums of 2010? Since we got an advance of it last month, it's been our driving-around-LA soundtrack, a loose, raw, classically designed garage rock album with the swagger of the Rolling Stone ... More >>

DREAM ON, HIPPIE CHICKS

Bob Dylan at the Palladium, Night One: A Change is Gonna Come

By Falling James "For years, they had me locked in a cage/Then they threw me onto the stage," Bob Dylan once sang/confessed/bragged/warned. "Some things just last longer than you thought they would." It's impressive that Bob Dylan is still touring heavily at the age of 68, but what's really amazin ... More >>

LA Weekly Music Podcast, Volume One: Fight on, Your Time Ain't Long

You know how some weekends you have the best intentions in the world and then they all fall to shit? Well, mine didn't exactly fall to shit -- it's just that the live music that I was hoping to see either didn't pan out, conflicted with scenes/events that I wanted to attend (like LA Weekly's anniv ... More >>

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 >>

Damien Hirst, Tom Waits, the Beatles, and the birth of the ubiquitous contemporary persona. PLUS, some cool shit I saw while I was in London and some thoughts on the Amerindie aesthetic vs. the Anglophile aesthetic.

This post RIYL: Damien Hirst, Amerindie record labels, Animal Collective, Dirty Projectors, Islington's Union Chapel, pretentious statements about life.

Ministry's Last Sermons

Rolling Stones, Scorsese and Black Girls

"Black girls just want to get fucked all night I just don't have that much jam" I just want to put that out there because it's a funny, mean, maybe even important line. It's the very antithesis of the Beach Boys' categorization of females in "California Girls," and it's proof that at least into th ... More >>

Licensed to Ill

Public Enemy's 20 Years in the Game

Bringing that beat back

The Way We Wore

Our unofficial guide to vintage rock T-shirts

Rock Picks

For the week of Jan 12 – 18

Oops! Year-Ended Again!

Drake Bell, Mick Jagger & Me

’Fros Vs. ’Staches

The Word and the Image: The Films of Peter Whitehead

Myspace Taste of the Week

I'd like to think that I'm way more popular in real life than I am on Myspace. I've only got like 50 friends, but that's probably because I only say yes to requests from peeps who truly are friends. Call me a weirdo. Anyway, the pals I do have, happen to have thousands of friends and way too much ... More >>

Sketchers, Hair Wars and Courting Venus

You Better You Bests

The Sound and the Fury

Lester Bangs and the relevance of rock criticism

It’s High Time

Tangled Up in Blue

The soundtrack of our sad lives

Curb Your SUV

Laurie David put celebrity activism in the driver's seat

Are 'Friends' Electro?

Street Action

Jennifur Brandt

Advice columnist for Ellegirl, author of Life Is a Movie Starring You: The Pesky Meddling Girls Guide To Living Your Dreams

Paul Williams, Subjective Artist

In Character

The mayor of Joshua Tree

The Decline of Western Civilization Part III: The Tribute Years

Rock & Roll Jinx

Satori Night Fever

A Ghost in the space-time machine