The Stooges (Band)

Live Life, or It Lives You

[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 Sunday KCRW broadcast.] See also: Metalheads in Germany I have been restless for as long as I can remember. Perhaps this ... More >>

Top 20 Punk Albums in History: 10-1

Those who say punk is dead tend to be those who wish punk were dead, either still somehow threatened by the culture or -- and this is more likely -- chagrined that punks don't give a shit what they think. Punk is, of course, very much alive in 2013, particularly in regions like Southern California. ... More >>

Fanatics! Tonight's Show Is for Maniacs

RADIO BROADCAST #222 06-30-13 See also: Henry Rollins: Worried About the NSA? What About Google? Fanatics! Tonight's show is for maniacs! It's all over the place, and I think that yet again we have done the impossible. Another two hours of excellence, diversity and good times. I thought we would ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Raw Power of The Stooges

[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 Sunday KCRW broadcast.] See also: Henry Rollins: Kill Your Past If all goes according to plan, a few hours from now, I w ... More >>

Ink N Iron - Queen Mary - June 8, 2013

Ink N Iron, featuring Iggy and the Stooges Queen Mary June 8, 2013 Over 18,000 people attended this weekend's Ink-N-Iron festival at the Queen Mary in Long Beach, which had booze, hot rods, cigarettes, tattoos, and good ol' fashioned rock n' roll. Th festival was celebrating 10 years of tattoos, bo ... More >>

Fanatics! We Are Onto Something With This Playlist

RADIO BROADCAST #219 06-09-13 See also: Henry Rollins: The Interview! Anger, Drugs and the Black Flag Reunion Fanatics! Good grief, we are onto something with this playlist. Celebrating the Stooges being in Southern California this weekend, we will begin both hours with Raw Power tracks. Alas, t ... More >>

Fanatics! This Sunday's Show Will Go Long

See also: Henry Rollins: Why I'm Not Playing Music Anymore RADIO BROADCAST #216 05-19-13 Fanatics. I am sitting in a Starbucks in Washington D.C. in my old neighborhood. I am on my second pass of the last few singles the Buzzcocks recorded for United Artists. I don't know why I trip on them so oft ... More >>

Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Moves to Sunday Nights

See also: Henry Rollins: Dead Children in Afghanistan KCRW BROADCAST #212 04-21-13 Fanatics! Our show has moved, or that is to say, has been moved by forces much, much greater than The Big Three and now we find ourselves on Sunday nights from 8 to 10 pm. The wisdom or lack thereof shall make itsel ... More >>

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

Friday, April 5 Vum, Esben and the Witch THE BOOTLEG There's plenty of the spirit of New York synth-punk pioneers Suicide in minimal L.A. synth-wave trio Vum on their new single "I Will Return" -- and is that song title a promise or a threat? This is menacing stuff, built on bare-bones electronic b ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Marnie Stern, Hendrix, Bowie and a Very Special Guest

KCRW BROADCAST #209 03-30-13 Fanatics! I am well aware that you might be getting tired of reading that "tonight's show is amazing" week after week, but what can I say, tonight is a great one. For instance, look at our first track. That's right, Fanatic, thirty years ago, the Birthday Party live at ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Day After Bowie's The Next Day

[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.] It's already an interesting year for album releases, and it's not even Record Store Day yet. B ... More >>

The Best of SXSW

This year, our sister papers the Dallas Observer and Houston Press teamed up to document the SXSW madness for you amusement and/or edification. Here are the 12 best shows and moments they saw.

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Your Ears Are in Good Hands

KCRW BROADCAST #207 03-16-13 See also: Henry Rollins: Our Constitutional Rights Require Constant Vigilance Fanatics! Is this fantastic or what?! We are back on the radio yet again and this one is going to rock! Last week, we had quite the esoteric affair, especially ending with Free Bird. Perhaps ... More >>

Morrissey - Staples Center - 3/1/13

Morrissey Staples Center 3/1/13 Better than... bacon-wrapped hot dogs. There was the requisite Morrissey drama, for that's who he is, who we want him to be: the postponement last year of the Staples Center gig with Iggy Pop & The Stooges because of his mother's health; the postponement of earlier ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Punk Rock Straight from Washington DC

KCRW BROADCAST #204 02-23-13   See also: Henry Rollins: Embrace Your Homophobia, Boy Scouts of America Fanatics! Tonight is one of our concept shows and has everything to do with why I am in Washington DC tonight. I'm here presenting a documentary about a spray paint artist and cultural force in D ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, December 10 Lamps PEHRSPACE Lamps are punk (like Chrome? Or Suicide?). They're from space (like Hawkwind?) but also from hell (like Electric Eels!), where everything melts together into a big hot white ball of confusion that's bright enough to give off some sick kind of light but which will ... More >>

Henry Rollins: A Death in the Family

[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.] I am in San Francisco. It is a Saturday night and I should have been in Los Angeles watching T ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: An All-Kill, No-Fill Show

KCRW Broadcast #186 for Saturday, October 20, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Noise Music Is the Real Thing Fanatics! Tonight we will enjoy an unbelievably cool mix of songs. The weather is cooling slightly and we will take advantage of that and unleash some deep heaviness. If you notic ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! German Metal 
Festival Time

[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.] Since I last wrote you, I have been living in hotels, hitting festival stages and spending a l ... More >>

Music Picks: Hootenanny, The Moonbeams, Kamasi Washington

Also, Eleni Mandell, Endermen, The Lions

Music Picks: Demdike Stare, A Musical Tribute to Gil Scott-Heron, Natalie Merchant

Also, Lindsey Buckingham, Los Lobos, Kenny Garrett and others

Exclusive: Photos From Mike Watt's New Photography Book

Mike Watt mastered the art of playing the bass in punk with his group the Minutemen and kept alternative rock weird with fIREHOSE. In recent years he's been playing with Iggy Pop's band the Stooges. In his downtime, he's also a pretty-serious photographer, and his new book of photography, Mike Watt: ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Happy Birthday Iggy Pop! Your Biggest Fan, Henry

[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.] Iggy Pop, who was born on April 21, 1947, turns 65 this Saturday. It is perhaps a waste of time ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: California Love

KCRW Broadcast #158 for Saturday, March 31, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! The Ugly World of eBay Hustling Fanatics! Tomorrow night we have a bit of a concept show for your enjoyment. Since I write this ahead of a show in San Diego, I thought it would be a great idea to play bands from ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: St. Louis Blues

KCRW Broadcast #157 for Saturday, March 24, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Memphis on My Mind Fanatics! It's Blues time in St. Louis Missouri! While you listen to our show, that's where I will be. I thought it appropriate that we spend a bit of time with some very pure and direct sounds ... More >>

Abby Travis - The Dragonfly - 2/27/12

Abby Travis, Tony Clifton, Alain Johannes The Dragonfly 2-27-12 Better Than . . . going to the circus. Abby Travis sure knows how to throw a party. She's seemingly ubiquitous as an in-demand bassist, backing everyone from Masters of Reality, KMFDM and Vanessa Paradis to Beck, Eagles of Death Meta ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Recovering From A Stooges Coma

​See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Is Raw Power the American answer to Exile on Main St.? KCRW Broadcast #144 for Saturday, December 10 Fanatics! What a show! It's the mother of all shows. It's gigantic and fantastic! It is extraordinary and wonderful in every way. It hits all the marks a ... More >>

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 >>

Iggy and The Stooges - Hollywood Palladium - 12-01-11

See also: *Henry Rollins: The Column! Is Raw Power the American answer to Exile on Main St.? *Our Iggy and The Stooges and Le Butcherettes slideshow *Le Butcherettes' Teri Gender Bender is the most volatile woman in rock *Le Butcherettes' Teri Gender Bender On Raw Meat And Sexism In Mexico Iggy and ... More >>

Henry Rollins, Scott Ian, Mike Watt, Corey Taylor, Dave Navarro - Avalon - 11/30/11

See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! The Time I Drank The Sweat From My Socks Onstage Drop in the Bucket benefit Henry Rollins, Scott Ian, Mike Watt, Corey Taylor, Dave Navarro and others Avalon 11/30/11 Last night handfuls of heavy musicians took the stage for a worthy cause, Drop In The Bucket, ... More >>

Le Butcherettes' Teri Gender Bender On Raw Meat And Sexism In Mexico

See also: *Teri Gender Bender is the Most Volatile Woman in Rock *Our review of Iggy and The Stooges and Le Butcherettes at Hollywood Palladium, 12-01-11 This week's feature story is about Teri Gender Bender -- neé Teri Suarez -- of Le Butcherettes. Let's just say she has no intentions of going q ... More >>

Le Butcherettes

Teri Gender Bender is the most volatile woman in rock

Fanatics! The Stooges Show Is Canceled!

​THE STOOGES ARE NOT COMING! THE STOOGES ARE NOT COMING! On Friday I encouraged everyone to go to their show this Wednesday at Hollywood Palladium, but is has been postponed due to Iggy getting injured. From The Man Himself Dept.:

Music Picks: Agnostic Front, the Latebirds, Def Leppard, Jay Rock

Also, Kristeen Young, Diego Garcia, the Human League and others

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: MC5, Tinariwen, Dax Riggs and More

​KCRW BROADCAST #1245 for Saturday, July 30 Fanatics! We have put together a stellar playlist for you to check out tomorrow night. It took me a long time to get into the MC5 album Back In The USA. It wasn't that the songs weren't great -- they are. It was always the production that bugged me ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Saturday Night: Kaoru Abe, Acid King, Pontiak

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #111 for Saturday, April 23. Fanatics! It is Friday, early afternoon and I am just now getting a chance to write these brief notes up for you. One of these days I'm going to get some sleep. Just back from Ann Arbor, Michigan where we had a major blast at the Stoo ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Saturday Night: Happy Birthday, Ian MacKaye

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #110 for Saturday, April 16. Fanatics! It is Record Store Day. It is also Ian MacKaye's birthday. Today, Ian hits the deck at forty-nine years of age. I believe he will be at the Coachella Festival this weekend so we send our greetings and congrats from here. To ... More >>

Henry Rollins! The Column: The Stooges, Michigan's Original Insane Posse

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 >>

Top 5 Things to Do This Weekend in L.A.

​ The weather is doing that weird thing we hate wherein there is a forty degree swing in temperature between noon and midnight. Advice: dress in layers if you're going to go out after work on Friday, or you'll be one of those poor fools standing in line outside the club in flip flops and a ta ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: The Stooges Melt Your Radio

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #105 for Saturday, March 12.This is a get ready, so you can get set. This is a heads up, so you can get down. This coming Saturday, I will attempt to melt your radio with a show I have wanted to do for a long time. At 6 pm on 89.9 FM KCRW, we will go scortcho for ... More >>

Punk Marketing and other godawful motivational business books

​ Yes, Punk marketing exists, and it reads just like you would expect: like someone somehow converted the sound of those guys beating up Jello Biafra that one time into the medium of a self-helpy bullshit business book. The authors actually write: "The punk rock that burst rudely onto the scen ... More >>

The Column! No. 2 With a Bullet

Henry Rollins: The Column! Rollins on How The Doors, the Velvet Underground and The Stooges Beat the Sophomore Slump

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 Wednesday and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday ... More >>

Music Picks: The Hangmen, Brother Ali, Tommy Rock-A-Shacka, Weezer

Also, Hellride, Bonobo, New Kingdom and others

The Black Apples: In Residency At The Echo And Dennis Hopper Is Invited

courtesy the black apples​ The Black Apples use two drummers to hold down the heaviest parts of the 13th Floor Elevators, the early Stooges, and Davie Allan's biker themes. Their debut LP--recorded half at Bedrock in Echo Park and half in a barn in Fort Collins, Colorado--is weeks away from r ... More >>

Return to Kill City

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

Search and Destroy: The New Iggy and The Stooges Documentary on the Raw Power Box Set

Shepard Fairey​Last night, while Iron Man 2 had its world premiere a few blocks down on Hollywood Boulevard, Morgan Neville's new doc Search and Destroy: Iggy And The Stooges' Raw Power was unveiled to a packed house of invited guests at the Egyptian Theater. The juxtaposition between mass-ma ... More >>

Iggy and the Stooges by Shepard Fairey

File under "How Cool Is This": Local icon-maker (much like Echo Park's own Andrei Rublev!) Shepard Fairey has just released a very limited edition print of Iggy and the Stooges celebrating Columbia Record's revamping of the Raw Power franchise. Print it yourself for free here: Shepard Fairey̴ ... More >>

Vegoose, Day 1

Vegoose Music Festival, Las Vegas, Saturday, October 27. By Randall Roberts Back and forth we walk, through fairway-cut grass, soft and padded on practice fields, the kind that feels really good beneath bare feet. Vegoose day one, and everything is neat and tidy near UNLV. We flow in early, a gentl ... More >>

Vegoose: This is How they Dance

Random observations on dancing at Vegoose and elsewhere: photographs by Timothy Norris Shins fans don't dance. I know this because it was at the beginning of this show that I first discovered that my wristband was in fact MAGIC and offered me backstage access. And free food. And free cocktails. A ... More >>