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 >>
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 >>
[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 >>
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.
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 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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
[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 >>
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 >>
[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 writing to you from sunny Honolulu, Hawaii. I am not on vacation. I have a show here. The ... More >>
[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 >>
Also, Eleni Mandell, Endermen, The Lions
Also, Lindsey Buckingham, Los Lobos, Kenny Garrett and others
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 >>
[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 >>
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 >>
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, 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 >>
[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.] One of the best romantic messengers is, of course, music. And then when it's over and you are ... More >>
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 >>
[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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
Teri Gender Bender is the most volatile woman in rock
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.:
Also, Kristeen Young, Diego Garcia, the Human League and others
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 >>
Timothy NorrisKCRW 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 >>
Timothy NorrisKCRW 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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
Timothy NorrisKCRW 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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
Also, Hellride, Bonobo, New Kingdom and others
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 >>
Iggy Pop's L.A. album, cleaned up
Iggy Pop's L.A. album, cleaned up
Local hero Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE, etc., etc.) is almost ready to unveil his third "punk opera." "I'm finishing my third opera ("hyphenated-man") w/bass brother tony maimone at studio g in brooklyn now," Watt writes from the studio. Hyphenated-Man is the third opera the busy San Ped ... More >>
Shepard FaireyLast 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 >>
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 >>
Thelonious Monster is reuniting for their first show in 5 years tonight at the Echo, a surprise gig featuring a pretty impressive line-up of LA punk veterans, including: Mike Martt (Tex & The Horseheads, Steve Earle), Zander Schloss (Circle Jerks, Two Free Stooges) and Dix Denny (The Weirdos), bassi ... More >>
If nothing else, Jane's Addiction sure know how to stretch out the publicity surrounding their impending return. It seems like every few weeks for the past half year the band does something, releases something, announces something, denies something or collaborates on something. There are the secre ... More >>
Mudhoney with Japanese Motors and Model/Actress @ El Rey Theatre November 14th, 2008 By Rita Neyter Mudhoney on stage. Photo by Timothy Norris. Click image for entire slideshow. "Mudhoney! HOLY SHIT!" shouted the bassist/vocalist of L.A.-based band Model/Actress. Holy shit, indeed. It's kind of ... More >>
Van Morrison at La Zona Rosa, Austin, Texas; Division Day, The Ting Tings and The Duke Spirit at Buffalo Billiards. Van Morrison's pretty cool, wearing his trademark cap and sunglasses, holding a saxophone and totally nonplussed about this show. He's got nothing to prove, nothing to hide. He couldn ... More >>
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 >>
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 >>
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