The Who (Band)

Music Picks: Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge, and Anthrax

California Assembly District 39 Campaign: Will Raul Bocanegra Be Any Different Than Richard Alarcon?

Lyrics from The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" (see video after the jump) have probably been used many times before by political pundits, but that won't stop us from using them again: "Meet the new boss/Same as the old boss!" Those immortal words from The Who's Pete Townshend are particularly relev ... More >>

The Zeros, The Muffs - The Troubadour - 7/20/12

The Zeros, The Muffs The Troubadour 7-20-12 See also: Our interview with Javier Escovedo Even though the Zeros were born at the dawn of the punk era in 1976 and the Muffs didn't start until the depths of the grunge scene 15 years later, they couldn't have been more perfectly billed last night at ... More >>

Van Halen's Babysitter

The band's record label assigned Ted Cohen to go on tour with them in their glory years. Here's what he saw

Music Picks: Too $hort, Best Coast, Brad Mehldau Trio

Also, Lee Fields & the Expressions, Simon Stokes, Sonnymoon, and others

Music Picks: Bettye LaVette, Johnny Thunders, Johnny Hallyday

Also, Kate McGarry, Enter Shikari, Hype Williams and others

Pop Goes the Geezer!

Also, Kate McGarry, Enter Shikari, Hype Williams and others

Davy Jones, Monkees' Frontman, Is Dead

Singer-songwriter Davy Jones, best known for his stint in The Monkees, died today in his sleep at his home in Indiantown, Florida of a massive heart attack. He was 66 years old. While primarily associated with The Monkees and their eponymous television show, Jones enjoyed a solo career arguably more ... More >>

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List

​What makes a terrible band? Is it being prepared to do the wrong thing, whatever the price? That and a pair of testicles. Only, some of the below groups possess testicles only in the symbolic sense. Because, even if you're composed of ladies, it takes balls to make music that is simultaneousl ... More >>

Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #10-6

See also: *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #20-16 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time, #15-11 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: #5-1 10. Pussycat Dolls The Pussycat Dolls may seem like an easy target, but they're actually a quite difficult one, considering they're less band than brand. There's their rea ... More >>

Guns N' Roses - The Forum - December 21, 2011

Timothy Norris"Do you know where you are?"​See also: *Our slideshow of the concert *True Story: Axl Once Threatened To Skip A Concert, So Barry Fey Got His Gun *Tommy Stinson Interview: Guns N' Roses' Bassist Compares Axl Rose And Paul Westerberg *Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: The Comp ... More >>

Stephanie Miller's Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour

Michael LamontThe Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity​Kristoffer Diaz's comedy about television wrestling, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, just opened at the Geffen Playhouse. Check back on Tuesday for the review, and for capsule reviews for all other shows seen over the weekend. Check back thi ... More >>

Tommy Keene, Power Pop's Dark Knight

Chris Rady ​Power pop, like bubblegum before it, is often viewed as the domain of skinny-tie moptoppers singing ditties about girls and cars. Longtime power pop icon Tommy Keene, however, doesn't fit this stereotype. His moodier music accentuates the "power" in power pop, building his muscular ... 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 >>

Music Picks: Fucked Up, Dolly Parton, Ty Segal, Fitz & the Tantrums,

Also, Soundgarden, Iceage, Earth, Wu Lyf and others

Henry Rollins: The Column! Songs in the Key of Tour

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 >>

Paz Lenchantin, Psychedelic Goddess

The Entrance Band's bassist discusses her inspirations and their Satellite residency

Top 6 Controversial TV Appearances By Bands, in Honor of Odd Future Playing Fallon Tonight

​The ever controversial Odd Future (OFWGKTA) rap collective is set to perform tonight on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. We're not sure what this means, but we imagine a certain amount of destruction, danger and disrespect will be involved. (At least, we hope.) Earlier today, Roots drummer Quest ... More >>

Stage Raw: Big Prizes, Ovations and Stage Raw Theater Quiz

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Circle Mirror Transformation and Me, As a PenguinCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS2011 OVATIONS AWARDS at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Center, Jan. 17Thirty-six awards were handed out to 21 different Southern California theater companies. Leading the pack, tied with ... More >>

Music Picks: Sweaters, Jonathan Richman, Hanni El Khatib, Henry Rollins

Also, Aloe Blacc, Maren Parusel, the Greenhornes and others

Theater Reviews: Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, Looking for Paul, The Night of the Tribades

Also, The Sunset Limited, Uptown Downtown and more

Stage Raw: NET Microfest L.A.

NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Randy Newman's Harps and Angels, and NET's L.A. Micro-festUPTOWN DOWNTOWN​Leslie Uggams stars in her bio-cabaret at the Pasadena Playhouse. For a review of this and all shows seen over the weekend, press the More tab at the bottom of this page. Photo by Jim CoxN ... More >>

Q & A With Nick Malgieri: His New Baking Book, Food Bloggers The Occupational Hazards of Blueberry Muffin Recipes

AmazonNick Malgieri​Baking instructor, cookbook author and generally very funny guy Nick Malgieri was in town last week, giving a talk at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Pasadena. Just for fun, of course, and as part of his current book tour. Malgieri's tenth book, Bake!: Essential ... More >>

Music Picks: Dr. John, Herbie Hancock, Sunset Strip Music Festival

Also, Funkfest, Chromeo, Slayer and others

Tonight: Betty LaVette, Jews on Vinyl Revue, Eastern Conference Champions, Wallpaper, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Jets Overhead

Elizabeth FladunBetty LaVette​One of the best Betty LaVette stories came out of the veteran soul singer's performance a couple years ago at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C. In a nod to one of the year's honorees, the Who, LaVette delivered a show-stopping rendition of "Love Reign ... More >>

Theater Reviews: The True Story of Jack and the Beanstalk, They Call Me Mister Fry, Bones

Also Streep Tease: An Evening of Meryl Streep Monologues and more

Rock Out With Your Doc Out

Also Streep Tease: An Evening of Meryl Streep Monologues and more

Adam Ant Taken to Nuthouse after Kinda Awesome Performance

King of the really wild frontier: Adam Ant, recently​Everyone else is reporting that long-time mental-illness sufferer Adam Ant has been hospitalized again after going loco during a show. Well, we tracked down a Daily Mail story that actually describes the performance and it sounds kinda awes ... More >>

Pamela Des Barres: She Had Your Fun

King of the really wild frontier: Adam Ant, recently​Everyone else is reporting that long-time mental-illness sufferer Adam Ant has been hospitalized again after going loco during a show. Well, we tracked down a Daily Mail story that actually describes the performance and it sounds kinda awes ... More >>

The Hot Rats at Spaceland: Radiohead in the House (But Not on the Stage)

What a frickin' jam session it could have been. Last night at the Hot Rats' LA debut at Spaceland, most of the members of the Radiohead, LA-based producer Nigel Godrich, and Britt Daniel of Spoon, were spotted. As the Rats, which consists of two members of ace Brit guitar band Supergrass, Gaz Coombe ... More >>

Rock Picks: Al Kooper, Year Long Disaster, Steven Severin, the Phenomenal Handclap Band

Also, Kimya Dawson, the Cigarette Bums, Willi Williams and others

Camp Freddy's Billy Morrison Highlights His 10 Most Important Cultural Events of the 1970s

Billy Morrison​Editor's Note: For Angelenos, guitarist Billy Morrison is perhaps best known for his work with all-star cover band Camp Freddy, which also features core members Dave Navarro (guitar), Matt Sorum (drums), Donovan Leitch, Jr. (vocals), Chris Chaney (bass). Indie 103.1 fans no doub ... More >>

Who Will Play The Super Bowl Half-Time Show (That Wasn't a Question)

The Who at the Super Bowl: YEAHHHHHHH!​Billboard reports that The Who--a UK duo comprising singer Roger Daltrey and half-deaf guitarist Pete Townshend who are perhaps best known for soundtracking very popular American crime-lab procedural TV programs--will be the half-time performers at the 20 ... More >>

Red Line Fever: It’s Casual

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Festivals Then and Now: Lou Adler and Nic Adler Talk Monterey Pop and the Sunset Strip

The Adler posse knows a thing or two about the concert business. Lou Adler, the patriarch, is responsible for some of the great American cultural touchstones of the past 40 years, and a few of these moments are showcased on the wall of his home office in Malibu. There's the movie poster for The ... More >>

They Say If You Remember the '60s, You're Really, Really Old

The Adler posse knows a thing or two about the concert business. Lou Adler, the patriarch, is responsible for some of the great American cultural touchstones of the past 40 years, and a few of these moments are showcased on the wall of his home office in Malibu. There's the movie poster for The ... More >>

Weiss' 50 Best Albums of the Year (#40-31) (Sponsored By Crystal Pepsi)

If you're going to drink one clear cola this year, make it Crystal Pepsi. Please.40. No Age-Nouns (Sub Pop) Face it, *Nouns* is this decade's *Let it Be* (The Replacements, not The Beatles): A ragtag posse of scruffy dudes sonically illustrating their homes with spectacular tunes and pure passi ... More >>

Oasis at the Staples Center in LA: 'I Am the Walrus' All Night Long?

(All photos by Timothy Norris. Click photos for entire slideshow)Seven albums and seventeen years into their career, Oasis still doesn't seem to have listened to a record made after 1973. The band's recently-released Dig Out Your Soul offers echoes of their era-soundtrack second album, 1995's (Wha ... More >>

British Psych, Prog & Alt. Rock Extravaganza

(All photos by Timothy Norris. Click photos for entire slideshow)Seven albums and seventeen years into their career, Oasis still doesn't seem to have listened to a record made after 1973. The band's recently-released Dig Out Your Soul offers echoes of their era-soundtrack second album, 1995's (Wha ... More >>

Maude!

SXSW or no SXSW, my first sign of Texas pride was the Texas-shaped gravestone in the Texas State Cemetery I noticed outside the airport shuttle. Landed in Austin in drizzling weather; even in a crowded airplane making four stops it's easy to single out the passengers headed here – they're the ... More >>

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 >>

Annihilation Man

How Darby Crash lost control. Of the Germs. Of Circle One. Everything.