Throbbing Gristle

Genesis Breyer P-orridge in New Documentary The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

Marriage, drastic plastic surgery, lost love

Psychic TV - Echoplex - 2-26-12

Psychic TV, Bestial Mouths, Dangerous Boys Club The Echoplex 2/26/12 It's hard to describe Psychic TV live without throwing around new age terms. Going to see the band live is almost like an experiment in meditation. You have to leave the outside world at the door, enter with no expectations, and l ... More >>

5 Music Records You Probably Didn't Think to Listen to While Having Sex

So you're having sex. Usually it's sudden and furtive, the heat of the moment incinerating your civility as you chase that shining golden moment lying in puddles down the gutter. But when you have a little more time to plan your coital rendezvous - what music should you listen to while you're havi ... More >>

Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Dannii Minogue Is The Superior Minogue

​[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilt Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] It was the wee hours of the morning about ten years ago when I first saw Dannii Minogue, on Top of the Pops. Chains ... More >>

Pictureplane, oOoOO- Check Yo' Ponytail 2 - 8/16/11

Colin Young-WolffYasmine Kittles of Tearist performing with Pictureplane​Who: Pictureplane, oOoOO, Javelin, Babe Rainbow, Hollagramz Where: Check Yo' Ponytail 2 @ The Echoplex When: August 16, 2011 Better than... Tumbling psychedelic druid gifs all night. With the increasing amount of refe ... More >>

Night Moves and Movies: Outfest's Platinum Party

Lina LecaroChloe and Nao at Night Moves. ​Outfest concluded in a suitably outlandish way this weekend: with a sweaty, crafty and homo-sexy happening called Night Moves at the Alexandria Hotel downtown, courtesy of Platinum, the performance-based offshoot series created 10 years ago by art pion ... More >>

Throbbing Gristle and Hard Place Members Objectify Themselves for LICKER LICENSE

still from Sweet Balls by Hazel Hill McCarthy III​ LA's Hazel Hill McCarthy III outdoes herself (and her gender) with LICKER LICENSE, a touring one-night event of all-female video and performance featuring Kristy Fenton (Modern Witch), Actually Huizenga (Hard Place, Wet Look, et al), Genesis ... More >>

Show Cave Kisses L.A. Goodbye With Denzel Washington-Inspired Girl-On-Girl Art Show 'Licker License'

photo by Douglas McCarthyShow Cave curator Hazel Hill McCarthy III displays the tongue shaped glow-in-the-dark "Licker License" hard drives​ After five years and three locations around Los Angeles, notorious Show Cave night gallery closes with a gleefully gynocentric event entitled "Licker Lic ... More >>

Tearist: The Real Thing

They said the duo's mesmerizing live shows (the best in L.A. for a couple of years) could not be put on record. They were wrong

Countdown to Records Store Day: We Found Sasha Grey's Favorite Record Store!

​ Wombleton Records sells an amazing collection of rare- and not-so-rare imports--though its stated mission is to further cultural exchange between Los Angeles and Glasgow, it does all that and more carrying everything from Suzy Quattro and Zounds LP's to original pressings of Dutch freakbeat ... More >>

Psychic TV Live at SXSW: The Godfather/mother of Industrial Rock Rides Again

photo by Wendy GilmartinPsychic TV​ What: Psychic TV Where: Elysium, Austin TX When: March 15, 2011 Psychic TV and their outer-planetary transport trip blasted off Tuesday night with the gloriously pandrogynous Genesis P-Orridge back at the helm after years of professed retirement and perso ... More >>

Introducing LA Weekly's DJ of the Week: This Week, Dennis Owens

​ We received many responses to our many best DJs lists. So many, in fact, that we haven't been able to get a good night's sleep ever since, what with all the awesome DJs that we weren't able to properly honor and call attention to. So we decided to fix it with giving you a DJ of the week eve ... More >>

Music Picks: Repeater, Project Blowed 16th Anniversary, Infected Mushroom

Also, Riot Grrl Christmas Carnival, Captain Ahab and others

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

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

Music Picks: Plastic Ono Band, Ooh La LA Fest, Belle & Sebastian

Also, Marianne Dissard, Bad Company, Matador 21 and others

Little Boxes

For a new generation of audio devices, less — way less — is more

Tearist's Yasmine Kittles and "Tim & Eric"'s Eric Star in SFW Hipster Crotch Porn

What's not to like about Tearist's Yasmine Kittles? She's badass, looks like the lovechild of "Rehab"-era Amy Winehouse and Polly Jean Harvey (in a good way), digs good music (Throbbing Gristle, Can, The Red Crayola, The Ronettes), does her crazy "Patti Smith meets Peaches" act at The Smell, has abs ... More >>

Public Access Lives! (On DVD): One Of 'The Threee Geniuses' Talks The Re-Death Of Psychedelia

Taking LSD over seven times may or may not make you legally insane (if the myth were true, some of us here at West Coast Sound might have just missed the loony bin), but we can assure you, watching the psycho-delic circus known as The Threee Geniuses as many times is likely to drive you nuts, at lea ... More >>

Love Sex Fear Death: The Inside Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgment

Juicy Tidbits of a '60s Cult

Videothing Does Coachella: Footage of the Cure, My Bloody Valentine, Throbbing Gristle, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and "Happy" Fans

Videothing does it again. After helping West Coast Sound with an ace tour of Michael Jackson's Cancelled Neverland Auction, the LA-based video site went stealth at Coachella and got some great footage. Quote of the video: "I got so fucked up last night that I fried balls until I cried."

Coachella Day 3: The Kills Kill It, Throbbing Gristle Force Me Into The Fetal Position, and The Clipse Cancel

Slowly, my brain is slinking its way towards sensible shape. Three days of Coachella are not for the faint of heart -- if nothing else it requires a quarter-ounce of weed, an array of narcotic edibles from potcorn to cannabis cakes, several brightly colored pills of indiscriminate origin, copious ... More >>

LA Weekly Coachella Awards 2009: The Best and Worst of the Festival

View more Coachella pics here: Day One, Day Two, Day Three, Half-Dressed People & Scenes from the Desert Timothy NorrisCoachella 2009, at the awards ceremony Weirdest Between-song Banter: Paul McCartney, bless his heart, played an epic set, staked a claim on a body of work that only fools would i ... More >>

Over the Weekend: RIP J.G. Ballard, Three Days of Coachella Madness, Plus Zombie Invasion at Fangoria Convention

We don't know about you but we are the very definition of exhausted. Three days of music, parties and the desert heat at the 10th annual Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio has left us completely wiped. But damn if we didn't get some great coverage while we were there. Randall Roberts put tog ... More >>

Throbbing Gristle's 33rd Annual Report

They coined the genre name Industrial, foresaw acid house and pushed electronic noise into distant orbits. A legendary art quartet returns to Southern California

Throbbing Gristle at Coachella: Closing the Tenth Anniversary with Industrialism

Throbbing Gristle, back in the day. We've acknowledged our excitement at Throbbing Gristle's return to Southern California already, but we figured that since the legendary band is closing out the festival on Sunday night, it might be a good opportunity to convince you to stick around (if you're no ... More >>

Throbbing Gristle to Perform Along with Derek Jarman Film at Ricardo Montalban Theater on April 21

photo: Industrial Records Ltd.Throbbing Gristle, 1981. Big news for music/art fans: legendary British industrial music forefathers/foremothers Throbbing Gristle will perform in Los Angeles for the first time in over three decades when they arrive in Hollywood on Tuesday, April 21. The band, whose r ... More >>

Throbbing Gristle Announces UCLA Date, Then Quickly Cancels It

Genesis P Orridge of Throbbing Gristle This morning UCLA's Royce Hall announced that Throbbing Gristle would be performing at Royce Hall on April 21, a mere few days after the band was to perform Coachella. The announcement came as a little surprise. For obvious reasons, Coachella makes bands agree ... More >>

Darkmatter Soundsystem Surprises LA Breakcore Fans with Secret Show

Liz OhanesianVenetian Snares at Darkmatter Soundsystem, 2/28/09 Since 2001, Darkmatter Soundsystem has been at the forefront of the L.A. underground, when they helped to popularize breakcore, drum 'n' bass' noisy cousin, and dubstep, locally. Over the years, they have released their own harsh-soundi ... More >>

Maybe We're Amazed: Notes on the Fairly Odd Coachella 2009 Lineup

Our only hope — that Macca gets Ram tough

Coachella 2009 Announced: Amy Winehouse, Paul McCartney, My Bloody Valentine ... Throbbing Gristle! Leonard Cohen!

Yeah, so all the silly speculation probably isn't done yet, as Goldenvoice always adds a few heavy-hitters after the initial announcement, but the initial line-up is up. Click through to see it in all it's glory. We'll start analyzing it soon, but for now: Throbbing Gristle! No Pavement? Let the ... More >>

Crushed-Velvet Conceptualists: The Legendary Pink Dots

Longtime staples of after-midnight playlists, the Dots return to celebrate their uninterrupted quarter-century of sonic madness

Partying Like It's 1983: Part-Time Punks Announce Post-Punk Fest Featuring A Certain Ratio, Pylon, Savage Republic, Vivian Girls and More

A Certain Ratio's "Shack Up" This just in from the great Part-Time Punks posse: Los Angeles will be the location of the world’s first-ever Post-Punk Festival (or at least the first since 1982 or whenever the last Futurama was held in the UK!). The day-long event will be held in conjoined venues ... More >>

Joy Division to the World

Ian Curtis’ afterlife seems like it’s been one big after-party

Fuck the DNA

The evolution continues with the return of Genesis P-Orridge and Psychic TV

Murder and Me

Fear and loathing on the moors

Site/Sound

Remapping the land- and soundscapes of L.A. (and beyond)

Lost And Found

The future is history to an obsessive prodigy and heartbroken shut-in called Ariel Pink

Beatnik Renaissance Man

Stitching together the multiple visions of Brion Gysin

Eyes Opened Eyes Closed

Two CalArts-sponsored mash-ups celebrated MOCA's "Visual Music" exhibit

Actual Music

Sail Away

Cease to Exist

The opening of Genesis P-Orridge

Pranksters, Deviants and SoCal Satanists

Disinformation: The Interviews

'Thees Ees Zee Reel Shit!'

Remembering Claude Bessy, a.k.a. Kickboy Face

Keys to the Kingdom

Don Preston opens music

Survival Songs

The Kinks revisited

Noise Annoys

The purification of Boyd Rice

Reconstructing the Ephemeral

Performance art and the Schimmel effect

The Low Life