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April 3, 2013
Here's What I Listened To While I Underwent Incomprehensible Dentist Torture
"You're going to bleed, ok?" There were a lot of things said to me Monday afternoon, but that was the only thing I heard. It was said to me by Teresa, an otherwise perfectly pleasant dental assistant. Big as Barack Obama becoming the first Black President, big as Thomas Edison coming up with the ... More >>
Blogs
March 26, 2013
Fairfax's Truth Studios Makes More Hip Hop Than Money
For nearly two years Truth Studios, a recording space in the Fairfax District, has been a haven for West Coast rap talent. On any given night, you might find clothing reps chattering, owner Nick Breton rolling blunts with rappers, and intoxicated laughter absorbed by the muted walls. The combination ... More >>
Blogs
March 20, 2013
Too Short Had Meth During Hollywood DUI Stop, LAPD Says
Cops say rapper Too Short had meth in his possession when he was stopped behind the wheel of a vehicle at Hollywood Boulevard and North Las Palmas Avenue at 3:05 a.m. today. You know where you don't want to be when you're holding meth at 3 o'clock in the morning? Hollywood and Las Palmas, which is ... More >>
Blogs
February 4, 2013
Top 10 "You Can't Tell Me Nothing" Rappers
In Macklemore's forthcoming single, "Can't Hold Us," he raps, "Nah they can't tell me nothing," thus continuing a long line of rappers to whom one can not tell nothing. It makes one wonder: Why are people always trying to tell rappers something? Why do the rappers refuse to listen? Why all the doub ... More >>
Blogs
December 15, 2012
Power 106 Cali Christmas Concert - Gibson Amphitheatre - 12/14/12
Meek Mill, Rick Ross, Big Sean, 2 Chainz, Kendrick Lamar Power 106 Cali Christmas Gibson Amphitheatre 12/14/12 Ah, the holiday season in L.A. -- a crisp chill is in the air, every twinkly light installment and bit of tinsel available has been vomited onto that particular property on Los Feliz Blvd. ... More >>
Blogs
November 30, 2012
Katt Williams A No-Show In Seattle; Arrest Reported (VIDEO)
Updated at the bottom with the latest. Post has been edited throughout. First posted at 5:30 a.m. L.A. stand-up performer Katt Williams has been on a comedy tour, often with an locally-based entourage, that seems to be more notable for his peculiar behavior than for punchlines. Only days after he ... More >>
Music
November 15, 2012
Music Picks: Tame Impala, Deftones, DJ Quik
Updated at the bottom with the latest. Post has been edited throughout. First posted at 5:30 a.m. L.A. stand-up performer Katt Williams has been on a comedy tour, often with an locally-based entourage, that seems to be more notable for his peculiar behavior than for punchlines. Only days after he ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2012
Insane Clown Posse Calls the FBI's Actions "A Public Lynching of Our Name"
See also: *Insane Clown Posse Is Suing the FBI (!!!) *Our cover story on ICP from last year Oddly, Insane Clown Posse rapper Joey Utsler -- better known as Shaggy 2 Dope -- is humble. Today, on the group's bus in the parking lot of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, he speaks as if he can't believe hi ... More >>
Blogs
July 6, 2012
Cunning Linguists: Five Recent Rap Songs About Going Down
With a few exceptions -- Lil Wayne, call us -- male rappers historically have come off as very ungenerous lovers. It's always been, "Hey, eat/suck/gobble/choke on my dick!" with the only promise of reciprocation being, occasionally, the dopey 69 position. (Seriously, if you're doing that, you must ... More >>
Blogs
June 18, 2012
Here's an Epic Ice-T Interview: Sure, He Once Wore Leather and Spikes, but He'll Still Fuck You Up
See also: *The Original Original Gangsta: Ice-T talks about his star-studded directorial debut, his famous affiliates and his life with Coco in New York *Here Are Pictures of Dr. Dre's New $13 Million House Perhaps because he moved back to the East Coast and became an actor, Ice-T is sometimes over ... More >>
Blogs
May 23, 2012
The Cranberries' "Zombie": Why This Song Sucks
[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: The Cranberries, "Zombie" History: "Zombie" came out in 1994. It was on No Need To Argue, the second album from the Irish rock band that everyone spent a ... More >>
Music
May 17, 2012
Music Picks: Too $hort, Best Coast, Brad Mehldau Trio
Also, Lee Fields & the Expressions, Simon Stokes, Sonnymoon, and others
Blogs
May 16, 2012
Rock the Bells 2012 Lineup Announced
See also: Our review of Rock the Bells 2011 Last night Guerilla Union announced this year's Rock the Bells 2012 dates, headliners and lineup. Beginning in 2010, the hip-hop festival's headliners -- famous acts whose first few albums often outshine their later work -- have performed their classic ... More >>
Blogs
May 9, 2012
Khia's "My Neck, My Back": Why This Song Sucks
[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Khia's "My Neck, My Back (Lick It)" History: "My Neck, My Back" was recorded in 2002. It's still mostly memorable for two lines: (1) "All you ladies pop t ... More >>
Blogs
April 13, 2012
Comedian Moshe Kasher's Memoir Kasher In The Rye: 'I Was Violent. I Was Sexist. I Was a Pig.'
To say Moshe Kasher had a tumultuous upbringing would be an understatement at best. The 32-year-old comedian and author now appears regularly on E!'s Chelsea Lately and his clean-cut look, slicked back hair with thick black glasses, appears to dispel the notion of any momentous regrets. But Kasher I ... More >>
Blogs
February 29, 2012
White Fence's Tim Presley Moves Retro Rock Forward
[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] See also: Top 5 L.A. Garage Rock Bands Not everything needs to sound like the future. Not everyone wants to dwell in the present. In fact, some aim to a ... More >>
Music
January 19, 2012
Music Picks: Skrillex, Diplo, Wu-Tang Clan, The Health Club
Also, Art Lande, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Gilad Hekselman, The Stitches, The Villains and others
Blogs
January 11, 2012
Stephen Merchant, The Office Co-Creator, Thinks He's Too Tall to Get Laid
Photo by Carolyn Djanogly At the start of his first North American stand-up tour he's entitled Hello Ladies, Stephen Merchant -- the taller, less famous writing/directing partner of Ricky Gervais and co-creator of The Office -- shows a photo from The Guardian newspaper of him standing on stag ... More >>
Blogs
December 19, 2011
Snoop Dogg's Player's Ball 2011 - Marbella - December 17, 2011
Andrea Domanick Bishop Don "Magic" JuanSnoop Dogg's Player's Ball 2011 A Benefit For Bishop Don "Magic" Juan Marbella December 17, 2011 Let's just get this out of the way: It is hard out here for a pimp. That is, if you're Bishop Don "Magic" Juan anyway, a reformed Chicago pimp who became a ... More >>
Blogs
December 6, 2011
Having A Dollar Sign In Your Name Is Awe$ome
On his blog Stuff White People Like, author Christian Lander did not include musicians with dollar signs in their names. Why? Because white people hate them! Take Ke$ha. Now, there's a lot to dislike about the rather-coarse poplet, who seems to be encouraging seven-year-old girls to drink a handl ... More >>
Blogs
November 12, 2011
Peanut Butter Wolf, Gaslamp Killer, Jason Bentley -- 11/11/11/ Party -- Eagle Rock Center for the Arts
Lainna FaderGaslamp KillerPeanut Butter Wolf, Gaslamp Killer, Jason Bentley, Hyasynth and others 11/11/11/ Party Eagle Rock Center for the Arts Since 2006, Stones Throw label head Peanut Butter Wolf has specialized in numerically-aligned calendar day parties. Last night's party, which went f ... More >>
Blogs
October 19, 2011
Wiz Khalifa - Nokia Theater - 10/18/11
Daniel KohnWiz Khalifa Nokia Theater 10/18/11 Better than...taking bong hits alone. For a couple years or so now, the mainstream hip-hop world has been engulfed with what seems to be a never-ending wave of stoner rap. Over the course of his abridged 75-minute set -- due to the venue's stric ... More >>
Blogs
July 19, 2011
Nocando Kicks Off RePlay LA Tomorrow at the Hard Rock; Talks Quik and Swagnosticism
James "Nocando" McCall titled one of his first solo releases, "Nocando is a Virus." And like any virus, he's innately aware of the importance of mutation. By 25, the Leimert Park-raised rapper had toured the country with Project Blowed avatar, Aceyalone, won Scribble Jam, dropped a pair of al ... More >>
Music
May 19, 2011
Music Picks: Stiff Little Fingers, CunninLynguists, The Nubians, System of a Down
Houses, Aloe Blacc, Krautrock Nite, The Radio Dept. and others
Music
April 28, 2011
Music Picks: The Psychedelic Furs, Orgone, Raekwon, Beach Fossils, The Raveonettes
Also, Thao & Mirah, Sun Araw, Cass McCombs, Trinket and others
Blogs
April 14, 2011
BREAKING: MTV Discovers L.A. Still Has a Hip-Hop Scene!
In the beginning ... As announced in a trailer released this morning, MTV will air a weeklong look at L.A.'s hip-hop scene in a segment "we're calling 'The New West: An In-depth Look at L.A. Hip Hop.'" Though we're much obliged to them for referencing N.W.A.'s LA Weekly cover, we think the ... More >>
Blogs
March 29, 2011
Top Ten Things You Need To Know About Snoop Dogg's New Album "Doggumentary"
Just a few days after being mourner-of-honor at the funeral of former associate Nate Dogg, Snoop Dogg hogged the hip-hop limelight once again by releasing all the tracks of his much-awaited album Doggumentary two days before the official release via moribund social network oddity MySpace. 10 ... More >>
Blogs
February 14, 2011
Grammy Party Report #3: Relentless Rhythms at Roots Jam and The Black Keys on Deck at Hemingways
Lina LecaroRoots' Capt. Kirk Douglas and Jimmy Fallon- less talkin,' more rockin.' You never know who might pop up on stage at the Roots Jam, which was, with the exception of Clive Davis' A(ss)-list kiss/croon-a-thon, the most buzzed about bash Saturday night. It was wishful thinking of cour ... More >>
Music
January 27, 2011
Music to Pick Up/Download
Lina LecaroRoots' Capt. Kirk Douglas and Jimmy Fallon- less talkin,' more rockin.' You never know who might pop up on stage at the Roots Jam, which was, with the exception of Clive Davis' A(ss)-list kiss/croon-a-thon, the most buzzed about bash Saturday night. It was wishful thinking of cour ... More >>
Music
December 23, 2010
Dirt Nasty: Famous for Being (Almost) Famous
A strangely successful indie white comedy rapper conceived by former model/MTV veejay Simon Rex, who early on did porn to pay the bills? Welcome to L.A.!
Blogs
December 23, 2010
Holy Sh*t! Top 10 Uses of Profanity in Music in 2010
Cuss words can be a lazy lyricist's exclamation points but, in the right hands, profanity affords a landscape of creativity and rhyme schemes that breathe new life into descriptions of coitus, anger, and self-reflection. There may not be enough amazing uses of "fuck," "ass," and "shit" in roc ... More >>
Music
November 4, 2010
MUSIC PICKS: Ruben Guevara, Buika, Bill Frisell's Beautiful Dreamers
Also, Combichrist, Papercranes, Simone White and others
Blogs
May 21, 2010
Vinyl of the Week: Captain Ahab's Grotesque Opus, 'The End of Irony' [MP3]
In the strange wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES reviews the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community, believing that good music deserves much more than a handfu ... More >>
Music
April 29, 2010
Music Picks: Neil Innes, Korean Music Festival 8, Avi Buffalo, Lupe Fiasco, Coheed and Cambria
Also, No Age, Sheila E & the Escovedo Family, Greg Laswell and others
Music
December 3, 2009
The Miseducation of Freddie Gibbs
In 2009, rap is no longer dangerous. Meet an MC wrestling with capital-letter issues: blood, dirt and death
Blogs
November 13, 2009
Death By Auto-Tune: AmpLive Kills His Robot Son, Gary
Look! Something new from Oakland's AmpLive, the producer who made a name for himself by getting Too $hort to rap about pimping hos over a remix of Radiohead's "Nude"! (He also performed at The Echo on Wednesday night.) Considering West Coast Sound's extensive excavation of an earlier AutoTune-inspir ... More >>
Blogs
October 15, 2008
Last Night: Celeb Packed DJ AM Benefit at Avalon, Rockin' til the Early Hours
By Pamela Chelin It was a packed house at Avalon last night in Hollywood with a line extending down the street. DJ AM, who survived a plane crash (along with Travis Barker) in South Carolina recently, threw a party to raise funds for the families of the victims who were tragically killed in the cra ... More >>
Blogs
October 2, 2008
The B-Sides: Blu Interview
Contrary to popular belief, Blu did not take his name from the Eiffel 65 song popular in the late 90s. Q: So where exactly in LA did you grow up? A: I was born at St. Andrews and 54th, at my grandparent’s crib, that’s where I was living last year and it’s the first place I ever stayed. But ... More >>
Music
September 25, 2008
Has the L.A. Hip-Hop Plague Finally Passed?
Four on the floor
Blogs
April 9, 2008
The 10 Rules of Pimpology According to the Video for Do or Die's "Po' Pimp"
10. The ability to acquire flaming pennies (these were also reportedly Shaquille O' Neal's last words upon leaving Orlando). Such magic coins will give their owners the ability to turn homeless people into suave and dapper, ladies men and thus realize their dreams of using P.I.M.P.O.L.O.G.Y. to lo ... More >>
Music
March 27, 2008
Rock Picks: Ray Davies, Beth Orton, Justice
Plus other March 27-April 3 shows
Blogs
January 11, 2008
G-Funk Week Concluded: 10 Qualities Highly Sought After in a Regulator As Gleaned From Warren G & Nate Dogg's "Regulate"
1. Not being just any geek off the streets How To Avoid Being A "Geek Off the Streets: Learn how to how be to handy with the steel and earn your keep. Best Models to Emulate: Gay steel workers, Andrew Carnegie, Iron Man 2. Not Tweaking When You See a Car Full of Girls How To Avoid Tweaking ... More >>
Music
December 6, 2007
N.W.A: Compton's Most Vaunted a Hard Act to Follow
Two decades later, Straight Outta Compton is as vital � and brutal � as ever
Blogs
December 5, 2007
Pimp C Dies in L.A.
According to this TMZ report, Pimp C was found dead in his bed in a Sunset Strip hotel room this morning. The rapper, born Chad Butler, had just performed with Too Short at the LA House of Blues last Saturday. Houston's music blog, Houstoned Rocks is following the story. Click here to check out t ... More >>
Music
November 29, 2007
N.W.A: A Hard Act to Follow
Hip-hop and hype from the streets of Compton (reprint of May 5, 1989, Weekly cover story)
Music
March 9, 2006
Bang a Bong
Dilated Peoples: L.A. b-boys hit the NBA
Music
December 15, 2005
Where�s the Funny?
The year hip-hop forgot its dick can fly
Music
May 15, 2003
The Undeath of West Coast Flow
The year hip-hop forgot its dick can fly
Music
November 15, 2001
U Don�t Know
The year hip-hop forgot its dick can fly
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