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April 8, 2013
The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Week
Monday, April 8 Thao & the Get Down Stay Down THE TROUBADOUR Usually, when songwriters are as wickedly intelligent as Thao Nguyen, they tend to write morbidly gloomy and/or overly serious anthems of great meaning and purpose. That's not to say the Virginia native doesn't have her grand and heavy mo ... More >>
Blogs
January 2, 2013
Here's What Didn't Suck About B.E.T.'s Top 100 Videos Of 2012
On December 31, BET showed their Top 100 videos of the year. It was a block of television that ended at 10 p.m. and began, if I'm remembering accurately, around 48 BC. I'd planned on watching all of it, absorbing the videos and then using that information to reach some grand, great point about rap ... More >>
Blogs
November 13, 2012
Wiz Khalifa on Becoming a Daddy: "It's Made Me Calm Down a Bunch of Notches"
When Pittsburgh rapper Wiz Khalifa released the song "Black and Yellow" two years ago, he and his team figured at most, it would be a regional hit. Instead, it ricocheted the artist to mainstream pop stardom. Ever since, he's been walking a tightrope. Khalifa toured relentlessly for a couple years ... More >>
Blogs
November 12, 2012
The Best Concerts To See in L.A. This Week: Nov 12-15
Monday, November 12 In The Valley Below BOOTLEG BAR Looking like Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman walk-ons, and with an eye-contact connection to rival Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham in their good times, Echo Park hubby-and-wife Angela Gail and Jeffrey Jacob patchwork together love-in-ready bluesy ro ... More >>
Music
November 8, 2012
Music Picks: Gary Clark Jr., Those Darlins, Wiz Khalifa
Monday, November 12 In The Valley Below BOOTLEG BAR Looking like Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman walk-ons, and with an eye-contact connection to rival Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham in their good times, Echo Park hubby-and-wife Angela Gail and Jeffrey Jacob patchwork together love-in-ready bluesy ro ... More >>
Blogs
September 20, 2012
Compton Rapper Problem Wrote the Name of His New Mixtape in MDMA
Compton rapper Problem has worked heavily with hip-hop icons Snoop Dogg and E-40 -- his collaboration with the latter, "Function," is one of the catchiest songs of 2012. But he's also just about the only MC in the game who isn't scared to look happy about his success. Hot on the heels of his new mix ... More >>
Blogs
August 10, 2012
Let's Talk About the Crazy Names For Musician Fan Bases, Like "Beliebers"
As Jerry Seinfeld might say: What's the deal with all these crazy names for musician fan bases, like Lady Gaga's "Little Monsters" and Justin Bieber's "Beliebers"? It's all wrapped up in the tradition of fan clubs, which have been around at least since 1960 musical Bye Bye Birdie coupled an Elvi ... More >>
Blogs
August 3, 2012
The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend
Friday, August 3 Rusko AVALON Quite possibly the most honest man in dubstep, Leeds-born, L.A.-dwelling producer Rusko has taken responsibility for the existence of the much-maligned "brostep" trend -- which is to say, injecting the dark atmospherics and effects of the original genre with a distinct ... More >>
Blogs
July 30, 2012
The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week
Monday, July 30 Big K.R.I.T. EL REY THEATRE The South rises again in the form of Big K.R.I.T. ("king remember in time"), a marvelously dexterous rapper-producer from Mississippi who insists that it's "Cool 2 Be Southern" on his debut full-length CD, Live From the Underground. He has produced key tr ... More >>
Blogs
July 16, 2012
Azealia Banks - Fonda Theatre - 7/14/12
See also: *Our review of Azealia Banks at Coachella *Slutwave, Tumblr Rap, Rape Gaze: Obscure Musical Genres Explained Azealia Banks Fonda Theatre 7/14/12 Hip-hop remains one of the last bastions of bald-faced homophobia. Rappers follow any remotely gay-sounding comment with "no homo," and histo ... More >>
Blogs
July 16, 2012
The Best Five Concerts in L.A. This Week
Monday, July 16 Animal Raps LOS GLOBOS By day, Paul Prado is one of the brevity-obsessed comic geniuses at L.A.'s own 5 Second Films. He's their in-house Method actor -- a guy who takes what he does so seriously, he'll shave his head clean for a five-second spoof of Citizen Kane. He can occupy a ch ... More >>
Blogs
July 12, 2012
The Cataracs Are Not Like a G6
It's a Friday morning, and David Singer-Vine and Niles Hollowell-Dhar sit on the sun-dappled patio of their favorite taco stand, Silver Lake's El Siete Mares. But they don't order food. "It's too early for tacos," Singer-Vine, 24, says as he shakes his head, his eyes still a little sleepy. Just in ... More >>
Blogs
May 21, 2012
Co$$: "I'll Smoke Wiz Khalifa and Curren$y Under the Table"
Underground Los Angeles rapper Co$$ has built up quite a bit of momentum, collaborating with folks like Blu and Freddie Gibbs. Ahead of his second full-length album with producer Numonics, Genesis, out on May 22nd, we spoke with Co$$ about the origins of his name, his weed habit, and other subjects. ... More >>
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
April 9, 2012
Odd Future, Dipset, Ab-Soul - Paid Dues 2012 - 4/7/2012
Paid Dues 2012 NOS Events Center, San Bernardino 4/7/2012 Posted by the Paid Dues media check-in, the announcement, "ATTENTION: Photo Pit Closed for Odd Future Performance," seemed an ominous sign. Though it likely was just to ward off further lawsuits, it felt a little pretentious -- and Murs' ind ... More >>
Blogs
March 28, 2012
Big Sean, Kid Ink - Club Nokia - 3/27/12
Big Sean, Kid Ink Club Nokia 3/27/12 Better Than... hanging out with the people who went to the Lady Antebellum show at Staples Center. Since 2008, XXL Magazine has anointed a group of up-and-coming rappers as their freshman class in order to show fans what the future of hip-hop will look like. M ... More >>
Blogs
March 9, 2012
Mansions on the Moon Are a Musical Weed Brownie
Mansions on the Moon are not at home. It's an unusually warm Wednesday afternoon, and I'm camped out on the front porch of their Hollywood home thirty minutes after our scheduled meeting time. Suddenly, my phone rings and Ted Wendler, the band's lead singer and guitarist, breathlessly and profusel ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2012
Cypress Hill Smokeout Festival - NOS Events Center - 3/3/12
See also: Cypress Hill Rallies Medical Marijuana Advocates for Smokeout at City Hall (With Photos) Cypress Hill Smokeout Festival with Rusko, Wiz Khalifa, Korn, Sublime with Rome, Thievery Corporation NOS Events Center, San Bernardino 3/3/12 Love was in the San Bernardino air Saturday. Well, that, ... More >>
Blogs
March 2, 2012
Fashawn Wanted to Be Pastor, But His Destiny Was Rapping
In Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, a young shepherd, Santiago, attends seminary but longs to travel. He embarks on a quest to find a hidden treasure and ends up meeting an alchemist, who teaches him that the treasure really is the journey itself. Fashawn once lived in a trailer behind a church and w ... More >>
Blogs
January 4, 2012
Snoop and Wiz Khalifa's "Young, Wild and Free": 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.] See also: Snoop Dogg's Player's Ball 2011 - Marbella - December 17, 2011 Song: Snoop and Wiz Khalifa's "Young, Wild and Free" History: "Young, Wild and Free" i ... 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 >>
Music
December 8, 2011
Music Picks: Andrea Bocelli, Carina Round, A Hero A Fake
Also, Norma Jean, Jonathan Richman, Jay-Z and Kanye West and others
Blogs
November 15, 2011
Ghostface Killah Changes Mind About Online Impersonator Ghostfase: 'Shout Out to My Mini Muse.... Funny Ass Ninja'
Internet junkies earned a new respect for Ghostface Killah back in March, under the illusion it was he who had conjured the brilliant and hysterical (to the point of tears) "Top 10 Softest Rappers In The Game." But when West Coast darling Wiz Khalifa and the other teddy bears on the list sta ... More >>
Blogs
October 31, 2011
Meet Speak, Who Co-Wrote Kreayshawn's "Gucci Gucci"
BrassSpeakIt's an August afternoon in Hollywood, and the shaggy-bearded rapper Speak is snacking on mac 'n' cheese in a recording studio at Atlantic Records. He doesn't seem like he belongs here. For starters, he's wearing beach bum attire: sun-bleached peach board shorts and Sperry Top-Sid ... 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 >>
Music
October 13, 2011
Music Picks: Shelby Lynne, Marsha Ambrosius, John Scofield Quartet, Wiz Khalifa
Also, Leon Russell, Chris Brown, Azar Lawrence Quintet and others
Blogs
October 12, 2011
Yelawolf - El Rey Theatre - October 11, 2011
Timothy NorrisYelawolf El Rey Theatre October 11, 2011 Almost a year ago, Yelawolf opened for Wiz Khalifa at the Music Box to little interest. His modest van was parked next to the headliner's tour bus in the lot. Last night at the El Rey Theatre, though, Yelawolf was in his element. Havi ... More >>
Blogs
September 20, 2011
West Hollywood Fur Ban Passed by Council: WeHo to Become Nation's First Fur-Free City
Oh no you didn't.Fancy L.A. ladies looking to add some baby seal to their fall collections, or hipsters sniffing out their own clip-on foxtail in the Burning Man/Wiz Khalifa tradition, won't be welcome in West Hollywood anymore. The city tentatively approved an ordinance last night that will ... More >>
Blogs
September 7, 2011
Top Five Most Tired Rap Cliches
Last week we brought you the 60 worst Lil Wayne lines on Tha Carter IV. Those lyrics are bad mainly because Wayne has stopped exerting effort; he clearly used the first thing that came into his head, even if said thing was, "Nothing standing in my way/ Like nothing's my security." But give ... More >>
Blogs
July 22, 2011
MTV VMA Best New Artist Nominees: A Field Guide to Kreayshawn, Big Sean, Foster the People, Tyler the Creator, and Wiz Khalifa
KreayshawnArticle by Shea Serrano On Sunday, August 28th, MTV's Video Music Awards will wander into town. MTV, by the way, is a television station. They play music and whatnot, but more importantly, they allow a handsome troglodyte named CT to exist. Also, younger readers: A television s ... More >>
Blogs
July 21, 2011
"Black and Jewish," the Wiz Khalifa Parody We Didn't See Coming
So icy"Uh-huh, you know what it is- my nose and ass? They're both big." And that's just the first line. We hoped thought Wiz Khalifa's "Black and Yellow" was all burned out, but Kat Graham's parody, "Black and Jewish," debuted on Funny or (with a Star of David substituted for the "o," natc ... More >>
Blogs
May 23, 2011
Spaceghostpurrp on Being Compared to Odd Future, Not Dissing the Taylor Gang, and Why Miami is Satan's Playground
Spaceghostpurrp's spaceship just dropped him offTwo months ago, Miami rapper and producer Spaceghostpurrp's YouTube channel registered a few hundred views. But one dip into the then-nineteen-year-old's world of viscous sound waves had us hooked: It sounds as though he's sunk a creaky, abando ... More >>
Blogs
May 16, 2011
VIDEO: Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa Kicked off Mira Costa High Campus for Shooting 'Questionable' Music Video
Never too old to get kicked off campus.The children of Mira Costa High were this close to seeing their Manhattan Beach campus catapulted into the stoner-rap hall of fame this month. Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg, two of SoCal fattest potheads, had chosen Mira Costa as the set of their stoniest v ... 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
March 29, 2011
New Coachella Passes Go On Sale! (If You Got $975 to Spare for VIP Service)
We're in the money! We're in the money! We're in the money and we got what it takes to get to Indiooooo!While for you, me, and everyone we know Coachella has been sold-out for months, for members of an exclusive VIP website called GiltCity, this might not be the case. A tipster pointed us to ... More >>
Blogs
March 18, 2011
SXSW: Day 2 Round-up with Budweiser Tall Boys, Wu-Tang and a Totally Tricked-out Hipster Playground
photo by Wendy GilmartinTall Boys O'Plenty Any normal SXSW day is spent guzzling back brews, taking in the sunshine and partying in general, so when the festival lands on St. Patrick's day, the only logical solution to upping the ante is - yes, you guessed it - to make the dang beer can tall ... More >>
Music
March 17, 2011
Music to Pick Up/Download
photo by Wendy GilmartinTall Boys O'Plenty Any normal SXSW day is spent guzzling back brews, taking in the sunshine and partying in general, so when the festival lands on St. Patrick's day, the only logical solution to upping the ante is - yes, you guessed it - to make the dang beer can tall ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2011
Wiz Khalifa's "Black and Yellow" En Español: "Pan Con Queso (and Cafecito)"
Billboard points us in the direction of an awesome video by a Dominican-American duo who turned Wiz Khalifa's current hit "Black and Yellow" into an ode to Latin breakfast staple "Pan Con Queso" and also to the inimitable cafecito. Watch:
Blogs
January 18, 2011
Coachella Lineup Announced: We Told You Odd Future Was in There!
This is the official press release: Coachella 2011. Music. Art. Culture. Community. With the Coachella line-up announcement serving as the official kick-off to the annual U.S. festival season, festival organizers Goldenvoice can now reveal details for the 2011 Coachella Valley Music & Art ... More >>
Music
January 13, 2011
Page Two: Music Roundup
This is the official press release: Coachella 2011. Music. Art. Culture. Community. With the Coachella line-up announcement serving as the official kick-off to the annual U.S. festival season, festival organizers Goldenvoice can now reveal details for the 2011 Coachella Valley Music & Art ... More >>
Blogs
January 7, 2011
Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg: Exclusive Live Footage Last Night for LA Weekly
Wiz Khalifa makes his major label debut of, "Black and Yellow," with DJ Snoop Dogg at 300 Bowling Lane in Anaheim, CA last night. "Black and Yellow" being the first offering from his 2011 Rostrum Records/Atlantic Records release. These two pot enthusiasts, Snoop and Wiz, announced their joint movie ... More >>
Blogs
November 9, 2010
Weed Champion Wiz Khalifa Arrested for Possession: File Under "We Saw This Coming"
Do you think he's high?Wiz Khalifa's finally famous. How else to explain his arrest after yet another sold-out show last night at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina? Around 10 PM PST, Twitter suddenly erupted with #freewiz trending nationwide, and rumors of the rapper bein ... More >>
Blogs
October 22, 2010
Live Review: Wiz Khalifa at The Music Box
Marguerite de BourgoingWiz Khalifa's super high Diddy's not from Wiz Khalifa's home base, Pittsburgh, but he knew what referencing the rapper's runaway hit single "Black and Yellow" would do. Clutching gold-accented black Nikes, he captioned his Twitpic, "Gettin' my get fresh on for my brothe ... More >>
Blogs
October 22, 2010
This weekend: Sufjan Stevens, Interpol, the Temper Trap, Shakira, Monster Massive, Bobby Brown
Denny RenshawSufjan StevensIf you take in Sufjan Stevens' shows in Los Angeles this weekend expecting some warm-and-fuzzy orchestral pop from a banjo-toting folkie, you've got another thing coming. In fact, dancing shoes may be in order. Stevens' newest album The Age of Adz is full of insist ... More >>
Blogs
October 21, 2010
Tonight: Slayer, Megadeth, Film School, Los Enanitos Verdes, Wiz Khalifa, Born Ruffians, Frank Fairfield
SlayerIf the current "Clash of Titans" tour featuring Slayer, Medageth and Anthrax has reinforced one notion, it's that anger never goes out of style. The tour, with Slayer and Megadeth co-headlining, has been raging, drawing metal fans young and old to the music of bands that, along with Me ... More >>
Blogs
August 23, 2010
Over the Weekend: Rock the Bells Hip-Hop Festival, featuring Snoop, Wu-Tang, Lauryn Hill
Kasey StokesMethod Man of Wu-Tang ClanAs it turns out, you should not fuck tha police. Our Rock the Bells road trip began promisingly: left for San Bernardino early, avoided traffic. We'd maintained a cool objectivity all week, but now were free to exclaim over the lineup, a mix of ones-to- ... More >>
Blogs
May 6, 2010
Live in LA Tonight: Flying Lotus, Links, Ingrid Michaelson, Stanton Moore, the Head Cat
LinksWhoever said the best things in life are free never got gouged for parking in Hollywood. So suffice to say a couple of the best things tonight are ... convenient. Flying Lotus -- his acclaimed sophomore album "Cosmogramma" having just hit the shelves -- plays a 7 p.m. in-store at Amoeba. ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2010
Live in L.A. Tonight: Pacha Massive, the Hold Steady, Jane's Addiction, Dosh, Two Door Cinema Club
No matter whether you regard Cinco de Mayo as a meaningful holiday or a beer company-sponsored excuse to get loaded, it's a good day to get your bilingual on. Spaceland's lineup tonight plays right into that: NYC's hybridizers of dub, electro and Latin rhythms Pacha Massive headline, supporte ... 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
Blogs
October 31, 2008
Why KLF's "3 a.m. Eternal" Continues To "Rock Me" 17 Years Later
Also, No Age, Sheila E & the Escovedo Family, Greg Laswell and others
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