Woodstock

How To Reel In a Big Name Producer

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Announcing the Winners of the First Voice Media Group Music Writing Awards

Each week in our print editions and every day on our blogs, the 13 Voice Media Group papers feature some of the best music writing in the country. That's why we're excited to announce the winners of our first VMG music writing awards. The honor goes to the authors of one blog post and one print pi ... More >>

My Brother Got Married. The Theme of the Wedding Was Widespread Panic

This weekend my little brother got married. Now, in and of itself, nothing about this is newsworthy to anyone outside my family. People get married all the time. But in those weddings, was the bride's hair knotted into dreadlocks and did she walk down the aisle to Jerry Garcia's "Shining Star"? ... More >>

Janis, Anyone?

Ten Rap-Rock Songs That Are Actually Awesome

See also: Crazy Town's Shifty Shellshock Is Out of His Coma! Here's Everything You Need To Know About Him Rap-rock remains the coolest idea ever. You've just been scared off of it by the mountain of terrible rap-rock in existence. Here are ten songs that prove the Woodstock '99-tainted genre could ... More >>

Beyond Wonderland Rave Could Get Snow This Weekend. No, Really.

See also: Beyond Wonderland Rave in SoCal Hosts Politicians, Paris Hilton, Alleged Drug Offenders, and Maybe Even a Good Vibe Insomniac's third annual electronic music festival Beyond Wonderland takes over San Bernardino this weekend. The event's website says it's sold out and will happen "rain or ... More >>

Fred Weintraub, Former Warner Bros. Exec, On His New Memoir Bruce Lee, Woodstock and Me

"I started at the top," Fred Weintraub says of his film career. With no previous studio experience, the former baby furniture salesman and Greenwich Village coffeehouse owner was hired in 1969 as the vice president of creative services at Warner Bros. Pictures, placing him at the top of the studio d ... More >>

Roy Choi of A-Frame and Kogi on How Cookbooks Changed His Life

5 Revelations About L.A. Music History at the Grammy Museum's Show 'Trouble In Paradise'

Becky Sapp​ For some, Los Angeles' musical history fits nicely into categories; there was bouncing beach pop, Laurel Canyon folk, West Coast rap and Sunset Strip rock. But behind this shroud of notable names and iconic acts, there is a richer, more diverse portrait of music in Los Angeles. Th ... More >>

I Wish They All Could Be California Bands

EXCLUSIVE: Metallica's Lars Ulrich On Surviving the Big 4 and the Roots of Thrash

Warner Bros.Metallica's Lars Ulrich​Months of anticipation came to an explosive finish in the California desert on Saturday night, as Metallica closed their "Big 4" thrash-fest with a thundering "Seek & Destroy" for 50,000 weary headbangers spread across Empire Polo Field in Indio. By acknowle ... More >>

EXCLUSIVE: Slayer's Kerry King Reveals How Thrash Survives

Photograph by Steve ApplefordSlayer guitarist Kerry King​ Thrash metal musicians are not always the most social of animals. The guys in Anthrax do tend to get along with other bands, but Slayer, Megadeth and Metallica have famously traded insults across the decades over slights big and small. ... More >>

EXCLUSIVE: Slayer's Tom Araya Talks Moshpits, Spider-bites and the Big 4

Steve ApplefordSlayer's Tom Araya​ For Slayer's singer-bassist Tom Araya, thrash-metal has been a 30-year mission. On Saturday, his band joins Metallica, Anthrax and Megadeth in Indio, California, for the Big 4 Fest - invading the site of Coachella while continuing a collaboration that began ... More >>

Cookbook Review: The Complete Kitchen Garden, Your Weekend Entertainment

​If you already consider yourself an urban homesteader, (legal or otherwise), then the recently released The Complete Kitchen Garden: An Inspired Collection of Garden Designs and 100 Seasonal Recipes by Ellen Ecker Ogden probably is not for you. For the rest of us, this hybrid gardening/cookbo ... More >>

Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Story

MY BIG FAT SWINGING HORN

This week listen up for Adam Schroeder, Allison Miller and Phil Ranelin

The Globe Trottin' Mr. Rollins: Henry Rollins Visits a Dead North Korean Leader, Ponders the Relationship Between State Communism and Scientology, and Finally Finds Time to Chill Out in Mongolia (also, HR's Musings on Jimi Hendrix!)

Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins will be contributing 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 Friday and make sure to tune ... More >>

Rock Out With Your Doc Out

PRAISE BLUTO

Lost Counterculture Film Featuring Anti-Comedy Guru Del Close and Rare MC5 Material to Be Released

​Ok, here's one for you lovers of the truly odd: Wild Eye Releasing and MVD Visual are pleased to announce the release of "GOLD: Before Woodstock. Beyond Reality." for North American distribution on July 27. Considered a 'lost' film for 40 years, GOLD has been found again... This is its firs ... More >>

EXCLUSIVE MP3: "Mike's Song" from the Phish 3-D Movie Soundtrack

[Ed.'s note: Attention Phish-Heads! Your idols have made a 3-D movie to blow your minds in yet another dimension and it opens today. They're also kind, giving folks, so they have offered you an EXCLUSIVE version of "Mike's Song" from the soundtrack via West Coast Sound. Right-click here for the dow ... More >>

EXCLUSIVE: Legendary Rock Photographer Jim Marshall Remembered by Baron Wolman, Neal Preston, Lisa Law and Other Colleagues

[Legendary rock photographer Jim Marshall passed away last week at 74. One of our own photographers and writers, Anna Webber, wrote this personal reminiscence about Marshall and his legacy. She contacted Marshall's fellow purveyors of iconic '60s images and got their exclusive permission to reproduc ... More >>

Review: Amanda Jo Williams @ Echo Country Outpost

​Strumming a small child's guitar and tapping a giant bass drum that rattles like an earthquake, Amanda Jo Williams spins country-fried yarns about growing up in Georgia, hitchhiking to Woodstock, the men she's loved and the cosmos she abides by, with a voice somewhere between Minnie Mouse and ... More >>

Camp Apocalypse

War, waste, wit and Woodstock: Cinefamily celebrates cheeky visions of end-times

Fig Out

Whether you swing carnivore or vegan, Ray Garcia has you covered — or wrapped

Southern Comfort

INCHES reviews 'Woodstock', Charizma & Peanut Butter Wolf, We Break Cameras, Lilofee (MP3s)

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 (artists and labels, indie or other), believing that good m ... More >>

Gold’s 99: Where’s the Fire?

Taking — and Ruining — Woodstock

Ang Lee's latest cranks up the amp on faux '60s nostalgia

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

The Flaming Lips at the Greek: Better Than Woodstock

Woodstock, schmoodstock. That was a one-time event. It rained, people were messed up on bad acid, and most of the performances, as evidenced by the new 6-CD Woodstock box set, sucked. And yet, and yet, every five years we get the same damned baby-boomer inculcation, a bullshit NPR/NBC/Rolling Stone ... More >>

Woodstock Exhibit

GOOD JOB, GRAMMY MUSEUM PRESS DEPT.!

Newport '69 Remembered

Kevin Roderick recalls L.A.'s forgotten Woodstock, a three-day open-air concert in Northridge that still brings smiles to its participants. In his L.A. Observed entry, Roderick recalls that "Jimi Hendrix jammed with Buddy Miles on Sunday afternoon in a session still bootlegged around the Internet, n ... More >>

Market Forces: Fig at the Fairmont Miramar

Ray Garcia's menu follows the flavors of the seasons

Rocking the Rhetoric at the DNC: Coachella for C-Span Junkies

With notes on Harry Reid — the unknown poet of the political speechwriting?

Outside Lands Day 1-Don't Quote Me On It, But I Think This Radiohead Band Has a Chance to Get Big

(all photos by Christopher Victorio) Don't expect much. No one with an iota of common sense would attend a music festival after being struck by the snarling combination of African Sleeping Sickness/Mono/Ricketts/Gout/Scurvy that waylaid me for a full two weeks of misery and and continues to leave ... More >>

The Chicago Conspiracy Trial: Boomer Town

Taking L.A. back to the Summer of Love

Devendra Banhart Curls Up in Your Hand

A wide-ranging interview on Tarot cards, Topanga Canyon, the tackiness of the "freak folk" label and his wonderous new album, Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon

Good Vibrations

The American Cinematheque puts the “rock” back into Mods & Rockers

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 >>

Mods & Rockers 2006

Film Reviews

Including Failure to Launch, The Hills Have Eyes, Coachella and more.

More Viola! More!

Sandblasted Standards

Rick Danko, 1942 - 1999

Do U Know Us?

Armand Van Helden, Mos Def: A masculine equation

Please Don't Like Me

Mike Ness' social contortions

The Lunar Shot

The most expensive photographs ever taken

Darkness Revisited