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Woodstock

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    Starry Kitchen's 4/20 Weed Dinner: Nothing Green Can Stay

    If you happened to take a twilight stroll through downtown's industrial district last Friday, you may have spied a wild figure waltzing along the cracked asphalt, between the art houses, coffee galleries, and bombed-out warehouses. He was dressed in mismatched knee-high socks, a navy blue coat, an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2012

    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 >>

  • Eat+Drink

    March 8, 2012

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

    "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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2012

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    February 2, 2012

    I Wish They All Could Be California Bands

    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 >>

  • Music

    September 15, 2011

    1991: Nirvana Documentary Captures the Band Moments Before They Broke

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    March 10, 2011

    THE ICING ON THE GRAVY

    ​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 >>

  • Film+TV

    March 10, 2011

    Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Story

    ​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 >>

  • Music

    December 9, 2010

    MY BIG FAT SWINGING HORN

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

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2010

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    July 29, 2010

    Rock Out With Your Doc Out

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    June 24, 2010

    PRAISE BLUTO

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2010

    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 >>

  • Film+TV

    March 11, 2010

    Camp Apocalypse

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

  • Eat+Drink

    January 14, 2010

    Fig Out

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

  • Music

    December 3, 2009

    Southern Comfort

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

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2009

    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 >>

  • News

    September 3, 2009

    Gold’s 99: Where’s the Fire?

    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 >>

  • Film+TV

    August 27, 2009

    Taking — and Ruining — Woodstock

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

  • Calendar

    August 27, 2009

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

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

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2009

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    August 13, 2009

    Woodstock Exhibit

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    July 23, 2009

    GOOD JOB, GRAMMY MUSEUM PRESS DEPT.!

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2009

    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 >>

  • Eat+Drink

    February 12, 2009

    Market Forces: Fig at the Fairmont Miramar

    Ray Garcia's menu follows the flavors of the seasons

  • News

    September 4, 2008

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

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

  • Blogs

    August 23, 2008

    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 >>

  • Stage

    October 25, 2007

    The Chicago Conspiracy Trial: Boomer Town

    Taking L.A. back to the Summer of Love

  • Music

    October 11, 2007

    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

  • Film+TV

    July 12, 2007

    Good Vibrations

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

  • Music

    March 22, 2007

    Days of Lines and Poses

    SxSW journal

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2007

    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 >>

  • Film+TV

    August 17, 2006

    Mods & Rockers 2006

    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 >>

  • Film+TV

    March 9, 2006

    Film Reviews

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

  • Music

    February 17, 2005

    More Viola! More!

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

  • Music

    March 13, 2003

    Sandblasted Standards

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

  • Music

    December 23, 1999

    Rick Danko, 1942 - 1999

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

  • Music

    December 16, 1999

    Do U Know Us?

    Armand Van Helden, Mos Def: A masculine equation

  • Music

    November 25, 1999

    Please Don't Like Me

    Mike Ness' social contortions

  • Art+Books

    July 22, 1999

    The Lunar Shot

    The most expensive photographs ever taken

  • Stage

    September 10, 1998

    Darkness Revisited

    The most expensive photographs ever taken

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