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Music Picks: Chino XL, Marissa Nadler, As Blood Runs Black

Culture Collide Festival - Zola Jesus, Resplandor - 10/5/2012

Zola Jesus, Dean Wareham, Resplandor, The Balconies Culture Collide Festival 10/5/2012 Better Than... losing the last round of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? on live TV. Friendly folks came to Echo Park this weekend from far flung places to play the Culture Collide festival. Sure, there ... More >>

The Five Best Shows in Los Angeles This Week: Garbage, Nick Lowe, Culture Collide

Tuesday, October 2 Garbage WILTERN When they formed in 1994, future chart fixtures Garbage had the makings of a sterile vanity project. Created by veteran studio rats (including Butch Vig, producer of Nirvana's Nevermind), with a grafted-on unknown vocalist, their formula appeared better suited to ... More >>

Music Picks: Culture Collide, Nick Lowe, Screaming Females

Heartbreak Supergroup

At least the members of Divine Fits have each other

Amanda Palmer's Dopey Topless Protest (NSFW)

See also: Exclusive: Amanda Palmer's New Track, "In My Mind" and Interview Here at West Coast Sound we love it when musicians would rather be naked than wear fur. (Particularly when it's Waka Flocka Flame.) Indeed our sympathies quite often lie with activists who are poorly-clothed. So even though ... More >>

Music Picks: Charli XCX, Polica, Esperanza Spalding and More

Music Picks: Smokeout Festival, Mike Miller Group, Zola Jesus, Saul Williams

Also, New Multitudes, Cool Moms, Alpha & Omega, Cloud Nothings and others

The Top Ten Los Angeles Albums Of 2011

​The best albums of 2011 from Los Angeles artists came from a suitably diverse Angeleno cast of characters; there are rappers and singers, legends and transplants, folks with great careers in front of them, and those who may have peaked this year. One thing's clear: it was unquestionably a gre ... More >>

M83 - The Music Box - 11/9/11

Ian Cohen​See also: M83's Anthony Gonzalez Makes Soundtracks, Without The Movie M83 The Music Box 11-9-11 Better than: Having to actually be 16 again. At the risk of completely disavowing any claims of critical distance, this was the concert event of 2011 for yours truly and I don't care wh ... More >>

Zola Jesus, LA Vampires, Xanopticon - Echoplex - October 31, 2011

ian Cohen​See also: *Zola Jesus Brings Her Unsettled and Prickly Vision to L.A. *Amanda Brown of LA Vampires: Raw Foodist, Colossal In Kiev Zola Jesus, LA Vampires, Xanopticon Echoplex October 31, 2011 Better than... Seeing MC 900 Ft. Jesus on Columbus Day. Gotta admit, perhaps the greates ... More >>

Amanda Brown: Raw Foodist, Colossal In Kiev

Britt BrownAmanda Brown​See also: LA Vampires perform at Dem Passwords, 8/3/11 At Cafe Gratitude on Larchmont Boulevard, the menu items aren't labeled as soups or burgers or salads or whatever; instead, they're hippie affirmations, like "I Am Liberated" or "I Am Honoring." When the waitress d ... More >>

Music Picks: Amanda Palmer & Jason Webley, Tinariwen, Mastodon

Also: Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers, Danzig and others

Zola Jesus Brings Her Unsettled and Prickly Vision to L.A.

Music Picks: Janet Jackson, John Escreet Quartet, DJ Quik, Charles Bradley

Also, Charlie Haden Quartet West, John Williams, Philip Glass and others

Over The Weekend: Best Coast, Cops and the Cheesecake Factory at Make Music Pasadena

Sam BlochBest Coast, Assembled Multitudes​ STORY BY SAM BLOCH At the dawn of the Napster age, sociologist Tia DeMora wrote eloquently of the relationship between commerce and pop music. "Consumption behavior can be understood as a kind of dance," she wrote. And in a retail environment, it's ... More >>

Zola Jesus Enchants The Satellite: Live Review

Jena Ardell.Zola Jesus put a spell on us, and now we're hers.​ Upon first glance, we thought, 'Wow, Zola Jesus rolled out of bed and took the sheets with her!' but her breezy frock only contributed to the mesmerizing performance she gave to a packed house at The Satellite on Saturday night. W ... More >>

Music Picks: Elvis Costello & the Imposters, Prince, Ricky Martin, Carrie Rodriguez, The Low Anthem, Mogwai

Also, Gutbucket Chamber Orchestra, Pegi Young, Mike Stinson and others

Music Picks: SWANS, Sebadoh, Arbouretum, Cass McCombs

Also Meshell Ndegeocello, Kaki King, Local Natives and others

Top 10 Musicians Who Should Become American Apparel Spokesmodels

10 Musicians Who Could Save American Apparel (Or Maybe Just Wear It)

Origami Vinyl's Local Top Ten (Plus One!)

via origami vinyl's flickrneil schield of origami vinyl​ Independent Echo Park record store Origami Vinyl carries a strong collection of local music as well as new releases and luxurious reissues. Proprietor Neil Schield told us about their most recent top ten local sellers--as well as a loca ... More >>

Former Ghosts' New Album 'New Love' Out Today

​ Out today on Upset The Rhythm: Second album New Love from L.A. band Former Ghosts, which is Freddy Ruppert (This Song Is A Mess But So Am I) with friends Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu), Yasmine Kittles (Tearist) and Nika Roza Danilova (Zola Jesus). Last album Fleurs was unflinchingly intimate--a b ... More >>

And the Jukebox Sailed On

KROQ brings back everyone's favorite Sex Pistol radio jock. Will they allow Steve Jones to be his burpy self?

EXCLUSIVE Photos: Steve Jones's Debut at KROQ, Live on Air for the First Time in Two Years

This Sunday saw Steve Jones, the radio DJ Los Angeles misses the most, present his Jonesy's Jukebox live on air for the first time in nearly two years. LA Weekly was invited into the KROQ studio to capture the moment so many have longed for, and we watched the Sex Pistol sail through his two hour sh ... More >>

Tonight: Shadow Shadow Shade, M.I.A., the Morning Benders, Miike Snow, Mark Ronson

Jason O'DellShadow Shadow Shade​When Shadow Shadow Shade burst onto the L.A. scene about two years ago -- then known as Afternoons -- you'd have thought there wasn't an arena big enough to hold them. An early song, "Say Yes," hit the radio, and Shepard Fairey designed a poster for it. The sev ... More >>

Live Review: The XX, Warpaint, and Zola Jesus at The Hollywood Palladium

Lindsey BestThe XX​ Last night was the official beginning of the XX's victory lap (tour) of America. Just one year after their self titled debut album dropped in the US, the XX sold out the Hollywood Palladium and so it was fitting that the entire evening would fit their mysterious aesthetic. ... More >>

Tonight: The xx, Warpaint, Tommy Keene, Dntel, the Airborne Toxic Event

Timothy NorrisThe xx​Our favorite first reaction to the music of The xx came from an obviously hopeless romantic we stood with at a South by Southwest show who deadpanned, "I don't know, I think I like my x's with o's." But that's tangential to the big news of the day -- the black-dressed thr ... More >>

Music Picks: Grizzly Bear, Muse, Dark Dark Dark, the Charlatans UK

Also, Tonya Watts, Modeselektor, Heart and others

Los Angeles Rules the NME's 50 Best New Bands List

​Perennial UK tastemaking publication the NME has just released their list of the 50 Best New Bands, "the 50 bands who've blown our minds over the past few months." These are bands that have shown up on the NME radar in 2010, from the UK and US. And guess what? Los Angeles is overwhelmingly o ... More >>

Music Picks: Circa Survive, Joanna Newsom, El-P, Roots Roadhouse

Also, Scorpions, Viza, the Park and others

Rock Picks: Al Kooper, Year Long Disaster, Steven Severin, the Phenomenal Handclap Band

Also, Kimya Dawson, the Cigarette Bums, Willi Williams and others

Last Night: Cold Cave, Abe Vigoda and Former Ghosts at Eagle Rock

Cold Cave, Former Ghosts, and Abe Vigoda at Eagle Rock Center For The Arts, Dec 4. On Friday night, Cold Cave fans leaning on the stage were violated like prisoners by the crowd forcing itself upon their backs. Somehow, though, they held their position just as destiny holds its keepers. While thin ... More >>

INCHES reviews Nite Jewel, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Slang Chickens, My Estrogeneration comp (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 >>