Milo Twenty-one year old Milo is a rapper of a different kind. With no liquor or drug of choice, he's a vegetarian whose only weakness is soda. Rappers are often late to interviews; Milo is early. At a Chinese restaurant in Culver City, he's drink...
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 hel...
Andrew Youssef By Andrew Youssef [Editor's Note: Longtime concert photographer Andrew Youssef found out almost two years ago that he had stage IV colon cancer. In that time, he has continued to shoot tons of music events for outlets including ...
Crowd Outside of Cage Platform Skacore Invasion MadAve Grounds 7/20/2013 The seventh annual Los Angeles Skacore Invasion took place last Saturday in Silver Lake. The one day festival mainly featured Southern California bands, both amateur and v...
Open Mic Eagle A stand-out in Los Angeles hip-hop collective Project Blowed for almost a decade, Open Mike Eagle has spent the past nine years rapping and grinding hard. It's paying off an he's become the "it" indie-rapper of 2013. Last week h...
This has been a perilous year for Justin Bieber, our favorite swaggy little shit. He was snapped sipping some alleged lean; he took heat for tone-deaf comments in the Anne Frank house; he scuffled with the paparazzi; his friends keep getting his car ...
Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Monday, July 22 HOTT MT THE ECHO Locals HOTT MT really got their band rolling after a surprise visit to Flaming Lips mastermind Wayne Coyne's doorstep -- yes, they dr...
Bodega residents Cee Brown, Melaaza, Panamami, and special guest Tony Touch At Bodega Sundays , held at Senor Fish in Little Tokyo the first and third Sundays of the month, music is the experiment, the mainstream meets the underground, and gettin...
Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Friday, July 19 The Burning of Rome, Okapi Sun LOS GLOBOS Much like the Roman Empire itself, The Burning of Rome are all over the map, extending their reach far beyon...
HM 157 3110 N. Broadway, Lincoln Heights, Sat., July 20, all day Historical Monument 157 -- also known as HM 157, an events space in a Lincoln Heights Victorian house -- has been holding wild, outside-the-box events for the past five years. This we...
RADIO BROADCAST #225 07-21-13 Fanatics! Have we got a show for you tonight! All kinds of new releases, and odd ricocheting off all the walls of the record store. New Black Pus album sounds great, as all things that Brian Chippendale is behind. We ...
ACxDC L.A. hardcore group ACxDC was on the cover of the Weekly recently, and they got a kick out of that. But not all publicity is good publicity. After a local publication in Bend, Oregon spotlighted the powerviolence provocateurs (who pr...
Snoop Snoop Dogg has pledged nonviolence in his music, and, as we wrote recently, we should support him in that endeavor, not mock him . But now that his trip to Jamaica and Reincarnated project has come and gone, what is a gangsta rapper who's...
Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday , and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Sunday KCRW broadcast .] See also: Henry Rollins: Nelson Mandela's Legacy Just wrapped a great and fairly sle...
It's the Fourth of July, and the lobby of Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel is packed with half naked model types. "It's like everyone here is about to film a giant porno!" says Sade Sanchez, the singer-guitarist from L.A. Witch. Sanchez sits with bandmate...
"Do it until they say no, and then keep doing it," says Michelle Carr, co-founder of punk haven Jabberjaw, describing how to properly run a venue without permits. Her legendary underground spot in Mid-City hosted icons like Nirvana, Elliott Smith an...
[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here .] The doctors told The Gaslamp Killer that he was three hours away from dying of internal bleeding. ...
So you want to go to a ska show. Or maybe you want to start a ska band. Good for you! Now the question is: What should you wear? Because, nothing will identify you as an impostor faster than a wack outfit. The first thing to know: Since ska is deri...
The group formed during the taping of an episode of Productive Outs , a baseball-themed podcast hosted by Thrice drummer Riley Breckenridge and Kowloon Walled City bassist Ian Miller. PUIG DESTROYER by Puig Destroyer "I joked that someone shoul...
[Editor's Note: Shea Serrano sometimes writes about Why This Song Sucks , and sometimes about his hilarious and poignant life and times . Better put your shoes on because your socks are about to be blown off.] I've had no small amount of car issu...
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