AltWeeklies Wire
Hard Out Here for a Thugnew
Compton rapper Game returns to an industry that's gone soft.
L.A. Weekly |
Jeff Weiss |
08-26-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
DJ Quik: Trials and Tribulations of a West Coast Legendnew
Like most redemption stories worth telling, this one starts with the lowest point: solitary confinement in the West Valley Penitentiary, where for most of the sweltering summer of 2006 DJ Quik contemplated the cruel arc of his rise and fall.
L.A. Weekly |
Jeff Weiss |
06-03-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: DJ Quik
Insane Clown Posse: Exclusive Interviewnew
Down (and out) with the Clown.
L.A. Weekly |
Gustavo Turner |
03-21-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Damian Lazarus Talks Techno and the Changing Face of Electronic Labelsnew
Damian Lazarus is sitting at the dining-room table of his Echo Park home trying to recover from a five-day touring blitz that he and his label mates at Crosstown Rebels have just finished. He's a bit worn down, but that's part of the deal.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
02-26-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Dreams of Life and Death: Looking Back with Patti Smithnew
Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe were barely 20 when they met, a couple of androgynous hippies newly arrived in New York City to live among the bohos and Beats, the Factory divas and "extravagant bums" swirling around the boroughs, the Bowery and the Chelsea.
L.A. Weekly |
Steve Appleford |
02-19-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Sunn 0))) Guitarist Greg Anderson Talks 'Big Church' and 'Monoliths & Dimensions'new
Sunn 0))) offer big ideas gradually, thoughtfully, create a monolith of sound and then mold it into something graceful but menacing. It's no accident that their new album features a cover painting by sculptor Richard Serra; the band's output feels heavily inspired by Serra's massive series of Torqued Spirals.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
08-10-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
West Coast Sound: Kaki Kingnew
Kaki King on Timbaland, playing solo and being frightened by the Cure.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
01-30-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kaki King, folk music
Scott Weiland's Candlelit Bluesnew
We talk with the former Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver singer on the eve of his first solo album in a decade.
L.A. Weekly |
Erin Broadley |
11-21-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Elusive Van Morrison Sits Down to Talk About the Alchemy in His Pastnew
When it was announced that Van Morrison would close out the Hollywood Bowl's fall season with two nights of concerts at which he would perform his seminal 1968 album Astral Weeks from cover to cover, some longtime Morrison fans might have wondered if the mercurial Irish singer-songwriter was taking the piss out of them.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
11-07-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Visions of Radioheadnew
Celebrating the 21st century's most interactive band.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
08-22-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Seattle's Fleet Foxes Make Languid, Woodsy Rocknew
The group like their timpani, and their echo, love the sound of waves bouncing off walls, dig the high, lonesome wail of falsetto in harmony. Can a flutist be far behind?
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
06-27-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Brian McBride: Drone Musician and USC Debate Coachnew
Stars of the Lid are a duo of Texas exiles: Adam Wiltize, who resides in Belgium, and Brian McBride, who is stationed in L.A. In 15 years of existence, they've released six full-length albums of extended ambient drones, their sound has grown increasingly lush, and their cult following has steadily expanded.
L.A. Weekly |
Alec Hanley Bemis |
04-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
The "West Coast Sound": Lauded Songwriters Grapple With Its Genesisnew
Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields and Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear on the L.A.'s scene.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
02-29-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Kate Nash: Whipping Girlnew
She's just arrived. But the backlash is already in full force.
L.A. Weekly |
Ben Westhoff |
01-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kate Nash, Made of Bricks
A Music Journalist Remembers the Old Dewey Coxnew
Cox clocked me and then I puked.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
12-14-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
