AltWeeklies Wire
'Paranoid Park': The Soundtrack of Their Livesnew
Skate movie dispenses with the angst, surrounds itself with Nino Rota and Elliott Smith.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
04-04-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Various Artists, Paranoid Park
The Boredoms Pound Their Way Onto the Astral Planenew
Two decades into their career, the Boredoms are making music as vital, as questioning, as singular, as therapeutic, as honest, as Dada, as real, as funny, as awesomely brilliant as ever, and their influence is far greater than their relative stateside obscurity.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
03-14-2008 |
Music
Tags: Super Roots 9, The Boredoms
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
A Hipster's Guide to Afro-Indie Rocknew
Here's eight records. Now go start a riot.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
02-25-2008 |
Music
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
2007's Long Players You Might Have Missednew
There were so many modestly brilliant records that it seems silly to crow on and on about "Bird Flu" when many tracks ascended alongside of it. Here are some of them, in no particular order.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
12-28-2007 |
Music
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
Are You Not Devo? You Are Mutatonew
How Mark Mothersbaugh, an Agent of De-Evolution, wormed his way into America's subconscious.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
12-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mark Mothersbaugh
Bob Dylan's Most Mysterious Recordingnew
Inside the elusive history of I'm Not There.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
11-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bob Dylan
Vegoose Music Festival Pleases Some of the People Some of the Timenew
Vegoose, like all 21st-century music festivals, is for the short-attention-spanned, a good way to consume many live experiences briefly.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
11-02-2007 |
Concerts
Tags: Vegoose Music Festival, concerts
Artists Giving Away Their Music for Free: A Prehistorynew
Radiohead wasn't the first, folks.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
10-26-2007 |
Music
Buy It, Use It, Break It, Fix Itnew
On the eve of its final American performance of 2007, Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter discusses the duo's banner year, the future of the music industry and the current state of electronic music.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
10-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Daft Punk
Mash-up Star Gregg Gilliss May Be About to Blow Up — Literallynew
For two months, the mash-up prodigy more commonly known as Girl Talk lived the wild life of a touring musician. Now he was about to meet a fiery end on the tarmac of Dallas Love Airport.
L.A. Weekly |
Matthew Fleischer |
10-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Girl Talk, Night Ripper
All Hail Kennedy's Cheesenew
The songs on Kennedy for President are Velveeta smooth and just as cheesy, but hooky and fun enough for cruising and, after a few drinks, maybe even for dancing.
L.A. Weekly |
Linda Immediato |
09-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kennedy, Kennedy for President
The Unexpected Burning Man Soundtracknew
To civilians, trance = Burning Man, but this is merely the most obvious take. For one week a year the desert floor, a naturally occurring woofer pumping 100 million watts, becomes the world's greatest iPod shuffle.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
09-17-2007 |
Concerts
Tags: concerts
