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Our Most Popular Stories of 2012
December 31, 2012 in West Coast Sound
Photo by W.B. FontenotElena Vladi from Demona MortissIt was a great year for the L.A. Weekly music section and our West Coast Sound blog. On the print side, we offered...
Announcing the Winners of the First Voice Media Group Music Writing Awards
December 28, 2012 in RFTmusic
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Announcing the Winners of the First Voice Media Group Music Writing Awards
December 28, 2012 in West Coast Sound
Photo by Christine TaylorJesse SykesEach week in our print editions and every day on our blogs, the 13 Voice Media Group papers feature some of the best music writing in...
Announcing the Winners of the First Voice Media Group Music Writing Awards
December 28, 2012 in DC9 At Night
Announcing the Winners of the First Voice Media Group Music Writing Awards
December 28, 2012 in All Shook Down
Introducing the Winners of Voice Media Group's First Annual Music Writing Award
December 28, 2012 in Sound of the City
Coachella 2013 Lineup: Is This It?
December 26, 2012 in West Coast Sound
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Skrillex Considered Having His 12/21 Party on the Moon
December 19, 2012 in West Coast Sound
Star ForemanWax and waneEvery EDM DJ worth his wobbles is throwing a massive party on Friday, aka the winter solstice, aka the end of the world. The ambitious ones are...
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Which White Entertainers Have a "Hood Pass" to Say the N-Word?
December 18, 2012 in West Coast Sound
V-NastyThe late aughts saw a debate in the hip-hop community about the use of the n-word, sparked in part by Nas' plan to name his 2008 album Nigger (he ended...
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees Announced: N.W.A Was Fucking Slighted
December 11, 2012 in West Coast Sound
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Bruce Springsteen - Honda Center - December 4, 2012
December 05, 2012 in West Coast Sound
Timothy NorrisBruce Springsteen Honda Center December 4, 2012 Having castigated myself during presidential season for missing Bruce Springsteen's show at the Sports Arena in April, I resolved to see him this time around,...
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A Really Bad Snoop Dogg Impersonator Is on the Loose
December 03, 2012 in West Coast Sound
Christian Jrgensen"Snoop Dogg"Update: Jrgensen has sent in his self portrait, which you can see at the bottom of the post. Not too long ago I received an email from a...
The Death Row Records Launch Party in 1992 Was Off the Chain
November 21, 2012 in West Coast Sound
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Did Suge Knight Really Dangle Vanilla Ice Off of a Balcony?
November 20, 2012 in West Coast Sound
A 2001 documentary from Santa Monica-based production company Xenon Pictures, called Welcome to Death Row, tells the story of Suge Knight's infamous imprint, and its producers are publishing interviews conducted...
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The Making of The Chronic
November 19, 2012 in West Coast Sound
Dr. Dre's seminal 1992 album, The Chronic, turns 20 next month. Though a sensation upon its release, the raw-but-melodic work's legend has only grown in the ensuing decades, and today...
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Why You Shouldn't Hate Indie Rock
November 02, 2012 in West Coast Sound
On October 12 a Twitter feed called I Hate Indie Rock launched itself, immediately generating conversation among music critics, who variously found it inflammatory, silly, or quite accurate. Written anonymously,...
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Los Globos Nightclub Shut Down
October 30, 2012 in West Coast Sound
Embattled Silver Lake nightspot Club Los Globos has been stripped of its permits to put on shows. According to a report from Hollywood Style Scene the club (the winner of...
DJ Douggpound Mines Pop Culture for Gold Nuggets
October 30, 2012 in West Coast Sound
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Suburban White Fake Rapping Dads Are the Worst
October 22, 2012 in West Coast Sound
Gangsta rap jokes are almost as old as gangsta rap itself, with seminal hip-hop comedies CB4 and Fear of a Black Hat dropping in 1994. There are probably earlier examples...
Why the Time to Get High in L.A. Is Now
October 11, 2012 in Public Spectacle
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Stagecoach 2013 Lineup Announced
Country Music Is Actually a Thing
October 09, 2012 in West Coast Sound
Colin Young-WolffThe lineup for Stagecoach 2013 has been announced. It will be held April 26-28, 2013 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio. See also: *Stagecoach Festival: The Fashion Report *Stagecoach Festival:...
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Happy Internets Day! Famous Bushism Turns Eight
October 08, 2012 in The Informer
Eight years ago today, in his debate with John Kerry at Washington University, then-president George W. Bush uttered one of his most famous quotes, his "Ask not what your country...
Dublab Anniversary Party Moved to Echoplex
September 21, 2012 in West Coast Sound
We Write About More Than Bad Hipster Bands. No Seriously
September 11, 2012 in West Coast Sound
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Worst Hipster Bands: We Admit It, We Were Wrong
September 05, 2012 in West Coast Sound
MGMTUpon its publication a couple weeks ago, our The 20 Worst Hipster Bands post was an immediate sensation, and quickly became the most-read post West Coast Sound has ever published....
