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S.S. Coachella: Drinking Wine With James Murphy in the Ocean (Photos)

By: Liz TracyOld punk guys and fancy wines, two things that make sense together only now, mere days before the end of the world. Nothing is more a "sign of the times" than James Murphy and Justin Chearno hosting a winetasting in the middle of the ocean for a handful of people both able and willing ... More >>

'Shut Up and Play the Hits': This Has Happened

James Murphy and a new concert doc reflect on the end of LCD Soundsystem

Coachella Jumps On Board the Floating Festival Trend, But is This New Cruise a Sinker?

See Also: Coachella By the Numbers: A guide to the festival's past and present Coachella: Top Five Acts at the Sahara Tent Yesterday the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival promoters announced they will be setting sail on a new festival titled the S. S. Coachella as early as this December 1 ... More >>

LCD Soundsystem: Shut Up and Play the Hits

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The Worst Moments from SXSW 2012

The last few days, Village Voice Media's indefatigable music staff has been regaling you with stories of the best from SXSW 2012. In the midst of these discoveries, we've been culling another list: the worst shit. The acts that ranged from huge bore-fests to downright lame. Below, you'll find our cr ... More >>

The Best of SXSW Music: Friday 3/16/2012

If you're familiar with chaos theory, which in its basic form is the attempt to find patterns in the random acts of shit on Earth, then you may understand the difficulty that comes with describing a full day at SXSW. To break down the chaos, Village Voice Media's roving music editors have selected t ... More >>

VHS or Beta At The Roxy Last Saturday Night

Mary Carreon/OC WeeklyVHS or Beta​VHS or BetaRoxy, Los AngelesFeb. 4, 2012 Upon arriving to the world famous Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, I couldn't help but feel a bit overwhelmed by the venue's lush history. Enormous performers and bands such as Bob Marley & the Wailers, Prince, Pearl Ja ... More >>

Penguin Prison on Cashing Checks With Lana Del Rey, Being in a Boy Band and Occupy Wall Street

​Whether singing in his local gospel choir, recording jingles or rocking at downtown clubs in his native New York City, music has played a major part of Chris Glover's life. In 2009, Glover adopted the moniker Penguin Prison, which he says came from "a joke rap song and there was a line about goin ... More >>

Big Audio Dynamite at the City National Grove of Anaheim Last Night

Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​Big Audio DynamiteAug. 11, 2011City National Grove of AnaheimHow do you know you're in the presence of greatness? That's a tough question to answer, especially when you're watching a front man who has been part of two majorly influential musical acts. The thing about watch ... More >>

R.I.P. Amy Winehouse: The Top Five Songs About Drinking

​When it was announced that the princess of  R&B and soul died last Saturday, hordes of celebrities and fans alike took to the internet to express their condolences to Amy Winehouse's family. And later, when rumors surfaced linking her death to her infamous love of alcohol (cause of d ... More >>

2011 Long Beach Pride: The Music Shortlist

​Long Beach Pride, taking place this weekend, has grown into a massive event, as gays and their straight friends come out of the woodworks to turn the Belmont Heights area of Long Beach into a giant party numbering in the 80,000 range. And, along with requisite parade, the festival has its share o ... More >>

R.I.P. Ian Curtis: Five of Our Favorite Joy Divison Covers on the 31st Anniversary of His Death

​Ian Curtis once said, "Existence is.. well.. what does it matter? I exist on the best terms I can. The past is now part of my future. The present is well out of hand." Thirty-one years ago today, he committed suicide, on the eve of Joy Division's first North American Tour. His last performance ... More >>

Chromeo: Almost Totally '80s

The Montreal duo delve even deeper in to Reagan-era pop

Village Voice Pazz & Jop 2010 Lists Announced

​Each January, the Village Voice (our sister paper) releases its Pazz & Jop critics' Best Of designations for the previous year. For 2010, Kanye West quite unsurprisingly dominates both categories. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy tops the album list (like most Best of 2010 albums lists) with ... More >>

Rumored Headliners for Coachella 2011

Andrew Youssef/OC WeeklyArcade Fire​The Coachella lineup will soon be announced, but rumors are already circulating about who is headlining this year. We have some theories, but nothing is confirmed as of yet. The guessing game will continue on, and it's encouraged by the festival through many int ... More >>

Over the Weekend: LCD Soundsystem at the Fox Theater

Andrew Youssef / OC WeeklyLCD Soundsystem's James Murphy at Coachella 2010.​The Hype: James Murphy's the king of Brooklyn, the father of this past decade's dance-punk movement ("movement?") and a pretty genial guy. LCD Soundsystem's latest, This Is Happening, is his slickest and most long-burning ... More >>

Thank God It's Thursday: We Choose Shows So You Don't Have To

www.myspace.com/miikesnow​Don't know where to go this weekend? Heard Mentality makes it easy--here's the rundown of great music coming to town.

The Henry Clay People and Local Natives to Play Austin City Limits

The Henry Clay People in sepia.​The Henry Clay People and Local Natives have both been tapped to perform at Austin City Limits--otherwise known as yet another music festival better than Coachella--October 8-10. The bands will be playing amongst a line-up with the likes of Sonic Youth, Flaming Lips ... More >>

Weenie Roast Lineup Doesn't Suck

[Mental Notes] Also: Buzz about the Golden Bear, the Dirty Heads' no. 1 hit and how you can get on the warped tour next year

Hold Steady, LCD Soundsystem, Caribou: There Is So Much Free, New, Amazing Music Right Now

​This past week has been like Hanukkah for anyone in love with good, modern music. Seemingly each new day recently has seen a different and excellent band putting up their new albums for free streaming. Better than gelt!Right now, the Hold Steady is getting my day off to a good start in ... More >>

Coachella Cattle Calls

[Mental Notes] Despite numerous reasons to be underwhelmed, the crowd at Coachella was determined to have a moo-ving experience

Coachella 2010: All Our Coverage, Plus Final Thoughts

Christopher Victorio / OC WeeklyYup. That guy.​Getting to Coachella aint easy, fun or cheap. That fact weighs heavily on nearly everything that happens in Indio--in a good way.

Day One at Coachella: Long Lines, LCD Soundsystem... and Beyonce!

Spencer Kornhaber / OC WeeklyOf course there were unicorns.​Click here for a slideshow of Day One performances!It would have been cute if it wasn't so appropriate: a mass of half-dressed hipsters outside of Coachella, waiting to get to the front of the mass for wristbands to get into the festival, ... More >>

Live from Coachella: Danny DeVito, Faith No More, the XX and Hot Chip

Christopher Victorio / OC Weekly And you thought you had problems seeing over a crowd.​Hey look! Danny DeVito! Our man Chris Victorio caught him the pit for deadmau5 last night. Just thought we'd share it with ya. (Editor's Note: Andrew Youssef also caught DeVito during LCD Soundsyste ... More >>

Roots and LCD Soundsystem Announce New Albums, Keith Richards Rocks, Lady Gaga Talks Drugs

Roots album How I Got Over featuring Booker T. due out June 8."Rumors of my sobriety are greatly exaggerated," Keith Richards tells Rolling Stone magazine. And that's why we love you Keef! LCD Soundsystem, which kick off spring tour at Coachella, to release new album May 18."It's no secret that I h ... More >>

Another Festival We'd Rather Go To: Long Beach's Avi Buffalo Added to Sasquatch!

​The line-up for this year's Sasquatch was just announced and hey, turns out it's another festival line-up we'd much rather go see than Coachella.Sasquatch, which is famously held at the Gorge in Washington (two hours outside of Seattle), will be held over Memorial Day weekend, May 29-30. The line ... More >>

New Year's Eve Party Playlist

Looking for some tunes to blast at the bash you're hosting tonight? Or maybe to crank up in the car on your way to a slamming soiree? Here's my New Year's Eve Party Playlist, featuring the best from the past year and stone cold classics. Enjoy. Flickr user Sada 1988Click song title for YouTube clip ... More >>

TONIGHT: The Bangover at the Crosby

​OK, this is cool. We all know the usual DJ nights: crappy current hip-hop tunes, people you wouldn't normally want to be seen in public with grinding on the dance floor. Then came hipper, more "indie" DJ nights, where you'd be more liable to hear Justice or LCD Soundsystem. That's all well and go ... More >>

[Locals Only] Chasing Paper With Faded Paper Figures

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Last Night: Yacht @ OCPAC

Last Night: Yacht at the Samueli Theater on June 26, 2008 Better Than: Playing Dance Dance Revolution and it burns more calories then Wii Fit. Download: See A Penny (Pick It Up) from their album I Believe In You. Your Magic Is Real. Is it art? Is it electro? Is it electro art? I'm not quite sure ... More >>

The Grammys: Drunk on Winehouse

Every year the Grammy Awards ceremony proves—among other things—how far out of step my tastes are with mainstream music, a state of affairs with which I came to terms, oh, in the early '80s. It also reveals the dearth of imagination/adventurousness of the nominating committee. Most of the music ... More >>

In Sound We Thrust

17 Songs to Make Bedsprings Sing

Celebrity Fave-Raves Edition

The year in music

Sprawl of Sound

Rewind, Selectah! The best releases and shows of 2007

Hispanic! at the Disco

The Freestyle Experience revives ’80s electro fun(k), barrio-style

Polymorpous and Polyrhythmic

Three techno DJ mixes to dislocate your hips

Never Mind the Shit, Here's Coachella

Is this annual desert festival an ordeal or orgasmic experience? Yes

Rage Against Irrelevancy

Does RATMs left hook still have punch?

Cream of the Coachella Crop

OC Weekly offers sage advice to maximize your festival dollar

The Year the Superstar DJ Died

WEB EXCLUSIVE!: Dinosaurs rule the dancefloors no more

Tonight @ Glasshouse: The Rapture

Courtesy tar pit: Rapture are never going to untangle from the bubblegum of "House of Jealous Lovers" (best rollerskate jam of my legal drinking years) even with new album Pieces of the People We Something Something Something, which is considered/literate/produced so sharp as to cut glass but sti ... More >>

Huge Coup

Nightlife and more: Nov. 9-Nov. 16

Making It Dance

Rub-n-Tug

Two Days in the Valley

Coachellas always gritty and stinky and yet were still going. Again

Keep the Kids Indoors

Nightlife and more
OCT. 13-20

Chirp Where You At

Oct. 6 - Oct. 13

Die for Famous Country Singers Oil

Aug. 11 - Aug. 18

The Leon Touch

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