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Slackk’s favourite tracks

The grime don, whose LP Palm Tree Fire is out this week, empties the contents of his psychic record bag ...

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The Gaslamp Killer Experience debuts in the UK at KOKO in London

The Gaslamp Killer brings his incredible live show to our shores for the first time ever Date published: 22nd Apr 2015 Image: The Gaslamp Killer Following its resurrection at Coachella, The Gaslamp...

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Meet Captain Supernova, Intergalactic Synth-Funk Man of Mystery

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. Follow him on twitter and also check out his archives.] You don’t meet someone named...

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The Gaslamp Killer's Near-Death Account

[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...

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Watch the Throne: Dave Grohl on How the Foos Saved Their Summer

Dave Grohl sounds hoarse. On a day off from the Foo Fighters' current North American tour, the frontman comes off as typically amiable, but he blew out his vocal cords during a marathon,...

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SEXWITCH: ‘It’s like a voodoo exorcism’

Bat For Lashes singer Natasha Khan scoured the world for her latest project, turning music from Thailand, Iran and 60s California into intense psychedelic rituals...

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Watch Gaslamp Killer Experience's Trippy 'Ritual' Video

Los Angeles DJ/producer extraordinaire the Gaslamp Killer has dropped his trippy new music video for the hypnotic cut "Ritual." The video combines live video shot at the Gaslamp Killer Experience's...

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This week’s new live music

The Gaslamp Killer | Real Lies | Bob Dylan | Battles | Marcus Miller | Philharmonia Orchestra...

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SyNtHuSeR: Eleven One

Seven tracks engage your interest, I begin to engage the review . . . “Part one”, 9:19, dark ambient drone synth opening. Very eerie, very effective. Over-loud synth-drums kicking in distract/ shock a...

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2Gether 4Never by Jess Harvell

friend inherited several dozen copies of the Sugababes' first album. She just called the distributor one day, and found out they were going to be landfilled. The fate of yet another pop record in 2002...

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Top 500 worst passwords

From Mark Burnett's 2005 book Perfect Passwords: Selection, Protection, Authentication, a table of the "Top 500 Worst Passwords Of All Time." (via Beschizza's Twitter) UPDATE: As the site is down,...

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Punk, honky-tonk albums coming this year

Hank Williams III will release his third honky-tonk album, Thrown Out of the Bar, in October, a few months after the long-awaited release of Ass Jack, his hardcore release as Hank III. Ass Jack has...

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LA rocks to a new beat

Thanks to an injection of psych hip-hop and The Smell's DIY rock scene, LA is no longer a blinged out, hair-metal, cultural desert, says Louis Pattison...

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Gonjasufi – the electro Hendrix

Has a yoga teacher who dreams of Jimi made the global-influenced hip-hop game-changer of 2010? Malik Meer tunes in to Gonjasufi...

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Dusted Reviews Artist: The Gaslamp Killer Album: Breakthrough Label:...

Los Angeles jockey William Bensussen has been releasing his crate-digging connoisseurship under the name The Gaslamp Killer for a few years, but it’s obvious he’s put in years more of listening before...

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Fidget, schranz, doom – what?

Folktronica not leftfield enough? Try this beginner's guide to obscure music genres...

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2012 in review: best albums

2012 was a testament to the theory that the album is dying. Singles flourished this year, and mostly in EDM and pop genres. Still, true talent rose to the occasion as exceptions. In a year carried by...

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Society Is Eating Itself Alive: Gonjasufi Interviewed

Gonjasufi’s birth name is Sumach - after the flowering plant used to flavour Middle Eastern cooking and so beloved of his jazz fanatic father - and he’s “his present age”. He lives in Mojave Desert, on...

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Black Crowes, Jimmy Page Discussing Studio Album

Roots rockers and ex-Led Zeppelin guitarist release live CD set from last year's joint tour. Staff Writer Brian Hiatt reports: Five years after releasing the little-heard Mutineer, the sardonic but...

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Warren Zevon Still Sardonic After All These Years

Cynical singer/songwriter is back with Life'll Kill Ya, his first album since 1995. Contributing Editor Frank Tortorici reports: Five years after releasing the little-heard Mutineer, the sardonic but...

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Tyler the Creator in the UK: forget hip-hop, we're the new Sex Pistols!

Tyler the Creator touches down to talk goblins, chillwave and the trouble with saying stupid stuff Tyler live at the Village Underground, London, 2011. Photograph: Jamie-James Medina for the Guardian...

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Listed: Barn Owl + Maserati

Barn Owl Evan Caminiti (guitars, vocals) and Jon Porras (guitars, vocals, drums, harmonium) met in San Francisco in 2006 and immediately started playing music together, mixing devotional ragas and...

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Low End Theory's Nobody Does Not Give a Damn

Ceethreedom [Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] "If you set yourself up as the 'I don't...

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Bobby Gillespie: 'We always saw music as a revolutionary force'

Primal Scream's forthright frontman offers some typically frank thoughts on Boris Johnson, the horror of bland rockers – and the challenge of recording while off drugs...

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A Bride's Tale of a Sexless, Sh*tshow of a Marriage -- The Grey Area Between ...

Gimme my soapbox, because this girl is going to do a li'l bit of preaching today. And bridey, I'm not preaching about being a bitch while planning your wedding or the "five must-haves" for your perfect...

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Lou Reed on Kanye West's Yeezus: 'It brings tears to my eyes'

There are the obligatory blowjobs and menages-a-trois, the synth buzzsaws and jumpcuts, complains Lou Reed – so why is he so in awe of this 'inspiring, majestic' album?...

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Sonic Router 008 - Your Dubstep Column Profiles Slugabed

It’s mid November, and in this period, as the year draws to a close, there’s often a habit for writers to compile lists; endless lists of songs, albums, influential figures and moments in music. And...

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RTX

With some cymbal shivers, a trippy jam shimmies into earview, big 80’s rock synths, some vague just out of range vocodered vocals and what sounds like Bobby Beasoleils masterful soundtrack to Anger’s...

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A Columnus Metallicus For The End Of Summer

Every once in a while it happens to us all: the OJ Simpson syndrome. In our minds we build up a totally unrealistic picture of someone; we admire them, look-up to and respect them, and when it turns...

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Peanut Butter Wolf, Gaslamp Killer, Jason Bentley -- 11/11/11/ Party -- Eagle...

Lainna FaderPeanut Butter Wolf, Gaslamp Killer, Jason Bentley, Hyasynth and others 11/11/11/ Party Eagle Rock Center for the Arts Since 2006, Stones Throw label head Peanut Butter Wolf has specialized...

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The Gaslamp Killer + Bambooman LIVE!

HiFi Club, Leeds Thu 9th May 2013 The HiFi Club in conjunction with the Catacomb clubnight present the Low End Theory legend that is The Gaslamp Killer at The HiFi Club on Thursday 9th May 2013. Date:...

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Reflections on New York’s Fattest

Is there anything less threatening than a morbidly obese cop on motor scooter? Okay, 25 morbidly obese cops on motor scooters–that’s even more unthreatening. When I’m out in the streets chanting, “Show...

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Gaslamp Killer at the Bluebird on October 27

Adept at both production and turntablism, Gaslamp Killer -- known for many years as the Motherfucking...

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Dusted Reviews Artist: The Gaslamp Killer Album: My Troubled Mind / Hell and...

The Gaslamp Killer takes his surname from the section of San Diego that most resembles an outdoor mall. That city's best export since Kid606 has since moved up Interstate 5, scored a Low End Theory...

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Dusted Reviews Artist: White Suns Album: Sinews Label: Load Review date: Jun....

Packaging bands via the self-creation of vapid music genres may be overblown critic tomfoolery, but when coined by scribe luminaries like the self-described "Dean of American Rock Critics" Robert...

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The Gaslamp Killer – “Seven Years Of Bad Luck For Fun” (Feat. Dimlite) Video

“Seven Years Of Bad Luck For Fun,” an intense instrumental from bass music...

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Gaslamp Killer Chops Up 'Gaslamp Killer Vs. Heliocentrics'

The Heliocentrics just dropped their new album, 13 Degrees of Reality, and the jazzy funk collective's record has already been...

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Dublab 13th Anniversary Party - Echoplex - 9/22/12

Timothy NorrisDublab 13th Anniversary Party Echoplex 9-22-12 Better than...waiting in a Wendy's drive-through congested with D.U.I. candidates at 2 a.m. At the 13th anniversary party for Dublab --...

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My Favorite Albums of the Second Half of 2012, in Haiku Form

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Kendrick Lamar attributed L.A.'s primacy to the women,...

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More Low End Theory Oral History From Those Who Helped Build It

The Low End Theory CrewSee Also: Low End Theory Anniversary: The Story of the Influential Party From Those Who Created it This week we published our oral history of the Low End Theory, the Lincoln...

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The Gaslamp Killer (Brainfeeder/USA) with Crushington

Monday, 17 October 2011, 2:05 pm Press Release: Martyn Pepperell Madcap Touring in association with Ex.d presents The Gaslamp Killer (Brainfeeder/USA) with Crushington (NZ) *For the first time in close...

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The Gaslamp Killer

"This is the way the world ends", a child's voice croons during the hidden outro of Gaslamp Killer's long-awaited debut album Breakthrough, and it clearly marks out the album that preceded it as an...

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Concert review: The Gaslamp Killer, Be Club

"Breakbeat. Breakbeat forever. No simple four-four for me ever. It doesn't satisfy me." William Bensussen AKA The Gaslamp Killer doesn't even need to think about his answer when I ask him about his...

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Flying Lotus, Gaslamp Killer, JonWayne - Eagle Rock Music Fest - October 1, 2011

Lainna FaderSee also: Eagle Rock Music Fest Preview: Flying Lotus Plans To Direct A Feature Film See also: Eagle Rock Music Fest Preview: Feeding People On Their Debut LP And A Particularly Memorable...

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