Read about it here

[Read more →]

It’s been five years since David Lynch released his last film, Inland Empire, and since then, the 65-year-old auteur—who directed cult classics like Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, and Mulholland Drive—has done pretty much everything but direct another movie. These days, when he’s not giving weather reports, bemoaning the debt crisis, or creating installations at Duran Duran [...]

[Read more →]

There’s no doubt that fans attached to the jangly cyclothemia that characterized a lot of Destroyer’s past efforts, as well as Bejar’s idiosyncratic New Pornographers and Swan Lake songs, will feel alienated by the new sound. But those who jump in, as the Troubadour audience ecstatically did, will find themselves inside one of these movies, instead of in front of the screen, smirking knowingly as Kathleen Turner gets seductively swallowed by an effervescent taco of fog. There’s a reverence here that echoes, more than anything, Lynch’s obsession with Laura Palmer.

[Read more →]

Here are three reasons to help KCRW with fundraising, including war and robots. KCR-Dub-Ya Lynch Ima Robot Cold War Kids Upcoming Live Performances on Morning Becomes Eclectic KCRW PLEDGE DRIVE: JAN 27 – FEB 4 Friday, February 11 — The Decemberists Monday, February 14 — Black Mountain Wednesday, February 16 — Black Dub Friday, February [...]

[Read more →]

When Underworld plays live, they really play live. This ain’t no laptop push da button and guide the crowd with sign language act. Imagine what they pay in luggage fees at airports. Lots. KCRW brought them into the studio and look how adorable when something goes wrong! See the whole color corrected performance here. KCRW [...]

[Read more →]

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yn4ZglUbmI] The Friday Q&A show sold out, but don’t fret! On Saturday, the Downtown Independent is showing director Werner Herzog’s newest film, which he calls “a horror film without the blood, chainsaws and gore, but with a strange, anonymous fear creeping up in you, ” and Herzog HIMSELF will be present for a Q&A in [...]

[Read more →]

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yn4ZglUbmI] The Friday Q&A show sold out, but don’t fret! On Saturday, the Downtown Independent is showing director Werner Herzog’s newest film, which he calls “a horror film without the blood, chainsaws and gore, but with a strange, anonymous fear creeping up in you, ” and Herzog HIMSELF will be present for a Q&A in [...]

[Read more →]

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yn4ZglUbmI] On Friday, the Downtown Independent is premiering director Werner Herzog’s newest film, which he calls “a horror film without the blood, chainsaws and gore, but with a strange, anonymous fear creeping up in you, ” and Herzog HIMSELF will be present for a Q&A in association with the 7 PM screening. Produced by David [...]

[Read more →]

At one point during Wilco’s rousing set at Pomona’s recently renovated Fox Theater, Jeff Tweedy stepped away from the mic and cupped his ear to elicit the crowd to take a verse during Yankee Hotel Foxtrot favorite “Jesus Etc.” It was not the only instance of a massive crowd singalong during the band’s one-and-half-hour set. If any alt-country-leaning band could ever be legitimately described as “arena-ready,” Wilco certainly made a case for itself on Saturday evening.

[Read more →]