First things first: for those who haven’t noticed, we’ve added a calendar feature in the tabs above. If you live in Los Angeles and are looking for recommended live music, well, I’m sure you can figure out how use a calendar. Second things second: we’re doing ticket giveaways for two shows coming up this week […]

I for one am shocked that a band named after a back-alley abortion technique would be capable of writing searing songs about the savagery of love. What makes the Coathangers arguably rock’s most underrated songwriters is their ability to reconcile an inherent sweetness with scars and snarl. Pop melodies are wrapped in noise. On-stage, four-part […]

Earlier this week, I received an e-mail from Devin Chanda, pointing me towards this excellent mini-doc of the Coathangers that he made for Jay-Z’s Life + Times website. He also told me that he first got put onto the Coathangers via Passion of the Weiss, meaning that somehow this site is indirectly responsible for a […]

The Coathangers – Trailer Park Boneyard (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO HD) from Studio 8 on Vimeo. Better than adderall for those with anorexic attention spans. This video is explicitly designed to command attention for all 213 seconds — from the first sound of spray paint to the cat fight at its conclusion. The Coathangers are probably […]

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If there’s nothing for you on this lineup, then you’re probably in the wrong warp zone. The Facebook Invite is up. $12. The cost of one drink at a lame LA bar. Barring you being a bubble boy (or “person” if we’re being politically correct), there’s no excuse not to go.  9 p.m. until the […]

Why yes, that was Douglas Martin at the Slut Walk ’11. Like most all-woman rock bands, the Atlanta quartet has had to withstand some incredibly sexist shit being pelted at them since their inception a little over four years ago. They’ve been derided as shit-stirrers instead of actual musicians, while their a-alike male counterparts are […]