In 2012, A$AP Rocky closed out Saturday night of Coachella in the Gobi Tent. Considering he had released his first mixtape, Deep Purple, only the summer before, it
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Packing for Coachella requires more thought than just tossing your wallet, keys and phone in your bag.
First, you need to prepare for two drastically different
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The mysterious Bay Area collective known as The Residents, whose masked members have never been identified, have set the standard for the avant-garde–iest of art r
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It's 11 a.m. on a Friday in the middle of March, and Paul Gonzalez is just waking up. “I live in San Pedro, but I'm always everywhere else,” he s
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If you're into electronic music, Daniel Miller is something of an icon. Back in 1978, the British producer released two songs, “Warm Leatherette” and
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So how loud was it inside the Record Plant — then located near the corner of 3rd Street and La Cienega Boulevard — as Black Sabbath recorded basic tracks, all in
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OK, it wasn't a real night club, only an art installation, but the second installment of LTD L.A. Art Gallery's exhibit/re-creation of Rodney Bingenheimer
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Sometimes fate is your enemy.
Los Angeles musician Alex Casnoff, the founder, singer and chief songwriter behind the band Harriet, is scheduled to give me a tenn
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If you haven't already, get yourself down to Monday Social at least once in your Los Angeles life.
If ever there was a weekday time machine back to Saturday
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It's all too fitting that David Bowie's final album, released just two days before his death, is the weird, woolly Blackstar, an album of avant-garde anti-po
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Todd Congelliere isn’t one to celebrate his own achievements. In the nearly three decades that the former F.Y.P. singer-guitarist has been running San Pedro–ba
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