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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Do you have anything that goes well with Beethoven?”
The clerk at the Denver Wellness Center looks at me strangely, before motioning me over to a display case full
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[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playl
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Recently at KCRW, a bespectacled young producer typed out names on a screen, spelled phonetically. He did so for the benefit of Warren Olney, host of politics talk s
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Remember Horst Simco, that quiet suburban Texas boy who somehow became Riff Raff? His forever-delayed album Neon Icon still has not seen release, but he's findi
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On the 1996 night Tupac Shakur was killed in Las Vegas, Suge Knight was nabbed for violating his probation (for stomping a guy); he spent five years in prison. Durin
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Update: Brian Wilson's Bedroom Tapes: A Track-by-Track Description
The Beach Boys' 1966 Pet Sounds album overnight changed rock & roll into art. Its fol
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KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas
Night One
The Shrine
12/8/13
The holiday concert extravaganza season has begun, and KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas is the first
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Megadeth bassist David Ellefson's autobiography My Life With Deth follows him from battles with drugs during the band's early days through his religious awa
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