A few weeks ago I got a flier that said Fred Durst was hosting a live jazz night in Hollywood. “Was this a joke?” I first thought. Fred doing trad-jazz v
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One of Sharon Jones’ biggest fans found her musical love while waiting in line for a beer at Sunset Junction in 2004. Nancy Marie Arteaga heard the funky siren cal
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Bridget Vagedes knew the Wild West days of the Arts District were really over when she started to get parking tickets. What was once a de
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The core Dollyrots duo of Kelly Ogden and Luis Cabezas are married, and Ogden has just given birth to their second child. The family is about to embark on a tour for
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Elliott Kozel takes out his phone to show me a photo of where he’s been whipped. The patch of inflammation covering his upper back is punctuated by a half dozen r
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Steven Adler should be dead. According to his mother, Deanna, Adler's “cast-iron constitution” kept his heart pumping when she found him on his bath
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On Feb. 16, after six and a half years operating in Highland Park, Wombleton Records abruptly announced its closure with a brief message: The shop has closed its doo
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I enjoyed La La Land. As a jazz musician, jazz educator and sometime writer about jazz, I was surprised and compelled by director Damien Chazelle’s ambitious attem
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Jesse Hughes doesn't have nightmares anymore. He sleeps peacefully through the night, curled up in his bed. It's the waking hours that are h
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It all started with me looking around the room while playing a bill on a particularly white lineup. Because I work as a booker and curator as well, I had been design
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USA is currently in one of its difficult periods. Ah, regression pains. At least comrade Trump is keeping things lively. Must be frustrating for him when so many peo
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Even though maintaining a jazz orchestra these days is about as profitable as running Amtrak, the surplus of great musicians in Los Angeles assures that there will a
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