For a guy who’s been AARP-eligible for well over a decade, Joe Boyd has pretty amazing recall of numerous serendipitous experiences from 40 years ago. But, he
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The Bobby Bradford Mo’tet ?and other jazz picks
Trumpeter Bobby Bradford has long thrived on the avant edges of L.A. jazz. There were two stints in Ornette Coleman
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After seven years, the Hollywood Boulevard danceteria called Bang! is still busting at the seams with 18-and-over indie-music-lovin’ babes. Though its location is
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? WOW, SUCKERPUNCH! I’ve been waiting years for the Griffith Observatory to reopen — years! — and when it does, I find out they’re not bringing back Laserium
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I’m surprised that I’m not still working at Kinko’s, especially making our weirdo music,” deadpans TV on the Radio guitarist-producer David Sitek in his Broo
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The green room of The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson was stocked with enough liquor for a large party, but it was midafternoon and the members of The 88 don’t
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Photo by Kevin Scanlon
Beware: High on Fire ain’t here to rinse your nylons. The Bay Area
band play the darkest, sludg-iest riff-rock in all of hell. So itR
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Photo by Noah Georgeson
An honest discussion about songwriter Joanna Newsom has to start with her voice. Its freakishness brings to mind Tiny Tim (large frame
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Worlds collided at the Strip’s last cock-rock redoubt, the RAINBOW, where the loft bar hosted a listening junket for the debut album from rock-royalty supa-dupa gr
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Photo by Larry Hirshowitz
Pop in the Playhouse:
Gwendolyn gives the whole weird world
Perhaps her hippie parentage explains it all. The genre in which singer-guita
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Images of the wreckage. New Age music‘s peaceful thrum. Pathos builds. Cue voice-over: ”In the wake of 911 . . .“ You throw your Percocet and whisk
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Photo by Michael AckermanDealing with emotion has never been electronic music’s strong suit. When Kraftwerk sang, “Fun fun fun on the Autobahn,” th
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