The cover of the 1987 album N.W.A and the Posse does not look like something released by one of the most important rap groups of all time. Actually, just looking at
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M.I.A. has a new video out and it's being pushed as this week's Erykah Badu-type scandal. The video for “Born Free” is streaming as the front pag
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Okay, Erykah Badu-gate is sooo one day ago, but with 24 hours of reflection, and frantic Googling/Topeka-ing, it has become apparent that no one cares about the othe
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If you thought Eddie Vedder invented throat-singing–well, think again. Traditional throat singers Huun Huur Tu “come from the former Soviet Autonomous Re
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Check out Timothy Norris' photo gallery for scenes from Vampire Weekend's gig at Henry Fonda Theater.
Vampire Weekend spent much of late 2009 in and around S
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On Tuesday, February 2, Knitting Factory Records will be reissuing Fela Kuti's afrobeat landmark, The '69 Los Angeles Sessions, which was recorded that year
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Nineteen years ago, Vic Chesnutt first unleashed his brand of gritty southern rock from his rural Georgia home. Now with a band featuring Fugazi's Guy Picciotto
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Out on the courtyard of Hollywood nightclub Boardner's, a crowd circled the central pond, chatting as wax from the large, white candles slowly dripped and harde
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You don't have shell out wads of cash to take in some fine LA techno tonight. The Birds and Bees is a one-off, free dance happening at Chinatown's Mountain
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For some of us, he was the embodiment of cool. The way he crawled, the way he climbed the speaker cabinets like a panther, the way that Poison Ivy, his wife and co
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Photo by Dewey Terry
DON “SUGARCANE” HARRIS, THE ROCK & ROLL SINGER-guitarist-fiddler who, as half of Don & Dewey, made some of the late
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For almost four decades, one song has returned from the realm of the undead every Halloween, lurking on every spooky-sounds compilation, the soundtrack of every mad
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