They say necessity is the mother of invention, right? For Tony Aguilar, a native Southern Californian, and his wife/partner, Meg Castellanos, Eastside Rehearsal beca
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Old-timers remember the brawls. “There used to be big fights,” says Manuel, a regular who has been coming to La Cita to dance for 20 years. But that doesn’
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In the decade since his death, J Dilla has become a deity. And as in all subterranean cults that ossify into religions, certain scriptural interpretations began to t
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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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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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Coming soon, no matter where you are, is 2016. The world watches America as it staggers into the dark future, rutting away with the blowup doll of its self-made myth
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In his Hollywood office, Southern Lord Records founder and Sunn O))) bassist-guitarist Greg Anderson is filing away records from his day'
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Hollywood venue King King, long established as a go-to spot for L.A. househeads, is closing its doors, at least for now. The venue is set to shutter on Jan. 31, 201
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Grant “GRiZ” Kwiecinski is not your typical dance-music producer. He plays a mean saxophone, for one thing. And his music, though it can get pretty glitc
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