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  Music Picks: Gilles Peterson, Boris, Gothic Tropic
  By L.A. Weekly Music Critics

  fri 5/24 Lupillo Rivera NOKIA THEATRE Talk about larger than life. Chicano singing star Lupillo Rivera, who rose from the absolutely nowheresville Long Beach barrio to conquer the highly charged... More >>

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  Jerry Hopkins: Jim Morrison's Biographer Finds a Strange Kind of Bliss in Bangkok
  By Gary Jones

  The brazen hedonism of Bangkok agrees with Jerry Hopkins. The co-author of No One Here Gets Out Alive, the best-selling portrait of iconic Doors frontman Jim Morrison, Hopkins has been described... More >>

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  Music Picks: Rhye, Papa and Motörhead
  By L.A. WEEKLY WRITERS

  fri 5/10 Rhye EL REY THEATRE There are no women on Rhye's debut album, Woman. If you mistakenly took Michael Milosh's androgynous voice for that of a female, however, you would not be alone. The... More >>

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  Hanni El Khatib: Hunka Burning Love
  By Cristina Black

  It's barely 8 p.m. and there's already a pretty good crowd milling around the massive patio behind HVW8 gallery off Melrose. Rife with dirtbags and the women who love them, the crew has clustered... More >>

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  Music Picks: Shuggie Otis, The Rolling Stones, Juvenile
  By L.A. Weekly Music Critics

  fri 4/26 L.A. Philharmonic with Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Lionel Bringuier WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL A superbly balanced purveyor of intellect, charisma and fiery playing chops, pianist Jean-Yves... More >>

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  Adrian Younge: New Soul Legend
  By Jeff Weiss

  "How would you feel?" Adrian Younge keeps asking this question. He's referencing last night, March 28, when the multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer headlined the Mayan Theater alongside... More >>

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  Music Picks: Coachella, Merle Haggard, Spiritualized
  By L.A. WEEKLY WRITERS

  fri 4/12 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival EMPIRE POLO CLUB Although it's unlikely that the Rolling Stones and their sprawling entourage will descend on this sunbaked music festival for a... More >>

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  Tokimonsta Leaves the Nest
  By Katie Bain

  "I'm, like, sitting here peeling skin off my lips, rambling," Jennifer Lee says. "I'm a disgusting person today." It is 3 p.m. on a Thursday afternoon at a coffee shop in Koreatown, and Lee,... More >>

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  Tyler, the Creator: Horsing Around
  By Jeff Weiss

  "Are there do-rags here? I want the horse to wear a do-rag." A crisis emerges midway through the taping of bumper spot skits for the second season of Odd Future's Loiter Squad. Downtown's... More >>

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  Music Picks: Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge, and Anthrax
  By L.A. Weekly Music Critics

  fri 3/22 Gary Smulyan BLUE WHALE As both a mainstay in the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and a seven-time Grammy winner, the only current baritone saxophonist better known than Gary Smulyan is cartoon... More >>

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  Ariel Rechtshaid Is the Indie Super-Producer
  By Aaron Frank

  Ariel Rechtshaid is tall and gaunt. His stubble is overgrown, and he is slightly pale. One wonders if the 32-year-old producer gets enough Vitamin D. Although over coffee in Echo Park he insists... More >>

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  Music Picks: California Lions, Efterklang, Lucy Rose
  By L.A. Weekly Music Staff

  fri 3/8 Nickodemus SUBSUELO AT KOBO'S Nickodemus' multicultural Turntables on the Hudson compilations and New York City–based events have brought together flavorfully funky house and... More >>

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  Lady Lazarus Rising
  By Katie Bain

  There is a certain type of artistic girl. You know her: thoughtful and maybe slightly removed, with her face in a book of poems and often wearing clothing of the lace-and-velvet variety. There is... More >>

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  The Mystery of Shuggie Otis
  By Jeff Weiss

  Where was Shuggie Otis all these years? Had he been making music? Was he cloistered in Northern California or hiding in plain sight in Los Angeles? Was his mind mangled from drugs, booze or... More >>

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  Music Picks: Lloyd Price, Leni Stern, Amon Tobin and The Residents
  By L.A. Weekly Music Critics

  fri 2/22 Kurt Rosenwinkel KIRK DOUGLAS THEATRE Kurt Rosenwinkel's playing is richly complex and challenging, and while he is smarter than most of us, smart people also feel. Thus, to label this... More >>