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Blogs
April 26, 2013
Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Riveting Drama About Holocaust-Era Poland
Our critic Deborah Klugman found Tadeusz Slobodzianek's drama, about Polish complicity in the German Nazis' persecution of Polish Jews in the 1940s, and presented by Son of Semele Ensemble at Atwater Village Theatre, to be a model of stagecraft and emotional to watch. For all the lastest new theater ... More >>
Music
July 14, 2011
Music Picks: Bob Dylan, Azalia Snail, Makabert Fynd, Seun Kuti
Also, No Age, Crystal Antlers, Imelda May and others
Music
July 8, 2010
Music Picks: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Bridget St. John, Bad Astronaut, Kings of Leon
Also, Lilith 2010, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Smokey Robinson, Antibalas and others
Music
July 1, 2010
Music Picks: Femi Kuti, Love Revisited, Fol Chen, Riot Grrl Carnival
Also, Dam-Funk, the Outline, CocoRosie and others
Music
February 11, 2010
Now-Again Records: Egon Calling
Label reissues prime funk from a wild period in music history
Music
February 5, 2010
Rock Picks: Daedelus, Beth Thornley, Yeasayer
Also, Ohioan, Hepcat, Vivian Girls and others
Music
November 26, 2009
Shafiq Husayn, Sa-Ra Creative Partners and the Sound of Leimert Park Hip-Hop
Zulu rising (again)
Music
September 17, 2009
Os Hermeticos: Triorganico
Three Angelenos make a modern-day bossa nova classic (just don’t call it that)
Music
July 9, 2009
MATT POPIELUCH ON FOREIGN BORN
Why his band's not pop, or rock, or anything predictable
LA Life
April 23, 2009
LA People 2009: Writer, no Biter — Jim Lang
LA Life
March 26, 2009
Harmonic Convergence: Brotherly Opposites Kurt and David Andersen Search for the Right Pitch
One is a famous novelist, the other a rebel piano tuner
Music
March 27, 2008
Rock Picks: Ray Davies, Beth Orton, Justice
Plus other March 27-April 3 shows
Music
March 20, 2008
Rock Picks: HorrorPops, Steve Earle, Ace Frehley
And other March 20-27 music shows
Blogs
February 20, 2008
An Interview With Pete Rock
Pete Rock needs no introduction. His new album NY's Finest drops on Tuesday. While it might not be a classic on the level of a Soul Survivors or Mecca & The Soul Brother, it's a strong record with occasionally great moments. But buyer beware: Jim Jones yells "floooosssssiiiin'" no less than fo ... More >>
Blogs
January 28, 2008
White Williams, Magic Bullets, Echo 1/27
White Williams, Magic Bullets The Blakes, Tribal Tats The Echo, Jan. 27 How do people in Seattle do it? It's downright cold tonight, and raining so much that a good sized river flows along Sunset Boulevard. The Echo hasn't opened its doors yet, despite it being more than half an hour from the post ... More >>
Music
December 28, 2006
Rock Picks
For the week of December 28 - January 4
Music
March 13, 2003
Upchuck the Funk
Music
September 27, 2001
Vintage Valiance
Who put the funk in the hip-hop boom?
Music
February 22, 2001
Liberation Beat
Music
March 30, 2000
Sound of the Taurus
Vintage soul to please the people