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Jim Ladd

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    The Last DJ: The Legendary Jim Ladd Gets The Ax

    ​They fired Jim Ladd on a Tuesday. Ladd had been the nighttime DJ on L.A. classic rock station KLOS, in various incarnations, since 1969. He's a rare DJ with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and inspired Tom Petty's song "The Last DJ." Cumulus Media, having absorbed bankrupt former KLOS ow ... More >>

  • Music

    November 24, 2011

    Music Picks: Iggy & the Stooges, Morrissey, Esa-Pekka Salonen

    Also, Henry Rollins, Liz Pappademas, Greg Bissonette Quintet

  • News

    October 21, 2010

    Proposition 19 Dreams of Legal Weed

    Bruce Margolin has defended 25,000 pot cases and Timothy Leary. Now he's primed for ganja tourists and sensimilla spas

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2010

    Sunset Strip Festival: West Hollywood Declares August 26, 'SLASH DAY'

    Alex DistefanoLast night, the focus was on Slash (focus not pictured)​On the eve of the third annual Sunset Strip Music Festival, Thursday night, the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip and the city of West Hollywood honored none other than hard rock guitar icon Slash, who rose to fame with Gu ... More >>

  • Music

    October 1, 2009

    Best of L.A.: Nightlife

    Alex DistefanoLast night, the focus was on Slash (focus not pictured)​On the eve of the third annual Sunset Strip Music Festival, Thursday night, the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip and the city of West Hollywood honored none other than hard rock guitar icon Slash, who rose to fame with Gu ... More >>

  • News

    December 23, 2004

    More Music Lists

    Alex DistefanoLast night, the focus was on Slash (focus not pictured)​On the eve of the third annual Sunset Strip Music Festival, Thursday night, the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip and the city of West Hollywood honored none other than hard rock guitar icon Slash, who rose to fame with Gu ... More >>

  • News

    March 25, 2004

    Letters

    Alex DistefanoLast night, the focus was on Slash (focus not pictured)​On the eve of the third annual Sunset Strip Music Festival, Thursday night, the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip and the city of West Hollywood honored none other than hard rock guitar icon Slash, who rose to fame with Gu ... More >>

  • News

    June 19, 2003

    A Man Out of Time

    Rodney Bingenheimer on life as the erstwhile Mayor of the Sunset Strip

  • News

    September 5, 2002

    Dune Prophecy

    Rodney Bingenheimer on life as the erstwhile Mayor of the Sunset Strip

  • Music

    May 23, 2002

    LAWMA: L.A. Weekly Music Awards 2002

    Rodney Bingenheimer on life as the erstwhile Mayor of the Sunset Strip

  • News

    January 18, 2001

    Letters

    Rodney Bingenheimer on life as the erstwhile Mayor of the Sunset Strip

  • News

    December 14, 2000

    Dead Air

    Jim Ladd on the demise of freeform radio

  • Music

    September 17, 1998

    Bring the Sauce

    To live, love and leave before dying in L.A.: how the Beastie Boys beat the very odd odds

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