Linda Ronstadt

Jerry Sharell, Music Biz Veteran, Wounded in Valley Machete Attack

A music industry veteran who hosts a weekend Frank Sinatra show for KJazz (88.1 FM) radio was attacked by a man with a machete and held for three hours at his home in Woodland Hills yesterday, according to police and reports. Jerry Sharell, said to be a music business mover-and-shaker who helped ma ... More >>

The Cult of Gram Parsons Lives on in Joshua Tree

Forty years after his sensational death, the country-rock pioneer remains beloved in the desert

Music Picks: Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge, and Anthrax

10 Vintage Rock and Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip

L.A. billboards advertise all sorts of things -- upcoming films, non-profit organizations or strip clubs. But in an earlier time, more billboards were all about music. Robert Landau's new book Rock 'n' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip displays the rise of that music genre and its influence throu ... More >>

How KPCC's Quest for Latino Listeners Doomed The Madeleine Brand Show

The Best Clubs in L.A., 2012

Our Best Of issue just hit stands! We found our fairy tale, and now we present it to you: 435 of the most fabulous things in all of Los Angeles. From the city's most amazing restaurants to its tawdriest dive bars, from its edgiest art exhibits to the top spots for live music, we've got it all covere ... More >>

Los Angeles Map App by Caltrans Lets You Know Traffic Sucks in Real Time

No longer do you have to buy a crappy navigation device and suction-cup it to the wrong part of your windshield only to get stopped by cops for obstructing your driver's side view. Caltrans this week announced that it's helping to put TomTom out of business with a new, a traffic website called Quic ... More >>

Make No Mistake: Bleached Are Punk as Fuck

Smooth out punk's crinkly guitar riffs, replace the genre's frenetic deliveries with soothing harmonies, and give its drums a low dose of Xanax, and you have Jennifer and Jessica Clavin's brand-new band, Bleached. Like the visuals from their recent "Think of You" video, their sound is that of a vint ... More >>

Happy Johnny Ramone Weekend! The Top Five Musicians Buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery (At Least In Spirit)

The Hollywood Forever Cemetery has become synonymous with rock 'n' roll thanks to great live shows (recently, Patrick Wolf and Jens Lekman) and its popular Cinespia screenings. But its headstones are what makes it sacred ground for music fans. Even Morrissey says he wants to be buried there. Holl ... More >>

Ropes, Booze, Sex, Wrestling (and Music) with Hunx & His Punx, La Sera at NOMAD Gallery

boozy in Frogtown​ Dudes with perms, Ziggy look-alikes, scensters jumping rope, surfers, hippies in long silk dresses, local vatos, black girls, queer kids, old guys, potheads, metal heads, art fags and moms and dads with kids in tow came out to get down and liquored-up in Frogtown Saturday n ... More >>

R.I.P Singer and Songwriter Phoebe Snow

Phoebe Snow​Phoebe Snow, singer of the 1970s hit "Poetry Man," died Tuesday in Edison, NJ. She was 60 years old. After being discovered at New York City's The Bitter End in 1972, the singer rose to fame with her Grammy-nominated 1974 self-titled album. She had suffered a brain hemorrhage in ... More >>

Emmylou Harris at El Rey Theatre: Live Review

Falling JamesEmmylou Harris​There were rumors that a surprise special guest would open Emmylou Harris' show Thursday night at El Rey Theatre. Beforehand, fans tried to guess who the secret performer might be -- no easy task since Harris has collaborated with so many pop celebrities, including ... More >>

Music Picks: Coachella, Girls in Trouble, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Paul Simon

Also, Mary Anne Hobbs, Yoni Wolf, Emmylou Harris and others

The Man Who Invented The Monkees and The Archies, Music Promoter Don Kirshner, Dead at 76

Everything's Archie! MyspaceA cartoonized Don Kirshner presents The Archies with their gold record​ Just a word here about the passing of a giant, Mr. Don Kirshner, who died today at the age of 76. Now, some of us who were around back in "the day" might appreciate a bit of context-putting-in ... More >>

PETER AND GORDON AND EVERYBODY ELSE

Music Picks: Sunset Junction Street Fair, Lucinda Williams, Y & T, Tanya Morgan

Also, GZA, Jimmy Webb, Fol Chen and others

Remembering Neil Young's Collaborator Ben Keith

Billy W. Chernoff, billychernoff.comBen Keith in 1969 at Nashville's Music City Recorders​Ben Keith, the respected Nashville multi-instrumentalist whose distinctive and evocatively lonely steel-guitar adornments provided an inescapably haunting accompaniment to many of Neil Young's biggest hit ... More >>

(500) Days of Summer Screenwriter Scott Neustadter To Guest Blog for West Coast Sound This Week

If you've seen last year's hit film (500) Days of Summer, you know that music plays a central role in the story; as in most relationships, songs are connectors that glue a couple together, that reveal something important about personality and taste. For Scott Neustadter, who co-wrote the acclaim ... More >>

J.ROCC, THE THRONES, BAND OF SKULLS, THE SLITS AND BRETT DENNEN

Also Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Espers, a Nicollete Larson Tribute, and others.

It's The '70s Again: Pot Is Everywhere, Our Pocketbooks Are Stagflated, And Jerry Brown Is On His Way To Gubernatorial Sequel

Get out your bell-bottom pants. Attorney General Jerry Brown is aiming for a gubernatorial sequel, and he's tapping his old pals in Hollywood for the dough. Moguls obliged to the tune of more than $1 million at a local event over the weekend, and Brown hasn't even officially thrown his hat in the ri ... More >>

Rock Picks: Sunset Rubdown, Alela Diane, Pelican, Rose Melberg

Also, Yacht, the Woolly Bandits, Linda Ronstadt and others

Richard Thompson: the Fairport Convention Founder Who Defined the British Folk-Rock Movement of the 1960s

A New Box Set Captures a Master at Work.

Chris Darrow's Kaleidoscopic Vision

A mentor to Ben Harper; a "world music" propenent before there was even a name for it

GO LA: Lewis Black, German Cinema, Sheryl Crow for the Congo, and more

Where to go in L.A., February 13-19

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO PLEASANT GEHMAN?

Unusual Suspects: Linda Ronstadt, Eugene Volokh and More

This Date in PhotographsHere's looking at how some Angelenos looked, on a December 15th. All images from L.A. Times via UCLA Digital Archive.Linda Ronstadt kicks back in 1974, the year her Heart Like a Wheel album went multi-platinum.

Rock Picks: Amanda Palmer, Metallica, War Tapes

Also, J.D. Souther, Von Iva, Juliette Commagere and others

Rock Picks: Tangerine Dream, Spindrift, Robyn Hitchcock

Also, Electric Six, Heartless Bastards, Scissors for Lefty and more

Rock Picks: Orphics, Roky Erickson, Madonna

Also, Linda Ronstadt, Rise Against and more

Rock Picks: Rupa & the April Fishes, Gnarls Barkley, Emmylou Harris

Also, Black Kids, Chromeo, Alejandro Escovedo

Rock Picks: Ruins, Beirut, Turbonegro, Metric

Also, Bill Callahan, Emmylou Harris and more picks for the week of October 4 –11

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Back to the Garden

The music and mythology of Laurel Canyon

Heart Food

1970s L.A. songwriter Judee Sill: a mystery, a myth, a dream that almost came true

The Last Burger Stand

Different Drum

After Vegas, Linda Ronstadt finds refuge in L.A.

Time of the Session

When the music was fast, and the players anonymous

California Tuffy

Carla Bozulich in the time of the preacher

Future Sounds

Pop Sensation Dot-com

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Where Eagles Dare

Don Henley’s life in the diamond lane

Angel in Spurs

Landmarks

Wavemakers

At work and play in musical L.A.

The Music Man

Andy Prieboy scores