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Robert Pollard

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    October 11, 2011

    Ryan Adams performs at Hollywood Forever, October 10, 2011

    David Black​See also: *Our Q&A With Ryan Adams *Ryan Adams Responds To Our Interview Ryan Adams Hollywood Forever October 10, 2011 Better than:...the sum total of every single stand-up comedy show concurrently happening in the greater Los Angeles metro area. "How L.A. is it that you can se ... More >>

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    September 6, 2011

    Tommy Keene, Power Pop's Dark Knight

    Chris Rady ​Power pop, like bubblegum before it, is often viewed as the domain of skinny-tie moptoppers singing ditties about girls and cars. Longtime power pop icon Tommy Keene, however, doesn't fit this stereotype. His moodier music accentuates the "power" in power pop, building his muscular ... More >>

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    November 12, 2010

    Interview: Dangerbird Records' Newest Band The Fling On Strength And Stress [MP3]

    ​ As reported by Buzzbands L.A., Long Beach-based band The Fling became the newest signee with Silver Lake's Dangerbird Records this week, just as they were leaving town for a multi-state tour with (sudden labelmates) Darker My Love and Delta Spirit. Their self-released When The Madhouses App ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2010

    Tonight: Guided by Voices, Tired Pony, First Aid Kit, Twin Shadow, Radars to the Sky, Evan Voytas, Wet & Reckless

    Guided by Voices​You could almost feel the pop geeks pinching themselves when Dayton, Ohio's favorite former fourth-grade schoolteacher Robert Pollard announced earlier this year that Guided by Voices would reunite to play the Matador at 21 festivities, and then do a reunion tour too. The tou ... More >>

  • Music

    September 30, 2010

    Music Picks: Plastic Ono Band, Ooh La LA Fest, Belle & Sebastian

    Also, Marianne Dissard, Bad Company, Matador 21 and others

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2010

    Review: Coathangers, Surfer Blood Dominate Echo Park's Waved Out Festival

    ​Score one for the blogosphere. On Saturday, L.A. music blog Aquarium Drunkard invaded Echo Park to throw its first ever festival. Waved Out drew hundreds of kids out to the East Side, and they spent the day running up and down the stairs that adjoin the Echo to its larger, sub-Sunset cousin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2008

    The Cure Tear Up the Troubadour at Surprise MySpace Show

    (Frank Micelotta/Getty Images for MySpace)If you're anything like the freakazoid Cure fans who one way or another managed to secure a wristband for last night's surprise Cure show at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, you should probably stop reading this right now. If you weren't at the show and opt ... More >>

  • Music

    December 18, 2003

    Getting There

    (Frank Micelotta/Getty Images for MySpace)If you're anything like the freakazoid Cure fans who one way or another managed to secure a wristband for last night's surprise Cure show at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, you should probably stop reading this right now. If you weren't at the show and opt ... More >>

  • Music

    January 23, 2003

    Sugar 'n' Spikes

    (Frank Micelotta/Getty Images for MySpace)If you're anything like the freakazoid Cure fans who one way or another managed to secure a wristband for last night's surprise Cure show at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, you should probably stop reading this right now. If you weren't at the show and opt ... More >>

  • Music

    July 11, 2002

    Knock 'Em Dead, Kid

    (Frank Micelotta/Getty Images for MySpace)If you're anything like the freakazoid Cure fans who one way or another managed to secure a wristband for last night's surprise Cure show at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, you should probably stop reading this right now. If you weren't at the show and opt ... More >>

  • Music

    May 16, 2002

    Jazz

    If it’s dead, where’d all this come from?

  • Music

    March 23, 2000

    Cleveland Nasty

    If it’s dead, where’d all this come from?

  • Music

    January 6, 2000

    SLUSHed in 1999

    Things we wish we'd said

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