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Blogs
June 15, 2010
Over The Weekend: Playboy Jazz Festival
The 32nd Annual Playboy Jazz Festival had its typical big-name veterans play - George Benson, Marcus Miller, Chick Corea, Manhattan Transfer - but it was the lesser known performers who almost stole the show. Trombone Shorty and Orleans Ave. and Naturally 7 made their first appearances and the Pete ... More >>
Blogs
June 11, 2010
Live in L.A.: Merle Haggard, X, Playboy Jazz Festival, Henry Rollins, Murs, the Glitch Mob, Dr. John, Tortoise
Even if the only ink you sweat is your printer cartridge and your idea of iron comes in your vitamin supplements, there's a lot to recommend at this weekend's Ink-N-Iron Festival: the tunes. Among the the tatted masses, meticulously coiffed pompadours, corseted pin-up girls and acres of machi ... More >>
Music
June 10, 2010
Brick's Picks: Bunny Bop
Hopping around with the Playboy Jazz Festival, the L.A. Jazz Quartet and Kim Richmond's Concert Jazz Orchestra
Blogs
February 13, 2009
Live at Amoeba Records: Illa J and the Timelessness of J Dilla
Erin Broadley Los Angeles is always hot, but it's rarely warm. And cold, cavernous Amoeba Records is hardly an emotional bastion, unless you're talking caustic clerks castigating a moldering collection of Chicago records. But behind me, a group of saucer-eyed sophomore girls, eyebrow rings and flann ... More >>
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March 29, 2001
Stars/Time/Bubbles/Love
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