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Music Pick: Hélène Grimaud

Just one week after a Yuja Wang performance, another star pianist plays a solo recital amid the acoustical splendor of Disney Hall. French pianist Hélène Grimau...
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Music Pick: Annabella Lwin

With their Burundi-style rhythms, Bow Wow Wow were a memorable band in the ’80s, blending new wave and punk energy with poppy melodies on such memorable tunes a...
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Music Pick: Feels

For several years, Feels have been one of L.A.’s most intriguing bands. Formerly known as Raw Geronimo in a nod to singer-guitarist Laena Geronimo, Feels altern...
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Music Pick: The Paranoyds

A lot of bands combine garage-rock influences with punk-rock energy, but The Paranoyds do it in distinctive ways that go beyond mere nostalgia on their 2019 alb...
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Music Pick: Bat for Lashes

“Lying next to you, we could be on the moon,” Natasha Khan purrs as Bat for Lashes on “Kids in the Dark,” from her 2019 album, Lost Girls. The record is a littl...
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Music Pick: Sunny War

“I ain’t the girl next door, I’m no good,” Sunny War warns on her 2018 single “Age of a Man.” The song unfolds like a riddle as the local singer-guitarist pluck...
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Music Pick: Yuja Wang

In recent years, Yuja Wang has swept through the Southland in a variety of formats, from playing in a duo with violinist Leonidas Kavakos to taking on Tchaikovs...