Daiana Feuer

In 1970, Linda Perhacs' Parallelograms was an acid-folk flop. It was produced by sound track composer Leonard Rosenman, after he met dental hygienist Perhacs during a routine teeth cleaning. The man who scored Fantastic Voyage and Ralph Bakshi's 1978 The Lord of the Rings took one look at the strange......

Olivier Conan is a Frenchman from Brooklyn (as well as an avid record collector and label owner) who was trolling tiny markets in Lima, Peru, hoping to discover something new. When he stumbled upon a treasure trove of psychedelic cumbia from the 1960s and 1970s called chicha, he felt as......

About a year ago, Regan Farquhar sat in The Casbah Cafe drinking mint tea. He poked at his cake like it represented everything about his latest Busdriver album, Jhelli Beam. He'd been eating it since he was fifteen years old and it just wasn't as appetizing to him anymore. As......

The schedule for October 2nd is ready early but in good time to get to know some of the crazy sounds Manimal Vinyl has put together for this year's festival. Tickets are available for $18 in advance or $20 at the door on Oct 2, 2010 at Pappy & Harriet's......

On Wikipedia, the band Heart pops up in search results before the blood-pumping organ does. From the ecstatic beer and arm swaying rapture rattling the Gibson Amphitheater Saturday night, it's possible that over the last 35 years, Ann and Nancy Wilson have become more popular than the most precious human......

With an art exhibit dedicated to the darker forces of Los Angeles, Esteban Schimpf may have gotten what he asked for inviting a mystery band called Highons to play his closing reception. The secret Schimpf set up was that Ariel Pink would be one of the masked members irking out......

Study the line between letting loose and letting go. Letting loose is something accomplished with the body. Letting go might be a cerebral thing done at a Nite Jewel and Teen Inc. show. These two bands participate in a nebulous music cluster residing in Highland Park, where Ariel Pink lives,......

Every day, somebody's got to fly somewhere and entertain the people of the world. When it comes to getting instruments on an airplane, musicians get nervous and sweaty, expecting the worst. "It sucks for the most part," says L.A. rapper Busdriver. Gear gets tossed around, broken, and lost by baggage......

Dancing puppets, sexy masseuse referees, Rough Trade salesmen wearing only neon underwear, people handing out free lube and Kashi, strangers and trannies made it memorable--but this Sunset Junction story begins and ends with Ghostland Observatory. The street fair always includes a randomly assorted music line-up, but last Saturday, the gods......

"Reggae fans, they love their reggae," says Jason "Roy Corduroy" Mason. He sees around 800 loyal fans shuffle into the Echoplex every Wednesday night for the party he puts on with Tom Chasteen and Eddie "Dungeonmaster" Rouche. "If there is a reggae club within twenty miles of their house, they......