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Saluting Boris @ El Rey; Credit: Gustavo Turner

Over the Weekend: Boris at El Rey

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Thanks to the El Rey having one of the best sound systems in Los Angeles we finally got to see and truly hear Boris. With their hodge-podge of gear that could only end up together as the result of a tone junkie searching the ends of the earth for the......
Credit: PHOTO BY KEVIN SCANLON

John 5: Malice Man

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It's dark out but warmly lit inside. There is a long, sturdy wooden table, at the center of which lies a human skull under glass surrounded by a spread of mouthwatering food. At the head of the table sits John 5 in a sharp black suit flanked by a half-dozen......
Credit: PHOTO BY KEVIN SCANLON

Lynda Kay Parker: Country & Western the Hard Way

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Whenever Lynda Kay Parker dons a Glenn Palmer suit and picks up a Gretsch guitar, she is country & western incarnate, especially with the blood of ancestors Bonnie Parker, the Marlboro Man and the last of the Comanche Chiefs coursing through her veins. Parker's breakthrough was recent, but her journey......
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Last Night: Amon Amarth at the House of Blues

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Váli, Norse god of vengeance paid Los Angeles a visit, and he brought his boys. Last night, under Hoth's moon, Sweden's melodic-death-metal sons of Thor, Amon Amarth, (and Swiss folk-metal outfit Eluveitie) played House of Blues. Everyone looking for a metal photo-op was at Club Nokia checking out Revolver's Golden......
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Brendon Small

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One could argue that Brendon Small has one of those “dream jobs” we are all looking for. (No, he’s not a firefighting astronaut cowboy.) Along with Tommy Blacha, he created the wombless hate child Metalocalypse (Met-al-ok-uh-lips), a cartoon about the incredibly powerful and painfully simple-minded band Dethklok, which currently resides......