Overlooked by most white rock audiences during their heyday, Tijuana No! were one of the great punk bands of the 1990s, blending the social activism of The Cl...
You could very loosely describe the annual Ojai Music Festival as a Coachella for classical and new-music fans. Since 1947, the festival has been the West Coa...
Mono open a Pandora's box of strange sounds on their latest album, Nowhere Now Here. The ambient opening track, "God Bless," quickly segues into the harde...
"Conversation don't come easy, but I've got a lot to say," Lucy Rose declares aptly enough on "Conversation," the first track on her latest album, No Words Left. Even as both the song's lyrics and album's title imply difficulties in communication, the British singer-guitarist eloquently expresses herself in a series of folk songs rendered carefully with acoustic guitar and her gentle vocals....
Gustav Mahler's stirring Eighth Symphony is more than just a symphony. It's a massive orchestral work, but it's also an ambitious choral opus about the transformational nature of love. It will take a large village to present this piece, and conductor Gustavo Dudamel will lead L.A. Philharmonic as well as the combined voices of four separate choirs — L.A. Master Chorale, Pacific Chorale, L.A. Children's Chorus and The National Children's Chorus — at Disney Hall....
The Stranglers have been touring since 1990 without Hugh Cornwell, the group's original, misanthropically romantic lead singer, and they've never had quite the same impact without their main voice. On the other hand, The Stranglers haven't performed locally in years, so this concert is a rare chance to be dazzled again by the intricate, Doors-y flurries of notes from keyboardist Dave Greenfield and the wiry, hard-edged bass lines of Jean-Jacques Burnel....
It's hard to quickly summarize the wide-ranging musical career of Phil Ranelin, but the new three-album set on Wide Hive Records, Phil Ranelin Collected 2003-2019, is a good place to start. The Indianapolis native has been based in Los Angeles since the late 1970s, and over the course of his career the straight-ahead trombonist-composer has worked with such musicians as trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, pianist Freddie Redd, vocalist Sarah Vaughan, saxophonist Art Pepper, vocalist Ella Fitzgerald and trumpeter Gerald Wilson....
Adventurous conductor Christopher Rountree leads his equally adventurous ensemble Wild Up into a state of Bliss as they perform Ragnar Kjartansson's twisted adaptation of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in L.A. Phil's fully staged production with lavish costumes, for 12 (!) consecutive hours....
The Hives' new single, "I'm Alive," is another triumphant rise from the grave by the ever-demonstrative and rambunctious Swedish garage-rock band. They're co-billed with their countrymen Refused, who mix hardcore and metal on their sludgy 2015 release, Freedom. The bill is brightened by locals Bleached, who are emerging from a long absence with songs from their upcoming album, Don't You Think You've Had Enough?...
Like many guitarists, Loren Connors plays the blues, but he does it in a way that is experimental and unpredictable rather than slavishly traditional or nostalgic. The native of New Haven, Connecticut, describes his music as "avant blues," and the extended musical passages on such albums as The Departing of a Dream, Vol. VI, and Angels That Fall unfold as eerily glowing new-music soundscapes....
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