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Jenny Lewis; Credit: Autumn de Wilde

Music Pick: Jenny Lewis

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Jenny Lewis fills the void of silence that followed the release of her 2014 album, The Voyager, with her latest recording, On the Line. The new album features a host of guest stars and collaborators including ace drummer Jim Keltner, Beck, Jason Falkner and Ringo Starr....
Ohmme; Credit: Alexa Viscius

Music Pick: Ohmme

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Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart are a duo from Chicago who perform under the name Ohmme. Their 2018 debut album, Parts, is difficult to neatly categorize because the two musicians blend their voices together in a startlingly diverse series of unusual songs. "Icon" is a cheery slice of indie pop, but it's contrasted by less typical tracks, such as "Peach," a jumble of grungy, funky post-punk noise that segues into more coolly restrained passages....
Nico Muhly; Credit: Heidi Solander

GoLA Pick: Nico Muhly

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Nico Muhly is a composer whose work bridges the seemingly separate worlds of contemporary, classical and pop music. He has composed music for films, collaborated with choreographer Benjamin Millepied, and worked as an arranger and musical partner with Björk, Teitur, Antony & the Johnsons, and Glen Hansard....
Garbage; Credit: Joseph Cultice

Music Pick: Garbage

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Even without her bandmates in Garbage, Shirley Manson has still made her presence known around town over the past year. Last year she charmingly duetted with Fiona Apple at the Bootleg Theater, and in March she was one of the more charismatic performers at the Yoko Ono tribute at Disney Hall. But she returns to her full live power with Garbage's Butch Vig, Duke Erikson and Steve Marker....
Tav Falco; Credit: Klaus Pichler

Music Pick: Tav Falco's Panther Burns

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Singer-guitarist Tav Falco has been leading varying lineups of Panther Burns since 1979, when he formed the band in Memphis and allied himself for a spell with Big Star's Alex Chilton. Over the decades, he has released a flood of musical gems that are rooted deeply in strains of garage rock, R&B, blues, rockabilly, tango and art rock, which are then overlaid with Falco's shadowy vocals....
Credit: © Ibuki Kuramochi

GoLA Pick: Ibuki Kuramochi

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Ibuki Kuramochi doesn't just make paintings. The Japanese artist becomes the painting itself, using her body as a canvas and a paintbrush as she surrounds and adorns herself with bold, swirling patterns and dramatic slashes of black paint. At this solo performance, titled Spirit, Kuramochi transmutes the formal discipline of butoh to create a darkly beautiful and strangely hypnotic new ritual in which she employs the motion and momentum of dance to propel her movements as a live painter....
El gato montés; Credit: Cory Weaver

Classical Masters Ax and Domingo Face Off on Opposite Sides of the Street

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L.A. Opera's Plácido Domingo, 78, continues to perform impressively long after the rest of his peers have retired, and he is a compelling presence in Spanish composer Manuel Penella’s opera El gato montés. Across the street this past weekend, L.A. Phil stuffed a piano with hay, and pianist Emanuel Ax took flight with a Mozart concerto....
Ariana Grande; Credit: Courtesy of the artist

Music Pick: Ariana Grande

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While you might not want to take Ariana Grande with you on your next visit to a donut shop, there is no denying that the 25-year-old singer possesses a big, p...
Maria Kuznetsova; Credit: Amanda Kallis

GoLA Pick: Maria Kuznetsova

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"You ask too many questions. What's there to know, little idiot? You are born, you have some laughs and a rendezvous or two, and then you fall into the void...