In her song-poem "There Were Two Girls Who Looked a Lot the Same," the local poet Ellyn Maybe celebrates her titular subjects with a profusion of succinct detai...
Bassist-singer Dee Dee Ramone was the heart and soul of the Ramones, writing many of their best songs (including "Rockaway Beach," "Chinese Rocks" and "Endless ...
After 30 years of leading the Pretenders, singer-guitarist Chrissie Hynde has run away and joined the circus. Or, to be more specific, she's joined JP, Chrissie & the Fairground Boys, a new band with the Welsh singer-guitarist J.P. Jones. In Great Britain, fairgrounds are the equivalent to America's traveling carnivals,......
Considering Arthur Lee's deep impact on modern music -- he fronted one of the first multiracial rock bands, recorded with Jimi Hendrix, was a prime influence on the Doors, had lyrics lifted by the Rolling Stones, and inspired stellar fans ranging from Robert Plant and Eric Clapton to Syd Barrett,......
Ben Keith, the respected Nashville multi-instrumentalist whose distinctive and evocatively lonely steel-guitar adornments provided an inescapably haunting accompaniment to many of Neil Young's biggest hits, died this week at age 73 at Young's ranch in Woodside, California. Besides adding crucial parts to such Young classics as "Heart of Gold," "Old......
Sparring With Beatnik Ghosts is a "traveling poetry supershow" of spoken-word performers and musicians that started in San Francisco in 2008 and is finally maki...
Le Butcherettes were a portrait of domestic bliss when they walked onstage at Spaceland for their debut Los Angeles show. Sure, drummer Normandi Heuxdaflo and a mystery bassist guy looked a bit unsettling in their creepy masks, but singer Teri Gender Bender brandished a long red feather duster and vigorously......
A few years ago, back when there was a functioning music industry and A&R departments were still signing promising bands, it would have been easy to predict Sweethead's future success. Formed by Queens of the Stone Age guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen, the quartet already have a bit of a built-in......
Considering Arthur Lee's deep impact on modern music -- he fronted one of the first multiracial rock bands, recorded with Jimi Hendrix, was a prime influenc...
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