Greg Burk

Photo by Ross Halfin Challenge yourself to take Iron Maiden seriously. Because y’know what? You gotta. This is one important band. Changed metal history, really. Though the Allman Brothers (first album 1969), Wishbone Ash (debuting 1970) and Thin Lizzy’s double-ax lineup (1974) may have ascended the twin-guitar-harmony stage earlier, and......

Photo by Ross Halfin Challenge yourself to take Iron Maiden seriously. Because y’know what? You gotta. This is one important band. Changed metal history, really. Though the Allman Brothers (first album 1969), Wishbone Ash (debuting 1970) and Thin Lizzy’s double-ax lineup (1974) may have ascended the twin-guitar-harmony stage earlier, and......

Photo by Kevin Ramos You never heard anything much like Go: Organic Orchestra. It’s different in concept, different in sound. The concept comes from Adam Rudolph, a Chicago percussionist who’s lived in our region for close to 25 years. And the sound . . . it wafts you through an......

Photo by Jack Gould “When I sing and things are going all right, I don’t feel myself at all, I just send something through myself. My vision often goes completely black. I disappear.” Carla Bozulich says that, and many artists say the same in other ways. They empty out their......

Photo by Max S. Gerber Cliff Martinez looks pale, and his eyes are darting around the sound booth at Stage 1 on the 20th Century Fox lot in Culver City. He’s dressed in black, black like the quart of coffee in his fist, black like Halloween, which is today, almost......

You want living experimental/noise history? Smegma, in existence continuously for 30 years, is returning for its first L.A. shows since three original members moved from Pasadena to Portland, Oregon, in 1975. The tiny ’70s/’80s Pasadena scene, loosely focused on the Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS), has gained an international......