The American comic strip has enjoyed the attentions of some extraordinary talent -- Winsor McCay, Al Kapp, Chester Gould -- but in the last 50-odd years, a palt...
Walking into murky San Diego joint Bar Pink Elephant on a recent golden, dusky evening was disorienting enough — a host of iridescent bubbles dangling from the ...
Almost lost amongst the lurid media tumult over Jacko and Farrah's passing, the death on Thursday morning of Seeds frontman Sky Sunlight Saxon was the day's genuine stop-the-presses newsflash, a gloomy finale that closed the book on one of rock & roll's most influential and misunderstood figures. While a nasty......
Tomas Cookman, founder-president of exotic indie imprint Nacional Records, is nothing less than a self-propelled phenom. Although the label is just shy of 5 yea...
The taboo, defined as "a prohibition imposed by social custom or as a protective measure," is an uncommon phenom in the 21st century, but with this reading of excerpts from How the Beatles Destroyed Rock & Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music, author Elijah Wald will defy one......
The taboo, defined as "a prohibition imposed by social custom or as a protective measure," is an uncommon phenom in the 21st century, but with this reading of e...
Los Angeles indie In the Red Records has a remarkably consistent output: Slip on any of its discs and the results are inevitably flabbergasting. Just a few seco...
Ruben Guevara’s mercurial pedigree, as groundbreaking Los Angeles performance artist, Chicano sociocultural Zeitgeist, theatrical director, poet, activist, journalist, classically trained composer and on-again-off-again rock & roll star, is one of dizzying degree. This freewheeling résumé only hints at the depth Guevara’s passions plumb, and from his late-1950s start, crying doo-wop......
Pat Boone’s running late, but killing time in his suite of offices overlooking the Sunset Strip is anything but dull. A one-man museum, the place is bristling with scads of memorabilia and merchandising from his bobby socks–thrilling heyday: Pat Boone “Hugable Socks,” PB sunglasses (wicked little granny style with a......
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