Jonny Whiteside

Clubs BOULEVARD MUSIC, 4316 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City. No alcohol. All ages. (310) 398-2583. Sat.—Steven King throws down some fingerstyle guitar excitement, 8 p.m.; $17.50. CINEMA BAR, 3967 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City. Full bar. Over 21. (310) 390-1328. Fri.—Bucksworth; no cover. Sat.—Rancho Deluxe; no cover. Sun.—The Serby Band; free. Mon.—Stumpwater;......

Photo by Alan MesserAstonishing. That’s the word to describe The Moon Was Blue, Bobby Bare’s first recording in 20 years. Nothing short of a masterpiece, it’s an improbable yet most fortunate series of collisions: the veteran country singer taking on pop tunes ranging from “Shine On, Harvest Moon” to “It’s......

The world is a ghetto — especially if you’re in a chick band. When Glendale Latina pop-punk quartet Go Betty Go started to make noise back in 2003, it seemed they could do no wrong. Packing out their weekly residency at Mr. T’s Bowl, landing several live slots on the......

A punk kid from Van Nuys, Davie Allan contributed mightily to the development of modern electric guitar, and — through his work on exploitation king Roger Corman’s films — profoundly impacted American ears in the ’60s. (He scored nearly 20 American International Pictures films — some of the gaudiest-ever exercises......

Photo by Beth Hertzhaft“Ever since I was a kid, I was at home, ‘lookin’ at the radio,’ ” says Solomon Burke with a laugh, recalling the early days of his musical education. “My grandmother made sure we listened to two hours of music a week — the Top 40, Perry......

Photo by Mitchell Baughman Back in the mid-1970s, Shoney’s coffee shop on Nashville’s Music Row was an inevitable destination for stars, groupies, fans, and shady promoters who would set up in a booth with a telephone and an electric adding machine. It was the site of numberless escapades (Faron Young......

When Lux Interior brought his dual lineage of Cleveland-bred Screamin’ Jay Hawkins perversity and post–Manson Family California lysergic desperation to Taxi Driver–era Manhattan, he would dreamily spout about “starting a band that sounded like the Shadows of Knight and Carl Perkins.” In the Cramps, co-founded with guitarist Poison Ivy, that......