Jonny Whiteside

Chip and Tony Kinman are among the West Coast’s most infamous rock & roll provocateurs, a formidable twosome whose influential series of successive bandstand iterations represents some of the Golden State’s most insidiously creative stylistic insurgencies....

Nadia Lanfranconi’s highly unusual pedigree — an Italian-born punk rocker turned country singer — may seem wildly unorthodox, but the guitar-picking songster pulls it off with natural ease and admirable aplomb....

Glendale Latina pop-punk quartet Go Betty Go’s 18-year run has been marked by enough high drama and dynamic tension for half a dozen bands. Formed by teen sisters Aixa and Nicolette Vilar, they worked a luminous brand of high-impact, bilingual punk rock lent tremendous heft by guitarist Betty Cisneros’ formidably idiosyncratic playing. Within three years, the group had a significant following whom they’d whip into a frenzy every Tuesday night at their long-running, reliably SRO residency at fabled Highland Park bowling alley Mr. T’s....

Folk-punk singer-guitarist Sunny War is one of Los Angeles' great renegade phenomena. A sensation as a teenage street performer in Venice Beach, she has gone on to international renown and a solid series of releases that have established her as significant artistic force....

Never one to squander an opportunity to raise some hell, The Flesh Eaters are back, one more in a spasmodic series of reunions, with Chris Desjardins, aka Chris D., leading the group's stellar and best-known lineup....

“My new record is a tribute to the U.K. soul scene. And I have plans to make some plans,” he said. “I like to do things right and I want to continue to record in the worst way — I didn’t understand the business end, but now I do, and I could use a little more of that today."...

Known as the Godfather of Jazz Guitar, Pisano’s 20-year-plus weekly Guitar Night showcase has just settled into a new home in Pasadena, and the 86-year-old guitarist eagerly anticipates the many nights of swinging six-string pyrotechnics ahead....

Los Angeles doesn’t get enough credit as a natural jazz locus. Nonetheless, it has produced some of the idiom’s very finest practitioners. During the 1940s, Central Avenue was one of American music’s most critical creative crossroads....

Boasting a refreshingly high incidence of never-before-available-on-CD numbers that stretch from 1924 to 1963, it’s a kaleidoscopic safari through a funky wonderland of Xmas merrymaking....

Chip is back again, kicking over the table anew with his blues-tinged, enigmatically monikered Ford Madox Ford (aka FDMDXFD). The January release of debut album This American Blues signals another off-center sucker punch to rock’s business as usual....