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What do neo-folkies love? The desert, of course! And particularly remote saloon Pappy & Harriet's Pioneertown Palace, a tumbleweed joint popular with outlaws, permanent dropouts and weekend trippers alike. This weekend Pappy & Harriet's (along with the Joshua Tree Saloon) will be hosting the New L.A. Folk Fest for a......

Hip-hop is a big country and AWOL ONE operates in an area many miles away from the materialistic fantasies and thug braggadocio that still define much of main...

You are gonna go see awesome DJ Lo Down Loretta Brown at her House of Blues gig, right? What, never heard of her? She's this hypnotic black lady who mysteriously appears with her laptop at random places like the Grey Goose Lounge in Dallas and blows everyone's minds with her......

Grunge couldn't effectively kill hair metal 20 years ago and neither will a nuclear attack. For the past two years, the era has been rearing its ugly, painted head on Broadway thanks to Rock of Ages, the send-up of '80s and early-'90s hard rock and pop that's so lovingly mocking......

Your hair is plastered to the nape of your neck, your shirt's sticking to your back and your eyelashes are barely shielding your eyes from sweat. Oh, and you don't care. This is Funkmosphere, the weekly "no cover, no velvet rope, and no doorman with a clipboard" party in a......

These past weeks it's been Lemmygeddon in L.A., starting with the icon-studded premiere (at the Vista in Los Feliz) of the movie officially titled Lemmy: 49% Motherf***er, 51% Son of a Bitch but more widely known as Lemmy: The Movieor "that awesome Lemmy movie." With an upcoming showing of the......

KINDA FONDA WANDA The septuagenarian Queen of Rockabilly (and onetime girlfriend of Elvis Presley) has demonstrated that she's still got it with the releas...

SCHOOL OF BEEFHEART: A LIVE TRIBUTE TO THE LATE CAPTAIN, BY DISCIPLE GARY LUCAS We were among the first to report the Dec. 17 death of visual artist Don Van Vliet, who in a previous incarnation had roamed the music world as surreal bluesman and experimental proto-punk Captain Beefheart. Oddly......