Tanja M. Laden

Long before musicians toked up in Laurel Canyon or hair metal bands prowled the Sunset Strip, L.A.'s African-American community fostered a vibrant music scene, concentrated in jazz clubs along Central Avenue in the 1930s and 1940s. It set the stage for the success of a man by the name of......

Native Angeleno Robert Landau never consciously set out to document the music billboards of the Sunset Strip. In 1969, when he was 16, his parents divorced and he moved in with his father in an apartment near the former location of Tower Records, just one block above Sunset Boulevard. The......

Rather than being just another stuffy or vapid rehash of the culture behind '60s music, Andrew Grant Jackson's recently published book 1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music features 25 delightfully bite-sized chapters that chronicle the 12 colorful months of 1965. Cleverly divided into four seasons, the chapters each encapsulate......

Ten years ago, curator Joan Adan put together her first exhibition at Forest Lawn Museum called Revolutions, which featured original art for album covers, posters, magazine illustrations and other visual-arts ephemera tied to the music industry. At the time, Adan was restricted by space and schedule; the museum has three......

Every year, the music industry's favorite artists are nominated for a coveted gramophone-shaped award, bestowed upon a selection of winners in a presentation that's televised to audiences across the globe. The Grammys give the musicians even more exposure and recognition than they already have. But if that weren't enough, the......