Tony Mostrom

Illustration by Tony Mostrom WORLD OUT OF TUNE FESTIVAL at Highland Grounds, May 4 Most of the lineup here promised sure-fire microtonal goodness, including two of L.A.'s best exponents of the kind of Eastern-tinged drones and repetitive, trickling mallet-and-string minimalism one associates with microtonal composers like Lou Harrison, Harry Partch......

A soon-to-be-released LP by guitarist Rod Poole, The Unfathomable Loneliness of the Lightyear Man (Organ of Corti), is, it‘s safe to say, unlike any solo-guitar record you’ve ever heard: two long, unbroken series of cyclical, intricately interwoven patterns of notes -- the dizzyingly rapid, tumbling arpeggios rolling on smoothly without......

Photo by Fredrik Nilsen At approximately 5 a.m. on September 9, Gary Todd, 38, founder of the Malibu-based Cortical Foundation and its record label, Organ of Corti, fell from a third-story balcony at a friend’s home. Rushed to UCLA Medical Center, he underwent brain surgery for eight and a half......

”People tell me, ‘Hollywood has no mercy,’“ author and L.A. native John Gilmore says on the telephone from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ”I tell them, ‘No, Hollywood has absolutely no mercy, and it has no kindness, no happiness’ -- it‘s an indifferent thing. Hollywood is truly that old......

”I wish somebody would open a speakeasy where I could play every night,“ Janet Klein says over the clatter at Musso & Frank, a fitting place to meet with a fellow true-blue nostalgiac and talk about her Jazz Age--flavored vintage-song combo, Janet Klein and Her Parlor Boys. ”Well, first we......