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Fans hoping to catch a glimpse Thursday of U2's free concert celebrating 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall will have to "scale...
By MARK SWED
In April 1989, the glamorously autocratic Herbert von Karajan resigned from his post as music director of the Berlin Philharmonic, the...
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Michael Jackson's famous white glove sold for $350,000 at a memorabilia auction Saturday, soaring far past pre-sale estimates, and a black...
By August Brown
It's telling that the most orthodox act on one of the season's most anticipated metal package tours was the one composed of cartoon...
By Mikael Wood
Chris Brown had already pleaded guilty to assaulting his then-girlfriend Rihanna earlier this year. But Wednesday night at the Avalon, in...
By Dawn C. Chmielewski
EMI Music became the first major music company to agree to distribute its music videos and concert footage on Hulu, the popular online...
By Robyn Dixon
The villages of Botswana are full of music. Gospel music. Choral music. The singsong repetitive music of rote classroom learning.
By Steve Appleford
Dave Grohl had a new rock 'n' roll dream, and it came true in a castle in Orange County. It was his 40th birthday, so the lead Foo Fighter...
By Randy Lewis
Loudon Wainwright III and Richard Thompson wrapped up their five-week tour as a duo under the ironic title Loud & Rich at UCLA on Friday...
By Steve Appleford
Ray Davies has learned to embrace his long season of reinvention. In recent years, the Kinks frontman has lamented the indefinite hiatus...
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What does a renowned, Harvard-educated, Pulitzer Prize-winning classical music composer say just after the standing-ovation world premiere...
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Where: Walt Disney Concert Hall,
By Michael Hiltzik
The sound of California business success came to my ears the moment I stepped through the door of Fender...
In the Kinks, Ray Davies had his hands on some the most charming pop songs of the 20th century, such as the winsome "Waterloo Sunset"...
By Blair Tindall
Chemistry textbooks, calculators and instrument cases littered the stage at Caltech's Ramo Auditorium early one warm autumn evening. Squawks...
By Randy Lewis
"When we lose a member of our tribe, we don't mourn, we celebrate, and we make a lot of racket," Dave Alvin said at the outset of a 3½-...
By Gerrick D. Kennedy
It's not easy to upstage Jay-Z, especially at his own show. But during a performance Sunday at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion, one special guest...
By Ben Fritz and Dawn C. Chmielewski
Walking between rows of DVDs at the Best Buy store in West Hollywood, Brandy Moore admits that she doesn't always buy the shiny discs...
By Randy Lewis
Just a week after several of the highest-profile members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame gathered in New York for the hall's 25th...