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Exclusive video: Los Lobos' watershed 1992 'Kiko' album returns
Pop & HissLos Lobos' 1992 album "Kiko" will have a deluxe reissue in August to mark its 20th anniversary. Also coming is a DVD and Blu-ray release of "Kiko Live," from a 2006 series of concerts in which Los Lobos performed "Kiko" in its entirety.... -
Beastie Boys' sampling in 'Paul's Boutique' again in spotlight
Pop & HissLast week TufAmerica, Inc., which administers the rights to the recordings of Washington, D.C. go-go band Trouble Funk's catalog, filed lawsuit in federal court accusing the Beastie Boys of sampling without permission the group's 1982 funk classics, "Drop... -
Robert Miles Parker dies; artist, architectural preservationist
Robert Miles Parker, a free-spirited artist who sparked an architectural preservation movement in San Diego and translated the personalities of Los Angeles and New York into distinctive pen-and-ink drawings of their buildings, has died. He was 72. His...Tags: Artists, Dog (animal), Fine Artists, Al Hirschfeld, Robert Miles
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Study: New York, L.A. not the most influential music cities
Pop & HissIf you really want to be influential as an artist, it might be a better idea to head for Montreal's Mile End than Echo Park.... -
Billy Strange dies at 81; guitarist, arranger for Presley, Nancy Sinatra
Guitarist Billy Strange once took the kind of phone call that thousands of musicians receive only in their best and wildest dreams.
"I was staying at a hotel in Nashville in 1965 when my telephone rang and this unmistakable voice said, 'Billy, this is...Tags: Willie Nelson, Nancy Sinatra, Chubby Checker, Duane Eddy (music group), Dean Martin
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Pharrell on Oscars composing: 'I hadn't seen sheet music in 20 years'
Pop & HissHip-hop producer Pharrell Williams and film composer Hans Zimmer have been holed up in Capitol Records' recording studios rehearsing pieces they wrote and arranged as interstitial music for Sunday's Oscar telecast.... -
She & Him's holiday nod to the Beach Boys
Pop & HissShe & Him salute the influence of Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, among others, on their first holiday album. "A Very She & Him Christmas" includes two songs originally recorded by the Beach Boys.... -
Paul McCartney gets his star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Pop & HissPaul McCartney got his star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame on Thursday. Paul McCartney was joined by Neil Young, Elvis Costello and Diana Krall, Joe Walsh and Jeff Lynne at the ceremony.... -
Best Coast in relaxed mode while hard at work on second album
Somewhere deep in the catacombs of Capitol Studios in Hollywood, Bethany Cosentino has found a little place of her own. It's squeezed into a tight corner in the control room of Studio B, where she sits behind an ancient synthesizer to relax or think or...Tags: Fleetwood Mac (music group), Music Theater, Metallica (music group), Rihanna, Arts and Culture
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Paul McCartney: His might be the cutest Beatles star in Hollywood
Ministry of GossipPaul McCartney got his star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame on Thursday. Paul McCartney heard from Neil Young as he became the last Beatle to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in front of the Capitol Records Building.... -
Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie sell Malibu house to Ellen De Generes
In one of the more talked-about transactions in town, actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have sold their Malibu beach house to daytime host and comedian Ellen De Generes for $12 million.
The 4,088-square-foot house, built in 1962, features walls of...Tags: Guns N' Roses (music group), Realty, Bosnian War (1992-1995), Real Estate, Tool (music group)
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Amoeba officially designated tourist spot by Metro
Pop & HissAmoeba Music has been designated a tourist spot by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority....
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