Music
This weekend’s Skull and Roses Festival in Ventura is, on one level, a parallel dimension reversal of the typical pop music festival.
April 6, 2018
ELECTRIC YOUTH: The teen-pop phenomenon is a certifiable pop trend, but 9-year-old J.P.
June 18, 1989
Pop & Hiss
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Oct. 14, 2011
June 13, 2011
The Afro-French octet Ghetto Blaster probably didn’t need a lengthy post-set skull session to pinpoint the high spot of its local debut at the Flaming Colossus club on Wednesday.
May 27, 1988
In the main concourse of the Forum in Inglewood on Saturday, Carlos Toro hiked up his shirt to show off a near full-sleeve tattoo of the Misfits’ grinning skull logo.
Dec. 31, 2017
Leaving its skull and roses stamp on snowboards and more
Sept. 8, 2011
What is it that the bumper sticker says: “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro”?
Aug. 29, 1989
Metallica is widely acknowledged to be the best metal band in the world, the group that stripped the bloated corpse of stadium rock to its snarling skull and reinvented the metal riff as something closer to the drum rudiment than to the sloppy blues lick.
Jan. 8, 1992
Movies
Without the Grateful Dead, there’d be no Deadheads--the veteran band’s intensely loyal following that is one of America’s most intriguing counter-cultures.
Jan. 21, 1995