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Kinky's sonic criss-cross keeps them wanting mas
Human beings have trouble sitting still when the Mexican techno-funk band Kinky fires up its hit song "Más" (More), with an insinuating bass line that recalls '70s Philly-soul classics like the O'Jays' "For the Love of Money." But what's the message...
Tags: Entertainment, Coldplay (music group), Science and Technology, Dance, Music Theater
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Newton: Villaraigosa's numbers game
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has every reason to be proud of his public safety record. He worked well with Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton, who had been hired by the mayor's predecessor, James Hahn. When Bratton left, Villaraigosa oversaw a...
Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Government, Safety of Citizens, Politics, Antonio Villaraigosa
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Review: Beck's 'Song Reader' inspires creative interpretations
Some ideas that seem so simple unleash waves of creativity that expand in exquisitely complex ways. One such musical brainstorm is to offer a new body of work as notated sheet music, as Los Angeles songwriter Beck Hansen has done. His new work, "Song...
Tags: Entertainment, YouTube, Music, Popular Music (genre), Music Industry
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Celso Chavez, founding member of Possum Dixon, dies at 44
Pop & HissCelso Chavez, the guitarist-keyboardist in local '90s alt-rock band Possum Dixon, died Wednesday night after complications from a staph infection led to pneumonia, his former bandmate Rob Zabrecky confirmed to Pop & Hiss. He was 44.... -
Album review: Boots Electric's 'Honkey Kong'
Pop & HissThe cheeky pseudonym Boots Electric allows Eagles of Death Metal's Jesse Hughes to put out a solo album in the same vein as musical shape-shifter Beck.... -
Dwight Yoakam returns to Warners, new album slated for early 2012
Pop & HissDwight Yoakam returns to major label, readies new album for 2012... -
Review: Serge Gainsbourg Tribute at Hollywood Bowl
Pop & HissThe Hollywood Bowl's tribute to Serge Gainsbourg’s towering songbook, a four-decade flirtation with every style of music that caught his eye — from chanson to ye-ye pop to Afro-Cuban jazz, American folk and reggae.... -
Home in the Wild West: Devendra Banhart, Beck and Caetano Veloso at MOCA
Pop & HissThe multimedia artist Doug Aitken, who envisioned the Artist's Museum Happening at MOCA on Saturday night, had a singular mission: to describe and then harness the energy of the West, for one fleeting evening. The trio of musicians who performed...... -
The Silver Lake Chorus celebrates 1-year anniversary with Feb. 4 concert
Pop & HissThe Silver Lake Chorus will celebrate its 1-year anniversary with a show Friday doing what the choir was formed to do: give the full-blown choral treatment to original songs written for the group by leading lights of the indie-rock and...... -
Tobacco talks collaborating with Beck, the possible demise of Black Moth Super Rainbow and unveils exclusive MP3
Pop & HissThe world first discovered Black Moth Super Rainbow three years ago, with the release of their third album, âDandelion Gum,â a supernatural and synaesthetic swirl of drum machines, disorienting vocoders, and sun-splintered Moog synths imitating... -
Listen: Beck and Devendra Banhart survive 'Life During Wartime'
Brand X"Life During Wartime": The song where freak-folk meets the word "iPhone." Yes, scruffy singer Devendra Banhart sings about the Apple device on the new track, a collaboration between himself and Beck for the Todd Solondz film of the same name. The two... -
Track-by-track: Beck, Nigel Godrich, Emily Haines, Bryan Lee O'Malley & Edgar Wright dissect the 'Scott Pilgrim' music
Pop & HissFifteen pages into the first volume of Bryan Lee O'Malley's six-part Scott Pilgrim series, the characters break into song -- or at least they rock out as much as one can in a black-and-white graphic novel. Electric bolts shoot from......
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