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Live music for your Memorial Day weekend
Pop & HissThe Pop & Hiss run-down of the weekend's top shows has returned. Included this week is the Lightning In a Bottle Festival, the JazzReggae Festival and Silver Lake's Jubilee.... -
Album review: Damon Albarn's 'Dr Dee'
Pop & HissDamon Albarn seems about as busy as a pop star can be. In March the frontman of both Blur and Gorillaz released “Rocket Juice & the Moon,” a trippy Afro-funk disc he made with drummer Tony Allen and Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers; next... -
Album review: Anthony Hamilton's 'Back to Love'
Pop & HissIn a sea of male singers who sound like yelping seal pups, Anthony Hamilton’s gritty emotiveness has the gravitas of weathered adulthood. On his fourth CD, “Back to Love,” he continues lapping the pack. “Pray for Me,” a... -
Sunset Junction Street Festival group files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy
Pop & HissSunset Junction Street Junction organizers have filed for bankruptcy following last year's canceled festival. The nonprofit Sunset Junction Neighborhood Alliance lists more than $900,000 in debts, including more than $250,000 to the city of Los Angeles...... -
Sunset Junction 2011: Stages, set times unveiled
Pop & HissSunset Junction 2011: Pop & Hiss has an early look below at the stages and set-times for this year's lineup. Headliners this year include soul legend Bobby Womack, dancey indie-rockers Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and alt-rock weirdos the Butthole Surfers.... -
A poet with soul: The ballads of Gil Scott-Heron
Pop & HissThe late Gil Scott-Heron was many things -- poet, activist, icon, cipher -- but it’s easy to forget: He could sing, too. Following his passing on May 27, a parade of accolades have lauded his achievements as a cultural figure,...... -
Album review: Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan's 'Hawk'
Pop & HissThree albums into a creative coupling that’s grown no less odd with age, former Belle & Sebastian singer Isobel Campbell and ex-Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan are still drawing power from the tension between her wispy indie-pop coo and his...... -
Lou Reed to join Gorillaz at Gibson Amphitheatre Wednesday
Pop & HissSinger Lou Reed will join the increasingly impressive lineup for the Escape to Plastic Beach tour, which star-studded concept band Gorillaz is bringing to the Gibson Amphitheatre on Wednesday night. The former Velvet Underground singer will join... -
A reanimated Gorillaz is back — this time with real-life musicians
When the sprawling British ensemble Gorillaz reunited to close out the final night of Coachella in April, anyone familiar with the band might have been shocked at what they saw.
Gorillaz, co-founded a decade ago by Blur frontman and U.K. rock macher...Tags: Movies, Blur (music group), Mos Def, Music, Music Industry
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Run-D.M.C., Metallica nominated for Rock Hall
Run-D.M.C. could "Walk This Way" into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The 1980s rap act, along with Metallica and the Stooges are among the nine nominees for next year's hall of fame class, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation announced Monday.
The...Tags: Bon Jovi (music group), Death, Jeff Beck, Run-D.M.C. (music group), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
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Allen Klein dies at 77; powerful figure in music world
Allen Klein, the brash music mogul whose five-decade career included stints as the business manager for the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, died Saturday in New York. He was 77.
Klein died after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer's disease, according to Bob...Tags: John Belushi, Mick Jagger, Companies and Corporations, Death, Paul McCartney
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Album review: 'Plastic Beach' from the Gorillaz
Pop & HissDamon Albarn formed this heady cartoon-band side project to keep himself entertained while on hiatus from his seminal Britpop act, Blur. Stuffed as they were with electro-pop hooks and globe-tripping grooves, the first two Gorillaz albums never actually...
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