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The week in Pop (& Hiss) and more: Tom Morello, Airborne Toxic Event, Steve Martin, Ghost Face Killah the Beer and much more
Pop & HissPop & Hiss strives to provide the best, most relevant and entertaining music coverage of the week. Hey, it's a goal, be nice. Sometimes we have some posts that hit the mark. Sometimes we don't. Here's a quick look at...... -
Mom and Dad as style icons? Yes!
All The RageOur analog society is increasingly becoming a distant memory. But two recently published books are nudging us to celebrate a time when photographs were arguably more candid and pants were considerably higher-waisted. The photo-driven “My Mom, the... -
Talking Nick Drake and Richard Thompson with author Rob Young
Jacket CopyAuthor Rob Young talks about icons and antecedents of the British Folk Movement.... -
Rock Stars Die in Plane Crash, Feb. 3, 1959
The Daily Mirror[Note: Here's a repost of an item from two years ago... lrh] Ritchie Valens' Roots Los Angeles Times, July 19, 1987 Los Angeles Times file photo Ritchie Valens, 1941 - 1959 By GREGG BARRIOS WATSONVILLE, Calif. -- "I still remember...... -
PASSINGS: Mel McDaniel, Lou Gorman, Harley Allen
Mel McDaniel
Country music singer-songwriter
Mel McDaniel, 68, a husky-voiced country music singer-songwriter who had a No. 1 hit with "Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On," died of lung cancer Thursday at his home in Hendersonville, Tenn., the Grand Ole...Tags: The Big Bopper, World Series, New York Mets, Boston Red Sox, Providence (Providence, Rhode Island)
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Ray Davies' new album is a collaborative effort
"The wonderful thing about making records is something comes out you never expected," explains Ray Davies, who knows of what he speaks. In nearly five decades as leader of one of rock's great bands, the Kinks, and as a solo artist, Davies has been...Tags: Paul Weller, Wes Anderson, The Who (music group), Nick Lowe, Blur (music group)
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Robert Hilburn's memoir: John Lennon remaking himself, then gone
Hilburn, former pop music critic for the Los Angeles Times, is author of "Corn Flakes With John Lennon (and Other Tales From a Rock 'n' Roll Life)." An excerpt in Sunday Calendar recalled his relationship with Lennon after the Beatles' breakup. In today's...Tags: Ed Koch, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Family, John Lennon
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Bob Dylan sings the songs of America
Special to the Los Angeles Times"No one ever seems to go in or out of that building," says Sean Wilentz, pointing out Princeton's Nassau Hall, a campus landmark old enough to have been held by the British during the Revolutionary War. It's appropriate that this eminent American...Tags: Holidays, Arts and Culture, Greenwich Village, Tennessee Ernie Ford, History
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Live review: Blink-182 still taps into frenzied fun
Pop & HissThe reunited trio amps up the racy humor in the first of two concerts at Irvine's Verizon Wireless Amphitheater. Near the end of Blink-182's show Thursday night at Irvine's Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, bassist Mark Hoppus revealed what anyone who'd... -
Album review: Freedy Johnston's 'Rain on the City'
Pop & HissWasn't the singer-songwriter Freedy Johnston always pretty much middle-aged? Midwestern and spectacularly unflashy, apparently born with a receding hairline, the Kansas-born, Hoboken-launched singer-songwriter won critics' hearts and some fame in the... -
Theater review: 'Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story' at La Mirada Theatre
Culture MonsterOne thing to be said about the jukebox musical "Buddy" is that it tends to understand that the audience came through the doors to hear Buddy Holly's music, not scripted blather. So even though it tries our patience with a...... -
Bob Keane dies at 87; discovered Ritchie Valens
Bob Keane, who founded the West Coast independent label Del-Fi Records in the 1950s and is best known for discovering and recording rock legend Ritchie Valens, has died. He was 87.
Keane, who survived non- Hodgkins lymphoma diagnosed when he was 80, died...Tags: The Big Bopper, World War II (1939-1945), Hodgkins Disease, Television, Barry White
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