Pop & Hiss
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Dec. 17, 2010
Music
The country blues and gospel traditions are the focus of this edition of On the Offbeat, the only periodic column of roots, ethnic and non-mainstream pop music from around the world that dares to ask: “Can too many Lightning Hopkins albums be available?”
Oct. 4, 1992
Drummer Barrett Martin’s plaid flannel shirt was the only reminder on stage Wednesday at the House of Blues in West Hollywood of the Seattle grunge-rock explosion he was part of as a Screaming Trees member.
July 19, 2002
Entertainment & Arts
I was a judge the other night for the annual UCLA Spring Sing, and I was reassured that what we used to call “the old college spirit” did not die, as we have sometimes thought, in the 1960s and ‘70s, even though it was pretty sick.
April 29, 1986
Marley’s Ghost sounds like the name of a reggae cover band, and indeed the Seattle-based group that uses the moniker does play a Jamaican tune or two.
March 12, 1993
“Congregational spirit means you forget that you paid money to get in here. . . .
Feb. 10, 2000
As most of America willingly submits to our new electronic-music robot overlords, something funny is happening in the alleys, parking lots and forgotten spaces around Los Angeles.
May 29, 2013
Single premiere: Tijuana Panthers’ ‘Boardwalk’ (Matt Vasquez remix)
World-music aficionado Ry Cooder just picked up a Grammy Award for his collaboration with Indian musician V.M.
May 12, 1994
Few movies in recent years have made music such an integral element as “O Brother, Where Art Thou?
June 15, 2001