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Live review: Thom Yorke at the Orpheum Theatre*
Pop & HissWith Flea driving the groove, Radiohead's frontman funks it up. To understand what Thom Yorke is up to with the new ensemble he brought to the Orpheum Theatre on Sunday, it's useful to quote one of pop's surviving godfathers. "Once...... -
Are you a 'jazz nerd'? Jason Marsalis revisits and clarifies the term
Pop & HissIn the wake of causing a minor firestorm in the online jazz community last month with a playful video decrying the influence of "jazz nerds," drummer Jason Marsalis e-mailed me a clarification this morning that both expands on the definition,...... -
R.I.P. Rammellzee: The original abstract-rapping outlaw
Pop & HissBefore MF Doom donned a metal mask, before Cypress Hill and the Beastie Boys conquered the adenoidal vocal and street art was bound in $100 books for sale at Taschen, Rammellzee was the original train-bombing, abstract-rapping outlaw. He passed away...... -
Album review: Big Boi's 'Sir Lucious Left Foot ….The Son of Chico Dusty'
Pop & Hiss"I got a backup plan to the backup plan to back up my backup plan," Antwan "Big Boi" Patton spits on this long pleasure cruise of an album. The neat repetition might allude to the many obstacles that stood between...... -
2010 Grammy Awards live!
Pop & HissPop & Hiss live-blogged the 2010 Grammy Awards -- typos and all! 8:30 p.m. The Grammy Awards took a bet on youth in 2010, giving its top prize to country star Taylor Swift. The 20-year-old won four Grammys, including album...... -
T-Pain's animated 'Freaknik': 'Strippers start coming and flying out the air'
Pop & HissCancún. Daytona Beach. Panama City. Fort Lauderdale. All popular spring break vacations for college students looking to unwind, drink copious amounts of alcohol and perhaps partake in a wet T-shirt contest or two. The frequency of the latter sort of........ -
The seeker: Gonjasufi on yoga, his singing style and the ongoing quest for enlightenment
Pop & HissSometimes, an artist selects an alias perfect enough to capture his aesthetic in a couple of compound nouns. Gonjasufi, nee Sumach Ecks, the Warp-signed, warped-voice entity residing in the Mojave Desert, is one of those anomalies â with a nomenclature.... -
Janelle Monae, Tuesday (and Wednesday) at the Viper Room
Brand XRocking a cummerbund, bow tie and pompadour combo, this Afro-punk soul-pop singer has been captivating audiences with her dynamic stage presence, and is certainly living up to the hype as a P. Diddy protégé. Although she's often been referred to as... -
Weekly Chris Reynolds 'Where am I?' quiz
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe results of the first Where Am I photo quiz are in, and it's time to bow deeply in the direction of Eve Zimmerle of Arcadia. She spotted the San Diego Zoo's aerial Skyfari cars. She knew or deduced that "Stumptown" is a nickname for Portland. She...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Theodore Roosevelt, Alfred Hitchcock, Death, Tourism and Leisure
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Answers to Chris Reynolds' 'Where am I?" quiz
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTell view the answer, move your cursor over the image (works best with Internet Explorer). 1. Now there's a cool sign for a jewelry store, don't you think? Except that this joint's proprietors have been in another game for decades. ------------------...Tags: Las Vegas, Edward Weston, Death, Travel, Casino and Gambling
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UCLA organist Christoph Bull pulls out the stops with 'Organica'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCLAD IN jeans and a long-sleeved Von Dutch T-shirt, blond, blue-eyed Christoph Bull shucked his rock 'n' roll boots and got set to work. Nearby, Max Kaplan, a twentysomething student in a T-shirt, khaki shorts and flip-flops, whipped out his ax and got...Tags: Recording Studios, Education, Classical Music (genre), University of Southern California, Cyndi Lauper
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Ne-Yo, Keri Hilson and the style that lasts: R&B
Times Pop Music CriticLOOKING classic-casual in a summer blazer, gray fedora and matching silk scarf, Ne-Yo leaned over his laptop in a West Hollywood recording studio one mid- August afternoon, playing selections from "Year of the Gentleman," his third solo album, out Sept....Tags: Entertainment, Science and Technology, Gnarls Barkley, Jimi Hendrix, Science Fiction (genre)
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