Music
Velvet Underground founding member Lou Reed, punk-pop band Green Day, industrial dance-rock group Nine Inch Nails and ‘80s Brit-pop group the Smiths are among the 15 pop music acts that appear on the final nominees ballot for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2015.
Oct. 9, 2014
For many rock fans, the idea of Neil Young jamming with Led Zeppelin might seem like an impossible dream.
Nov. 16, 1994
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Oct. 20, 2010
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Two irrepressible individuals, Emanuel Ungaro and Valentino Garavani, refused to change their style to suit the times.
March 23, 1988
Lou Reed, Green Day, Ringo Starr, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Joan Jett will be welcomed into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of the 2015 class of inductees along with influential blues bandleader Paul Butterfield, R&B singer-songwriter Bill Withers and, for the annual early influence inductee, doo-wop group the “5” Royales.
Dec. 15, 2014
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March 11, 1987
Movies
It was a brief, lurid, glittery blast that couldn’t last. But in ‘Velvet Goldmine,’ writer-director Todd Haynes rockets back in time to the arty, sexually outlandish pop scene known as glam rock.
July 27, 1997
Entertainment & Arts
Music aficionados know that walking between the bins of CDS and vinyl records at Amoeba Music on Sunset Boulevard is always bound to turn up something of interest, but Tuesday night took things to a whole new level, with the sales floor of the independent record store feeling like a fame-meets-fashion fever dream.
Jan. 13, 2016
A guest appearance by a ‘60s pop icon and a confrontation between a singer and a customer provided the jolts on Tuesday at the Troubadour, where 4AD Records opened a six-day showcase of its distinctive acts.
Sept. 29, 1994
GLEN CAMPBELL singing the music of Green Day and the Velvet Underground may not top the list of Great Moments in Pop Weirdness -- that’d go to Pat Boone’s heavy metal phase a decade ago when he got hip to Metallica and Alice Cooper.
Aug. 17, 2008