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Review: Brad Mehldau, the Bad Plus push jazz further ahead at UCLA
Sometimes, you can tell a lot about a show based on its audience. In addition to drawing an inspiringly big, deeply attentive crowd to Royce Hall to close out the first season for the newly named Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA (and new...
Tags: Polio, Music, Entertainment, Dave King
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Coachella 2013: For Major Lazer and New Order, nostalgia is key
Major Lazer, like many dance-hall and EDM artists, traffics in nostalgia via sentimental ’80s and ’90s samples. New Order, a band that helped forge the sound of dance music decades ago, traffics in the nostalgia of its own songs. At...
Tags: Diplo, Music, The Flaming Lips (music group), Entertainment, Major Lazer (music group)
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The Three O'Clock rolls around again, this time for Coachella
Showtime was only minutes away at the Glass House in Pomona on a recent Saturday night as Michael Quercio, Danny Benair, and Louis Gutierrez, three original members of the Los Angeles psychedelic pop quartet the Three O'Clock, prepared for their first...
Tags: Homophobia, Arts and Culture, Concerts, Theater, Entertainment Events
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Kurt Cobain died 19 years ago today
Nineteen years ago Friday, the singer for the most important American rock band of the '90s died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his Seattle home. Kurt Cobain was only 27, leaving behind his wife Courtney Love and daughter Frances Bean Cobain. His...
Tags: Music, Entertainment, Sundance Film Festival
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Grunge-influenced Wavves and Mudhoney diverge
When Nathan Williams promises, "Still I'll be your dog," on the new album by his L.A. fuzz-punk band Wavves, he's nodding of course to "I Wanna Be Your Dog" by perhaps the greatest fuzz-punk band of them all, the Stooges. But Williams seems also to be...
Tags: Jimi Hendrix, Music, Kurt Cobain, Entertainment, Wavves (music group)
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SXSW 2013: Dave Grohl's Sound City Players go big (before going home)
AUSTIN, Texas -- By many accounts the South by Southwest music festival is about discovering new talent: the fresh-faced indie-pop outfit, for instance, or the precocious laptop wizard just stepping beyond the walls of his bedroom. Dave Grohl doesn't...
Tags: Cheap Trick (music group), Fleetwood Mac (music group), Music, Entertainment, Stevie Nicks
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SXSW 2013: Kathleen Hanna reemerges in 'The Punk Singer'
AUSTIN, Texas -- In her bands Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, Kathleen Hanna has brought a fiercely feminist perspective to her lyrics and music, inspiring multiple generations of young women. The new documentary “The Punk Singer,” which is having...
Tags: Feminism, Kim Gordon, Lyme Disease, Music, Entertainment
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SXSW 2013: The music stories to watch
On the final night of the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, last year, a young folk-rock trio from Denver took the makeshift stage at a church a few blocks away from the main action down on 6th Street. The church was about half full,...
Tags: Kelly Clarkson, Entertainment Events, Music, M.I.A., OFWGKTA (music group)
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Movie review: 'Sound City' is homage to recording studio equipment
High-spirited, emotional and funny, "Sound City" is, of all things, a mash note to a machine. Not just any machine, however, but one that helped change the face of rock 'n' roll. That piece of equipment, the Neve 8028 sound board, was the crown jewel of...
Tags: Cheap Trick (music group), Trent Reznor, Fleetwood Mac (music group), Music, Pat Benatar
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Live review: Sound City Players at the Hollywood Palladium
“Rick Springfield, you have a song that people recognize after three frigging notes. Congratulations, Rick frigging Springfield,” Dave Grohl said on Thursday to his colleague in a new band celebrating the former Van Nuys recording studio Sound...
Tags: Cheap Trick (music group), Trent Reznor, Music, Fleetwood Mac (music group), Rick Springfield
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'Backbeat' creators go beyond the standard musical theater fare
Searching for his way into the new musical "Backbeat," which examines the Beatles' early days (and nights) in Hamburg, Germany, David Leveaux asked himself what he called "the Jerome Robbins question." It's a tactic he picked up in 2004 while overseeing...
Tags: Iain Softley, Jerome Robbins, Music, Entertainment Events, Once (musical)
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Sundance 2013: Documentaries turning to writers to shape narrative
PARK CITY, Utah — A new title has been added to the list of movie credits that describe jobs few people understand. Move over, gaffer, best boy and second second assistant director, and make room for the "written by" credit on an increasing number...
Tags: Meryl Streep, Entertainment, James Cameron, Sundance Film Festival, Movies
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