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Jazz box set review: 'Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology'
Culture MonsterChris Barton reviews boxed set 'Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology,' a beautifully assembled if flawed set that delivers quality listening despite the futility of trying to capture an entire genre in six CDs.... -
Tonight: Pere Ubu frontman David Thomas to lead punk rock book panel at Grammy Museum
Jacket CopyPere Ubu's David Thomas, Cheetah Chrome, Mike Hudson and Bob Pfeifer will be at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles to talk about their punk rock books.... -
2010 Year End -- Jazz
Culture MonsterAlthough in recent years jazz could seem mired in defensive talk about the music's health or its makeup, 2010 felt different somehow. Whether it was the often sumptuous, jazz-drunk taste of New Orleans offered by David Simon & Co. in...... -
Bela Fleck on taking holiday music to new places
Pop & HissMusicians who explore the fringes of music as we know it often seem to operate in a parallel dimension with few points of reference for the average music fan. This historically has been true in jazz, where such innovators as...... -
Don Van Vliet's tip for guitarists: "Listen to the birds. That's where all music comes from."
Pop & HissAmong the bits of advice that Don Van Vliet, in the guise of his musical alter ego, Captain Beefheart, listed in a 1996 musical primer called âCaptain Beefheartâs 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing,â is this, number 1: âListen to the...... -
Gary Lucas discusses Don Van Vliet's legacy in advance of Thursday's Captain Beefheart Symposium
Pop & HissLongtime Captain Beefheart guitarist-manager Gary Lucas will present a symposium on the life and legacy of the artist otherwise known as Don Van Vliet, who died Dec. 17, at the Echoplex at 8 p.m. Jan. 13. Special guests Kristine McKenna,...... -
Live review: Charlie Haden Family & Friends at Disney Hall
Pop & HissJazz luminary Charlie Haden took no small amount of perverse joy Tuesday night in bringing the old-time country music with which he started his musical career in the Midwest seven decades ago into the tony surroundings of Walt Disney Concert...... -
Live review: HEALTH at the Echoplex
Pop & HissIn HEALTHâs new video for their single "USA Boys," a young couple throw a wild rumpus in a decrepit warehouse, drop a few hallucinogens, and collapse in a surprisingly forthright tangle of soft-core sex. Itâs also kind of a metaphor...... -
Punk hero Ian Drury biopic: 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll gives audiences 'reasons to be cheerful'
Brand XIn a biopic of a wild-eyed, libertine, punk-era wordsmith, some poetic licentiousness is to be expected. Rocker Ian Dury, the subject of âSex & Drugs & Rock & Roll,â has even said, âNever let the truth get in the way of a good story.â... -
Pitchfork Music Festival 2010: Day 3 review
Turn It UpVideo produced by Kevin Pang The Pitchfork Music Festival 2010 is in the books. Maybe it was the oppressive heat, but this was not a high-energy festival overall. Beach House singer Victoria Legrand put it best Sunday: "There are a...... -
This week's on-sales: UCLA Live, Yoko Ono, Elton John and more
Pop & HissA list of upcoming concerts across the Southland, with on-sale dates in parentheses. UCLA Live John Cale, Sept. 30; Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano, Oct. 2; Laurie Anderson, Oct. 21; Taj Mahal, Oct. 22; Ornette Coleman, Nov. 3; Mavis...... -
Album review: Amir ElSaffar's and Hafez Modirzadeh's 'Radif Suite'
Pop & HissAs far as the average listener's perception is concerned, Iraq and Iran may rank just below Greenland in terms of enjoying a rich jazz tradition. Yet this record's cross-cultural collaboration between Iraqi American trumpeter ElSaffar and Iranian American...
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