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'SNL 40': Kanye plays new song 'Wolves,' is razzed for stage-crashing
Be on guard, high school theater productions, minor league baseball games and any other location with a microphone and an audience: Kanye West is going to find his way onto your stage. West was the willing and good-humored target of some ribbing during Sunday's 40th anniversary episode of "Saturday Night Live." It wasn't all performance art though: West also was one of the episode's several prominent musical guests and debuted a new single during his live performance. The gibes came during a reprise of the show's "Wayne's World" sketch, in which guests Mike Myers and Dana Carvey revisited their beloved classic-rock layabout...
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'SNL 40': Kanye plays new song 'Wolves,' is razzed for stage-crashing
Be on guard, high school theater productions, minor league baseball games and any other location with a microphone and an audience: Kanye West is going to find his way onto your stage.
West was the willing and good-humored target of some ribbing during...
Grammys 2015: Beck wins best rock album with 'Morning Phase'
More than two decades after “Loser,” Beck Hansen shows no sign of relenting in his quest for new vistas to explore and new thoughts on the human condition to share, all of which led voters to reward him with the rock album Grammy for “Morning Phase,”...
Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' getting TV special
Stevie Wonder is set to reprise the show he brought last year to his annual House Full of Toys holiday benefit concert, a front-to-back full performance of his landmark 1976 album “Songs in the Key of Life,” which he’ll deliver again on Saturday at the...
Authorized Paul Simon biography to come from Robert Hilburn
Paul Simon is cooperating with writer Robert Hilburn for an authorized biography, publisher Simon & Schuster announced Tuesday. The Grammy-winning musician first hit the charts as half of the duo Simon & Garfunkel and has gone on to have a long...
Paul Simon biography due from author-critic Robert Hilburn
Paul Simon’s life and music will be the subject of a new book from former Los Angeles Times pop music critic Robert Hilburn, author of the acclaimed 2013 biography “Johnny Cash: A Life.”
“When one of the greatest songwriters alive agrees to talk to one...
Steve Martin, Edie Brickell take musical detour with 'Bright Star'
In the basement of the House of Charm, watching a group of people sing and dance, Steve Martin consults his iPad and prepares, once again, to transform.
Above him, Balboa Park goes about its business. Tourists arrive by red trolley, brides pose amid...
Paul Simon, Edie Brickell arrested on suspicion of disorderly conduct
Husband-wife singer-songwriters Paul Simon and Edie Brickell were arrested on Saturday at their home in Connecticut on disorderly conduct charges, according to police in New Canaan, Conn., who have scheduled a news conference Monday morning to discuss the...
Paul Simon, Edie Brickell face judge for disorderly conduct arrests
Singers-songwriters Paul Simon and Edie Brickell had to explain themselves to a Connecticut judge Monday afternoon after they were arrested Saturday on suspicion of disorderly conduct.
Simon, 72, said that he'd gotten into a rare argument with his wife...
Kode9, Ikonika play DJ Rashad tribute show
The death Saturday of Chicago juke and footwork producer DJ Rashad has left a hole in the fabric of one of America's most intense and idiosyncratic electronic music scenes.
Just days after the 34-year-old musician was found dead, several artists...
Warpaint apologizes for Beyonce, Rihanna criticisms
Warpaint, the gauzy L.A. rock band, learned the hard way that chastising Queen Bey and Rihanna's Navy is a risky venture.
Guitarist Theresa Wayman made some critical off-the-cuff remarks about the pop singers in an interview with Q magazine. In the...
Erykah Badu on performing for a dictator: 'that's how KINGDOMS twerk'
Erykah Badu is far from the first pop singer to perform for a despotic ruler. But she's certainly found some novel arguments for justifying it.
The R&B singer has been on a Twitter counteroffensive after being faced with a wave of criticism for...
Origami Vinyl and Ace Hotel kick off new club series
In just a few months, the new Ace Hotel has quickly ingratiated itself into the music and nightlife routines of downtown locals and the Coachella jet-set-adjacent.
Now they've got a new Friday night music series to make those lines for the elevator...
Goblin to creep out the Fonda on Saturday
All the best horror movies have a particular sound.
The sound of blood spattering and axes thwacking and teenage girls screaming, yes. But also echoing analog synth arpeggios and lulling drones punctuated by atonal shrieks of feedback. It's how you...
Director Nick Stoller gets the party started in 'Neighbors'
How to throw a great party is a question that has kept Martha Stewart in business for decades. How to throw a great party scene, well, that takes expertise too. Director Nick Stoller, who throws the many ragers in the new comedy "Neighbors,"...
John Fogerty joins Bruce Springsteen at New Orleans Jazz Fest
Most performers playing the major music festivals have to shoehorn their normal shows into hourlong time slots, but not Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band.
Playing Saturday at one of the longest-running American music festivals — the New Orleans...
Peter Sellars, Chuck Berry are winners of 2014 Polar Music Prize
They've probably never shared a stage together, and they are a strange match even by the odd-pairings standards of entertainment awards.
Peter Sellars, the innovative Los Angeles-based director of opera and theater, and rock pioneer Chuck Berry were...
Paul Simon, Edie Brickell domestic-dispute case is dropped
If Paul Simon and Edie Brickell behave for the next 13 months, all will be forgiven.
By the legal system, at least.
A Connecticut court clerk said the prosecutor had decided not to follow through with the case that saw Simon, 72, and Brickell, 48,...
Phil Ramone, record producer to stars, dead at 79
Phil Ramone, the veteran record producer whose work with A-list artists including Barbra Streisand, Bob Dylan and Paul Simon made him one of the most respected figures in the music industry, died Saturday at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Billboard...
Greyhound Express: new spin on an old-fashioned ride
Mindful that great American road trips occur in all sorts of vessels — heck, Huck rode a rickety raft — we're on a Greyhound bus heading up California's flat, slender belly. "Why?" you ask. That's a sensible question, but let us open our...
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