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Slash remembers amplifier king Jim Marshall
Pop & HissGuitarist Slash remembers amplifier innovator Jim Marshall, who died Thursday at 88. Jim Marshall created equipment that made rock music bigger and louder than ever.... -
Bert Jansch dies at 67; Scottish singer-guitarist influenced rock, folk greats
Bert Jansch, a revered, enigmatic Scottish singer-guitarist whose effect on a host of prominent musicians eclipsed his own fame, has died. He was 67.
Jansch died Wednesday at a hospital in London of lung cancer, a disease he first battled in 2009, his...Tags: Paul Simon, Donovan, Entertainment Events, United Kingdom, Arts and Culture
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Book review: 'See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody' by Bob Mould with Michael Azerrad
Special to the Los Angeles TimesAny number of veterans of the punk and post-punk campaigns of the 1980s could pack a memoir with endless drives in the van, bad food and bad contracts, shoestring recording sessions, hellhole nightclubs, sleeping on floors and all the other genre...Tags: Minority Groups, Book, Music Industry, Human Interest, Jon Stewart
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Scottish singer-guitarist Bert Jansch dies at 67
Pop & HissBert Jansch dies of cancer at 67. British folk guitarist Jansch influenced musicians from Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, Donovan, Paul Simon to contemporary players such as Devendra Banhart.... -
John Lennon at 70? We can only imagine….
Fourteen years after Pete Townshend dismissed the very idea of growing up when he wrote "Hope I die before I get old," a 40-year-old John Lennon sang a very different tune.
"I can hardly wait to see you come of age," he sang in 1980 to his then-5-year-...Tags: Movies, Music, The Beatles (music group), EMI Group Ltd., Sam Taylor
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British rock, seen and (partly) remembered
Jacket CopyWhat is it that makes rock 'n' roll so rock 'n' roll? For Keith Richards, it's not the phalanxes of groupies, the legendary partying, the tragedies of Brian Jones and Altamont or the complicated personality of lead singer Mick Jagger....... -
Live Review: Wild Flag at Spaceland
Pop & Hiss For a woman who once recorded for a label called Kill Rock Stars, Carrie Brownstein has made her peace with â and claimed her place in â guitar-hero history. Friday night at the Los Angeles debut of her new...... -
Live review: Roger Waters and 'The Wall' at Staples Center
Pop & HissEveryone else in the music business may be content to think smaller these days. Not Roger Waters. Pink Floydâs erstwhile lead singer and songwriter not only remembers when rock music could also function as grand-scale theater, he helped arrange that....... -
Live review: Girl Talk at the Hollywood Palladium
Pop & HissSaturday's Girl Talk show at the Hollywood Palladium ended in the only appropriate fashion -- with a girl in a spangly minidress doubled over outside the venue throwing up into a trash can while her friends held her hair back....... -
Theater review: 'The Who's Tommy' at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts
Culture MonsterCharlotte Stoudt reviews Chance Theater's remount of "The Who's Tommy" at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts... -
The Morning Fix: Comcast finishes strong. Apple irks big media. Billy Ray Cyrus has the blues.
Company TownAfter the coffee. Before I analyze my bizarre dreams. The Skinny: Apple wants a big cut from content providers, and that's not playing well with media companies. Was Chris Nolan snubbed by Oscar voters? There's an app for that. Apple...... -
Ray Davies' new album is a collaborative effort
"The wonderful thing about making records is something comes out you never expected," explains Ray Davies, who knows of what he speaks. In nearly five decades as leader of one of rock's great bands, the Kinks, and as a solo artist, Davies has been...Tags: Damon Albarn, Music, United Kingdom, Dave Davies, Audrey Niffenegger
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