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Sleep where the legends slept in grand old California hotels
Special to the Los Angeles Times"Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole," British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." And, I might add, place to place. There's something special about bedding down where Albert Einstein, Marilyn...Tags: Politics, Bob Hope, Bill Clinton, Music Theater, Count Basie
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Don Van Vliet dies at 69; avant-garde rock musician known as Captain Beefheart
Don Van Vliet, a maverick musician who emerged from the Southern California desert with the name Captain Beefheart and a singular and influential form of avant-garde rock in the 1960s, died Friday. He was 69.
Van Vliet, who retreated to a reclusive...Tags: Devo (music group), Music, PJ Harvey, John Lydon, Homes
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Rock Hall 2010: Kiss, ABBA on the ballot, but is there a noticeable omission?
Pop & HissWill tongues be wagging at next year???s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony? Specifically, the prodigious one that belongs to Gene Simmons of Kiss, one of a dozen acts that are on the final ballot from which five...... -
Hot Property: Los Feliz villa with a star-studded past hits the market
L.A. LandA 1929 Los Feliz home once owned by actor Cary Grant and, later, drummer Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers has come on the market at $3,495,000. The Spanish Colonial Revival-style villa has four bedrooms, four bathrooms and...... -
Gustavo Dudamel: ready for the spotlight
Culture MonsterThe day finally is here and L.A. is ready for him. Gustavo Dudamel conducts his first concert today as the new music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. A live audience of 18,000 awaits him for the welcome party --...... -
Live review: Thom Yorke at the Orpheum Theatre*
Pop & HissWith Flea driving the groove, Radiohead's frontman funks it up. To understand what Thom Yorke is up to with the new ensemble he brought to the Orpheum Theatre on Sunday, it's useful to quote one of pop's surviving godfathers. "Once...... -
Is it time to close down the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
The Big PictureI was a rock critic in a past life, so every year around this time, I still get a ballot allowing me to vote for my favorite nominees in the annual election at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame....... -
ABBA, the Stooges -- but not KISS -- make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Pop & HissThe Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is opening its arms to welcome in ABBA, Genesis, the Hollies, the Stooges and Jimmy Cliff, but has given the KISS-off, for this year at least, to hard rockâs most celebrated tongue-wagging, makeup-loving...... -
Jim Marshall dies at 74; iconic photographer shot music greats
Jim Marshall, celebrated in music circles for his iconic, attitude-laced images of Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, the Rolling Stones and other '60s rock luminaries as well as equally revered portraits of Johnny Cash, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and...Tags: Music, Rock and Roll (genre), The Rolling Stones (music group), Fires, Johnny Cash
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Live review: Ron Asheton tribute at the Roxy
Pop & HissThe Roxy was still mostly empty Wednesday afternoon when Leanna Asheton picked up her cell, a little nervous about the night's tribute to her uncle, the late Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton. Many players hadn't yet arrived, including her father, Stooges....... -
BAHRAIN: First all-girl rock band fights taboos, dreams to jam in public
Babylon & BeyondIt's their biggest dream to perform live in concert but they doubt Bahrain is ready for two girls jamming and playing rock and heavy metal on stage. So at night, 30-year-old "Emz" and 23-year-old "Dyaz", who make up the duo...... -
Brendan Mullen dies at 60; founder of influential Masque punk rock club
Brendan Mullen, founder of the Masque punk rock club in Hollywood that helped launch the vibrantly anarchic music scene on the West Coast in the late 1970s, died Monday after suffering a massive stroke over the weekend. He was 60.
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