Music
L.A. Rock Band Tonic Shrugs Off Criticism That It’s Too ‘70s by Focusing on the Music
Oct. 10, 1997
Paul Simon has taken a lot of heat for the politics surrounding his “Graceland” LP, but no one has faulted him for introducing South African a cappella group Ladysmith Black Mambazo to a wider audience.
June 15, 1987
Saturday night’s rave at downtown’s Shrine Exposition Hall was an aural E-ticket to relentless escapism.
May 17, 1993
You know that theory about how laughter can help cure your ills?
May 30, 1988
Group: Doctor & the Medics.
Oct. 19, 1986
Congolese singer Tabu Ley Rochereau sometimes is billed, in the United States at least, as “the Elvis Presley of African music.”
Aug. 26, 1994
Entertainment & Arts
Plaid is a many splendored thing.
Nov. 13, 2001
“Neat, Neat, Neat.”
March 27, 1986
Pop music: Twangy guitars and outlaw attitudes have helped earn respect and a record contract for the young Arizona foursome.
June 22, 1996
OJAI — Charles Rosen’s “The Classical Style” is an illuminating, academic, occasionally combative, close study of the musical style of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven by a brilliant pianist and scholar who died in 2012.
June 16, 2014