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Album review: Bobby Womack's 'The Bravest Man in the Universe'
Pop & Hiss"I got a story to tell," 68-year-old Bobby Womack announces at the outset of his remarkable new album, and at first you're pretty sure about the nature of his tale: An intergenerational hookup with producer Richard Russell and Damon Albarn...... -
Levon Helm: Joe Henry remembers 'a deacon who spoke our gospel'
Pop & HissLevon Helm: Musician, songwriter and producer Joe Henry writes an appreciation for Levon Helm, drummer and singer with the Band who died on Thursday.... -
Larry 'Wild Man' Fischer dies at 66; vagabond singer made albums with Frank Zappa
"Wanna buy a song for a dime?" For many startled UCLA students and Sunset Strip sightseers in the 1960s, that was the way Larry "Wild Man" Fischer introduced himself.
Anyone who took him up on his offer was rewarded with a brief, bellowing burst of...Tags: Physical Conditions, Chemical Industry, Human Interest, Movies, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (tv program)
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Joe Henry talks the open-window approach to 'Reverie'
Pop & HissJoe Henry will play his new album 'Reverie' in its entirety on Oct. 11 at Largo in Los Angeles. Joe Henry prizes human inconsistency over technological perfect live and in his home studio.... -
'The X Factor' recap: Back to the judges' homes
Show TrackerA recap of the X Factor, judges' houses round, part two, in which Chris Rene and Melanie Amaro perform.... -
Live review: Global Soul with Stevie Wonder at the Hollywood Bowl
Pop & HissAt the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday night, the Tonight Show's Ricky Minor presented Global Soul, featuring Stevie Wonder, Janelle Monae, Sharon Jones, Mia Doi Todd and others.... -
Grammy Awards 2011: Lady Antebellum nears a rout with 'Need You Now'; Arcade Fire's 'The Suburbs' takes album of the year
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLady Antebellum's desperate late-night call for companionship, "Need You Now," was named record and song of the year among five awards the country trio collected during the 53rd Grammy Awards ceremony Sunday from Staples Center in Los Angeles. But the...Tags: Pearl Jam (music group), Lifetime (tv network), England, Tom Petty, Julie Andrews
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Critic's Notebook: A night of bold moves and noisy risks at Grammys
Uprisings have been in the news of late, and here was another one. This year's Grammy Awards ceremony, telecast from Staples Center Sunday night, was a generational takeover and an airing of the widening gap between the traditional corporate music...Tags: Eminem, Norah Jones, Lady Gaga, John Mayer, Janelle Monae
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Grammy Awards: Lady Antebellum, Arcade Fire take top honors
Pop provocateurs Lady Gaga and Eminem may have brought more compelling career stories to the 53rd annual Grammy Awards, but on a shocking night the big trophies went home Sunday with Southern trio Lady Antebellum and Montreal indie-rock band Arcade Fire....Tags: Eminem, Lady Gaga, Career and Workplace, Jennifer Hudson, Human Interest
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Solomon Burke dies; singer's voice was as big as his soul
Solomon Burke, a pioneering singer-songwriter of so-called sweet soul music whose powerful ballads in the 1960s were a major influence on a generation of rock, R&B and pop vocalists, has died. He was in his early 70s.
Burke died early Sunday morning of...Tags: Music, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Aerosmith (music group), Human Interest, Funeral Parlor and Crematorium
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Album review: Jerry Lee Lewis, 'Mean Old Man'
Pop & HissItâs hard to think of another artist who could bring together so many collaborators from disparate corners of the music world as those who turn up on the Killerâs latest outing, which include Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ron Wood...... -
Live review: Jerry Lee Lewis at Fox Theater in Pomona
Pop & HissSome things are eternal. Jerry Lee Lewis, the man, isnât one of them -- miraculous as it may seem with the Ferriday Fireball delivering seminal rock ânâ roll with the power he put across Saturday night at the Fox Theater......
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