June 7, 2009 Issue

Music editor Nic Harcourt takes the podium

We print it, you sound off

A&M/Octone’s James Diener is making the music business...a business again

DJ Hero is set to do for mixmasters what Guitar Hero did for air guitar

Sounds good to me

On the Dead Weather, Third Man Records, Nashville, Jimmy Page and The Edge

Legendary music exec Jeff Ayeroff has actually lived a life in pictures—with a little help from his friends

On a night in Bel Air in 1965, the Beatles finally met their hero—Elvis

With her provocative ballet, The Fiddle and the Drum, Mitchell finds a new groove—and a new lens on her past

Jonathan Wilson has turned Laurel Canyon into rock ‘n’ roll’s most famous neighborhood—again

The perfect storm of global influences, post-Obama acceptance and all-age music clubs is leading Los Angeles into a true indie renaissance

Musicians sound off

Friends help L.A.’s top lawman keep this city safe

Recent events honoring the Malibu Foundation for Youth & Families and TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design)

Hugh Hefner’s soundtrack? Big Band and Dixieland

To curse or not to curse, that is the effing question

If It Happened in Music, It Happened Here

Do Try This at Home