Steve Appleford

Steve Appleford was a features editor for Times Community News and a contributor to the Los Angeles Times Calendar section. He is a Los Angeles native and the former editor in chief of the award-winning L.A. CityBeat. As a writer and photographer, he’s covered riots, political conventions and a whole lot of pop culture for a variety of publications including Rolling Stone, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide and LA Weekly.

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For flame-keeper Linda Ramone, Hollywood Forever and Ramones forever are inseparable

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For flame-keeper Linda Ramone, Hollywood Forever and Ramones forever are inseparable

The widow of punk guitar legend Johnny Ramone oversees her husband’s annual tribute at Hollywood Forever, as well as the band’s lucrative legacy
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Bill Wyman, the Rolling Stones’ ‘quiet one,’ speaks up in a new doc

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Bill Wyman, the Rolling Stones’ ‘quiet one,’ speaks up in a new doc

When bassist Bill Wyman announced to the Rolling Stones that he was quitting at the beginning of the 1990s, the news was received with genuine disbelief.
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A panoramic history of hip-hop, from the Bronx to Compton

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A panoramic history of hip-hop, from the Bronx to Compton

Alonzo “Lonzo” Williams has strong opinions about the birth of West Coast hip-hop, back when he was a young DJ and club owner in Compton, crossing paths with Dr.
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Le Butcherettes to bring their anxious punk to Lucha VaVoom

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Le Butcherettes to bring their anxious punk to Lucha VaVoom

For two weeks in El Paso, Teri Gender Bender was having an emergency.
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Here’s what Coachella’s co-founder did over the weekend (think Kanye West and sod)

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Here’s what Coachella’s co-founder did over the weekend (think Kanye West and sod)

Just after 10 p.m. on Sunday night, concert promoter Paul Tollett was near the end of leading two weekends of this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, marking its 20th year in 2019.
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Coachella is the canvas. The art is the spectacle

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Coachella is the canvas. The art is the spectacle

There’s no predicting how anyone might react to a huge piece of art, and right now a young man in khaki shorts is losing all composure on the top level of the Spectra tower at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio.
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Coachella at 20: For two decades, the real headliner has been the location

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Coachella at 20: For two decades, the real headliner has been the location

Paul Tollett is not a polo player.
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Coachella at 20: Looking back at every festival

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Coachella at 20: Looking back at every festival

Generations of musical history have unfolded on the grassy acres of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, this week marking two decades of action in Indio.
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Coachella at 20: How the festival unexpectedly nabbed Prince

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Coachella at 20: How the festival unexpectedly nabbed Prince

“You are in the coolest place on Earth right now,” declared the artist forever known as Prince, dressed in white, an electric guitar in his hands, as he looked over the landscape of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival one night in April 2008.
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Rolling Stones’ ‘Circus,’ once lost and unfinished, will receive a theatrical release

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Rolling Stones’ ‘Circus,’ once lost and unfinished, will receive a theatrical release

For over two decades, “The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus” was a lost film, unfinished and unseen, more rumor than pop culture memory.