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Kinky Friedman leaves the stump to return to the stage
Posted: July 30th, 2010, 3:00am EDT
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The musician, writer and occasional political candidate plays McCabe's on Saturday.
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Pop music review: A night of big band at the Hollywood Bowl
Posted: July 30th, 2010, 3:00am EDT
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A triple bill headlined by the Count Basie Orchestra honors the big band's rich history while also showing where it stands in the present.
"Big bands are definitely not coming back," George Carlin once declared in a bit from the '80s, where he posed as Jesus Christ sitting down for an interview. While their golden age certainly has passed, what was as true then as it is now is that big bands have never entirely disappeared, and in fact, there is considerable evidence that the classic format may be enjoying a bit of a revival.
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Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys info
Posted: July 30th, 2010, 3:00am EDT
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Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys
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For Avenged Sevenfold, 'Nightmare' album is part of the grief
Posted: July 29th, 2010, 3:00am EDT
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The majority of the lyrics on the album were rewritten to address the death of drummer Jimmy Sullivan. The result is a highly personal work.
Orange County's Avenged Sevenfold has long been known by heavy-metal fans for its riffs and its death-obsessed imagery. "Sometimes I don't know why we'd rather live than die," sang frontman M. Shadows in the band's 2005 hit "Bat Country," which topped the chart on MTV's "Total Request Live" and earned Avenged the best new artist prize at 2006's Video Music Awards.
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Pop music: Natacha Atlas at Skirball
Posted: July 29th, 2010, 3:00am EDT
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East meets west in her music.
Natacha Atlas straddles the global divide between the East and the West, marrying North African and Arabic music with glitch electronics, French chansons , drum 'n' bass and hip-hop. This human Gaza Strip, as she's been known to call herself, has also explored world fusion with the Transglobal Underground, the London-based music collective. Skirball, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd. 8 p.m. Thu. Free. (310) 440-4500.
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Getting 'The Green Hornet' off the ground
Posted: July 23rd, 2010, 3:00am EDT
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Seth Rogen had a vision for the superhero, but not many shared it. Now, after a struggle of nearly four years, he's got a movie, a release date and an optimistic sense of accomplishment.
It's not easy being a hard-luck hero. Just ask Seth Rogen, who for the better part of four years has been trying to get "The Green Hornet" feature film off the ground despite changes to the script, the tone, the director and, well, pretty much everything except the hero's cool customized car.
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Donald Glover, Renaissance man of comedy and rap
Posted: July 19th, 2010, 3:00am EDT
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You may know him from YouTube, you may know him from 'Community,' but he hopes you'll begin to know him from hip-hop too. As an artist named Childish Gambino. His album 'Culdesac' hits the Internet.
Donald Glover had things to do.
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La Roux takes its best shot
Posted: July 14th, 2010, 3:00am EDT
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With hits such as 'Bulletproof,' the British duo fronted by Elly Jackson is being embraced in the U.S. It'll play sold-out Club Nokia in L.A.
Elly Jackson has never felt comfortable in girly clothing. In a pop world of in-your-face sexuality and scantily clad stars tiptoeing around in high heels, the singer for British synth-pop duo La Roux would rather wear flats. But when she explains this to photo-shoot stylists, they seem baffled, says Jackson. "They don't think you're serious. Like, 'Seriously, you don't want these Jimmy Choos?' No, you could give me a room of them and I wouldn't care. But if you put me in a room of Gucci loafers, I'd live in there."
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Opera is Rufus Wainwright's 'main squeeze'
Posted: July 11th, 2010, 3:00am EDT
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The creator of 'Prima Donna' is not one himself when it comes to his varied musical career.
Classical music is often maligned for its apparent insistence that aspiring acolytes display proper credentials before becoming a true follower. Once admitted to the fold, you must bow to the altar of knowledge and denounce uncomplicated pleasure as the ultimate blasphemy. No matter what denomination you choose (chamber music, new music, opera, orchestra), you can be sure the repertoire is studded with landmines, the detonation of which will instantly out you as a Philistine or worse: not serious.
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Harvey Fuqua dies at 80; singer, songwriter, producer and record executive
Posted: July 8th, 2010, 3:00am EDT
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He co-founded the R&B-doo-wop group the Moonglows, whose first single was the 1954 hit 'Sincerely,' and was an early mentor of Marvin Gaye.
Harvey Fuqua, a musical multi-tasker whose career with the prominent 1950s vocal group the Moonglows was a prelude to his association with Marvin Gaye, the Spinners and other R&B stars in the 1960s and '70s, died of a heart attack Tuesday in a Detroit hospital, a family spokeswoman said. He was 80.