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Mrs. Lyons welcomed to Los Angeles

2013-06-19 00:52:31

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Review: Playboy Jazz Festival's good vibrations

2013-06-17 00:00:00

There was a moment at the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday night when a question came to mind that felt a little like a Zen koan: If you hear a guitar solo but can't see a guitar, did the solo really happen? It's the sort of thought perhaps associated with...

Review: Jimmy Webb returns to 'MacArthur Park' in story-filled night

2013-06-16 12:13:00

On Saturday night, Levitt Pavilion at MacArthur Park was gradually melting into dark as Jimmy Webb took the stage a little after 8 p.m. and sat before a grand piano.� The personable, chatty songwriter greeted the crowd, many of whom were sitting on...

Fire and Water

2013-06-17 00:00:00

America really knows how to throw a party. On the Fourth of July, there’s live music, parades and tons of fun for kids — all culminating in a dazzling display of fireworks. But along the Southern California coast, Independence Day is...

L.A. Film Fest: 'All Together Now' makes music in an indoor forest

2013-06-15 10:00:00

Inside a warehouse in Los Angeles, the cast of "All Together Now" partied in an artificial forest filled with fog and piercing music. In order to bring in numerous bands to provide the soundtrack for the film, director Alex Mirecki opted for a faux...

Atoms for Peace muscles up at intimate warm-up gig

2013-06-15 09:19:00

“This is a rehearsal, right?” asked Thom Yorke not long into his show Friday night with Atoms for Peace, and that was one way of looking at it. Announced online Friday morning (with tickets available through radio stations, record stores and a...

As 'MacArthur Park' turns 45, Jimmy Webb will play it in that park

2013-06-14 18:26:00

Before becoming a widely lauded songwriter, Jimmy Webb was just another aspiring musician living in a dingy Los Angeles apartment. The Oklahoma transplant would wander from his low-rent flat in Silver Lake to a place that would inspire one of his most...

Cheesecake Factory succeeds with indulgence for the common man

2013-06-15 00:00:00

The Cheesecake Factory is at once an ostentatious den of dining and decorative excess as well as a homespun throwback to family tradition. Witness the florid murals and French-inspired checked floors, the dozens of cheesecakes in sumptuous flavors...

Return of the Aquabats, Interview II: The Q&A

2013-06-15 08:55:00

The Aquabats are a band from Southern California who dress as superheroes and are also the stars of their own television series. In "The Aquabats! Super Show!," which airs Saturday mornings on the Hub, they travel about in their Battle Tram to play...

Big Time Rush kicks into radio action, readies Summer Break Tour

2013-06-15 16:35:00

On a recent afternoon at a Burbank production studio, the members of Big Time Rush were shooting a music video for their song "24/Seven," a characteristically chipper ode to living every day like a holiday. After the shoot the Nickelodeon-bred boy band...

Sam Most dies at 82; pioneering jazz flutist

2013-06-14 22:59:00

Sam Most, a pioneering jazz flutist who performed with a stylistically diverse range of artists, including Tommy Dorsey, Donald Byrd, Herbie Mann and Charles Mingus, died Thursday at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Woodland Hills. He was 82....

A new Federal Bar is latest wave on Pine Avenue in Long Beach

2013-06-14 00:00:00

Long Beach's Pine Avenue has had its ups and downs over the last few decades. After a determined rebirth in the 1990s, a tide of prosperity rolled into the time-worn neighborhood with a bustling night life scene. That tide receded with newer...

The Tamarac Theatre of Performing Arts will be closing after an eviction notice was served to them. The theatre company is being forced out because a Walmart is coming to the shopping center. Here are theatre musicians Loree Fox Colvert on piano and drummer Carl Calozza.

2013-06-16 00:00:00

Singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb will perform "MacArthur Park" and more at the park on Saturday -- a first in what he calls the song's "wild and wacky" 45-year history.

2013-06-14 18:05:49

It's unclear when Kanye West went from a top-of-the-game producer and rap star to pop cultural Public Enemy No. 1 (somewhere around interrupting Taylor Swift, perhaps?), but music fans shouldn't dismiss his music.

2013-06-14 15:10:00