Flea (music artist)

When you say jazz, Nicholas Payton hears BAM

2013-04-27 07:00:00

In a cramped UCLA classroom, trumpeter Nicholas Payton is leading a young septet of college students through his piece "The Backwards Step." He's here as part of a weeklong teaching residency, and the song he plays to the group at the Thelonious Monk...

Coachella 2013: Red Hot Chili Peppers lack a certain spice

2013-04-15 07:30:00

INDIO -- "I feel like I'm in 'Lawrence of Arabia,' " Anthony Kiedis said Sunday night, not long after Red Hot Chili Peppers had taken the main stage at Coachella for the final headlining performance of the three-day festival. Kiedis was referring to the...

A gathering of body and soul at Cheyann Benedict's new boutique

2013-03-31 00:00:00

T-shirts were once novelty items: Disneyland giveaways for deeply uncool vacationers, concert keepsakes for the young and disheveled, kitschy thrift-store finds for young women with hair in Princess Leia buns. But in the last decade the garments have...

Jerry Buss dies: Pau Gasol, Dennis Rodman, musician Flea react

2013-02-18 12:04:00

Tweets of admiration continue to roll in for Lakers owner Jerry Buss, who died Monday at the age of 80. A sampling: Lakers forward Pau Gasol: "Today is a very sad day for all the Lakers and basketball. All my support and condolences to the Buss family....

Austin Peralta, jazz pianist and Flying Lotus collaborator, dead at 22

2012-11-22 09:52:00

Austin Peralta, the 22-year-old jazz piano prodigy, composer and son of professional skater Stacy Peralta, has died. Flying Lotus, the beat producer and labelhead who released Peralta's music, confirmed the news Thursday morning via Twitter, writing:...

NCAA sure knows how to ruin a party

2012-11-10 00:12:00

They opened the shiny, new Pauley Pavilion Friday night amid pomp and less-than-desired circumstance. The first game in the $136-million redo of outdated Pauley was preceded by loud music, speeches, floodlights, laser beams and fancy graphics on a big...

Review: Patti Smith rocks the Wiltern with Flea and Depp

2012-10-13 13:27:00

This post has been corrected. See below for details. Among the pleas and invectives, yowls and barks coming from Patti Smith on stage at the Wiltern on Friday, the bellowed cries of “free money!” “Gloria!” and “Pussy Riot!&...

Southern California Close-Ups: Los Angeles' park neighborhoods

2012-03-30 15:49:00

First published on March 20, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. It's not easy being the lungs of Los Angeles. But Griffith Park, the foremost green space in a city notorious for meager parkland and abundant smog, endures bravely, maybe even...

Adam Yauch dies at 47; Beastie Boys' rapper MCA

2012-05-05 00:00:00

It had only been a few years since Adam Yauch had found fame as the in-your-face rapper and bass player MCA in the transgressive, boundary-breaking trio the Beastie Boys. But in 1992 he was searching for something else, traveling in Nepal to snowboard...

Album review: Damon Albarn's 'Dr Dee'

2012-05-08 16:37:11

In Rotation: Rocket Juice & the Moon's eponymous debut

2012-04-26 16:36:01

A Tony Bennett revival? They're singing his song

2011-09-11 00:00:00

By his own admission, Tony Bennett doesn't get nervous often. But he was anxious that day, more than 50 years ago, when he was filling in for Perry Como as host on the crooner's variety television show. "Como had a big orchestra and great stars," Bennett...

Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

2013-04-14 00:00:00

Flea performs onstage with the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

2013-02-18 11:16:31

It still feels weird to call Atoms For Peace a super-group, considering the drop-off in stardom that happens after you mention Radiohead's Thom Yorke, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea ... and then Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich and Joey Waronker, who has worked with R.E.M. and Beck but come on.

2012-12-17 00:00:00