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L.A. Underground vs. the Cops

If you can imagine an infinite variety of Kubla Khan pleasure-domes tucked within the rotting walls of the old Warehouse District

Author Ron Garmon Date: 05/14/2008 Categories: Feature , Live
Soothe Me, Baby

Tasty understatement is what guitarist Thom Rotella’s all about – saying more with less

Author Kirk Silsbee Date: 05/14/2008 Categories: Critic's Choice
Nightbeat: 'Gigantour'

Dave Mustaine started this annual event, now in its third go-round, as an attempt to reinvent an ossifying Ozzfest for his own purposes, but credit him with choosing metal bands that have always given his own Megadeth a run for their money

Author Joshua Sindell Date: 05/14/2008 Categories: Nightbeat
Little Bit Country

As I tooled into Indio on Thursday for the second Stagecoach Festival, a jock on Riverside’s contemporary country station K-FROG (“Ribbit!”) croaked from the car radio

Author Chris Morris Date: 05/07/2008 Categories: Feature , Sonic Nation
Nightbeat: The Duke Spirit
Author Joshua Sindell Date: 05/07/2008 Categories: Nightbeat
Jazz Critic's Choice: Brothers and Other Mothers

Trombonist Curtis Fuller, one of the last practitioners from the golden age of Blue Note Records

Author Kirk Silsbee Date: 05/07/2008 Categories: Critic's Choice
Bass Desires

Forget the “woo-woo” vocals and the paint-by-numbers smooth jazz tunes

Author Kirk Silsbee Date: 04/30/2008 Categories: Critic's Choice
Not (Just) Your Mama's Sound Machine

They’ve been her-alded by no less than Time magazine as bearers on a completely new, revolucionary, geo-cultural musical genre: Nortec, or Norteno techno music.

Author Will K. Shilling Date: 04/30/2008 Categories: Sounds Features
The Queens

My teacher told me I couldn’t play guitarrón because it was too heavy and that it would bother my stomach

Author Kamren Curiel Date: 04/30/2008 Categories: Sounds Features
High Weirdness: Coachella '08

It was blazing hot already when the car arrived for me and my driver bumped the mercury still higher

Author Ron Garmon Date: 04/30/2008 Categories: Feature , Live