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After his father's death, a belt buckle became the most significant object linking Romeo Guzmán to his father's past as a rodeo rider and Mexican migrant.
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The fourth iteration of the program "Songs About Place" features performances of songs about the San Gabriel Valley.
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This week L.A. Letters explicates two remarkable releases that are making major waves nationally: a book by award-winning poet Douglas Kearney, and an album by the singer-songwriter, emcee, and multi-instrumentalist Aloe Blacc.
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Saxophonist and composer John Ellis has spent his residency at 18th Street Arts Center by composing 30 new pieces of work.
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Violins made by eminent 17th and 18th century Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari will be featured in the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's Strad Fest L.A..
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The Valley hotspot was once the premier club on the West Coast for cowboys, truckers, and country music.
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Artist and musician Dudley Saunders combines his music with images of the keepsakes of strangers in a performance at the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts on Feb. 8.
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The trio of young Mexican American DJs Metralleta de Oro specialize in Sonidero, an extremely rhythmic sub-genre of the Mexican, Central and South American cumbia genre notable for its thumping repetitive bass lines.
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The Southern Soul Spinners play R&B styles that go by different names in L.A.: oldies, slow-jams, and -- at least among Chicanos -- "firme rolas."
For the last twenty years, the scene in Leimert Park Village has been a contradiction that embodies the general state of black people in Los Angeles.
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Chelsea Wolfe brought her atmospheric brand of rock to the KCET studios for a special session exclusively for Artbound and a dedicated group of Wolfe's followers.
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San Fernando Valley-based indie rock band Run River North performs their single "Growing Up" at the KCET Studios.
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