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The selection of ten members of the L.A. Phil's Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA) for the Discover Dudamel Orchestra proves that that the social activism side of YOLA -- the part that says music has the power to transform lives -- is working.
The hip-hop/mixed genre music group, Exact Opposites, not only celebrate the remotest nuances of their hometown, but create original, transformational music with a style all their own, drawn from their lives in this unlikely desert mecca.
Carly Ritter has music in her blood. The granddaughter of Tex Ritter, one of the innovators of early country music in the first half of the 20th century, has just released her debut album.
As part of the burgeoning Brainfeeder family, Strangeloop (née David Wexler) has become the collective's visual wizard, conjuring video art for artists from Erykah Badu to Flying Lotus.
This week L.A. Letters highlights two evenings of live music and a band of high school musicians.
Synthpop band, Fol Chen, performs experiments that involve inviting non-band members and non-musicians into their music-making process.
For Joshua Tree-based musician Jimmy King, the blues is a mission to find meaning, a discovery of what matters, and an embrace of what's real.
A community of local luthiers -- people who make and repair stringed instruments -- thrives along the Central Coast.
Given that "urban contemporary" is music industry code for "black music" (which was once explicitly called "race music"), one main challenge facing Asian Americans in the genre has been overcoming both audience and especially record industry skepticism around the marketability of a group with Asian faces.