As the World Trade Center burned, William Basinski scored the soundtrack to Armageddon and rebirth. Ten years later, his Disintegration Loops strike a haunting and beautiful chord.
If you've listened to pop music over the last 40 years, you've heard James Gadson. The musician is one of the most successful and prolific session players in history.
The feminist, self-empowerment, punk rock arts scene of riot grrrl lives on, now symbolically grafted onto the mother-heart and soul of the onetime desert region of Riverside, California.
Specializing in enka and J-Pop, the upstairs music section of the long-standing gift shop has struggled for years to attract customers to its extensive collection.
From the late 1930s through the 1990s, country western music and the hybrid culture from which it came defined much of white working class Los Angeles.
A brief history of rockabilly in Los Angeles, a full-fledged regional phenomenon with thousands of aficionados ranging from casual observers to diehard fanatics -- and many are Latinos.
Singer and songwriter Woody Guthrie, who would have been 100 years old last Saturday, found his writing voice in Los Angeles, specifically in Skid Row.
Travel to Santa Barbara to experience the world-renowned Music Academy of the West, which celebrates its 65th anniversary this summer, offering approximately 150 master classes open to the public and putting talented musicians through their paces.
Craic Haus is an Irish/Hillbilly band from the Inland Empire led by songwriter, singer, drummer and guitarist Danny Oberbeck. Together they have developed Craic Haus' signature sound: Shamrockabilly.