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ARTBOUND “The New West Coast Sound: An L.A. Jazz Legacy.”
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The current debate over son jarocho in L.A. ranges from expletive pissing matches online to a philosophical debate over the nature of community music building and the process by which a musical practice that's spiritual to many is carried out.
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Two of the world's great jazz photographers take us inside a world of late-night shoots, exotic locations, and contrary art directors.
SOCAL CONNECTED PRESENTS "HERBIE HANCOCK- ALL THAT'S JAZZ" AN EXTRAORDINARY LOOK BEHIND THE SCENES WITH HERBIE HANCOCK ALL NEW EPISODE AIRS OCTOBER 28 AT…
Les Nubians
What is an "Afropean?" Singers Helene and Celia Fussart, also known as Les Nubians, explain.
Evening performance at the Hollywood Bowl, 1940. Courtesy of the California Historical Society Collection, USC Libraries.
Every summer, Southern Californians flock to the Hollywood Bowl for evenings of music and picnicking under the stars. As the Los Angeles Philharmonic begins its 90th season at the venue, we look back at the Bowl's history through archived images from t...
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About a dozen performers took the stage at various points and explored references to drugs in music, books, and video.
Boxes containing wax phonographic cylinders recorded by Charles Fletcher Lummis. Photo by Vlasta Radan.
Several local archival institutions have taken the lead in preserving the sounds of Southern California's past.
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Shepard Fairey pastes song lyrics across the walls of LA for a new music video for a track by Death Cab for Cutie.
Check out these performances by Tonight Show vocalist Dorian Holley and other new talents showcased at Kulak's Woodshed.
This week: Olives, Turtles, Frick and more!
Louie Perez
Los Lobos, Lysa Flores, and Alice Bag... great East L.A. Chicano rockers or great American rockers?
The flyer
The flyer promised a tribute at an old Bellflower nightclub to the spirit of recently deceased Mexican rockera Rita Guerrero.
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