LA CityBeat
LA CityBeat was an alternative weekly newspaper in Los Angeles, California, which was published between 2003 and 2009.
21 articles
List of articles in the library
Lester Bangs: My Black Pages: Lester Bangs' Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste
Book Review by Don Waller, LA CityBeat, 21 August 2003
BACK FROM THE dead and bigger than ever! As a writer – hell, more importantly, as a reader – the Editorial We wuz turnin' cataleptic ...
Argent, Colin Blunstone, The Zombies: Zombie Heaven: Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone
Profile and Interview by Erik Himmelsbach, LA CityBeat, 27 August 2003
MOJO MAGAZINE recently anointed the Zombies the fourth unluckiest band in pop history, largely because it scored its biggest hit, ‘Time of the Season’, more ...
Interview by Kirk Silsbee, LA CityBeat, 28 August 2003
WHEN BRUCE Springsteen slipped into his Baptist-preacher mode and acknowledged E Street Band members at the Forum in Inglewood last year, he concluded his round-robin ...
Hal Willner and the Creation of the Modern Tribute Album
Profile and Interview by Steven R Rosen, LA CityBeat, January 2004
"SORRY," Hal Willner says, sheepishly. He has just been complimented — or so this writer intended — for being the father of pop culture's rampant ...
Emitt Rhodes: Happy Happy, Joy Joy: Emitt Rhodes
Retrospective and Interview by Erik Himmelsbach, LA CityBeat, 22 January 2004
EMITT RHODES still doesn’t know what hit him. Thirty years ago, he was the new Paul McCartney, an ambitious kid who craved the perfect pop ...
The Association, Curt Boettcher: Ray of Light: The World of Sunshine Pop
Retrospective by Steven R Rosen, LA CityBeat, 27 May 2004
ONE DAY RECENTLY, after listening to the latest Dirtbombs CD in my car and then hearing the Music Machine’s 1966 proto-punk hit ‘Talk Talk’ for ...
Ornette Coleman, Charlie Haden: Jazz Critic's Choice: Ornette Coleman and Charlie Haden
Profile by Kirk Silsbee, LA CityBeat, 4 November 2004
IN 1954, IF you had stepped through the door at 309 N. Main St. in downtown L.A., you would've entered a netherworld of vice called ...
Report and Interview by Kirk Silsbee, LA CityBeat, 24 February 2005
THE BAR AT THE RITZ-CARLTON in South Pasadena has hand-rubbed wood on the walls and a copious amount of plush sofas and chairs. Bookcases ...
Report by Erik Himmelsbach, LA CityBeat, 24 February 2005
Putting on the hits at Paladino's in the Valley ...
Paul Westerberg: Controlled Chaos
Live Review by Bill Holdship, LA CityBeat, 3 March 2005
At Paul Westerberg’s show, rock energy and stage entropy wrestle to a draw ...
Martha Wainwright: Going Her Own Way: Martha Wainwright Makes Her Musical Mark
Report and Interview by Erik Himmelsbach, LA CityBeat, 31 March 2005
MARTHA WAINWRIGHT almost didn't bother to pursue music. Because of her parents, singer-songwriters Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III, who occupy certain esteemed places in ...
The Go-Betweens: The Yin and Yang of the Go-Betweens
Live Review by Steven R Rosen, LA CityBeat, 23 June 2005
LIVE, THE GO-BETWEENS may just be the most perfectly balanced rock band around. And it's nice to have a rare chance to witness it. Last ...
Petra Haden, The Who: She Can Sing For Miles And Miles: Petra Haden
Report and Interview by Erik Himmelsbach, LA CityBeat, 30 June 2005
WHEN I WAS SINGLE, I had a litmus test for first dates: If a woman could tolerate my musical taste, she was worth a second ...
Book Review by Kirk Silsbee, LA CityBeat, 18 August 2005
HE GAVE UP writing because playing jazz seemed like an easier way to make a living. In the era dominated by Charlie Parker, he developed an ...
Raspberries: The Raspberries: House of Blues, Los Angeles
Live Review by Bill Holdship, LA CityBeat, 27 October 2005
IN 1972, NOTHING sounded quite like the Raspberries' 'Go All the Way' and 'I Wanna Be With You' when they came roaring out of mono ...
Stardust and Sawdust Nights: Los Angeles Bars of a Bygone Age
Guide by Kirk Silsbee, LA CityBeat, 8 December 2005
Martoni's ...
Matthew Sweet: Revisiting Rainy Day: Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs get Under the Covers
Interview by Steven R Rosen, LA CityBeat, 20 April 2006
THERE ARE THOSE who say, with good reason, that 1984's Rainy Day is one of the great L.A. pop albums. And while not a sequel, ...
Report and Interview by Kirk Silsbee, LA CityBeat, 3 November 2006
FLYING INTO Kansas City, Missouri, you see a huge patchwork landscape of eccentric green and brown shapes that is farmland acreage. These are both separated ...
Live Review by Kirk Silsbee, LA CityBeat, 9 November 2006
OUT OF CURIOSITY and love of a good story, I've had a longstanding parlor question for jazz-minded friends on the far side of 60. What ...
John Densmore: Opening New Doors
Live Review by Kirk Silsbee, LA CityBeat, 21 December 2006
SANTA MONICA'S THIRD STREET PROMENADE got an extra measure of holiday cheer last Wednesday evening. Drummer John Densmore's Tribaljazz convened in front of the ...
Comment by Kirk Silsbee, LA CityBeat, 4 October 2007
HOW MANY of us wish we could have seen and heard Ellington's Jump For Joy musical at the Mayan Theatre, Charlie Parker at the Finale ...
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