Los Angeles Reader
Los Angeles Reader was a weekly paper established in 1978 and distributed in Los Angeles, California. The paper was known for having lengthy, thoughtful reviews of movies, plays and concerts in the LA area. In 1996, the paper was merged with the Los Angeles View to form New Times LA.
19 articles
List of articles in the library
Hank Ballard and the Midnighters: Hank Ballard: A Talk With Mr. Twister
Interview by Kirk Silsbee, Los Angeles Reader, 13 August 1993
If you not movin' your hips, it just ain't happenin'. – Hank Ballard on dancing ...
The Beatles: A Hard Day's Documentary: You Can't Do That! The Making of A Hard Day's Night
Retrospective by Kirk Silsbee, Los Angeles Reader, 3 March 1995
FILM CRITIC Roger Ebert ranks it "among the five best musicals I've ever seen." Andrew Sarris dubbed it "the Citizen Kane of jukebox movies." ...
The Five Blind Boys of Alabama: Critic's Choice: The Five Blind Boys of Alabama
Report by Kirk Silsbee, Los Angeles Reader, 13 January 1989
THREE YEARS AGO, the extraordinary musical The Gospel at Colonus stormed Broadway. It brilliantly reimagined the Sophocles tragedy Oedipus at Colonus by telling the story through ...
Kim Fowley: Tycoon of Trash: The Life And Grimes Of Kim Fowley
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Los Angeles Reader, June 1983
"Only the mice and the great ones are happy when I arrive" ...
Robert Fripp: The Small Mobile Intelligent Pest Of Rock 'N' Roll
Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Reader, 19 August 1979
IT SEEMS peculiarly appropriate that, on my arrival at Polydor Records' West Coast offices on Sunset Boulevard, virtually everyone is engaged in a frantic search ...
The Go-Go's: The Beat And How To Get It (Again)
Profile and Interview by Erik Himmelsbach, Los Angeles Reader, 18 November 1994
"YOU LOOK FAMILIAR," Kathy Valentine says as she scavenges through the remains of what were once many bags of bagels. "We didn't have our way ...
Profile and Interview by Kirk Silsbee, Los Angeles Reader, 20 November 1990
AN OFT-REPEATED myth about American popular music is that the early 1960s were a fallow period, dominated by greasy teen idols named Bobby. Supposedly, domestic ...
Interview by Kirk Silsbee, Los Angeles Reader, 25 March 1994
For R&B Hall of Famer Mable John, Music Has Healing Powers ...
Juno Reactor, Traci Lords: Techno Queen of Melrose Place: Traci Lords
Report and Interview by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, Los Angeles Reader, 7 April 1995
Seven years ago, Traci Lords was an underage Porn Queen. Now she's America's Girl Next Door. ...
Letters to Cleo: What’s To Be Bummed Out About?
Interview by Erik Himmelsbach, Los Angeles Reader, 28 July 1995
LETTERS TO CLEO frontwoman Kay Hanley sits at a pay phone in a strip mall in Augusta, Georgia, near the Garden City Music Hall, where ...
Interview by Kirk Silsbee, Los Angeles Reader, 24 February 1995
VOCALIST DARLENE Love's career is filled with ironies. She is most closely identified with Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound" recordings, made in Los Angeles in ...
Interview by Erik Himmelsbach, Los Angeles Reader, 26 November 1993
ALTHOUGH I liked punk when I was growing up, my real adolescent obsession was with women who went pop. From Lene Lovich and Blondie to ...
Medicine: In The Proper Dosage
Interview by Erik Himmelsbach, Los Angeles Reader, 8 September 1995
BRAD LANER needs to stand up. After a half hour of kneeling against his bed in a sort of praying position simultaneously answering questions ...
Van Dyke Parks: California Dreamer
Interview by Erik Himmelsbach, Los Angeles Reader, 17 November 1995
THE KITCHEN door swings open, and a tiny voice wafts into the dining room, warbling with gusto "...are the luckiest people in the world." Suddenly, ...
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson: Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson: Folks Called Him Mr. Cleanhead
Obituary by Kirk Silsbee, Los Angeles Reader, 23 September 1988
TWO YEARS ago Eddie Vinson took part in a sax summit show at the Music Machine in West Los Angeles. In the artist's lounge before ...
Wall of Voodoo: A Nagging Question: What’s Behind The Wall Of Voodoo?
Report by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Reader, 25 May 1981
ONE OF THE prime joys of being an ardent music fan is the sense of exhilaration that runs through you when you stumble on something ...
Victoria Williams: Victoria, Victorious
Interview by Erik Himmelsbach, Los Angeles Reader, 21 October 1994
THE WINDING drive up to Victoria William's house in Laurel Canyon inspires an unshakable seventies-era image a la Joni Mitchell's Ladies of the Canyon ...
back to LIBRARY