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10,000 Maniacs: The Queen of Nostalgia Gets Real

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 13 August 1989

10,000 Maniacs' Natalie Merchant puts focus on the here and now ...

24-7 Spyz: Spyz Call Their Tune and 'Go for the Throat'

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 1989

JIMI HAZEL got hooked on the guitar when he was 6 years old and his brother took him to see Jimi Hendrix at the 1970 ...

24-7 Spyz, Primus: Hollywood Live, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 1990

24-7 Spyz: A Blend of Idealism, Stage-Diving ...

The 5th Dimension, Etta James, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, the Fifth Dimension, Etta James: Long Beach Arena, Long Beach CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 19 March 1968

Long Beach Hosts Pop Music Concert ...

The 5th Dimension, Johnny Rivers, Jimmy Webb: Jim Webb: Flood Of Grammys — Songwriter Hits the Top at 21

Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 24 March 1968

AT THE AGE of 9, Jim Webb took up the organ, a utilitarian move since his father was (and is) a Baptist minister in Oklahoma ...

8-Eyed Spy, Bad Brains, James Chance & the Contortions, The Dictators, The Germs, New York Dolls, The Stimulators, Suicide: Traditional Discs: Is It R.I.P. FOR R.P.M.?

Report and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 1982

IS THE phonograph record on its deathbed? Neil Cooper, who runs a record company that doesn't sell records, thinks so. "Within five years, vinyl will ...

9.9, Five Star, Nona Hendryx: Nona Hendryx, 9.9, Five Star: Palace Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 29 August 1985

RCA RECORDS SHOWCASES THREE ACTS ...

98 Degrees, B*Witched, Aaron Carter, E.Y.C., Monica, No Authority: B*Witched, 98 Degrees, Monica et al: Nickelodeon's All That Music & More, Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 1999

A Smartly Wrapped Package: All That Music & More tour's acts fly by in a format tailored to kids. ...

ABC: The Lexicon Of Love (Mercury SRM-1-4509)

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 24 October 1982

POTENT LOVE SONGS ...

AC/DC Plugs Into Primitivism

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 12 September 1979

AC/DC: Long Beach Arena ...

AC/DC: For Those About To Rock We Salute You (Atlantic SD 11111)

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 6 December 1981

ROCK'S A-B-C'S FROM AC/DC ...

AC/DC, Prism: Long Beach Arena, Long Beach CA

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 12 September 1979

AC/DC Plugs Into Primitivism ...

David Ackles, Cream, Aretha Franklin: Albums from Cream, David Ackles and Aretha Franklin

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 1968

Second Thoughts on Cream Album ...

Johnny Adams: Club Lingerie, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 30 January 1984

JOHNNY ADAMS IN LOCAL DEBUT ...

Johnny Adams Creeps Up On Some Recognition

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 23 September 1984

NEW ORLEANS — Sometimes talent alone isn't enough to forge a successful career in pop music. ...

Johnny Adams, Percy Mayfield: Johnny Adams and Percy Mayfield: A Blues Gem From A Surprising Pairing

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 15 April 1990

Walking on a Tightrope album mixes Johnny Adams' vocals and Percy Mayfield compositions ...

Johnny Adams, Earl King: Earl King, Johnny Adams: Nugget Club, Long Beach CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 3 March 1986

KING: ORIGINAL LICKS ...

King Sunny Ade and his African Beats: Synchro System (Mango)

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 1983

APPROACHING SUNNY ADE'S juju music from a Western pop perspective is difficult, because his creative objective is a smooth flow with nothing much happening in ...

The Adolescents, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, The Crowd, The Minutemen, T.S.O.L.: Southland Punk Discs: A Primer

Overview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 1981

BESIDES MAKING names for themselves in local rock clubs and in the hearts of the police and the media, the Southland's hard-core punk bands have ...

Afrika Islam, Grand Mixer D.ST: Afrika Islam and Grand Mixer D. ST., the Infinity Rappers: Club Lingerie, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 7 February 1983

STREET ART AT LINGERIE: L.A. TAKES THE RAP FROM N.Y. MOVEMENT ...

The Alley Cats, The Consumers, The Dils, X: The Dils, X, the Alleycats, the Consumers, F-Word: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 1978

Five Punk Bands on Bill at Whisky ...

The Alley Cats, The Screamers, X, The Zippers: L.A. Bands: Rocking Or Reeling?

Report by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 21 January 1979

A YEAR AGO, Pasadena's Van Halen was just a promising band on the L.A. scene. Its most stellar dates were in Glendora, Redondo Beach and ...

Allman Brothers Band, Ten Wheel Drive: Allman Bros., Ten Wheel Drive at the Whisky

Profile by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 24 January 1970

THE ALLMAN Bros. Band and Ten Wheel Drive, who will be co-featured at the Whisky A Go Go through Sunday, are respectable entries in their ...

Herb Alpert, Sergio Mendes: A&M Records Tooting Its Own Horn

Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 29 September 1967

ON A 2.3-ACRE lot near the corner of La Brea and Sunset in Hollywood sits one of the most successful record companies in the country, ...

Roland Alphonso: Kingston 12, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 25 February 1985

THE START of saxophonist Roland Alphonso's second set at the Kingston 12 Friday brought to mind those uncomfortable evenings with aging blues legends where the ...

Dave Alvin, The Blasters, Rosie Flores, Big Joe Turner: A Headstone for Big Joe Turner Is Aim of Benefit Concert Sunday

Report by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 4 October 1991

BIG JOE Turner's powerful vocals on the original version of 'Shake, Rattle & Roll' propelled the late blues shouter into the Rock and Roll Hall ...

American Music Club: Roxy, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 24 November 1994

American Music Club Takes Sad Songs to Upbeat Levels ...

Trey Anastasio: Greek Theatre, L.A.

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2002

TREY ANASTASIO has found the funk. For his first tour as a solo artist, the guitarist and primary songwriter for Phish has left that band's ...

Eric Andersen, Blood Sweat & Tears, Hamilton Camp: New Albums from Blood, Sweat and Tears, Eric Andersen, and Hamilton Camp

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 31 March 1968

New Album Issued by Rock Octet ...

Laurie Anderson: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 10 March 1986

ANDERSON OFFERS UNINSPIRED GOODS ...

The Animals, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Electric Flag, Jefferson Airplane, Beverley Martyn, Steve Miller, Moby Grape, The Paupers, Otis Redding, Simon & Garfunkel: At Monterey Fairgounds: 1st Pop Music Festival Draws Large Crowds

Report by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 1967

MONTEREY — Thirty thousand people swelled the city of Monterey over the weekend for the first International Festival of Pop Music, held in the outdoor ...

The Animals, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Captain Beefheart, Aretha Franklin, Bobbie Gentry: Albums from Bobbie Gentry, Aretha Franklin, Big Brother, Captain Beefheart and the Animals

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 10 September 1967

New Album From Bobbie Gentry ...

Anohni (Antony & the Johnsons): Antony and the Johnsons: I Am a Bird Now (Secretly Canadian)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 20 March 2005

IN ALL OF pop music, only jazz singer Jimmy Scott has a voice remotely like this – ethereal and otherworldly, clenched and tremulous, a supple ...

Adam & the Ants: Prince Charming (Epic ARE37615)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 5 December 1981

Adam and Ants Back as 'Prince Charming' ...

Adam & the Ants: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 27 April 1984

THE LOST INNOCENCE OF POUTY ADAM ANT ...

Howard Armstrong: Louie Bluie Still Plucking Away at Strings of His Heart

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 20 October 1988

HOWARD ARMSTRONG may be the music world's leading 79-year-old rapscallion. ...

Art Ensemble of Chicago: The Art Ensemble Of Chicago

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 2 March 1990

"OUR MUSIC IS primarily intended to stimulate thought, to get people to make new rationales," said Art Ensemble of Chicago trumpeter Lester Bowie. "We're expanding ...

Art of Noise, Duane Eddy: Palace Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 1986

DUANE EDDY ROCKS LIFE INTO ART OF NOISE ...

Aswad: The Palace, Los Angeles

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 1985

STEEL PULSE spearheaded the charge of British reggae artists to America, but Aswad served notice at the Palace on Wednesday that it's ready to claim ...

Aswad, Lucky Dube, John Holt, Barrington Levy, Papa San: Barrington Levy, Papa San, John Holt, Aswad, Lucky Dube: Reggae Sunsplash, Greek Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 1992

The Musical Diversity Is as Broad as the Quality Is High at Reggae Sunsplash at Greek Theatre. ...

The Asylum Choir: Look Inside the Asylum Choir (Smash SRS 67107)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 29 September 1968

Superlatives for Latest Rock Album ...

The Asylum Choir, Marc Benno, Leon Russell: The Asylum Choir: A Home Set Up Beats the System

Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 25 November 1968

ROCK ARTISTS have been spending increasing amounts of time in recording studios during the past couple of years. Many contemporary albums now require several months ...

A Tribe Called Quest: The Final Gatherings — A Tribe Called Quest: House of Blues, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 3 December 1998

In its last LA shows, the influential hip-hop trio A Tribe Called Quest injects new life into its hit jams. It's a joyous party — ...

Audioslave: Out of Exile

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2005

EVERYONE COMPLAINS that the record business, desperate for quick hits, no longer gives bands the time they need to develop. Well, here's a classic test ...

Brian Auger, The Bee Gees, Arthur Brown, Julie Driscoll, Jimi Hendrix, The Moody Blues, Pentangle: Albums from Jimi Hendrix, the Bee Gees et al

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 27 October 1968

Sun Hasn't Set on British Sound ...

Brian Auger, Elvin Bishop, Julie Driscoll, Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin, Brian Auger's Trinity, Elvin Bishop: Rose Palace, Pasadena CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 1969

Rock Show Staged at Pasadena Rose Palace ...

Aum, Chicago, Kaleidoscope, Procol Harum, Santana, Spirit: Spirit, Kaleidoscope, Chicago Transit Authority: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA; Procol Harum, Santana, Blue Morning, Aum: Rose Palace, Pasadena CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 17 April 1969

Spirit, Procol Play Concerts ...

Frankie Avalon, Fabian, Paul Revere & The Raiders: Dick Clark: Packager of Pop

Profile and Interview by Richard Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 7 January 1968

Though the folk-rock era ended his pop music dictatorship, there are signs Dick Clark is inching his way toward the center of the scene again. ...

Hoyt Axton, Kaleidoscope: the Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 24 February 1967

Hoyt Axton Sounds of Sad, Glad ...

Azteca, Stevie Wonder: Stevie Wonder: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 7 March 1973

THERE ARE innovative artists and there are great entertainers, but for one reason or another the twain seldom seem to meet. Stevie Wonder is remarkably ...

The B-52s: The B-52's: Wild Planet (Warner Bros. BSK 3471)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 21 September 1980

WILD TIMES ON PLANET B-52 ...

Babes in Toyland: Year of the Kat

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 15 November 1992

Kat Bjelland's penchant for purging her emotions brings Babes in Toyland to the brink of alternative rock stardom ...

Babyshambles: The Blinding (Capitol)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 3 December 2006

WHEN Rough Trade Records released Babyshambles’ debut album, Down in Albion, early this year, it was a natural pairing: a maverick U.K. independent label of ...

Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick: Composer Burt Bacharach Avoids Pop Music Pitfall

Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 1966

BETWEEN BITES of eggs Benedict in an elegantly subdued lunchery, Burt Bacharach, the gold-fingered composer of 'What's New Pussycat?', 'Wives and Lovers', 'What the World ...

Backstreet Boys: And They Can Sing Too

Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 4 January 1998

Two years ago, the Backstreet Boys struggled to find an audience in America for their clean-cut songs. Now, after mega-star success in Europe and Canada, ...

Backstreet Boys: Arrowhead Pond, Anaheim CA

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 16 October 1999

There's a Backstreet Boy for Every Teenage Girl ...

Badly Drawn Boy: Amoeba Records, Hollywood

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2002

WITH HIS WOOL skull cap, scraggly beard and black T-shirt bedecked with glitter graffiti, English singer-songwriter Damon Gough, a.k.a. Badly Drawn Boy, could have been ...

Derek Bailey, Evan Parker: Derek Bailey and Evan Parker: Playhouse, Century City CA

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 18 October 1980

GUITARIST DEREK Bailey and saxophonist Evan Parker's sold-out performance at the Century City Playhouse Wednesday night drew a diverse crowd that included jazzman Vinny Golia ...

Anita Baker, Perri: Anita Baker: Greek Theater, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 5 September 1987

BAKER PLAYS IT LOOSE AT THE GREEK ...

Ballin' Jack, The Guess Who: Guess Who, Ballin' Jack: Convention Center, Anaheim

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 1970

CANADA'S GUESS Who radiated indifference at the Anaheim Convention Center Friday night. ...

Afrika Bambaataa, Slum Village: Afrika Bambaataa/Slum Village: El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2002

HIP-HOP'S PAST and present converged at the El Rey Theatre on Thursday, and the results were predictably erratic. The first act, Slum Village, is a ...

Bananarama: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 10 April 1989

Bananarama Half-Packs Universal Amphitheatre ...

The Band Comes Back to California

Live Review by uncredited writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 November 1971

SAN FRANCISCO -- It was exactly 9:30 p.m. Saturday when Bill Graham, far more relaxed than in his intense Fillmore days, walked on stage at ...

The Band, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Vanilla Fudge: A Band by Any Other Name...

Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 11 August 1968

SEVERAL WEEKS ago I reviewed an outstanding album titled Music From Big Pink (Capitol SKAO 2955) and identified the group playing as the Band, formerly ...

The Band, Bob Dylan: Dylan at Wight: A New Voice and a New Style

Essay by Geoffrey Cannon, Los Angeles Times, 14 September 1969

THE TRAIN carrying us from Waterloo station in London to Portsmouth and the ferry across to the Isle of Wight Festival was full of newly ...

The Bangles: Local Girls Make Good

Profile and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 1986

FOUR WAYS to tell when you've made it, courtesy of the Bangles: Drummer Debbi Peterson: "It's so amazing, standing on the corner — this happened ...

Burning Spear, Judy Mowatt, Pato Banton: Second Generation Picks Up the Torch From Bob Marley

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 7 February 1989

Bob Marley Day: Long Beach Arena, Los Angeles ...

Toni Basil: Fox Theater, Venice CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 1978

Toni Basil, 'Follies Bizarre' Troupe ...

The Beach Boys, James Brown, Lesley Gore, Marvin Gaye, The Rolling Stones: The TAMI Show Remembered

Retrospective by Steven R Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 29 October 2004

THE ROLLING Stones were there, along with James Brown, the Beach Boys, the Supremes, Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye and more, filmed live before their screaming ...

The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson: Brian Wilson: The Last Brother

Interview by Erik Himmelsbach, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 1998

ALL OF ST. CHARLES is racing to eat before the sunsets and the kids melt down. At 5:30 p.m. on a Saturday, a time when ...

The Beach Boys: The Surf's Up and Brian Wilson's Ready

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 1976

There's a world where I can go And tell my secrets to In my room... Now it's dark and I'm alone But I won't be ...

The Beach Boys, Taj Mahal: How Goes It Underground?

Report and Interview by Tom Nolan, Los Angeles Times, 18 February 1968

IT WAS A big day for me, for I had just met Andrew Oldham, the brains behind the Stones. He was very thin and he ...

The Beach Boys, Van Dyke Parks: Van Dyke Parks: Pop Music's Pilot Through the Aesthetic Shoals

Profile and Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 10 December 1967

WHAT FOLLOWS is an exorbitant number of words about and from an insignificant recording artist named Van Dyke Parks. He is insignificant at the moment, ...

The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson: Brian Gets Some Satisfaction

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 27 February 1977

AMID CONTINUING speculation in rock circles over Brian Wilson's future productivity, the new The Beach Boys Love You album arrives with solid evidence that his ...

The Beach Boys, Carl Wilson: Carl Wilson: Testing The Waters Without The Other Beach Boys

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 April 1981

CARL WILSON has performed in Los Angeles countless times, but tonight at the Roxy things will be a little different. Instead of sharing the stage ...

The Beach Boys, Dennis Wilson: Ironic Loss In Saga Of Beach Boys

Report by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 30 December 1983

THE IRONY IS heavy and inescapable: Dennis Wilson, who introduced the Beach Boys to surfing, died in the Pacific Ocean, the ultimate source of the ...

Beachie & the Beachnuts, Oingo Boingo: Oingo Boingo, Beachie & His Beachnuts: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 30 August 1980

Speed, Precision of Oingo Boingo ...

The Beastie Boys: The Beasties and their Boroughs

Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2004

"HEY, BUCKINGHAM PALACE!" says Mike Diamond in high, pinched New York tones as Beastie Boys' mini-bus swings past the ugly royal pile. "Hence all the ...

The Beastie Boys, Fishbone, Run-DMC: The Beastie Boys, Run-D.M.C., Fishbone: Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 February 1987

BEASTIE BOYS BAPTISM ...

The Beatles: Mistakes And All: Recreating The Fab Four in Beatlemania

Report and Interview by John Mendelsohn, Los Angeles Times, 9 April 1978

IF THE FOUR young musicians who portray the Beatles in Beatlemania deliver anything less than the "incredible simulation" a sign in the Shubert Theater ticket ...

The Beatles: Four Who Dared : Backstage With the Beatles on Their Last Tour

Retrospective by Judith Sims, Los Angeles Times, 3 August 1986

Twenty years ago this month, the Beatles, on their third American tour, staged 18 concerts in 14 cities and played to more than 450,000 screaming ...

The Beatles: Revolver (Capitol ST-2576/T-2576)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 7 August 1966

New Beatles Album Best Yet ...

The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Capitol)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 1967

'Hearts' of the Beatles Beat as One on New Disc ...

The Beatles: The Beatles (Apple SWBO 101)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 8 December 1968

Another Beatles Winner ...

The Beatles, Buffalo Springfield: The Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour (Capitol); Buffalo Springfield: Buffalo Springfield Again (Atco)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 10 December 1967

Beatles Back With Another LP ...

The Beatles, The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane: Pills and Pop Music: A Psychedelicate Subject

Comment by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 1967

One pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small And the ones that mother gives you Don't do anything at all." ...

The Beatles, The Cyrkle, Bobby Hebb, The Remains, The Ronettes: The Beatles, the Ronettes et al: Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 29 August 1966

40,000 Yell, Weep as Beatles Belt Out 10 Hits at Stadium ...

The Beatles, Donovan, The Happenings, Bobby Hebb, The Kinks, The Lovin' Spoonful, Billy Stewart: Summertime Songs on the Heat Parade

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 28 August 1966

THIS SUMMER may rank along with most Christmases for the number of seasonal records it has produced — every radio station's hit list is loaded ...

The Beatles, George Harrison: Harrison Assesses the Beatles' Past, Present, Future

Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Los Angeles Times, 21 December 1969

LONDON — George Harrison, long reputed to be the most "normal" member of the Beatles, was sitting in a spacious armchair at Apple headquarters, writing ...

Beck: One Foot in the Grave (K) ***

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 1994

Minimalist Hootenanny From Independent Beck ...

Beck: El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 21 November 1997

Beck's Acoustic Outing Is Quirky, Rewarding ...

Beck: Nobody's Fool

Profile and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 1996

Beck casts aside the label or slacker savant — who needs all that alternative angst, anyway? — and lets out a yelp or sonic joy ...

Walter Becker's Circus Money

Report and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2008

"THEN YOU find you're back in Vegas with a handle in your hand" goes a memorable line from Steely Dan's debut hit, 'Do It Again'. ...

Jeff Beck, Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids, Wet Willie: Jeff Beck, Flash Cadillac, Wet Willie: Municipal Auditorium, Long Beach CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 1 November 1971

New Jeff Beck Group in Long Beach Concert ...

Chuck Berry, Johnnie Johnson: Johnnie Johnson: From 'Johnny B. Goode' to Johnnie B. Bad

Profile and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 25 January 1992

LOTS OF musicians would consider it a career highlight to play with a musical legend, but pianist Johnnie Johnson has done it at opposite ends ...

Big Brother & The Holding Company, Charlatans, The (US), Grateful Dead: Chet Helms: Hurok of Haight Street

Report and Interview by Richard Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 27 August 1967

HIS DESK looks impressive. A clean blotter is piled high with correspondence. A vertical file bulges with memos. A calendar and a trash can are ...

Big Brother & The Holding Company, Fraternity of Man, Iron Butterfly: Big Brother & the Holding Company, Iron Butterfly, the Fraternity of Man: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 9 September 1968

Big Brother in Concert at Bowl ...

Big Brother & The Holding Company, Janis Joplin: Big Brother & the Holding Company: Cheap Thrills (Columbia KCS 9700)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 18 August 1968

Big Brother Album Out ...

Big Daddy Kane, De La Soul, Rodney-O & Joe Cooley: Celebrity Theatre, Anaheim CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 1989

Dislocated Metaphysics of De La Soul ...

Bikini Kill: Sara Marcus: Girls to the Front

Book Review by Evelyn McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 10 October 2010

BROOKLYN-BASED writer and musician Sara Marcus deserves a medal just for daring to write a book about Riot Grrrl, the fiercely uncompromising feminist movement of ...

Elvin Bishop, Santana: Santana, Elvin Bishop: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 3 March 1970

Santana Plays Two Rock 'n' Roll Shows ...

Elvin Bishop, ZZ Top: ZZ Top, Elvin Bishop: Long Beach Arena, Long Beach CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 27 August 1974

ZZ Top a Sell-Out Sleeper ...

Björk: A New Map to Björk's Music

Report and Interview by Evelyn McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 18 October 2011

IT'S A SAD IRONY: The digitization of music has impoverished the average listening experience. Not only do compressed files sound meagre compared to the sonic ...

Björk: Homogenic (Elektra) ***½

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 21 September 1997

Björk's Quirks Give Way to a Enchanting Vision ...

Björk: Post (Elektra)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 1995

The Voice of Future Past ...

Björk, Goldie: Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 3 November 1995

Björk Plays to Her Strengths With Reflective, Lyrical Style ...

Clint Black: Gone Hollywood? "I Don't Worry About It"

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 17 September 1992

CLINT BLACK looked like the country star of the '90s when his debut album, Killin' Time, was released in 1989, spawning five No. I country ...

Black Flag Hangs At Half-Mast

Report and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 1983

MOST ROCK bands send out photos and press clippings with their records. But inside the new album Everything Went Black is a copy of a ...

Black Flag: The Flag Is Up For Henry Rollins

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 1984

SUNDAY AFTERNOON, Henry Rollins will work himself into a frenzy as he leads L.A. punk kingpins Black Flag in a special matinee performance at West ...

Black Flag, Gone, SWA: Ex-Black Flag Rockers Battle The Mainstream

Interview by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 27 November 1986

"WE WEREN'T a band that came out and played a lot of our old songs," reflects Black Flag founder/guitarist Greg Ginn in the wake of ...

Black Sabbath, Stoneground, Sweathog: Long Beach Arena, Long Beach CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 27 September 1971

CONSIDERING THAT Black Sabbath's popularity seems to be increasing almost logarithmically, as was suggested by its filling to capacity the enormous Long Beach Arena Saturday ...

Black Sabbath, Yes: The Forum, Inglewood CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 17 March 1972

Black Sabbath and Yes in Concert at Forum ...

Blancmange, Timbuk3: Roxy, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 12 February 1986

BLANCMANGE DEBUT STILL IN ITS MOLD ...

Bobby "Blue" Bland, Millie Jackson: Millie Jackson, Bobby Bland: Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 1982

THE WAY Millie Jackson carries on in concert would make Bette Midler blush. Jackson, who sprang to prominence in the early '70s with a batch ...

The Blasters: Hardline (Slash/Warner Bros)

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 26 January 1985

THE BLASTERS FACE a perennial battle in balancing their allegiance to roots forms of American music with the ever present danger of becoming predictable purists ...

The Blasters, X: Language: Thick Malt, Weird Cream

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 13 November 1983

NOTED SONGWRITERS Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen contribute liner notes to the album, but they don't sing on it. The two records feature members of ...

Mary J. Blige: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 August 1995

Blige Is Solid but Elusive Hip-Hop Queen ...

Blind Faith, Delaney and Bonnie & Friends, Free: Inglewood Forum, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 19 August 1969

BLIND FAITH'S Los Angeles debut Friday night at the Forum turned out to be as much a Hollywoodish spectacle as it was a performance by ...

Blondie's Disco Detour: Big Seller or Big Sellout?

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 1979

"DEATH TO DISCO" T-shirts weren't an uncommon sight among the new wave audience that formed Blondie's first base of support. But, as it turns out, ...

Blondie, Greg Kihn: Blondie, Greg Khin: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 November 1978

"BLONDIE IS a group!" is the band's battle cry, raised against the public's tendency to focus strictly on vocalist/sex symbol Deborah Harry and to overlook ...

Blondie, Mike Pinera: Starwood, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 27 April 1978

A Disciplined Blondie at the Starwood ...

Mike Bloomfield, Doobie Brothers, ZZ Top: Doobie Brothers, Mike Bloomfield, ZZ Top: Palladium, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 1973

DOOBIE QUINTET PLAYS UNCOMPLICATED ROCK ...

Kurtis Blow: Rap, Rap, Rapping At Top 10’s Door: Kurtis Blow and Company

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 1981

Twas the night before Christmas and allthrough the house...Hold it, hold it. That’s PLAYED OUT.Don’t give me all that jiveAbout things you wrote before I ...

Kurtis Blow Takes The Rap

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 18 January 1981

ASK KURTIS BLOW about 'Another One Bites the Dust' and his reply is quick and to the point. "That's my 'Christmas Rappin''." ...

Blue Cheer, Michael Fennelly: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 25 December 1974

Muted Blast From the Musty Past ...

Blue Cheer, Aretha Franklin: Aretha Franklin: Lady Soul (Atlantic); Blue Cheer: Vincebus Eruptum (Philips)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 3 March 1968

Aretha Just Keeps Rolling Along ...

Blue Cheer, Them: Whisky A Go Go

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 9 December 1967

THEM, THAT is, a group called Them, and the Blue Cheer are the current attraction at the Whisky A Go Go, where they will play ...

Blue Oyster Cult, Nazareth: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 1974

Blue Oyster Cult in Heavy-Metal Offering ...

Blue Oyster Cult at Pauley Pavilion

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 28 August 1979

THERE WERE enough guitar solos at Blue Oyster Cult's concert at UCLA'S Pauley Pavilion Friday to satiate even the most dedicated ax fanatic. But, judging ...

Blue Öyster Cult's Bivalve Personality

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 6 August 1978

BLUE OYSTER Cult's lead singer Eric Bloom was never comfortable with the band's original image — a tongue-in-cheek, leather-bound melange of macabre, tough guy and, ...

The Blues Brothers, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Rev. James Cleveland, Aretha Franklin: Various artists: The Blues Brothers Soundtrack (Atlantic SD16017)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 1980

DESTRUCTION OF THE BLUES ...

The Blues Brothers, Steve Cropper: Cropper: Into The Spotlight

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 8 March 1981

POP FANS shouldn't have much difficulty in identifying Wilson Pickett with 'Midnight Hour' or Otis Redding with 'Dock of the Bay' but mention the name ...

Blur: Palace Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 21 March 1997

Blur Strays From Its Roots in Palace Show ...

Willie Bobo Band: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 2 January 1979

ALTHOUGH LARGELY unrecognized outside the jazz community until recently, Willie Bobo has been one of the prime forces in introducing Latin rhythms and percussion to ...

BoDeans: The BoDeans: Odd Match, Hot Harmony

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 4 January 1987

THE EVERLY Brothers. Buddy Holly. Ritchie Valens. Chuck Berry. ...

Juke Boy Bonner, Freddie King: Freddie King, Juke Boy Bonner: The Ash Grove, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 1971

Freddie King Performs on Ash Grove Stage ...

James Booker: R&B's Invisible Great

Obituary by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 4 December 1983

The late James Booker fit comfortably into the New Orleans R&B piano tradition of Fats Domino but he also was a contemporary equivalent of the ...

James Booker, The Neville Brothers: Roots Music In The Crescent City: The 12th New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Report by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 1981

This year's New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival included veterans like Dexter Gordon, bluesman Muddy Waters and local favorite Allen Toussaint. ...

Booker T & The MGs, Carla Thomas: Stax Horns Into the Pop Market for Sound Success

Profile and Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 1969

MEMPHIS — A run-down movie theater in a threadbare black neighborhood is the home of Stax Records, a label whose 40 employees and 10 or ...

Carla Bozulich, Willie Nelson: Carla Bozulich: Cafe Club Fais Do-Do

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 3 April 2002

A CANNY BLEND of leather-worn country standards and original compositions that sound like they could be, Willie Nelson's 1975 album Red Headed Stranger functions as ...

BR5-49: LunaPark, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 19 September 1996

BR5-49 Gives Off Mixed Vibes as an Alternative Presence ...

Billy Bragg, Wilco: Billy Bragg & Wilco: Mermaid Avenue (Elektra)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 1998

IF HE WERE around today, it figures that Woody Guthrie would make music that sounds like Dylan and Springsteen, Costello and the Clash. In this ...

Brand X: the Roxy, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 5 December 1977

Brand X: Tapping a New Audience ...

Brandy: Diversified, and Then Some

Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 1998

You have to move fast to keep up with Brandy, who's at full production with a hit sitcom, a film sequel and a No. 1 ...

The Brat, El Chicano, Los Illegals, Los Lobos, Tierra: Latino Bands

Overview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 8 January 1984

EVER SINCE Ritchie Valens rocketed into the national spotlight a quarter century ago with 'La Bamba', Los Angeles' Latino musicians have made repeated attempts to ...

The Breeders: A New Breed of Women in Rock

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 1990

TAKE A PIXIE, add a Muse, throw in a Perfect Disaster and you've got the Breeders. ...

Brewer and Shipley, Laura Nyro: Laura Nyro, Brewer & Shipley: the Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 1969

LAURA NYRO reminded me that she is my favorite female singer Thursday night at the Troubadour, where she will appear through Sunday for two reserved-seat ...

Herman Brood, The Kinks: The Kinks, Herman Brood & His Wild Romance: Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 18 August 1979

Kinks Are Still Crowd-Pleasers ...

Garth Brooks: Sevens (Capitol) ***

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 November 1997

"LIFE IS only therapy — real expensive and no guarantees," Brooks sings in 'You Move Me'. Well, leave it to Brooks to take his cure ...

Lonnie Brooks' Bayou Blues

Guide by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 12 February 1984

PERSONNEL: Brooks, lead guitar/vocals. Dion Payton, guitar. Tom Giblin, keyboards. Lafayette Evans, bass. Earl Howell, drums. ...

Charles Brown: His Blues Get a New Audience

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 29 September 1990

Comeback: The low-key, urbane music of veteran singer-pianist Charles Brown fell out of favor during the rock era, but he is winning new fans opening ...

Charles Brown: The Rebirth Of Charles Brown And His Blues

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 1989

A resurgence of interest in a big man of the post-World War II era ...

Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers, Experience Unlimited (EU), Redds And The Boys, Trouble Funk: The Capital Gains Of Go-Go

Report by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 27 October 1985

IS WASHINGTON'S explosive Go-Go funk Style destined to follow New York's rap/scratch/hip-hop brigade into the pop mainstream? ...

Dennis Brown, Peter Tosh: Peter Tosh and Dennis Brown: Greek Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 24 August 1983

REGGAE RAUCOUSLY RECEIVED AT GREEK ...

Charles Brown: Music Machine, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 1986

BROWN: SMOKY BLUES ...

Dennis Brown: Roxy, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 1981

Dennis Brown Set Danceable, but Routine ...

Jackson Browne, Lowell George, Nicolette Larson, Little Feat, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt: Lowell George: Festive Wake for an Enigma

Report and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 4 August 1979

"I FEEL LIKE I'm in an old MGM photo," cracked Bonnie Raitt as she and the other participants in tonight's "Tribute to Lowell George" concert ...

Jackson Browne, Emmylou Harris, Nicolette Larson, Little Feat, Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt: "Tribute to Lowell George" — Little Feat, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt et al: Forum, Inglewood CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 6 August 1979

Concert Tribute to Lowell George ...

Jackson Browne, Kaleidoscope, David Lindley: David Lindley: Stringing Together an Aesthetic Sound

Profile and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 1 January 1978

  LOS ANGELES folkies fondly remember David Lindley as the perennial winner of the Topanga banjo-fiddle contest. Some rock fans, among them Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page ...

James Brown: Brown Arrives in His Own Style

Report and Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 15 September 1966

JAMES BROWN, who will appear at the Hollywood Bowl for a concert Friday night, has built up a 10-year momentum which catapulted him out of ...

James Brown: the Royal Tahitian, Ontario CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 1967

JAMES BROWN has sustained 12 years of rock solid solid rock popularity, carving his career scream by scream, frantic performance after frantic performance, building a ...

Tim Buckley: Starwood, West Hollywood, CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 1975

Tim Buckley and His Band: Sinuous Folk-Rock ...

Tim Buckley, Pat Paulsen, The Stone Poneys: Pat Paulsen, Tim Buckley, the Stone Poneys: Troubadour, Los Angeles

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 1967

Pat Paulsen Sparkles at Troubadour Outing ...

Buckwheat Zydeco Happily Plays to the Younger Set

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 1988

STANLEY (BUCKWHEAT) DURAL Jr. played organ with Clifton Chenier from 1976 to 1978 – a stint that left more than a musical mark on the ...

Buffalo Springfield, Canned Heat, Country Joe & The Fish: Buffalo Springfield, Country Joe & the Fish, Canned Heat, the Hook, Smokestack Lightning: Long Beach Arena, Long Beach CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 1968

Springfield Plays Farewell Concert ...

Buffalo Springfield, Johnny Rivers: Johnny Rivers, Buffalo Springfield: Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 1966

Rivers Returns to Discotheque for Another Spin at Vocalizing ...

Buffalo Springfield, Neil Young: Neil Young Charts His Own Course

Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 28 October 1968

"MAYBE SOME group will come along and be big, you know, but who cares," Neil Young says in his slow country way. "It's just happened ...

Eric Burdon, War: Eric Burdon & War, Elyse Weinberg: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 11 December 1969

Eric Burdon Back on Scene With War Band ...

Solomon Burke: Soul Alive!

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 1984

APPARENTLY THE audience at this 1981 D.C. club date didn't realize that classic, gospel-rooted soul is hopelessly unhip, because it responds to Burke's impassioned performance ...

Johnny Otis, Little Richard, Solomon Burke, Thee Midniters: Solomon Burke, Willie Garcia, Johnny Otis, Little Richard: Four Souls – From Music To The Ministry

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 4 August 1985

SOLOMON BURKE looked more like Don Corleone surveying his domain in The Godfather than a preacher preparing to conduct a recent late-afternoon service. ...

Solomon Burke, Laura Nyro: Laura Nyro: Eli and the 13th Confession (Columbia)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 7 April 1968

Laura Nyro Makes a Change ...

Burning Spear Aims to Stay True to Roots Reggae

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 11 September 1989

THERE IS no more pure exponent of roots reggae than Burning Spear. Reggae has gone through a number of permutations in the 15 years since ...

Burning Spear Debuts At The Roxy

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 24 October 1980

THE WEST COAST debut of Burning Spear before a packed house at the Roxy Tuesday night may not have matched the excitement of Bob Marley ...

Busta Rhymes: Extinction Level Event (The Final World Front) (Elektra) **½

Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 13 December 1998

Content Doesn't Rise to Level of Inventiveness ...

Busta Rhymes, Ludacris, Bubba Sparxx: Busta Rhymes/Bubba Sparxxx/Ludacris: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 2 March 2002

ANYONE WHO attended the rap triple bill at the Universal Amphitheater on Thursday looking for a complex worldview or an evolved take on the usual ...

Paul Butterfield Blues Band: Paul Butterfield

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 1986

PAUL BUTTERFIELD played a vital role in popularizing blues with the '60s rock audience but the Chicago-born harmonica player/singer never experienced them as acutely as ...

The Byrds: Some of the Byrds Fly the Musical Coop

Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 21 April 1968

THE BUFFALO Springfield replaced Bruce Palmer with Jim Messina. Grace Slick joined the Jefferson Airplane when Signe Anderson left. Paul Revere has had 27 Raiders. ...

The Byrds: Thelma's, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 25 November 1969

Byrds of a Different Feather Open at Club ...

The Byrds, Albert King: Rose Palace, Pasadena CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 1969

Byrds in Spotlight at Pasadena Rose Palace ...

The Byrds, Penny Nichols: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 27 April 1968

'New' Byrds Make Bow at Troubadour ...

Cabaret Voltaire, Young Marble Giants, Monitor: Sokol Hall, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 1 November 1980

PEOPLE MAY complain about restrictive radio and record-company policies that stifle the development of new, daring bands, but there is a bright side. No matter ...

J.J. Cale Rolls On

Profile and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 24 February 2009

ESCONDIDO — J.J. Cale is enjoying his lunch in a corner booth at Olive Garden, cloaked in the anonymity he's taken pains to cultivate throughout ...

J.J. Cale's Cooking a Low-Burner Affair

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 16 October 1979

J.J. Cale: Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles ...

J.J. Cale, Bonnie Raitt: The Ash Grove, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 17 March 1972

J. J. Cale on Stage at Ash Grove ...

Cameo Wins Funk Fans With Sly Wit

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 1 December 1986

Cameo: Santa Monica Civic, Santa Monica ...

Cameo, Dazz Band: Greek Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 1983

CAMEO GENERATES PARTY-TIME SPIRIT ...

Canned Heat, Fever Tree, Jefferson Airplane: Jefferson Airplane, Fever Tree, Canned Heat: The Kaleidoscope, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 25 March 1968

Rock Club Opens in Hollywood ...

Cannibal & The Headhunters, Lil' Julian Herrera, Thee Midniters: Lil' Julian Herrera, Cannibal & the Headhunters, Thee Midniters et al: The Sound Of East L.A., 1964

Retrospective and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 28 October 1984

That was the Baby Boom age. There were more Mexicans being 15, 16, 17 years old than you can think of. Everybody seemed to be ...

Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band: Bitter End West, West Hollywood CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 5 December 1970

CAPTAIN BEEFHEARTS MAGIC BAND PERFORMS ...

Captain Beefheart: Musical Rash of Capt. Beefheart

Profile and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 27 January 1978

CAPTAIN BEEFHEART'S songs aren't exactly the sort to replace 'You Light Up My Life' in America's heart. The jagged, jerky music of such numbers as ...

Mary Chapin Carpenter/Anne Lamott: Royce Hall, UCLA

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 28 January 2002

THE PAIRING OF author and singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter at UCLA's Royce Hall on Saturday could have gone any number of ways. ...

James Carr: At the Dark End of the Street (Blue Side)

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 1987

Artist: James Carr.Album: At the Dark End of the Street (Blue Side). ...

Vikki Carr, Aretha Franklin, Gale Garnett, The Mothers Of Invention, The Rolling Stones: Albums by the Mothers of Invention, Rolling Stones et al

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 1966

POPULAR RECORDS: PASS ASPIRIN, PLEASE ...

Clarence Carter: Dr. Carter To You

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 1987

CLARENCE CARTER decided to challenge himself last year and hit the jackpot with the best-selling album of his career. ...

Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine: the Roxy, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 18 March 1994

Carter's Words Get Lost in Aural Barrage ...

Shaun Cassidy, Todd Rundgren: Shaun Cassidy: Shaun, Todd Break Mold

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 31 August 1980

IT'S TOUGH being a teen idol, we're told. But it's even harder to break out of the teen-idol image. ...

Cat Mother & the All-Night Newsboys, Jimi Hendrix: Jimi Hendrix, Cat Mother, Chicago: Inglewood Forum Inglewood CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 29 April 1969

THE JIMI Hendrix Experience was an unpleasant one at the Forum in Inglewood Saturday night. ...

Cat Mother & the All-Night Newsboys, Smokestack Lightnin': Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 31 January 1970

Lightnin', Cat Mother Share Musical Billing ...

C+C Music Factory: This Ain't No Disco

Overview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 28 April 1991

UNLIKE THE '70s, today's dance music is based on a radical mix of styles that may signal a new era in pop. ...

Exene Cervenka, Johnette Napolitano, Victoria Williams: Victoria Williams, Exene Cervenka, Johnette Napolitano: McCabe's, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 1988

Three Women, One Fine Show ...

Eugene Chadbourne: Chadbourne Country: A Rake 'N' Roll Hybrid

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 1985

"PEOPLE HAVE said to me, 'You could be as good on guitar as Al Di Meola if you quit screwing around,'" says Eugene Chadbourne. "Well, ...

The Chambers Brothers, The Doors, Steppenwolf: The Doors, the Chambers Brothers, Steppenwolf: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 1968

THE DOORS' concert at the Hollywood Bowl Friday night should have been an exciting event, the high point of the career of a local rock ...

The Chambers Brothers, Otis Redding, The Who: Albums from the Who, Otis Redding and the Chambers Brothers

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 17 December 1967

Biggest Happening in Album Covers ...

James Chance & the Contortions, Ornette Coleman, Defunkt, Ronald Shannon Jackson, The Lounge Lizards, James Blood Ulmer: Will Punk Jazz Replace The Sounds Of Funk?

Overview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 15 November 1981

PUNK JAZZ? It's hard to imagine a more unlikely musical combination. Punk rock favors short, fast songs and disparages musical technique in favor of "anyone-can-do-it" ...

The Chantays, Dick Dale, Kathy Marshall, Social Distortion, T.S.O.L.: Orange County: Upon this rock, a scene was built

Retrospective and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 17 February 2005

O.C. was the birthplace of surf music and the fabled, amped-up Fender guitar. So take that, L.A. ...

Ray Charles, Cassandra Wilson: Greek Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 7 October 1997

Ray Charles Keeps Breaking New Ground in Old Fields ...

Clifton Chenier: Club Lingerie, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 6 August 1983

CHENIER GETS THE LINGERIE ON ITS FEET ...

Clifton Chenier: Remembering Clifton Chenier, the King of Zydeco

Obituary by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 20 December 1987

THE ONLY WAY Angelenos could get a true glimpse of the musical world of Clifion Chenier, who died last weekend at 62, was to attend ...

Clifton Chenier, Bob Dylan, Bert Kaempfert: Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde (Columbia C2L 41 028 841)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 1966

Playboy Hops on Dylan Bandwagon ...

Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman: Old and New Dreams: Schoenberg Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 18 March 1980

JAZZ: OLD AND NEW DREAMS AT UCLA ...

Cody ChesnuTT, CeeLo Green, N.E.R.D., Iggy Pop: Shortlist showcase stumbles

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 31 October 2002

THE SHORTLIST PRIZE for Artistic Achievement in Music is out to rectify years of Grammy frustration, and as it attempts to become an American analogue ...

Vic Chesnutt: And a Singer Grows

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 1990

"I AIN'T NO fashion plate," singer Vic Chesnutt conceded when asked about the price tag on the collar of his thrift-shop Western shirt. "I just ...

Chic: They're Still Family

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 5 April 1992

AFTER AN 8-year layoff, Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards relaunch their group Chic but worry that their soulful sound may be dated. Can the architects ...

Chic: The Return of Chic

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 24 April 1992

THE COMMERCIAL savvy which made Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards hit pop producers for 15 years nearly derailed their Chic reunion. ...

Chic Gets Its Class Act Together

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 8 February 1981

NEW YORK — Chic's 1978 hit, 'Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah. Yowsah, Yowsah)', was the kind of novelty record that can ruin an act's career. The ...

Chic: Take It Off (Atlantic SD 19323)

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 20 December 1981

CHIC ON A COLD STREAK ...

Chicago, Spooky Tooth: Spooky Tooth, Chicago Transit Authority: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 11 September 1968

SPOOKY TOOTH, a British quintet with a sound similar to that of Traffic, is appearing at the Whisky a Go Go with CTA (the Chicago ...

Alex Chilton: Feudalist Star: Alex Chilton

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 1985

AFTER YEARS of maintaining a low musical profile, southern pop cult hero Alex Chilton's star may be on the rise again. ...

Eric Clapton, Cream: Cream Guitarist a Reluctant Idol

Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 13 October 1968

ERIC CLAPTON is a guitarist who has had the misfortune of being nearly deified by rock 'n' roll fans at the age of 23. Clapton ...

Chris Clark - US: Motown's Great White Hope: Chris Clark

Retrospective and Interview by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 21 August 2009

CHRIS CLARK was a 17-year-old, 6-foot platinum blond when she arrived at Motown's Detroit headquarters in 1963 -- demo in hand -- to audition for ...

Stanley Clarke Lets His Bass Do the Talking in Solo Album

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 1988

STANLEY CLARKE got an offer last year that he couldn't refuse... once he picked himself off the floor. ...

Gene Clark: Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 1977

A Forgotten Man in the Spotlight ...

The Clash: Give 'Em Enough Rope (Epic JE 35543)

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 16 February 1978

THE CLASH IS A PUNK ROCK BAND and proud of it, but fans who dismiss it for that reason alone are making a mistake. This ...

The Clash, Joe Strummer: Strummer on Man, God, Law – and the Clash

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 31 January 1988

HAS JOE STRUMMER lost his ambition and drive? It was strange last month to see one of rock's all-time most involving performers serving simply as ...

The Clash: Combat Rock (Epic FE 37689)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 1982

CLASH ON THE BATTLEFIELD ...

The Clash: Give 'Em Enough Rope (Epic JE 35543)

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 17 December 1978

A PUNK BAND NOT TO BE SNEERED AT ...

The Clash: Long Beach Arena, Long Beach CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 26 January 1984

CLASH LEAVES A LOT OF QUESTIONS UNANSWERED ...

The Clash, Allen Ginsberg: Ginsberg Finds Poetry in Punk

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 1983

WHEN THE Clash decided it wanted "the voice of God" in its last album, the group turned to Allen Ginsberg. The 56-year-old poet with the ...

Merry Clayton, The Rolling Stones: 'Shelter' from the Storm: Merry Clayton

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 13 March 1986

MERRY CLAYTON'S spine-chilling vocal in the middle of ‘Gimme Shelter’ is one of the most electrifying moments in rock history but you couldn't blame Clayton ...

Merry Clayton: Gardenia Room, Los Angeles

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 17 March 1986

WITHOUT A SONG... ...

Merry Clayton, Danny Cox: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 2 December 1971

Merry Clayton Tops Lineup at Troubadour ...

Joe Cocker: With a Little Help From My Friends (A&M SP 4182)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 1969

Singer Has Help From Ray Charles ...

Joe Cocker: A New Blues Boy Blows In From Britain

Interview by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 3 August 1969

JOE COCKER, the most recently emerged and most wildly received British soul artist since Stevie Winwood (of the Spencer Davis Group and later Traffic and ...

Joe Cocker, Lonnie Mack, Sweetwater, Big Mama Thornton: Joe Cocker, Big Mama Thornton, Lonnie Mack, Sweetwater: Magic Circus, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 1969

Soul Music Presented at the Magic Circus ...

Joe Cocker, The Sons of Champlin: Joe Cocker, Grease Band: Rose Palace, Pasadena CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 1969

JOE COCKER and the Grease Band proved the most exciting British rock band to visit America since the Who in their weekend performance at the ...

Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins: Judy Collins Discovers Success as Folk Singer

Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 24 November 1967

FIVE ALBUMS, one each year, established Judy Collins as a very good folk singer, though not as important as Joan Baez. She was one of ...

Coldplay, Craig David, David Gray: Letter From London: Garage and The New Soft Rock

Report by Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, December 2000

"TO ME, ALL MELODIES were pure embarrassment," said Radiohead's Thom Yorke recently as he struggled to explain the making of Kid A. It hardly seems ...

Coldplay, George Michael, Kylie Minogue, Ms Dynamite, Justin Timberlake: British Pop Acts Raise The Anti

Report by Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, 22 February 2003

Celebrity dissent grows during U.K.'s music awards, as Coldplay's singer and Ms Dynamite protest an Iraq war. ...

Coldplay, So Solid Crew, Starsailor: Letter from London, January 2002

Overview by Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, January 2002

WHILE, SINCE The Beatles, we British music fans have often affected insouciant confidence in the superiority of our taste over the rest of the world's ...

Ornette Coleman: Music Dreams Are Made Of: Ornette Coleman at Town Hall, New York

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 1987

NEW YORK – Funny, the pent-up anticipation that usually wells up before a concert didn't hit me until a half hour before Ornette Coleman took ...

Ornette Coleman Explores Old, New

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 1987

APPEARS WITH HIS TWO BANDS ...

The Collectors, The Fugs: The Fugs, the Collectors: The Cheetah, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 22 April 1968

ABOUT 20 people walked out on their first set. The remainder of the audience — about 500 Friday night — tittered as the Fugs preached ...

Albert Collins' Showdown

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 3 October 1987

ALBERT COLLINS' CAREER has been on the upswing since he signed with Alligator Records in 1979 but the veteran blues guitarist has shifted into overdrive ...

Albert Collins: The Ash Grove, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 28 March 1969

ALBERT COLLINS, appearing at the Ash Grove through this weekend, is an electric Texas bluesman who appears destined, for — and deserves — the kind ...

Commander Cody, Grateful Dead, Maria Muldaur: Grateful Dead, Maria Muldaur, Commander Cody: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 1974

THE GRATEFUL Dead and its good vibes competed with some decidedly bad ones from a too active, too physical security force at the Hollywood Bowl ...

Commander Cody, Shanti: Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, Shanti: The Ash Grove, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 12 November 1971

THROUGH THE first few moments of its set, the listener may have trouble seeing exactly what it is that has so endeared Commander Cody and ...

Ry Cooder

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 16 December 1984

"PARIS, TEXAS IS like a perfect career job," reflects Ry Cooder, the composer of the film's haunting score. "It's the kind of film that if ...

Ry Cooder Charts His Own Course

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 28 October 1987

RY COODER'S atmospheric film scores, eclectic albums and collaborations with prestige performers like Randy Newman and John Hiatt have created an image of the musician ...

Sam Cooke: Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 (RCA)

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 1985

SAM COOKE — ALIVE AGAIN ...

Sam Cooke, Jan & Dean, The Mamas and The Papas, Barry McGuire, Johnny Rivers: Lou Adler: Producer in the Groove at Picking Hit Records

Profile and Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 19 April 1967

LOU ADLER, one of the best known and most respected record producers, is a defier of stereotypes: ...

Alice Cooper in Comebackland

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 2 March 1975

"THE MYSTERY," said Alice Cooper, an unmistakable hint of determination in his voice, "is the fact that no matter what, when people go to see ...

Alice Cooper: Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 1972

Alice Cooper Mounts Camel, Gallows at Bowl ...

Alice Cooper: Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, Long Beach CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 1971

Alice Cooper Tops Show at Long Beach ...

Cornershop: Hollywood Athletic Club, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 14 November 1997

Cornershop Falls Far Short of Album ...

Bill Cosby, Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band: Bill Cosby & Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 22 August 1967

Bill Cosby Begins Career as Singer ...

Elvis Costello: Classics and Newer Tunes, a Full-Circle Mix by Elvis Costello

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2002

Elvis Costello: UCLA Ackerman Grand Ballroom, Los Angeles ...

Elvis Costello & the Attractions: Punch The Clock (Columbia FC38897)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 7 August 1983

COSTELLO CLOCKS OUT ...

James Cotton: Hop Singh's, Marina Del Rey CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 26 January 1982

COTTON'S BLUES AT HOP SINGH'S ...

The Coup: Working Through His Anger

Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2002

Boots Riley of the rap group the Coup lashes out against the war in Afghanistan and the corporate co-opting of hip-hop music. ...

The Cramps: Cramps Rocks 'N' Rolls Out Of An Early Grave

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 16 November 1983

A DISPUTE with their label kept them from releasing a record for more than two years. ...

The Cramps: Palladium, Hollywood CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 1986

A DATE WITH CRAMPS ...

The Cramps: the Country Club, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 1983

STIMULATING BREW FROM THE DREGS ...

Robert Cray Bringing The Blues Up To Date

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 17 October 1985

YOU CAN UNDERSTAND why Robert Cray felt uncomfortable about the stir he created among blues fans two years ago. The arrival of an accomplished young ...

Robert Cray: New Twist On The Blues

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 26 April 1987

"IT'S REALLY FUNNY now, because when you're really down and out, nothing comes to you," reflected Robert Cray. "But when things start going for you, ...

Crazy Horse, Neil Young: Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 13 March 1969

Neil Young Featured in Show at Troubadour ...

Crazy Horse, Neil Young: Neil Young: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 2 April 1970

Neil Young Appears Singly ...

Cream: Wheels of Fire (Atco SD 2-700)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 1968

Cream Rises to Top ...

Creed: Human Clay

Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 25 September 1999

CREED IS THE BIGGEST-SELLING BAND you've never heard of. The Florida quartet was one of 1998's unlikeliest grass-roots success stories, a band that legitimized that ...

Creedence Clearwater Revival, Don Ellis, The Sir Douglas Quintet: Creedence Clearwater Revival, Sir Douglas Quintet: Santa Monica Civic Auditorium; Don Ellis: Pilgrimage Theater, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 22 April 1969

In Southland Concerts, Creedence and Ellis Perform ...

Creedence Clearwater Revival, Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight and the Pips: Creedence Clearwater Revival: Bayou Country (Fantasy 8387)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 19 January 1969

Second Album for Clearwater ...

The Crickets, Nanci Griffith: Nanci Griffith, the Crickets: Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 10 November 1997

Nanci Griffith's Long Look Back ...

Sheryl Crow: Greek Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 8 September 1995

There's Nothing Much to Crow About at the Greek ...

The Cure for Success? Quit

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 3 September 1989

At the height of his band's success, Robert Smith decides to pack it all in. ...

The Damned: the Starwood, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 20 April 1977

THE DAMNED, the first representative from England's Blank Generation of punk-rockers to reach America, proved more harmless Monday at the Starwood than dispatches from abroad ...

The Darkness: Permission To Like The Darkness

Report by Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, 4 April 2004

YOU GUYS WONDER about us Brits sometimes, don't you? We're so proper and reserved, so tea and scones, so cricket, so ... just so. Then, ...

Craig David

Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, February 2001

OUTSIDE THE REAR door at the BBC Radio Theatre in central London there's an air of restless tension. A gaggle of girls giggles. A pack ...

Dave Davies: AFLI-3603

Review and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 31 August 1980

STAUNCH KINKS fans have been predicting anticipating a solo album from lanky lead guitarist Dave Davies ever since his single 'Death of a Clown' reached ...

Morris Day: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 1988

Sellout Time for Day but the Routine's Dated ...

DC Talk: At a Crossroads, dc Talk Keeps the Faith

Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 25 February 1999

Christian rock's most successful band remains true to its spiritual roots as its popularity grows. ...

DC Talk, Jars of Clay: Christian Rock is on a mission

Report and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 14 April 2005

It's about new audiences and a stronger genre, the promoter of Fishfest says. ...

Deadmau5 promises more than just music

Interview by Evelyn McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 16 April 2010

THE IMAGES were grainy, the lines obscured — as if they were photos taken by a surveillance camera. The backdrop appeared to be a giant ...

Kiki Dee, Steely Dan: Steely Dan, Kiki Dee: Civic Audiorium, Santa Monica CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 1974

Steely Dan Shows Its Mettle ...

Deep Purple, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Sanpaku: Rose Palace, Pasadena CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 24 April 1969

Rock Shows Held at Pasadena Rose Palace ...

Defunkt, Talking Heads: Talking Heads, Defunkt: Greek Theater, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 10 August 1982

TALKING HEADS: WHOLE LOTTA RHYTHM ...

Delaney & Bonnie: Delaney and Bonnie: The Original Delaney and Bonnie (Elektra EKS 74039)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 20 April 1969

Debut Album for Duo ...

Derek & the Dominos, Toe Fat: Santa Monica Civic and Pasadena Civic, CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 24 November 1970

Derek and Dominos in Two Concerts ...

Des'ree: House of Blues, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 31 March 1995

Some Starry-Eyed Idealism From Des'ree ...

Devo, The Dickies, The Heaters, The Screamers, The Zippers: Punk Bands: Some Do, Some Don't

Report by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 15 April 1978

THE DICKIES and the Heaters have it. The Runaways and the Quick did, but not anymore. Venus & the Razorblades had it for an instant, ...

Devo, the Weirdos: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 15 October 1977

Avant-Garde Devo at Whisky ...

Bo Diddley: He's Fighting Mad and Mad That He Has to Fight

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 27 February 1996

Q&A with Bo Diddley ...

Dido, Kendall Payne: the Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 27 August 1999

Dido's Electronic-Folk Goes in Search of Depth ...

Ani DiFranco: Living in Clip (Righteous Babe)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 20 April 1997

YOU DON'T need stacks of amps to be larger than life, not when you have a persona as outsized as Ani DiFranco's. That's more than ...

Digital Underground: Palace Theater, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 1990

Digital Underground Can't Get Over the Humpt ...

Dire Straits: Communique (Warner Bros.)

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 1979

THE GREATEST CHALLENGE facing a band that has enjoyed sudden commercial success is to avoid churning out subsequent LPs that are carbon copies of the ...

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band: Energetic Updating Of Brass-Band Sound

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 2 September 1984

NEW ORLEANS — This city is a hotbed of jazz tradition, but the Dirty Dozen Brass Band has come up with a new twist on ...

The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy: Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 6 November 1992

Sensitive Rap From Heroes of Hiphoprisy ...

Divine: Palace Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 5 November 1985

AS A SINGER NOW, DIVINE ISN'T QUITE AS DIVINE ...

The Dixie Chicks: Roxy, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 8 October 1998

Dixie Chicks Display Slick, High-Energy Showmanship ...

Willie Dixon Loves To Write The Blues

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, June 1979

WILLIE DIXON'S name doesn't pop up frequently on lists of great songwriters, but American music wouldn't sound the same without him. Muddy Waters and Howlin' ...

Willie Dixon: Dixon Wrote His Blues With an Eye to the Future

Obituary by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 1 February 1992

The late, great songwriter saw his craft as a fountain of wisdom for people to draw upon. ...

Willie Dixon: Hop Singh's, Marina del Rey CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 8 February 1983

DIXON HOLDS COURT AT HOP SINGH'S ...

Willie Dixon, Walter "Shakey" Horton: Willie Dixon All-Stars: Ash Grove, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 March 1972

Willie Dixon Fronting All-Stars at Ash Grove ...

Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters: Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon: Roxy, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 12 September 1981

WATERS SHORTAGE ...

DMX, Jermaine Dupri, Missy Elliott, Goodie Mob, Master P, Puff Daddy, Snoop (Doggy) Dogg: Rap: Large and In Charge

Report by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 1998

Rap hasn't merely survived the shocking deaths of hip-hop leaders Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. It's thriving now, thanks to a fresh infusion from today's ...

Donovan: Poet-Minstrel Donovan Plays At Hollywood Bowl

Live Review by John Mendelsohn, Los Angeles Times, 30 September 1969

EVERY YEAR at this time Donovan Leitch seats himself beatifically on the stage of the Hollywood Bowl, plays the gentle poet/minstrel from another time and ...

Donovan: Sunshine Superman (Epic 26217)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 18 September 1966

DONOVAN, A very talented, if unearthly, writer and singer of folk songs, croons 10 songs to form an album follow-up to his very popular single ...

Donovan, The Modern Folk Quartet: Donovan, the Modern Folk Quintet: The Trip, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 26 March 1966

Donovan Ranges From Satire to Folk ...

The Doors: Waiting for the Sun (Elektra EKS- 74024)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 1968

The Doors Find Love ...

The Doors: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 1967

Doors Rattle Hinges at Whisky a Go Go ...

Irma Thomas, Lee Dorsey: New Orleans R&B Hits The Club Lingerie

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 15 January 1984

Bill Bentley and Harold Battiste hope to trigger renewed local interest in New Orleans music at Club Lingerie. ...

Lee Dorsey: Club Lingerie, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 23 January 1984

DORSEY'S NEW ORLEANS R&B SOUL ...

Dr. John, Tiny Tim: Albums from Tiny Tim and Dr. John

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 17 March 1968

Bless You, Tiny Tim ...

Dreams, J. Geils Band: J. Geils Band, Dreams: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 2 April 1971

J. GEILS BAND PLAYS WHISKY ENGAGEMENT ...

Dr. Feelgood: Dr Feelgood: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 30 December 1980

New Feelgoods know the ropes ...

Dr. Feelgood: At the Whiskey

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 30 December 1980

Dr. Feelgood's Los Angeles debut four years ago was an impressive and welcome breath of fresh air. The British quartet's lean, mean brand of English ...

Dr. John: Nights For Trippin' With Dr. John At The Lingerie

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 1985

DR. JOHN SHOULD feel right at home this weekend at the Lingerie in Hollywood. ...

Dr. Ross: Blues – What The Doctor Ordered

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 16 January 1986

SAM PHILLIPS' Sun Records has a special place in rock history as the musical birthplace of Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny ...

Dru Hill: Dru World Order (Def Soul)

Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 1 December 2002

FUNNY HOW A little taste of failure can send a high-flying artist crashing down to earth. Two years ago, Sisqo's 'Thong Song' was a ubiquitous ...

Dru Hill, Faith Evans: Faith Evans, Dru Hill: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 19 April 1999

Evans and Dru Hill Outshine Lackluster Material ...

George Duke, Mtume: Mtume, Duke et al: Class Of '74 Pops Into The Mainstream

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 1984

LOOK AT WHAT 10 years can do to jazz mavericks. A decade ago, George Duke, James Mtume, Reggie Lucas, Ndugu Chancler and Stanley Clarke were ...

Snooks Eaglin: The Eclectic Blues Of Unpredictable Eaglin

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 19 September 1987

WHAT DO WASHINGTON'S Go-Go masters Trouble Funk, California instrumental rockers the Ventures and New Orleans R&B singer Smiley Lewis have in common? ...

Duane Eddy and A Band He Couldn't Refuse

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 1983

DUANE EDDY's "twangy" guitar sound on hits like 'Rebel-Rouser' established him as a major star during the golden era of rock instrumentals, so his return ...

Eek-A-Mouse: Reggae For The Fun Of It

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 18 January 1985

REGGAE ARTISTS usually strive to appear as visionary prophets in concert, but Eek-A-Mouse will bring a more light-hearted approach to the Music Machine on Saturday ...

Eire Apparent, Jimi Hendrix, Soft Machine, Vanilla Fudge: Jimi Hendrix, Vanilla Fudge, Soft Machine, Heir Apparent: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 16 September 1968

THE JIMI HENDRIX Experience was too much for the ushers who have managed to confine spectators to their seats during the summer series of rock ...

Electric Light Orchestra: Time (Jet FZ 37371)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 August 1981

E.L.O. FAILS TEST OF TIME ...

Electric Light Orchestra: Jeff Lynne Orchestrates ELO's Success

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 January 1977

MOST ATTEMPTS to combine rock and orchestral formats have led to uncomfortable mergers at best, and more often to utterly pretentious and insignificant music. The ...

Electric Light Orchestra, The Move, Wizzard: Move, Wizzard, ELO Play Musical Chairs

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 15 September 1974

THE TASK is somehow to connect and make a little sense of this odd assortment of data: A once musically booming English industrial city, home ...

"Mama" Cass Elliot: Mama Cass Will Sing for Her New Kitchen

Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 9 October 1968

WHAT'S A poor working girl to do when she needs a new kitchen, one "big enough to sit around in, drink coffee, hang out, you ...

Missy Elliott: Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott: Da Real World (Gold Mind/EastWest)

Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 1999

JUST TWO albums into her solo career, Missy Elliott understands all too well that trying to keep one step ahead of the Zeitgeist isn't easy. ...

Missy Elliott: All Made Up, Ready to Go

Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 1 February 1998

There's no stopping Missy 'Misdemeanor' Elliott as she shakes up the male-dominated hip-hop world. ...

Alton Ellis: A Reggae Pioneer Who Preceded Marley

Retrospective by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 1984

Artist: Alton Ellis. Personnel: Ellis, vocals, backed by local reggae musicians. ...

Emerson Lake & Palmer, Humble Pie, Edgar Winter: Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Humble Pie, Edgar Winter: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 1971

ELP Group Presents a Mixed Bag at the Bowl ...

Emerson Lake & Palmer, Mahavishnu Orchestra: Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Mahavishnu Orchestra: Long Beach Auditorium

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 24 March 1972

EMERSON, LAKE and Palmer, at their Wednesday night Long Beach Auditorium concert, made the tactical error of presenting Tarkus as their first long selection. ...

Sheila E.: Romance 1600 (Warner Bros.)

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 1 September 1985

SHEILA E.: GENDER IN A BLENDER ...

Sheila E.: Palace Theater, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 27 September 1984

SHEILA E. IN LOCAL BOW AT PALACE ...

Eurythmics

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, 1999

First they were lovers. Then they created one of the great pop groups of the ’80s. Then they didn’t exchange a word for four years... ...

Faith Evans: Keep the Faith (Arista) **½

Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 26 October 1998

TWO YEARS after the murder of her husband, the rapper Notorious B.I.G., Evans has made an album that both pays homage to him and bemoans ...

Everclear: Attitude Adjustment

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 November 1997

Success has wrought some changes in Art Alexakis. Everclear's newest album shows a broader range — and hints at hopefulness. ...

Experience Unlimited (EU): E.U.: Livin' Large (Virgin) ***

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 5 March 1989

YOWL, Y'AWL. Let's git LARGE. Big Time big time. For their major-label debut, the D.C.-based veteran "go-go" outfit not only reprises last year's booty-bustin' dance ...

Experience Unlimited (EU), Skyy (US): Skyy, E.U.: Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 5 February 1990

Skyy Pales Before the E.U. Groove Machine ...

Donald Fagen, Steely Dan: Donald Fagen: Return of the Nightfly

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 3 November 1991

Steely Dan co-creator Donald Fagen resurfaces after nearly a decade of silence, with new works and a new outlook on life. ...

John Fahey: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 December 1977

Beyond Virtuosity With John Fahey ...

Fairport Convention: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 1970

English Folk Material by Fairport Convention ...

Fairport Convention, King Crimson: King Crimson, Fairport Convention: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 21 March 1972

KING CRIMSON, which performed locally for the first time in two years Sunday afternoon at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, is the very embodiment of ...

Marianne Faithfull: Palace Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 17 October 1983

KEEPING FAITH AFTER MANY TEARS AND YEARS ...

Fanny, Wet Willie: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles, CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 October 1971

Fanny Rock Group in Engagement at Whisky ...

Perry Farrell, Jane's Addiction: An Offbeat Addiction

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 2 September 1990

Perry Farrell inflames passions and plays for high stakes as he leads Jane's Addiction in its quest for importance ...

Faster Pussycat, Guns N' Roses: Guns N' Roses: Appetite For Destruction (Geffen) **; Faster Pussycat: Faster Pussycat (Elektra) **

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 9 August 1987

WHAM, GLAM, NO THANK YOU, MA'AM ...

Wild Man Fischer: An Evening With Wild Man Fischer (Bizarre 6332)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 1969

A RATHER unusual album froze me between my loudspeakers one late night last week and, though I am not sure it is entertainment and would ...

Fishbone: Roxy, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 7 March 1990

Fishbone Hooks Fans at the Roxy ...

Fishbone, The Neville Brothers: The Neville Brothers, Fishbone: Palace Theater, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 27 August 1984

CLASSY NEVILLES ...

The Five Blind Boys of Alabama: Fountain, Five Blind Boys Spout The Gospel

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 14 December 1985

"ACTING? IT'S nothing complicated. All you have to do is remember your lines," Clarence Fountain was saying. "I can talk — that's my job, talkin', ...

The Fleshtones Let the '60s All Hang Out

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 11 August 1984

CAN THE FLESHTONES prosper in today's slick, sophisticated pop world of Michael Jackson and Boy George? Percentage players would probably bet against the irreverent New ...

The Fleshtones: Club Lingerie, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 1983

THE SPONTANEOUS FLESHTONES ...

Rosie Flores, George Jones, Ricky Van Shelton: George Jones, Ricky Van Shelton, Rosie Flores: Greek Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 2 November 1987

George Jones' Myth Persists at the Greek ...

Foghat, Peter Frampton: Peter Frampton, Foghat: Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 1977

Bleached Sounds From Frampton ...

Foreigner, Junior Walker & the All Stars: Junior Walker — A Soul Man

Report and Interview by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 4 January 1982

BY 10:30 SATURDAY night, the line in front of the Club Lingerie, a trendy Hollywood rock spot catering to in-crowd tastes, stretched around the corner. ...

The Four Seasons, Jimi Hendrix, Sam & Dave: The Four Seasons: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica; Sam & Dave, the Jimi Hendrix Experience: Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 1967

Two Pop Groups in Los Angeles Debuts ...

Kim Fowley: Impresario, Svengali, Saint, Devil

Report and Interview by Evelyn McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 1 April 2012

KIM FOWLEY pulls DVDs, fliers, CDs, a hospital admission slip and more DVDs out of a jumble of media on the mixing board of a ...

Kim Fowley, The Runaways: L.A. Rock Resurgence

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 18 December 1976

LOS ANGELES is the home of countless musicians and the center of the music industry, but in terms of nurturing local teen-on-the-street talent, the city ...

Peter Frampton — Up From Rock's Infantry

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 1976

SUPPOSE, FOR illustration's sake, that your family is a rock 'n' roll band — not a great one, but solid and promising. The amateur dates ...

Peter Frampton, J. Geils Band, P.F.M.: J. Geils Band, PFM, Peter Frampton: The Forum, Inglewood CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 1974

Geils Band Goes Through Its Paces ...

Peter Frampton, Gentle Giant, Gary Wright, Yes: Yes, Peter Frampton, Gentle Giant, Gary Wright: Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 1976

Yes, Frampton in Rock Concert ...

Peter Frampton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, REO Speedwagon: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Peter Frampton, REO Speedwagon: Long Beach Arena, Long Beach CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 8 September 1975

Lynyrd Skynyrd Predictable ...

Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Welcome To The Pleasuredome (Island)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 18 November 1984

FRANKIE GOES TO EXTREMES ...

Aretha Franklin, King Curtis, The Marvelettes, Peaches and Herb, Billy Stewart: Albums from Aretha Franklin, the Marvelettes et al

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 15 April 1967

Blues Singers Make Comeback ...

Fraternity of Man, Jefferson Airplane: Jefferson Airplane: Crown of Creation (RCA Victor LSP-4058); The Fraternity of Man: The Fraternity of Man (ABC Records ABCS-647)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 1 September 1968

THE JEFFERSON Airplane has a fan club in Beverly Hills (P.O. Box 1077, Beverly Hills, Calif. 90210), according to a note in its new album, ...

Free, West, Bruce & Laing: West, Bruce & Laing, Free: Palladium, Hollywood CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 10 April 1972

West, Bruce & Laing Work Out on Late '60s ...

Freestyle Fellowship, The Watts Prophets: The Watts Prophets, Freestyle Fellowship: Ivar Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 1993

Mishaps Plague Watts Prophets Show ...

Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel (Mercury SRM 1-3848)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 1980

MUSIC WITHOUT FRONTIERS ...

Diamanda Galás: Palace Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 20 April 1992

Intensity, Thy Name Is Diamanda Galás ...

Generation X: Valley Of The Dolls (Chrysalis)

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 29 April 1979

MOST NEW-WAVE bands decry the jet-set life styles of established rock stars, but it's a safe bet to assume many were attracted to rock by ...

Genesis, Grateful Dead, Taj Mahal, The McCoys, Moby Grape: The Grateful Dead, Taj Mahal: Shrine Shrine Exposition Hall; Moby Grape, Genesis, the McCoys: the Kaleidoscope, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 26 August 1968

AT THEIR best, wthe Grateful Dead are a wondrous group and they were at their best for a weekend dance concert sponsored by Pinnacle at ...

Lowell George: Thanks I'll Eat It Here

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 1979

THE IMMINENT RELEASE or this, the first solo LP by Little Feat mainstay Lowell George, was a rumor in good standing among certain segments of ...

Lowell George: Artists Salute

Report by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 1979

GRAHAM PARKER'S salute to Lowell George at the close of his Santa Monica Civic concert last weekend symbolized the respect the rock community held for ...

The Geraldine Fibbers: EL Rey Theatre, Los Angeles

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 1996

IN A BIT OF SYMBOLIC TIMING, the Geraldine Fibbers' tour-ending, homecoming concert at the El Rey Theatre on Friday took place the same week that ...

Nick Gilder, Anne Murray: Gilder, Murray: On Top of the Pops

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 12 November 1978

FOR WEEKS, Nick Gilder's 'Hot Child in the City' and Anne Murray's 'You Needed Me' have jockeyed for the top position on the national singles ...

Vince Gill: High Lonesome Sound (MCA)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 1996

Gill Takes 'Sound' Into Pop Mainstream ...

Vince Gill: Dedicated to Just Plain Foik

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 25 September 1994

How has Vince Gill's success changed his life? Well, if you ask him, he says he's just an ol' guitar player who likes people. (Oh, ...

Girlschool: Country Club, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 23 December 1983

GIRLSCHOOL'S BRITISH CLASS ...

Goodie Mob, The Roots: The Roots, Goodie Mob: House of Blues, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 1998

Roots, Goodie Mob Get Back to Basics ...

The Good Bad & The Queen: The Good, the Bad & the Queen: The Good, the Bad & the Queen

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 17 January 2007

"STROPPY LITTLE ISLAND full of mixed up people.... " That's how Damon Albarn memorably sums up England in this latest chapter of his ongoing chronicle ...

Robert Gordon: Changing Style

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 1979

Robert Gordon: The Roxy, Los Angeles ...

Grand Funk Railroad, Humble Pie: Humble Pie, Grand Funk Railroad: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 17 December 1969

England's Humble Pie Here on First U.S. Tour ...

Grand Funk Railroad, Pacific Gas & Electric, Ten Years After: Grand Funk Railroad, Ten Years After, Pacific Gas & Electric: Forum, Inglewood CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 1970

Grand Funk, Other Rock Groups on Stage ...

Grandmaster Melle Mel & the Furious Five, The Sugarhill Gang: The Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Melle Mel: The Dragonfly, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 3 November 1997

Godfathers of Rap Churn Out Boogity Beat for Willing Crowd ...

The Grass Roots, Steppenwolf, Three Dog Night: Steppenwolf, Three Dog Night, Grass Roots: Forum, Inglewood CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 16 September 1969

Dog Night Joins Roots, Steppenwolf at Forum ...

Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane: Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 18 September 1967

S.F. Rock Groups in Bowl Show ...

Al Green: The Gospel According To Al Green

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, January 1985

Al GREEN was the hottest soul singer this side of Stevie Wonder in the early '70s but don't expect to hear old hits like 'Tired ...

Green on Red: The Killer Inside Me (Mercury) **

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 1987

AMERICANA NOIR ...

Nanci Griffith: McCabe's Guitar Shop, Santa Monica CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 7 October 1986

GRIFFITH SINGS AND STRUMS COUNTRY ...

Marcia Grifiths, Ziggy Marley: The Resurgence of Reggae

Report by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 3 February 1990

Pop music: Major labels sign more artists and watch sales rise. The Jamaican style enjoys renewed popularity with a new generation of performers and fans. ...

Grin, Jackie Lomax: Jackie Lomax, Grin: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 1971

Jackie Lomax and Band Playing at the Whisky ...

The GTOs, The Hollywood Stars, New York Dolls, Iggy Pop: New York Dolls, Iggy Pop, Hollywood Stars, the GTOs: Hollywood Street Revival and Trash Dance, the Palladium, Hollywood CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 15 October 1974

Glitter-Rock Stages a Symbolic Wake ...

The GTOs, Frank Zappa: Miss Mercy, colourful L.A. rock fixture and cofounder of Frank Zappa's GTOs, dies at 71

Obituary by Chris Campion, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2020

MISS MERCY, the effervescent rock 'n' roll superfan who found fame as a member of Frank Zappa's "groupie" girl-group the GTOs (Girls Together Outrageously), died ...

The Gun Club: Reloaded Gun Club Takes Aim Again

Interview by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 3 April 1988

SITTING AT the coffee table at his mother's West Hollywood apartment, Jeffrey Lee Pierce keeps jumping up to change records. Sly & the Family Stone's ...

Guns N' Roses, Living Colour, The Rolling Stones: The Rolling Stones, Guns N' Roses, Living Colour: Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 21 October 1989

Guns N' Roses Shows Some Mettle ...

Gypsy, King Crimson: King Crimson, Gypsy: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 5 December 1969

King Crimson Opens Its Rock 'n' Roll Stand ...

Gypsy, The Kinks: The Kinks, Gypsy: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 22 November 1969

England's Kinks Return After 5-Year Absence ...

Gypsy, The Move: The Move, Gypsy: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 11 October 1969

The Move, English Rock Group, Plays at Whisky ...

Charlie Haden Recalls Lessons Of Cuba Visit

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 27 March 1987

CUBA IS A RARE tour stopover for any American, artist, but Charlie Haden’s appearance in Havana last month fulfilled a dream the eminent bassist had ...

Half Pint Making a Splash With Rebellion

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 1989

HALF PINT'S 'Greetings (to All Ragamuffins)' was the Jamaican equivalent of Tone Loc's 'Wild Thing' — a record that went beyond hit status to become ...

Herbie Hancock: Beverly Theater, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 2 January 1984

HERBIE HANCOCK still refuses to put all of his eggs in one basket. The veteran keyboard player blithely continues to release both funk-oriented material geared ...

Emmylou Harris: Wrecking Ball (Elektra/Asylum) ***

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 24 September 1995

ARE FANS of the Sweetheart of the Rodeo ready for EmmyloU2? ...

Emmylou Harris: Singing With a Voice That's Always True to Her Heart

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 11 April 1996

EVEN WHEN Emmylou Harris was a fixture on the country charts for a decade starting in 1975, her music was marked by an uncommon sense ...

Keef Hartley, Savoy Brown: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 4 September 1969

TWO ENGLISH BANDS FEATURED AT WHISKY ...

Donny Hathaway, Ian Matthews: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 26 August 1971

THE TROUBADOUR this week is the scene of one of those unfortunate billings, a pairing whose promise as one of the club's most attractive one-two ...

Screamin' Jay Hawkins: Life For Jay Hawkins Is Still A Scream

Profile and Interview by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 25 December 1983

"MAN, I WAS 20 years ahead of my time," says rocker Screamin' Jay Hawkins, whose early '50s recording of 'I Put a Spell on You' ...

Roy Head: Club Lingerie, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 1984

YEAAHHH, MAH man. As a semi-legend, Joan Rivers has nothing on Roy Head, whose '65 smash 'Treat Her Right' remains one of the toughest, most ...

Heart, John McEuen: Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 1977

Wilson Sisters Put Beat in Heart ...

Jimi Hendrix: "I'm Into Different Things," Says Jimi Hendrix

Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Los Angeles Times, 7 September 1969

JIMI HENDRIX is about to shed some of his Experience. His next three albums will not feature either bass guitarist Noel Redding or drummer Mitch ...

Jimi Hendrix: Woodstock (MCA)

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 1994

MORE THAN Hendrix the space bluesman or rock song performer, Woodstock spotlights Jimi the jammer, and his seemingly infinite inventiveness in the loosely structured format ...

Jimi Hendrix, Arthur Lee, Love: Arthur Lee & Love: Club Lingerie, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 25 November 1994

Hendrix Birthday Love-In Skips a Beat at Club Lingerie ...

Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks: Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 19 April 1973

DAN HICKS, HOT LICKS ON TROUBADOUR STAGE ...

Joe Higgs Seeks Reggae 'Triumph'

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 14 August 1985

"IF I WAS A prophet, I wouldn't have left the Wailers, but I didn't know they were going to become this monstrous," Joe Higgs said ...

Joe Higgs, the X-Streams: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 29 January 1981

JOE HIGGS: LESSON FROM A REGGAE LEGEND ...

ZZ Hill: Z.Z. Hill Is Happy He's Got The Blues

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 2 October 1983

Z.Z. Hill's most recent blues albums have surpassed the sales of those recorded by bigger names. ...

Allan Holdsworth: Guitarist Making Up Lost Time

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 15 February 1985

HOW DOES ALLAN Holdsworth react to being labeled a "guitarist's guitarist"? ...

Hole, L7, Nirvana, Sister Double Happiness: Nirvana, Sister Double Happiness, L7, Hole: Palace Theater, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 28 October 1991

A Potent 'Rock for Choice' at Palace ...

Linda Hopkins Sticks To The Gospel Truth

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 13 September 1985

GOING FROM the glitzy glamour of opening four shows for Joan Rivers to the down-home atmosphere of the Long Beach Blues Festival this Saturday afternoon ...

Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane: Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna: The Forum, Inglewood CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 4 November 1969

GLORIOUSLY RESPLENDENT in crushed velvet and faded Levis and backed by what was possibly the Glenn McKay troupe's most breathtaking light-show since Monterey, Jefferson Airplane, ...

Hot Tuna, Journey: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 28 October 1974

Folk-Blues Program Offered by Hot Tuna ...

Hüsker Dü: Candy Apple Grey (Warner Bros.)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 March 1986

HÜSKER HURLS A CHANGE-UP ...

Chrissie Hynde: Reckless

Book Review by Evelyn McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 17 September 2015

There's no pretending in Chrissie Hynde's spare, deft memoir Reckless ...

Ice Cube: AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (Priority) **

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 1990

LIKE HIS new cohorts Public Enemy, Ice Cube is fueled by persecution. The rapper's first solo album since leaving N.W.A. opens with the sounds of ...

Ice Cube, Kool Keith, Mack 10, Snoop (Doggy) Dogg: Mack 10, Kool Keith: House of Blues, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 9 January 1998

Mack 10 Delivers Gangsta Rap With a Smile and a Surprise ...

The Illinois Speed Press, Slim Harpo: Slim Harpo, The Illinois Speed Press: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 7 March 1969

SLIM HARPO, a harmonica-playing Southern bluesman, is headlining at the Whisky a Go Go through Sunday with the Illinois Speed Press, a hard rock quintet ...

The Impressions: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 1967

Impressions Win a Warm Welcome ...

Incubus: Forum, Los Angeles

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 20 April 2002

ALL THE PARENTS who dropped off their kids at the Incubus concert Thursday at the Forum, and all those middle-aged chaperons with earplugs conspicuously shutting ...

Inner City, Marshall Jefferson, JM Silk, Frankie Knuckles, Ten City: House Music: The Blues for Dance

Report by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 1989

The new sound pumps up the volume and eyes a move from R&B underground to the pop mainstream. ...

It's a Beautiful Day, Sylvester & the Hot Band: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 30 March 1973

IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY GOES ON A TIME TRIP ...

Bull Moose Jackson: A Bull Moose Party

Profile by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 30 December 1984

Personnel: Jackson, vocals, backed by the Flashcats: Cindy Sotak, vocals, guitar; Dave Kent, vocals, guitar; Pete Loria, trumpet; Phil Brontz, saxophone; Jim Fanning, bass; Carl ...

David Williams, Michael Jackson: David Williams: A Slight Case Of No Credit

Report by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 15 January 1984

Session guitarist David Williams' name was left off Thriller album. ...

Freddie Jackson: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 16 March 1987

FREDDIE JACKSON: SURPRISES, CONTROL ...

Michael Jackson: Bad (Epic)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 31 August 1987

MICHAEL JACKSON HAS A GOOD THING IN BAD ...

Michael Jackson: Thriller (Epic QE 38112)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 12 December 1982

JACKSON GOES OVER THE WALL ...

Michael Jackson, The Jacksons: The Jacksons: Dodger Stadium, Elysian Park, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 3 December 1984

JACKSONS FALL SHORT OF A CLEAR-CUT VICTORY ...

Mick Jagger: She's The Boss (Columbia)

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 3 March 1985

GETTIN' NO SATISFACTION ...

James, Morrissey: Morrissey, the Ever Marketable

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 27 March 1994

Feeling neglected in the U.S., the uncompromising singer courts a larger audience but vows to stay true to himself-and those who've deified him ...

Etta James: Her Voice Can Get A Hold On You

Interview by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 26 October 1985

"WHAT'S HAPPENING now is that all the kids who grew up listening to me on their transistor radios in the '50s and '60s are now ...

Etta James: Rollin' With Etta

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 1 November 1992

Etta James has sung and lived the blues, but these are good times for the R&B matriarch bound for the Rock and Roll Hall of ...

The James Gang, Steve Miller: The Steve Miller Band, James Gang: Civic Auditorium, Pasadena and Santa Monica, CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 1 December 1970

James Gang Backs Up the Steve Miller Band ...

Rick James, Ray Parker Jr.: Forum, Inglewood CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 23 August 1982

RICK JAMES AND THE FUNK CAPADES ...

The Jam: Setting Sons (Polydor PD-1-6249)

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 24 February 1980

JAM GETS ITS OWN FLAVOR ...

The Jam: Sound Affects (Polydor PD-1-6315)

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 26 April 1981

SPARE SOUND FROM THE JAM ...

Jay Z: Jay-Z: Decoded

Book Review by Evelyn McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 3 December 2010

JAY-Z IS A GREAT American artist — and he'd be the first to tell you so. Decoded is an elegantly designed, incisively written bid for ...

Wyclef Jean: House of Blues, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 18 October 1999

Wyclef Jeans Moves Keep 'em Guessing ...

Jefferson Airplane: After Bathing at Baxter's (RCA)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 27 November 1967

Airplane Album to Be Released Friday ...

Jefferson Airplane: Up, Up and Away With the Jefferson Airplane

Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 25 February 1968

How old are the people in the group? Grace: Oldest group in the country. Spencer: Between 25 and 30. Manager: Between 23 ...

The Jesus & Mary Chain: The Jesus and Mary Chain: Automatic

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 12 November 1989

THE BROTHERS REID have made an art form of abrasiveness: a first album that dragged you through thickets of distortion to reach the sweetness at ...

Joan Jett: At 21, a Survivor

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 1980

AT 21, JOAN Jett is a five-year rock veteran. She was a 15-year-old San Fernando Valley high schooler when L.A. entrepreneur Kim Fowley recruited her ...

Jobriath: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 August 1974

Jobriath Potent, but Not Nuclear ...

David Johansen: In Style

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 21 October 1979

DAVID JOHANSEN'S first solo effort last year was a satisfying effort which found the former New York Dolls lead singer working on musical turf halfway ...

Jimmy Johnson: Johnson At Peace With His Music

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 19 September 1986

LARGE EGOS are common in the music world, but Jimmy Johnson is one performer who doesn't believe in loudly trumpeting the virtues of his music. ...

Linton Kwesi Johnson: Reggae's Pioneer Poet Has Picked Up His Pen Again

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 6 March 1990

Music: Linton Kwesi Johnson took a break because he was afraid he'd run out of things to say, but Europe thought otherwise. ...

Robert Johnson: Demons on the Delta

Retrospective by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 14 August 1988

Standing at the crossroadsI tried to flag a rideNobody seemed to know meEverybody passed me by.– 'Crossroads Blues' by Robert Johnson ...

Jesse Johnson: Shockadelica (A&M)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 November 1986

JESSE: PEDESTRIAN CROSSING ...

Jo Jo Gunne: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 12 February 1972

SEEING HOW it packed the Whisky to overflowing in its opening Thursday, only a fool could doubt that Jo Jo Gunne will soon he enjoying ...

Joneses, The (punk), The Minutemen: The Minutemen, the Joneses: Music Machine, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 8 October 1984

Minutemen Surpass the Joneses With Engaging Mix of Rock, Jazz, Folk ...

Grace Jones: Living My Life (Island 90018)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 15 January 1983

GRACE NOTES FROM A CULT QUEEN ...

Grace Jones: Slave To The Rhythm (Manhattan)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 1 December 1985

GRACE: EGO TO GO ...

Grace Jones: New Wave for a Disco Diva

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 1980

Grace Jones' new LP tailors the music to fit her flamboyant visual concepts. ...

Grace Jones: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 4 December 1978

Grace Jones in an Exotic Pose ...

Oran "Juice" Jones: Juice (Def Jam)

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 19 October 1986

'RAIN' GEAR ...

Rickie Lee Jones, Chuck E. Weiss: Chuck E. Weiss: Hanger-Out Is Moving Up

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 1979

CHUCK E.'S IN business. Thanks to Rickie Lee Jones' hit single 'Chuck E.'s in Love', one of L.A.'s perennial hangers-out is emerging from the shadows ...

Judas Priest in Santa Monica

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 25 October 1979

WHILE THE PRESS has been busily lavishing attention on punk bands, a new wave of groups has been quietly – well, not exactly quietly – ...

Wynonna Judd: A Winding Country Road

Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 4 March 1999

Though she has hit a few bumps, Wynonna Judd just keeps driving ahead. ...

Kaleidoscope: Incredible! Kaleidoscope (Epic BN 26467)

Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 22 March 1970

KALEIDOSCOPE, APPARENTLY disillusioned (an justifiably so) after a three-year career as one of the world's most interesting yet chronically most-ignored rock groups, has here given ...

Kaleidoscope, Seatrain: the Ash Grove, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 13 September 1968

THE KALEIDOSCOPE is possibly the most underrated rock group in the country, a local group which has been playing for two years waiting for audiences ...

Kasabian: Dreams of Brit-rock Empire

Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2005

The four mates of Kasabian would like a shot at the crown before the sun sets on the new UK scene. ...

K-Ci & Jojo: The Kings of Sing

Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 1999

Two brothers raised on gospel are at the forefront of R&B's current renaissance ...

Salif Keita: Wilshire Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 11 April 1994

L.A. Debut by Golden-Voiced Keita ...

Chaka Khan: Destiny (Warner Bros.)

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 1986

CHAKA STRUTS STUFF ...

Chaka Khan, Prince: Chaka Khan: Fighting to Reclaim Her Crown

Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 17 October 1998

Chaka Khan's Forum concert might have been canceled but she's still eager to jump back into the music scene. ...

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: Pyramid Arena, Long Beach CA

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 18 September 1995

Khan Rocks Cal State's Pyramid Arena ...

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: Sequoia Athletic Club, Buena Park CA

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 10 November 1992

A Spirited Performance of Qawwali: Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and his eight-man group deliver an impressive set of intricate compositions to an appreciative ...

Kid Creole & The Coconuts: Roxy, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 1982

KID CREOLE & THE COCONUTS MAKE A DIZZYING, DAZZLING ROXY DEBUT ...

Angélique Kidjo: House of Blues, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 8 April 1996

Kidjo Saves Heavy Hits for Show's End ...

Albert King: An Old Blues Artist Is Easing Away

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 1990

"It's Time to Quit," Says Famed Guitarist Albert King, 67 ...

Albert King: Full Circle For Albert King

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 11 September 1983

Albert King is no stranger to passing pop fashions. ...

Carole King: A Natural Woman: A Memoir

Book Review by Evelyn McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 25 April 2012

MY FAVORITE SCENE in Carole King's long-awaited A Natural Woman comes near the beginning — appropriately, since the teen hitmaker was the epitome of an ...

Carole King, James Taylor: Carole King — Secret Star on the James Taylor Tour

Report and Interview by Geoffrey Cannon, Los Angeles Times, 15 August 1971

Author's note, 2018: A transcendent moment in Carole King's life was during the evening of 7 December 2015 in Washington. She is sitting next to ...

The Knack Rises Out Of The Ashes

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 25 December 1986

REMEMBER THE Michael Jackson backlash? You think Madonna and Sean are facing one now? Those are nothing compared to the greatest rock backlash of them ...

Jordan Knight: Jordan Knight (Interscope)

Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 1999

KNIGHT MAY have served his musical apprenticeship by doing the electric boogaloo in stone-washed jeans when he was a member of New Kids on the ...

Kraftwerk: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 1975

Kraftwerk — 'Fun, Fun' at Civic ...

Kraftwerk: Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 1998

Techno-Rocking Kraftwerk Charges Up In its first L.A. concert in almost 15 years, the German quartet shows the influence of its ground-breaking circuit-driven music. ...

Kraftwerk: Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 1 August 1981

WHEN KRAFTWERK played the Santa Monica Civic in 1975, the German quartet's electronic music seemed like an academic aberration from the rock norm, and the ...

Alison Krauss: A Hit From One of Country's Kinfolk

Profile and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 25 March 1995

Bluegrass's most prominent figure makes her way into the Top 10. But even Alison Krauss can't explain it. ...

Fela Kuti: Music is the Weapon: Fela

Report by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 21 February 1985

THE CONCEPT OF combining music with a strong political message is a romantic, enticing notion to many young musicians but it's a harsh, often painful ...

Fela Kuti: Music Is the Weapon

Film/DVD/TV Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 23 February 1985

THE IDEA of combining music with a strong political message is a romantic notion to many young musicians, but the concept is a harsh reality ...

Fela Kuti: Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 17 November 1986

KUTI IN HIS OWN GROOVE ...

Fela Kuti: 'World Festival'

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 18 August 1984

SUNDAY'S "WORLD Cultural Music Festival" was postponed Friday after two key performers coincidentally ran into customs difficulties, festival publicist Jeff Gans said. He expects the ...

Labelle: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 21 January 1972

THE IDEA of wedding an English or other foreign fan's perspective on the idiom with a fading American rhythm-and-blues group looks fine on paper, and ...

Patti LaBelle: Pantages Theater, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 30 November 1977

THE RECENTLY disbanded Labelle was a one-of-a-kind musical experience, and there would be little point in its members trying to duplicate its theatrical, space-age R&B ...

Lamb of God: Coming in Loud: Sounds of the Underground

Report and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2005

The Sounds of the Underground tour screams into L.A., delivering what's new in metal. ...

k.d. lang: All You Can Eat (Warner Bros.) **

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 10 October 1995

Lang Delivers Torch Music Without Fire ...

Daniel Lanois: A Nomad Settles Down to Record His Own Album

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 17 September 1989

DANIEL LANOIS is best known for co-producing such chart breakthrough albums as U2's The Joshua Tree and Peter Gabriel's So. But you won't find much ...

Denise LaSalle: Right Place, Right Time: The Return of Denise Lasalle

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 8 September 1984

DENISE LASALLE THOUGHT her singing career was over three years ago. The blues-soul singer, who appears at the Long Beach Blues Festival Saturday, was a ...

The La's: Henry Fonda Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 1991

The La's: Tuneful, Fiat-Footed at the Fonda ...

The Last Poets: Last Poets: The First And Lost Poets Of Rap

Retrospective by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 14 October 1984

Group: The Last Poets. Record: The Last Poets (Celluloid 6101). Personnel: Abiodun Oyewole, Alafia Pudim, Omar Ben Hassen, vocals. Nilaja, percussion. ...

Latimore: Roxy, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 1 April 1977

Latimore: Simple, Earthy Approach ...

Cyndi Lauper: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 5 February 1987

HEARTFELT MOMENTS OF LIVE LAUPER ...

Cyndi Lauper, the Three O'Clock: Beverly Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 29 February 1984

CYNDI LAUPER: DAFFY BUT ENDEARING SPECIAL DATE ...

Avril Lavigne: Just where is the next stop on this tour?

Report and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 11 August 2005

HO-HUM. Another city, another sold-out concert date for Avril Lavigne. Not that the punky pop star could tell you exactly where the next arena full ...

Ronnie Laws: Flame (United Artists UA-LA881-H)

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 4 February 1979

LAWS' FLAME SET ON LOW ...

Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin (Atlantic SD8216)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 2 March 1969

Zeppelin: Fresh Sound ...

Led Zeppelin: Forum, Inglewood CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 7 September 1970

Led Zeppelin Plays for Forum Audience ...

The Lemonheads' Evan Dando

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 1992

WHEN EVAN Dando came to L. A. to record the latest album with his two partners in the sort of Boston-based band, the Lemonheads, the ...

The Lemonheads: It's Not So Tough Being Beautiful

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 7 November 1993

Yes, Evan Dando, head Lemonhead, was one of People magazine's 50 most beautiful people. That's no reason to pity him, because his band is burning ...

The Lemonheads: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 20 November 1996

Dando Turns Inward, Leaves Bridge-Building to Others ...

John Lennon, Yoko Ono: Rolling Stone Gathers A Little Moss

Report by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 January 1981

SIX LOS Angeles area supermarket chains, including Ralphs, Safeway and Alpha Bela, have refused to carry the Jan. 22 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. The ...

The Lettermen: Lettermen Make Team With Haircuts

Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 18 September 1966

"THE WEIRD thing about us is that we're not weird. We're what you call the All-American boys. When we first started we wore our hair ...

Ramsey Lewis, The Monkees: The Monkees: The Monkees (Colpix COM/S-101); Ramsey Lewis: Wade in the Water (Cadet LP/S-774),Swingin' (Cadet LP/S-771)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 25 September 1966

Monkees Ape Their Betters ...

Limp Bizkit: Anything but Stale

Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 18 April 1999

Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst combines charisma with marketing instincts that have spelled success for the rap-metal band. Up next: movies and more. ...

Little Feat: Greek Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 15 September 1989

SO MUCH attention was focused on the late Lowell George's central role as the chief singer-songwriter for Little Feat that the inimitable funky boogie style ...

Little Feat: The Coach House, San Juan Capistrano CA

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 25 April 1992

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO – Figures that Little Feat would show up Thursday for the first night of three "all-acoustic" shows at the Coach House with ...

Little Feat, The Big Split

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 17 February 1980

DOWN ON the Farm is Little Feat's best-selling album ever — but don't chalk that up as merely a posthumous tribute to Lowell George, the ...

Little Feat, Little River Band: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 1977

Big Step Forward for Little Feat ...

Little Feat, Osibisa: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 1972

FEW INDEED are the groups whose emergence has been heralded by more glowing reviews than Little Feat. It's my guess, though, that few indeed who ...

Little Milton: Long Beach Blues Festival, Long Beach

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 22 September 1986

IF SOMEONE HAD distributed a checklist following Little Milton's set Saturday afternoon – rating his performance for singing, instrumental solos, arrangements, set pacing, use of ...

Little Milton: Touring Little Milton Still Big On The Blues

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 2 October 1987

LITTLE MILTON'S set was the clear highlight of the 1986 Long Beach Blues Festival, and it turns out that performance was just as memorable for ...

Nils Lofgren: Nils

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 2 September 1979

NILS LOFGREN was widely regarded as a sure bet for rock stardom during the mid '70. The singer-songwriter-guitarist's early solo albums and efforts with the ...

Alan Lomax: Making a Science of Man's Music

Profile and Interview by Geoffrey Cannon, Los Angeles Times, 23 January 1972

Alan Lomax, the man who went into the fields of the southern states in the 1930s and brought the glory of the blues to the attention ...

The Long Ryders: Griffin, Long Ryders Set To Go The Distance

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 19 December 1985

WHEN SID Griffin talks about his "family" these days, he doesn't just mean his folks back in Kentucky. He's referring to the Los Angeles musical ...

The Long Ryders: Roxy, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 21 December 1985

LONG RYDERS: WHO WERE THOSE COUNTRY-ROCKERS? ...

Los Lobos: How Will The Wolf Survive?

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 10 December 1984

THE EAST L.A. musical landscape is littered with one hit wonders who plunged back to obscurity as swiftly as they escaped from it, but the ...

Los Lobos: How Will The Wolf Survive? (Slash/Warner Bros.)

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 25 November 1984

HOWLIN' WOLVES ...

Los Lobos: Greek Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 13 October 1997

From Blues-Based Riffs to Norteño, Los Lobos Deliver an Intense Set ...

Love: Rose Palace, Pasadena CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 1969

Love Group Plays at Pasadena Rose Palace ...

Love, Harry Nilsson: Love: Forever Changes (Elektra); Nilsson: 'One' (RCA); History of Rhythm and Blues (Atlantic, four volumes)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 25 February 1968

Love's Third Album Out on Elektra ...

Courtney Love: Bohemian Women's Political Alliance benefit, Club Largo, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 30 September 1992

Benefit a Reminder of Courtney Love's Potential ...

Patty Loveless: Trouble With the Truth (Epic/Nashville)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 20 January 1996

FOLLOWING HER best-album honors at last fall's Country Music Assn. Awards, this most reliable of today's female country singers offers another solid but unspectacular showcase ...

Lyle Lovett: Roxy, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 1992

Lovett and Band Stretch Beyond Country's Borders ...

Luscious Jackson: Girls Just Want to Have Funk

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 21 August 1994

Luscious Jackson's four females play the game their way, incorporating New York's vibrant soundtrack of punk and hip-hop, jazz and soul. ...

Cheryl Lynn, Luther Vandross: Luther Vandross, Cheryl Lynn: Greek Theater, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 28 October 1982

VANDROSS — A STAGGERING POTENTIAL ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Marshall Tucker Band: Marshall Tucker Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 1974

THE MARSHALL Tucker Band has in a relatively short time picked up a large enough following to achieve headline status, but its Santa Monica Civic ...

Lonnie Mack: Guitarist Mack Brings Varied Life To L.A. Concert

Interview by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 10 August 1985

"FIRST TIME I met Jeff Beck was when they were doin' that benefit for Ronnie Lane down in Dallas. Ah came in the door and ...

Madlib: Grooving on Artistic Freedom

Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 20 January 2002

Madlib's funhouse creations have won a notable following. But rap stardom isn't his goal. ...

Madness, The Selecter, The Specials: Ska Jump: England to America

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 16 March 1980

ROCK MUSIC'S vitality depends on a constant influx of new sounds. Just when American audiences are catching on to the three-year-old British punk/new-wave movement, a ...

Magic Sam: Bluesman Magic Sam: His Legend Lives On

Retrospective by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 6 January 1985

WHAT IF HE HADN'T died so young? Among rock fans, that kind of speculation usually centers on icons like Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Holly. Among ...

Taj Mahal: Taj Mahal (Columbia)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 4 February 1968

TAJ MAHAL, a talented blues singer who has kicked around Los Angeles for several years as a soloist and a member of the now-dead Rising ...

Taj Mahal: The Natch'l Blues (Columbia CS 9698)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 23 March 1969

Monumental Album From Taj ...

Taj Mahal, Steve Mann: Ash Grove, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 2 September 1967

Taj Mahal Back With Blue Flames Band ...

Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Section: The Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Section: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 13 November 1972

Mahavishnu Headlines Rock Concert ...

Aimee Mann: the Roxy, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 24 February 1996

Mann's Stylized Concert Leaves No Room for Intimacy ...

Ray Manzarek: Manzarek Hears Echoes Of Doors

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 18 September 1983

Ray Manzarek's Carmina Burana will distance him even farther from his days with the Doors. ...

Bob Marley & The Wailers: Confrontation (Island)

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 1980

MOST RECORD COMPANIES waste little time in emptying the vaults when a major artist dies, but Island has refrained from pursuing that course with the ...

Bob Marley & the Wailers: Bob Marley To Live On Through Reggae Tour: Rita Marley talks about her late husband's legacy and U.S. tour

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 13 September 1984

THREE YEARS AFTER Bob Marley succumbed to cancer, his old Wailers band and three backing vocalists — including his widow — are embarking on an ...

Ziggy Marley Livelies Up Himself in the Nick of Time

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 7 August 1989

ZIGGY MARLEY did not wait a minute too long to dip into his father's songbook for 'Lively Up Yourself'. ...

Ziggy Marley: Marleys' Melodious Messages

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 1986

REGGAE FANS may still mourn the death of Bob Marley from cancer five years ago, but the next generation of the Marley clan is already ...

Bob Marley & the Wailers: Aston Barrett: Rhythm Behind The Reggae

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 2 November 1984

THE BARRETT BROTHERS may be the most influential unsung heroes in pop music. ...

Bob Marley & the Wailers: Roxy, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 1975

Magic of Reggae by Marley & Co. ...

Massive Attack: Mezzanine (Virgin)

Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 1998

MASSIVE ATTACK'S 1991 debut album, Blue Lines, has become a watershed album in the history of electronic dance music for a number of reasons. By ...

Curtis Mayfield: The Palomino, Los Angeles

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 23 October 1989

Mayfield Performs Cream of His Crop of Hits ...

Mazzy Star: She Hangs Brightly (Rough Trade) ***½

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 1990

Mazzy Star Debut a Fine Fix of Country Blues ...

Mazzy Star: Club Lingerie, Hollywood CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 27 August 1990

Hipster Hypnotists at the Lingerie ...

MC5, The Stooges: From The Vaults: A Look Back at Bad-Boy Pioneers MC5, Stooges

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 25 March 2000

RECORDINGS OF THESE TWO MIDWEST REBEL BANDS REVEAL THE HUGE INFLUENCE THEIR LANGUAGE AND SOUND HAVE HAD ON CURRENT ACTS. ...

Michael McDonald: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 28 October 1983

McDonald dodges the spotlight ...

Reba McEntire: "I Don't Like to Be Corralled or Fenced In"

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 1995

  WYNONNA, TRISHA, Pam — they keep coming in waves, but no one has been able to dislodge Reba McEntire from her position as country music's ...

Reba McEntire: Inglewood Forum, Inglewood CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 7 December 1992

A Confusing Set From Reba McEntire at Forum ...

Malcolm McLaren: McLaren: Svengali or Superpro?

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 25 January 1983

SEVEN YEARS ago, boutique owner and fashion designer Malcolm McLaren propelled four hostile London youths on one of rock's most tumultuous chapters. As manager of ...

Meat Puppets: Mirage (SST)

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 19 April 1987

AIRY 'N' EERIE ...

Megadeth, Slayer: Megadeth: "Titans" Aim to Alter Metal's Image

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 1991

WHEN THEY named the concert tour "Clash of the Titans," they didn't know how right they were. ...

John Mellencamp: 10 Questions: John Mellencamp

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 10 November 1991

ROCK STAR and grandfather, oil paint and electric guitar, proud and self-deprecating, cynical and idealistic... At 40, John Mellencamp remains a feisty bundle of contradictions. ...

The Melvins, Mudhoney: Mudhoney, the Melvins: Hollywood Live, Hollywood CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 1990

Mudhoney's Roar of Confusion ...

The Memphis Horns: Two-Man Memphis Horns Keep Punching Those Sounds

Interview by Fred Shuster, Los Angeles Times, 27 January 1989

QUESTION: What do recent hit albums by Peter Gabriel, Steve Winwood and Robert Cray have in common with earlier best sellers by Otis Redding and ...

Memphis Slim: McCabe's, Los Angeles

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 14 October 1985

Sly Slim ...

Metallica: Re-Load (Elektra) ***½

Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 16 November 1997

THE TITLE of Metallica's new album does the band a disservice. This is less a sequel to last year's Load than a virtual repudiation of ...

The Meters: Leo Nocentelli Looks Back

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 15 April 1984

LOS ANGELES is a Mecca for hungry musicians...and not only those with dreams of stardom. The constant demand for movie and TV soundtracks, commercial jingles ...

The Meters: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 2 December 1976

Hard-Nosed Funk From the Meters ...

Augie Meyers, The Sir Douglas Quintet: The Sir Douglas Quintet, Augie Meyers: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 September 1971

His Lordship at Troubadour ...

Lee Michaels, Big Mama Thornton: Rose Palace, Pasadena CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 27 May 1969

Rock Show Given at Pasadena Rose Palace ...

Thee Midniters: Zyanya: Tuned To New Latino Rock

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 5 February 1984

THE LOCAL Chicano rock contingent has a new outlet for its music, courtesy of Rhino Records. The plucky independent label recently inaugurated a subsidiary label, ...

Roger Miller: A Punny Man

Profile and Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 1966

"A WOMAN'S place is in the stove," Roger Miller drawled over the babble of four housewives sitting behind him in a plush Encino restaurant. ...

Nicki Minaj, Britney Spears: Britney Spears, Nicki Minaj: Staples Center, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Evelyn McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2011

Haters Go Home: Britney Dominates L.A. Show ...

Charlie Mingus: Charles Mingus: What’s Everyone Got Against a Legend?

Retrospective by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 8 August 1993

In his lifetime, Charles Mingus was a rebel and a true giant of jazz, Now the Library of Congress has acquired his works and he’s ...

Mink DeVille, Styx: Styx, Mink DeVille: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 15 August 1977

Versatile Styx Impresses the Fans ...

Joni Mitchell: Shadows and Light (Asylum BB704)

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 2 November 1980

JONI'S NEW ALBUM STAYS IN SHADOWS ...

Joni Mitchell: the Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 1968

Canadian Singer in U.S. Debut ...

Moby: Play (V2) **½

Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 1999

HAVE PITY on Moby. Five years ago, he was techno's poster boy, the artist who was largely responsible for pushing electronic music up from the ...

Moby's Sampler Unplugged

Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2005

The electronic music poster boy picks up a guitar and uncages his rock 'n' roll animal. ...

Moby Grape, The Monkees: The Monkees: Headquarters (Colgems); Moby Grape: Moby Grape (Columbia)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 1967

Monkees Upgrade Album Quality ...

Moby Grape, James Taylor: James Taylor: James Taylor (Apple SKAO 3352); Moby Grape: Moby Grape '69 (Columbia CS 9696)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 16 March 1969

James Taylor: Fine Folk Feeling ...

Hal Willner, Thelonious Monk: Interpretations Of Monk By Jazz, Rock Musicians

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 28 January 1984

WHAT DO FELLINI soundtrack composer Nino Rota and the late jazz great Thelonious Monk have in common? ...

Rudy Ray Moore, Clarence Reid (aka Blowfly): Blowfly, Rudy Ray Moore: Club Lingerie, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 12 December 1988

Blowfly Captures Crowd ...

Sam Moore, Sam & Dave: Sam Moore: The Soul Man Makes A Comeback From Heroin

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 26 October 1984

IN THE late '60s, Sam & Dave were right up there with Otis Redding as stars of Memphis' legendary Stax Records. Singles like 'Hold On, ...

Thurston Moore: Psychic Hearts (DGC) **½

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 1995

IT'S NOT as if Sonic Youth's co-leader has used his first solo album to purge some foreign or unfulfilled music from his system. This is ...

Van Morrison: Into The Music

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 23 September 1979

LAST YEAR'S Wavelength may have dispelled lingering doubts about Van Morrison's creative talents, but it did so only at the expense of some of the ...

Van Morrison: Astral Weeks (Warner Bros. 1778)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 1969

VAN MORRISON is one of the rock vocalists. He was lead singer and primary writer for Them during their 'Gloria', 'Baby Please Don't Go', 'Here ...

The Motels: Not Long Ago, But Far, Far Away: They Were There When L.A.'s Vital Club Scene Was Reborn

Retrospective and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 1990

IT WAS 1976 and they were five newcomers in three bands. Together, they helped stage 'Radio Free Hollywood' and opened the door for hundreds of ...

The Motels: Booked Solid

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 29 April 1979

MOST LOCAL BANDS have drawn inspiration from the classic rock bands of the '60s – notably the Rolling Stones and the Who. The chief exception ...

The Mothers Of Invention, Frank Zappa: Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 24 August 1970

WITH HIS latest assortment of the Mothers of Invention, which was on display Friday evening at the Santa Monica Civic, Frank Zappa, America's most beloved ...

Mötley Crüe: Country Club, Reseda CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 29 December 1981

CATCHING MÖTLEY CRÜE IN A FLASH ...

Mötley Crüe: Inglewood Forum, Inglewood CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 26 August 1985

ROCK GROUP RIPE FOR A CRÜE-SADE? ...

Motorhead Guitarist Is Running On All Cylinders

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 10 October 1986

WURZEL BURSTON'S road to Motorhead qualifies as one of rock's more implausible success stories. Originally a drummer, Burston switched to guitar at the advanced age ...

Motorhead: No Sleep 'Til San Diego: Motorhead

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 7 October 1986

IT'S BEEN A TOUGH five years for Motorhead. The English heavy metal quartet, which appears Saturday in Santa Monica, Sunday in San Bernardino and in ...

Bob Mould: Ex-Husker Du Bob Mould Offers an Exercise in Angst

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 1989

TO BORROW two titles from bluesman Sonny Boy Williamson, Bob Mould could be Mr. Downchild taking up permanent residence on Bummer Road. ...

The Move, English Rock Group, Plays At Whisky

Live Review by John Mendelsohn, Los Angeles Times, 1969

THE FACT THAT England’s The Move, completing an abbreviated booking Sunday night at the Whisky, is unknown to all but the most devoted of anglophile ...

Judy Mowatt: Mowatt's Winding Path To Success

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 13 February 1986

JUDY MOWATT'S Working Wonders album has received a Grammy nomination, but that isn't the only reason she'll remember the record. A succession of studio disasters ...

Ms Dynamite, The Streets: Letter from London: The Streets and Ms Dynamite

Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, 23 March 2003

WHEN THE BEATLES flew over from England in the '60s, it seemed the whole of young America gathered at the airport to scream a welcome. ...

Mudvayne: Same sound, cleaner faces for Mudvayne

Report and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 18 August 2005

WHEN KISS wiped off the makeup in the early 1980s, heavy metal's cartoon Gorgons rubbed away much of their mystique as well. Hence, the band's ...

Mungo Jerry: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 23 October 1970

Mungo Jerry Performing in Hollywood ...

Shirley Murdock, Luther Vandross: Luther Vandross, Shirley Murdock: Inglewood Forum, Inglewood CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 17 April 1987

VANDROSS JUST DOESN'T GO THAT EXTRA DISTANCE ...

Mutabaruka: Reggae Star Is More Than A Poet

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 1985

"I DON'T LIKE being classified as a dub poet because dub poetry is a limit to one's expression," Mutabaruka declares. "It's like saying that you're ...

Nas: House of Blues, West Hollywood

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 29 March 2002

THE CYCLES OF pop music history are as hard to fathom as the mysteries of the cosmos, or at least the logic behind choosing Grammy ...

Nazareth: 'Skunk' Leads Nazareth To '80s

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 20 January 1980

A RECORDING STUDIO can make strange bedfellows. Guitarist Jeff (Skunk) Baxter is best known for his work with the sophisticated rock of Steely Dan and, ...

The Nazz, Red Beans & Rice (US): The Nazz, Red Beans & Rice: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 1968

Two Rock Groups at Whisky a Go Go ...

Me'Shell Ndegéocello: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 1996

Outsider 101. Teacher: Ndegeocello. At the Whisky, the singer embraces the essence of what it's like to live as a target. ...

Youssou N'Dour: Super Star of Dakar: Youssou N'Dour

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 8 December 1986

PETER GABRIEL HAS often acknowledged the influence of Third World styles on his recent songs and the veteran British rocker is paying back that debt ...

Youssou N'Dour is All Set

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 1 August 1990

YOUSSOU N'DOUR has supplanted King Sunny Ade as the most visible African artist to Western pop audiences since the current surge of international interest in ...

Nelly: There's Joy in Nellyville

Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2002

A potential big-league baseball player, the St. Louis rapper keeps his eye on the ball when it comes to music. ...

N.E.R.D.: N*E*R*D: Producers Who Shape-Shift

Report and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 10 February 2002

After years of helping others create hip-hop hits, N*E*R*D makes its own album and turns the genre inside-out. ...

N.E.R.D.: In Search Of... (Virgin)

Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 10 March 2002

AS THE IN-DEMAND production team the Neptunes, Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo have tended to build hip-hop hits around hard, in-your-face hooks that aren't easily ...

New Order: Low-Life (Qwest)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 1985

FEW BANDS can claim a better pedigree than New Order. The English quartet is the offspring of Joy Division, the influential group whose name is ...

Wayne Newton, Sonny & Cher: Ray Charles: Invites You To Listen (ABC); The Canned Heat Blues Band: Canned Heat (Liberty)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 6 August 1967

The Comeback of a Potent Singer ...

Harry Nilsson: Nilsson: Aerial Ballet (RCA Victor)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 1968

A Second Helping of Nilsson Songs ...

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The Seeds: Popular Records: Dirt Band and Seeds Sprout Hits

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 2 April 1967

TWO LOCAL groups straddling different sectors of pop music, each of which ripened amid the musical upheaval of the past year, have emerged from months ...

No Doubt: House of Blues, L.A.

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 8 October 1999

No Doubt, Stefani Leave Fans in High Spirits ...

Klaus Nomi Lives Again In The Nomi Song

Report by Steven R Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 3 February 2005

THE ARTIST KENNY SCHARF was listening to "Jonesy's Jukebox" on Indie 103.1 FM recently when he was startled to hear a Klaus Nomi song – ...

Laura Nyro Returns for a Soulful Connection

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 11 August 1988

IN THE YEAR of the comeback, the touted returns of Brian Wilson and Patti Smith are no more startling than the re-emergence of Laura Nyro, ...

Sinead O'Connor: The Pluck of the Irish

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 7 August 1988

"DO RICH people live there?" asked Sinead O'Connor, gazing at the hillside homes opposite her Hollywood hotel room. ...

Oingo Boingo, Suburban Lawns: Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 3 November 1982

HALLOWEEN HOP WITH OINGO BOINGO ...

Danny O'Keefe, Bonnie Raitt: Bonnie Raitt, Danny O'Keefe: The Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 2 November 1973

Bonnie Raitt Leans Heavily on the Blues ...

Danny O'Keefe, The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band: Souther-Hillman-Furay Band, Danny O'Keefe: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 2 September 1974

Souther, Hillman and Furay in Rock Brew ...

The Olivia Tremor Control, Stereolab: Stereolab, Olivia Tremor Control: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 23 November 1999

Stereolab Piles On Sounds to Create an Eclectic Tempest ...

Ozzy Osbourne: The Osbournes Conquers Britain

Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2002

PICTURE THIS. It's next Monday night at Buckingham Palace, the grand finale of Queen Elizabeth II's jubilee concert. Stars of the British rock'n'roll firmament crowd ...

K.T. Oslin, Randy Travis: Randy Travis, K.T. Oslin: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 10 August 1989

Travis, Oslin's Smooth and Easy Outing ...

The Osmonds: Forum, Inglewood CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 6 December 1971

BUSINESS AT the bar Saturday in the Inglewood Forum lobby isn't brisk. The odor of hot dogs fills the room. Daddy Whitebucks, Pat Boone himself, ...

Johnny Otis: Blues, R&B, Jazz

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 1986

"THE BARRELHOUSE used to be right down there on the northeast corner of Wilmington," Johnny Otis said Saturday afternoon, referring to the nightclub – a ...

OutKast, The Roots: Audiotistic: "Happy Hip-Hop" Sets Festival's Vibe

Report and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 11 April 2002

The organizers of Audiotistic expect 37,000 fans to show up for an event that plays against type. ...

Augustus Pablo.: A Shadowy Reggae Legend

Report by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 30 September 1984

Personnel: Pablo, keyboards-melodica; Liebert (Gibby) Morrison, lead guitar; Fazal Prendergast, rhythm guitar; Anthony (Asher) Brissett, Errol (Tarzan) Nelson, keyboards; Christopher Meredith, bass; Harry (Harry T) ...

Van Dyke Parks: McCabe's Guitar Shop, Santa Monica CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 1982

ESOTERICA FROM VAN DYKE PARKS ...

Jaco Pastorius: Beverly Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 23 November 1983

JACO PASTORIUS established himself as the most influential bassist of the late '70s during his extended tenure with Weather Report. But if Sunday night's 90-minute ...

Pavement: Taking the High Road

Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 1999

Pavement aims for wider appeal — but with just a few pop concessions on its own indie terms. ...

Pentangle: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 1969

THE PENTANGLE, a five-sided English folk-based group comprising two of the folk genre's most enthusiastically acclaimed guitarists, John Renbourn and Bert Jansch, plus singer Jacqui ...

Pere Ubu Plays for Body, Brain

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 4 August 1979

Pere Ubu: The Whiskey, Los Angeles ...

Pere Ubu: The Picturesque Sound of Pere Ubu

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 28 September 1988

IS THE ROCK world finally ready for Pere Ubu? The critically acclaimed sextet from Cleveland, which finishes a two-night stand at Club Lingerie tonight – ...

The Persuasions: Bitter End West, West Hollywood CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 1971

IF YOUR friends are going to think less of you if they see you floating two feet above the ground with a silly grin stretched ...

Phranc: Folk Singer Enjoys Being Phranc at Last

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 1989

'I ENJOY Being a Girl' is the title song of Phranc's new album, and when she sings the 1958 Rodgers & Hammerstein show tune it ...

Phranc, The Smiths: The Smiths, Phranc: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 27 August 1986

MORRISSEY SPILLS HIS SOUL FOR FANS ...

Phranc, The Smiths: The Smiths, Phranc: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 27 August 1986

MORRISSEY SPILLS HIS SOUL FOR FANS ...

Pink Floyd: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 19 October 1971

Pink Floyd Performs at Santa Monica Civic ...

The Pixies: The Pixie Perspective

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 1992

Off stage, the band's Black Francis is a regular Joe who bears the cult-rocker's burden of mythology with a shrug and a smile. ...

The Pixies, Clarence Reid (aka Blowfly): The Pixies, Blowfly: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 15 December 1990

Pixies Play Nice and Rough ...

Robert Plant: Greek Theatre, Los Angeles

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 14 September 2002

AS A '70s icon, Robert Plant can't help it if he evokes fuzzy nostalgic feelings, but he is trying his best not to simply phone ...

The Plimsouls: The Plimsouls (Planet P-13)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 1 March 1981

Plimsouls: L.A.'s Savior? ...

The Plugz, War: War, the Plugz: Country Club, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 1982

GOING TO WAR FOR AN L.A. SOUND ...

Buster Poindexter: Greek Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 1988

Pop Cultures Collide in Buster's Eclectic Mix ...

The Police: Zenyatta Mondatta (A&M SP-4831)

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 2 November 1980

POLICE STATE: SLUGGISH ...

Iggy Pop: New Values

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 25 November 1979

REEMERGENCE OF IGGY POP ...

Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, The Stooges: Lou Reed: From Genius to Jerk and Back

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 12 March 1978

LOU REED has been called everything from genius to jerk, and in the course of his career he's lived up to it all. With New ...

Iggy Pop, The Stooges: Iggy and the Stooges, Rufus: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 1973

Iggy and the Stooges —Theater of Cruelty ...

Iggy Pop, The Stooges: Iggy and the Stooges: Raw Power (Columbia KC 32111).

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 1973

The Genuine Depravity of Iggy ...

Porcupine Tree, Radiohead: Old and New Wave

Report and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 7 November 2002

Underground movement nurtures new progressive rock bands and supports existing ones. ...

Portishead is reunited and ready to play in the desert

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, 25 Spring 2008

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND — As Portishead takes the carefully backlighted stage at the ancient, tatty Manchester Apollo, heavy shadows fall across the band's members. The concert ...

The Power Station: The Power Station (Capitol)

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 14 April 1985

SCHIZO SUPERGROUP ...

Elvis Presley: From Elvis in Memphis (RCA LSP-4155)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 1969

Voice Saves Elvis in Memphis ...

Billy Preston: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 December 1971

Billy Preston Show Opens at Troubadour ...

The Pretenders: Sequel Excites Pretenders

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 1981

THE PRETENDERS are gearing up for another assault on the rock world. Things have been fairly quiet in the British quartet's camp since the band's ...

Maxi Priest: Reggae's Maxi Priest Wins Mainstream Favor

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 21 February 1991

Pop music: The British singer adds an R&B flavor to the Jamaican sound. He and his band play San Diego and Long Beach this weekend. ...

Primus: Palace Theater, Los Angeles Ca

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 24 August 1991

Primus Plies Primo Art-Funk at Palace ...

Prince & the Revolution: Parade: Music From The Motion Picture Under The Cherry Moon (Paisley Park)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 30 March 1986

THE PURPLE ONE'S FLOWER POWER ...

Prince: The Forum, Los Angeles

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 20 February 1985

FOR PRINCE'S CONCERT It's A Reign Of Rock When a rock artist makes a movie, it's usually to express things that can't be conveyed in mere ...

Prince: The Roxy, Los Angeles

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 29 November 1979

IT MUST BE A daunting prospect for anyone to make his or her performing debut, save for a couple of hometown Minneapolis tuneups, before an ...

Professor Longhair: The Longhair Legacy

Retrospective by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 5 September 1982

MOST ROCK fans have never heard of Professor Longhair, but lots of their favorite musicians certainly have. The New Orleans-based piano I player, who died ...

The Promise Ring: Breaking Out of the Emo Ghetto

Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2002

Faced with health problems and a genre that felt confining, the Promise Ring chose a radical-and lush-new direction. ...

Public Enemy: Ackerman Ballroom, UCLA, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 10 March 1989

Public Enemy Raps the System ...

Pussy Riot and the Politics of Grrrl Punk

Comment by Evelyn McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 13 September 2012

I WONDER, as they sit in their separate cells, what songs the three jailed members of Pussy Riot sing to themselves to keep their spirits ...

Queen Ida: Zydeco Is Her Realm

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 1980

IN THE LAST 18 months, zydeco musician Queen Ida Guillory has spent more than 250 days on the road. Contributed some background music to Francis ...

Queensrÿche: Guns N' Roses They Ain't

Profile and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 12 December 1991

For a heavy-metal group, Seattle's Queensrÿche is positively low-profile — yet its albums sell in the millions. ...

Rage Against The Machine: Evil Empire (Epic)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 14 April 1996

RAGE AGAINST the Machine's second album barges into an alternative rock world where discontent is routinely channeled into introverted abstraction and metaphor rather than a ...

Rage Against the Machine: A Pair of Rant 'n' Rollers

Profile and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 14 November 1992

Zack de la Rocha, who grew up in Irvine, and Tom Morello take Rage to the Coach House on Sunday. ...

Bonnie Raitt Plus a Surprise Co-Star

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 18 December 1979

Bonnie Raitt: Santa Monica Civic, Los Angeles ...

Bonnie Raitt: Fundamental (Capitol)

Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 5 April 1998

Throwing Dirt on Raitt's Pristine Sound ...

Rammellzee: Hip-hop iconoclast Rammellzee's prolific art has long been obscured. That's starting to change

Report by Chris Campion, Los Angeles Times, 31 December 2022

IN THE EARLY 1980s, New York artist Rammellzee made two trips to Los Angeles with his friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. The second, in March 1983, inspired ...

The Ramones: Pleasant Dreams (Sire SRK 3571)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 8 August 1981

ANOTHER PIONEERING punk band that's broadened its base will be in town next weekend — the Ramones. The New York quartet also has a new ...

The Ramones: The Group That Sowed the Seeds of Punk

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 15 January 1978

BEFORE THE Sex Pistols, there was the Ramones. With its supercharged rock sound, comically demented lyrics and stylized, street-tough image, the foursome emerged from Forest ...

The Ramones, the Runaways: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 30 January 1978

THE RECENT Sex Pistols tour threatened, among other things, the Ramones' standing as rock's premiere punk band. But while the Ramones is a bit lightweight ...

Shabba Ranks: Taking Reggae Beyond Marley

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 4 October 1992

Dancehall is the sound of young Jamaica, modern reggae in a faster, electronic style, and it's winning a once-elusive African-American audience ...

Collin Raye, Trisha Yearwood: Trisha Yearwood, Collin Raye: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 28 August 1995

Yearwood Needs Faith ...

The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Chili Peppers Taste Success at Last

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 7 January 1990

After seven long years, L.A.'s loony punk-funk band finally gains respect for its music as well as its off-stage antics ...

The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Red Hot Chili Peppers: Palace Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 7 February 1986

PEPPERS' HIGH JINKS ...

The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Red Hot and Renewed

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 10 September 1995

For Chili Peppers bassist Flea, the road to success was paved with physical and emotional burnout. But these days, he's feeling rejuvenated as the band ...

Otis Redding, the Rising Sons: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 2 April 1966

Otis Redding's Southern-Style Blues Band Lets Off Steam ...

Lou Reed: The Bells

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 24 January 1979

LOU REED IS one of the major influences on '70s rock, but consistency has never been his strong point. As the creative catalyst of the ...

Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, The Rising Sons: Martha & the Vandellas, the Rising Sons: The Trip, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 12 March 1966

Martha and Vandellas True to Motown Sound ...

Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Stevie Wonder: Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Stevie Wonder, Martha Reeves & the Vandellas: Inglewood Forum, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 9 September 1969

Smokey Robinson Crew Performs in Inglewood ...

Terry Reid: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 1970

Songwriter Reid Does His Bit as a Performer ...

R.E.M.: The Reckoning of R.E.M.

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 1984

R.E.M. DIDN'T go courting success but the acclaimed Georgia quartet is learning to deal with it. ...

R.E.M.: Automatic for the People (Warner Bros.) ***½

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 4 October 1992

Playfulness, Profundity From a Rusticated R.E.M. ...

The Replacements: All Shook Down (Sire)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 September 1990

IN WHICH Paul Westerberg completes the progression from unruly rocker with a tender heart to tender-hearted tunesmith given to rock spasms. All Shook Down erupts ...

The Replacements: Palace Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 13 April 1985

CALL IT indulgent, call it self-destructive, even chaotic, but the Replacements' show at the Palace on Thursday was one that eyewitnesses aren't likely to forget. ...

The Replacements: Palladium, Hollywood CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 1989

Replacements Aren't Replaceable at Palladium ...

The Replacements: Palladium, Hollywood CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 21 January 1991

The Replacements Face Their Future ...

The Residents Keep an Eye on Their Secret Identities

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 26 January 1990

San Francisco's visionary underground musicians will surface tonight with a unique take on Elvis. ...

The Residents Keep an Eye on Their Secret Identities

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 26 January 1990

Pop music: SanFrancisco's visionary underground musicians will surface tonight with a unique take on Elvis. ...

Reverend Horton Heat: Palace Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 1 October 1994

Rockabilly Power ...

Paul Revere & The Raiders: Revere's Raiders Attack the Treasury

Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 1967

YOU CAN'T identify Paul Revere and the Raiders without a program and to get a program you have to buy it from Paul Revere, the ...

Keith Richards: Talk Is Cheap (Virgin Records) ***½

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 2 October 1988

Keef Rolls Alone ...

The Rising Sons: Rising Sons Sing Blue Tunes

Profile by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 18 March 1966

THEY RADIATE a complete spectrum of Pop haberdashery — odd vests, coats of varying cuts, one or two neckties, assorted shirts and a miscellany of ...

Smokey Robinson: Smokey — Once & Future

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 23 November 1980

THE TEST OF time is one accepted yardstick for determining great songs and, by that standard, Smokey Robinson certainly ranks as one of the premier ...

Rockin' Dopsie: Hail The Crown Prince Of Zydeco: Rockin' Dopsie

Profile by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 10 February 1985

ARTIST: Rockin' Dopsie & the Cajun Twisters. PERSONNEL: Alton Rubin (Rockin' Dopsie), accordion, vocals; John Hart, saxophone; Russell Gordon, guitar; Alonzo Johnson, bass; David Rubin, washboard; ...

Rockin' Sidney: It's Time For 'Toot Toot'

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 1985

You can look as much But if you as much as touch You're gonna have yourself a case I'm gonna break your face So don't ...

Nile Rodgers: B-Movie Matinee (Warner Bros.)

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 1985

RODGERS: SLY, SLICK AND WICKED ...

The Rolling Stones: Altamont: 300,000 Jam Rock Festival Near S.F.

Report by uncredited writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 December 1969

Youth Stabbed to Death; Cars Tied Up for Miles ...

The Rolling Stones: Rolling Stones and a Rocky Night in Paris

Report by Geoffrey Cannon, Los Angeles Times, 15 November 1970

PARIS — "Funny," said Philippe Paringaux (chief writer for Rock 'n' Folk), "how English freaks refer to pop festivals in Britain as psychedelic concentration camps." ...

The Rolling Stones: Bridges to Babylon (Virgin)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 28 September 1997

The Stones Babylon and On... ...

The Rolling Stones: Their Satanic Majesties Request (London)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 3 December 1967

Can't Tell an Album by Its Cover ...

The Rolling Stones: The Roundhouse, London

Live Review by Geoffrey Cannon, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 1971

Getting Lots of Satisfaction From Mick, Stones ...

Henry Rollins: Rollins Band: Weight (Imago)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 10 April 1994

Rollins Finds a New Voice in Weight ...

The Roots: House of Blues, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 10 March 1999

A Stripped-Down Hip-Hop Beat ...

David Rudder: the Music Machine, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 1992

David Rudder's Potent Soca ...

The Runaways: Starwood, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 2 February 1976

At The Starwood: Runaways Catch New Rock Wave ...

The Runaways, The Weirdos: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 29 August 1977

Jett, Ford Grab Runaways' Reins ...

Todd Rundgren: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 1974

Rundgren Pop Machine at Santa Monica Civic ...

Todd Rundgren, Utopia: Todd Rundgren in Retrospect

Report and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 1978

TODD RUNDGREN, who usually alights in medium-size halls with his band Utopia, opens a week-long solo stand Wednesday at the 500-seat Roxy. The show will ...

Run-DMC: Run-D.M.C.: Raising Hell (Profile)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 1986

RUNNING ON FULL ...

RuPaul: Billboard Live, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 19 December 1997

RuPaul's Act Could Use Dressing Up ...

Rush: Staples Center, Los Angeles

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 25 September 2002

SOME MIGHT ARGUE that change is the sine qua non of musical artistry, but Rush fans might contend that predictable output yields greater rewards. ...

Otis Rush Singing The Blues About Obscurity

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 17 April 1985

THE IMAGE OF THE under-appreciated blues artist laboring in obscurity has almost become a cliche, but Otis Rush genuinely fits that description. ...

Sade: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 21 December 1985

Sade Seeks to One-Yup the Competition With Its Sultry Yet Sedate Approach ...

The Sandpipers: Grads Graduate to Big Time

Profile and Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 5 February 1967

SUCH DIVERSE elements as a book on zoology, the Mitchell Boys Choir and a Spanish song all conjoined one day to produce one of the ...

Raphael Saadiq: Instant Vintage

Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2002

SAADIQ WOULD rather lay back than throw down. He's got a touch of Smokey Robinson's liquid satin in his phrasing and a complete absence of ...

Sky Saxon: The View From The Haze

Profile and Interview by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 12 October 1986

BEHIND THE door of the aging, cracker-box Hollywood apartment sits a velvet-covered table strewn with rose petals. Two white candles cast flickering shadows over plates ...

Gil Scott-Heron has Staying Power

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 21 January 1981

GIL SCOTT-HERON was widely viewed as a potential superstar in 1974 when he became the first performer signed by Clive Davis at Arista Records. The ...

Gil Scott-Heron: Moving Target (Arista AL 9606)

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 26 September 1982

A WEAK MOVING TARGET ...

Gil Scott-Heron: Real Eyes (Arista AL 9540)

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 8 March 1981

REAL EYES, Gil Scott-Heron's eighth Arista album, is noteworthy for a couple of reasons. It's the poet-cum-songwriter's first recording without Brian Jackson, his musical partner ...

Bob Seger: Candy-Coated Summer for Bob Seger

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 29 August 1976

"UP UNTIL three years ago, we did a lot of things wrong," explains Bob Seger, whose strong drawing power (he has headlined to an audience ...

The Sex Pistols: Sex Pistols Trigger Punk Rock Invasion

Report and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 1977

DESPITE ENORMOUS media attention, the U.S. music industry has maintained a hands-off policy toward new wave or punk-rock music, probably hoping that it will go ...

The Sex Pistols: Sex Pistols Trigger Punk Rock Invasion

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 1977

DESPITE ENORMOUS media attention, the U.S. music industry has maintained a hands-off policy toward new wave or punk-rock music, probably hoping that it will go ...

Charlie Sexton: Charlie Sexton (MCA) **½

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 29 January 1989

SAL, BABES, have you heard this kid, here, Charlie Sexton? That's right, kid. Yeah, he's all of 20 years old now and this is his ...

Charlie Sexton: The Roxy, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 1986

CHARLIE SEXTON'S UPS 'N' DOWNS ...

Shaggy: Palace Theater, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 21 October 1995

Shaggy Wraps Past Into Fun, Sexy Package ...

Simon & Garfunkel: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (Columbia CS-9363, CL 2563)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 20 November 1966

S and G Sing of Sly Sociology ...

Simon & Garfunkel: Snap, Crackle, Pop World of Simon and Garfunkel

Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 1967

"I WAS NOT prepared for success. My image of myself was not that of a teen star, a Monkees type of scene. I felt very ...

Simon & Garfunkel: Snap, Crackle, Pop World of Simon and Garfunkel

Profile and Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 1967

"I WAS NOT prepared for success. My image of myself was not that of a teen star, a Monkees type of scene. I felt very ...

Nina Simone: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 14 March 1968

ONE OF Nina Simone's songs contains the line "He'll find her waiting like a lonesome queen." Though she is accompanied by a quartet and though ...

The Skatalites: The Fathers Of Ska

Profile by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 1986

Personnel: The 11-man lineup will include charter members Johnnie Moore (trumpet), Lester Sterling (alto sax), Roland Alphonso and Tommy McCook (tenor sax), Rico Rodriguez (trombone), ...

Sleater-Kinney: An All-Grrrl Band at Heart

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 16 March 1997

In true, independent Riot Grrrl fashion, the Sleater-Kinney trio is getting heard far and wide (No. 3 in Village Voice) without abandoning its community. ...

Sly & Robbie: Sly and Robbie: Laying Reggae's Bottom Line

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 7 August 1982

QUESTION: WHAT do chic chanteuse Grace Jones. English rockers Joe Cocker and Ian Dury and reggae power house. Black Uhuru have in common? ...

Smash Mouth: The Long Beach Pyramid, California

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 4 November 1999

EVERONE WHO'S HEARD Smash Mouth's 1997 hit 'Walkin' on the Sun' knows that the band can make Farfisa-driven garage-pop for mall rats, but it's capable ...

Smashing Pumpkins: The Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (Virgin)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 22 October 1995

"I'M RUNNING out of sound," sings Billy Corgan, seemingly determined to display every one he can think of during this sprawling swan song for the ...

Patti Smith: Banga

Review by Evelyn McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2012

AFTER HER National Book Award-winning memoir Just Kids greatly expanded her audience, Patti Smith could have done the usual aging-rock-legend safety move: record an album ...

The Smithereens: Success Dawns for the Smithereens

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 22 November 1986

"I THOUGHT I would like the desert, going through Arlzona," said the Smithereens' lead singer Pat DiNizio. "But it scared me more than anything." ...

The Smithereens: Palladium, Hollywood CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 1990

Smithereens Deliver Right-Left Combination ...

Smokestack Lightnin', The Sunshine Company, Ultimate Spinach: Ultimate Spinach, Smokestack Lightnin', the Sunshine Company: the Cheetah, Venice CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 13 February 1968

Boston Sound at Cheetah Nightclub ...

Snoop (Doggy) Dogg: Snoop Dogg: Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told (No Limit)

Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 1 August 1998

Snoop Dogg Retains His Bite ...

Son Volt: Wide Swing Tremolo (Warner Bros.) ***½

Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 10 October 1998

SON VOLT'S Jay Farrar is one of alternative country's big thinkers. Rather than go the easy route and retrace the steps of the Byrds, Gram ...

Son Volt: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 6 December 1995

Son Volt's Engaging but Not Deep at the Troubadour ...

Sonic Youth: All Tomorrow's Parties: A Festival That Pops With Edge

Report and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 13 March 2002

UCLA's ambitious All Tomorrow's Parties fest, curated by avant-rockers Sonic Youth, embraces the underground. ...

The SOS Band: The S.O.S. Band: Sands Of Time (Tabu)

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 10 August 1986

S.O.S.' NOUVEAU FUNK ...

Soundgarden: Fertile Ground: Soundgarden

Profile and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 25 August 1991

MIXING ENGINEER Ron St. Germain stands at a tape machine in a Tarzana studio, twisting the reels by hand until he creates the perfect space ...

Soundgarden: Badmotorfinger (A&M)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 13 October 1991

Soundgarden Stomps and Soars ...

Soundgarden: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 December 1989

Moody Soundgarden Gets a Lift From Cornell's Voice at Whisky ...

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes: Southside Johnny: Dancing The Night Away With The Jukes

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 1986

"YOU SWEAT HERE as much as anywhere else in the world, let me tell ya," said Southside Johnny Lyon, and that sentiment aptly summed up ...

Sparta: Recharged and Ready

Report and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 8 August 2002

Last year, Jim Ward and his cohorts in At the Drive-In did the unthinkable: They broke up a successful band. After seven years and on ...

The Specials: More Specials (Chrysalis)

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 20 November 1980

CAUTION: Anyone expecting More Specials to duplicate the ferocious wallop of the British ska band’s live performances or debut LP is in for a surprise. ...

The Specials Are Ska High

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 3 February 1980

MADNESS PROVIDED the L.A. rock audience with its first tantalizing taste of the ska sound that has taken off in England in the past six ...

The Specials: English Music Scene Like a 'Ghost Town'

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 15 August 1981

This town coming like a ghost town... Bands won't play no more — Too much fighting on the dance floor... Why must ...

Spirit: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 16 March 1968

FIVE COMPATIBLE first-rate musicians do not necessarily make a first-rate group, nor does excellent music always make excellent entertainment. ...

Spirit, West, The Youngbloods: Spirit, the Youngbloods, West, Blue Morning: Rose Palace, Pasadena CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 29 April 1969

SPIRIT, THE Youngbloods, West and Blue Morning appeared in rock concerts at the Pasadena Rose Palace Friday and Saturday nights. ...

Spooky Tooth, The Staple Singers: The Staple Singers: What the World Needs Now Is Love (Epic BN 26373); Spooky Tooth: Spooky Tooth (Bell 6019)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 22 September 1968

Still Undiscovered: Gospel Truth ...

Spooky Tooth, The Stooges: Albums from Spooky Tooth and the Stooges

Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 7 December 1969

Spooky Tooth: Spooky Two (A&M SP 4194) This is quite representative of the latest albums by unfamiliar British rock groups (in which category Free, ...

Dusty Springfield: Dusty in Memphis (SD 8214)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 2 February 1969

Down Dusty Music Road to Memphis ...

Bruce Springsteen... More Than Just Words?

Report by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 30 September 1985

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN closes his 15-month world tour tonight and Wednesday at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as more than just the biggest star in rock. ...

Squeeze: British Squeeze at the Whisky

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 1980

AN ECLECTIC MUSICAL approach can be a double-edged sword for a rock band. Incorporating a wide variety of styles can prevent a group from becoming ...

Steel Pulse

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 22 September 1985

DAVID HINDS was not in the mood to mince words. The lead singer and chief songwriter of Steel Pulse was furious over the delay in ...

Steel Pulse: Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 1984

STEEL PULSE'S strong performance before a capacity audience at the Hollywood Palladium Friday night confirmed the veteran British sextet as one of the leading contenders ...

Steely Dan Ready to Hit the Road Again

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 5 September 1976

MORE OFTEN than not, the news on Steely Dan is no news. Compulsive recordmakers Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, the group's creative core, are usually ...

Steely Dan: Aja (ABC Records AB 1006)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 October 1977

Welcome to Steely Dan's World ...

Steely Dan: Gaucho (MCA MCA-6102)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 30 November 1980

AN LP WITH IRONIES IN THE FIRE ...

Steely Dan: Hey 19: It's About Time

Profile and Interview by Wayne Robins, Los Angeles Times, 27 February 2000

"WHAT RECORD COMPANY are we on, by the way?" Donald Fagen wants to know. "I'm not kidding." ...

Steely Dan: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 December 1972

Steely Dan and the Visual Side of Rock ...

Steely Dan: Whole Is Greater Than Parts

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 1975

"It has been said many times and in many ways that what the world needs now is another rock 'n roll band. This could very ...

Steely Dan's Greatest-Hits & Quips

Interview by Wayne Robins, Los Angeles Times, 10 December 1978

NEW YORK — Maybe it's the air quality. Or fear of earthquakes. Or brushfires. Or terminal boredom. Whatever the reasons, a number of musicians long ...

Steppenwolf: Steppenwolf the Second (Dunhill DS-50037)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 8 September 1968

Steppenwolf's Second ...

Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, May 1999

By the summer of 1975 Cat Stevens had it all. In the previous four years he had scored six American Top 10 albums in a ...

John Stewart, 1939–2008

Obituary by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 21 January 2008

Folk patriarch recorded California Bloodlines ...

The Stranglers: Live at the Whisky, Los Angeles

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 18 November 1980

THE STRANGLERS, the British band which opened a four-night stand at the Whisky Friday night, didn’t waste any time in letting the packed house know ...

The Strokes, The White Stripes: Of Strokes and Stripes: An American Invasion

Report by Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, July 2002

LAST SUMMER THERE was a sign outside British music’s front door. It read "SITUATION VACANT", and then, in smaller print, "Wanted: the Next Big Thing". ...

Joe Strummer: The Coach House, San Juan Capistrano CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 22 November 1989

Strummer: Crying and Rocking at Coach House ...

Donna Summer: Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 1978

Donna Summer's Debut at Universal ...

Sun Ra Returns From Hyperspace

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 4 April 1981

SUN RA doesn't take a back seat to anyone when it comes to transforming a live performance into a musical and visual spectacle. ...

The Supremes: Cocoanut Grove, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 1967

Standing Ovations for the Supremes ...

Bettye Swann, The Temptations: Bettye Swann: The Soul View Now! (Capitol ST 190); The Temptations: Cloud Nine (Gordy GS 939)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 1969

Bettye Swann's "Soul" ...

The Swan Silvertones: Pet Sounds: Get Right With the Swan Silvertones (Archives Alive/Rhino)

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 18 August 1986

GOSPEL MUSIC GENERALLY gets much lip service as an influence on R&B (and indirectly rock) vocalists but short thrift when it comes to re-issues of ...

Sylvester & the Hot Band: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 1973

Hot Band Sizzles for Fourth ...

Sylvester: Roxy, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 December 1978

Sylvester: Disco, Soul at the Roxy ...

David Sylvian: Sylvian Gives the People What He Wants

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 5 April 1988

SAY YOU'VE come under the melancholy spell of David Sylvian's richly atmospheric music — an autumnal wash of strings and electronics, with the singer's low, ...

Talking Heads: Fear Of Music (Sire/Warner Bros. SD-6076)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 September 1979

THE TALKING HEADS' FEARS, FIXATIONS ...

Talking Heads: The Transfiguration of Talking Heads

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 2 November 1980

VISITING A rock star at a Hollywood hotel is usually a bit like attending the circus, with publicists, aides, new and old friends, ringing phones, ...

Tangerine Dream: Santa Monica Civic, Santa Monica CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 24 November 1980

ROCK MUSIC has undergone some major upheavals in the 3½ years since Tangerine Dream last played in Los Angeles. The German trio appeared untouched by ...

Koko Taylor: A Blues Belter Bounces Back From Adversity

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 6 September 1990

Pop music: Koko Taylor was injured in a van accident and then suffered the death of her husband-manager. ...

Cecil Taylor: Pianist Cecil Taylor Makes Poetry Of His Jazz

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 10 October 1987

"GREAT MUSICIANS are more than musicians – they are poets and spiritual forces," said pianist Cecil Taylor. "It is the sensitivity and the concept of ...

Television: Adventure (Elektra 6E-133)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 1978

Television Sends a Pale New Signal ...

Television: Roxy, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 1978

MOST PUNK bands, wary of media labels, seem to spend half their energy denying that they're punk bands, but Television, which closes tonight at the ...

The Temptations, Band of Gold: The Trip, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 6 August 1966

Rock Group Packs 'Em In at Trip ...

The Temptations: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 1 April 1967

THE TEMPTATIONS, who probably are the best rhythm 'n' blues performing act of the '60s, are pulling in crowds to the Whisky a Go Go ...

Thin Lizzy

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 1978

CHANCES ARE GOOD that this time last year you had never heard of Thin Lizzy, let along heard them. Young veterans of the British music ...

Thin Lizzy: Live And Dangerous (Warner Bros. 2BS 3213)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 24 September 1978

THIN LIZZY IN A TIZZY ...

Irma Thomas: Time On Her Side: Irma Thomas

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 9 February 1988

IRMA THOMAS' entrance into the music business is the kind of story rock dreams are made of. ...

Richard Thompson, Richard and Linda Thompson: Richard Thompson: A Rock Veteran's New Beginning

Profile and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 17 March 1985

RICHARD AND Linda Thompson, whose 10-year marriage and musical partnership ended in 1982, were a decidedly low-profile couple by rock standards. In fact, they were ...

Richard and Linda Thompson: Let There Be Lights

Profile and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 1982

RICHARD AND Linda Thompson opened their show at the Roxy Thursday night with 'A Man in Need', and followed it with 'Walking on a Wire', ...

Big Mama Thornton, Phillip Walker: Ash Grove, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 4 December 1971

Big Mama Thornton on Stage at Ash Grove ...

George Thorogood & The Destroyers: Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 4 March 1986

GEORGE THOROGOOD & the Destroyers have added a few wrinkles, but the quartet hasn't changed much since Thorogood first danced on local tabletops seven years ...

Throbbing Gristle Makes L.A. Debut

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 1981

Throbbing Gristle: Veteran's Auditorium, Culver City, CA ...

Timbuk3's Hit Twosome: Their Future's Bright

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 8 November 1986

"THE ONLY thing we've got that's been kind of weird is people offering endorsements, people wanting to use the song 'Shades' to endorse their products." ...

The Time: Ice Cream Castle (Warner Bros.)

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 1984

THE TIME FLIES IN ICE CREAM CASTLE ...

The Time, Vanity 6: The Time: What Time Is It? (Warner Bros. 1-23701); Vanity 6: Vanity 6 (Warner Bros. 1-23716)

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 24 October 1982

HOT FUNK IN DOUBLE TIME ...

Tin Machine: Tin Machine (EMI)

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, May 1989

Bowie's Machine: The Return of the Chameleon ...

TLC: Fan Mail (LaFace/Arista)

Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 21 February 1999

TLC Takes Care to Adopt Streamlined Approach ...

Toad the Wet Sprocket: Toad Album Springs Back With 'All I Want'

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 19 September 1992

The single is a lighter work than the controversial song 'Hold Her Down'. ...

Toots & The Maytals: Toots In Memphis

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 23 January 1989

REGGAE GOT SOUL was the title of a 1976 Toots & the Maytals album, and Frederick (Toots) Hibbert decided to re-emphasize the connection when he ...

Peter Tosh, The Wailers: Reggae: Can The Beat Go On?

Comment by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 27 September 1987

THE DEATH OF Peter Tosh, gunned down Sept 11 at his Kingston, Jamaica, home during an apparent robbery, is only the latest tragedy in the ...

Peter Tosh: Andrew Tosh Shoulders Reggae Legacy

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 7 April 1988

"YEAH, I ALWAYS think that I might be a target," said Andrew Tosh, son of gunned-down reggae star Peter Tosh. "I keep a good watch ...

Toto: Roxy, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 10 February 1979

Toto: So-So at the Roxy ...

Allen Toussaint

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 23 December 1985

THE EXCITEMENT of performing before a live audience is the incentive for most pop artists to enter show business but it's taken Allen Toussaint almost ...

Allen Toussaint: Club Lingerie, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 30 December 1985

A NEW ORLEANS KING ...

Tower of Power: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 11 November 1972

THE POOR Whisky stage has never been made to bear so much weight to so little avail as it must this week. Tower of Power ...

Pete Townshend, The Who: Pete Townshend: on The Who and Lifehouse

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, 1999

The Who on the road in America again, just 18 years after their farewell tour? "It’s a long story and not a particularly nice one," ...

Travis Tritt: Q&A with Travis Tritt: "I've Put a Lot Into This"

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 2 February 1995

TRAVIS TRITT is a study in contradictions. ...

Trouble Funk On A ‘Go-Go’

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 9 September 1984

WASHINGTON – Ronald Reagan may preside over official Washington, but Trouble Funk rules the inner city surrounding it. ...

Ike & Tina Turner: Ike and Tina Turner: Olympia, Paris

Live Review by Geoffrey Cannon, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 1971

Author's note, 2018. The piece below describes the Ike and Tina Turner concert at the Olympia, Paris, in May 1971. I prefer Ike and Tina ...

Tina Turner: Onstage A Blaze In Total Control

Interview by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 1984

"I'M NOT A mystery," says Tina Turner. "Look what's in now — body building, aerobics, exercise — I've been yelling and running for 20 years! ...

U2: October (Island ILPS9680).

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 1 November 1981

U2 FOLLOW-UP STALLS OUT ...

UB40

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 15 February 1985

"REGGAE IS JUST as much a part of my culture as it is for any Jamaican guy my age," contends guitarist/vocalist Robin Campbell of UB40. ...

James Blood Ulmer: Guitarist Ulmer At Club Lingerie

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 1982

NEW YORK-BASED guitarist James (Blood) Ulmer has become a cause celebre in hip jazz and rock circles over the past few years. Several Big Apple ...

James Blood Ulmer: The 'Harmolodics' Of James Ulmer

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 1985

NEUTRAL GROUND doesn't seem to exist when it comes to James (Blood) Ulmer's music. ...

Uriah Heep, Manna: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 4 February 1972

Uriah Heep Epitomizes Power Rock at Whisky ...

Utopia: The Roxy, Los Angeles

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 19 April 1979

IT'S NOT SURPRISING that when Todd Rundgren first spoke to the crowd Tuesday night at the Roxy he mentioned recognizing a lot of familiar faces. ...

Utopia: Todd Rundgren: Out of the Mainstream, Into the Mystic

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 26 January 1975

City in my head/Utopia/Heaven in my body/Utopia/It's time for me/For me to go — Todd Rundgren's 'Utopia' ...

Van Halen: 1984 (Warner Bros. 1-23985)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 15 January 1984

VAN HALEN'S 1984 CLEARS COBWEBS ...

Van Halen: Diver Down (Warner Bros. BSK 3677)

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 1982

'DIVER DOWN' IS UP WITH THE BEST ...

Van Halen: Forum, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 1984

VAN HALEN ACHIEVES INTIMACY ON HUGE SCALE ...

Van Halen: From Tahiti to the 7-11

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 5 September 1982

"SUMMERTIME BLUES HIT CONCERT BUSINESS." bemoaned the headline in a recent Billboard magazine survey of America's troubled pop-music promoters. ...

Van Halen: Life With The Top Down

Interview by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 5 February 1984

"A LOTTA PEOPLE figure, 'Oh, Diamond Dave, he gets all the women he wants,'" says David Lee Roth with a cat-that-ate-the-canary gleam in his eye. ...

Van Halen: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 24 December 1976

Spreading Out From Punk-Rock ...

Van Halen: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 29 January 1977

Van Halen Keeps Asserting Itself ...

Mamie Van Doren: Palomino, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 1 February 1985

RETURN OF '50s BIMBO ROYALTY ...

Cherry Vanilla: Studio One, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 1976

Cherry Vanilla's Act Moves West ...

Stevie Ray Vaughan: Palladium, Los Angeles

Live Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 1984

OK, STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN can play the everlovin' bejeesus out of the guitar, but packing a flash Stratocaster just ain't enough.  ...

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble: Palace Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 24 August 1983

A TOWERING DISPLAY OF BLUESICIANSHIP ...

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: Texas Flood (Epic BFE 3S734)

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 1983

ELECTRIC STORM ...

Stevie Ray Vaughan: Greek Theater, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 1986

YA-HOO! STEVIE VAUGHAN AT GREEK ...

Billy Vera: Billy & the Beaters et al: Bar Bands Make The Rounds

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 21 December 1986

THE SATURDAY NIGHT crowd packed into At My Place in Santa Monica whooped it up as Billy & the Beaters kicked off their opening set ...

Billy Vera's 'Moment'

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 4 December 1986

'AT THIS MOMENT' is fast becoming the left-field pop success of the year. The soulful ballad by Billy & the Beaters, a popular fixture on ...

Tom Verlaine: Viper Room, Los Angeles

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 1996

LIKE ITS SPIRITUAL forbearer, the Velvet Underground, the New York band Television was vastly more influential than the brevity and low commercial showing of its ...

The Vines: Troubadour, West Hollywood

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2002

JOINING THE growing parade of raw, stripped-down rock bands (the Strokes, the White Stripes, the Hives, etc.), the Vines played the requisite big-buzz show at ...

Bunny Wailer Goes To Market

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 13 February 1986

BUNNY WAILER, who formed the creative nucleus of the Wailers with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh when the group became Jamaica's reigning pop heroes in ...

Bunny Wailer: Wailers 'Together Again'

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 20 April 1986

THE UPCOMING Wailers album Together Again isn't just your average reunion record. Besides Bunny Waller, Peter Tosh, Junior Braitwaithe and Constantine Walker, the lineup will ...

Loudon Wainwright III: Ambassador's Son to Recording Biz Mogul

Interview by Geoffrey Cannon, Los Angeles Times, 14 November 1971

...

Rufus Wainwright: Roxy, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 1998

Wainwright an Engaging, Versatile Singer ...

Tom Waits Does New York Shuffle

Report and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 20 January 1980

IF NEIL SIMON can relocate from New York to Los Angeles, it's only fair that one of our local fixtures should return the favour. Tom ...

Tom Waits: A Cluttered Harmony

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 26 September 2004

THE LITTLE AMSTERDAM sits incongruously in the rolling expanse of Sonoma County farmland, a low white building adorned with a Dutch windmill - a "fake" ...

Tom Waits: Personality Without Pretension

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 14 March 1976

THERE'S NO PLACE like Tom Waits' home. There's no home, at any rate, quite like Tom Waits' place. The Silver Lake court cottage looks like ...

Tom Waits: Blue Valentine (Asylum 6E-162)

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 10 December 1978

TOM WAITS, BEAT-ERA RELIC ...

Tom Waits: Franks Wild Years (Island)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 30 August 1987

WAITS: DREAMLIKE, DISTANT ...

Tom Waits: Huntington Hartford Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 15 December 1978

IT'S FITTING that Tom Waits is appearing at the Huntington Hartford, usually the home of legitimate stage productions. Waits finally has come upon an ideal ...

Tom Waits: Pantages Theater, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 21 November 1977

TOM WAITS' followers keep a close, almost medical eye on their hero's voice, much as Jets fans used to watch the status of Namath's knees. ...

Tom Waits: Royce Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 7 December 1976

Emotional Pull of Tom Waits ...

Tom Waits: Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 9 November 1987

Tom Waits Shines His Lamp on Sleazy Underside of Life Quirky Sounds, Offbeat Lighting, Wiggy Jigs Make for a Highly Stylized, Intimate Concert ...

Joe Louis Walker: Blues With A Gospel Tint

Profile by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 25 January 1987

Band: Joe Louis Walker & the Boss Talkers.Personnel: Walker, guitar and vocals; Kevin Zuffi, keyboards; Henry Oden, bass; Sieve Griffith, drums. ...

T-Bone Walker: The Complete Recordings of T-Bone Walker, 1940-1954 (Mosaic)

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 16 September 1990

The Complete Recordings of T-Bone Walker, 1940-1954 display the bluesman's seminal influence on the genre ...

T-Bone Walker: Schoenberg Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 12 March 1968

T-BONE WALKER, the Texas bluesman who composed 'Stormy Monday', treated a fair-sized crowd to an extended set of modern and traditional music for the second ...

Wall of Voodoo: Dark Continent (I.R.S. SP 70022)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 17 January 1982

WALL OF VOODOO'S EERIE LANDSCAPE ...

Was (Not Was): What Up, Dog? (Chrysalis)

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 18 December 1988

AS CONCEPTUALISM goes, this mutant brainchild of Dee-troit unbrothers David and Don Was is semibrilliant, taking something from everybody who ever contributed anything to the ...

Was (Not Was), Hank Williams: Don Was: What Was Was and What Was Is

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 March 1997

After years as a top producer and bandleader, Don Was lost his creative vision. Then Francis Ford Coppola and Hank Williams gave him an idea. ...

Roger Waters

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 1992

YOU CAN TELL a lot about your view of Roger Waters by your reaction to those terms. As the creative force of Pink Floyd from ...

The Weavers: The Warp and Woof of the Weavers' Decade

Profile and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 1982

THE QUARTET came out of nowhere early in the decade and turned popular music around, taking over the Top 10 with a fresh sound that ...

Ween: The Ween Machine Wants It All

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 1993

They look like a classic case of basement-genius novelty, but the real joke is they may turn out to be the second coming of Billy ...

Ween: Viper Room, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 8 October 1994

Ween: Making Fun of One and All ...

Chuck E. Weiss: When the Gig Ended, His New Career Began

Report and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 27 January 2002

Story line: Los Angeles club legend records first album in his late 40s, and now follows it with a stellar effort that includes a 32-year-old ...

Paul Westerberg: El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 16 September 1996

Westerberg Adds New Depth to His Passion for Playing ...

Tony Joe White: Club Lingerie, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 1988

Swamp-Rocker White: Sandpaper 'n' Molasses ...

Jack White: With Blunderbuss, Jack White aims for new beginning

Interview by Evelyn McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 4 August 2012

The former White Stripes leader takes his first solo album through Memphis for soul and Nashville for honky tonk. Many of the album's songs are ...

Chris Whitley: His Moody Blues Burn at Candlelight Sessions

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 18 August 1991

WHEN SINGER-guitarist Chris Whitley talks about house, he's not referring to the neo-disco dance style known as house music. He means the New Orleans home ...

The Who: What's What With The Who Movie

Film/DVD/TV Review by John Mendelsohn, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 1979

THE KIDS Are Alright movie – opening Thursday at the Cinerama Dome – begins with the Who performing their ode to teen inarticulateness, 'My Generation', ...

The Who: Who interview... Got Love, Zoot Suits, Tarzan... If You Want It

Interview by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 6 March 1970

GRANTED, OF course, that you're conceivably up to here with P. Townshend interviews (that gentleman having made himself available for comment to seemingly everyone with ...

Wild Cherry: Roxy, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 1977

TEN YEARS ago, a blue-eyed soulster like Mitch Ryder filled the role that Wild Cherry occupies today with its funk-rock. Basically a Midwest bar band ...

Tony Williams: Jazz Drummer Tony Williams: A Lifetime of Risky Riffs

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 17 August 1989

"Every time I go on stage to I play, I'm risking," declared jazz drummer/bandleader Tony Williams. "That's part of my job and part of my ...

Kelly Willis: Well Traveled but Hopeful

Profile and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 4 April 1999

Singer Kelly Willis has stayed true to herself despite a turbulent country career. Now, things are looking up. ...

Jackie Wilson: The Jackie Wilson Story (Epic EG 38623)

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 1983

JACKIE WILSON: FADE TO BLACK ...

Jackie Wilson: Lonely Teardrops For A "Footnote"

Obituary by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 29 January 1984

LIKE MANY A true fan, I always thought that one day Jackie Wilson would suddenly leap out of the hospital bed where he lay semi-comatose ...

Peter Wolf: Come As You Are (EMI-America)

Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 5 April 1987

LUPINE, SUPINE ...

X Marks a New Rock Spot at the Greek Theater

Report and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 8 August 1981

X AT THE Greek Theater? ...

Trisha Yearwood: Q&A with Trisha Yearwood: "My Nature Is... to Know Exactly What's Going On"

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 13 December 1995

TRISHA YEARWOOD isn't the biggest-selling female artist in country music, and she's not the most critically acclaimed, but none of her peers can claim a ...

Trisha Yearwood: Thinkin' About You (MCA)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 12 February 1995

Crossover Queen Is on the Move Again With her latest album, Trisha Yearwood shows that her inner fire is burning anew. ...

Trisha Yearwood: Crazy Horse, Santa Ana CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 14 October 1992

Trisha Yearwood Blossoms Under the Spotlight's Glare ...

Yes: The Band That Punks Say Is A "No"

Interview by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 28 September 1980

Question: Do you imagine it impossible to sum up in a single word all that rock's third generation, that is, the punks and their new ...

Dwight Yoakam: Billboard Live, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 23 December 1997

Yoakam Leaps Musical Fences in Benefit for L.A. Mission ...

Dwight Yoakam: the Roxy, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 20 March 1986

YOAKAM'S CONSERVATIVE COUNTRY ...

Yo La Tengo: Jesse Jarnow: Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock (Gotham Books)

Book Review by Evelyn McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2012

THIS IS AS SCINTILLATING as it gets: The opening and closing anecdotes of Big Day Coming revolve around typos. Shockingly, promoters and newspapers have had ...

Neil Young: A Family Album: Neil Young's Risky New Project Traces A Fictional Clan's Story In Song

Report by Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, July 2003

LONDON -- Sitting on a stool amid a half-circle of racked guitars, two pianos and a pipe organ, lit by candles and an overhead spotlight ...

Frank Zappa: Zappa Zeros In On L.A.

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 6 April 1980

FRANK ZAPPA'S CONCERT at the Sports Arena tonight will be his first local appearance in 2 years, but rock's iconoclastic satirist certainly isn't viewing it ...

Frank Zappa: Hot Rats at 50

Retrospective by Richard Gehr, Los Angeles Times, 5 March 2020

How Frank Zappa busted up his band, moved to L.A. and helped invent jazz-rock. ...

Warren Zevon: Crystal Zevon's Story: Warren from A to Z

Interview by Fred Schruers, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2007

Through interviews and diaries, the musician's ex-wife chronicles the hedonistic life of one of the genre's bad boys. ...

Warren Zevon: A Literary Answer to Lyricist's Block

Report and Interview by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2002

Musician/bookworm Warren Zevon recruits famous authors for lyrics on a new album. ...

Warren Zevon: Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 23 November 1987

Zevon: Mean and Black ...

The Zombies: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 16 October 1969

Zombies Debut Here but With Some Changes ...

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