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Warner Music Group Names Producer Rob Cavallo Chief Creative Officer
Warner Music Group, in a sign that the struggling recorded music company is seeking to bolster its ranks of artists, has tapped producer Rob Cavallo for the newly created position of chief creative officer. In that role he will help develop acts across all of the Warner music labels including Atlantic, Asylum, Electra and Warner Bros. ...
Hollywood Studios in Midst of Their Own Horror Show
The recent firings and hirings of studio executives at Disney, Universal and elsewhere point to a widespread corporate panic amid sharp declines in DVD sales. Hollywood's biggest slasher story isn't playing at any theater near you. It's hitting the industry's corporate suites, where the sacking of studio executives has reached epidemic level. As evidenced by Disney's ...
Marianne Faithfull at Royce Hall
The '60 survivor takes an emotional journey through her career, including her new album and the hit that started it all, Jagger-Richards' 'As Tears Go By.' Marianne Faithfull has lived a life of reinterpretation. She began as a pretty young face with a sweet voice, scoring her first hit with the precocious Jagger-Richards ballad “As Tears ...
Laura Mae Gross, 'Mama' Nurtured the Blues at Babe's and Ricky's Inn in L.A. Dies
In Laura Mae Gross' club, bluesman Ray Bailey said, “it didn't matter if you were a total amateur or a seasoned professional. Everybody gave you the same respect." Laura Mae Gross, a strong-willed Mississippi woman who came to the West Coast and founded a club that became a staple of Los Angeles' blues scene, died Saturday ...
A Real Boy, Seven Decades Later: Dick Jones, the Voice
Next year marks the 70th anniversary of “Pinocchio," my favorite Disney film, and Dick Jones, the actor who gave voice to the beloved title character, will be a special guest at the Lone Pine Film Festival next weekend (Oct. 9-11). If you're not familiar with that festival, it's got a wagon-wheel ethos with its emphasis on ...
Prestige Releases New Coltrane Box Set - Side Steps
Side Steps the third and final set in a series of Coltrane Box Sets, hits stores today via Prestige Records. The 5-CD set captures Coltrane in a supporting role, as a sideman to leaders like Sonny Rollins, Gene Ammons, Red Garland, Tadd Dameron and others. The collection of 43 tracks represents the entirety of Coltrane’s session ...
Rachel Efron at Yoshi's Oakland
Berkeley singer/songwriter/pianist Rachel Efron will appear at Yoshi's Oakland on Wednesday, November 4, in support of her new album, 4AM, which was just released in August by Efron's Whisper Track Records. The shows, at 8:00 and 10:00 pm, are part of a national tour that has included stops in Cambridge, New York City, Portland, ME, Philadelphia, ...
Los Angeles to Host City's First Asian American Jazz Festival
The first annual Asian American Jazz Festival aims to be the world's premiere festival celebrating the creative and innovative artistic visions and achievements of Asian American and Asian jazz artists from around the world. Although all artists come from different experiences, their interconnected identities unite them through a common musical medium to create a unique, expressive, ...
Low End Theory: High-Concept Music
A new generation of experimental artists is using dazzling instrument technologies to create new genres of music at a club night in Lincoln Heights. At Low End Theory, a weekly club night for experimental hip-hop and electronica artists at the Airliner in Lincoln Heights, there is one square foot of standing room where the music sounds ...
Bowled over by L.A.s New Maestro
And so, Saturday, it came to pass. After all the extraordinary buildup the billboards and the bilingual media frenzy 18,000 people from every corner of the city came to the Hollywood Bowl to bear witness. He goes by many names: Gustavo the Great. Gustavissimo. The Dude. Some have taken to referring to the new music director ...
