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News: Award / Grant

Leo Fender Honored Posthumously

The Recording Academy will bestow a technical award on the guitar maker whose instruments revolutionized pop music's sound. No invention since the phonograph more dramatically affected how popular music is made than Fender guitars, arriving as they did with the birth of rock 'n' roll. Buddy Holly was an early Fender convert; Jimi Hendrix used the ...

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News: Award / Grant

Grammy Rehearsals with Radiohead: 'There's a Surreality to It All'

The 51st Annual Grammy Awards are Sunday night, and the rehearsal schedule for today is stacked with big names -- U2, Paul McCartney, Coldplay and Stevie Wonder But the day got off to an especially compelling start as Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead strolled in, shook off the rain and performed “15 Step" to ...

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News: Book / Magazine

New York's Milk Studios Picks Hollywood Backdrop

Milk Studios Gone Hollywood The firm, which is expanding from New York, will spend millions to upgrade a 46,000-square-foot, half-century-old industrial building on Cahuenga Boulevard. Publishers and advertisers can't get enough of Hollywood, the photography studio says. Some of its space may rent for $10,000 a day. One of New York's best-known photo studios ...

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News: Event

All-Star Tribute to Neil Diamond at Musicares Gala

All-Star Tribute to Neil Diamond at Musicares Gala

The most commonly heard phrase spoken by attendees and artists alike at Fridays MusiCares tribute to Neil Diamond Feels like a Bar Mitzvah! Or the biggest karaoke party ever, but rather than having to suffer through your drunk friends closing time rendition of Sweet Caroline, instead some 2,500 music industry VIPs got the man himself backed ...

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News: Performance / Tour

What's Cooking Around L.A.

What's Cooking Around L.A.

The jazz picks this week are on the rad side. Take powerful tenor and baritone Dale Fielder at Vibrato on Friday: This guy can rock a room. Or across town at the Caf 322, where The Bobby Bradford Motet slips his out-there stuff by the crowd by hiding it in some fairly traditional arrangements. ...

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News: Music Industry

L.A. to Consider Landmark Status for Puppet Theater

Fans turn out at a commission meeting to voice support for the Bob Baker Marionette Theater, which is struggling to stay afloat. Pinocchio danced on the table and wise-cracking Fred Mingo sat on it Thursday as they helped convince Los Angeles officials to consider making a marionette theater near downtown an official city cultural site. Fans ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Southern Cal Area Clubs

Music Bar Bars & Clubs Caf Boogaloo 1238 Hermosa Ave. Hermosa Beach, CA, 90254 Cafe Boogaloo is quite simply Hermosa Beachs answer to the House of Bluesa NOrleans-style restaurant, bar and live music venue full of bayou charm... CafeTu Tu Tango 1000 Universal Studios Blvd. Ste H-101, Universal ...

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News: Event

Radiohead to Get the USC Marching Band Treatment at Grammys

In addition to Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl and Kanye West, the Grammys will turn to another old favorite to perform in its annual awards gala: the USC Marching Band. Look for the Trojans to appear with adventurous British rockers Radiohead on Sunday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. A Grammy spokeswoman declined to comment, ...

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News: Event

Grammy Salute to Jazz at Club Nokia

The pre-awards salute included a tip of the hat to Blue Note Records, but a nagging sense that the label's 1960s heyday may not ever be equaled lends a rueful undertone to the showcase. At this year's “Grammy Salute to Jazz," there was a lot of talk about the future. Inside the crisp, modern Club Nokia ...

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News: Performance / Tour

The Necks at Redcat in Los Angeles on February 19th

The Necks at Redcat in Los Angeles on February 19th

"Entirely new and entirely now... The Necks' music is a thrilling journey into the unknown..." --The Guardian One of the great left-field cult bands working today, the trio from Sydney delivers a post-jazz, post-rock, post-everything sonic experience that has few parallels anywhere. Pianist Chris Abrahams, drummer Tony Buck and bassist Lloyd Swanton have earned plenty of ...


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