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News: Performance / Tour

Beck and Jenny Lewis Open Club Nokia

Beck and Jenny Lewis Open Club Nokia

Many music fans get serious about pop through a love affair with a club. Whether it was a legendary spot or just the dive down the street from the dorm, such a place provides more than just loud sound and overpriced beer. People get attached to the strangest things in clubs -- memorably awful bathrooms, decorously ...

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News: Radio

KCRW's Nic Harcourt Steps Down

Nic Harcourt, the music director of Santa Monica-based public radio station KCRW-FM (89.9), tells The Times he will step down Nov. 30. Harcourt has presided over KCRW's nationally known Morning Becomes Eclectic music program for 10 years. Harcourt won't be completely splitting from the station -- he will continue to host a three-hour music program on ...

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News: Education

Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Festival Now Accepting Applications

Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Festival Now Accepting Applications

The Monterey Jazz Festival, a leader in jazz education since its inception in 1958, is pleased to announce the 5th Annual Next Generation Festival, featuring the nations most talented middle school, high school, conglomerate, and college jazz musicians and vocalists. The Next Generation Festival, which includes MJF's Next Generation Festival Jazz Competition, will take place in ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Van Morrison at the Hollywood Bowl

Van Morrison at the Hollywood Bowl

For anyone who wasn't at the Hollywood Bowl on Friday night, there'd be little chance of explaining how Van Morrison's repetition of one seemingly innocuous sentence -- “This is a train" -- could turn into a deeply spiritual incantation. But transcendence is what Morrison has been after with his music from the beginning, and it's what ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Beck at Club Nokia

Beck at Club Nokia

“Odelay" and beyond: Beck croons at Club Nokia, Sunday and Monday, November 9 and 10. CHEMTRAILS" AND MORE: Catch Beck tonight at Club Nokia rocking songs from his newest work and maybe some golden oldies, too (anything off of Sea Change would cause us to jump up and down and do a little clap). Jenny Lewis ...

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News: Music Industry

Hollywood Sheet Music Faces the Music

LEDE-IN: The Internet imperils the survival of the low-tech but beloved Sunset Boulevard store. Early last month, behind the facades of Gower Gulch, that Old West town of Baskin-Robbins, Rite Aid and a Denny's restaurant facing Sunset Boulevard, some 46 vocalists and one showgirl poured into Hollywood Studio Bar and Grill, banding together for a cause ...

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News: Recording

Stuart Rosh Mines the Sounds of the 40s and 50s with New Album

Stuart Rosh Mines the Sounds of the 40s and 50s with New Album

San Francisco, CA - The idea behind Fundamental, Stuart Rosh's fourth album, started with a well-known quote from John Lennon, “Before Elvis, there was nothing." Stuart loves Lennon, but emphatically disagrees. He borrows from the sounds of the 40s and 50s, adds contemporary lyrics, and shows that there was a rich palette of music before Elvis. ...

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News: Event

City Hall Salutes "Breakfast with the Beatles"

City Hall Salutes "Breakfast with the Beatles"

You say you want a resolution? The Beatles will get one Friday in L.A. City Hall from Councilman Tom LaBonge, who also orchestrated the council’s proclamation of “Brian Wilson Day” in Los Angeles. Specifically, the council will salute “Breakfast With the Beatles,” the weekly radio show focusing on the Fab Four’s music now carried on KLOS-FM ...

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News: Technology

Vintage Tubes Sound/ Living in a Vacum Days Have Gone

Music gear maker Groove Tubes is closing after nearly 30 years The San Fernando manufacturer, which was sold to industry giant Fender Musical Instrument Corp. in June, is closing its inventory sale Saturday. Nick Carr likes his music gear to be old school, which explains why he was groping in a box for a vintage guitar ...

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News: Recording

Butch Walker Finds Musical Inspiration in the Ashes of Home

Butch Walker Finds Musical Inspiration in the Ashes of Home

His album, Sycamore Meadows, out next week, is named after the street where the house stood; the video for Ships in a Bottle shows Mr. Walker roaming among the ashes. Butch Walker spent years as a struggling musician before finding success as a singer-songwriter and producer of acts like Avril Lavigne and Katy Perry. Suddenly flush, ...


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