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Roger Steffens 'Life of Bob Marley' Commemorating the 29th anniversary of Bob Marley's passing, The GRAMMY Museum is proud to welcome Roger Steffens' critically acclaimed “Life of Bob Marley" to the GRAMMY Sound Stage. The live multi-media presentation has been hailed as “the definitive history of the reggae king" and “the next best to ...
Emmy Keeps Main Title Theme Music Award
A plan -- floated earlier this year by the executive committee of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' music branch -- to replace the award with one for original documentary scores, has been rejected by the branch membership. The vote was 85-36 in favor of keeping the award, which honors the best theme music for ...
Playboy Centerfold Goes 3-D in Naked Attempt to Create Buzz
Playboy readers who can only imagine what it would look like if a nude centerfold jumped off the page are getting new specs to help them see into Hef's world. The magazine's June edition hits newsstands Friday equipped with 3-D glasses. Now the toy that has kids dodging dragons, meatballs and tall blue aliens at the ...
Grammy Nominated Garcia Hosts Day of Percussion
Pasadena, CA: Los Angeles Music Academy College of Music (lamusicacademy.edu) is partnering with the Drum Department's own Richie Gajate Garcia for a “Day of Percussion" on Saturday, June 12th starting at 9:00am. The man known as “El Pulpo" ("The Octopus") has done nearly 500 clinics and is one of the most in-demand educators and clinicians in ...
Biolectric at the H.Wood in Hollywood
Go dig the sublime sounds of BIOLECTRIC at the h.wood in Hollywood...John von on bass together with Matt Piper (guitar), Koorosh Daryaie (percussion) and Viktor Carrillo (electronic beats).Biolectric recently released our first track thru Beatport on Xeriscape Records, a remix of 'Cold Flamenco' by Satta. Check out the track on Soundcloud at this link...
Falco Out, Lahti in as the Jazzman's Wife in L.A. Theatre Works' 'Side Man'
Not too many theater companies can play dial-a-star as readily as L.A. Theatre Works. Case in point: An announcement just came through that Edie Falco, of “The Sopranos" and “Nurse Jackie" fame, won't be able to play her announced role as the jazz man's unstable wife next week in the radio-play company's production of Warren Leight's ...
Other High Minded Sounds and Assorted Festivals
Carole King & James Taylor You've got a friend: The longtime pals come together on their new combo CD/DVD, Live at the Troubadour. While Baby James' easygoing vocals and lyrics are still a little bland, King is a masterful songwriter (and performer) who's composed several lifetimes of memorable tunes, including “Chains," “Up on the ...
FCC Lets Hollywood Turn Off Your Output Jacks
Hollywood will soon have the power to remotely disable the analog outputs on your set-top box, under a decision by federal regulators on Friday intended to prevent home recording of new movie releases. The move by the Federal Communications Commission grants cable and satellite providers the power to block consumers from viewing just-released movies in an ...
Beyond Hefner's Bedroom, a Look at His Legacy
The tale of the Playboy founder's gift to help save land by the Hollywood sign is but one of many stories of his life chronicled in 2,000 scrapbooks. Before I explain how I happened to be in Hugh Hefner's bedroom last week, let me start at the beginning. I bumped into L.A. City Councilman Tom LaBonge ...
Media Moguls on Elevated Pay Scale
While most CEOs of U.S. companies saw their compensation fall in 2009, top executives of TV, movie and cable companies continued to rake it in. When an executive runs a company whose success depends on stars whether they are richly rewarded TV news anchors or generously compensated movie idols it is only fitting that the boss ...
