August Brown covers pop music, the music industry and nightlife policy at the Los Angeles Times.
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Rodrigo “could have played it safe, but she acknowledged that she has the power to make stuff happen, and she’s going to use it for good,” said Kathleen Hanna, founder of Bikini Kill, which is playing the Daisy Chain Fields festival.
Parton, who died on Tuesday at 80, was one of the finest singer-songwriters this country ever produced. It’s inconceivable to sum up her catalog in just an LP’s worth of tunes, but this list offers a place to start.
As LA Jazz Festival founder Martin Ludlow reflects on how his festival broke down days before launch, he says he’s disappointed that it’s become the “flop of the moment.” He hopes to try again even as angry performers, some waiting to be paid, question his stewardship.
John Legend, Janelle Monáe and more are booked for Aug. 22-23, but weeks of local programming appear to be canceled.
“He deserves immense credit for helping to usher in the alternative revolution of the ’80s and ’90s,” Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan said.
Green Day’s new feature film, ‘Nimrods’ is a smitten, profane yet often moving snapshot of a young band striking out on its own from its gritty beginnings in the 1980s and ‘90s.
Massive Attack members were detained and investigated. They will not be allowed to re-enter Singapore. The band defends its activism.
David Granado Jr. attended the popular punk festival on July 26 with his girlfriend, brother and friends. There, he suffered “a traumatic and ultimately fatal brain injury,” a fundraiser said.
A shooting at a new In-N-Out in Twin Falls, Idaho, left a ‘very chaotic scene’ at ‘one of the busiest locations in all of Southern Idaho,’ the police chief said.