Most cocktail jazz gigs are not particularly rewarding on an artistic level, but they aren't supposed to be. They pay well but they usually go on for too long an
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[Editor's note: Deathmatch pairs two artists who have something in common, and determines who is better. It's a concept we sort-of ripped off from MTV, excep
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In the winter of 1970-71, the Doors hibernated inside their rehearsal studio in West Hollywood to
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Last week we crowned former American Idol contestant William Hung the greatest musician of al
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I have twin 4-year-old sons. They have normal names, but I mostly call them Bay and Meechy. I tried to explain to them how they earned those nicknames once. It took
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[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playl
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Future Islands is on a mission — to not have one. Five years after their founding, the Baltimore trio remains as categorically amorphous as ever. Their Twitter
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By Linda Leseman
On Saturday, Judas Priest's farewell Epitaph World Tour comes to the San Manuel Amphitheater. (Thin Lizzy opens.) But frontman Rob Halford maint
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If you meet David Cohn, he won't tell you he's a rapper. Should you ask him what he does for a living, he'll answer that he's unemployed. He used to
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On November 30th, 1994, Tupac Shakur was shot in Manhattan's Quad Studios. The night sparked the East-West coast feud that left legends Tupac and The Notorious B
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The website self-titled daily has a neat Q&A with Explosions in the Sky guitarist Mark Smith where he explains the band's plan to have Phish's career (
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