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CD Review – The Who Live At The Fillmore East 1968 / Pete Townshend – Who Came First Deluxe Edition
The Who – Live At The Fillmore East 1968 (UMe) – Pete Townshend – Who Came First – Deluxe Edition (UMe) Finally, fifty years after the event, the Who’s legendary 1968 recordings from the Fillmore East in New York City … Continue reading
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Beat Recommends: Reverend Beat-Man and Sister Nicole Izobel Garcia
Friday night at the Hi-Hat, we highly recommend checking out the “185% Trash Blues” of Reverend Beat-Man and Sister Nicole Izobel Garcia. The Reverend is a popular one-man band in his native Switzerland, where he also runs the prolific Voodoo … Continue reading
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The Darkness At The Fonda – Live Review
The Darkness opened their American “Tour De Prance” last night by recording a live album at the Fonda – or as lead singer/ guitarist Justin Hawkins called it, “The Fondant”, suggesting a cake-themed marketing campaign for the record would be … Continue reading
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Tagged Frankie Poullain, Justin Hawkins, Rufus Tiger Taylor, The Darkness, The Fonda, Tour De Prance
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CD Review: Miles Davis & John Coltrane – The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6
Miles Davis’ Bootleg Series of releases over the last decade have brought about the public discovery of some amazing music. Certainly one of the joys of collecting actual bootlegs is hearing unfiltered and unedited moments straight from the horse’s mouth, … Continue reading
Cochon555 Photo Gallery: Everybody Getting High On The Hog
The international cooking competition Cochon555 has become an annual tradition in LA, and this year’s sold-out event at the Viceroy Hotel took the obsession with nose-to-tail heritage pork consumption to new levels. As per tradition, many of the chefs went … Continue reading
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CD Review: Jimi Hendrix – Both Sides Of The Sky
Jimi Hendrix was a workaholic. If there was any question about how much gas that guy had in the tank, consider the fact that, forty-seven years after the end of life and following countless posthumous releases, we can still have … Continue reading
Beat Recommends: Dr. Octagon Monday at the Belasco Theater
The arrival of the album Dr. Octagonocologyst was a big event for us rock guys who also liked some hip hop, back in 1996. It had all the right elements for us – a crazily inventive and hilarious rapper in … Continue reading
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Tagged Belasco Theater, D Qbert, Dan The Automator, Dr. Dooooom, Dr. Octagon, Dr. Octagonocologyst, Kool Keith, Lollapalooza, Sex Pistols
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Los Angeles Magazine’s Best New Restaurants Celebration Showcases New And Familiar Faces
Los Angeles Magazine gathered a number of newly opened, already well-regarded eateries to the Row DTLA building (which you may know as the site of the Sunday afternoon event Smorgasburg) for their annual “Best New Restaurants” event. Some familiar faces … Continue reading
St. Sophia’s Night In Thessaloniki Pleases ‘Olive’ The Senses
The Philotochos Society of St. Sophia presented its annual fundraising gala this past Saturday, inviting attendees to spend “A Night In Thessaloniki,” Greece’s second-largest city and an important cultural center. The sold-out gala featured a multi-course dinner from Canadian author, … Continue reading
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