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Flesh Eaters & Mudhoney at The Echoplex 1.19.19
In case you haven’t heard the big news, the original line-up of L.A. punk legends The Flesh Eaters have reunited and recorded their first album together since their 1981 masterpiece “A Minute To Pray, A Second To Die”. The new … Continue reading
Live Review: The Specials At Arroyo Seco Weekend
Perhaps one of the Arroyo Seco Weekend festival’s best and most overlooked aspects was the opportunity to see The Specials up close without having to put up with their usual audience. Just weeks before this concert, some friends of mine … Continue reading
LA 92: A Transformative Documentary about the 1992 LA Riots
The synopsis of “LA 92” references the Rodney King verdict that sparked the 1992 riots, the protests, violence, lootings, and arson that followed. It continues, “Twenty-five years later, the documentary “LA 92,” from directors Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin explores … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Photo Essays, Television, Videos
Tagged Billy Bennight, Daryl Gates, George Holliday, History, Karen Bass, LA Riot. LA 92, LA92, Laurence Powell, live review, Los Angeles, NatGeo, National Geographic, photography, Police Violence, Rodney King, Stacey Koon, Theodore Briseno, Timothy Wind
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Redd Kross and The Side Eyes at The Echoplex
It was Father’s Day, and I had nothing to do, so I decided to head down to The Echoplex and check out the “Punk is Dad” show featuring The Side Eyes and Redd Kross. When I walked into The Echoplex, … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Photo Essays
Tagged live review, local bands, Music, photography, punk, punk rock, Redd Kross
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Jesus And Mary Chain At The Wiltern- Live Review
When Jesus And Mary Chain appeared in 1985, they had the look of something revolutionary but unsustainable. Their first album Psychocandy showed a knack for simple. effective hooks buried in frightening layers of blank-faced noise, but reports of this band … Continue reading
Movie Review: “Sensitivity Training” at the 2016 Los Angeles Film Festival
Serena, played byAnna Lise Phillips, is a high energy research microbiologist with a no fuss unsentimental personality who heads the research at a microbiology lab to find cures for diseases. This story arises out of a conflict that between Serena and … Continue reading
“Kat Kramer’s Films That Change the World” Presents Atomic Cinema Festival
“Atomic Cinema Fest”, is part of the International Uranium Film Festival, and was a one day film festival presented by “Kat Kramer’s Films That Change the World”, held at Raleigh Studios to bring movies and documentaries dedicated to educating people on the risks … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, News & Sports, Photo Essays
Tagged Atomic Cinema Fest, Billy Bennight, cold war. activism, David Valentino, Ed Asner, Film, Films that change the world, Harvey Wasserman, Joey Luthman, Karen Sharpe Kramer, Kat Kramer, Libbe HaLevy, live review, Lou Gossett Jr., Mimi Kennedy, Nuclear, Tara-Nicole Azarian
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Malcolm Mooney At the Echo 1/24/16 – Live Review
For a certain type of music explorer, going through a Can phase is an established rite of passage. The German improvisational collective produced music between 1968 and 1977 that shifted a lot of peoples’ imagination when it came to the … Continue reading
Album Review: Night Beds’ “Ivywild”
Winston Yellen’s Night Beds started as a weird art project, if not a band, and the sophomore offering “Ivywild” is a departure from the well received folky Country Sleep. For the most part “Ivywild” chronicles the emotions of a broken relationship. But … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellanious, Music
Tagged Billy Bennight, Blue Eyed Soul, desire, erotic, fantasy, Hypnotic, indie rock, live review, longing, Music, pleasure, R&B, Rhythm & Blues, rhythm and blues, Samples, seduction, sensual, sexual, Walls of Sound, wanting
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2001: A Space Odyssey / Hollywood Bowl, 8/18/15
Sitting under the stars at the Hollywood Bowl was the ideal setting for experiencing Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 masterpiece, “2001: A Space Odyssey.” The Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, led by conductor Brad Lubman, gave a stellar performance of the … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Miscellanious, Movies, Music
Tagged Carolyn Edwards, Carolyn Soyars, Events, Film, Hollywood, hollywood bowl, L.A. Phil, Live Music, live review, summer concerts
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