Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band (music group)

In what's becoming an annual ray of light amid the consumerist darkness of Black Friday, the music retail marketing movement known as Record Store Day has once again put forth a bounty of limited-edition music to be available the day after Thanksgiving....

In January of this year the Yale Daily News published an overview of the campus music scene, mentioning such Bulldog bands-of-the-moment as Sister Helen, The Keep Calm, No We’re Not, High Defintiion, Jamestown and A Streetcar Named Funk....

Ideat Village ends this weekend, with eight hours of local bands Saturday the 30th in Pitkin Plaza and a 9 p.m. Sunday July 1 screening of the contestants in the Gorilla-Ideat 48-Hour Film Festival. The bands are (in order of playing, starting at 2 p.m....

R&B recluse D'Angelo is in hiding no more. After appearing with the Roots at Bonnaroo in June, the sonic manipulator of funk and soul has booked a surprise July 4 date at West Hollywood's House of Blues, according to promoter Live Nation....

It’s not even June. But already this calendar year we’ve lost a gut-wrenching list of people who’ve impacted the music world: impresarios Don Cornelius and Dick Clark, R&B legends Johnny Otis and Etta James, the incomparable Band...

Early in his career, Dutch musician Jozef van Wissem switched over to the lute after years of playing classical guitar. He decided he would shake things up a bit, however, to make the standard repertoire — French, German, Italian, English and...

The Fall Ersatz GB (Cherry Red) Band names are funny. So short, so vague, so suggestive. With the Fall — the imposingly weird and long-running English post-punk band fronted by surly surrealist Mark E. Smith — you get the feeling that the...

The musician/DJ favors Miles Davis, Vum, Le Butcherettes and Boris....

Jonathan Ward's ‘Opika Pende' box set resurrects the world of early African music — with a history lesson in the mix. Jonathan Ward's music room in his second-floor Angeleno Heights walk-up is a tight, comfortable space with three walls full.....

Personal Playlist: Head of Chop Shop Music Supervision Alexandra Patsavas talks about her favorite music these days....

Steve Reich celebrates his 75th birthday by performing his landmark "Clapping Music," and offering a hard, distorted version of his recent "2x5."...

The cristal baschet is one of the most beautiful musical instruments you will ever see, made of vibrating, tuned steel, fiberglass amplification cones and wire "whiskers" that shimmy when fingers rub the glass-rod keyboard. Film composer Cliff Martinez'...