Dave Alvin

With her eclectic, thrift store-haunting style — part silent-era movie queen, part art-school urchin — Exene Cervenka has always been one to collage disparate eras and styles. Cervenka’s artwork — rooted in crafts and assemblage &#...

Dave Alvin has been a member of two seminal bands, the Blasters and X, penned a rock anthem, "4th of July," traveled the world as an ambassador for the folk-blues-country amalgam known as roots music, and, over nearly three decades,......

Dave Alvin, Peter Case, Stan Ridgway and other members of the Southern California roots music community will play Nov. 8 at McCabe’s in Santa Monica in a memorial concert for Austin-bred, L.A.-based musician Amy Farris, who died Sept. 29 at......

There will be a recurring California motif at the National Endowment for the Arts' second annual NEA Opera Honors ceremony on Nov. 14 -- but there are no plans for the national radio broadcast of the musical proceedings and award......

Dave Alvin hosts the event in remembrance of the late singer-violinist, who died in September at age 40. "When we lose a member of our tribe, we don't mourn, we celebrate, and we make a lot of racket," Dave Alvin......

Ten years ago today -- on Nov. 18, 1999 -- the pop music world lost a bona-fide original, Tex-Mex innovator Doug Sahm. First as frontman for the Sir Douglas Quintet in the 1960s and 1970s, through his solo work in......

Dave Alvin, Harper Simon and the Living Sisters help the Beach Boys legend make Sunday's 'Songs of the Sun' concert a memorable ode to the California experience. At the end of Sunday's "Songs of the Sun" concert, part of the......

The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Department has ruled that violinist, singer and songwriter Amy Farris’ death on Sept. 29 was a suicide. Farris, an active member of the roots-music communities of Austin, Texas, and Los Angeles after relocating here...

THE LIVING SISTERS "Dreamy" isn't a word that crops up a lot in pop music today, but it might be the best descriptor for this L.A. indie supergroup of sorts, a sweet adventure in harmony between jazz-pop singer Eleni Mandell,......

Rhino Records founder Richard Foos will briefly resurrect the now-defunct Rhino store in Westwood to liquidate a major chunk of his private music collection for charity. After four decades in Southern California, Foos is moving with his family to New........

Several veteran L.A. musicians with a strong affinity for country music are banding together to play a benefit June 24 at the Echo to raise funds for the Recording Academy’s MusiCares Nashville Flood Relief Fund. Dave Alvin, Exene Cervenka, Syd......

Fiddler, singer and songwriter Amy Farris, an in-demand session and touring musician who became a regular presence on the Los Angeles roots music scene after moving from Austin, Texas, to launch a solo career, has died. She was 40. Her body was found...