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    Aug 5, 2011 | Orlando Sentinel

  1. A complete list of the exhibits at Hard Rock’s memorabilia Tour

    Soundboard Music Blog - Orlando Sentinel
      So what's to see at the 40th Anniversary Hard Rock Memorabilia Tour, visiting Sunday-Tuesday at hard Rock Hotel at Universal Orlando? (Besides Michael Jackson's Beat It jacket, shown here) Here's the complete exhibit list: • Freddie Mercury of...
    2. Aug 24, 2010 | Chicago Tribune

  2. Iggy Pop interview: Playing with the Stooges is like being beaten up by a middle-aged gang

    Turn It Up
    Iggy Pop and James Williamson in London, 1972. (Courtesy of Columbia Records) When Iggy Pop and the Stooges played their final concert in 1974, Pop was knocked cold by a bottle hurled from a hostile audience. The band disintegrated amid......
    3. Sep 28, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  3. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominations: Who should get in? Who got overlooked?

    Pop & Hiss
    I've already expounded on this year's long list of nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame -- many of which have been up for the honor before. I neglected, however, to play the game every music nerd will......
    4. Sep 27, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  4. The Ponderosa Stomp: A treasure trove of sound, and stories [Updated]

    Pop & Hiss
    "It's a small town story, and probably a typical American story," said Ian Dunlop, telling the writer Holly George-Warren how he came to play bass in the International Submarine Band with the late Gram Parsons in the mid-1960s. Dunlop was......
    5. Dec 1, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Kesha shows who she is 'as a human being' with 'Warrior,' book

    In the three years she's spent as an A-list pop star, Kesha has done little to cultivate a reputation for timidity.
    In the three years she's spent as an A-list pop star, Kesha has done little to cultivate a reputation for timidity. "Before I leave / Brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack," she famously bragged about an evening out in "Tik Tok," the 2009 single that's...

    Tags: The Flaming Lips (music group), Music, American Music Awards, Services and Shopping, The Black Keys (music group)

    6. Sep 15, 2011 |Story| Aberdeen News

  6. Direct from Brooklyn

    Gabriel Miller-Phillips, a musician from Brooklyn, N.Y., performs tonight at the Sixth Avenue Gallery. The Black And White Magazine wrote that “there is a tender element woven into the fabric of” Miller-Phillips' EP, “Shoot The Moon,” a five-song...

    Tags: Brooklyn (New York City), Van Morrison, Music Industry, Elliott Smith, Jeff Buckley

    7. Jun 6, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Ariel Pink is firmly in control of Haunted Graffiti

    Ariel Pink seems quintessentially L.A. He's lived virtually his entire life in Los Angeles and can't imagine living anywhere else. He's written songs with titles like "Beverly Kills" and "Life in L.A.," and echoes of the city's musical past reverberate across his albums, from the Byrds and Love to Fleetwood Mac and the Germs' Darby Crash.
    Ariel Pink seems quintessentially L.A. He's lived virtually his entire life in Los Angeles and can't imagine living anywhere else. He's written songs with titles like "Beverly Kills" and "Life in L.A.," and echoes of the city's musical past reverberate...

    Tags: Cults and Sects, Cure (music group), The, Death, Goth (genre), Fleetwood Mac (music group)

    8. Aug 10, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. T. Rex's Marc Bolan, always famous -- and flamboyant

    It was Aug. 11, 1973, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Onstage was Marc Bolan, the enigmatic singer of T. Rex, in a shiny purple jumpsuit unzipped to his navel, wailing on a Gibson Les Paul Custom guitar. A halo of bushy hair swung around his face, grazing a satin waistcoat with an attached cape.
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    It was Aug. 11, 1973, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Onstage was Marc Bolan, the enigmatic singer of T. Rex, in a shiny purple jumpsuit unzipped to his navel, wailing on a Gibson Les Paul Custom guitar. A halo of bushy hair swung around his face,...

    Tags: Death, West Hollywood, David Bowie, Santa Monica, Cameron Crowe

    9. Jul 20, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. In 1946, fame was in the future for several new Santa Monica lifeguards

    IT WAS a moment of beginnings: 14 fresh-faced young men, still wet from the surf, standing ramrod straight at the end of the Santa Monica Pier. It was the start of the summer of '46 and of careers that would make many of them legendary watermen. Surf culture was in its infancy -- the global exportation of the carefree California lifestyle was a wave decades away from cresting, the Beach Boys were still little boys, and the woodie wagon was still just a car.
    IT WAS a moment of beginnings: 14 fresh-faced young men, still wet from the surf, standing ramrod straight at the end of the Santa Monica Pier. It was the start of the summer of '46 and of careers that would make many of them legendary watermen. Surf...

    Tags: The Beach Boys, Pacific Ocean, Santa Monica, John Adams, Ocean Surfing

    10. Nov 6, 1998 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Velvet Goldmine

    TIMES FILM CRITIC
    Friday November 6, 1998      Dazzling and dizzying, confusing and even annoying, "Velvet Goldmine" is a feverish dream of a film, a riot of color and attitude that is all pop decadence, all night long. Believing like its characters that "style always...

    Tags: Movies, Ewan McGregor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, David Bowie, Christian Bale

    11. Nov 12, 2009 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  11. Adam Lambert: Cool, calm and eclectic

    Kicking off another typical seven-day workweek recently in the offices of his management company 19 Entertainment, Adam Lambert fixed his gaze on his own pretty face. Scattered across his publicist's desk were proof sheets from a photo session with the singer, who will release his debut album on RCA Records, <a title=&quot;Click to shop" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002QEXN3O?ie=UTF8&tag=tribucompasit-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002QEXN3O" target="_blank" rel="no follow"><u class="affiliateLink" style="border-bottom: 1px solid;"><font color="#089a31">"For Your Entertainment,"</font></u></a> Nov. 23. The shots captured Lambert in typical glam-god poses: peacock, street tough, space oddity, freaky adventurer in the boudoir of the damned.
    Tribune Newspapers Critic
    Kicking off another typical seven-day workweek recently in the offices of his management company 19 Entertainment, Adam Lambert fixed his gaze on his own pretty face. Scattered across his publicist's desk were proof sheets from a photo session with the...

    Tags: Minority Groups, Dave Matthews Band (music group), David Bowie, Fall Out Boy (music group), Social Issues

    12. May 12, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Bob Mercer dies at 65; chief executive of 'Now That's What I Call Music!'

    Bob Mercer, a music industry executive who was managing director of EMI Music in Britain in the 1970s and most recently was chief executive of the "Now That's What I Call Music!" venture that releases a bestselling series of hit-single compilation albums,...

    Tags: Corporate Officers, Death, Kate Bush, Hospitals and Clinics, Restructuring and Recapitalization

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