Saturday, September 11, 2010

‘SHOSHAN’ by Shye Ben-Tzur- Israeli Sufi music? Only in India…

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I’m not a musician. Oh sure, I did my time in the high school band, spewing on the business end of a trombone as part of what our band...
Wednesday, September 01, 2010

LA SUMMER SEASON WINDING DOWN IN STYLE

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Los Lobos playing down at the corner record store? For free? Ooohh, life’s rough. This is THE Los Lobos, after all, veterans o...
Thursday, August 26, 2010

THE OTHER LA: CAMBODIA TO COLOMBIA, HIGH DENGUE FEVER & THE VALLENATO FLU

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Oh, but last weekend was another sublime compilation of subtle pleasures in El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Rí...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

AFRO-BEAT, AFRO-TRAD, AFRO-DIASPO, & A TOUCH OF FEVER IN LA

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Well, it doesn’t get much better than this past weekend for variety and quality in the LA free music department, some of it ex...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

“… HIP-HOP CHILDREN OF BE-BOP PARENTS…”, LA GETS HIP WITH DAAOOD, TRIBLE, AND THE WHOLE INDUS VALLEY

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I haven’t heard anything like it since listening to Jack Kerouac over Steve Allen’s piano (on tape, a**hole, I’m not THAT old)… okay, so m...
Wednesday, August 04, 2010

PETE E TOPS MUSICAL WEEK IN LA

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Well, this week in free outdoor entertainment- particularly of the world music variety- got off to a bit of a slow start this ...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

JAZZ, SUPER STRINGS, & LA SEMANA PERUANA

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Well, things got off to a shaky start last Thursday when I found out that the group I was expecting to see and hear- ‘Palenke Soultrib...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

WORLD MUSIC HEATS UP LA- Beat the Donkey, Wil-Dog, and Tommy Castro

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Ahhh! It’s that time of year again, like it or not. Last week the temps were up to almost three figures Fahrenheit and the blood so ...