One of the West Coast's most influential guitarists, OC's senior sage Junior Watson's dexterous delivery of slick, cerebral blues has always set... More >>

"When I was a child, I always dreamt one day I'd have lymphoma," jokes singer/songwriter Robert Nanna, the 37-year-old Chicago musician who is... More >>

There's always baggage that comes with being the child of a legend, including the endless shirking of comparisons from just about everyone who... More >>

For a Grammy-winning Latin-jazz artist raised in the shadow of LA, Poncho Sanchez is hardly a Hollywood type. When he's not traveling the world,... More >>

It's easy to forget after years of American releases and appearances, but Japan's legendary Shonen Knife, appearing this Sunday in Long Beach,... More >>

In the far west corner of Commonwealth Avenue, pounding hammers and buzzing band saws signal the birth of an addition to Fullerton's bar scene.... More >>

Earlier this month, there was some controversy over a local DJ who opened for Chuckie at the Yost Theater in garish fashion, playing a slew of... More >>

Ah, the glories of being an American ska band in the 1990s. Back then, the third wave of the Jamaica-bred genre collided with mainstream music,... More >>

"Why do we have our struggles?" A teenage boy raps the lyric as his peers watch. He stands beside a gleaming grand piano in the center of the... More >>

With each step down the gravelly path of a secluded Malibu Canyon road, Young the Giant look more like a wayward, ragtag tribe than the Next... More >>