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Curtis Mayfield

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    April 12, 2012

    All for One, One for All

    One Tribe Nation get everyone together

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    October 13, 2011

    Aloe Blacc and the Grand Scheme at the Detroit Bar

    ​Aloe Blacc and the Grand Scheme Oct. 12, 2011 Detroit Bar, Costa Mesa If I were to tell you that the coolness of Aloe Blacc's delivery would've made Marvin Gaye do a double take you'd say I was delusional. Maybe so, but the sheer audacity of the previous statement is a testament to Blacc's skill ... More >>

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    July 25, 2011

    Kanye West Jay Z = The Throne: They're a Hip-Hop Supergroup About to Go on Tour

    ​Now they've done it. Jay-Z and Kanye West have formed a hip-hop supergroup called The Throne. And yes, there will be an album, and yes, there will be a tour called (wait for it) Watch the Throne. It will be available digitally on August 8, exclusively on iTunes. On the same day, tickets will be ... More >>

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    December 2, 2010

    Traffic Jams

    Aloe Blacc honed his songwriting skills while stuck in traffic

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    November 18, 2010

    DJ Quik Turning His Back on Hip-Hop?

    Hip-Hop vet says he wants to transcend the genre that made him famous

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2009

    New Year's Eve Party Playlist

    Looking for some tunes to blast at the bash you're hosting tonight? Or maybe to crank up in the car on your way to a slamming soiree? Here's my New Year's Eve Party Playlist, featuring the best from the past year and stone cold classics. Enjoy. Flickr user Sada 1988Click song title for YouTube clip ... More >>

  • Music

    December 10, 2009

    Ice Cube On Being the Architect of Gangsta Rap

    Looking for some tunes to blast at the bash you're hosting tonight? Or maybe to crank up in the car on your way to a slamming soiree? Here's my New Year's Eve Party Playlist, featuring the best from the past year and stone cold classics. Enjoy. Flickr user Sada 1988Click song title for YouTube clip ... More >>

  • Music

    September 24, 2009

    Long Beach's Eugene Owens Parties Like It's 1914

    Looking for some tunes to blast at the bash you're hosting tonight? Or maybe to crank up in the car on your way to a slamming soiree? Here's my New Year's Eve Party Playlist, featuring the best from the past year and stone cold classics. Enjoy. Flickr user Sada 1988Click song title for YouTube clip ... More >>

  • Music

    October 9, 2008

    [CD Review] Lambchop, 'OH (ohio)' (Merge)

    Looking for some tunes to blast at the bash you're hosting tonight? Or maybe to crank up in the car on your way to a slamming soiree? Here's my New Year's Eve Party Playlist, featuring the best from the past year and stone cold classics. Enjoy. Flickr user Sada 1988Click song title for YouTube clip ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 12, 2008

    Solid Gold

    Souled Out

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2008

    Video Savant: Curtis Mayfield's “(Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going Go”

    When the news gets especially grim, as it has in the last couple of weeks (another Great Depression looming? Environmental disaster on the horizon? Jack Johnson headlining Coachella? We're fucked, people.), I turn to Curtis Mayfield's mellifluous voice and uplifting funk/soul symphonies for relief. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2008

    Love You Moon at Koos in Long Beach on 02/02

    It takes a special kind of person to singlehandedly spark a thunderous clapping session in a dark room full of too cool twenty-somethings. But by the end of Matt Embree's acoustic set at Koos Art Center in Long Beach, any worries of judgment or anxiety had been sucked out of the front doors of the p ... More >>

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    January 3, 2008

    Locals Only

    Allensworth

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    August 23, 2007

    Sprawl of Sound

    Some Costa Mesa We Got Ourselves in: Souled Out Needs Bodies, Sappy Ballad Pathos, Sprawl Brawl

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    October 6, 2005

    Get Faced With Dylan

    John Mayalls not a bad poet, either

  • Calendar

    March 24, 2005

    All the Sad Young Men

    The Decemberists are different from you and me

  • Columns

    August 26, 2004

    No, You Shut Up

    Artists are Americans, too, You Jackasses

  • Columns

    March 11, 2004

    Darn It, There are Still Some Single Gay People

    And the odd case of bush vs. Bush

  • Music

    February 12, 2004

    Stirring It Up

    Bob Marley lives forever

  • Music

    December 25, 2003

    Out of the Shadows

    The Funk Brothers sweetest fruit

  • Music

    October 3, 2002

    Always Sweating

    Natural Afrodisiacs mission to funk

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    June 13, 2002

    Bio Terrorism

    Michelle Shockeds eccentric life

  • Music

    November 29, 2001

    Neither Doo Nor Wop

    Soul, pop, folk and Neon Leon

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    October 18, 2001

    New Music

    Soul, pop, folk and Neon Leon

  • Music

    June 7, 2001

    New Music

    Soul, pop, folk and Neon Leon

  • Music

    March 2, 2000

    DIY or Die

    The BellRays maximum rock

  • Music

    February 17, 2000

    Men in Black

    The Hollisters sound like Johnny Cash, and John Sebastian sounds like a jug band

  • Music

    January 20, 2000

    Jews Control the Roots Music World

    And thank God for that!

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