In walked Thelonious: 'Monk at 91'

Our friends at Culture Monster turned us on to this cool event...

If Thelonious Monk had stuck around for a metaphorical third set, he'd be 91 this month. Monk walked onto the scene at 19, settling behind the piano with the house band at Harlem's Minton's Playhouse in the early '40s and started fiddling with jazz's molecular structure, altering it forever.

Monk's compositions (and his approach to them) --angular, intricate and shot through with humor --were marked by twists of whimsy and dissonance. Those distinct, abstract soundings became an intrinsic part of the jazz idiom making Monk -- along with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker -- one of bebop's key architects.   

Honoring his influence (and part of a countdown to Monk's 100th birthday), a free three-hour marathon of his music (and the music and musicians he influenced) -- "Monk at 91: Fazioli Piano Marathon" -- will take place in downtown L.A. on Friday, Oct. 17, from noon to 3 p.m. Participants scheduled: Geri Allen, Jean-Michel Pilc, Bill Cunliffe and Alan Broadbent. The event is a collaboration between Brookfield Properties and the city of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. 

That's "Monk at 91: Fazioli Piano Marathon," Oct. 17, at Ernst & Young Plaza at 7+Fig , 735 Figueroa St., upper plaza. For more info: (213) 955-7150.

-- Lynell George

Photo: Thelonious Monk at Minton's Playhouse, New York City, 1949. Credit: Herman Leonard

From our buddy Geoff Boucher, blogging at the new LA Times blog, Culture Monster...

Warren Buffett, the world’s richest man according to Forbes magazine, will appear Friday night at the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles where he will play his ukulele. Seriously.

The 78-year-old chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway will bring his beloved four-string Uke and join his son, musician Peter Buffett, on stage for a number during the younger Buffett’s scheduled concert at the broadcasting archive, museum and seminar hub. The younger Buffett has just released a new album, “Imaginary Kingdom,” on Tuesday, and his recording career reaches back to mid-1980s. He scored the memorable “fire dance” sequence in “Dances With Wolves,” which won the Oscar for best picture of 1990, and Buffett himself won an Emmy for the soundtrack he contributed to another Native American project involving Kevin Costner, the “500 Nations” documentary miniseries from 1995.

Read the rest of 'Warren Buffett will play ukulele as the economy burns'

Because we felt that this week of news was all sunshine and unicorns, Soundboard would like to cordially invite all of you chin-stroking music-thinker types to stare your own soul-sucking irrelevance right in the eye and weep at the altars of our job-killing Internet commentariat overlords. Kidding! But The Times' own Pop Czar Ann Powers will host a hopefully less-than-prophetic panel addressing "The Death of the Critic" in music and media on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at USC, discussing the role of professional music criticism in the age of Twitter, TorrentSpy and shrinking newspapers. Panelists include Soul-Sides.com editor Oliver Wang, LA Weekly's Randall Roberts and plenty of other pretty faces attached to regular bylines around town, but you've got to RSVP to go.

We'll be the ones outside holding the stick-and-satchel combo containing our meager possessions while huddling around a trash can fire of promotional kits.

-- August Brown 

Photo of some critics who slammed the latest Coldplay album by Spencer Weiner/Los Angeles Times

These days, it's hard to stop talking, viewing or reading politics. But it's important to take a break from the testy talking heads on CNN (or the links on Talking Points Memo) and be convivial with fellow rabble-rousers. To that end, hipster presenting group Create:Fixate is staging an exhibition and mini music fest all about progressive thought and action.

More than 30 artists will join in the fun, including Obama portraitist Shepard Fairey, agitprop elder Robbie Conal, the archivists at the Center for the Study of Political Graphics and graffiti star Mear One, who will be painting live.

As for music, the DJ list is impressive. The Bodyrock crew works its Ninjaskills; Henry Strange provides blips and bleeps. Valida diverges from her weekly gig at the downtown Standard Hotel, and Slash Fiction, pictured above, brings its mysterious disco to the tables. Violinist and found-sound enthusiast Janice Markham, the event's co-curator, also performs with her "kitchen sink" performance group Somnambulist.

That's just a start. For the full lineup, go here.

-- Ann Powers

"AMP (Art.Music.Politics)" takes place Saturday at the Premiere Events Center, 613 Imperial St., downtown. The official event starts at 7 p.m., but there's a preview period beginning at 4, during which children will be admitted free and can make their own art in the Kids Creativity Zone.

Photo by Alejandra Guerreo

The Viva Yiddish! Project is a look backward and forward into L.A.'s polyglot musical heritage. In decades past, neighborhoods such as Boyle Heights had significant populations of Yiddish speakers whose uptempo klezmer tunes made unlikely but easy bedfellows with the pachuco and mambo of their Latino neighbors. Though L.A.'s neighborhoods are more broken up today, this dozens-strong ensemble -- founded by Frank London of the Klezmatics, Yiddish music scholar Michael Alpert and USC professor and music writer Josh Kun -- is a fond remembrance of the era, a thoroughly contemporary example of the possibilities of localized world music, and most important, a giant, giddy dance party. They play at 8 p.m. on Saturday at California Plaza.

-August Brown

Photo: Courtesy of Yiddishkayt Los Angeles

   

After rapper Jay-Z opens the renovated Hollywood Palladium on Oct. 15, the 68-year-old venue will rejoin the Southern California concert scene with an inaugural lineup heavy on alt-rock and hard-rock music, with splashes of hip-hop, reggaeton and rock en español.

Gym Class Heroes and the Roots will team up for an Oct. 17 show, followed by Flogging Molly (Oct. 25 -- pictured), the Kooks (Oct. 28), Rise Against (Oct. 31, Nov. 1 and 2), Dragonforce (Nov. 7) and La Fabrika del Reggaeton (Nov. 8).

Bookings continue with Mudvayne (Nov. 11), OneRepublic (Nov. 15), Alejandra Guzmán (Nov. 21), Of Montreal (Nov. 22) and Slightly Stoopid (Dec. 6). Tickets for the Rise Against shows are on sale now, Jay-Z tickets will be available Sept. 5 and the other shows go on sale Sept. 13 at Live Nation’s web site.

— Randy Lewis

Every day brings 5,000 tour announcements, but this one deserves sharing. Maxwell, the elusive neo-soul seducer and artiste, returns to the concert-hall circuit for the first time in six years. If you're not thrilled reading this, get inspired by the folks at soulbounce.com, where the post "Maxwell *Gasp* is *Pant* Going on TOUR!!" captures the mood of those in the know. It's one of the most hilariously appreciative blog posts I've read in a while.

Do you still need convincing? Check this video, shot at a HollyRod Foundation charity event in July:

In addition to Beck, Nick Cave and Feist, LA Philharmonic senior program manager Johanna Rees has dropped another dreamy show in our laps. The LA Phil has just announced that Antony and the Johnsons will be coming to the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Oct. 14, accompanied by a 20-piece orchestra, with arrangements by Antony and composer of the pomo moment Nico Muhly. This will be the only West Coast performance from Antony and the Johnsons, who have an EP coming out, "Another World," on October 7 from Secretly Canadian.

Contrary to what themed frat parties across America would have you believe, the disco world in the '70s was actually a defiant, experimental scene celebrating racial and sexual minority cultures with righteous jubilance. LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy is embarking on a DJ tour to help correct the socio-historical record while grinding today's club kids into the ground. Special Disco Version is the pet project tour from Murphy and LCD drummer Pat Mahoney, where they'll crack open the same crates of obscure remixes and lost 12-inches that yielded their awesome disco-heavy "Fabriclive" mix.

The tour comes to the Roosevelt Hotel on Sunday, but if, like so many of us at the Board, you're banned from the Tropicana Bar for past indiscretions (or just can't get in, as is often the case), there's a warehouse show Saturday at 647 Lamar St. in downtown L.A. Tickets are at blackdisco.net, and leave the paste-on sideburns and chest hair at home, thanks.

-- August Brown

Photo of Mahoney and Murphy by Ruvan Wijesooriya 

Almost four years have elapsed since Johnny Ramone, guitarist for seminal punk band the Ramones, passed through the pearly gates above. But the DIY spirit he embodied lives on at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where his ashes are interred under a cenotaph shaped like the guitarist himself, jamming in heaven. Tonight, Ramones fans are invited to the cemetery to remember the man and the legend at a special outdoor event geared around celebrating the guitarist’s legacy. Marky, Tommy and CJ Ramone will be in attendance...

Warren Buffett will play ukulele as the economy burns

From our buddy Geoff Boucher, blogging at the new LA Times blog, Culture Monster...

Warren Buffett, the world’s richest man according to Forbes magazine, will appear Friday night at the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles where he will play his ukulele. Seriously.

The 78-year-old chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway will bring his beloved four-string Uke and join his son, musician Peter Buffett, on stage for a number during the younger Buffett’s scheduled concert at the broadcasting archive, museum and seminar hub. The younger Buffett has just released a new album, “Imaginary Kingdom,” on Tuesday, and his recording career reaches back to mid-1980s. He scored the memorable “fire dance” sequence in “Dances With Wolves,” which won the Oscar for best picture of 1990, and Buffett himself won an Emmy for the soundtrack he contributed to another Native American project involving Kevin Costner, the “500 Nations” documentary miniseries from 1995.

Read the rest of 'Warren Buffett will play ukulele as the economy burns'

Because we felt that this week of news was all sunshine and unicorns, Soundboard would like to cordially invite all of you chin-stroking music-thinker types to stare your own soul-sucking irrelevance right in the eye and weep at the altars of our job-killing Internet commentariat overlords. Kidding! But The Times' own Pop Czar Ann Powers will host a hopefully less-than-prophetic panel addressing "The Death of the Critic" in music and media on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at USC, discussing the role of professional music criticism in the age of Twitter, TorrentSpy and shrinking newspapers. Panelists include Soul-Sides.com editor Oliver Wang, LA Weekly's Randall Roberts and plenty of other pretty faces attached to regular bylines around town, but you've got to RSVP to go.

We'll be the ones outside holding the stick-and-satchel combo containing our meager possessions while huddling around a trash can fire of promotional kits.

-- August Brown 

Photo of some critics who slammed the latest Coldplay album by Spencer Weiner/Los Angeles Times

These days, it's hard to stop talking, viewing or reading politics. But it's important to take a break from the testy talking heads on CNN (or the links on Talking Points Memo) and be convivial with fellow rabble-rousers. To that end, hipster presenting group Create:Fixate is staging an exhibition and mini music fest all about progressive thought and action.

More than 30 artists will join in the fun, including Obama portraitist Shepard Fairey, agitprop elder Robbie Conal, the archivists at the Center for the Study of Political Graphics and graffiti star Mear One, who will be painting live.

As for music, the DJ list is impressive. The Bodyrock crew works its Ninjaskills; Henry Strange provides blips and bleeps. Valida diverges from her weekly gig at the downtown Standard Hotel, and Slash Fiction, pictured above, brings its mysterious disco to the tables. Violinist and found-sound enthusiast Janice Markham, the event's co-curator, also performs with her "kitchen sink" performance group Somnambulist.

That's just a start. For the full lineup, go here.

-- Ann Powers

"AMP (Art.Music.Politics)" takes place Saturday at the Premiere Events Center, 613 Imperial St., downtown. The official event starts at 7 p.m., but there's a preview period beginning at 4, during which children will be admitted free and can make their own art in the Kids Creativity Zone.

Photo by Alejandra Guerreo

The Viva Yiddish! Project is a look backward and forward into L.A.'s polyglot musical heritage. In decades past, neighborhoods such as Boyle Heights had significant populations of Yiddish speakers whose uptempo klezmer tunes made unlikely but easy bedfellows with the pachuco and mambo of their Latino neighbors. Though L.A.'s neighborhoods are more broken up today, this dozens-strong ensemble -- founded by Frank London of the Klezmatics, Yiddish music scholar Michael Alpert and USC professor and music writer Josh Kun -- is a fond remembrance of the era, a thoroughly contemporary example of the possibilities of localized world music, and most important, a giant, giddy dance party. They play at 8 p.m. on Saturday at California Plaza.

-August Brown

Photo: Courtesy of Yiddishkayt Los Angeles

   

After rapper Jay-Z opens the renovated Hollywood Palladium on Oct. 15, the 68-year-old venue will rejoin the Southern California concert scene with an inaugural lineup heavy on alt-rock and hard-rock music, with splashes of hip-hop, reggaeton and rock en español.

Gym Class Heroes and the Roots will team up for an Oct. 17 show, followed by Flogging Molly (Oct. 25 -- pictured), the Kooks (Oct. 28), Rise Against (Oct. 31, Nov. 1 and 2), Dragonforce (Nov. 7) and La Fabrika del Reggaeton (Nov. 8).

Bookings continue with Mudvayne (Nov. 11), OneRepublic (Nov. 15), Alejandra Guzmán (Nov. 21), Of Montreal (Nov. 22) and Slightly Stoopid (Dec. 6). Tickets for the Rise Against shows are on sale now, Jay-Z tickets will be available Sept. 5 and the other shows go on sale Sept. 13 at Live Nation’s web site.

— Randy Lewis

Every day brings 5,000 tour announcements, but this one deserves sharing. Maxwell, the elusive neo-soul seducer and artiste, returns to the concert-hall circuit for the first time in six years. If you're not thrilled reading this, get inspired by the folks at soulbounce.com, where the post "Maxwell *Gasp* is *Pant* Going on TOUR!!" captures the mood of those in the know. It's one of the most hilariously appreciative blog posts I've read in a while.

Do you still need convincing? Check this video, shot at a HollyRod Foundation charity event in July:

In addition to Beck, Nick Cave and Feist, LA Philharmonic senior program manager Johanna Rees has dropped another dreamy show in our laps. The LA Phil has just announced that Antony and the Johnsons will be coming to the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Oct. 14, accompanied by a 20-piece orchestra, with arrangements by Antony and composer of the pomo moment Nico Muhly. This will be the only West Coast performance from Antony and the Johnsons, who have an EP coming out, "Another World," on October 7 from Secretly Canadian.

Contrary to what themed frat parties across America would have you believe, the disco world in the '70s was actually a defiant, experimental scene celebrating racial and sexual minority cultures with righteous jubilance. LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy is embarking on a DJ tour to help correct the socio-historical record while grinding today's club kids into the ground. Special Disco Version is the pet project tour from Murphy and LCD drummer Pat Mahoney, where they'll crack open the same crates of obscure remixes and lost 12-inches that yielded their awesome disco-heavy "Fabriclive" mix.

The tour comes to the Roosevelt Hotel on Sunday, but if, like so many of us at the Board, you're banned from the Tropicana Bar for past indiscretions (or just can't get in, as is often the case), there's a warehouse show Saturday at 647 Lamar St. in downtown L.A. Tickets are at blackdisco.net, and leave the paste-on sideburns and chest hair at home, thanks.

-- August Brown

Photo of Mahoney and Murphy by Ruvan Wijesooriya 

Almost four years have elapsed since Johnny Ramone, guitarist for seminal punk band the Ramones, passed through the pearly gates above. But the DIY spirit he embodied lives on at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where his ashes are interred under a cenotaph shaped like the guitarist himself, jamming in heaven. Tonight, Ramones fans are invited to the cemetery to remember the man and the legend at a special outdoor event geared around celebrating the guitarist’s legacy. Marky, Tommy and CJ Ramone will be in attendance...

Soundboard to fear for its life at 'The Death of the Critic' panel

Because we felt that this week of news was all sunshine and unicorns, Soundboard would like to cordially invite all of you chin-stroking music-thinker types to stare your own soul-sucking irrelevance right in the eye and weep at the altars of our job-killing Internet commentariat overlords. Kidding! But The Times' own Pop Czar Ann Powers will host a hopefully less-than-prophetic panel addressing "The Death of the Critic" in music and media on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at USC, discussing the role of professional music criticism in the age of Twitter, TorrentSpy and shrinking newspapers. Panelists include Soul-Sides.com editor Oliver Wang, LA Weekly's Randall Roberts and plenty of other pretty faces attached to regular bylines around town, but you've got to RSVP to go.

We'll be the ones outside holding the stick-and-satchel combo containing our meager possessions while huddling around a trash can fire of promotional kits.

-- August Brown 

Photo of some critics who slammed the latest Coldplay album by Spencer Weiner/Los Angeles Times

These days, it's hard to stop talking, viewing or reading politics. But it's important to take a break from the testy talking heads on CNN (or the links on Talking Points Memo) and be convivial with fellow rabble-rousers. To that end, hipster presenting group Create:Fixate is staging an exhibition and mini music fest all about progressive thought and action.

More than 30 artists will join in the fun, including Obama portraitist Shepard Fairey, agitprop elder Robbie Conal, the archivists at the Center for the Study of Political Graphics and graffiti star Mear One, who will be painting live.

As for music, the DJ list is impressive. The Bodyrock crew works its Ninjaskills; Henry Strange provides blips and bleeps. Valida diverges from her weekly gig at the downtown Standard Hotel, and Slash Fiction, pictured above, brings its mysterious disco to the tables. Violinist and found-sound enthusiast Janice Markham, the event's co-curator, also performs with her "kitchen sink" performance group Somnambulist.

That's just a start. For the full lineup, go here.

-- Ann Powers

"AMP (Art.Music.Politics)" takes place Saturday at the Premiere Events Center, 613 Imperial St., downtown. The official event starts at 7 p.m., but there's a preview period beginning at 4, during which children will be admitted free and can make their own art in the Kids Creativity Zone.

Photo by Alejandra Guerreo

The Viva Yiddish! Project is a look backward and forward into L.A.'s polyglot musical heritage. In decades past, neighborhoods such as Boyle Heights had significant populations of Yiddish speakers whose uptempo klezmer tunes made unlikely but easy bedfellows with the pachuco and mambo of their Latino neighbors. Though L.A.'s neighborhoods are more broken up today, this dozens-strong ensemble -- founded by Frank London of the Klezmatics, Yiddish music scholar Michael Alpert and USC professor and music writer Josh Kun -- is a fond remembrance of the era, a thoroughly contemporary example of the possibilities of localized world music, and most important, a giant, giddy dance party. They play at 8 p.m. on Saturday at California Plaza.

-August Brown

Photo: Courtesy of Yiddishkayt Los Angeles

   

After rapper Jay-Z opens the renovated Hollywood Palladium on Oct. 15, the 68-year-old venue will rejoin the Southern California concert scene with an inaugural lineup heavy on alt-rock and hard-rock music, with splashes of hip-hop, reggaeton and rock en español.

Gym Class Heroes and the Roots will team up for an Oct. 17 show, followed by Flogging Molly (Oct. 25 -- pictured), the Kooks (Oct. 28), Rise Against (Oct. 31, Nov. 1 and 2), Dragonforce (Nov. 7) and La Fabrika del Reggaeton (Nov. 8).

Bookings continue with Mudvayne (Nov. 11), OneRepublic (Nov. 15), Alejandra Guzmán (Nov. 21), Of Montreal (Nov. 22) and Slightly Stoopid (Dec. 6). Tickets for the Rise Against shows are on sale now, Jay-Z tickets will be available Sept. 5 and the other shows go on sale Sept. 13 at Live Nation’s web site.

— Randy Lewis

Every day brings 5,000 tour announcements, but this one deserves sharing. Maxwell, the elusive neo-soul seducer and artiste, returns to the concert-hall circuit for the first time in six years. If you're not thrilled reading this, get inspired by the folks at soulbounce.com, where the post "Maxwell *Gasp* is *Pant* Going on TOUR!!" captures the mood of those in the know. It's one of the most hilariously appreciative blog posts I've read in a while.

Do you still need convincing? Check this video, shot at a HollyRod Foundation charity event in July:

In addition to Beck, Nick Cave and Feist, LA Philharmonic senior program manager Johanna Rees has dropped another dreamy show in our laps. The LA Phil has just announced that Antony and the Johnsons will be coming to the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Oct. 14, accompanied by a 20-piece orchestra, with arrangements by Antony and composer of the pomo moment Nico Muhly. This will be the only West Coast performance from Antony and the Johnsons, who have an EP coming out, "Another World," on October 7 from Secretly Canadian.

Contrary to what themed frat parties across America would have you believe, the disco world in the '70s was actually a defiant, experimental scene celebrating racial and sexual minority cultures with righteous jubilance. LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy is embarking on a DJ tour to help correct the socio-historical record while grinding today's club kids into the ground. Special Disco Version is the pet project tour from Murphy and LCD drummer Pat Mahoney, where they'll crack open the same crates of obscure remixes and lost 12-inches that yielded their awesome disco-heavy "Fabriclive" mix.

The tour comes to the Roosevelt Hotel on Sunday, but if, like so many of us at the Board, you're banned from the Tropicana Bar for past indiscretions (or just can't get in, as is often the case), there's a warehouse show Saturday at 647 Lamar St. in downtown L.A. Tickets are at blackdisco.net, and leave the paste-on sideburns and chest hair at home, thanks.

-- August Brown

Photo of Mahoney and Murphy by Ruvan Wijesooriya 

Almost four years have elapsed since Johnny Ramone, guitarist for seminal punk band the Ramones, passed through the pearly gates above. But the DIY spirit he embodied lives on at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where his ashes are interred under a cenotaph shaped like the guitarist himself, jamming in heaven. Tonight, Ramones fans are invited to the cemetery to remember the man and the legend at a special outdoor event geared around celebrating the guitarist’s legacy. Marky, Tommy and CJ Ramone will be in attendance...

Explore 'Art.Music.Politics' with Create:Fixate

These days, it's hard to stop talking, viewing or reading politics. But it's important to take a break from the testy talking heads on CNN (or the links on Talking Points Memo) and be convivial with fellow rabble-rousers. To that end, hipster presenting group Create:Fixate is staging an exhibition and mini music fest all about progressive thought and action.

More than 30 artists will join in the fun, including Obama portraitist Shepard Fairey, agitprop elder Robbie Conal, the archivists at the Center for the Study of Political Graphics and graffiti star Mear One, who will be painting live.

As for music, the DJ list is impressive. The Bodyrock crew works its Ninjaskills; Henry Strange provides blips and bleeps. Valida diverges from her weekly gig at the downtown Standard Hotel, and Slash Fiction, pictured above, brings its mysterious disco to the tables. Violinist and found-sound enthusiast Janice Markham, the event's co-curator, also performs with her "kitchen sink" performance group Somnambulist.

That's just a start. For the full lineup, go here.

-- Ann Powers

"AMP (Art.Music.Politics)" takes place Saturday at the Premiere Events Center, 613 Imperial St., downtown. The official event starts at 7 p.m., but there's a preview period beginning at 4, during which children will be admitted free and can make their own art in the Kids Creativity Zone.

Photo by Alejandra Guerreo

The Viva Yiddish! Project is a look backward and forward into L.A.'s polyglot musical heritage. In decades past, neighborhoods such as Boyle Heights had significant populations of Yiddish speakers whose uptempo klezmer tunes made unlikely but easy bedfellows with the pachuco and mambo of their Latino neighbors. Though L.A.'s neighborhoods are more broken up today, this dozens-strong ensemble -- founded by Frank London of the Klezmatics, Yiddish music scholar Michael Alpert and USC professor and music writer Josh Kun -- is a fond remembrance of the era, a thoroughly contemporary example of the possibilities of localized world music, and most important, a giant, giddy dance party. They play at 8 p.m. on Saturday at California Plaza.

-August Brown

Photo: Courtesy of Yiddishkayt Los Angeles

   

After rapper Jay-Z opens the renovated Hollywood Palladium on Oct. 15, the 68-year-old venue will rejoin the Southern California concert scene with an inaugural lineup heavy on alt-rock and hard-rock music, with splashes of hip-hop, reggaeton and rock en español.

Gym Class Heroes and the Roots will team up for an Oct. 17 show, followed by Flogging Molly (Oct. 25 -- pictured), the Kooks (Oct. 28), Rise Against (Oct. 31, Nov. 1 and 2), Dragonforce (Nov. 7) and La Fabrika del Reggaeton (Nov. 8).

Bookings continue with Mudvayne (Nov. 11), OneRepublic (Nov. 15), Alejandra Guzmán (Nov. 21), Of Montreal (Nov. 22) and Slightly Stoopid (Dec. 6). Tickets for the Rise Against shows are on sale now, Jay-Z tickets will be available Sept. 5 and the other shows go on sale Sept. 13 at Live Nation’s web site.

— Randy Lewis

Every day brings 5,000 tour announcements, but this one deserves sharing. Maxwell, the elusive neo-soul seducer and artiste, returns to the concert-hall circuit for the first time in six years. If you're not thrilled reading this, get inspired by the folks at soulbounce.com, where the post "Maxwell *Gasp* is *Pant* Going on TOUR!!" captures the mood of those in the know. It's one of the most hilariously appreciative blog posts I've read in a while.

Do you still need convincing? Check this video, shot at a HollyRod Foundation charity event in July:

In addition to Beck, Nick Cave and Feist, LA Philharmonic senior program manager Johanna Rees has dropped another dreamy show in our laps. The LA Phil has just announced that Antony and the Johnsons will be coming to the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Oct. 14, accompanied by a 20-piece orchestra, with arrangements by Antony and composer of the pomo moment Nico Muhly. This will be the only West Coast performance from Antony and the Johnsons, who have an EP coming out, "Another World," on October 7 from Secretly Canadian.

Contrary to what themed frat parties across America would have you believe, the disco world in the '70s was actually a defiant, experimental scene celebrating racial and sexual minority cultures with righteous jubilance. LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy is embarking on a DJ tour to help correct the socio-historical record while grinding today's club kids into the ground. Special Disco Version is the pet project tour from Murphy and LCD drummer Pat Mahoney, where they'll crack open the same crates of obscure remixes and lost 12-inches that yielded their awesome disco-heavy "Fabriclive" mix.

The tour comes to the Roosevelt Hotel on Sunday, but if, like so many of us at the Board, you're banned from the Tropicana Bar for past indiscretions (or just can't get in, as is often the case), there's a warehouse show Saturday at 647 Lamar St. in downtown L.A. Tickets are at blackdisco.net, and leave the paste-on sideburns and chest hair at home, thanks.

-- August Brown

Photo of Mahoney and Murphy by Ruvan Wijesooriya 

Almost four years have elapsed since Johnny Ramone, guitarist for seminal punk band the Ramones, passed through the pearly gates above. But the DIY spirit he embodied lives on at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where his ashes are interred under a cenotaph shaped like the guitarist himself, jamming in heaven. Tonight, Ramones fans are invited to the cemetery to remember the man and the legend at a special outdoor event geared around celebrating the guitarist’s legacy. Marky, Tommy and CJ Ramone will be in attendance...

Viva Yiddish! Project is a glimpse at vintage L.A. music

The Viva Yiddish! Project is a look backward and forward into L.A.'s polyglot musical heritage. In decades past, neighborhoods such as Boyle Heights had significant populations of Yiddish speakers whose uptempo klezmer tunes made unlikely but easy bedfellows with the pachuco and mambo of their Latino neighbors. Though L.A.'s neighborhoods are more broken up today, this dozens-strong ensemble -- founded by Frank London of the Klezmatics, Yiddish music scholar Michael Alpert and USC professor and music writer Josh Kun -- is a fond remembrance of the era, a thoroughly contemporary example of the possibilities of localized world music, and most important, a giant, giddy dance party. They play at 8 p.m. on Saturday at California Plaza.

-August Brown

Photo: Courtesy of Yiddishkayt Los Angeles

   

After rapper Jay-Z opens the renovated Hollywood Palladium on Oct. 15, the 68-year-old venue will rejoin the Southern California concert scene with an inaugural lineup heavy on alt-rock and hard-rock music, with splashes of hip-hop, reggaeton and rock en español.

Gym Class Heroes and the Roots will team up for an Oct. 17 show, followed by Flogging Molly (Oct. 25 -- pictured), the Kooks (Oct. 28), Rise Against (Oct. 31, Nov. 1 and 2), Dragonforce (Nov. 7) and La Fabrika del Reggaeton (Nov. 8).

Bookings continue with Mudvayne (Nov. 11), OneRepublic (Nov. 15), Alejandra Guzmán (Nov. 21), Of Montreal (Nov. 22) and Slightly Stoopid (Dec. 6). Tickets for the Rise Against shows are on sale now, Jay-Z tickets will be available Sept. 5 and the other shows go on sale Sept. 13 at Live Nation’s web site.

— Randy Lewis

Every day brings 5,000 tour announcements, but this one deserves sharing. Maxwell, the elusive neo-soul seducer and artiste, returns to the concert-hall circuit for the first time in six years. If you're not thrilled reading this, get inspired by the folks at soulbounce.com, where the post "Maxwell *Gasp* is *Pant* Going on TOUR!!" captures the mood of those in the know. It's one of the most hilariously appreciative blog posts I've read in a while.

Do you still need convincing? Check this video, shot at a HollyRod Foundation charity event in July:

In addition to Beck, Nick Cave and Feist, LA Philharmonic senior program manager Johanna Rees has dropped another dreamy show in our laps. The LA Phil has just announced that Antony and the Johnsons will be coming to the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Oct. 14, accompanied by a 20-piece orchestra, with arrangements by Antony and composer of the pomo moment Nico Muhly. This will be the only West Coast performance from Antony and the Johnsons, who have an EP coming out, "Another World," on October 7 from Secretly Canadian.

Contrary to what themed frat parties across America would have you believe, the disco world in the '70s was actually a defiant, experimental scene celebrating racial and sexual minority cultures with righteous jubilance. LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy is embarking on a DJ tour to help correct the socio-historical record while grinding today's club kids into the ground. Special Disco Version is the pet project tour from Murphy and LCD drummer Pat Mahoney, where they'll crack open the same crates of obscure remixes and lost 12-inches that yielded their awesome disco-heavy "Fabriclive" mix.

The tour comes to the Roosevelt Hotel on Sunday, but if, like so many of us at the Board, you're banned from the Tropicana Bar for past indiscretions (or just can't get in, as is often the case), there's a warehouse show Saturday at 647 Lamar St. in downtown L.A. Tickets are at blackdisco.net, and leave the paste-on sideburns and chest hair at home, thanks.

-- August Brown

Photo of Mahoney and Murphy by Ruvan Wijesooriya 

Almost four years have elapsed since Johnny Ramone, guitarist for seminal punk band the Ramones, passed through the pearly gates above. But the DIY spirit he embodied lives on at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where his ashes are interred under a cenotaph shaped like the guitarist himself, jamming in heaven. Tonight, Ramones fans are invited to the cemetery to remember the man and the legend at a special outdoor event geared around celebrating the guitarist’s legacy. Marky, Tommy and CJ Ramone will be in attendance...

Expanded Hollywood Palladium lineup unveiled

   

After rapper Jay-Z opens the renovated Hollywood Palladium on Oct. 15, the 68-year-old venue will rejoin the Southern California concert scene with an inaugural lineup heavy on alt-rock and hard-rock music, with splashes of hip-hop, reggaeton and rock en español.

Gym Class Heroes and the Roots will team up for an Oct. 17 show, followed by Flogging Molly (Oct. 25 -- pictured), the Kooks (Oct. 28), Rise Against (Oct. 31, Nov. 1 and 2), Dragonforce (Nov. 7) and La Fabrika del Reggaeton (Nov. 8).

Bookings continue with Mudvayne (Nov. 11), OneRepublic (Nov. 15), Alejandra Guzmán (Nov. 21), Of Montreal (Nov. 22) and Slightly Stoopid (Dec. 6). Tickets for the Rise Against shows are on sale now, Jay-Z tickets will be available Sept. 5 and the other shows go on sale Sept. 13 at Live Nation’s web site.

— Randy Lewis

Every day brings 5,000 tour announcements, but this one deserves sharing. Maxwell, the elusive neo-soul seducer and artiste, returns to the concert-hall circuit for the first time in six years. If you're not thrilled reading this, get inspired by the folks at soulbounce.com, where the post "Maxwell *Gasp* is *Pant* Going on TOUR!!" captures the mood of those in the know. It's one of the most hilariously appreciative blog posts I've read in a while.

Do you still need convincing? Check this video, shot at a HollyRod Foundation charity event in July:

In addition to Beck, Nick Cave and Feist, LA Philharmonic senior program manager Johanna Rees has dropped another dreamy show in our laps. The LA Phil has just announced that Antony and the Johnsons will be coming to the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Oct. 14, accompanied by a 20-piece orchestra, with arrangements by Antony and composer of the pomo moment Nico Muhly. This will be the only West Coast performance from Antony and the Johnsons, who have an EP coming out, "Another World," on October 7 from Secretly Canadian.

Contrary to what themed frat parties across America would have you believe, the disco world in the '70s was actually a defiant, experimental scene celebrating racial and sexual minority cultures with righteous jubilance. LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy is embarking on a DJ tour to help correct the socio-historical record while grinding today's club kids into the ground. Special Disco Version is the pet project tour from Murphy and LCD drummer Pat Mahoney, where they'll crack open the same crates of obscure remixes and lost 12-inches that yielded their awesome disco-heavy "Fabriclive" mix.

The tour comes to the Roosevelt Hotel on Sunday, but if, like so many of us at the Board, you're banned from the Tropicana Bar for past indiscretions (or just can't get in, as is often the case), there's a warehouse show Saturday at 647 Lamar St. in downtown L.A. Tickets are at blackdisco.net, and leave the paste-on sideburns and chest hair at home, thanks.

-- August Brown

Photo of Mahoney and Murphy by Ruvan Wijesooriya 

Almost four years have elapsed since Johnny Ramone, guitarist for seminal punk band the Ramones, passed through the pearly gates above. But the DIY spirit he embodied lives on at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where his ashes are interred under a cenotaph shaped like the guitarist himself, jamming in heaven. Tonight, Ramones fans are invited to the cemetery to remember the man and the legend at a special outdoor event geared around celebrating the guitarist’s legacy. Marky, Tommy and CJ Ramone will be in attendance...

Neo-soul seducer Maxwell is coming to the Shrine Auditorium on a rare tour

Every day brings 5,000 tour announcements, but this one deserves sharing. Maxwell, the elusive neo-soul seducer and artiste, returns to the concert-hall circuit for the first time in six years. If you're not thrilled reading this, get inspired by the folks at soulbounce.com, where the post "Maxwell *Gasp* is *Pant* Going on TOUR!!" captures the mood of those in the know. It's one of the most hilariously appreciative blog posts I've read in a while.

Do you still need convincing? Check this video, shot at a HollyRod Foundation charity event in July:

In addition to Beck, Nick Cave and Feist, LA Philharmonic senior program manager Johanna Rees has dropped another dreamy show in our laps. The LA Phil has just announced that Antony and the Johnsons will be coming to the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Oct. 14, accompanied by a 20-piece orchestra, with arrangements by Antony and composer of the pomo moment Nico Muhly. This will be the only West Coast performance from Antony and the Johnsons, who have an EP coming out, "Another World," on October 7 from Secretly Canadian.

Contrary to what themed frat parties across America would have you believe, the disco world in the '70s was actually a defiant, experimental scene celebrating racial and sexual minority cultures with righteous jubilance. LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy is embarking on a DJ tour to help correct the socio-historical record while grinding today's club kids into the ground. Special Disco Version is the pet project tour from Murphy and LCD drummer Pat Mahoney, where they'll crack open the same crates of obscure remixes and lost 12-inches that yielded their awesome disco-heavy "Fabriclive" mix.

The tour comes to the Roosevelt Hotel on Sunday, but if, like so many of us at the Board, you're banned from the Tropicana Bar for past indiscretions (or just can't get in, as is often the case), there's a warehouse show Saturday at 647 Lamar St. in downtown L.A. Tickets are at blackdisco.net, and leave the paste-on sideburns and chest hair at home, thanks.

-- August Brown

Photo of Mahoney and Murphy by Ruvan Wijesooriya 

Almost four years have elapsed since Johnny Ramone, guitarist for seminal punk band the Ramones, passed through the pearly gates above. But the DIY spirit he embodied lives on at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where his ashes are interred under a cenotaph shaped like the guitarist himself, jamming in heaven. Tonight, Ramones fans are invited to the cemetery to remember the man and the legend at a special outdoor event geared around celebrating the guitarist’s legacy. Marky, Tommy and CJ Ramone will be in attendance...

Antony and the Johnsons will play Walt Disney Concert Hall on Oct. 14

In addition to Beck, Nick Cave and Feist, LA Philharmonic senior program manager Johanna Rees has dropped another dreamy show in our laps. The LA Phil has just announced that Antony and the Johnsons will be coming to the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Oct. 14, accompanied by a 20-piece orchestra, with arrangements by Antony and composer of the pomo moment Nico Muhly. This will be the only West Coast performance from Antony and the Johnsons, who have an EP coming out, "Another World," on October 7 from Secretly Canadian.

Contrary to what themed frat parties across America would have you believe, the disco world in the '70s was actually a defiant, experimental scene celebrating racial and sexual minority cultures with righteous jubilance. LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy is embarking on a DJ tour to help correct the socio-historical record while grinding today's club kids into the ground. Special Disco Version is the pet project tour from Murphy and LCD drummer Pat Mahoney, where they'll crack open the same crates of obscure remixes and lost 12-inches that yielded their awesome disco-heavy "Fabriclive" mix.

The tour comes to the Roosevelt Hotel on Sunday, but if, like so many of us at the Board, you're banned from the Tropicana Bar for past indiscretions (or just can't get in, as is often the case), there's a warehouse show Saturday at 647 Lamar St. in downtown L.A. Tickets are at blackdisco.net, and leave the paste-on sideburns and chest hair at home, thanks.

-- August Brown

Photo of Mahoney and Murphy by Ruvan Wijesooriya 

Almost four years have elapsed since Johnny Ramone, guitarist for seminal punk band the Ramones, passed through the pearly gates above. But the DIY spirit he embodied lives on at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where his ashes are interred under a cenotaph shaped like the guitarist himself, jamming in heaven. Tonight, Ramones fans are invited to the cemetery to remember the man and the legend at a special outdoor event geared around celebrating the guitarist’s legacy. Marky, Tommy and CJ Ramone will be in attendance...

LCD Soundsystem's vintage disco party

Contrary to what themed frat parties across America would have you believe, the disco world in the '70s was actually a defiant, experimental scene celebrating racial and sexual minority cultures with righteous jubilance. LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy is embarking on a DJ tour to help correct the socio-historical record while grinding today's club kids into the ground. Special Disco Version is the pet project tour from Murphy and LCD drummer Pat Mahoney, where they'll crack open the same crates of obscure remixes and lost 12-inches that yielded their awesome disco-heavy "Fabriclive" mix.

The tour comes to the Roosevelt Hotel on Sunday, but if, like so many of us at the Board, you're banned from the Tropicana Bar for past indiscretions (or just can't get in, as is often the case), there's a warehouse show Saturday at 647 Lamar St. in downtown L.A. Tickets are at blackdisco.net, and leave the paste-on sideburns and chest hair at home, thanks.

-- August Brown

Photo of Mahoney and Murphy by Ruvan Wijesooriya 

Almost four years have elapsed since Johnny Ramone, guitarist for seminal punk band the Ramones, passed through the pearly gates above. But the DIY spirit he embodied lives on at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where his ashes are interred under a cenotaph shaped like the guitarist himself, jamming in heaven. Tonight, Ramones fans are invited to the cemetery to remember the man and the legend at a special outdoor event geared around celebrating the guitarist’s legacy. Marky, Tommy and CJ Ramone will be in attendance...

Hey! Ho! Let's go! Ramones tonight at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Almost four years have elapsed since Johnny Ramone, guitarist for seminal punk band the Ramones, passed through the pearly gates above. But the DIY spirit he embodied lives on at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where his ashes are interred under a cenotaph shaped like the guitarist himself, jamming in heaven. Tonight, Ramones fans are invited to the cemetery to remember the man and the legend at a special outdoor event geared around celebrating the guitarist’s legacy. Marky, Tommy and CJ Ramone will be in attendance...