Monday, October 6th, 2008

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Classical musician experiments with his sound

Bruin performer Ethan Braun attempts to bring his kind of improv music to mainstream

It is an aspiring composer’s fantasy – one day you’re holding jam sessions in the privacy of your tiny Westwood apartment, waving your finger around like Mozart, and the next, you’re in a recording studio working on your first album.

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Concert Review: “Detour Music Festival”

The Mars Volta has once again blown minds onto the streets of America.

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Concert Review: "Ben Kweller"

The room was packed, and I stood leaning against the railing of the second floor, watching the twirling lights rotate over the sea of heads and shoulders to make the Troubadour look like an aquarium.

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Cash at Folsom Prison

Cash’s obsession with the inmates of the American prison system is the focus of director Bestor Cram’s documentary

There may never be another artist who embodies contradictions as effortlessly as Johnny Cash.

He was the country music singer who hobnobbed with Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. He wrote compassionate, civil-minded songs for ...

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Festival embodies downtown diversity

Each year brings with it an onslaught of music festivals, each with a unique lineup, backdrop and mission. But none are quite like the Detour music festival.

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Kronos Quartet to perform 9/11 tribute

Unorthodox and daring, the Grammy Award-winning Kronos Quartet takes impeccably rehearsed classical string music, throws in musical influences from every corner of the globe, adds a bit of technology and refuses to let the bow part with the string until the sound created is one never heard before.

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Artistic Allies

Art directors step away from collaborative movie-making magic to make dazzling works of their own

As a scenic artist in the entertainment industry, Bridget Duffy has painted around wild animals, worked in Japan, and even helped to create a banner that broke through the Earth’s atmosphere on a NASA shuttle. But this past month she was given a much different artistic opportunity

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The loss of love, as only a melancholy machine can experience

Canadian-native Stars engage fans through their heartfelt mix of the electronic and organic

Are you a sad robot?

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Kanye, I love you, but the vibe is wrong

Dear Kanye,
Hey ‘Ye. How’s it going?

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Baltimore duo keeps a raw, soft sound

As the harsh hoodrat setting of HBO’s “The Wire,” Baltimore has been getting much exposure lately – its gritty, gray streets setting the scene for drug dealing and hardened violence.

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