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Rodney’s Remembered: Runaway Kari Krome on Bingenheimer’s Legendary English Disco Earlier this month, Los Angeles Magazine announced that Rodney's English Disco - LA's seminal glam nightclub founded by KROQ DJ and "Mayor of the Sunset Strip" Rodney Bingenheimer in...
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Save Your Hearing: Escape From Noise! Editor’s note – Candice Costa was the coolest audiologist we ever knew. She passed away on March 23rd, 2014 nearly exactly 3 years after we interviewed her for this article. We will miss her forever. At least we feel...Goldenvoice 30: Punk’s Not Dead
Goldenvoice 30: Punk’s Not Dead “I like to keep my hair short and play my music loud / Does that really mean I’m a menace to your crowd? Maybe you’ve been brainwashed by that bullshit on TV / Throw away your prejudice/Use your mind to see,” – Ill Repute, “Book...
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Three Times a Lady Sniff The loss of virginity – Butthole Surfers virginity that is – is a tender time, recalled with hilarity in this excerpt from Dave Brigham's book "(C)Rock Stories" How could I resist the Red Worms’ Tour of Superhot Lots? My high school buddy John...A Rock Fan's Mid-Life Crisis
I used to tell people I worked in the “social expression” industry. Their usual response…”so you work in porn.” “No”, I would respond, “I write those lovely sayings on the inside of greeting cards”. Not quite as...Indie Touring 101:
Bill See first came into the public eye in the late 80’s as the charismatic frontman for LA band Divine Weeks. In his new memoir, “33 Days: Touring In A Van. Sleeping On Floors. Chasing A Dream” See chronicles his band’s first North American tour in a beat up...Mommies Go Gaga
Most pediatricians will tell you that an infant begins babbling at about six months, stringing together nonsensical groups of syllables as she sits in her little high chair. And most moms will tell you that this milestone is more than welcome. After the countless...For Pete’s Sake
For Pete’s Sake It’s the Spring of 1986, and I’m wandering around Boston in the middle of a tough season — recent breakup, career not happening, future looking dicey — when I invest in a music magazine and read what has to be a good omen: The Monkees are getting back...
