Listen to Anthony Aguiar, lead singer for the band P A R I S, describe the mystique of The Satellite in Silver Lake, one of L.A.’s most storied concert venues. Continue reading
![[Annenberg Radio] Sonic City: The Satellite](https://dainabeth.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/paris-band.jpg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "[Annenberg Radio] Sonic City: The Satellite")
Tag Archives: MUSIC
![[Blog] “Music as Urbanism” at the Armory Center: Rural Music, Christopher Dorner Corridos, + L.A. Songlines](https://dainabeth.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/bpluscolombia-musicos.jpg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "[Blog] “Music as Urbanism” at the Armory Center: Rural Music, Christopher Dorner Corridos, + L.A. Songlines")
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[Blog] “Music as Urbanism” at the Armory Center: Rural Music, Christopher Dorner Corridos, + L.A. Songlines
Last week, creative thinkers Brian Cross, Eamon Ore-Giron, Josh Kun and Susannah Tantemsapya met up at Pasadena’s Armory Center for the Arts to discuss “Music as Urbanism.” Their presentations took us from the American southwest to Cali, Colombia, and home to Los Angeles. We heard (literally) about Peruvian processionals, Colombia’s “música pacífica,” and Mexican migrant music. And we contemplated the sonic landscapes of both our cities and our minds. Here are a few ideas that buzzed most loudly in my head. Continue reading
![[Blog] Masanga Marima Brings “Guantanamera” from L.A. to Zimbabwe and Back (+ Video)](https://dainabeth.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/016.jpg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "[Blog] Masanga Marima Brings “Guantanamera” from L.A. to Zimbabwe and Back (+ Video)")
[Blog] Masanga Marima Brings “Guantanamera” from L.A. to Zimbabwe and Back (+ Video)
The simple tune and patriotic lyrics of “Guantanamera,” Cuba’s signature song, have traveled to numerous far-flung corners of the planet. Even unlikely ones, I learned last Friday at a concert by Masanga Marimba at MacArthur Park’s Levitt Pavilion. Masanga Marimba blends African and Latin American musical styles, mostly played on seven Zimbabwean marimbas ranging from … Continue reading
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Café Tacvba Celebrates 20th Anniversary With “Seguir Siendo”
I squinted at the small TV, trying to figure out what to make of the enthusiastic, eccentric performers on the screen. The small guy with the nasaly voice wearing an image of large breasts on his t-shirt. The slender pianist who paused his playing to raise his arms and do a dance from the torso … Continue reading
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[Blog] The Donkey Show: From Tijuana to Santa Monica Museum of Art
My trips to Tijuana have always included strolling down the main tourist drag, la Avenida de la Revolución — dodging panhandlers, buying up pottery, and stopping for snacks of tacos, or even better, sizzling bacon-wrapped hot dogs. I’ve also ogled and smirked at the notoriously cheesy zebra-striped donkeys. Little did I know about their fabled … Continue reading
[LA Times] Rachael Worby conducts Pasadena Pops in stirring, dry-eyed final performance
“It looks like I’m crying, but I’m not,” vocalist Jodi Benson said after her moving rendition of “The Way We Were” at the Pasadena Pops concert Saturday night. “I’m really not emotional, it’s just that I have eyelash glue in my eye.”
Benson was in fact dry-eyed, as was conductor Rachael Worby, who prepared for the downbeat of the next piece. But tear-streaked faces were evident on many of the 2,000 fans picnicking on the grass outside the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. The song that expresses the nostalgia of memories and lost dreams struck a chord with the crowd attending the final Pops concert conducted by Worby, who announced her resignation as music director in mid-August. Continue reading
![[LA Times] The Wiggles: Bubbly superstars of the preschool set](https://dainabeth.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/the-wiggles-kirkmckoy-cropped.jpg?w=290&h=273&crop=1 "[LA Times] The Wiggles: Bubbly superstars of the preschool set")
[LA Times] The Wiggles: Bubbly superstars of the preschool set
Who can resist the Wiggles? The Australian group has spent the last 20 years clowning around onstage, bringing its songs, smiling faces, brightly colored turtleneck jerseys and bubbly personalities to kids around the world.
Anthony Field, Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt and Sam Moran, color-coded as, respectively, the blue, red, purple and yellow Wiggles, appeal to kids with their carefully choreographed simplicity and lyrics such as “Fruit salad, yummy yummy! Fruit salad, yummy yummy!”…. Continue reading
[LA Times] Autry Center welcomes Roy Rogers’ first guitar to collection
It was Cincinnati, 1929, and the Slye family was struggling to make ends meet. To help out, 17-year-old Leonard Slye traded high school for a shoe factory job. Perhaps it was a youthful whim that led him to pay $20 for a guitar from a secondhand shop. Little did he realize how much the investment would pay off, leading him down happier trails to a life of fame and success as TV, film and radio star Roy Rogers…. Continue reading
[LA Times] In session at Disney Hall
Consider the idea of 75 lawyers and judges spending three hours in one room. Imagine the bickering babble and angry roars. Picture the disgruntled frowns. Visualize stacks and stacks of hefty law books.
The last thing you would expect is to hear the strains of luscious Beethoven…. Continue reading
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Concert Review: True Amor for Julieta Venegas
“The fantasy is better,” Julieta Venegas belted to open her Club Nokia show on May 19th. This may be true of the song’s glorification of “amores platonicos,” but not a concert by Venegas. The Mexican pop songstress brought such joy, spirit and energy to her live performance that it exceeded any fantasy one could have had of seeing her in person… Continue reading
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