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Bill Kopp on March 22, 2018
Michael Schenker is quite likely the most famous and acclaimed German-born guitarist in the history of rock. Picking up the guitar early, by his teens Schenker joined older brother Rudolf in Scorpions, playing on that band’s debut album. His long and winding career subsequently found him handling lead guitar duties for UFO,…
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Jaleny Reyes on March 9, 2018
Houston DJ and producer Kayzo launched his career in 2012, after electronic music promoter Insomniac selected him as the winner of their Discovery Project. Since then, he has grown a fan base by remixing songs, linking up with talented collaborators and producing original trap and hardstyle music. His popular remixes include a…
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Richard von Busack on March 5, 2018
We could talk about Bonnie Raitt, who is playing the City National Civic on the Ides of March, as a class act of many years’ standing. She’s iconic, a compact figure crowned with supersize hair the color of a vixen’s tail, a great-hearted roots rocker with a fetchingly sly approach to songs…
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Bill Kopp on February 16, 2018
Air Supply was one of the biggest-selling acts of the 1980s. With a long string of smash hits—including an impressive string of 10 consecutive Top 40 singles—the Australian band satisfied the listening public’s craving for tuneful, romantic pop. But when the duo of Graham Russell (guitar, vocals and songwriting) and lead singer…
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Yousif Kassab on January 24, 2018
Oh, to have been a fly on the wall at RCA when it was first proposed that Kenny Rogers pick up a song originally penned for Marvin Gaye by the Bee Gees. One imagines that conversation raised some eyebrows. But “Islands in the Stream,” Rogers’ 1983 hit duet with Dolly Parton, is…
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Saxophonist Dave Koz has played with everyone from Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder, to Celine Dion, U2, and Burt Bacharach. And if you’ve ever wanted to get in on a little Koz-play, the City National Civic is the place for you this week. For the past past years, Koz has helped people…
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It’s set to be a family affair as Jewel Kilcher brings her father, Atz, and two brothers—Atz Lee and Nikos—along for a night of seasonal classics, holiday-themed originals and her own pop hits. Better known as simply Jewel, the singer and songwriter first rose to prominence in 1995 after her breakout LP,…
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André Jaquez on November 22, 2017
The Give Thanks festival lays claim to being the largest Thanksgiving weekend electronic dance music event in Northern California. The three-day festival begins Wednesday with the Parisian DJ duo of Tchami and Malaa. Their latest single, “The Sermon” comes from their upcoming collab EP, No Redemption. Malaa’s old-school style blends with Tchami’s…
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Andrew Lentz on October 25, 2017
Once in the O.C., always in the O.C. That’s how it goes for singer-guitarist Dustin Kensrue, currently kicking back at home in Irvine, California. In fact, three-fourths of post-hardcore heroes Thrice call Orange County home. Guitarist Teppei Teranishi is the only member to escape north to Palo Alto. But thanks to technology,…
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André Jaquez on September 27, 2017
Julian Scanian’s neon pink and blue alter ego Slushii merges twinkly polysynth leads with party-rocking bass lines and recalls the work of contemporaries like Marshmello, Mura Masa and Louis the Child. However, unlike some arena-rattling dance music stars who reach out to guest vocalists to amp up their arrangements, Slushii lends his…
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