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Eric Otis has some big shoes to fill. Not only is his father the legendary guitarist-songwriter Shuggie Otis, but his two grandfathers are R&B pioneer Johnny Otis and ageless big band leader Gerald Wilson. But on Wilson’s upcoming album, Legacy, Eric gets to show off his composing and orchestration chops. “I found some sheet music Read More →
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UPDATE: 5/16/11 4:45pm: Greg Miller, publicist for Cali Swag District, told the Los Angeles Times that the shooting of Montae “M-Bone” Talbert was” a completely random occurrence. This was a really good kid. He was not involved in mischief.” Conversely, TMZ is reporting that the shooting may have been related to a feud over a Read More →
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Charles “Chaz” Bojórquez became enamored with art for two reasons: the art he’d seen in museums, and the art he’d seen in sewers as a child growing up in Highland Park. “People made graffiti with smoke from Zippo lighters, or tar,” recalls Bojórquez. “When I was younger and I met Marcel Duchamp, and I saw Andy Warhol’s first Read More →
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The new album from Hello Seahorse!, Lejos. No Tan Lejos, is filled with haunting and moody synths, which was the next logical step for the band, according to lead singer Denise Gutierrez, aka “Lo Blondo.” “People can call it evolution [from their previous album], but it’s all about, ‘How do I feel now, what do Read More →
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French-Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux stopped by LA>FWD headquarters to talk about her love of hip-hop, how she was a musical late-bloomer, and why she never refers to her audience as “fans.” “It’s hard for me to talk about fans,” she told LA>FWD. “I see my audience [as] more than fans, I see the public like Read More →
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LA>Forward caught up with producer/songwriter Dallas Austin at BMI’s pre-Grammy panel, “How I Wrote That Song.” We asked him a few questions about hanging in L.A. 1) Favorite studio?: “Babyface’s studio because nobody else is there. He don’t really rent it out so, if you are in there, you are by yourself… plus, you’ve got Read More →
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By Alice Shin Amazing. I came across this quite randomly recently and, on the surface, it seemed like a really cool J-pop music video that incorporates classic Japanese minimalist analog creativity and precision in the form of a pop-and-lock dance troupe. But then as I watched it again and again, I realized that Genki Sudo/World Read More →
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The music world lost a luminary, and tributes to the late singer Teena Marie are being posted on Twitter and YouTube. Artists have shown an immense outpouring of love since Marie’s passing this past weekend. Here are a few Tweets: Sean “Diddy” Combs: “R.I.P. Teena Marie. God Bless. Damn I just saw her the other Read More →
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Austin indie band Maneja Beto recently swung by the Cosmica Records offices in Los Angeles to talk trash about our chicken and waffles and to promote their new single, tragedias: ofrendas. Here, they interview each other on the influences of their sound (spoiler: they do not sound like Slayer), why they choose to sing in Read More →
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Mexico-born singer/songwriter Carla Morrison recently stopped by LAFWD headquarters to chat about her recent album,”Mientras Dormias” (“While You Were Sleeping”). Morrison shared with us what it was like working with Grammy Award-winning Natalia Lafourcade on the album, what performing means to her, and where she gets her inspiration from.
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