Billy Diamond, who was instrumental in the launch of Fats Domino’s career, passed away in Los Angeles, October 20 from natural causes. He was 95. Diamond was born in New Orleans on October 5, 1916, and grew up on Louisiana Avenue. “Louis Armstrong actually gave me a trumpet in 1930, but I never learned to [...]
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Voodoo Experience Highlight: Los Angeles Bands
November 1, 2011 – 12:21 am
She had to leave Los Angeles / sippin’ on gin and juice / it’s the story of my life / just work the angles the city I’m from is Los Angeles. A boy can dream, can’t he? It’s just so tantalizing, the thought of an L.A.-in-LA extravaganza at Voodoo in which four iconic Angeleno [...]
Voodoo Experience Highlight: Fitz and the Tantrums
November 1, 2011 – 12:15 am
In an era defined by piecemeal pop, snazzy Los Angeles sextet Fitz and the Tantrums have stirred up crowds the world over with a nouveau-soul sound that is as snappy as it is subtle. The brainchild of Michael “Fitz” Fitzpatrick, the band materialized out of an impromptu jam session in his living room—their impetus, marrying [...]
Monk Institute Leaving (and Not Leaving) New Orleans
April 16, 2011 – 10:52 am
After four years, nearly two dozen graduates, and an extensive community outreach program, the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance is ending its collegiate program at Loyola University. Monk Institute Board of Trustees Chairman Thelonious Monk, Jr. said in an April 13 letter addressed to the institute’s partners that the institute will end its current [...]
Warpaint Attacks Republic Tonight
April 7, 2011 – 12:57 pm
Tonight Los Angeles indie rockers Warpaint come to Republic on their current Spring tour around the States (they were in Australia and New Zealand at the beginning of the year, and head across the pond to England in May). The band has received a lot of buzz since the release of their latest album The [...]
Best of the Beat Music Business Award: Johnny Palazzotto
January 1, 2011 – 12:20 am
“My instructions were to go to the airport to pick him up, and whatever Son House told me to do, I did. The first thing we did was he said to hit the liquor store.” The setting was Los Angeles, 1971, and Johnny Palazzotto was 23 years-old, just embarking on a lifelong career of taking [...]
YouTube du Jour: DaM-Funk
December 17, 2010 – 10:01 am
Tonight, DJ Soul Sister presents DaM-Funk at One Eyed Jacks – the L.A. DJ that she considers her favorite DJ. He leans toward ’80s and ’90s synth-heavy funk as is evident in this video for “Hood Pass Intact.”
Dâm-Funk at One Eyed Jacks Friday, December 17
December 1, 2010 – 12:20 am
In the world of local funk, there are few praises higher than “DJ Soul Sister’s Favorite DJ,” but that’s who will be playing his first show in New Orleans December 17. A 20-plus-year veteran, Dâm-Funk’s star began to rise a few years ago when word of his DJ night, “Funkmosphere,” spread throughout Los Angeles and [...]
AM, Future Sons and Daughters (Filter US Records)
November 1, 2010 – 12:52 am
The singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist AM was raised in Mandeville and graduated from Loyola University in New Orleans. AM himself is usually careful to mention his Crescent City soul influences, but Future Sons and Daughters, his third full-length release, bears a much deeper imprint from the other LA. Recorded and mastered on Santa Monica Boulevard, [...]
