In an excerpt from the new book “Los Lobos: Dream in Blue,” author Chris Morris recounts the fateful night the legendary East L.A. band opened for Public Image Ltd. The band’s new album “Gates of Gold” is out Sept. 25.
Story and photo gallery by Laurie Scavo Devendra Banhart was not the star of the show Saturday night at Space 15 Twenty – no matter how much his fans wanted him to be. He was merely the subject of a book. Maybe that explained the brevity of the singer-songwriter’s set in front of an overflow […]
What do you get when you combine rock ‘n’ roll musicians, a love for trompe l’oeil and a fascination with 18th- and 19th-century portraiture? “Gooseberries,” apparently. Which is not the same as goosebumps, although L.A. photographer Sterling Andrews might have gotten some of those too in creating the images in her “album,” which will be […]
[Here’s the intro to my story in today’s LA Weekly on the rock ‘n’ roll novel “Rock Bottom.” Can’t wait to see the Blood Orphans …] You’ve heard the Blood Orphans’ story before, right? The band broke big out of Silver Lake a few years back, thrilling the hipsters at Spaceland with their high-energy, sweat-stained […]
