Sam Cooke: The reason his mysterious 1964 murder was ruled a “justifiable homicide”
Truth is hard to come by.
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The man who shot a passenger plane in flight in the name of performance art
The things you could get away with back then…
‘The Slog Movie’: Raw and unkempt punk chaos erupts out of West Los Angeles, 1982
We’ve all seen our share of punk rock docs. Decline, Another State of Mind, DOA, Urgh! I thought I’d watched just about everything at this…
The Male Figure: Bruce of Los Angeles and the perfection of midcentury beefcake
When you ponder improbable destinies for high school chemistry teachers, it’s likely that almost everyone reading this would instantly think of Walter White, who went…
Space-rock legend Fumio Miyashita does something amazing on Los Angeles cable access, 1979
Fumio Miyashita was the leader of one of Japan’s most far out space rock units, The Far East Family Band, which also included the future…
‘The Unheard Music’: The definitive documentary on Los Angeles punk legends X
The first thing you see when you watch W.T. Morgan’s 1986 documentary The Unheard Music about the difficult-to-Google Los Angeles punk band X is a…
Steven Spielberg predicts the psycho-delic future of today in 1971’s ‘Los Angeles: A.D. 2017’!
I had heard about this impossible-to-see episode of The Name of the Game–a cutting edge television show that ran for seventy-six 90-minute episodes from 1968…
Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO to sell (and play) a one-of-a-kind 45 with two new songs in Los Angeles
DEVO mainstay Mark Mothersbaugh is taking part in an group exhibition dedicated to “Pure Joy” that starts at the end of the month. Curated by…
‘Kimono My House’: Sparks’ audio guide to the Los Angeles rock scene of the Sixties
Before they were Sparks, brothers Ron and Russell Mael were teenagers growing up in Pacific Palisades. More than the sunbeams, they bathed in the sound…
Unboxing the Los Angeles Free Music Society’s new 13-LP collection—a Dangerous Minds premiere
Members of the Los Angeles Free Music Society, 1976 (photo courtesy of The Box LA and Fredrik Nilsen Studio) In 2012, the Los Angeles Free…