ENTERTAINMENT
February 24, 2011
POP MUSIC Further proving that rock concerts and museums need not be mutually exclusive, the Autry hosts country and blues singer Justin Townes Earle (son of troubadour Steve Earle) for an evening of carefully crafted Americana. Singer-songwriter Dawn Landes and old-time string band Triple Chicken Foot will also perform. Autry National Center of the American West, 4700 Western Heritage Way, L.A. $13. 8:30 to 11 p.m. Fri. (323) 667-2000. http://www.theautry.org.
ENTERTAINMENT
October 14, 2010 | By Mikael Wood, Special to the Los Angeles Times
The first four songs of the Punch Brothers' show Tuesday night at the El Rey Theatre said a lot about what kind of group the Punch Brothers are: two originals, one about a relationship and one about a bartender; a Norman Blake instrumental; and a loping cover of "Heart in a Cage" by the Strokes, which frontman Chris Thile referred to as a "rival New York bluegrass band. " The Strokes, Thile said, trounced the Punch Brothers in the black-leather department. "But we've got them in liver function," claimed banjo player Noam Pikelny, who added, "which actually makes them the more credible bluegrass band.
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February 3, 2008 | Richard Cromelin, Times Staff Writer
The banjo claws, the fiddle saws, the twangy, ancient-sounding voice sings of darkness and murder. The recording of the folk staple "Little Sadie" -- like most of the tracks on the 2007 album "Dona Got a Ramblin' Mind" -- is pure mountain music, the kind indelibly associated with the rural white communities of the 19th and early 20th century American South.
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March 9, 1999 | By JOHN HENKEN, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields offered us the chance to compare Mozart's and Bartok's ideas about divertimentos and Purcell's and Britten's thoughts on variation writing, in a rewarding and characteristic program from its touring string band Sunday afternoon at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. The most fascinating cross-reference, however, was between the Bartok and Britten works, written at virtually the same time.
MAGAZINE
February 15, 1998
Styled by Todd and Michelle Hartnett/KoKo Represents, San Francisco; hair and makeup: Ivan Mendoza/Workgroup, San Francis-co; models: Lindsay Frimodt and Shana Cossa Boom/Mitchell Model Management, San Francisco
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September 13, 1996 | BENJAMIN EPSTEIN, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
The typical ethnomusicologist is an academic who travels to out-of-the-way places in distant lands, recorder in hand, capturing for posterity the exotic sounds discovered there. Eric Davidson fits that bill perfectly--except that he's a biologist and made his field recordings here in the United States. Davidson teaches at Caltech in Pasadena and is a founding member of the Iron Mountain String Band, which plays Saturday at Ball Junior High cafeteria in Anaheim.