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Memorial Day: Michael's Staples Center Farewellnew

Roll your eyes at the spectacle if you want. You're right. It's insane, and says something about something. But, still, a man, once filled with supreme musical inspiration and overwhelming charity, has fallen, and that sucks, regardless of whether said man was a kook or not.
L.A. Weekly  |  Randall Roberts  |  07-10-2009  |  Music

Irving Azoff Reveals Ticketmaster Secret at Senate Judiciary Hearingsnew

One of the lesser-reported revelations of last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings on the proposed merger of the two corporate behemoths of the concert business, Ticketmaster and LiveNation, came during a conversation with Ticketmaster CEO Irving Azoff about service fees.
L.A. Weekly  |  Randall Roberts  |  03-05-2009  |  Music

Is the King of Pop's Neverland Booty Our Folly Too?new

Life is hard, and economists searching for a symbol to the End of an Era need look no farther than Neverland Ranch, Michael Jackson's 2,800-acre Valhalla outside Santa Barbara.
L.A. Weekly  |  Randall Roberts  |  02-20-2009  |  Music

Signs of Life in the Dead of the Grammys Pressroomnew

No wonder print is on the ropes. We reporters are bores. A dying industry covering another dying industry, like a bunch of telegraph operators sending missives about a carburetor convention.
L.A. Weekly  |  Randall Roberts  |  02-13-2009  |  Music

Confessions of a Promo-CD Junkie: Who Will Stop the Music Industry Gravy Train?new

With so much music available at the click of a mouse, do tastemakers really need hard copies anymore? Is it worth the waste?
L.A. Weekly  |  Randall Roberts  |  09-26-2008  |  Music

The Boredoms Pound Their Way Onto the Astral Planenew

Two decades into their career, the Boredoms are making music as vital, as questioning, as singular, as therapeutic, as honest, as Dada, as real, as funny, as awesomely brilliant as ever, and their influence is far greater than their relative stateside obscurity.
L.A. Weekly  |  Randall Roberts  |  03-14-2008  |  Music

A Hipster's Guide to Afro-Indie Rocknew

Here's eight records. Now go start a riot.
L.A. Weekly  |  Randall Roberts  |  02-25-2008  |  Music

2007's Long Players You Might Have Missednew

There were so many modestly brilliant records that it seems silly to crow on and on about "Bird Flu" when many tracks ascended alongside of it. Here are some of them, in no particular order.
L.A. Weekly  |  Randall Roberts  |  12-28-2007  |  Music

Artists Giving Away Their Music for Free: A Prehistorynew

Radiohead wasn't the first, folks.
L.A. Weekly  |  Randall Roberts  |  10-26-2007  |  Music

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