Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from ...

Mainstream music has a history of taking musical genres, smoothing out the rough edges and turning them into something easily digestible to the masses. Punk rock went from being the music of rebellion ...

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While I appreciate Britney Spears’ attempt at trying to bring the dubstep sound into the homes of millions, people must not confuse her track with what that music genre really is. Articles like this ...

Watch the video of "Katy on a Mission" by Katy B: Regular readers of theartsdesk will know that I have written extensively about the sound's cultural and artistic significance (here, here, here and ...

Before she moved to Denver, Nicole Cacciavillano was planning to be a full-time teacher on the East Coast. But then something tragic happened that altered her course. “The guy that I was with, who I ...

On a rainy Los Angeles morning, Daniel Johnson — Danny to pretty much everyone who knows him — is giving a tour of the downtown pad where he and roommate John Dadzie, aka DJ/producer 12th Planet, live ...