TALK CalArts and USC have a joint program at REDCAT tonight titled, “Listen Again: Music You Should Change Your Mind About Right Now.” A great panel of writers, musicians and scholars discuss the current state of pop music and celebrate the release of the latest scholarly writings on music issued by the Experience Music Project. Panelists include Neal Pollack (alternadad.com), Ann Powers (Los Angeles Times), R.J. Smith (Los Angeles magazine), Oliver Wang (Soul-sides.com, CSU-Long Beach)......

Naveen Andrews loves Los Angeles: It kind of has an element of rootlessness, and it attracts rootless people. Google and the Da Vinci Code. We have to confess, starting off with an easy sudoku clone was a good way to get us hooked. The game began today. There's shaking going on at the San Andreas fault and seismologists aren't quite sure why. We do know that it wasn't why the Hotel San Diego fell......

So, if you're on your way to find some Nature in LA this weekend, might we suggest downloading two tracks from Oliver Wang's Soul-Sides? He was in town this past weekend and came across The Devics and Feist (one of our favorite artists from 2005) while listening to Anne Litt's new show on KCRW - The A Track (which is also available daily at kcrwmusic.com). This LAist contributor is currently bouncing Madlib's Beat Konducta......