Henry Rollins on Black Flag's early days, what makes Van Halen magic, and America's favorite all-female Iron Maiden tribute.
We get questions from listeners just about every week and by far the most common one we get is: what’s your theme song?
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Matt Sharp's synth-heavy solo project, The Rentals, is back again with a new album featuring contributions from members of the Black Keys, Lucius, and Ozma.
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Elvis impersonators and Beatles tribute acts are just fine, if you walk into the room and close your eyes, you'll probably have a hard time telling the difference. There's plenty of them in Vegas. But here in LA, there's a different scene altogether: many female musicians here make a living performing music from some of the most famous male rock artists in history. Off-Ramp music correspondent Kevin Ferguson reports. LANGUAGE WARNING: The name of one of the bands includes the B-word.
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Nathan Pino plays classical music on the Venice Boardwalk every day with a cat at his side. He talks about bands he performed with and shares his own compositions.
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Pepe Aguilar's 24th album — he's already sold 12-million records — debuted at #1 on iTunes and is a tribute to his father Antonio Aguilar's great rival, Vicente Fernández. This is his first public radio interview.
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LISTENER WARNING: This interview -- Off-Ramp host John Rabe's conversation with writer John Albert about his piece in Issue 2 of Slake magazine -- includes frank and non-judgemental descriptions of drug use, teenage sex, unsupervised partying, and the groundbreaking nature of early Van Halen.
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On a gloomy Saturday morning, the South Hills High School Marching Band practices for the last time before Championships ... and it isn't going smoothly.
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The former Black Flag Frontman, writer, publisher and actor talks with KPCC's Kevin Ferguson about Ray Bradbury, Washington, DC, South Bay Punk and Aerosmith.
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Metallica plays the Honda Center Thursday, December 10th at 7pm. The heavy-metal band was born in LA, but it found stardom in San Francisco. Metallica's biggest fan? KPCC's Steven Cuevas.