We're pretty exhausted after our Angel City Jazz Festival coverage, so the Beast will be going on a brief sabbatical for the next few weeks. Fear not, Cryptoids, we'll be having some distinguished guest bloggers chiming in on varying topics, so look for those RSS feeds!
In the meantime, enjoy these complimentary classics:
CURRENTLY READING:
Skinny Legs and All (Bantam:1990) by Tom Robbins
The San Francisco Tape Music Center: 1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde (University of California Press: 2008), ed. by David W. Bernstein
Shutter Island (HarperCollins: 2003) by Dennis Lehane
The Real Hip Hop: Battling For Knowledge, Power and Respect in the L.A. Underground (Duke University Press: 2009) by Marcyliena Morgan
CURRENTLY LISTENING:
Bobby Bradford - Love's Dream
Nels Cline / G.E. Stinson - Elevating Device
Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
The Dead Weather - Horehound
Dave Douglas Quintet - Live at the Jazz Standard
Plays Monk - Plays Monk
Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Don Heckman's Live Picks of the Week (Sept. 22-27)
Brick Wahl's Live Picks of the Week (Sept. 24-30)
REST IN TEMPO
Jim Carroll
DJ Mr. Magic
Leon Kirchner
Marie Knight
The Knitting Factory-LA
Erich Kunzel
Skip Miller
Dickie Peterson
Mary Travers
