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Talks tip Chrysler toward bankruptcy

Published April 30, 2009 at 12:34 a.m.

The Obama administration Wednesday night planned to send Chrysler into bankruptcy, replace chief executive Robert Nardelli and pump billions of dollars more into the effort, all in hopes the company can emerge from court proceedings as a reenergized competitor in the global economy ...

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Rock Picks: Black Lips, Maria Taylor, Audacity, Irina Bjorklund

Published April 30, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.

FRIDAY, MAY 1 ... BLACK LIPS AT EL REY THEATRE ... Black Lips come trudging out of a thick swamp of their own creation on their fifth album, 200 Million Thousand (Vice), once again tracking in the mud and blood of the 1960s to dress up their mod ...

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Spundae at King King

Published April 30, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.

Many in Los Angeles might remember Spundae for the electronic DJ euphoria it brought to Circus Disco, but even after that club’s closure, the San Fran–bred beat purveyors spun on all over the globe (currently they work on Avaland Saturdays). In a rare one-off under th ...

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Brick's Picks: Amir ElSaffar, Kyle Eastwood, Dot Org at Eagle Rock Center

Published April 30, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.

When we first heard Amir ElSaffar ’s Two Rivers , we freaked. This was a couple of years ago, and tucked away in the culturally conservative Los Angeles jazz scene — which, as a rule, never mixes nothing with nothing if it ain’t been mixed before — ...

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Post-Coachella Recovery at Shadowscene, Linda Perry's Evening With Women

Published April 30, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.

View more photos in Lina Lecaro's Nightranger slideshow ... ... THE DING BAT SHOW (STARRING SHARON STONE?) ... For many, the big Coachella comedown of last week wasn’t abou ...

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Box of Dreams: Decades in the Making, Neil Young's Archives, Vol. 1 Is Unveiled

Published April 30, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.

Longtime L.A. record man and Neil Young spokesman Bill Bentley says he first saw a listing for a Neil Young archival project when he was working at Warner Bros. in the late 1980s. The release was supposed to be a follow-up to Young’s classic collection Decade , a th ...

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Juliette Commagere's Vividly Orchestrated Art Pop

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Published April 30, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.

You’ve perhaps seen singer-composer Juliette Commagère’s glamorous visage on local stages with her husband, Joachim Cooder, and their adventurous indie-rock combo, Hello Stranger. Maybe you’ve heard her singing or seen her Keytar-slinging exploits with Pu ...

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In the Red Records: On Fire with Kid Congo, Strange Boys, Thee Oh Sees, Vivian Girls

Published April 30, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.

Los Angeles indie In the Red Records has a remarkably consistent output: Slip on any of its discs and the results are inevitably flabbergasting. Just a few seconds of any of them — whether Silky , the landmark 1998 comeback album by R&B veteran Andre Williams, or la ...

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San Diego swine flu cases now at eight, Imperial remains at five

Published April 29, 2009 at 10:16 p.m.

San Diego County now has eight confirmed cases of swine flu, more than any region in the state, county health officials said Wednesday as they announced three new cases. The county also has seven probable cases officials said as they ...

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Seven plead guilty to raising funds at LAX for terrorist organization [Updated]

Published April 29, 2009 at 9:15 p.m.

Members of a group that for the last few years has sought donations from travelers at LAX on behalf of what they said was an Iraqi-based charity pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges of providing material support to a foreign ...

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