L.A. Record + The New L.A. Folk Fest + Grand Ole Echo are co-hosting The Return Of Murder Ballads tonight at the Echoplex. Here is the lineup of musicians performing songs about killing times! For more info, go to the folk fest website. Get a little appetizer by listening to the bands or watching some [...]

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Thundercat Thundercat, Mia Doi Todd, Hanni El Khatib, Swahili Blonde, Tom Brosseau, the Club Pacific Band, and DJs Dan Collins, Tom Child, and Andres Renteria at the L.A. RECORD x dublab stage at Abbot Kinney Festival on September 24, 2011. Photos by Lainna Fader.

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Wimberley Bluegrass Band Read Tiff Reldon’s  review of the show after checking out these photos by Kate Rentz. The photo gallery begins with Emily Lacy, then Fort King, Olentangy John, Stone Darling, I See Hawks In L.A., Wimberley Bluegrass Band, The Chapin Sisters, The Driftwood Singers, Jenny O, Tom Brosseau + John C Reilly, RT [...]

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Everyone agreed that this night was special. It was more than just a concert. It felt like an experience. We were transported by the visuals and the music and the environment and the funny delivery of a story by the hostess about Charlie Louvin, Johnny Cash, and crackers.

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Today is the birthday of Ira Louvin, one half of the great country music pioneering Louvin Brothers. He was the dark half of the cookie and God bless him and the wife that shot him. Celebrate tonight at HM157 with The New L.A. Folk Fest and a dozen bands performing Louvin covers. Want to know [...]

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live on A Prairie Home Companion Tom Brosseau is like an angel…alien from North Dakota…definitely something celestial, a force of good, nice things. Listen to him play on A Prairie Home Companion then pop over to Hotel Cafe tonight where he’ll be performing with WPA, that’s Sean Watkins (Nickel Creek, The Watkins Family) and Glen [...]

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Tom Brosseau & Angela Correa aka Les Shelleys appear in this video from The New Los Angeles Folk Festival to help raise money through Kickstarter for the fest so it can give more money to charity. The festival, taking place August 7 at HM157, is giving $ to the Environmental Defense Fund so it can [...]

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Les Shelleys is Tom Brosseau’s band with Angela Correa. They’re playing the grand opening of an optometrist’s office….A little research reveals that Hoff Optometry & Eyewear may be the hippest eye doctor locale you’ve ever visited. They can outfit you in vintage eyewear and the music playing on the website is very exciting. Like a [...]

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