Skip to main content
We think you're near
Los Angeles
Currently in Los Angeles
Location:
Los Angeles
Current temperature:
63°
F:
Current condition:
Overcast
See Extended Forecast
Examiner.com
Log in
Sign up
Arts & Entertainment
Recreation
Home & Life
Interests
News & Info
More
Become an examiner
National '60s Music
PBS '60s retro music special an enjoyable trip to the past
'60s Music
November 27, 2011
Those retro music specials have certainly become a cottage industry for PBS. The latest, "'60s Pop, Rock & Soul: My Music,"...
Read more
Phil Spector's 'Wall Of Sound' aided his Philles label to amazing hit ratio
Oldies Music
September 19, 2011
The Philles record label existed for barely more than a half-dozen years -- from late 1961 to early 1967 -- but it clearly reflected legendary...
Read more
Ronnie Spector to revive Ronettes hits on new PBS vintage music special
PBS
February 25, 2011
"My Music: Rock, Pop & Doo Wop," a new PBS music special, premieres nationally on PBS March 5. The program will air at various times...
Read more
British Invasion: Small Faces - All or Nothing 1965-1968 DVD
Small Faces
February 9, 2011
Thanks to YouTube, there are thousands and thousands of long-unseen video clips of '60s and '70s bands, both legendary and obscure, now...
Read more
The story of the Beatles' Apple Records (video, part 1)
Beatles
December 16, 2010
Here's the first part of a great three-part documentary that's on the Beatles' website that tells the story of Apple Records. There is...
Read more
Florida overturns Jim Morrison obscenity conviction -- governor's remarks
Jim Morrison
December 9, 2010
DEC. 9 - The Florida State Clemency Board today pardoned Jim Morrison, lead singer of the Doors, for a charge of indecent exposure in 1969 at a...
Read more
Exclusive: Opening night with Peter Asher -- recollections and a reunion
Peter Asher
December 4, 2010
Charles Rosenay!!!, our Horror Happenings Examiner, attended Peter Asher's first show on Friday night at the Iridium Club in New York and sent...
Read more
Larry King, Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and the dreaded retrofail
popular culture
November 28, 2010
I'm coining a new word today: "retrofail." It's when a person's career and talent takes such a bum turn it makes everything...
Read more
Who's Obscure: 11 Unjustly Neglected Tracks by The Who
Arts & Entertainment
August 1, 2010
Ready Steady Who 1966 EP In this week's "Gateways to Geekery" column on The Who at AVClub.com, writer Scott Gordon offers an introduction...
Read more
Advertisement