No other club in Los Angeles has quite the same vibe as Largo. Music events and comedy revues alternate on the booking schedule, but on most nights the two combine for a uniquely daft yet tuneful blur of entertainment. Such stellar personalities as Jon B

Whitney Houston's death has cast a black cloud over the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, scheduled for Sunday (Feb. 12). Music's biggest night should be a time for celebration, but the revered yet troubled singer's untimely demise will surely make it difficult

Whitney Houston was definitely an icon of my generation. I remember getting my first CD 'boombox' in the mid 80's. Suzanne Vega's Solitude Standing was my first CD, and Whitney Houston's Whitney album was my second. Here I am on my 7th birthday in Septem

LITTLE ROCK Singer-songwriter Matt Nathanson recently released his ninth album, Modern Love, an examination of just what the title indicates. As a guest performer Jan. 16 on the ABC TV series The Bachelor, Nathanson thinks that he meets the qualificatio

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Dan Chaon has proven himself once again a master of the short story with his haunting second collection Stay Awake. "The best

Folk music-inspired singer-songwriters who specialized in acoustic guitar-centered tunes with narrative lyrics had become relatively scarce by the mid '70s immediately following the spiked popularity of the sensitive singer-songwriter movement. Neverthel