WHAT IT'S ABOUT Rick Rubin, the legendary producer and music executive who grew up in Long Beach, has cultivated an air of mystery almost as much as he has cultivated young artists. This four-part ...

Honolulu (KHON2) – Grammy-Nominated “Hawaiian Lullaby” Album Artists Kimie Miner, Imua Garza, Anuhea, & Kalani Pe’a celebrated at the Aloha Artists Reception at Santa Monica’s Hotel Shangri-la with an ...

FZMZ, pronounced fathoms, is the masked avatar band that burst onto the scene with “BROKEN GAMES,” the opening theme to the TV anime series Shangri-La Frontier, which began airing in Japan in October.

I recently came across a rough draft for a short story I wrote about one of my favorite songs, The Shangri-La's 1964 hit single "The Leader of the Pack." I published this as a column years ago, but I ...

Singer Mary Weiss once described her influential girl group this way: “The Shangri-Las were punk before punk existed. People thought we were tough.” To further the point, Joey Ramone once told Weiss ...