August Brown

Los Angeles

Music Writer at Los Angeles Times

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At LA benefit show, Tom Morello lashes out at ICE raids

1 week ago | hastingstribune.com | August Brown

LOS ANGELES - Around 3 p.m. Monday, outside the coffee shop Picaresca Barra de Cafe in Boyle Heights, singer-songwriter Tom Morello backed a dozen local kids and families up against a wall. "You are witnesses to the crimes being committed against immigrants in L.A.," he said, asking them for straight-ahead, fearless expressions while he played guitar and sang beside them.
At LA benefit show, Tom Morello lashes out at ICE raids

1 week ago | thebrunswicknews.com | August Brown

LOS ANGELES - Around 3 p.m. Monday, outside the coffee shop Picaresca Barra de Cafe in Boyle Heights, singer-songwriter Tom Morello backed a dozen local kids and families up against a wall. "You are witnesses to the crimes being committed against immigrants in L.A.," he said, asking them for straight-ahead, fearless expressions while he played guitar and sang beside them.
Review: At LA benefit show, Tom Morello lashes out at ICE raids

1 week ago | thederrick.com | August Brown

LOS ANGELES — Around 3 p.m. Monday, outside the coffee shop Picaresca Barra de Cafe in Boyle Heights, singer-songwriter Tom Morello backed a dozen local kids and families up against a wall. "You are witnesses to the crimes being committed against immigrants in L.A.," he said, asking them for straight-ahead, fearless expressions while he played guitar and sang beside them.
Review: At the Echoplex, Tom Morello lashes out at ICE raids: 'No one's coming to save us except for us'

1 week ago | latimes.com | August Brown

Around 3 p.m. Monday, outside the coffee shop Picaresca Barra de Cafe in Boyle Heights, singer-songwriter Tom Morello backed a dozen local kids and families up against a wall. “You are witnesses to the crimes being committed against immigrants in L.A.,” he said, asking them for straight-ahead, fearless expressions while he played guitar and sang beside them.
Review: At LA benefit show, Tom Morello lashes out at ICE raids

1 week ago | dailygazette.com | August Brown

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Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello headlines immigrant rights benefit at Echoplex

1 week ago | latimes.com | August Brown

After a weekend of raucous “No Kings” protests across the country — especially throughout Los Angeles — immigrant activists in music have a new benefit show planned for tonight in Echo Park. Tom Morello, the guitarist of Rage Against the Machine and a longtime leftist and human rights advocate, will headline a sold-out show called “Defend L.A.” set at the Echoplex on Monday in support of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA).
In Palm Springs, the Alibi was a hot new music venue. Who killed it?

1 week ago | latimes.com | August Brown

Back in the worst pandemic days of 2020, Elizabeth Garo and Melanie Tusquellas were terrified they would lose their nightclub. The co-owners of the Alibi — an independent music venue with space for up to 300 people in downtown Palm Springs — opened in late 2019, just before COVID-19 shut down the live music scene.
Douglas McCarthy, singer for electronic group Nitzer Ebb, dead at 58

1 week ago | fredericknewspost.com | August Brown

LOS ANGELES — Douglas McCarthy, the singer of the pioneering U.K. proto-industrial band Nitzer Ebb, has died. He was 58. The band confirmed the news on its social media accounts. It did not list a cause of death. kAm“xE :D H:E9 2 962GJ 962CE E92E H6 C68C6E E@ :?7@C> E92E s@F8=2D |4r2CE9J A2DD65 2H2J E9:D >@C?:?8 @7 yF?6 ``E9[ a_ad[” }:EK6C t33 HC@E6] “(6 2D< 6G6CJ@?6 E@ A=62D6 36 C6DA64E7F= @7 s@F8=2D[ 9:D H:76[ 2?5 72>:=J :?
13 of the late Brian Wilson' s finest songs to revisit

1 week ago | hanfordsentinel.com | August Brown

LOS ANGELES — Brian Wilson's death on Wednesday at the age of 82 heralds an end to one idea of Southern California — as the temperate paradise of ascendant Americana. Exuberance and dreaminess, writerly sophistication and technical ambition, drugs and madness: Wilson's exquisite craft captured all of it, with his band the Beach Boys leaving behind a singularly inventive and exultant body of work, one that scripted and embodied California to the world.
Douglas McCarthy, singer for electronic group Nitzer Ebb, dead at 58

2 weeks ago | post-gazette.com | August Brown

LOS ANGELES — Douglas McCarthy, the singer of the pioneering U.K. proto-industrial band Nitzer Ebb, died Wednesday. He was 58. The band confirmed the news on its social media accounts. It did not list a cause of death. “It is with a heavy heart that we regret to inform that Douglas McCarthy passed away this morning of June 11th, 2025,” Nitzer Ebb wrote. “We ask everyone to please be respectful of Douglas, his wife, and family in this difficult time.

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