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Los Angeles has been home to many new and established music bands. Some of the bands originating from greater Los Angeles, including Orange County and the Inland Empire , include: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Inspired by Lilith Fair and held at Woodley Park, home of WorldFest (LA), Los Angeles' largest Earth Day festival, the Los Angeles Women's Music Festival was an eco-music-fest featuring over 65 bands on 5 solar-powered stages, offering vegan, vegetarian and organic refreshments, and featuring pet adoptions, and was attended by over 2500 people ...
Thee Midniters were an American rock group, among the first Chicano rock bands to have a major hit in the United States.They were one of the best known acts to come out of East Los Angeles in the 1960s, with a cover of "Land of a Thousand Dances" that charted in Canada in 1965, and an instrumental track "Whittier Boulevard" in 1965.
The unit coalesced in the early 1960s as the de facto house band for Phil Spector and helped realize his Wall of Sound production style. They became the most requested session musicians in Los Angeles, playing behind recording artists including Jan and Dean, Sonny & Cher, the Mamas and the Papas, the 5th Dimension, Frank Sinatra, and Nancy Sinatra.
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band; The Boogie Kings; Booker T. & The MG's; Boots Randolph; The Box Tops; Boyce and Hart; The Boys; The Braillettes; Los Bravos; Brenda Holloway; Brenda Lee; Brenton Wood; Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts; Brewer & Shipley; Brian Auger and the Trinity; Brian Hyland; The Brogues; Brook Benton; The Brooklyn Bridge; The ...
The Knack was an American garage and psychedelic rock band from Los Angeles, California who were active in the 1960s. They are not to be confused with either the American band of the same name who became popular in the late 1970s, nor the British band of the same name in the 1960s.
Arguably, the rock and roll scene in Los Angeles was born when the Whisky started operation; because of its status as a historic music landmark, the venue was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. [12] Jim Morrison and Eric Burdon performing onstage with Blues Image in May 1969
A young couple watching the sunset on a Los Angeles beach with surfboard in hand. The California sound is a popular music aesthetic [nb 1] that originates with American pop and rock recording artists from Southern California in the early 1960s.