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CONCERT RECAP: Jon Cleary, The Tin Men & Paul Sanchez @ The Mint, LA, CA 9/14/13

Saturday’s NOLA triple threat at The Mint was as close to Frenchmen Street as you can get on Pico Boulevard (in fact, last time Sanchez and company played the r...

CONCERT RECAP: Terence Blanchard @ The Mint, LA, CA 9/9/13

Hearing Terence Blanchard in a room of about 150 heightens what is already a super attenuated musical experience. One that brings all senses to the fore and exc...

PHOTOS: Robert Walter’s 20th Congress @ The Mint, LA, CA 9/5/13

Master of the keys and Congressional leader Robert Walter took the 20th through its finely tuned paces at The Mint last Thursday, featuring generous portions of...

PHOTOS: Nicholas Payton @ The Mint, LA, CA 8/8/13

New Orleans multi-instrumentalist Nicholas Payton stopped in Los Angeles for an intimate Thursday night show at The Mint earlier this month and photographer Jim...

RECAP / PHOTOS: Stanton Moore, Wil Blades & Leo Nocentelli @ The Mint LA 7/3/13

Stream / Download this show here Stanton Moore kicked off his 3rd summer residency at the The Mint (aka, "the best little club pound-for-pound” per Leo Nocen...

PHOTOS: Rebirth Brass Band @ The Mint LA 3/26/13

Recently, the legendary and GRAMMY-winning Rebirth Brass Band stopped in to The Mint in Los Angeles for two sold out Tuesday night shows. Check out the photo ga...

PHOTOS / VIDEOS: Black Francis @ The Mint LA 3/19/13

Black Francis is currently wrapping up the western portion of his national spring tour and stopped into the intimate confines of The Mint in Los Angeles for a s...

Nels Cline and Mike Watt join Eric McFadden and Melt the Mint – 1/16/13

Words by Aaron Fortin and Wesley Hodges *Download or stream the show courtesy of MacDaddy at Archive.org. Thank you tapers! Last night as part of Eric Mc...

CONCERT RECAP: Dragon Smoke @ The Mint LA 12/12/12

Certain celestial alignments skip decades, if not lifetimes, or at a minimum, involve covering great distances at greater expense. Think solar eclipses, Comet H...

PHOTOS: Bill Carter & The LA Blame with Johnny Depp @ The Mint LA 12/7/12

Friday night's Bill Carter & The L.A. Blame show at The Mint was filmed for the highly anticipated music documentary That's What I'm Doing Here. For the thi...

Live Music Blog’s Best of 2012: Concerts, Albums, Artists and More (Part Two)

Last week, we rolled out Part One of LMB's Best of 2012 feature, highlighting this year's noteworthy albums (Tame Impala's Lonerism, Jack White's Blunderbuss an...

Live Music Blog’s Best of 2012: Concerts, Albums, Artists and More (PART ONE)

While there's still plenty of live music magic yet to be made, the end is near and 2012 will be in the rear view in five short weeks. Furthermore, December is g...

PHOTOS / VIDEOS: Clairy Browne & the Bangin’ Rackettes @ The Mint LA 11/13/12

Sexy and swingin' nine-piece Australian retro soul outfit Clairy Browne and the Bangin' Rackettes made their proper U.S. debut at The Mint in Los Angeles on Tue...

PHOTOS: The Bad Plus @ The Mint, Los Angeles, CA 10/9/12

The Bad Plus packed it in at The Mint last Tuesday night for An Evening With set that brought the wow factor with every song - a set heavy on tunes from their b...

CONCERT RECAP: Red Baraat @ The Mint, Los Angeles, CA 10/4/12

Since I last caught up with Red Baraat in February, the self-described “Brooklyn dhol’n’brass” (by way of a second line) outfit has been to the White House, pla...

CONCERT RECAP: Bombino @ The Mint, Los Angeles, CA 9/18/12

Tuareg guitarist Omara “Bombino” Moctar was born in a nomadic encampment in Niger in 1980. Some 26 years later he was playing alongside Keith Richards and Charl...