Michael Murphy

Volunteers are racing to save historic tiles before bulldozers clear them away from the Eaton Fire area in Altadena. Many are Batchelder tiles that survived on fireplaces.

From the vaults: Avant-pop icons Stereolab make their debut appearance on KCRW from September 1994.

An audio folk story examining the tradition of Black watermelon long-haulers, who drive to farms in the South for watermelon and sell them in Black neighborhoods around the US.

In the mid 1970s, as glam rock fizzled out, new kids began to trickle in on the block–kids who looked up to the groupies as party girl icons, as rock’n’roll legends, who went out there…

Ivy broke out in the early 2000s with "Edge of the Ocean." As their album “Long Distance” makes its vinyl debut, the surviving members reflect on its creation.

At Kaos Network, students explore their creative potential through various tools, including hip-hop music, digital technology, and even AI.

Yiddish, the historic language of Jews in Europe, was once spoken by tens of thousands of Jews in Los Angeles before largely fading away. Now it’s making a comeback.

As the first wave of LA punk started to take hold in Hollywood, both on and off the Sunset Strip, the girls of the rock n roll underground flattened scene hierarchy by carrying the…

As Angelenos volunteer to support wildfire recovery, another cause is bringing folks together: Fireproofing history — by preserving it online.