• Los Angeles Glow by Kumar Appaiah  Discovering the Los Angeles
Music Scene  Written by Ysmay.  Macy Gray by Tracey NolanMacy
Gray by Tracey Nolan  At the time of this writing there have
been 559 commercially recorded and released songs about L.A.,
Hollywood, and Beverly Hills. The music scene in Los Angeles is
extremely diverse and much like Austin, it's easy to find live
music to suit your tastes any night of the week.  Los Angeles
has it all: hip hop, heavy metal, Latin, punk, jazz, classical,
blues, and much more. Record producer and songwriter Joe Solo
(whose music credits include Fergie, Macy Gray, NBC, and MTV
among many others) says the music scene has evolved greatly over
the past 10 years, "It's gotten much more eclectic. Not just in
terms of the artists, but the audience's taste is more diverse
then ever. It's common to go to an LA venue and see an acoustic
act, a hip-hop act and a rock act all in the same evening."  Joe
says the music scene really started evolving around 2002. "Prior
to that, mos