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That's so LA: Shuggie Otis and 5 other essential Los Angeles bands

December 07, 2012

Watching Shuggie Otis's ill-starred Echoplex show on Wednesday, my native Angeleno companions and I got to debating whether there is an “LA soul” sound — one that captures the soul of the city itself. Here are five of my personal choices for quintessential soul-of-LA artists.

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