August Brown has covered pop music at the Los Angeles Times since 2005. His ideal band would probably be Kraftwerk fronted by Nina Simone, with Dr. Dre as the fifth mensch-machine. He was once almost cast opposite Burt Reynolds in an early '90s buddy-cop comedy, and really wishes that had panned out.
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