Welcome to Clown Core-chella. Then the madness began. Suddenly, the saxophone player honked a clown nose, kicking off an astoundingly bizarre set that melded surprisingly high-quality jazz ...

Scene: Three men are crammed into a sky-blue Toyota minivan with a bunch of musical instruments. They’re parked behind a Wienerschnitzel somewhere in L.A. Two are wearing rubber clown masks and ...

When festivalgoers packed into the Sonora tent Friday for the venue's last set of the day, avant-garde jazz and grindcore duo Clown Core, they had some idea of what they were getting, but it was ...