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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10DJ SPINNA, J.ROCC, DJ DAZ AT THE ECHOPLEXRemember when the DJ was the star? OK, so our memories of those days consist mostly of staring up at our impossibly...
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FRIDAY/NOVEMBER/26THE QUEERS, KEPI GHOULIE AT THE TROUBADOUR It may be hard to remember these days, but punk rock actually used to be fun. It was the kind of thing where...
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FRIDAY JULY 31FUTURE OF THE LEFTJapandroids at Spaceland Future of the Left, from Wales, feature two dudes who used to play in the hilariously acerbic noise-rock trio Mclusky...
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FRIDAY JULY 24SKY SAXON TRIBUTEat the EchoplexWith all of the recent hysteria about Michael Jackson shuffling off his mortal coil, the death of Sky Saxon in Austin on June 25...
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There’s some oddball stuff in town this week, lotsa different degrees of differentness. For example: Kurt Elling is finishing up his Catalina’s stand on Friday and...
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Jonny Greenwood There Will Be Blood (soundtrack) | Nonesuch
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Peanut Butter Wolf PresentsBadd Santa: A Stones Throw Xmas | Urban Outfitters
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“Here’s a li’l somethin’ ’bout a nigga like me...”—First line, third track, heart of the matter: “Gangsta Gangsta”Cali pride personified: (Clockwise from top left)...
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The Cave Singers?“Dancing on Our Graves” video | MatadorEvangelical Christians are the new ?black. Documentaries like Jesus Camp and bands like Sixteen Horsepower...
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{mosimage}BURIAL
Untrue
| HyperdubSomething like 10 people know the true
identity of Burial. He likes it that way. “I’m a bit like a rubbish
super hero,” he recen...
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Oops. Kompakt, the world’s most talked-about electronic music label of the past few years, has finally jumped the shark. Did I say jumped? Let me rephrase that: Kompakt’s t...
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1. Will Smith, Lost and Found (Interscope). Rapping about subjects other than murder and ass, Will Smith has a sort of candy-corn, Everly Brothers, ranch-dressing, Frosty the...
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Lewis Taylor is a brilliant soul singer. But his artistic strength and
Achilles’ heel is that he’s so much more: Musical tributaries flow in from Brian
Wilson, To...
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A lotta folks gawk as three sets of people do things on computers, turntables and mixers; one of the performers, Mira Calix, daringly attempts her time onstage without the...
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THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES at the Point Loma Quality Inn Hotel, March 23
”They’re gonna a build a new dimensionAnd make a soundtrack of our livesThey‘re gonna buil...
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For the Mooney Suzuki, everywhere‘s Motor City
THE MOONEY SUZUKIElectric Sweat (Gammon)
Who are the Mooney Suzuki? Four New Yorkers whose love of Detroit is beyond th...
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N*E*R*D
In Search of . . . (Virgin Records)
I've had friends who feel the urge to drive SUVs within the confines of Los Angeles. They wear designer blue jeans, enjoy...
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HINTERLANDER Hinterlander (Snail on a Stick) Hinterlander’s first release is sweet Hawaiian music: the melodies of baby dolphins suckling their mother’s...
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Waylon Jennings? One of the most famous country-music performers ever. You already know his story, from Littlefield, Texas, birth to diabetes-hastened end, but the...
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FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP
Temptations (Project Blowed)
FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP
Version 2.0 (Beats and Rhymes)
MIKAH 9
Timetable (Kaihou)
Ever since releasing...
