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Julie Edwards (left) and Lindsey Troy (right) of Deap Vally
Lindsey Troy and Julie Edwards met at a crocheting class in Silver Lake in 2011. From there, the duo has emerged as a sort of rock 'n' roll Thelma and Louise; hitting the road at a relen...
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Dear Fan,
I'm having trouble getting press for my band and other bands on the micro label we're on. It's an all analog label, that has actually been tracking/mixing to tape and pressing exclusively on vinyl for the past 5 years. So, there are no digi...
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Outside Lands went down at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park this weekend; it was frigid and there were transportation headaches, but the music made it well worth it. Here's the best and worst of the weekend:
The Best
The friendly festival staff
Ho...
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DJ Muggs
L.A. hip-hop is strongly identified with gangsta rap, and that genre is mostly identified with its rappers and their outsized personas. But the classic Los Angeles albums wouldn't be what they are without the incredible sonic textures tha...
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Raw Geronimo
Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar
Monday, August 12
Raw Geronimo
BOOTLEG THEATER
Raw Geronimo reveal a new side of themselves on "Magnetic Love," from their debut album, Dream Fever. In a s...
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RZA
Wu-Tang Clan mastermind RZA will headline a new music festival put on by L.A. Weekly, on October 5. Called Bedrocktoberfest, it will be held at Bedrock Rehearsal studios in Echo Park. More info, including the other performers on the bill, belo...
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[Editor's note: Daniel Hill and Drew Ailes are covering the Gathering of the Juggalos in Cave-in-Rock, Illinois.]
During the Gathering of the Juggalos, the things people are saying at Cave-In Rock, Illinois may not make a ton of sense, but when you...
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Update: Reached by phone on Sunday afternoon, Hardin County coroner Jessica Cullum released the name of the man who died as Cory Collins, 24, of Harrisburg, Illinois, a town about 35 miles northwest of the music festival. Cullum said the cause of dea...
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The now-closed "drug bridge"
[Editor's note: Daniel Hill and Drew Ailes are covering the Gathering of the Juggalos in Cave-in-Rock, Illinois.]
The Gathering of the Juggalos' infamous "drug bridge" is closed today, following reports of a fatal o...
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A juggalo at the gathering
[Editor's note: Daniel Hill and Drew Ailes are covering the Gathering of the Juggalos in Cave-in-Rock, Illinois for our sister publication, The Riverfront Times. We hope to see them again!]
By its organizers' own asses...
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Hanni El Khatib
Hanni El Khatib at Twilight Concert Series
Santa Monica Pier
8/8/2013
Last night marked another of the free concerts at the Santa Monica Pier as part of the Twilight Concert Series, presented by MySpace on Thursdays this summer. W...
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Star & Dagger -- See Saturday
Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar
Friday, August 9
The Standells
THE SATELLITE
Although it's easy to erroneously associate savage, stomping garage-rock innovators The Stande...
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MAXWELL DEMILLE'S CICADA CLUB
617 S. Olive St., dwntwn., Sun., Aug. 11, 4 p.m. (screening).
When it comes to the Roaring '20s dance party and silent movie screening going down at the Cicada Club Sunday night, we simply can't be silent! After all, t...
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RADIO BROADCAST #228
08-11-13
See also: Henry Rollins: Wacken 2013 or Bust
Fanatics! I can't believe our good fortune. Tonight, we have an awesome line up and all you have to do is let the music play. The first song I had planned was Johnny...
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ACxDC at The Viper Room
ACxDC and Nomads
The Viper Room
8-7-13
Better than... the last season of The Walking Dead.
Last night DIY hardcore heroes ACxDC and Nomads performed at the Viper Room, part of a release party for The Walking Dead: A Hardc...
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Las Cafeteras
Las Cafeteras don't bow to tradition, and it's hard not to love them for it. In 2011 we wrote about how the seven-member east side group was taking flack for playing Veracruz-style Son Jarocho music in ways that some conservative mus...
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Skee-Lo
[Editor's note: Soon-to-be-award-winning gonzo music journalist Danielle Bacher prowls the late late night scene for West Coast Sound. For this installment, she hit the town with rapper Skee-Lo, who wishes he was a little bit taller.]
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See also: Henry Rollins: Treating Our Citizens Like Dogs
Almost every summer for the last two and a half decades, I have been performing at European music festivals. I try to get onstage at as many of them as I can. I never get as many as I want, bu...
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Radiotron in its glory days.
An important chapter in L.A. hip-hop history came to an end with the shuttering of Westlake youth center Radiotron in 1984. The movie Breakin' was filmed there, and the closing was the inspiration for Breakin' 2: Elect...
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Anticon 15th-Anniversary Party featuring Baths, Daedelus, Doseone, et al.
ECHOPLEX
Tip your hat to 15 years of Anticon greatness: The label/collective founded by Oakland's Adam "Doseone" Drucker has championed much of the best in the o...
